June 13, 2013
RELIGION: Catholic school fires teacher because she’s a domestic violence victim
Victim-blaming is one of the worst things about humanity.
Religion is pretty high up there, too.
Put the two together? And you end up punishing victims who dare assert their rights and speak up.
It seems the world, in general, wants you to just quietly skulk away if you are a victim.
June 13, 2013
RELIGION: Catholic school fires teacher because she’s a domestic violence victim
Victim-blaming is one of the worst things about humanity.
Religion is pretty high up there, too.
Put the two together? And you end up punishing victims who dare assert their rights and speak up.
It seems the world, in general, wants you to just quietly skulk away if you are a victim.
May 22, 2013
CORPORATIONS: Wells Fargo Forecloses On Homeowner For Making Early Mortgage Payments
Of course the worst stories (like these) are disproportionately non-white people…. which makes me wonder just how deliberate this type of targeting is.
So glad I took all my money away from these assholes, and dropped it in a local credit union instead!
Everyone should follow suit.
May 6, 2013
Stasi? KGB? Nah, just ‘Murica.
As for the various debates about if there is space to hold it all…. Of course there is, but also: Convert it to text and there’s no more space issues. There’s not a problem with archiving every word said by every person, ever. It’s audio and video that take up a lot of space.
Anyway… after the IRS just admitted it could read our email without a warrant… And after previous whistleblowing … it’s become clear that the people closer to the truth are the Big Brother Conspiracy Theorists, not the Government Apologists.
And yes, the Obama Administration has a direct hand in making things worse, not better.
Daniel H adds:
As a result of this “expanding array of theater airborne and other sensor networks,” as a 2007 Department of Defense report puts it, the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (1024 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)
It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.) In terms of scale, Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, once estimated that the total of all human knowledge created from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes.
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This type of facility, if actually scaled up to yottabyte level, could EASILY handle all voice communication on the commercial telephone network. And this isn’t a tinfoil fantasy, it’s being built right now.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/
April 29, 2013
Further proof that every time something goes bad, we respond to it by taking away freedom.
Remember how unfair it was when the teacher punished the whole class because ONE person chewed gum?
One would hope our leaders would be more mature than that.
One would be wrong.
Another city full of docile pussies who can’t stand up for their rights, and thus get them taken away in the name of safety.
I wonder how many more bombs have to go off before pockets are declared national security hazards?
April 21, 2013
You know what’s worse than 3 people dead and 176 injured? Millions of people thinking they have constitutional rights, but finding out they actually don’t.
And a right that the government can selectively take away when it feels like it? That is not a right. At that point, it’s simply a privilege.
Pointing a gun at somebody IS violence. This is violence against citizenry. At this point, it’s almost a collective punishment for allowing a terrorist to attack.
The worst part is how many people are lined up saying this is okay — Americans have completely and utterly forgotten what freedom is supposed to be.
They now just want a security force that keeps the maximum bodies alive, regardless of consequence to free will.
Fuck that, and Fuck Boston, city of pussies. From the great boston tea party of the 1770s to the pussydom of today, there’s no city in the country that’s pissed harder on its own legacy of freedom.
Adding extra insult to all this? The raids made no difference. The suspect wasn’t in a house, and was found by civilian tips. The police made little difference. This was about training people to obey Big Brother.
LINK URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2LrbsUVSVl8
April 17, 2013
THIN BLUE LINE: Officer who put camera in Glen Burnie High bathroom won’t be charged
In a police state, there are two sets of laws. One for “us”, and one for “them”.
If one of “us” were to install a hidden camera into a bathroom at a public high school – We’d go to jail, register as a sex offender, and possibly be forced to live under a highway overpass with no prospects for a job.
But if a cop does it? The system protects him, gives him some kind of “punishment” so people can argue justice was served, but DOES NOT PRESS CHARGES. No sex offender registration for this seemingly-pedophile piggie.
And that’s what’s wrong with this situation, and to a further extent, this country.
April 10, 2013
POLICE STATE: IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant
So yup, it’s pretty official… The government can read any of your email at any time, and admit it.
You have no privacy with your own effects, thanks to the Electronic Communication Protection Act, which actually makes our electronic communications NOT protected from the government.
And thanks to the fact that the 4th Amendment’s intent has been repeatedly eroded away every time any new technology comes along. I mean, to protect phone calls, they had to pass specific laws, because your conversations were going over PUBLIC wires that were IN PUBLIC.
