I like what Tam calls her miscellany posts: tab clearing. Sometimes I have so many “Oh! I must write about this!” articles open that there’s nothing to do but just sigh and toss them all out at you in their naked form.* So here goes:
- Speaking of naked, in the first of today’s Heroic Protectors in Blue items, well, read for yourself. I’d rather not put it in a family publication. If a cop did that to my daughter I’d serve his gonads to the dogs.
- Second Heroic Protectors item: DHS trains Border Patrol agents to run and hide if there’s a shooter around.
- This is why I still don’t have a Kindle. Why can’t they just make this voluntary? Why can’t they sell privacy protected e-readers then give willing subjects a discount for allowing their reading habits to be observed?
- And related to that … (H/T S)
- And an antidote.
- Another person who should probably re-consider his choice of the criminal vocation.
- There actually is at least one reasonable health care bill waiting to replace you-know-what.
- Things to consider before renouncing U.S. citizenship.
- A kinder, gentler national ID card (she says rolling her eyes). (Tip o’ hat to Jim Bovard.)
- It’s a scary (though fascinating) sign of the times that people are even talking about this. And one more sign that we don’t learn from history.
* Yes, I know about bookmarks. But bookmarking an article is like sticking it in a dark corner of Granny’s attic — a corner where I suspect there are rats and large spiders and where I’ll never venture again.
I have to admit that the DHS plan to teach border agents to run when they see a gun is a bit more difficult now since Eric Holder and Obama illegally sold 2,000 more guns to the bad guys, makes a little harder to dodge when their are 2,000 more muzzles pointed at you.
I noticed on the renounce your citizenship piece that it failed to point out you also loose your 2nd Amendment rights once you denounce your citizenship as well. Just look at the form you fill out when you buy a new gun, one of the questions clearly asks if you have ever denounced your citizenship, thus instantly disqualifying you. So let’s see, heavily tax you on the way out, make it difficult to impossible to come back, strip away your 2nd Amendment rights, hmm, I am beginning to think those fences are to keep us in the prison, no I must be mistaken, he says, we are “freest” country on earth, just ask anyone.
That pedo cop story was repulsive. Hope he gets in serious trouble over this.
The DHS Monty Python (“Run away”) story has been going around a few days. I understand they can throw things at the bad people. After all, La Migra also includes office droids. I haven’t been down close to the border in over 6 years but it was getting creepy even then. I collect rocks so was out in the middle of nowhere and ran across some agents who seemed pretty tough.
Mic is right that renouncing your citizenship is the same as renouncing 2nd amendment. It’s the same for medical marijuana folk.
I decided to never touch a Kindle after they repo’d books people had bought. Once all books are ebooks and they’re centrally controlled history becomes whatever our masters say it is.
Steve
I had been thinking of getting an e-reader for fiction and others that have only text to read. Now it looks like I won’t be getting one til the e-book industry acknowledged the rights of their readers to privacy. I won’t be holding my breath as most corporate people are lazy about anything that gives them more power.
Here’s another article about the subject:
http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/6938-The-Slippery-Slope-of-eReader-Privacy.html
Love how the writer connected the issue with the government at the end of the article and boiled it down to “Too much power of anyone over other/s is not a good thing.
Too bad,I was planning to use one to read PDFs of stuff I collected over the Internet and maybe use Amazon’s lending library for a cheaper way to read.
We must remember when Brian Terry dies he had bean bag rounds in his shotgun at the orders of Janet Incompetano. This is how far we have fallen. We throw bean bags at cartel assasins. The sheeple have to wake up cause like it or not, IT is coming.
In a reply to the category “miscellany”, does anyone remember back in the day of Sierra Times (loss lamented), among so many great columns there was a prepper/tinkerer guy who did articles like how to turn an old gas mower into a generator/battery charger. And other neat stuff like that. Does anyone remember him, or whether he has a web site, or whether there are archives of Sierra Times out there somewhere?