Whenever the government openly steals your personal information and stores it, you know it’s been happening for awhile now. In the digital age, there is no place for privacy.

Here are some Dailymail details:

Details about text messages, phone calls, emails and every website visited by members of the public will be kept on record in a bid to combat terrorism.

The Government will order broadband providers, landline and mobile phone companies to save the information for up to a year under a new security scheme.

What is said in the texts, emails or phone calls will not be kept but information on the senders, recipients and their geographical whereabouts will be saved.

Direct messages to users of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter will also be saved and so will information exchanged between players in online video games.

The information will be stored by individual companies rather than the government.

The news has sparked huge concerns about the risk of hacking and fears that the sensitive information could be used to send spam emails and texts.

Anyone paying attention knows this is a violation of privacy. Terrorism is just an excuse that is working right now, when that fails they’ll find something else. There is no company or government that should have access to our personal information. Nothing online is private. Get used to that fact. It will make some scream louder but for the majority it could change how people approach the digital realm. It’s like your computer should come with a warning label: YOU ARE BEING WATCHED. THANK YOU!

The racially sensitive came chirping on this Presidents Day, reminding us all that past presidents owned slaves. At the same time we discussed how there are more prisoner’s in the United States currently than there ever were slaves. President Obama, you have some explaining to do.

Yes, yes, you inherited this mess. Just like the economic crises, wars in the middle east and homeland security spy teams. Just like like the drug war, which you lied about. Here is the quote when running for president in 2008:

I’m not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue

Check out this quote from Rolling Stone:

Over the past year, the Obama administration has quietly unleashed a multi­agency crackdown on medical cannabis that goes far beyond anything undertaken by George W. Bush. The feds are busting growers who operate in full compliance with state laws, vowing to seize the property of anyone who dares to even rent to legal pot dispensaries, and threatening to imprison state employees responsible for regulating medical marijuana. With more than 100 raids on pot dispensaries during his first three years, Obama is now on pace to exceed Bush’s record for medical-marijuana busts. “There’s no question that Obama’s the worst president on medical marijuana,” says Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. “He’s gone from first to worst.”

Oh, Bummer. The Obama squad is going after places who comply with state laws, which affect ill patients and a more money wasted on the war on marijuana.

There are more black men in the grip of the American criminal-justice system today than there were in slavery in 1850. Many of these people are in jail because of drug offenses. Our incarceration rates are the great moral collapse withing Amercia’s borders and people want to talk about Thomas Jefferson. We are just as foolish and we should know better. Obama told us he knew better. What changed?

There could be a debate on the difference between a slave and a prisoner. The argument would be that a prisoner once had the choice, and chose jail. This is what the general agreement must be for it to be acceptable practice. It is a one size fits all solution solution by the Obama Drug Squad, along with the Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan anti-shamans. It is acceptable practice and in 200 years the racially sensitive will ask…

Let Us Honor Slave & Prison Presidents?

There are two active sentiments involved with the increase of guns, stockpiled food and backyard farming adventurers. One says that they are ‘awake’. The other says they are overly paranoid. It is abundantly clear that they are both.

Can you blame them? Americans fear terrorists, they fear each other and they fear the future. Most of all, they fear the government. The economy is a big driving force for creating instability of this crazy centralized system. Couple that with the fact NDAA was signed into law, The Patriot Act was renewed and Obama is a democrat in office during the Gabriel Gifford shooting and people want guns and they want them NOW.

Check this out by ammo.net:

Here is what they say:

American firearm sales and concealed handgun permit applications are at all-time highs since the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. President Obama’s perceived hostility towards gun owners has been one of the key factors behind the multi-year financial boom the firearms industry continues to enjoy. In fact, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is actively preparing to work to defeat President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, according to Wayne LaPierre, the CEO of the NRA, who recently said the following at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.:

“Lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term. We see the president’s strategy crystal clear: Get re-elected and, with no more elections to worry about, get busy dismantling and destroying our firearms’ freedom, erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights and excise it from the U.S. Constitution…When the sun goes down on election day Barack Obama will have America’s gun owners to thank for his defeat.” -
Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the NRA, February 10th, 2012

Ironically, the perceived hostility towards gun owners by President Obama has actually helped the firearms industry tremendously. Since the 2008 election, more Americans than ever before are purchasing firearms & ammunition. This has meant massive increases in sales by firearm & ammunition makers, billions more in federal and state tax collections related to guns & ammo, increased membership in the NRA, and hundreds of thousands of new Americans carrying concealed handguns. Therefore, should the firearms industry support President Obama for a second term or not?

