We all know how Ted Cruz is fighting against net neutrality. Oh, you didn’t know? Well Cruz thinks it’s a good idea for your cable company or ISP to decide which programs come to you at full speed and which are throttled. No doubt you’ll be seeing infomercials in HD while things you actually WANT to see — like news and porn, concerts and porn, how-to-videos and more porn — will stream all jaggedy-assed.
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Several cellphone providers have been tracking their users’ Internet activities by adding “supercookies” to cellphone transmissions. The providers say that it’s just for normal business purposes, but the truth is that the trove of data they’re amassing is of enormous value to law enforcement in their struggle to stay ahead of the bad guys.
Because of the negative publicity that followed the disclosure of this cellphone tracking, as well as pressure from self-appointed Internet watchdogs like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T has caved and is no longer collecting the data.
The good news is that the Department of Justice has stepped into the breach. The DOJ now has a fleet of airplanes that act as decoy cell towers. Say you use Verizon, and the DOJ wants to see what you’re up to — they have their planes send out the same signals that real Verizon towers use, so that your phone connects to their network instead of Verizon’s. That way, the government can capture everything you do on your phone.
As for privacy, the government assures us that, if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.
AT&T stops adding Web tracking codes on cellphones | The Augusta Chronicle.
While Ft. Lauderdale arrests people for feeding the homeless, Pope Francis is building three shower stalls for the homeless in the public restrooms of St. Peter’s Square.
This particular idea came from the Pope’s “Almoner,” Archbishop Konrad Krajewsk, but the Pope’s commitment to the poor is long-standing:
Pope Francis has paid special attention to the plight of the poor during his young papacy. Last year, a source in Rome told The Huffington Post that the pontiff has left the Vatican at night dressed like an ordinary priest to join Krajewski on his nightly rounds to meet with the homeless. According to the AP, it’s a practice he began when he was archbishop of Argentina.
No wonder Francis has been called a communist, a leftist; and his ideas reviled as “pure Marxism.”
Pope Francis’ Almoner Is Building Showers For The Homeless At The Vatican.
Kyle Smith, who gets paid to slam Democrats in the Post, has taken time out from his busy schedule of doing good deeds, to knock City Comptroller Scott Stringer.
Stringer, who has served well as a member of the Assembly, Borough President and State Comptroller, is far from perfect. But he has done a lot of good and has shown himself to be a dedicated public servant.
But Smith is not satisfied by showing any Stringer shortcomings. Because Stringer is a liberal — in a decidedly liberal city — Smith is bent on destruction through character assassination. Some examples:
So it’s high time to tell Kyle Smith: Bite me!
Public ‘servants’ spend our money on their own glorification | New York Post.
Ablow, a noted Fox News commentator, has doubled down on his armchair diagnosis of the inner life of the President.
As a medical professional it is readily apparent that a President who tours the world apologizing for America, who was part of a church in which the pastor preached “God damn America!” and who admonished American entrepreneurs that they did not build their own businesses is a President who has issues with the nation of which he is President.
Not being medical professionals, we can’t say whether Ablow’s diagnosis is correct, but we can say that he stands in the august company of Ralph Ginzburg, who revealed that 1189 psychiatrists had diagnosed Barry Goldwater as psychologically unfit to be President.
If we had to choose between Ablow’s one-man diagnosis and the opinion of 1189 shrinks, we’d go with the latter.
Fox Doc: Quit Calling Me A ‘Narcissist’ For My ‘Psychiatric Analysis’ Of Obama!.
The so-called Center for Individual Rights (a right wing litigation boutique funded by the usual billionaires) is helping ten California teachers challenge the state “union shop” law.
Apparently these misguided teachers are mad that they have to pay union dues to get the benefits of the contracts that the union has negotiated.
The Center for Individual Rights hopes to take the case to the Supreme Court and overturn union shops nationwide. If successful, the ten California plaintiffs will probably end up being quashed like insects by their employer. After which, they’ll blame Obamacare.
California teachers sue union over dues, politics | Fox News.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher have registered a whole bunch of anti-Bloomberg domain names such as:
I suppose they could be working for Bloomberg though, since the names are registered to the law firm and not to ExHizzoner, they could easily turn around and blackmail him.
In any event, should you want to get in on the fun, BloombergBites.com is still available.
It’s not Obama’s fault that he came into office thinking he could compromise with the Republicans. But by 2010 Mitch McConnell had announced that “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
At that moment, Obama should have seen what the future held and switched to “No more Mr. Nice Guy.” He did not.
Mike Lupica of the Daily News sums it up nicely:
Obama showed no feel for politics, for the kind of backroom head-banging and arm-twisting that was the specialty of such Presidents as Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton even when they were faced with their own obstructionist Congresses.
Everybody makes mistakes. Obama’s unforgivable one is that he didn’t learn from his.
via Lupica: GOP aims to get rid of Obama by winning Senate seats on Election Day – NY Daily News.
I suppose that the theoretical physics dodge hasn’t been working out so well for Lawrence Krauss, so he’s now working the prophecy game. His first prediction: that religion could disappear in the next generation.
While you’re waiting to see how that pans out, note that charlatan Krauss also supports teaching religion in the public schools in order to force the students to confront their own misconceptions.
When BITEME.ME gives out its annual Jeane Dixon award, Krauss is sure to be one of the nominees.
Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss: Religion could be gone in a generation.
The city of Fort Lauderdale last week passed an ordinance that effectively outlaws several humanitarian groups from feeding the homeless in public with a penalty of up to 60 days in jail.
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler sure is tough when taking on homeless people: “Just because of media attention we don’t stop enforcing the law. We enforce the laws here in Fort Lauderdale.”
When it comes to violent crimes, however, the mayor isn’t so tough: The violent crime rate in his city is more than double the national median.
So, Jack Seiler, you just go on arresting people who feed the homeless and when you get a minute, bite me.
Fort Lauderdale passes law outlawing many from feeding homeless | News – Home.