MORNING INTELL: Senator Slick Willie and Robot Soldiers

BLOGOSPHERE NEWS:
December 2 2008



THE SCOOP:
* Senator Slick Willie?
* TIME's Tool
* Mumbai's Message
* Pentagon's Robot Soldiers
* Jihad against Civilization

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A WORLD OF NEWS

1. OBAMA's ELECTION HASN'T ENDED TERRORISM?
   

   File this one under “Deluded Expectations.” During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, daytime anchor Alex Witt seemed frustrated that the election of Barack Obama 23 days earlier — and the accompanying “global outpouring of affection, respect, hope” — had not caused an end to terrorist violence.

   
   
   We'd say: file this under the heading, "Some Obama Supporters Aren't Very Well Informed--or Anchored in Reality: MSNBC Anchor Frets: Why Hasn’t Obama’s Election Ended Terrorism?.
   
   From MSNBC's Alex Witt Amazed There Are Still Terrorists Even After Obama Won: "Congratulations, Alex. You're starting to figure out the future you've helped make for us by hyping the clueless and unqualified Obambi all the way into the White House."
   
   
2. WTF?!?: Bill Clinton mentioned for wife's Senate seat. "Senator Slick Willie" does have a certain ring to it.
   
   
   
   
3. Al Franken still isn't funny: Minnesota Recount: Franken’s Sore Loser Strategy. If Franken doesn't get enough votes, it's off to the courts--or even the Senate! Both are funny places.
   
   
4. Al-Qaida: Making some lists and checking them twice...
   "In Washington, analysts in the law enforcement and intelligence communities will be putting together "after incident reports" on Mumbai. So too will terrorists in Islamabad, Kabul and Gaza."
   Mumbai: A Message for America
   
   
5. One item of disagreement with the above story is the following:
   

   If you think about what ten terrorists in Mumbai were able to accomplish with automatic weapons, grenades, and bombs against the Indian special forces and military, you realize that a similar attack against modestly-armed American police with a few special weapons teams would create even greater havoc. Certainly, the military would be mobilized in response, but all of that takes time, especially in our multi-layered federal system with its historic emphasis on local control. In the initial hours of an attack, the terrorists would vastly out-gun the police. The police would hardly be able to contain the situation let alone bring it to denouement.

   
   We're not sure where the author, Abraham H. Miller, lives; but apparently he is unaware of the increasing militarization of America's small-town police forces. Undertaken in the name of "not wanting to be out-gunned by the bad guys", police throughout the country are using assault tactics and weapons to carry out routine duties. It's not only scary, it's a waste of money. Mumbai's message might be many things, but one thing it's not: the transformation of the Mayberry Police Dept. into a special commando unit.
   
   

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QUICK HITTERS

• Water-Powered Car Video: GenePax Hydro Car Set for 2010: Japanese company GenePax unveils their water-powered car in this short video demonstration. It runs about an hour at 80 kilometers/hour. They hope to be in production by 2010. [video length: 1:21]
  
  
  
• Is there a bigger tool than TIME's Joe Klein? Klein can't believe that reporters are asking PE Obama "inane" questions?
  

  Watching the Obama rollout of his national security team from overseas--I'm in Europe, on my way to Afghanistan--I was struck by the inanity of most of the questions from my colleagues.

  
  For 22 months, the press asked BHO a steady stream of inane, insipid questions. Why would there be a sudden "Change"? Why is it that MSM reporters always ask questions about their total tool-ness after the fact? Memo to Klein: this would have been a real story if you'd written it in August. Now, it's just another eyebrow-chewing MSM piece written to assure readers--and the reporter--that you're "thoughtful".
  
  
• MO's Big Thank You: Michelle’s ring thing.
  MMalken: "If Michelle thinks she should receive a present for contributing to the successful Obama campaign, what gift is she getting him for winning it?"
  Sometimes, when presented with too much information all at once, the human mind shuts down. The above question makes the mind spin at the possibilities.
  
