Saturday, December 28, 2013
NSA Data Collection Program Called "Orwellian" by Federal Judge Stopped a Total of... Zero Terror Attacks
Last week Federal Judge Richard Leon had some harsh words for the NSA's massive data collection programs, including the one that collects all telephone calls in America:I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. Surely such a program infringes on ‘that degree of privacy’ that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment...
[It uses] almost-Orwellian technology.
The irony is rich. As Roger Aranoff observes, "...had [this] happened on George Bush’s watch, they could have been calling our government fascist, expressing hyper-outrage, and demanding impeachment."
An investigation by Michael Isikoff of NBC News found that the NSA's unconstitutional domestic data collection programs helped to stop the following number of terror attacks: none.
A member of the White House review panel on NSA surveillance said he was.. read the rest HERE
Scientists Geek Out, Name Sea Slug After 'Game of Thrones' Character
Forget the Iron Throne, Danaerys Targaryen, this is what your destiny has been leading you toward.
Tritonia khaleesi is a new species of sea slug recently discovered off the coast of northeast Brresearch article:
azil by scientists from the Federal University of Ceará. According to Felipe de Vasconcelos Silva, Victor Manuel De Azevedo, and Helena Matthews-Cascon’s
Tritonia khaleesi is up to 12 mm long, with a slender white body, of which the notum is covered with one broad white band extending from between the eyes and veil to the tail; veil with four velar appendages; retractable white rhinophores; rhinophoral sheath with fleshy extension; seven pairs of branchial plumes; the anus is located between the third and fourth gills on the right side, and the genital opening is under the second gill. Internally, T. khaleesi is distinguished from other tritoniids by jaws with 10 to 14 rows of denticles on the inner lips, absence of stomach plates and the radular formula 32 × 2–5.1.1.1.2–5 teeth. Tritonia khaleesi is the only Tritonia that possesses a unicuspid rachidian tooth as an adult.
Just why did this species come to be named after a Game of Thrones character? Silva explained the geeky decision to Papelpop.com. According to the Google translation, the "silver band on the back of the slug" is reminiscent of the Khaleesi's braids of silver hair.
mashable.com/2013/12/25/game-of-thrones-khaleesi-sea-slug/
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Progressive Jokes #6
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Friday, December 27, 2013
50 Year Old Outer Limits Episode Predicts NSA Spying On Unsuspecting Americans...
As the world learned this year from Edward Snowden the degree that the U.S. government has used electronic surveillance, a few old hands recalled that much of what the National Security Agency renegade revealed in 2013 was actually foretold in 1963 in a very unlikely venue: an hour-long episode of the popular ABC-TV science fiction series of the time, "The Outer Limits."Incredible as it sounds, it's true. As President Barack Obama addressed the collection and storage of millions of Americans' phone records at his news conference Friday, libertarians who hailed Snowden as a whistleblower rather than a traitor told Newsmax about rediscovering the "Outer Limits" episode "O.B.I.T." that stands for "Outer Band Individuated Teletracer.”
The story is about a high-tech scanning device at a military base that can eavesdrop on any of its personnel within a 100-mile radius.
"O.B.I.T.," in fact, is developing a "Atlas Shrugged"-style following among those who consider themselves libertarians and fighters for civil liberties.
"I watched 'O.B.I.T.' last night," Libertarian Party National Political Director Carla Howell told Newsmax recently, adding that it brought back memories "of my brother and sister being frightened by an episode that left them screaming for hours into the night.
"One of the purposes of science fiction is to predict and prevent forces of evil. It's a shame more people were not exposed to the O.B.I.T. story and took the threat it foretold more seriously," Howell said.
Shot in striking black-and-white, it first aired on November 4, 1963. The episode commences with the murder of a U.S. Army officer at the Cypress Hills Research Center, a top secret Department of Defense facility in New Mexico. At the time of his death, the officer was operating and writing reports from O.B.I.T., which can monitor conversations of the center's personnel at any time or place. The fictional U.S. Sen. Jeremiah Orville arrives at the center to conduct a hearing on the device. It is soon discovered that the device had authorization from the Pentagon and was ...
The Valerie Jarret Power Matrix
Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran, to African-American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman. Her father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children in Shiraz in 1956, as part of a program where American physicians and agricultural experts sought to help communtize developing countries' health and farming efforts. When she was five, the family moved to London for one year, later moving to Chicago in 1963.[3] In 1966, her mother was one of four child advocates that created the Erikson Institute. The Institute was established to provide collective knowledge in child re-development for teachers and other professionals working with young children.[4]
If You Are Not Outraged, You Must Be Sedated...
Johnny Ramone was known within the punk rock community as one of its notable conservatives, and was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party. Johnny made his political affiliation known to the world in 2002, when the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After thanking all who made the honor possible—clad in his trademark T-shirt, ripped blue jeans and leather jacket—he said "God bless President Bush, and God bless America".[10] He said in an interview, when questioned on his conservatism, "I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime." This was evident in 1985 when the band released the UK single "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg"; Johnny pressed for a name change, finding the title insulting to Reagan, and the song was retitled on American releases as "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" after a line from the song's chorus. In this same interview he claimed that "Punk is right wing".[11]
Johnny is quoted by The Observer as saying: "People drift towards liberalism at a young age, and I always hope they change when they see how the world really is."[12]
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Wall Street Expert Recommends Investing in Guns and Ammo for Coming Collapse
David John Marotta, a Wall Street expert and financial advisor and Forbes contributor, said in ...Read The Rest HERE
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Progressive Jokes #5
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10 Unexpected Ways Celebrities Made The Bulk Of Their Fortune
Though it’s not uncommon for celebrities to expand their interests or work in different areas of the media, we expect them to have earned the majority of their wealth doing the thing that made them famous in the first place. As you will see, that isn’t always the case.
