Irish, yes, but I like it too: Watcher’s Council St. Patrick’s Day edition
Bookworm on Mar 15 2012 at 5:17 pm | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
This week’s Council submissions don’t actually have anything to do with St. Patrick’s Day, but the Watcher’s post does:
Council Submissions
- The Noisy Room – The American Spring Bears Poisonous Fruit
- The Political Commentator – Eminent domain: Being a bondholder ain’t what it used to be!
- Simply Jews – Maradona as a champion of Palestinian cause
- The Independent Sentinel – Anti-First Amendment Liberals-Hanoi Jane, Steinem & Morgan-Want the FCC to Shut Down Rush’s Radio Station
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Fake Syrian Military Intell
- The Colossus of Rhodey – Why Andrew Breitbart was important
- Rhymes With Right – Enough Of Stupid Comments About “The Establishment” Trying To “Anoint” A Candidate
- Joshuapundit-More ‘Diplomacy ‘ With Iran As Obama And The EU Team Up To Fend Off An Israeli Strike
- Bookworm Room – The Breitbarters launch their first barrage in their war against the American Leftist media
- Gay Patriot – How about a TV series treating Christians* with dignity?
- The Mellow Jihadi – Me and a Pakistani Captain Chat
- The Razor – Loving Sluts, Hating Liars
- The Glittering Eye -Okay, You’ve Caught It. Now What Do You Do With It?
- VA Right! - Thursday:First I Spoke With Senator Rand Paul – Then I Crashed George Allen’s Birthday Party
- The Right Planet – Bloody Revolution Pt. 2
Honorable Mentions
- The Grouch – Mitt Romney Flops Again – Reverses Stance on Minimum Wage
- Liberty’s Spirit – Reality: Obama Wants a Nuclear Iran
- Right Truth – Not Diagnosing and Treating PTSD and TBI
- Capitalist Preservation – Liberals and the Suborned Media Employ Hegel’s Dialectic
Non-Council Submissions
- Mark Steyn/IBD –The Fluke Charade: A Middle-Age Child’s Nutty Demand submitted by The Noisy Room
- Stonegate Institute -Infiltrating Pakistan’s ISI submitted by The Political Commentator
- Life In Israel – A personal message from the Iron Dome Soldiers submitted by Simply Jews
- Michelle Malkin – Knock, knock. Who’s there? Big Labor at your door! submitted by The The Independent Sentinel
- Institute for The Study Of War – Syria’s Armed Opposition submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- The First Street Journal – The excuses of the losers submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- NewsBusters – So Much for Church-State Separation: White House Organizing ‘Prayer Vigils’ for Obama-Care, Says NYT submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Information Dissemination – Pirates vs. Congress: How Pirates Are a Better Bargain submitted by Joshuapundit
- Castra Praetoria –Debunking lies about the military submitted by Bookworm Room
- The Conservative Commune -The 21st Century Energy Crisis submitted by Gay Patriot
- 6079 Smith, W -The Hero And The Flukesubmitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- American Thinker –The Real War On Women submitted by The Razor
- Just One Minute – Reaching Critical mass submitted by The Glittering Eye
- American Spectator – Republican Party Overmatched By Soros Backed ‘Vote Fraud Denier Industry’ submitted by VA Right!
- CNS News – NAACP Asking U.N. Human Rights Council to Condemn American Voter ID Laws submitted by The Right Planet
- Sarah Palin – Let’s Talk About The Real Issues, Mr. President submitted by The Watcher
- Victor Davis Hanson – We Give Up submitted by The Watcher
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Pssst:
Saint Patrick’s Day is still 17 March.
I’m not going to say “I told you so” Because I didn’t tell anyone this, not here at least. Over at Grim’s hall and blog, I said something to the effect, before 2008, that the government didn’t need a police state to control us, all it had to do was nationalize Facebook and its servers.
http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/the-government-doesnt-need-a-police-state-when-it-has-facebook/
Well, turned out it’s already true or at least half way there.
Ymar is right, I believe. The government has truly massive capabilities when it comes to data storage, and I believe they are storing EVERYTHING. Anything Facebook or Google or any other company has on you, they have.
