Casual Meyhem Rant 6/18/2013 Yay

The Short Confused Life of Edward Snowden

As much as I wanted to write this week’s rant on the medical issue of PCDD (Politically Correct Degenerative Disorder) I have decided that the Short Confused Life of Edward Snowden should take precedence.

Poor bastard.

Snowden’s disclosure of the NSA phone record system and subsequent release of the existence of PRISM, precipitated a new crisis for the Obama Administration. They evidently felt that they did not have enough problems or that Snowden would be a good distraction from the ones they already have.  You’d think they’d figure out that there are drawbacks to hiding a mess by making a bigger mess. Maybe they are really as incompetent as they keep telling us.  Either way the Obama administration has once again screwed the pooch. They should really consider getting fixed before we are drowning in puppies.

I should not have been surprised by the existence of the phone record system.  Computer programmer’s almost always build in a way to keep track of what their programs are doing, if only so they can fix them. These days computers run the phones.  I’m guessing most of the work was already there. The main difference being that now the Government looks at it and keeps a copy forever.

If anything PRISM is even less complicated.  I don’t know the technical details, but I have long said that anything done on line is done IN PUBLIC.  Anyone who thinks differently is a fool.  Seems I was even more right than I thought.  I gather by the rate of their disappearance, that even those hackers from Anonymous have a hard time staying anonymous. I, and probably you, are simply not that skilled.

As for Mr. Snowden, at this point it no longer matters whether he was paid by the Chinese or anyone else.  He may have forgotten that the Chinese own Hong Kong these days, but I promise you the Chinese remember.

Quite frankly I expect him to be scooped up, maybe with a Chinese cover story maybe not, and spend the next decade or so trying to remember every punctuation mark of every classified document he has ever heard of.  They are going to go after that info with a melon-baller, and from there I expect things to get unpleasant for him.  Somebody better figure out what he knew, because whatever his plan, his memory is now Chinese property.

Is it possible that he was just a Boy-Scout who intended to do the right thing?  Sure. Stupidity has no limits that I am aware of.  God may care about his motives, but I don’t know them and it would not change anything if I did.  China has him now. The only reason that I think that may have been the plan the whole time is that it’s hard to believe that he forgot that who owns Hong Kong.  Did a sweet young thing blowing in his ear put the idea in his head?   It’s not a big stretch to reach the rest of my conclusions considering the stellar human rights record of China.

To prove me wrong, all he has to do is leave.

 Anyone want to send me the Vegas odds on that?

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Fair Warning.   If you happen to be paranoid (whether chemically induced or just gifted like me) I am about to scare the hell out of you.

The latest Obama scandal is about tracking all phone calls.  Just in case they need to go back and look for something more specific later.  Also, it seems the Department of Justice is tracking what we do on the internet for the same reason.  “My God is there no privacy anymore” everyone screams in outraged unison!  Including me actually.

The simple answer: No. We haven’t had it for quite some time.

Face it. There are tons of records being kept on us.  From our Draft Registrations, to our police records, (even if it’s only traffic tickets.) these records are kept forever.  There are also Credit Ratings, High school or college transcripts, passports, and medical records.  In Colorado they take your fingerprints when you get a driver’s license. Also there is special joy for you if you are or were military. They have the above mentioned finger prints, inoculations, blood type, I believe they do a DNA sample now days, ostensibly so they can tell who you are if you die a messy death. It was dental records (panerex) when I served. Also, if you have or had a security clearance they looked at all sorts of things before they cleared you. Those records still exist; therefore, they are looked at from time to time.

Oh, but it gets better!  You too can be a movie star (and you probably are.)  After all there are security cams all over the place. The police have dashboard cams, and while police try to stop everybody from using the phone cams to record them, when they try to confiscate one, they are being streamed by three others. There are button-hole cams if you feel sneaky, or Google glasses which can potentially record everything you see. Then of course for you frequent flyers, we have Airport Scanner Mark II (so you’re not quite as naked as Mark I.)

We aren’t even close to done. We have GPS in cell phones, tablets and whatnot. You probably put it there yourself. And now they are passing out student IDs with GPS. Do you know where your children are?  No you don’t! Your kid “accidently” beat the hell out of his ID with a hammer in shop class. They have even put tracker chips on clothes “for marketing purposes”

Think you aren’t watched at home, like it’s an oasis of privacy or something?  Wrong! Your internet activity is monitored by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) even if the government is not tracking you.. And how many places have you given your email address? Twitter is public for anybody. If they really want to there are laser microphones and good old fashioned telephoto lenses. Oh, and your cable box keeps track of what you watch for “marketing purposes.” Don’t spend too much time watching Al Gore Jazeera!

Privacy, it seems, may just be a thing of the past.  It’s already pretty bad even without metadata making a copy of everything.  The problem is that once the technology exists, people are going to use it, for good and Ill.  All of this makes the Amish lifestyle sound really good by comparison doesn’t it?

That genie has been out of the bottle for quite some time. It’s not going back in. Adjust.

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First, you FIX IT.

I’ve grown sick and tired of hearing excuses from the administration and the IRS about how the horrible targeting of the Tea Party and other conservative groups was.  You claim it was a horrible accident.  Fact is, I don’t care.  I do want those responsible to be removed and charged or at least disciplined.   But the first thing I expect to happen is that those harassed Tea Party and other groups should have their approval as 501c4s by YESTERDAY.

I have, in the course of my life, done quite a few things that I needed to apologize for.  The biggest thing, the first thing, is that you FIX IT as soon as you possibly can. You don’t just apologize.  You repair what you screwed up. This is not rocket science.  We all learned that in elementary school. What?   Do we need a remedial TV game show called “Are You More Ethical Than a Fifth Grader in the Midst of a Sugar Rush?”