  
• Change to The British System?
  Don Surber: "The British government saves money by forgetting to treat Alzheimer’s patients." Free Health Care
  
  
• During the campaign, the ObamaBunch cut off access to those asking anything but softball questions. Doesn't look like that's going to "Change!" anytime soon. Don't say America wasn't warned: Change... Obama Continues Boycott of FOX News.
  
  

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SEE ALL, KNOW ALL

1. Sounds like the Terminator to us: Pentagon hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers that 'won't commit war crimes'.
   Just a guess: It'd be hard to try a robot in a court of law.
   
   
2. Britain, the Land of the PC - UK: Muslim Prayer Rooms Should Be Offered in Catholic Schools .
   "Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in every Roman Catholic school, Church leaders have said. The Catholic bishops of England and Wales also want special toilet facilities in schools to be adapted for Islamic cleaning rituals."
   No word if holy water will be used in the footbaths.
   
   
3. Why do you suppose he didn't do a Gay version of the Koran? Gay Bible Set to Publish: Aida and Eve, Christian “Backlash” Needed
   
   
4. More Mumbai: Jihad: The War Against Civilization
   

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MEATY LINK FUNK GOODNESS

• Idiots of the Week: December 1, 2008
  
  
• Thankful? Four videos that will make anyone swear off getting wrapped up in "World of Warcraft". WoW was the same game that brought the two killers in 2007's Baby Grace murder together.
  
  
• Giants are leading, Steelers, Cowboys tied for second at the moment: POLL: Which NFL Team Will Win Super Bowl XLIII
  
  
• More money down a rathole: On Bailing out an unsalvageable dinosaur industry.
  Either the bailout is about saving companies serious about saving themselves--or it's about saving some cushy jobs both in the front office and on the assembly line.
  
  

by Mondo Frazier
images: dbkp file; hot air

MORNING INTELL: Mumbai-Pakistan Link, The Left and Hate, Senator Chris Matthews

BLOGOSPHERE NEWS:
November 29 2008



THE SCOOP:
* Pakistan Behind Mumbai?
* Leaker or Whistleblower?
* Chicago: Where only the criminals have guns
* Swiss likely to approve prescription smack
* Japan, Spain Race to Join Dead Civilizations
* Senator Chris Matthews?
* Republicans Lose; We Don't have to Drink Dirty Water Anymore
* AP Doesn't Want Military Fauxtography Competition

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A WORLD OF NEWS

1. Was the attacks on Mumbai the work of the Pakistanis? Looking more likely, it seems. India, Pakistan simmer over Mumbai attacks
   

   Indian accusations of a Pakistani link to the attacks on Mumbai that killed nearly 200 people threaten to damage attempts to improve ties between the rivals.
   
   Indian officials have said most, perhaps all, of the 10 attackers who held Mumbai hostage with frenzied attacks using assault rifles and grenades came from Pakistan, a Muslim nation carved out of Hindu-majority India in 1947.
   
   An official in Islamabad said the next one to two days would be crucial for relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Pakistan has condemned the assaults and denied any involvement by state agencies.

   
   
2. American "allies" debate how best to squeeze blood money from a financially-stricken turnip: OPEC defers new oil supply cut as divisions emerge
   
   

   OPEC on Saturday deferred a decision on a new oil supply cut amid signs that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are demanding tighter adherence to restraints put in place over the past two months.
   
   Gulf producers want to see strict compliance with recent output curbs of 2 million barrels a day before considering further reductions when the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries meets in Algeria on Dec. 17.

   
   Diplomats from throughout the oil-consuming world are also debating--about the best way to say, "Kiss my ass".
   
   
3. Chicago, the Kingdom by Lake Michigan: homicides are up 41% since the gun ban was passed, but who's counting? Chicago Defies the Second Amendment
   
   

   When it comes to firearms, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is no slave to rationality. "Does this lead to everyone having a gun in our society?" he demanded after the ruling came down. "Then why don't we do away with the court system and go back to the Old West, where you have a gun and I have a gun and we'll settle it in the streets?"
   
   From listening to him, you might assume that the only places in North America that don't have firefights on a daily basis are cities that outlaw handguns. You might also assume that Chicago is an oasis of concord, rather than the site of 443 homicides last year.

