Friday brought two horrible-looking pieces of news that have made their way around the ‘Net fast and fearfully: The NSA is building a super data center in Utah. One that can — and will — scoop up the complete text of all our emails, break our encryption, and even report on where we parked last time we went to lunch. And a new executive order is a setup for “peacetime martial law” in America. By now, even Walmartian grannies have probably heard all this, and true paranoids have retreated to underground bunkers with their Super-Whiz-Whacker 3000 assault rifles and colossal…
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The other day I linked to an article that found one good thing to say about Rick Santorum (he’s strongly opposed to Obamacare and was, at least that day, making repeal a centerpiece of his campaign). I fear that some took that as an endorsement of Santorum. Never mind that I’d be as likely to endorse Vlad Dracul, Typhoid Mary, or any average inhabitant of an insane asylum. In fact, speaking of inhabitants of insane asylums … With the entire freaking world coming apart at the seams and the economy headed off yet another, steeper cliff, Santorum has been busy…
25 CommentsI’m not sure how many grains of salt this deserves to be taken with. Perhaps a whole shaker full. Or perhaps it’s the dead-solid truth. Judge for yourself. Marc Slavo tends to be a bit conspiratorial for my taste and the bona fides of the letter writer he quotes are unverifiable. Whatever else, it’s fascinating that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission tossed this public comment down the memory hole yesterday almost as soon as it was posted. The comment’s author claims to be a whistleblower writing from inside JPMorgan Chase. And he or she confirms (among other things) the widespread…
8 CommentsHere’s a little something MamaLiberty wrote while looking at pictures like these and thinking about dogs past and dogs future. You Know It’s Time To Get a Dog… When an inch of soup is left in the bowl and you are too full… A walk to the mailbox is just a walk to the mailbox… The first piece of toast in the morning gets burned a little… but you shrug and eat it anyway. The antelope steak is a little too big for one meal… but not enough for two. Your feet are cold under the desk… Nobody in the…
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2 CommentsThe following is from an entrepreneur friend I’ve blogged about before. What he’s going through is a direct result of FATCA. You and me? We might not think we’re rich enough to be affected by this horrible, impossible law. If we have few or no offshore assets, we might think we have nothing to worry about. But in the long run, we’re all hurt as American citizens become worldwide pariahs, as avenues of freedom are closed off, and as stupid government tricks push our commerce and technology into fear-created backwaters. Anyhow, from my friend: I’ve already whined to you about…
12 Comments“Gun Nation: Inside America’s Gun-Carry Culture.” Yeah, it’s MSM. But The Christian Science Monitor time and again shows it’s the fairest of the MSM. Not a bad profile on how state-level gun rights activists have turned the whole world upside down.
8 CommentsCouple of weeks ago, I blogged my surprise at buying freeze-dried and dehydrated storage foods at Wal-Mart. Well, today I went back and bought a couple more #10 cans. This time the shelves (nearly denuded at last visit) were chock full and topped with placards that could be seen several aisles away: “Prepare for Emergency.” As I was checking out the selection and prices, a man wandered by, looked at the big buckets of rice, concluded he didn’t need that much, and headed off. A few seconds later, a woman’s voice said, “I wish they had these in smaller cans…
18 CommentsBrandon Smith: “How to become an American extremist in style.” (Tip o’ hat to Jim B. in a recent comment section.) Douglas Herman: “All my heroes died broke, broken, not beaten.” Both those, especially the first, sound a lot like things I have written back in the day. I’m a little jealous. OTOH, it’s nice to sit back and enjoy the first-class rants of others.
6 CommentsIn which I preach (or rather relay someone else’s preaching about) what I don’t practice (and I’ll bet he doesn’t, either). Swiss writer-entrepreneur-brainstormer Rolf Dobelli explains how news watching is wrecking our brains (.pdf) and screwing with our priorities. A sample (which resonates with me because I’ve said the same thing in less elegant words many a time): Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that – because you consumed it – allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career, your business…
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