The problem for the government is, making sense of it all. Finding and sorting and linking; connecting the dots. No matter how well you try to organize it, that amount of data is overwhelming.
But there is no right to privacy anymore. That’s been gone since Clinton instituted the massive data storage programl I think it was called Echelon back then in the early 90′s. Since then, there’s no telling what form it’s taken.
I came across some sad news about a TV star from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Love Boat has been sold for scrap It’s the old story, a star coming into our homes weekly for years then forgotten seeking the adoration in Europe we so cruelly deny. As is the norm, there were drugs, detentions and misuse by shady characters. But finally after many attempts to regain past glory, she has been sold to Turkish ship breakers who’ll no doubt chew her up and leave her broken carcass on some distant shore.
I never use Google and was warned about it a long time ago. I’ve said it before, so I’ll repeat myself (why not, I am a senior and it seems normal enough to me). The internet, cell phones, social media of all types are all tracked and have been for years. Google Street put the finishing touches on it with satellite photos and Congress put the icing on the package giving the nod to the use of 30,000 drones (public/private/federal).
Ymarsakar – we’re not half-way there, we crossed the finished line.
Google’s Information Gathering is Out of Control | Anything …
“ Finding and sorting and linking; connecting the dots. No matter how well you try to organize it, that amount of data is overwhelming.”
Actually, a facebook user already connects the dots, so the government doesn’t have to. A facebook user has friends, family, political associations, etc, and so on. And this is done by the work of the user, their friends, etc, and so on. Wiretapping isn’t always useful because the FBI and listeners have to get key words, listen to a bunch of junk talking, and hopefully the computer will pick something up that will alert the real humans that something is going on. Facebook users, have done this already. If the government wants to know who you are doing business with, your friends and associations list will provide it to them. If they want to know what your political connection is, so they can sanction you and your business, you’ve provided them that info. If you somehow step against them, like Rush did, they will find you, your family, your friends, and send SEIU goons to picket their house 24/7. And they didn’t need to “crunch” any info to do so. They just get the data, use the data, and send the thugs. There’s not much “centralization” required given the Left’s propensity to operate by whatever ideological their alliance members operate under. They’re not really “centralized” the way most people think. It’s more operated like a terrorist cell. The OWS guys don’t even know that they are owned by the rich Democrats and terror mongers like Dohr/Ayers.
Some people were telling me that Obama was either too dumb, lazy, stupid, or ignorant to do anything against America’s First Amendment. He Was Not a Threat, they said. Then Operation Fast and Fury came out. Then what did they say? Nothing much.
Yeah. Obama may be lazy, but don’t discount all of his evil allies he put in power like Eric Holder, if you want to keep the republic you inherited from your ancestors.
Google has the problem Mike D pointed out. They need a lot of search bots to look for “keywords” amongst the data. It’s not just given to them in a form they can use, like Facebook users have. Grim once noted that Facebook and Myspace profiles look suspiciously like intel portfolios and profiles Marines and other military intel agencies worked up for their HVTs, or high value targets.
You may know that Obama gave an energy speech in which he lied and deceived a great deal. But what else is new?
One of Obama’s little, infantile jibes, during the speech, was to ridicule Rutherford B. Hayes as a technophobic President, because according to Obama’s whopper lie about Hayes:
One of my predecessors, Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone, ‘It’s a great invention, but who would ever want to use one?’ That’s why he’s not on Mount Rushmore because he’s looking backwards. He’s not looking forwards. He’s explaining why we can’t do something, instead of why we can do something.”
Well, Hayes fans are fighting back against this latest Obama deceit. (Hayes had a telephone installed in the White House soon after the invention; he was visited by Edison; apparently they even assigned Hayes the telephone number “1″.
And this Hayes push-back, delightfully humorous, could go viral. It’s fun stuff.
Here are two links to the push-back campaign against Obama’s silly, nasty high-school level propaganda assault.
Let’s hope it does go viral. But even if it doesn’t, whoever started this Hayes push back hit on a good meme, and they should win this week’s non-Council Watcher’s Award!
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/03/saturday-night-open/
http://www.quickmeme.com/hip-rutherford-b-hayes/popular
Mike Devx, I sent the second link to friends yesterday. They all should become giant billboards splattered everywhere.