04/13/2012 10:29:09 AM PDT
· 2 of 3 HipShot
to Kaslin
With a particular Passover irony, Gunter Grass, now 84, Germany's most celebrated German author ("The Tin Drum"), once a soldier in Hitler's Waffen SS and the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1999, beat a tin drum of his own with a widely circulated poem denying the Iranian quest for nuclear weapons. He describes Jews as the greatest threat to global security.
Germans thinking globally are the greatest threat to global security. This whole "Aryan" thing still needs to be outed. It wasn't about blue eyed blondes. This movement is stronger today than it was 70 years ago, and we can lay the blame for this at Jimmy Carter's feet.
Rumors are going strong around here, too. Most everyone I’ve met in the last few days seems nervous.
There was some panic over a man with an antique rifle at Fort Sanders hospital; there was no problem at all and no arrest, but this is the kind of thing for which we seem to be collectively waiting.
The social engineering approach to ID theft is the only one that is currently effective. Only 3-5% of current system compromise comes from historical vectors; most current exploitation is of the “invite the vampire into your home” type.
University networks are extremely valuable to spammers and terrorists. They don’t care where they get the bandwidth from, and universities have fat pipes.
This administration has violated first amendment rights by withholding water from a district as punishment for electing a republican.
This congress is attempting to push through a bill that they have not read and from which they have exempted themselves.
That in itself tells the story that it’s not about the bill itself but it’s passage.
We’re on the brink, and my country is dying. The blood of our fathers can not be allowed to be rendered a waste by these people who offer mealy mouthed service to our constitution as an abstract, but disrespect the reality of it and those who have defended it.
This is little more than a modern day Morrill Tariff, (in effect), with the specific intent to leave our constitution in rags.