August 26, 2010
Yes, I mean that movie with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. Sure, anyone who has lived in the real world this past decade knows that we’ve long since developed the technology to do all the fancy things shown in the film. What you may not know, though, is that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
Filed under: Gripes and Complaints - News - Politics - Technology
Tags: « 9th Circuit Court of Appeals • GPS • jammer • police • slippery slope • tracking »
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February 15, 2010
Notice how screwed up our little corner of democracy is lately? We go from a dictatorial President bent on concentrating power in the executive branch and a congress too timid to stop him, to a President that embodies the spirit of bipartisanship and a congress unwilling to work with him. There is a word for [...]
Filed under: Gripes and Complaints - Politics
Tags: « broken • fix it • government • solution »
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October 9, 2009
So… Obama received the Nobel peace prize today. That’s special, I guess. I don’t really follow the process, so I have little knowledge of the qualifications involved, etc. I hear from some of my right-leaning friends that he’s grossly under-qualified. Something about not actually having accomplished anything in his nine months in office. Personally, I [...]
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Tags: « Nobel • obama • surprise »
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February 21, 2009
If you follow the news, you’ve probably seen this image plastered all over creation. Gods know… that media whore Al Sharpton certainly has. Now, I’m no fan of Mr. Sharpton — his less than pure motives are about as subtle as a freight train rumbling through at 2 a.m. That said, ignoring for the moment [...]
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Tags: « al sharpton • cartoon • new york post • obama • racism »
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