The new “operational support hub” – along with others to be set up around the world – will allow Canada to deploy troops and supplies to distant hotspots on short notice, said a joint statement by the German and Canadian governments as German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere paid a visit to Ottawa.

It’s still not clear when the base at Cologne-Bonn Airport will be set up or how many Canadians will be there, although troop numbers will not approach the tens of thousands of Americans currently stationed in Germany.

De Maiziere told a press conference that he and his Canadian counterpart, Peter MacKay, are also discussing missile defence, the future of Afghanistan and the nuclear component of NATO defence capabilities – all topics of an upcoming NATO summit in Chicago in May.

According to the Canadian CBC television network, Germany and Canada have recently been expanding their defence cooperation as both countries grapple with prolonged military deployments to Afghanistan.

The Canadians have experimented with setting up temporary logistics hubs in Germany to support their Afghanistan mission – one successful such venture was recently launched alongside the American military in Spangdahlem, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Canada’s Post-Media News said that in deciding where to set up logistics’ hubs, Canadian forces have been impressed with Germany’s organisational skills and also count a long history of cooperation as a plus.

“For decades, Canadian personnel stationed in Germany during the Cold War developed close relations with their German counterparts and their local communities,” it quoted MacKay as saying

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With all of the outrage towards Obama, it can’t be ignored that some of the biggest haters voted for and still wish that John McCain had won. Who would have been worse? Well, it’s not a question worth pondering because both sides bring that same bitter after taste.

From RT:

American Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham proposed ways of handling the issue of Syria this week during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. As Syria looks more and more like a country drawn into a civil war, both McCain and Graham suggest that it’s time for the United States to provide assistance to one of the sides.
McCain said from Kabul that he hopes to arm the Syrian rebels, but does not think that direct intervention from the United States is necessary.

“I believe there are ways to get weapons to the opposition without direct United States involvement,” said McCain.
“People that are being massacred deserve to have the ability to defend themselves,” added McCain, who insists that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s own army is relying on firepower being provided by allied nations. To counter the government, McCain said that that the US needs to lend a helping hand by the way of weaponry, although Senator McCain did not explain how he intended to put American machinery into the hands of rebel forces without going directly through the US government.

As the rest of the world continues to question the events in Syria, McCain’s remark is made as one of the first from a leading lawmaker concerning what to do with the worsening situation in Syria. Unless the US takes the proper path in equipping the rebel forces in a way that cooperated with American policy, it could create problems not just for Assad, but for Washington as well.

There are more black people in Jail today than what were slaves before that was abolished. This is truly unbelievable to ponder, especially considering many of the people throwing around the trendy racism card when it fits them nicely.

Data reported in Adam Gopnik’s New Yorker essay of January 30, “The Caging of America“:

Here is an excellent cliff notes edition by Morris Berman:

1. There are more black men in the grip of the American criminal-justice system today than there were in slavery in 1850. (I have also read that both in absolute numbers and per capita, the US has more black people in its jails than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.)

2. There are more people under “correctional supervision” in America (more than 6 million) than there were in the Russian gulag under Stalin, at its height. (I have read elsewhere, in several academic sources, that 25% of the world’s prisoners are in American jails–this in a country that has less than 5% of the world’s population. I also read that 1 out of every 31 Americans is caught up in the criminal justice system in one form or another.)

3. More than 50,000 men are currently in solitary confinement in the US.

4. More than 70,000 American prisoners are raped every year.

5. In 1980, 220 people were incarcerated for every 100,000 Americans; in 2010, the figure had risen to 731 (more than tripled). “No other country even approaches that,” writes Gopnik.

6. In the last 20 years, the money states spend on prisons in the US has risen at six times the rate of spending on higher education.

7. A huge percentage of American prisoners are serving sentences much longer than those given for similar crimes anywhere else in the developed world (e.g., marijuana use).

Gopnik concludes: “Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today…incarceration…acts as a hidden foundation for the country.”