   
   
   
4. It's comforting to know that when the Right half of the blogosphere publishes information damaging to the Obama administration that's leaked, the NY Times will stand up and applaud. Right? Right? Leaks: A Different Story in Great Britain
   

   We have complained for years about the fact that leakers in the CIA, the State Department and elsewhere in the federal bureaucracy have carried on a war against the Bush administration since the President's first term, a war they largely have won. Politically-motivated Democrats in the bureaucracies leak to politically-motivated Democrats at newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post, who run "exposes" of the Bush administration based, frequently, on selective use of classified documents. Instead of being prosecuted, the leakers have never been identified and the reporters have won awards.
   
   That infuriating situation is a striking contrast with what is happening in Great Britain, where one of the most prominent members of the Conservative opposition, shadow immigration minister Damian Green, has been arrested for receiving leaked information from a government official:

   
   
   
5. THE OBAMA TOUCH: Is Barack Obama: The Wile E. Coyote of Diplomacy? Obama is only the president-elect--as we're reminded on a hourly basis--but he's already mishandled relations with both Pakistan and India since his election. With accomplishments like that, the sky's the limit once January 20 gets here.

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QUICK HITTERS

• Wonder if its part of the socialized health care plan? Swiss likely to approve prescription heroin. Wonder how difficult it is to make chocolate and watches with a prescription monkey on your back?
  
  
• What's a Libertarian to do? Does the Libertarian party still matter?
  
  "Traditionally opposed to government interventionism, libertarians are at a loss about how to respond to the economic crisis"
  
  
• NYC Mayor Rudy knew. Dutch Experiments vindicate the "Broken Windows Theory" of how disorder and crime spreads: Is Crime Contagious?
  
  
• LOVE TO HATE: The Left is obsessed with hate. Here's a leftie blog hate two-fer: Lou Dobbs doesn't want to deal with his own culpability for hate crimes and I Hate Wal-Mart
  
  
• NO HATE HERE: Meanwhile, an Obama supporter goes on an annoyed (hate seems over-used) rampage against a Doubter-of-Hope-and-change. Hope like a butterfuly, sting like a bee: I'll kill you! Spat Over Obama Sparks Beating in Florida. The color of change in Florida is black-and-blue.
  
  
• The AP apparently satisfied the U.S. military isn't muscling in on its fauxtog territory: AP lifts ban on military photos. How many fauxtography scandals has the AP been involved in? Check out Fauxtography on Parade

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Tired of bloody revolutions and capitalistic monopolies? Mark Fiore has the answer with the economic clapper. It makes switching from one ideology to the other quick and painless with just the sound of the infamous clapper. This is exactly the radical new technology that will help improve the productivity and spped to action of our dead beat Congressional leadership.
--[for the complete animated version of the image above, see: Clap Capitalism On and Off With The Clapper]

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SEE ALL, KNOW ALL

1. Chris Matthews Staffing Up for Probable Senate Run in 2010. The news reportedly sent a thrill, chill and spill running down the legs of Arlen Specter (R-PA).
   
   
2. History lesson for those too young to remember the breathtaking days of cattle futures, Pardongate, impeachment and Travelgate: Hillary Clinton, pseudo-centrist .
   
   
3. The Quote of the day answers the question, "How do you want to be remembered, Mr. President?"
   
   
4. The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and Man Made Climate Change: Efforts to support global climate-change falls: Poll.
   

   Less than half of those surveyed, or 47 per cent, said they were prepared to make personal lifestyle changes to reduce carbon emissions, down from 58 per cent last year.
   
   Only 37 per cent said they were willing to spend "extra time" on the effort, an eight-point drop.
   
   And only one in five respondents - or 20 per cent - said they'd spend extra money to reduce climate change. That's down from 28 per cent a year ago.

   
   Al Gore's so pissed, he's buying stock in Consolidated Coal.
   
   
5. Did we make any money this week? I don't know, I'll ask Washington.
   From Market Economy to Political Economy
   

   Even more egregious will be the directives to a nationalized Detroit. Sen. Charles Schumer, the noted automotive engineer, declared "unacceptable" last week "a business model based on gas." Instead, "We need a business model based on cars of the future, and we already know what that future is: the plug-in hybrid electric car."
   
