Only on the internet can we find a file splitter at four AM!
Monday, July 30, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Your rights end when you cross the threshold
Arrest of dangerous photographer in New York City.
"I was standing next to Paul here when the NYPD took him down for filming an arrest..he did nothing other than point a lens at another futile arrest. The NYPD are a disgusting bunch of ignorant and corrupt fucks.
July11 Zuccotti NYC" (Quote from original caption.)
In April, 2012, Judge Stanley Sacks declared the Illinois Eavesdropping law unconstitutional in the case of People v. Christopher Drew. Drew recorded his own arrest for violating a Chicago city ordinance that required him and other artists to buy a license to sell art in public. The Chicago Police didn't bother with the peddler's license charge once they found his recording device. They charged Drew with felony eavesdropping - a class 1 felony that could put him in prison for up to 15 years. He decided to fight the charge rather than plead to a lower class misdemeanor as many others have done. During the fight, he was undergoing treatment for cancer. The basic question, "who works for whom?", applies to recording of our public officials as they are performing their duties in public.
I was in a waiting room at my auto dealer's shop and had a discussion with two folks who seemed to be completely bamboozled by Fox "News" when the topic of Obama and his illegal running of government came up. These two were convinced that we have to get rid of government because it has its own anti-citizen agenda. I suggested that we can eliminate government as soon as we have the right to elect the CEO and Board members of whichever corporation wins the war for control of our lives. One responded that we already have that right - we can vote as shareholders in that corporation. The response to such an idiotic position is to point out that we are already shareholders in the United States, and it does not cost anything.
Once you cross the threshold of a corporation's property, you have no guarantee of rights. Who wants to go back to the 1920s and give corporations absolute power over your life?
"To argue with someone who has abandoned the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine
"I was standing next to Paul here when the NYPD took him down for filming an arrest..he did nothing other than point a lens at another futile arrest. The NYPD are a disgusting bunch of ignorant and corrupt fucks.
July11 Zuccotti NYC" (Quote from original caption.)
In April, 2012, Judge Stanley Sacks declared the Illinois Eavesdropping law unconstitutional in the case of People v. Christopher Drew. Drew recorded his own arrest for violating a Chicago city ordinance that required him and other artists to buy a license to sell art in public. The Chicago Police didn't bother with the peddler's license charge once they found his recording device. They charged Drew with felony eavesdropping - a class 1 felony that could put him in prison for up to 15 years. He decided to fight the charge rather than plead to a lower class misdemeanor as many others have done. During the fight, he was undergoing treatment for cancer. The basic question, "who works for whom?", applies to recording of our public officials as they are performing their duties in public.
I was in a waiting room at my auto dealer's shop and had a discussion with two folks who seemed to be completely bamboozled by Fox "News" when the topic of Obama and his illegal running of government came up. These two were convinced that we have to get rid of government because it has its own anti-citizen agenda. I suggested that we can eliminate government as soon as we have the right to elect the CEO and Board members of whichever corporation wins the war for control of our lives. One responded that we already have that right - we can vote as shareholders in that corporation. The response to such an idiotic position is to point out that we are already shareholders in the United States, and it does not cost anything.
Once you cross the threshold of a corporation's property, you have no guarantee of rights. Who wants to go back to the 1920s and give corporations absolute power over your life?
"To argue with someone who has abandoned the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." - Thomas Paine
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Goddam Welfare Mamas!
Illinois, the
state that is pretty much at the bottom in caring for its elderly just
sent out a letter that says, "the Circuit Breaker Property Tax Relief
Grant will be eliminated effective July 1, 2012."
The Illinois Department on Aging sent a letter a few weeks ago informing the least among us that the Circuit Breaker prescription drug assistance program was being terminated.
There's just no money left after giving billions to welfare cheats to come here and rape us for profit.
The Illinois Department on Aging sent a letter a few weeks ago informing the least among us that the Circuit Breaker prescription drug assistance program was being terminated.
There's just no money left after giving billions to welfare cheats to come here and rape us for profit.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wandering Through My Mind 28 JUN 12
Comment on Obamacare SCOTUS decision. I'm just so pissed off that these idiots won't think.
Gene d., Malta, il (Gene Savory) wrote on June 28, 2012 11:15 p.m. ...
Yes, there is absolutely NO PRECEDENT
for requiring people to buy health care or anything else, except for the
Militia Act of 1792 that required members (conscripted) to buy their
own supplies for militia use, and the Maritime Hospital Act of 1798. The
Maritime Act provided medical care to merchant sailors, with a MANDATE
that they pay for medical access from their wages, until the 1980s. What
are you guys smoking? Actually, we need Medicare for all - part of its
original design. Administrative overhead of 1.4% compared to over 20% in
for-profit insurance companies. Go read something.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Wandering Through My Mind 24 JUN 12
My friend is in the hospital with a broken pelvis, lesions on his liver and lungs, a PSA level five times the norm, and degenerated bones in his legs. He doesn't have a diagnosis, but it looks quite serious and life changing. Testing last week should provide more detail by tomorrow.
His big problem is goddamn health insurance. He is now paying $300/month and his boss is kicking in another $300/month. He cannot afford it without working. His boss is currently absorbing the whole premium of $600/month, but will have to terminate the payments if he cannot return to work soon.
What is this shit with holding a person hostage with medical bills? Civilized countries don't have billing departments in their hospitals.
His big problem is goddamn health insurance. He is now paying $300/month and his boss is kicking in another $300/month. He cannot afford it without working. His boss is currently absorbing the whole premium of $600/month, but will have to terminate the payments if he cannot return to work soon.
What is this shit with holding a person hostage with medical bills? Civilized countries don't have billing departments in their hospitals.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wandering Through My Mind 21 JUN 12
I've got too much shit on my plate, and I'm tired of eating shit.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Wandering Through My Mind 19 JUN 12
BumperArt.com The model is wrong. In order to follow the dictates of their charters, corporations must continually grow and produce in order to generate a profit. In a living organism, this is known as cancer - uncontrolled growth. Each process consumes the host by depleting resources, and it applies in both cases - that of the organism and that of the planet. The outcome is that the host can no longer provide resources for the process, and it dies.
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