On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:31:42 -0600, flipper wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:00:51 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:49:29 -0600, flipper wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:36:42 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:23:38 -0600, flipper wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:29:22 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:14:05 -0600, flipper wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:21:21 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:03:48 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
flipper wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:44:57 -0800, "Herbert John \"Jackie\" Gleason"
wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:20:27 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:17:53 -0600, flipper wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:44:34 -0700, Jim Thompson
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Bend over, here it comes...
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...-84125052.html
...Jim Thompson
Dick Cheney was right when he said Obama was a charlatan.
And turn off your cell phones...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10451518-38.html
...Jim Thompson
You would rather they hadn't caught the bank robbers?
That's poor logic. For one, it presumes there was no other way to
catch them and it further presumes the government's position is the
only procedural mechanism for accomplishing it.
As a general principle the ends do not justify the means and, to wit,
routine warrantless searches of all homes, say once a week, would
catch a lot of criminals too but would you support that idea? No?
You'd rather not catch crooks?
If the government's position really is as stated, that "any record
held by a third party about us, no matter how invasively collected, is
not protected by the Fourth Amendment" is accurate then the 4'th
amendment is effectively eviscerated since, in this day and age,
virtually everything you do shows up in some 'third party record'
somewhere.
If they ever make Dimbulb have a competency hearing, his record on
Usenet would have him committed for life.
We just had a settlement announced today here between the Arizona
Attorney General and Western Union whereby Western Union agrees to let
the AG peruse all records of money transfers, at will!
Now I understand that the issue at hand has to do with illegal
immigrants (and drug dealers) transferring money to/from Mexico. But
it sure opens too many doors :-(
While I can't say I'm 100% sanguine about it my understanding is the
'agreement' is for wire transfers above $500 between and to points
within 200 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border so the door is not quite as
open as you may think.
...Jim Thompson
The local radio news (KFYI) didn't put in much detail, except they
seemed to imply that no court order was required.
Yeah, no court order required for WU to 'automatically' report the
above transactions.
I'm not quite sure what to think about it but I note that
Constitutional protections do not normally apply to foreign
transactions.
Unless you're a _foreign_terrorist_, then you get read your Miranda
rights, courtesy of the "Manchurian Candidate".
Yeah, well, that get's back to my comment about Cheney being right
when he called Obama a charlatan.
I can't recall the government ever so overrun by arrogant two-faced
despotism and stupefying incompetence.
Movie Trivia Fact: Did you know that Frank Sinatra was so disturbed by
that movie he bought the redistribution rights to it and kept it from
circulation until he died?
I didn't know that. What was he worried about?
...Jim Thompson
I think he feared that the movie would give terrorist organizations
ideas on how to do it... like run an Islamist thug from Chicago,
cloaked in political correctness, evil-rich-banker platitudes and
promises of wealth redistribution... something like that.
That doesn't sound very likely as, at the time the book was written
and the movie made, we were hip deep in the "communist threat" and
'terrorists' were low on the security totem pole, if on the radar
screen at all.
Well, that made me wonder so I checked imdb and they have a note in
the trivia section saying that's an urban myth.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/trivia not quite half way down.
Of course nothing like that could really happen, now could it ?:-)
Not to ruin your joke but "brain washing" someone into roboticaly
doing what they would otherwise never do is quite a different thing
than 'selling' someone an idea based on it's alleged 'merits'. I.E.
Islamic terrorists are 'believers' in the morals and mission. They
may, if important to the mission, hide it from *you* but it's not
'submerged' in themselves nor does it run counter to their 'true
nature'.
...Jim Thompson
I guess I got sucked up by someone's urban legend, then validated it
in my own mind when I couldn't get it on DVD :-(
Though my platitudes still fit the situation don't they ?:-)
...Jim Thompson
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