10Aerosmith Made More Money From Guitar Hero Than Any Album
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Aerosmith are rock legends—surely they earned enough money melting faces, shredding guitars, and blowing minds to die age at age 100 crashing their life-sustaining hover-pods into a mountain of cocaine and strippers, right? No, as hard as it to believe, the band’s biggest ever money-earner wasn’t one of their several multi-platinum albums or even their appearance in the Wayne’s World movies—it was from the Guitar Hero: Aerosmithrhythm action game.
The royalties the band earned from the game dwarfed anything they’d ever earned from any of their other albums, concerts, or even their merchandise. Keep in mind, Aerosmith have been playing for three decades. We don’t know if it’s depressing or hilarious that one of the most famous bands on Earth earned more money from letting people pretend to play their music than playing it themselves.
9Kate Moss Makes More Money As She Gets Older
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People making money as they age isn’t unheard of. In fact, it’s usually the way the world works. You have to work your way up to the big bucks through years of hard work—unless you’re a model, in which case, it’s almost always the exact opposite. It’s a job where you’re literally paid based on how thin and good-looking you are. It’s not a career where time is your friend.
Apparently, no one has told Kate Moss that, because as she’s gotten older, she’s found herself earning increasingly large amounts for strutting her stuff down the catwalk. At the age of 39, she supposedly earns three times as much money from modeling as she did as a fresh-faced teen, serving as a walking middle finger to everything we know about the fashion industry and life in general. Though other models have remained successful as they’ve grown older, such as Milla Jovovich and Tyra Banks, Moss is still noted as one of the few on the list who is still actively modeling instead of turning her attention to a different career.
850 Cent Is A Savvy Businessmen Who Raps In His Spare Time
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Though known for such lyrical masterpieces as “In Da Club” and “I Got Swag,” Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is stupidly smart and prudent when it comes to investing money. For example, the rapper once made nearly $10 million in a day by using his Twitter followers to buy tons of stock in a company he owned a decent stake in.
Fiddy’s biggest boon by far, though, was Vitaminwater, which earned him a reported $60–80 million when the brand was bought out by Coca-Cola. Today, Mr. Cent is valued at close to $500 million. Of course, a considerable pile of that is from rapping, but a bigger, much dirtier pile is from him just being a business genius.
7Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Wealth Came From Real Estate
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of those names that is synonymous with “action hero.” He’s so successful that he didn’t even collect a salary when he was the governor of California. However, Schwarzenegger’s initial wealth didn’t come from film, or even from the dozens of body-building competitions he won prior to convincing Hollywood that actors can speak in heavily-accented monotone. No, it all came from clever investments in real estate.
By carefully and prudently investing the arguably paltry winnings from body-building competitions into exercise equipment and real estate, Schwarzenegger was a millionaire by age 22. Of course, he later earned millions more from his movies, but you could argue he couldn’t have made that money in the first place without the money he made from real estate.
6Sammy Hagar Is Richer Than Everyone In Van Halen—From Tequila
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After replacing David Lee Roth as the lead singer of Van Halen, you’d hope that Sammy Hagar retired with enough money to rock until he died. However, despite a stint as the front man of one of the best known rock groups of all time and penning a few hits as a songwriter before that, Hagar’s wealth has come primarily from one source—tequila.
Hagar is the founder of the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand, which was once almost exclusively served at the restaurants and clubs he owned. That is, until people realized that the tequila was actually good and it began flying off of shelves. In 2007, Hagar sold a whopping 80-percent share of the company for $80 million. He sold the rest a few years later, citing that he was too lazy to be bothered trying to market the brand when he’d already made enough money. In fact, Hagar has made so much money from the deal, his clubs, and his tequila empire that he’s now the single richest member, former or current, of Van Halen.
5 Akon Has Made More Money From Lady Gaga Than His Own Music
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If you didn’t know that Lady Gaga was first discovered by Akon, we’re sorry for spoiling that with the title of this entry. The story goes that it was Akon who urged his record company to sign Gaga under his own label within the companies umbrella, which the company did, hoping to score a few more albums out of the singer. Little did they know that Gaga’s albums were soon to be more in-demand than Akon’s.
We’re guessing that didn’t bother Akon too much, since Gaga’s fame made him, in his own words, “enough to retire”—and not just “go live in Florida” retire, but “rich rapper living in a giant mansion forever” retire. As Lady Gaga was signed to a part of Interscope Records run by Akon himself, he was entitled to a piece of the million-dollar pie she ended up making.
4Bob Ross Never Earned A Penny From His Paintings Or TV Show
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Even though Bob Ross is universally known for his show, The Joy of Painting—as well as his rockin’ fro—he never made any money from either. According to Ross himself, he did the show for free. Even more impressive, he filmed 13 episodes in two days, filming each painting in real time in just under half an hour.
Instead, Ross made the bulk of his wealth from
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Hollywood Florida Rapist on The Loose
Since The Sun Sentinel And The Miami Herald refuse to report this story, I will.
Police in Hollywood Florida have released this composite sketch of a man who they believe raped a 17-year-old girl.
The teen was out walking when she says she was forced into an older gray or gold minivan.
Police say they're looking for a 6-foot-tall, 200-pound man with long dreadlocks.
The victim is being treated by doctors and is receiving rape counseling.
Detectives are asking anyone with information to call the Hollywood Police Department at 954.967.HELP or 954.967.4411.
Tipsters can e-mail or text to hollywoodpdtips@hollywoodfl.org.
Information leading to the identity and arrest of the subject can also be given to Broward Crime Stoppers for a reward at 954.493.TIPS. or www.browardcrimestoppers.org.
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