Electric Vehicles are not green and can’t run clean, and even in their wildest dream, they never could. There isn’t enough of what we need to get there from here, and “there” isn’t even green. And while that might play for some, not everyone wants to hear it so perhaps this will have more impact.
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Unions Help Southwest Airlines Police Workers to Purge Conservatives and Christians
If you are one of those #woke, vaccinated libs working at Southwest Airlines, you better be careful. While you might not object to your union targeting its own dues-paying employees on political grounds, allowing that sort of internecine surveillance will inevitably come back to bite you in your fat blue ass.
Big Brother Has Hacked the Constitution
It has been over nine years since Edward Snowden released the first documents exposing the extent of NSA spying to the world. Since then, the surveillance state has only gotten bigger.
Remember That Thing About Labeling Protesting Truckers as Terrorists – Check This Out.
About a week ago, reports suggested Canada and the US were coordinating intelligence assets to scry into the lives of protesting truckers. They were labeled domestic terrorists. It turns out that plan may not be limited to the truckers. Anyone voicing support could expect a visit from the regime.
Quick Takes – Hat Trick
Within I pick three topics upon which to discourse, but not worth a full-length examination as a standalone piece on their own. But first, reprising an older cartoon (for shameless self-promotion!):
Notable Quote – Prof. Larry Arnn
This is a long excerpt from the latest Hillsdale College offering, Imprimis. Are we heading headlong into a dystopian future with respect to American Freedom and Liberty? Here, Larry Arnn uses both a passage from Orwell’s 1984 and a snippet of a Ronald Reagan speech as a contrasting points: ****** “Already we are breaking down … Read more
Big Brother is Alive & Well at the Census Bureau
Most everyone has heard the expression “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help you.” And when we hear or think of that saying, it is usually tongue-in-cheek because most of us know how much “help” the government purports to provide to us. Under the US Constitution, the federal government is required to conduct … Read more
Look Who Called Looking for Me…
Not as menacing as it looks…I believe this is the Big Brother Big Sister Foundation of Greater Boston. But I thought it was funny how it came up on ID so I figured I’d share it. (Click to enhance)
So How is The NH Democrats ‘New Civility’ Working Out?
So how is the New Hampshire Democrats ‘New Civility’ Working Out? Just ask Democrat Peter Sullivan… So the Democrat governor’s lackeys are writing down the names of reps who oppose her agenda. Was that supposed to be part of that whole “New Civility” thing you lefties said you’d pile up on your donkeys and bring … Read more
Coming Soon To A Tea Party Rally Near You
I bet the Obama Police State wants to get them some of these…(and I’m not saying they don’t already have some). The Scandinavian-designed Black Hornet Nano weighs as little as 16 grams (roughly half an ounce) — the same as a finch. The 4-inch (10-centimeter) -long helicopter is fitted with a tiny camera which relays … Read more
The Pay Per Mile Tax Plan…. What can go wrong?
When the planners downshift into planning mode, they know all; they know best, and you best just do as you’re told and remain quiet. We’ll get there when we get there, just fasten your seat belt and don’t ask questions. Of course, most of the time things don’t go as “planned” and a thing known as “unintended consequences” side swipes or T-bones the planner and the plan into a ditch. An example of such an unintended consequence soiling the trousers of a planner was just reported a few days ago by the Washington Examiner.
Apparently, the gas tax isn’t bringing in quite as much as the spenders planned. (Is it ever enough? That’s rhetorical, we know the answer). It’s bringing in less. Why? One reason is that (or so it’s claimed–personally I don’t buy it, but I’ll play along), “President Obama’s push for fuel efficient cars has resulted in better mileage and fewer stops at the pump.” Which means there are less stops to fill up, less gas spilling into the tank, and less taxes to confiscate from the driver. Burn. One planner’s beast, is another planners feast. (I’m not quite sure what that means exactly, but I dig the rhyme.) But have no fear, when faced with an immovable object, the planner does what the planner does best: plan another way to fleece…errr… invest for the public.
A NH Boot to Big Brother’s Neck – HB 445-FN
If you watch television you’ve probably seen your share of cop or crime shows. There are two things that always stand out to me. First, almost everyone talks to the cops without a lawyer. (Dumb.) Second, the police are always using a suspect’s cell phone or car GPS to track them down.
The real America is not much different. It is a land where the police can set up a road block just about anywhere, for any reason, (sobriety checkpoints for example) and proceed to justify stopping, questioning, or searching any or every vehicle or its occupants based on their “on the spot judgment.” With most of America embracing–or at least not objecting–to that kind of arbitrary fourth amendment abuse, why not extend it to electronic surveillance as well?
SHORT BUS ECONOMICS
“Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.” —Thomas Sowell The collective voice of “Occupy Wall Street” has … Read more
DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE YOU UNDER SURVEILLANCE?
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” —Justice William O Douglas
Perhaps some will read this and the knee-jerk reaction might be, “Oh, there goes one of those tin-foil-lined hat rants again…Like the government doesn’t have anything better to do than watch, “me.” Perhaps on some level, thinking of the government having citizens under surveillance harkens back to Soviet-style citizen oppression, much less being an inefficient and wasteful use of valuable resources. This issue, however, focuses on the incidental happenstance of average citizens and the likelihood of being caught up in something few contemplate or even envision.
You’re watching the news and a story about bombs and explosives airs and part of the interview features some law enforcement mouthpiece claiming, “The bomb was constructed from instructions readily available on the internet…and materials bought at local hardware and home goods retailers…” You have never given thought about building a bomb, much less how to build one. So, being bored you grab your laptop and Google, “How to build a bomb” Sorting through the various hits the topic garners, you spend all of ten minutes searching and reading. All you really want to know is if the claims made have any credibility.