But we don’t bother passing laws like that now.
Most people are more concerned with deciding which right to take away next, rather than trying to gain back the rights we had and keep losing.
Sad state of affairs.
March 27, 2013
RELIGION: USPS Discriminates Against ‘Atheist’ Merchandise
America is full of religious assholes who want to violate the rights of people who don’t worship the same imaginary sky fairy as them
10 times more likely to lose a package that says atheist on it! And only in America, not in Germany.
The assholes are here. Everywhere.
This one is faced squarely on Christians, as they compose the majority of religious people here.
February 26, 2013
ABUSE OF AUTHORITY: Philly Cop Found Not Guilty for Punching Woman on Camera
Fucking ridiculous. That is all.
Let us remember Philadelphia Police Lt. Jonathan Josey as the violent thug that he is.
Let s remember Judge Patrick Dugan as the judge who ruled police can punch us in the face if we are holding a beer.
February 18, 2013
RELIGION: Cardinal Roger Mahony: I Forgive Those Who Are Angry at Me for Covering Up Child Rape
What a piece of shit. This guy is worse than the worst child molester you can imagine.
The commenters are right: The Catholic Church needs to be charged under RICO organized crime laws.
If you tithe, you’re paying for rape. Period.
January 22, 2013
WAR ON ALCOHOL: Drunk Driving Permits
I think this is a much better solution than our dead-child-illogic-induced constitutional-shredding. Drunk driving permits. Brilliant. My idea was more of a “drunk driving hour” (the hour after bars close), but this is a more organized approach. I like the purple flashing lights…
January 16, 2013
GUNS: Analyzing shooting rampage statistics after Newtown school Shooting
Average deaths in a shooting rampage when stopped by police: 14.3
Average deaths in a shooting rampage when stopped by civilians: 2.3.
It should be noted, though, that that includes unarmed civilians.
So really, a civilian actually doing something reduces the average from 14.3 to 2.6 — 11.7 people saved on average. Them being armed only saves 0.8 lives a shooting (1 life every 4 out of 5 shootings).
The point being: Doing something is better than doing nothing, and waiting for the police is what will give you the lowest odds of surviving. And if someone is going to be a hero – they will a better job at doing so if they have the tools available.
LINK URL: http://www.examiner.com/article/analyzing-shooting-rampage-statistics-after-newport-school-shooting
November 17, 2012
LOCAL: No Toll Road Toll Increase – sign the petition!
“Hopefully [the new Virginia beltway HOT lanes] will work well and reduce congestion. If so, this is a great step towards using tolls effectively to provide a value-added benefit to toll payers.
The Dulles Toll Road (DTR) is a classic example of the opposite: tolls being mis-used on other projects instead of providing a transportation solution.
Tolls had already paid for the DTR, and now are being rapidly increased to pay for a transit project with no benefit to most toll-payers. The result will be toll-avoidance diversion of traffic to local roads bringing gridlock and reduced mobility to the region.
If the Beltway express lanes work, VDOT should retake the DTR from corrupt MWAA [using eminent domain], make it free again, and MWAA could turn the Dulles Airport Access Rd. into HOT lanes modeled after the beltway project.
Revenues from airport users and commuters willing and able to pay could fund the rail project, while local residents’ already-paid-for-road would be made accessible to them again.
Sign the petition and read about more solutions at http://www.noTOLLincrease.org”
LINK URL: http://notollincrease.blogspot.com
November 7, 2012
WAR ON DRUGS: The beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition: Day 1
By the way… This also happened.
November 6, 2012
OVERLY-HARSH PUNISHMENTS: Piedmont Mom Gets $2,500 Ticket After Son, 3, Urinates In Own Yard
While we’re busy pretending there are only 2 sides to all issues… Shit like this happens on an increasing basis with each passing year.
LINK URL: http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?S=20010769
November 1, 2012
TASER THURSDAY: Officer shoots 10-year-old boy with Taser for refusing to clean cop car
At first you think, “maybe the kid spit on his car or did something that would require cleaning”, but no.
This is a piece of shit cop who went to a career day at school, asked kids if they wanted to clean his car, then tasered the one kid who didn’t want to.
Then didn’t get him medical attention after he blacked out.
So-called officer Chris Webb of the New Mexico Department Of Public Safety should be publicly shamed, fired, and barred from any position of power ever again.
His name is CHRIS WEBB. He should be in jail.
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