Daily Topics - Monday October 20th, 2014
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- both narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
Hour One: Who's watching you...do you self-censor?
Hour Two: Time to close Gitmo for good? Neil McCabe, Guns & Patriots Newsletter
Hour Three: How BP screwed the Apalachicola Bay fishermen - Scott Carruthers, Carruthers Law Group
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#2
Since the example of internment has come up, let's compare that to Guantanamo more fully.
Eventually, we let everyone out of the internment camps, and didn't suffer from a rebellion or crime wave perpetrated by the issei and nisei that had been in them. Of course, they had started out liking the United States, and being imprisoned without charge for years might have ruined that.
We know proper interrogation techniques can turn someone against his original side in a war. Can we not use that to prepare Gitmo prisoners to be released, and feel fairly safe once they are? There are far fewer of them than the hundreds of thousands of Japanese-Americans that we mistreated and released with less than an apology.
#3
Astrologers have never scientifically tried their models of planets' effects on humans. They instead spend their time fending off logical arguments that destroy their bread and butter, and moving the goal posts of scientific inquiry.
If it took this much time and effort to discover even a slight effect of seasonal temperature (note, not positions of planets or even the sun relative to stars, because of tropics vs. poles, northern hemisphere vs. southern etc.), there can't have been much truth in the founding of astrology thousands of years ago.
#4
I wish we had a journalistic show that had the reputation of being like the opposition questioning in Parliament. Then refusal of a politician to show up for an interview would be announced on the show as something like admitting defeat.
#5
Self-Censorship
I tried to get through today but was too late. I have been watching this tranpire for quite some time.
Think software and Search Optimizations. I am sure that someone is already developing programs for sale to local gov agencies, candidates and operatives that can determine your predilections such as Google searches, prefered TV networks, shopping/dining habits, etc. and ID your leanings.
From there it is a simple step to marking you or put you on a local or national watch list. Political profiling could make a life miserable.
Let me tell you of an instance from last week. A young couple in rural TN called the police to report a crime - break-in I guess it was. They made the report and left there names. Instead of doing legwork the officer assigned decided to look up the reporting couple on Facebook. When he found someone with a matching name but a far different address he assumed they weren't who they said they were and treatened to arrest the couple for fraud.
It wasn't until the judge explained to the officer that the couple had no obligation by TN law to announce their identity when reporting a crime that they, the reporting folks, were out of the woods.
If a lazy local deputy can sit at his computer and do sloppy internet research, they will. Truth be damned. Privacy be damned.
We've all heard about the nefarious mobile cell sites being used by local authorities to track cell phones and encouraged by the FBI, There's money to be made.
The symtoms may look like East Germany but the underlying malady is fascism.
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Let me explain. On The Simpsons, Homer had gone to clown school to do local appearances for Krusty the Clown. While dressed up as Krusty, Homer found that people offered him free stuff, but Krusty was also in trouble with the mob. While Homer is trying to wangle a free car, a mob sniper misses him several times and hits the car. Homer notices the holes and indignantly asks what the deal is. Without missing a beat, the car dealer says, "They're speed holes. They make the car go faster." Homer is later seen using a pickax to put 'speed holes' in the car he already owns.