This is really simple, Dems.  I understand that you are ethically challenged.  I’ve known that since the Clinton Administration.  I understand that you are sorry that you got caught.  BUT YOU GOT CAUGHT! The first part of your punishment is you FIX IT.  I don’t care what your rationale is for holding up the approval of Tea Party and other conservative groups.  I don’t care how bad you feel.  (Those of you with a few grains of integrity anyway.)   

I’ll even make it easy for you.  I’ll set a baseline beyond which you have gone too far.  Let’s make Media Matters for America the baseline.  If you have asked any group applying for 501c4 status more questions than you asked Media Matters, they are automatically approved.  That’s how you FIX IT.  If you find that painful, IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE PAINFUL.  That’s why it’s called punishment. 

This is even more vital than prosecuting those involved as well as the sacrificial lambs that get thrown under the bus. Also I’m sure the IRS grunts would love a chance to clean out their backlog of pending cases, now that they aren’t busy planning for the monthly vaca….I mean conference.  If I happen to be wrong about that, I still don’t care.   Excuses aren’t enough.  If the behavior does not change, the IRS has done nothing to FIX IT!

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CasualMeyhem's Rant 5/30/2013

Senseless

Got myself a tad offended the other day when someone described the Woolrich attack as “senseless violence.”  That’s the attack in Brittan where a soldier taking a walk was butchered by some Muslim gentlemen who, weapons in bloody hands, proceeded to record a statement for the world.   That is of course a problem.  It was not senseless.  It is violence with a purpose. Calling it senseless is a sad attempt at denial that will continue to get people killed.

I suppose we should go back to the basics. Terrorism is about causing fear.  Attacks like the one in Woolrich are designed to inspire fear. To make you wonder who is next, to wonder if your Arab neighbor is plotting your death, or worse, plotting your family’s death.

But it’s even more insidious than that. It drives you to distrust your Arab neighbor, to treat him with suspicion.  Humans pick up on it when they are not trusted.  It changes the way they look at things.  After all, if you’re not trusted, why be trustworthy? It pushes the moderate Muslims to see everything through the jihadist lens. It is as if everything is an attack on Islam and they must protect all Muslims, even the ones they would disown if they could.

That’s exactly how the mess in Sweden got started. The police shot and killed a man coming at them with a machete.  Probably becausehe was coming at them with a machete.  Since he happened to be Muslim however, it must be an attack on Islam itself!  So there’s been 5 days and counting of rioting.  It does not take much of a push for some to riot.  After all, rioting is kind of fun, and looting is kind of profitable. Every merchant in the area is terrified, and woe if your car is parked on the street. Whenever the fear spreads on either side, the extremists profit. Make no mistake; they will gain power and sympathizers with every attack, successful or not.

What do I mean by profit?  I mean, for all the reasons described above, fear spreads. God help you if you offend a Muslim.  Allah help you if you offend an infidel.  Also, they get free advertising from the media (No real way around it either.) and that helps them spread their fear. Also jihadists have many donors all across the world. They get money and clout for these attacks.

Well, why not just capitulate? Why not give them what they want?  Simple, like most bullies and tyrants, what they really want is MORE. There is literally nothing that would satisfy them.  Even if the entire world went Sharia compliant Muslim tomorrow, they would find something to terrorize people about. It’s what they do after all. Fear is the source of their power.

It’s absolutely insidious. This isn’t senseless.  There is a point and a plan to this violence, and if we don’t recognize that, they are succeeding.  It is absolutely vital that we understand, as the first step towards not giving terrorists what they want. What they want is your fear.

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Casual Meyhem's Rant 5/21/2013 Yay

Tacit Governance and Leaving  the Bus in Gear

The last week has been full of Obama Scandals, and they just don’t show any sign of going away. Thing is I haven’t heard anyone address the real problem here.  It is looking more and more often as though, in order to protect himself, Obama simply orders nothing. He makes the odd suggestion or statement and then leaves the room quickly so that he bears no responsibility for the way his instructions are carried out. He is neither the first nor the best politician to operate this way; however, it seems more and more as if this is the ONLY way he does anything.   

As an example of how this would work: The President might say, “Wow!  Those 501c4s could be a big problem during the election if they get approved.  I’ll be in my office listening to really loud music so I can’t hear anything.” And of course, he never does hear anything. But strangely, conservative 501 c4s are targeted for extra scrutiny. Then when the scandal breaks, “The president never told anyone to do that!”  Which is technically true.

The President can then plead incompetence or stupidity and throw some button pusher to the wolves.  Then, he goes on about his day free of consequence.  That’s how it’s supposed to work, and generally it does.

Obama has done this with the Benghazi stand down order, the Benghazi talking points, the IRS targeting of conservative 501 c4s, and the audits of Romney supporters. It may have been done with the AP and FOX news reporters. We are literally learning more damning information every day, and the President claims ignorance of all of it.

We are not, however, without recourse. 

As to all of these claims of presidential stupidity, I don’t actually believe them.   But hey, If Barack Obama can say that he’s too stupid to be President, I can say I agree with him.  

And what is “Leaving the Bus in Gear?”  It means, quite simply that when someone goes under the bus for Obama, willing or not, you run over him or her.  If there is no consequence for going under the bus, everybody will do it.  Next thing you know there’s an Under-the-Bus ride at Disneyland.  As a practical matter, we have to make sure that nobody gets to go under the bus twice.  “One and Done” as it were.  Then they can try their luck at a different career. 

Going under the bus for Obama, willing or not, should be a noble act after all. We should not cheapen it by negating it.

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