   The Chevy Volt, for example? It has huge remaining technological hurdles, gets 40 miles on a charge and will sell for about $40,000, necessitating a $7,500 outright government subsidy. Who but the rich and politically correct will choose that over a $12,000 gas-powered Hyundai? The new Detroit churning out Schumer-mobiles will make the steel mills of the Soviet Union look the model of efficiency.

   
   The economy according to Marx, Bush, Stalin, Obama and Lenin.

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MEATY LINK FUNK GOODNESS

• Lori Drew, the Mad Max Mom Run Amok, was convicted by an LA jury of violating the terms of service of MySpace when she participated in creating a fake cyberspace boy. Her manipulation of the cyber-guy pushed 13-year-old Megan Meier over the edge to suicide and produced a national outcry once the story was publicized. Should the Lori Drew Cyberbullying Decision Be Overturned?
  

  Young Megan Meier hung herself after she was spurned by her MySpace boyfriend. The boyfriend never existed. He was a creation of the mother of one of Megan’s classmates. The mother, Lori Drew, was found guilty Tuesday of creating a fake persona.
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  According to CNN, Lori Drew was convicted of three misdemeanor counts in the case of 13-year-old Megan Meier’s suicide that came as a result of her being criticized on the Web site MySpace.com.

  
  In old Western movies, the villain would be brought to the gallows and someone in the crowd would inevitably yell, "Hangin's too good for 'em!"
  
  We'll just say, "30 days in the electric chair" and leave it at that.
  
  
• Another Hillary brick in the Obama wall: Obama Picks Pro-Hillary Communications Director
  
  
• BORED, FIREARMS-INCOMPETENT ATHLETE ALERT: Maybe he didn't like the music? Plaxico Burress Shoots Himself in the Leg' Update: Shocker! Shooting Took Place at a Nightclub . At least he's not playing for the Steelers anymore.
  
  
• Abortion Now Number One Cause Of Death In Spain: Remember when the MSM was predicting in the 1980s that the USA would soon be swallowed whole by Japan, Inc.? Mark Steyn's Lights out relates how Japan and Spain are following the Path of the Dead (Civilizations). At least the dying nations share a chapter of history: Incans, Aztecs, Japanese, Spanish.
  
  
• The Left celebrates: We don't have to drink dirty water anymore! EPA, Interior Dept. Chiefs Will Be Busy Erasing Bush's Mark and Science, common sense returning to Washington. Now, mothers won't have to be worried about non-aborted babies having their grown stunted by the environmental nightmare that was America 2000-2008.

by Mondo Frazier
images: dbkp file

MORNING INTELL: Anti-social Homosexual Penguins and RINOs

BLOGOSPHERE NEWS:
November 29 2008



THE SCOOP:
* The Religion of Man Made Global Warming Debunked
* Ten Random, Politically-Incorrect Thoughts
* 19 New Words
* Truth for RINOs
* Cyber Attack Against Combat Zone/Military Computers
* 10 Republicans Who Should Go Away
* Obama Citizenship

1. Pakistan, Likely Behind Mumbai Attacks, Sends Its Top Spymaster To Help "Investigate" the Attacks
   Ace: "Is he going to help India find the culprits, or simply to find out how much India knows about the true genesis of the crime? I suspect the latter."
   
   
2. Black Friday's Mindless Stampede. Video highlights included in the update.
   
   
3. Cyber Attack Against Combat Zone/Military Computers
   Susan Duclos: "It is suspected the origin of the malware affecting the computers was Russia but that is just a suspicion at this point and even then, they have no clue as to whether it was a private hacker or group or whether the government was involved."
   
   
4. "Shocker": Minnesota Muslim Was Somalian Homicide Bomber Terrorist
   

   Debbie Schlussel: "And therefore, I'm sure it's just a mere coincidence that several of the thousands of Somalians who've invaded Minnesota and other American locales--and insisted we adapt to their barbaric and old-world mores of refusing to be cabbies to people with guide dogs or closed bottles of alcohol in their luggage or ring up pepperoni pizza at Target--are missing and are now suicide bombers in Somalia, including this guy:"

   
   
5. How many times did Joe Biden say Obama would be tested in the first six months:Russia sells arms/transports to Chavez… pledges aid to build nuke energy program
   Among other "firsts" the campaign can claim: first time America's enemies (Russia, Iran, Palestinians, Venezuela] have so enthusiastically tested the resolve of a "president-elect".

