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DHS Officers Armed With Semiautomatics Set Up Unannounced ID Checkpoint

Philip — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:29:14 +0000

Armed DHS officers setup ID checkpoint in Florida

Residents of Leesburg, Florida were shocked to see their local Social Security office turned into a random Homeland Security checkpoint Tuesday morning, as DHS officers armed with semiautomatic rifles and accompanied by sniffer dogs checked identifications of locals.

“With their blue and white SUVs circled around the Main Street office, at least one official was posted on the door with a semiautomatic rifle, randomly checking identifications. And other officers, some with K-9s, sifted through the building,” reports the Daily Commercial.

Read the entire article HERE

11 Dangerous things you SHOULD let you kids do!

Philip — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:45:46 +0000

Noel playing with fire.

Kudos to the Huffington Post for this very good article!

The original idea for a whole book about dangerous things you should let your children do was a bit of a ﬂuke. But after spending a weekend watching kids lick a 9-volt battery for the ﬁrst time (at Maker Faire Bay Area) or reading about families who blog their way through the book (like the Johnsen Clan, featured in this slideshow) it’s clear that what kids needs these days is… more danger in their lives!

Check out the entire article, complete with photos HERE

Toy Remote control car saves the lives of 6 soldiers in Afghanistan

Philip — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:04:02 +0000

Staff Sgt. Christopher Fessenden is on duty in Afghanistan now after tours with the Army in Iraq. He has traveled with standard-issue equipment — weapons, helmet, uniform, boots and so forth — plus a radio-controlled model truck his brother sent.

The truck is not a toy to him. He says it just saved six soldiers’ lives.

Read the article and watch the video HERE

Are you being tracked by Apple? YES!

Philip — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:38:19 +0000

As the world moves toward smart phones loaded with features, the unintended consequences are starting to surface. The fury developing over Apples un-encryped tracking logs showing everywhere you have been, is finally starting to gain national attention.

You may wonder, how much is really tracked? EVERYTHING. Here is my map of where Apple has tracked me.

Wanna see your tracking info or the info of anyone who syncs their iPhone on your computer? Download the mapping app, iPhone Tracker HERE

Enjoy a little Apple Tracking humor from our friends at South Park

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The Most Disgusting Video on YouTube – 6 year old gets TSA Patdown.

Philip — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:18:05 +0000

This is just wrong. Related posts: TSA pats down screaming 3 year old girl. Suggests playing touching game. Father of 9 year old shooting victim gives his thoughts on the tragedy The FIRST YouTube Video Related posts:

U.S. consumers face “serious” inflation in the months ahead

Philip — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:01:47 +0000

USA Today posted an article that should serve as a WAKUP CALL to Americans.

U.S. consumers face “serious” inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart’s U.S. operations warned Wednesday.

The world’s largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimize the effect of cost increases and believes its low-cost business model will position it better than its competitors.
Still, inflation is “going to be serious,” Wal-Mart U.S. CEO Bill Simon said during a meeting with USA TODAY’s editorial board. “We’re seeing cost increases starting to come through at a pretty rapid rate.”

We all need to get ready for major changes to our lifestyle in the coming months. The out of control spending by the US government is finally going to hit home. The sad part is that these price increase will hit the low income families the hardest! Scary times ahead!

Texas takes aim at getting rid of naked scanners

Philip — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:46:37 +0000

I’m filing this one under the “Don’t Mess with Texas” category!

Kudos to Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) for filing HB 1938, with the goal of making it a civil penalty for anyone working in a locally owned airport to install or operate whole-body imaging equipment — “including a device that uses backscatter x-rays or millimeter waves, that creates a visual image of a person’s unclothed body and is intended to detect concealed objects,”

Texas joins 2 additional states (New Hampshire & New Jersey) in opposing the use of “naked scanners” on the residents of their state

Read the article HERE

Father of 9 year old shooting victim gives his thoughts on the tragedy

Philip — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:44:33 +0000

What a sad situation. I just can’t imagine what this family is going through. It’s impressive that her father, in the middle of all this, says that he doesn’t want to see more limits placed on our freedom.

Rape victim handcuffed and dragged away after refusing TSA pat down

Philip — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:39:59 +0000

From KVUE.com in Austin, TX

Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated. She says she never broke any laws. But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees.

Hirschkind was hoping to spend Christmas with friends in California, but she never made it past the security checkpoint.

Read the article HERE

DHS begins seizing private domain names.

Philip — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:49:13 +0000

Yet another example that our Department of Homeland Security is more than slightly out of control. There used to be a day in America were the Government had checks and balances that made them at least jump through a few hoops before they could start seizing control of someones assets. The posts on the sites say that they are siezed under a warrant but the owners of the sites are claiming that this is basically their first notice.

Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it’s clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain of a BitTorrent meta-search engine along with those belonging to other music linking sites and several others which appear to be connected to physical counterfeit goods.

“My domain has been seized without any previous complaint or notice from any court!” the exasperated owner of Torrent-Finder told TorrentFreak this morning.

“I firstly had DNS downtime. While I was contacting GoDaddy I noticed the DNS had changed. Godaddy had no idea what was going on and until now they do not understand the situation and they say it was totally from ICANN,” he explained.

Aside from the fact that domains are being seized seemingly at will, there is a very serious problem with the action against Torrent-Finder. Not only does the site not host or even link to any torrents whatsoever, it actually only returns searches through embedded iframes which display other sites that are not under the control of the Torrent-Finder owner.

Read the article HERE