If this is not enough to turn your stomach then you are a robot. It is the overgrowth of government in our natural born rights that have lead to these gruesome stats, most of which are the result of the war on drugs. Until politicians in DC get serious about correcting drug laws and others dealing with confinement of civil liberties, they won’t be seen as serious people.

Judge Andrew Napolitano recently had his show axed from the Fox News Line-up and it has everyone wondering what is next. His reaction after the demotion or firing was to say it happens all the time and he will still be with Fox. This was a noble and self-serving reaction by someone who may posses the nimbleness needed of a candidate for Vice President. Enter Ron Paul.

Consider the fact that Ron Paul says his greatest weakness is as the deliverer of the freedom message. Paul’s classic ‘What if’ speech was used by remastered by Napolitano and Paul has said recently that the Judge is a candidate to be his Vice President, if he won the GOP nomination.

Here is the quote from this video:

One time somebody asked me who I’d have to consider and the name Judge Napolitano jumps right out at me. But when you think about the danger of mentioning one or two, your not going to mention others who are certainly qualified. That’s a great story, you know, the fact that there are alot of people now well know and well educated who know the issues and would do a very good job.

The crowd loved the suggestion that Napolitano would get the nod, which in addition to Ron Paul suggesting it is very telling. Besides that, who else would he actually pick? Gary Johnson is liked by many but I have not seen any real indications this is a possibility. Rand Paul would not appeal to other voters, except for some conservatives that Napolitano can tap into anyways. Jesse Ventura is a popular name, especially with the Infowars crowd. With due respect to the Governor this is not realistic and Ventura would seal off a ton of votes. Dennis Kucinich or another liberal leaning congressman is another possibility but doubtful.

Let’s just assume though that Romney or somebody else gets the GOP nomination, which is very likely. In that case a 3rd party run by Paul/Napalitano would dominate the independent votes, steal Republicans and even Democrats.

‘Judge Nap’ is even a big fan of Ralph Nader, calling him a hero among other glowing remarks.

Judge Napalitano will have a great appeal on the east coast and will find a loud microphone with many in the media. As it stands now, he looks to be the perfect VP choice. When it comes to the Constitution and natural born rights nobody is more powerful of a speaker than Judge Napolitano.

Best of all, Judge Nap is one of the few people who can explain ‘fringe’ beliefs to mainstream listeners and convince them in 10 minutes that these ‘fringe’ beliefs are the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help us Judge Nap it sounds like the mic is about to be passed to you. His audience on Fox’s Freedom Watch was big but it could come to pass soon that he is a household name.

Napolitano sat on the New Jersey bench from 1987 to 1995, becoming the state’s youngest then-sitting Superior Court judge. The glaring weakness would be his lack of experience on the ‘big stage’ in term of the political arena, so it’s a bit of an unknown how he may handle that.

Judge Napolitano “What If” speech:

But I’m not going to do that. Santorum and his supporters’ antipathy for individuals making their own value judgments about sex has been documented on other blogs and I don’t know that I can really add much that hasn’t already been written. Having said that, I think Rick Moran at PJ Media nearly perfectly captures my concerns about Santorum and Social Conservatives more generally in his post: “The GOP’s Problem with Sex Could Cost Them in November.”

[Social Conservatives’] outdated, even primitive, critique of human sexuality that denies both the science and the cultural importance of sex and the sex act. Their main target appears to be women, and women’s sex lives, although the act of love itself is also to be placed in a strait jacket. No doubt the right will argue that their criticisms are only meant to help women, and nurture “healthy” attitudes toward sex. Nonsense. First of all, women don’t need that kind of help. They are capable of making their own choices without a bunch of ignorant busybodies telling them how to govern the most intimate and personal aspects of their lives.

Secondly, there is inherent in this critique a 19th century — or earlier — view of sex that seeks to keep the act of love within the confines of the marriage bed, and believes that physical intimacy should be primarily for one reason, and one reason only: procreation. At the very least, sex outside of marriage should be severely proscribed and limited to those who plan a long term relationship or eventual matrimony. Having sex because it’s fun, or because you’re bored, or because you crave physical intimacy, or for any other reason beyond traditional notions of “love” is grounds for disapprobation.

