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Obama Now Says Cell Phones Aren’t Private

February 11th, 2010 | Author: akagaga

Jan 8, 2008 “Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me”

For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and “wiretaps without warrants,” he said.

Feb 11, 2010 “Feds push for tracking cell phones”

In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in their–or at least their cell phones’–whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that “a customer’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records” that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.

Now here’s some change we can believe in: Obama went from an outspoken critic of privacy violations to an establishment proponent of the same, and it only took one election and a couple years.

Say goodbye to the Fourth Amendment:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Category: Big Brother, Bill of Rights, Obama, abuse of power, hypocrisy, liberty | 2 Comments

Another Beltway Committee to Save Us from Debt

January 20th, 2010 | Author: akagaga

There’s an old saying that I’ve always been quite fond of:

A committee is twelve people doing the work of one.

Thanks to the brains in Washington, we’ve got another one. The Post reports:

Faced with growing alarm over the nation’s soaring debt, the White House and congressional Democrats tentatively agreed Tuesday to create an independent budget commission and to put its recommendations for fiscal solvency to a vote in Congress by the end of this year.

Under the agreement, President Obama would issue an executive order to create an 18-member panel that would be granted broad authority to propose changes in the tax code and in the massive federal entitlement programs — including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — that threaten to drive the nation’s debt to levels not seen since World War II.

Only in Washington would you try to solve a budget problem by hiring more people.

Only in Washington would you need eighteen people instead of the standard twelve.

Only in Washington would those eighteen people be issued the “broad authority” to … propose changes.

Only in Washington.

Category: debt, government thinking, govt. economics, health care, hypocrisy, taxes | Leave a Comment

Why I Quit Facebook

December 18th, 2009 | Author: akagaga

This cartoon says it better than any of my words might.

Category: computer stuff, grins, hypocrisy | 2 Comments

Ft. Hood shooter had ties to 9/11 and a radical iman

November 08th, 2009 | Author: akagaga

Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a “spiritual adviser” to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001

London Telegraph

Charles Allen, who the Telegraph says used to be an under-secretary at Homeland Security, reportedly said this imam supports al-Qaeda and targets US Muslims with “radical online lectures encouraging terrorist attacks from his new home in Yemen.”

Once again, MSM is ignoring a big story. A search at the time of this writing finds zero American media outlets covering this story, one in England, and one in Canada – despite over 3,000 posts on the web. [HT to Michelle Malkin, which is where I found it.]

Whenever the silence on a big story is this deafening – like it was last spring when Baxter pharmaceuticals accidentally on-purpose spread flu vaccine contaminated with live bird flu virus around Europe (here are some more posts about Baxter) – I am prone to speculate, “Why?”

Why … would MSM ignore a story this big, when they’ve been bombarding us with every sneeze associated with the Ft. Hood shooting?

Why … has no one from the government publicly renounced this iman and exposed his continued influence?

Why … doesn’t anyone in the media or the government acknowledge – out loud and in public – that violent jihadist rhetoric encourages the murder of anyone who won’t worship Allah?

Dear fellow Jews, what is so hard to understand about “we hate your guts, and will continue to kill and maim you”? Just last week, an “inter-faith” Rabbi, the guest speaker at an ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) conference was shocked … shocked to hear that one of the guest imams felt that Jews deserved the Holocaust because they turned their backs against Allah. What is so hard to understand about that?

Center for Faith and the Media

We are in danger of being subjugated to the ideology of Islamic world domination. The Jews are again in grave danger, and so are all Christians, along with the nations and societies that are democratic. The Ottoman Empire failed. Hitler’s “Final solution”and his Third Reich failed. The Islamic quest has no intention of failing a third time! “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people,” is not simply their slogan, but their strategy!

Maureen Metcalf

Category: Baxter, Islam, MSM, censorship, hypocrisy, news, swine flu | Leave a Comment

The Health Care Bill: Another Immunity Loophole

November 05th, 2009 | Author: akagaga

Let’s say your surgeon forgets to take the sponge out of your belly before he sews you back together, and you get a nasty infection. You can sue.

Or your hospital gives you the wrong medication and it results in serious problems. You can sue.

Or your insurance company denies treatment that your doctor and another doctor say you need, resulting in bad consequences. You can can’t sue.

That’s right. You can’t sue.

It seems that section 514 (a) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 provides immunity to insurance companies for any decisions they make that results in injury or death. Washington pols from Ted Kennedy to Harry Reid have denounced this loophole over the years, but here’s their big chance, right? They can overturn the ERISA section 514 loophole in their health care reform bill, right? Wrong.

From a press release by US Congressman John Shadegg:

Yet, on page 49 of H.R. 3200, on page 140 of Pelosi’s current bill, H.R. 3962, and on page 56 of the Baucus bill, rather than repealing Section 514 of ERISA and giving the Corcorans and thousands of other victims like them a remedy, the Pelosi and Reid bills preserve, protect, and extend Section 514 leaving millions of potential workers and union members with no remedy if they are injured or killed by the denial of coverage by a union or employer health care plan:

Page 140 of H.R. 3962 reads: ‘Nothing in paragraphs (1) or (2) shall be construed as affecting the application of section 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.’

Page 56 of the Baucus bill is identical: ‘(3) Nothing in this part shall be construed to affect or modify the provisions of section 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to group health plans.’

This is no accident, folks. Shadegg said at a news conference Wednesday “that his amendment offered in the House Energy and Commerce Committee to strike the ERISA language from the House bill was ruled out of order by Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)”

Out of order. Does all the democratic rhetoric about protecting the people sound a little out of order?

Category: health care, hypocrisy | One Comment