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QUICK HITTERS

• Victor David Hansen: Ten Random, Politically-Incorrect Thoughts
  

  2. Hollywood is going the way of Detroit. The actors are programmed and pretty rather than interesting looking and unique. They, of course, are overpaid (they do to films what Lehman Brothers’ execs did to stocks), mediocre, and politicized.

  
  
• Homosexual Penguins Steal Eggs From Healthy Couples
  Van Helsing: "As moonbats delight in publicizing, homosexuality sometimes occurs among lower animals. But in animals as in humans, this unhealthy aberration inevitably results in unfortunate consequences".
  
  
• Five Hard Truths For RINOS
  John Hawkins: "We've already gone the moderate route -- and lost. One of the most surreal aspects of the post-2008 campaign is listening to moderates pretend that the last eight years never happened."
  
  
• Silver Stars Awarded Simutaneously To Viet Nam Vet & His Son In Afghanistan
  Some things are in the genes.
  
  
• Huffington Post has a list of “10 Republicans Who Should Go Away.”
  Michelle Malkin: "Woo-hoo: We’re Number Three!"

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[h/t: Doc Sanity, And so it goes...]

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SEE ALL, KNOW ALL

1. US Congressman And Obama Superdelegate Travel To Indonesia To Exchange Cash For Sensitive Indonesian Records And Information: Bloggers continue to do the work that the American MSM won't do.
   
   
2. Writer Hits Mark on Issue of Obama Birth Certificate
   Bob McCarty: "Today at American Thinker, I read what is perhaps the best piece to date on the subject of President-elect Barack Obama’s birth certificate and how it relates to his eligibility to serve as the nation’s 44th president."
   
   
3. AOL MAKES ITS PITCH TO JOIN MSM: (Still) Challenging Obama's Birth Certificate
   The writer's article in three words: "Those damn bloggers!"
   
   
4. Tulsa Take: The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of ‘08
   

   Buyers’ remorse is in the air. America has been hijacked. What a price we will pay if the Supreme Court and the Electoral College abandon their oaths to uphold the U.S. Constitution by capitulating – as the media have – to our enemies. God Save America!

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MEATY LINK FUNK GOODNESS

• ATTENTION GLOBAL WARMING ATHEISTS: Debunking the religion of man made global warming
  The "broad scientific consensus" that confirmed Globaloney isn't so broad anymore.
  
  
• List of 19 New Words for 2007 , 2008 and 2009 …
  

  4. SALMON DAY : The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

  
  
• Obama’s Pro-Abortion Fanaticism Could Close One Third of Hospitals
  Freshly-aborted Change comes to the medical field.
  
  
• The return of thrift and the essence of capitalism
  

  TigerHawk: The harsh reality is that the changing attitude of American consumers toward thrift is one of the major causes of the current global financial crisis. Millions of Americans borrowed more money than they could afford to repay in reliance on rising asset values. Sure, the financial services industry abetted the borrowing by lowering standards to accomodate the ever-greater ambitions of American consumers, but at the end of the day nobody can force you to borrow and spend too much. You do that yourself, to yourself. The return of thrift will force us to recognize that inconvenient truth, even if we do not often say it out loud.

  
  
• Wasn't Saint Hubbins The Patron Saint Of Quality Footwear?
  

  Ed Driscoll: For over a decade, the good Dr. Dalrymple has written about England's out-of-control binge drinking problem; Mark Steyn explores a pair of size 12D unintended consequences: "Britain has clearly decided it has a golden future as one vast theme-park for The Onion.

by Mondo Frazier
images: dbkp file

MORNING INTELL: Obama Citizenship, Aging Reversed, Thanksgiving

BLOGOSPHERE NEWS:
November 27 2008



THE SCOOP:
* THANKSGIVING is for Thanks, Right?
* New Drug Reverses the Effects of Aging?
* 100s injured, dead in INDIAN Terrorist Attack
* Obama Citizenship Questions Continue
* Big Brother Alert
* Brainy Obama?

