How To Get Your Kid To School On Time.
Now that summer holidays are over, it’s hell getting our boys up in the morning for class.
Then I came across this great idea.
Oh, About That Facebook Account Of Yours.
Obama White House Has Secret Plan To Harvest Personal Data From Social Networking Websites
NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites.
The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.”
In the course of investigating procurement by the White House New Media office, NLPC discovered a 51-page solicitation of bids that was filed on Friday, August 21, 2009. Filed as Solicitation # WHO-S-09-0003, it is posted at FedBizzOps.com. Click here to download a 51-page pdf of the solicitation.
While the solicitation specifies a 12-month contract, it allows for seven one-year extensions. It specifies no dollar cap. Other troubling issues include:
extremely broad secrecy terms preventing the vendor from disclosing to the public or the media what information is being captured and archived (page 7, “Restriction Against Disclosure”)
wholesale capturing of comments by non-White House staff on publicly accessible sites
capturing of content of any type (text, graphics, audio, or video)
capturing of comments by both Obama critics and supporters, with no restriction as to how the White House would use the information.
This is the third controversy involving the White House internet operations in less than a month.
Nancy Pelosi Backed Him.
Nancy continues to show what a great judge of character she is. Bonus footage of Gavin Newsom, another great San Francisco thinker.
“Van Jones Is One Of The Most Innovative and Strategic Speakers Of Our Times.”
Powerline on (now former) Obama Administration official Van Jones:
Who do they have in the White House? A self-proclaimed Communist. A vulgar Marxist twice over. A supporterA 9/11 Truther . A racist hater, whose hatred extends to the United States. And insofar as his current job is concerned, we have a man who sees the “green jobs” con as a tool for overthrowing capitalism. We have, in short, the complete left-wing nightmare package.
Quote of the Day
Americans by the millions are finally waking up to the fact that they have elected to the White House a leftwing extremist who will pleasantly smile at you while outright lying, a man who is so far outside the norm of American Constitutional thought that he is quite dangerous.
It is no wonder that hordes of parents are angry and threatening to keep their children out of school on September 8 rather than have them subjected to Obama propaganda reminiscent of the worst dictators the world has ever seen–Hitler, Mussolini, Castro, and Stalin… more
Kids Today
For your Thursday viewing enjoyment… a great video based off of Glengarry Glen Ross.
Best line “always be closing”
BC Liberals Try To Top California
If you’ve ever spent any time in Vancouver, you’ll appreciate how much we love consumption and environmental taxes.
I have been spending a week or two each month in Southern California, and when I compare it to BC, it’s really not that bad down there. Food, beer, gas.. are about half. Income tax is less than BC. Homes are now the same price.
In BC, we tax drinks at restaurants even though the cost is almost completely made up of taxes, have a special tax on weed killer, charge enviro fees plus deposit on bottled drinks, have disposal fees (tax) on electronics, tax home purchases because of the the transfer of land under the Property Transfer Tax (which is a hideous tax ), carbon tax all our energy needs (that’s set to rise)… and the list goes on (although there isn’t a complete list I can find anywhere).
Our taxes would make a Roman blush.
Now under the Harmonized Sales Tax scheme, and BC getting a bribe to go along with it, they are allowed to understate a deficit that beats California’s, per capita. This on the heels an election where they forgot to mention it (or outright lied).
The deficit of $2.8 billion would have been 4.2 billion if Victoria had not accepted a $1.6 billion bribe to harmonize the sales tax to a staggering 12% on an expanded list of everything that GST is charged on… and more. Even used cars now will get a new tax making them even more out of line than they already are.
A sane politician might to start looking at cutting runaway spending.
To add insult to injury, MLA John Slater said that the public will come around to it.
Once citizens start to understand all the details, they will accept it, he predicted. But Slater concedes that the public has not reacted well to the HST. “We’re getting lots of emails, we are getting lots of phone calls, we are getting a lot of concerns,” he said, adding that even his supporters have expressed their dissatisfaction. “Unfortunately, we didn’t have the time to market it before implementing it,” said Slater.
Citizens, he said, can adjust how much HST they pay.
“This (the HST) is a strictly consumptive tax,” he said.
Fair enough – than cut income taxes across the board, directly proportional to the new money you’ll be pickpocketing us for. Maybe think of cutting small business taxes before they are crippled by the HST.
You may even see see consumption stop it’s free fall because of the tax policies of your government.
It may even be sellable (or forgettable in Liberal terms) to us tax-loving consumers.
Anything short of this means a new government next election. (Or sooner.)
Careful Of What You Wish For
Now that Ron Paul has got his wish, American’s are getting close to having the Fed audited.. on face value it sounds like a great idea.
Really great article today on seekingalpha.com about Auditing the Fed.
Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act (H.R. 1207) will enable the congress to influence the outcomes of monetary policy through an audit of the Federal Reserve’s day-to-day operations, thus severely compromising the independence of the U.S. central bank from political influences.
Auditing the Fed’s daily operations will cause it to succumb to political pressure, lose control of the money supply, and create sticky inflation that could be much worse than the 1970’s. America is an angry nation right now. When it comes time to vote on the bill, it remains to be seen if cooler heads will prevail or if America will swallow the economic suicide pill.
Interesting to see how this plays out.
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Obama’s Plan For Small Business – An Inside Look
How’s this for transparency? It’s the reason Obama hasn’t done bubkas for small business (other than plan for their imminent demise).
Should small business is the USA be worried? Or should Hedy be worried…
Here’s a pdf in case the file suddenly disappears..
White House plans massive spidering operation of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. looking for detractors
Maybe they should spider their own documents?