Certainly religion has much to do with this assault on sex. And if the extent of their critique stayed in the pews and pulpits of conservative churches, there would be no problem whatsoever. Christian denominations can tell their adherents how to live their lives, citing chapter and verse from the Bible, and nobody would care.

But when Republican politicians, and others associated with conservatism or the Republican Party, start echoing the various criticisms of contraception, of casual sex, of sex outside of marriage, the perception cannot be dismissed that the imprimatur of the entire party — and consequently, the government if they ever came to power — has been granted and that somebody, somewhere, might want to do something about it. As a voter making a political calculus on how to mark one’s ballot, the GOP is kidding itself if they don’t think this affects the decisions of millions of citizens.

Where do these people get off? Apparently they don’t…unless it’s for the purpose of procreation. No wonder they are so uptight!

The recent firing of Pat Buchanan by the politically correct elite who pressured the mainstream MSNBC network is a shining example on top of the hill of dog poo. Nothing more, nothing less.

As disagreeable as Pat Buchanan has been throughout his life, he has oddly become a voice of reason as the elder statesman on an otherwise petty array of talking points.

It is not worth it to discuss exactly why Pat Buchanan got fired because it’s trivial and just plain silly. Listen to Buchanan himself in his response to the new blacklist. This is a classic case of media being influenced by groups who have great strength because of money, prejudice and a scared PC cult who continually dismiss differing ideas for a filtered false sense of common bliss.

Pat Buchanan is one of the few media heads around that openly opposes the urge to start a war with Iran. This is for good reason because if we try to cut 20% of China’s and much or Russia’s oil supply, things could get ugly quick. Notice that most of the mainstream does nothing the war drums that have been pounding, instead focusing on the endless nuclear goose hunt.

Also getting the axe was Judge Andrew P. Napolitano from Fox News Business, who also opposes a potential Iran war and basically all expansions of the government.

Both of these guys have sided with Presidential Candidate Ron Paul, with Judge Napolitano an open supporter.

All of these news outlets maintain a strict adherence to certain ideologies and watered down kool-aid that once could be associated with noble intentions. It is probably realistic to assume even most liberals objected the firing of Pat Buchanan and single balance in what has become the President Obama PC squad.

Americans elected and it was a social victory, considering slavery was not actually too long ago. That does not mean we all have to act the same or think the same regarding differing races or religions. It does not mean that the PC elite police have to warrant a pink slip to free thinking individuals who failed to open the junk mail.

Pat Buchanan is telling it as he sees it: Like a Boss.

Let error be tolerated, said Thomas Jefferson, “so long as reason is left free to combat it.” What Foxman and ADL are about in demanding that my voice be silenced is, in the Jeffersonian sense, intrinsically un-American.

Consider what it is these people are saying.

They are saying that a respected publisher, St. Martin’s, colluded with me to produce a racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic book, and CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN, Fox Business News and the 150 radio shows on which I appeared failed to detect its evil and helped to promote a moral atrocity.

If my book is racist and anti-Semitic, how did Sean Hannity, Erin Burnett, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Megyn Kelly, Lou Dobbs and Ralph Nader miss that? How did Charles Payne, African-American host on Fox radio, who has interviewed me three times, fail to detect its racism?

How did Michael Medved miss its anti-Semitism?

The death of Whitney Houston was a reminder of how dangerous prescription drugs are, how wonderful of a singer she was and how hilarious Joey Diaz is when talking about Whitney Houston buying blow.

Whitney buying blow is not shocking at all. Her reality show with Bobby Brown and the family was cracked out. It was kind of like watching Anna Nicole Smith stumble around her reality show shortly before she died, except it involved people who actually had talent. So in that sense it was just sad so that’s probably why it was not on TV long.

This particular story is a bit haunting because the last time Diaz sold Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown drugs was 9am after a Grammy awards show. Houston has been getting out-of-control at the Grammy Awards for years now and nobody cared…or they joined in. Now that she is dead it’s tears all around. It’s also funny to hear Ricky Martin’s name thrown around.

1/2 an ounce of coke a day is insane. Of course, Diaz is notorious for out-of-this-world stories that you somehow end up believing. This one is actually pretty mild but just happens to feature some big names.

Whitney may have shown resilience by making it to 48. But then again, as you see Joey Diaz is still going strong on the Joe Rogan Podcast.