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

1. Turkey, Football, Dressing. Really, I didn't want to go anywhere anyhow: Roads, skies less full as Thanksgiving rush starts
   
2. The America-hating disease has spread like a brush fire upon the earth.
   America, the Blessing
   
3. Word wars: Most Americans prefer “Merry Christmas” over “Happy Holidays.”
   
4. Things To Be Thankful For In A Troubled World: The motto at the news networks may be, "If it doesn't bleed, it doesn't lead", but there's plenty of things to be thankful for today if you're in America.

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TWO STORIES FROM WIRED:

• IF You Think Social Security is in trouble now:
  Drugs Reveal Another Possible Cause of Aging: ""In principle, we now could have a way of reversing the effects of aging," said David Sinclair, a Harvard University gerontologist and co-founder of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a company best-known for its development of an experimental drug called resveratrol."
  The government paying people until we're all 125? Maybe they'll start a lottery to see who gets Social Security after the age of 110.
• A Scientific Quandry:
  When Intelligent and Natural Design Collide: "On a recent flight to California, I found myself looking at man-made structures in the Nevada desert and wondering: did I really know, in a scientifically valid way, that they were artificial? Or was I simply resorting to the principles of Intelligent Design, which in other contexts I'm quick to discredit?"

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• Minnesota Senate Recount, Update IX
  "The Coleman campaign has just issued the following press release that confirms the nightmare scenarios sketched out by John Fund in his Wall Street Journal column today:"
  
  
• Gold to shoot through the roof? Citigroup: Gold Over $2,000, Massive Inflation, Depression, and Civil Disorder. Maybe Citigroup is just talking about their company-wide economic conditions?
  
  
• 125 Dead, 900+ wounded--and counting: TERRORISTS HOLD MORE THAN 100 HOSTAGE IN MUMBAI!
  
  
• Let the Hollywood Purge begin!
  PROP 8 MAFIA CLAIM ANOTHER VICTIM:

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OBAMA CITIZENSHIP ISSUES CONTINUE

1. It may be a "First Read" at NBC News, but only if you've not been looking for the last six months. Duo take Obama birth challenge to Court Hard to ignore all of the court cases--but the other networks continue to do so.
   
2. Kenyan Ambassador tries to explain away his recorded statement from a few days ago. He still declines to answer a simple question.
   Kenya: 'I don't know' if Obama born in U.S.
3. The Obama citizenship issue in one concise interview:
   Alan Keyes Tells Us Why He Questions Obama's Presidency
   
4. David Broder: "When I started covering the White House more than 50 years ago, I believed that the smarter a president was, the better he would be. That was wrong."
   Good Time For a Brainy President

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MEATY LINK FUNK GOODNESS

• BIG BROTHER ALERT:
  Border Agents Begin Using “Long-Range” RFID Scanners on ID Cards: "USA Today has a story on the new long-range RFID scanners reading ID cards as individuals drive toward the border."
  

  “By the time a car stops at the Customs booth, the agent will have the photos and information of everyone in the car. If a name is on a watch list or database, the person will be taken in for questioning."

  
  Long-range ID cards? While this might sound good for terror uses, it's potential for misuse by the government is high.

  “Once a particular individual is identified through an RFID tag, personally identifiable information can be retrieved from any number of sources and then aggregated to develop a profile of the individual.”

  
  
• Fauxtography for Dummies: Fauxtography For Dummies: Use PhotoShop, Catch Criminals. Interview with LAPD forensic photographer.
  
  
• All new for 2011, General Ford Cerberus Motors is proud to present The FannieCrat 3000, the first automobile designed by members of Congress for their adoring constituents. All new for 2011, GFCM presents the FannieCrat 3000 Luxury Sedan! It's a keeper!
  
  
• Lotsa LOLs: Terrorist Restless Leg Syndrome

by Mondo Frazier
images: dbkp file