WAR IS TERRORISM!
That’s what someone painted on their rear windshield with thick red paint, no doubt to make it look as though it was painted in blood. Its always helpful when enlightened persons point things like that out to me. I especially like it when they deface their personal property in the process.
From: washingtonpost.com
The White House warned today that al-Qaeda is likely to intensify efforts to infiltrate terrorist operatives into the United States and expressed heightened concern about the potential use of improvised explosive devices, or makeshift bombs, in a domestic attack.
Here is a guy that doesn’t let his political point of view get in the way of his principles. My hat is off to you sir.
From: A liberal’s lament: The NRA might be right after all
By Jonathan Turley
None of this is easy for someone raised to believe that the Second Amendment was the dividing line between the enlightenment and the dark ages of American culture. Yet, it is time to honestly reconsider this amendment and admit that … here’s the really hard part … the NRA may have been right. This does not mean that Charlton Heston is the new Rosa Parks or that no restrictions can be placed on gun ownership. But it does appear that gun ownership was made a protected right by the Framers and, while we might not celebrate it, it is time that we recognize it.
From Jennifer Granick
On my first day of my new position as civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt my previous employer, the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, a fantastic victory. The court’s ruling in Golan v. Gonzales is also a triumph for the First Amendment and for the overwhelming majority of creators.
There is a new movement in the Netherlands that is fighting for the right of young Muslims to leave their faith if they so chose. The movement is headed by a 22 year-old Dutch who renounced his faith after the attacks on the United States.
The Committee for Ex-Muslims promises to campaign for freedom of religion but has already upset the Islamic and political Establishments for stirring tensions among the million-strong Muslim community in the Netherlands.
Check out this website in Germany. I was looking for an update to the sniffer I use called KisMac to make sure no one around me is trying to spoof the WiFi hotspot I’m using. They had to leave their country to avoid imprisonment.
Now they are in Switzerland.
The new site has this warning on the download page.
If you are a resident of Germany, we advise that you do not download this software. Doing so is in breach of the new law StGB §202c.
MAPLight.org is a cool new website which tracks contributions given to politician alongside their voting records. The site also gives information on which companies or industries are in support of each bill. MAPLight does a great job of collecting all of the data into easy to read graphs that anyone can understand. There is also a function that allows a visitor to create a custom graph using any of the available data on the website.
I recently found a cool blog called GamePolitics.com. They have several good posts on the recent ICE raids of console modders. I will also add this site to our resources section.
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) was recently involved in a bunch of raids on the makers of mod-chips instead of cracking down on illegal immigrants and preventing possible terrorists from staying inside the country. Mod-chips are used to enhance the functionality of consoles such as the XBOX and Playstation. The government has the citizens’ best interests in hand, honestly.
Update:
A victim of the raids has come forward to give his personal account.
Here is an interesting take on Google’s reported interest in the old 700mhz cell phone spectrum. I knew there was a reason to hang on to my old Motorola brick phone.
From: Don Reisinger
If the FCC agrees to the terms outlined … Google will definitely win the auction. Once its wins, its executives will soon realize (as if they haven’t already) that this spectrum can go through walls and reach just about anywhere. Even better, it’ll create a speedy broadband connection.
Within no time, Google will announce that wireless will be made available to the public through its system. After all, it did it in San Francisco, why won’t it do it all over the country? In effect, Google would run a “third broadband pipe.”
Here is a video of Senator Ted Stevens attempting to be “hip” while discussing new wireless technologies. I plead with all Alaskans to get this man out of office. He knows nothing about the subject his committee is responsible for. Senator Stevens may be a smart man, but when it comes to technology he is completely inept.
Here is a short but very good video of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Infidel, on the CBC. Pay attention to her last answer, it says it all about those who have never know real hardship or oppression.
Alternate video link: YouTube
From: Fox News
Democratic Rep (MN). Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, is defending himself Monday after comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler and leaving the impression the administration may have rigged the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Speaking to an atheist group on July 8, Ellison said that the president acted much the way Hitler did when the Reichstag, or German Parliament building, was burned in 1933 ahead of elections that pitted Hitler’s Nazi Party against others, including the Communists.
Hitler, who was suspected of ordering the fire, declared emergency powers that helped him launch his dictatorial and murderous reign.
“It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that,” Ellison told the group, according to The Minneapolis Star Tribune. “After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it and it put the leader of that country [Hitler] in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.”
Over at The Consumerist blog, they have the exact same feelings as I do about the most recent Visa commercials. *waving hand slowly* You don’t want to use cash, debit cards are better.
This is the best interview I have seen the President give to date. He is not the best public speaker to say the least, however he was spot on in the interview.
I just found this site called www.swivel.com . It allows you to compare any kind of data that they have on file and instantly create a graph representing the data. I made this graph in about 10 minutes. Check it out!
Apparently we aren’t the only ones who think Commies aren’t cool. This from Uncle Ted (Nugent) writing for the Waco Tribune on the Culture War, Paul McCartney firing a roadie for eating a hamburger, and the death tax. Good old Uncle Ted.
One hears the words of Mao Tse-Tung come broiling out of the mouths of its heroes, when Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton et al unflinchingly push for “redistribution of wealth.”
Central Texas’ own Chet Edwards has the audacity to support taxing the after-tax life savings of American families following the death of a loved one.
The unfair, un-American, unconstitutional death tax literally destroys mom-and-pop businesses across the land. Think about it.
The wall that once symbolized communism is down, yet some still want to give it a shot. Dear God in heaven, help us.
Cameron Diaz made a big mistake by wearing communist propaganda while vacationing in Peru.
From the Financial Times:
The environmentalists ask for immediate political action because they do not believe in the long-term positive impact of economic growth and ignore both the technological progress that future generations will undoubtedly enjoy, and the proven fact that the higher the wealth of society, the higher is the quality of the environment. They are Malthusian pessimists.
This is one of the most eloquent statements I have heard regarding the “threat” of global warming.
This is excellent testimony given at a congressional hearing, regarding the federal governments attempts to limit the rights of individuals.
