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- Darpa Warns: Your iPhone Is a Military Threat
- Nanny State: Walking Is Dangerous
- CDC Issues Warning About Killer Nasal Washes
- Ron Paul Confronts Bernanke: “Do You Buy Your Own Groceries?”
- Congressional committee to consider tax breaks for mustaches…
- Michigan’s Most Fervent Tea Partiers Backed Santorum
- CNN founder Ted Turner: ‘The tea party people are mean-spirited’
| Darpa Warns: Your iPhone Is a Military Threat Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:45 PM PST By Noah Shachtman | Wired.com There's a growing threat to the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon's premier research wing. No, it's not Iran's nukes or China's missiles. It's the iPads, Android phones and other gadgets we all carry around with us every day. "Commercial consumer electronics has created vulnerabilities by enabling sensors, computing, imaging, and communications capabilities that as recently as 15 years ago, were the exclusive domain of military systems," Darpa deputy director Kaigham "Ken" Gabriel tells the House Armed Services Committee's panel on emerging threats. "These capabilities now are in the hands of hundreds of millions of people around the world and in use every day." "This is not an abstract vulnerability. We have not enjoyed spectrum dominance since about 1997," he adds. The warning is a bit ironic, coming from the head of an agency that was founded in response to a surprise Soviet space launch, and is today best known for its shape-shifting robots, its mind-controlled prosthetics, and its missiles that fly at 20 times the speed of sound. To read more, visit: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/darpa-iphone/ |
| Nanny State: Walking Is Dangerous Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:43 PM PST
The state has gone overboard in its effort to regulate, control, and revenue-generate from all aspects of public and private life. Alex uses a private pier in Panama Beach, Florida, as an example of the absurdity of the nanny state – the pier has footsteps painted on its boardwalk instructing people how they are expected to walk on a narrow, restricted area reaching out into the Gulf of Mexico. It may seem petty, but the boardwalk is but another example of how we are increasingly herded about like cattle, often by storm troopers armed to the teeth with the latest military technology. Get out of line and you might receive the human equivalent of a cattle prod – a taser wielded by "peace officer" dressed in a black paramilitary uniform. Examples of the coercive and often violent police state are legion. In the past week, a father was arrested and slapped in cuffs because his daughter drew a picture of a toy gun in school. Earlier this year, a child playing tag on a school playground was accused of sexual assault and a sexual battery charge was placed on his permanent school record, thus almost certainly making sure he will be under the control freak microscope of the state for the remainder of his life. To read more, visit: http://www.infowars.com/nanny-state-walking-is-dangerous/ |
| CDC Issues Warning About Killer Nasal Washes Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:38 PM PST
DENVER – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Jewish Health in Colorado both have issued a warning about nasal washes after two people have died from using tap water to do their sinus rinse. Health experts say it's safe to use nasal washes. It's not about the rinse, it's about the water. They warn that a mixture from a faucet could be fatal. Reading, writing — and sinus rinses. They're part of the curriculum for some students at Kunsberg School at National Jewish Health. Saltwater nasal washes can help asthma and allergy sufferers. The saline rinses are highly recommended at National Jewish for children and adults. To read more, visit: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/02/28/cdc-issues-warning-about-nasal-washes/ |
| Ron Paul Confronts Bernanke: “Do You Buy Your Own Groceries?” Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:25 PM PST By Steve Watson, Infowars.com GOP presidential candidate Ron paul took a break from campaigning today and diverted his attention back to his role on the House Financial Services Committee with the semiannual visit of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. In a scathing opening statement, Paul went on the offensive against the Fed: "What we are witnessing today is the end stages of a grand experiment," Paul said, adding that the Fed's control over the nation's money supply has directly caused economic bubbles and all but destroyed the purchasing power of the dollar. Noting that the Fed will soon end because it is facilitating too much debt, the Congressman added "I'm anxiously waiting for this day… Reform has to come." Turning his attention to Bernanke, Paul asked the Fed chairman whether he did his own grocery shopping. A somewhat bemused Bernanke replied in the affirmative, to which Paul hit back "OK. So you're aware of the prices," before commenting on government denial of real levels of inflation. To read more, visit: http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-confronts-bernanke-do-you-buy-your-own-groceries/ |
| Congressional committee to consider tax breaks for mustaches… Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:19 PM PST
The American Mustache Institute earlier today made this surprising announcement:
The surprising thing is not that a congressman—Rep. Bartlett, a Republican—would support the creation of another tax loophole. "The Stache Act (Stimulus to Allow for Critical Hair Expenses) aims to earn a well-deserved $250 annual tax deduction for every Mustached American for expenditures on mustache grooming supplies," the website reads. Instead, it was odd that Bartlett would even participate in what clearly seems to be an elaborate parody of Washington, D.C., think tanks and advocacy groups—and Congress. (The group is, after all, holding a rally on Capitol Hill on April 1.) So I called Bartlett's office to see if something so silly could possibly be real. Sure enough, it is—but there's a wrinkle: Congressman Bartlett was never aware that the bill had been referred to the committee in his name. To read more, visit: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/staffer-refers-mustache-bill-committee-without-congressmans-consent_632956.html |
| Michigan’s Most Fervent Tea Partiers Backed Santorum Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:16 PM PST If they prefer a big-government social conservative, what’s the point of their movement? By Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic CNN’s Michigan exit poll had a nugget of information that caught my eye: Republican voters who “strongly supported” the tea party favored Rick Santorum. Forty-five percent of that subgroup cast a ballot for the former Pennsylvania senator. Mitt Romney came in second place, winning 37 percent of strong tea party supporters, Newt Gingrich won 11 percent of their vote, and Ron Paul finished last with 6 percent. These results underscore the chasm that separates what tea partiers say they care about and their revealed preferences. Visit some of the websites for regional tea party-affiliated groups in the state. The Southwest Michigan Patriots are typical. The “core principles” they list: limited government, separation of powers, protection of individual rights, fiscal responsibility and transparency, free trade and commerce, and taxes. Or look at the core principles listed by the Tea Party of West Michigan:
And the voters who say they support these principles have chosen, as their preferred 2012 nominee, Rick Santorum, the social conservative who says he voted contrary to his beliefs in order to be a “team player” during the big-spending, federal-government-expanding George W. Bush administration. Their least favorite is Ron Paul, the most consistent champion of all the issues they say that they care about most. It’s almost a joke. If they prefer an interventionist foreign policy or don’t think there’s any chance for Paul to beat President Obama, fine: No one is obligated to vote for a principled advocate of small government. But if they wind up supporting Santorum, what’s the point of having a tea party at all? To read more, visit: http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/michigan-s-most-fervent-tea-partiers-backed-santorum-20120229?mrefid=election2012 |
| CNN founder Ted Turner: ‘The tea party people are mean-spirited’ Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:12 PM PST By Alex Pappas – The Daily Caller Liberal billionaire and CNN founder Ted Turner accuses "the tea party people" in a new magazine profile of him of being "mean-spirited." "It's so heartbreaking to have [them] say that global warming is a hoax," Turner says in a new Hollywood Reporter profile. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he admits to driving a Prius and supporting President Obama. "I like Obama," Turner said. "I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind." The article, authored by Stephen Galloway, was posted online Wednesday and takes a look at the much quieter — and less boozy — life Turner lives now. To read more, visit: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/29/cnn-founder-ted-turner-%E2%80%98the-tea-party-people-are-mean-spirited%E2%80%99/ |
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