We were all probably hoping and thinking that Glenn Greenwald and his partner David Miranda weren’t behaving stupidly while sending/transporting Snowden documents over international borders. Alas, perhaps they were. Even if you’re in major anti-news mode, you’ve probably heard about or seen Miley Cyrus’ grotesque “twerking” performance a few days back. The ‘Net has been full of tsking about the way “Hannah Montana” turned on her little-girl fans with her crude display of sexuality. But everybody’s missing the point, you see. It’s not that Cyrus’ performance was over-sexualized. It’s that it was racist! Yes. Seriously. Racist. I think this sets…
Category: War on Some Drugs
The last few days I’ve been doing physical labor, spending time in the sunshine, painting rooms — and thinking about America’s UberGovernment. It’s dawning on a lot more people that a government run by secret spymasters is illigitmate even by the most conventional, mainstream standards. Among freedomistas, even those like the folks at DownsizeDC — who are usually pretty polite, mainstream, and hopeful of working within the system — are talking last straws. Edward Snowden’s revelations of the NSA were a shock, though not a surprise. Now this week they’re followed by news of DEA operations that are top secret…
… but just so you’ll know. Some of those “let’s find a lame excuse to stop this vehicle so we can search for drugs or drug money” stops are actually the product of a secret spy program. Connection between DEA and NSA still unknown. Because the DEA gives orders (or perhaps takes orders) to keep all this under wraps — even from defense lawyers and sometimes even from their friends the persecutors. Hm. Whatever happened to the right to confront your accuser — your actual accuser — in court? The Wall Street Journal reports that, among other nice things, the…
You knew it all along, didn’t you? Those crosswalk buttons don’t change the lights. Elevator “close door” buttons don’t close doors, either. They’re just there to make you feel empowered and more patient. Man, that’s one clever bear. (From Irons in the Fire) Oh gads, this is sooooo true. Self promotion is HELL. (H/T to Jim Bovard, who’s heard me whining about that often enough.) Yuppies in prison. Increasing in real life — and now on TV. More on that dirty business of child porn being sent to liberty activists. Including a lawyer’s tips on what to do if it…
A “Farewell to Arms” in Colorado — and as the Dutchman says, “Let the smuggling begin.” Speaking of the Dutchman (Mike Vanderboegh, of course), he’s just been interviewed on Freedom Feens. Only bureaucrats (aka “policymakers”) could be flummoxed by cannabis legalization — a trend that’s been ongoing for nearly 20 years. A former STASI snoop is appalled … … while the wits of Las Vegas make tourist hay out of the NSA. Wi-Vi. Ugh. (H/T MJR) Wait a minute. You stole their guns. And after the Glorious Leader of your Glorious Country says to give the darn things back (H/T…
You see this: Source for those who can’t see the embed. This is also a not-bad reminder that TPTB aren’t even remotely as powerful as they’d like us to believe they are. Silk Road and The Pirate Bay still live, and Kim Dotcom has never really stopped laughing at the you-know-whos. Freedom always finds a way.
What with the cascading chaos of IRS-gate, Snoop-on-the-media-gate, Benghazi-gate, and now the whopper of them all, NSA-gate, perhaps you were worried that Your Beloved Leaders might be too distracted to function. But never fear, Dear Citizens! Your Public Servants remain fully dedicated, on the job, and as always, Devoted to their Sacred Responsibilities to We the People. And lest you have any lingering doubt about that …* —– * Anyone with lingering doubts about government can be expected to be discovered by the ever-helpful algorithms of the NSA and aided toward a better future by the FBI, DHS, ATF, and…
It was sunny yesterday, O wonder of wonders. I spent the day painting the back porch. It’s a tiny porch, but has four different colors and a couple different wall textures and it kept my body occupied for hours. But my mind had better other things it wanted to do. —– I found myself thinking about Amy Fischer, the “Long Island Lolita” and her main squeeze with the perfect tabloid name, Joey Buttafuoco. Why the heck would I be there in the sunshine thinking about some long-eclipsed “crime of the century”? I have no idea. That’s so 1992. —– I…
How can people know that the state is a powerful club, yet still believe it to be omni-benevolent? Why do people continue to believe the government exists to help them when the phrase, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you” is known as an irony to one and all? How can anyone think their health-care system will improve once it’s operated by the kind of people who run the DMV? —– What do you do if you’ve already enacted your own personal austerity regime and you’re still not making it? Why will some people glibly answer that…
Good news and think pieces only today. How mindfulness (aka meditation) might improve brain power. (H/T. JB) Young goldendoodle saves pregnant woman and her unborn baby. (H/T ML) Also, while this “news” isn’t new, it’s a nice v*te of confidence for bully breed dogs. (One of my neighbors has the most gorgeous, most sweet pit bull/American bulldog mix — aka aka Bullypit or Colorado bulldog. I could fall in love.) “Why I’m getting rid of most of my stuff.” By the inimitable (and slightly crazy) James Altucher. (I can identify. I’ve been in an accumulating mode since buying this house;…