07.18.08
Posted in America, Big Brother, Democrats, Election of 2008 at 00:37 by Toby Petzold
On the Power Line, Paul Mirengoff posts on the following remark that Barack Hussein Obama made in a speech earlier this month in Colorado:
We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
What is he talking about? As Mirengoff puts it:
I’m not suggesting that Obama would actually try to establish a domestic security force as powerful as our current military, only that deep-down it appears he wouldl [sic] like to do something of the kind.
I don’t like Barack Hussein Obama. I regard his nomination as a danger to this Republic and I urge all real Americans to reject him utterly.
Oh, and if you plan on buying a gun to protect yourself and yours, I recommend that you do it sooner rather than later. If there’s anything a police state can’t tolerate, it’s an armed citizenry.
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07.10.08
Posted in Big Brother, personal at 21:55 by Toby Petzold
Do you suppose it’s possible that online dating services are actually just fronts for the National Security Agency and that all the personal stuff you so eagerly supply to their servers will some day be used against you in a court of law and/or on the TV?
Oh, well. Such are the wages of social dysfunction and involuntary celibacy.
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06.22.08
Posted in Big Brother, Democrats, Election of 2008, moonbats at 16:32 by Toby Petzold
Glenn Greenwald, who makes online comments on his own work using false names, nevertheless recognizes —or, perhaps, naturally recognizes— how “deeply unprincipled” is Obama’s flip-flop on the FISA compromise bill (emphasis mine):
People who spent the week railing against Steny Hoyer as an evil, craven enabler of the Bush administration — or who spent the last several months identically railing against Jay Rockefeller — suddenly changed their minds completely when Barack Obama announced that he would do the same thing as they did. What had been a vicious assault on our Constitution, and corrupt complicity to conceal Bush lawbreaking, magically and instantaneously transformed into a perfectly understandable position, even a shrewd and commendable decision, that we should not only accept, but be grateful for as undertaken by Obama for our Own Good.
Hmmm. Looks like Glenn’s Kool-Aid may need a little more sugar to help it go down.
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06.19.08
Posted in Big Brother, Big Media, moonbats at 19:35 by Toby Petzold
Know how you can tell Olbamamann’s crazier than a shithouse rat? Because he only poses these tedious, self-regarding, and clause-laden questions —Germanically long and so leading that you’d have to hire a lawyer to object to them all— in which he pretty much gets the answer he was looking for: the one that echoes his own. And along the way of these huge bursts of rhetorical slurry are inferences and associations and outright lies, linking any two or more of his enemies on that day in any sort of libtard-Leftist strokefest he wants. Such spluttering extravagance of what must pass for thought with him is a sure sign of mental decay.
Moreover, there’s no question, if you’ll simply look, that Olbamamann’s head occupies more of the screen than any other propagandist on TV. This isn’t an ad hominem point to make, but to point out that he has this done deliberately because it’s all part of his performance artist’s homage to Big Brother and the Two Minute Hate. He’s an utter moran. I hope some day to hear the low-down on what Russert thought of this clown. I’ll bet Russert thought he was an asshole.
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11.18.07
Posted in America, Big Brother, Democrats, Eminently Occidental at 01:08 by Toby Petzold
Is Hillary’s nomination —if not the general victory— such a foregone conclusion that this culture would indulge itself in its indulgence of her as some sort of Catherine the Great riding through these debates like Potemkin villages? Are we at such a post-modern moment that the obviousness of her grasping control freakery becomes just part of the charm?
I didn’t watch the last part of the Las Vegas debate, but I didn’t know there was even a doubt that the audience questions were scripted and rehearsed. At least that older, nervous lady’s question was certainly recited.
It’s all a bunch of phony crap. CNN is definitely the Clinton News Network from here on in. Better watch them, if watch them you must.
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05.08.07
Posted in America, Big Brother, Big Media, Eminently Occidental, moonbats, stupidity, treason at 20:41 by Toby Petzold
Professor Reynolds points us to this article in the Village Voice (emphases mine):
Barely a year after their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for exposing data mining of ordinary citizens by a government spy agency, New York Times officials had some exciting news for stockholders last week: The Times company plans to do its own data mining of ordinary citizens, in the name of online profits.
The news didn’t make everyone all googly-eyed. In fact, some people at the paper’s annual stockholders meeting in the New Amsterdam Theatre exchanged confused looks when Janet Robinson, the company’s president and CEO, uttered the phrase “data mining.” Wasn’t that the nefarious, 21st-century sort of snooping that the National Security Agency was doing without warrants on American citizens? Wasn’t that the whole subject of the prizewinning work in December 2005 by Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen?
And hadn’t the company’s chairman and publisher, Pinch Sulzberger, already trotted out Pulitzers earlier in the program?
Yes, yes, and yes. But Robinson was talking about money this time. Data mining, she told the crowd, would be used “to determine hidden patterns of uses to our website.”
What incredible asshole hypocrisy.
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04.13.07
Posted in America, Big Brother, personal, racism, stupidity at 21:42 by Toby Petzold
It’s almost like I’m tripping. Said Jesse Jackson to Paula Zahn:
“And the idea of white males fantasizing about black women is — is quite old, quite — and quite ugly, and now quite illegal. And that’s why we really want the truth to be told. We want justice served. And we want the law to serve as a — as a deterrent.”
Is Jackson actually becoming senile? I haven’t paid attention to him in years, I don’t think, and I can’t imagine what the fuck he thinks he’s saying. It’s illegal for me to lust after black women I know? Sorry, “Reverend,” but I can think of several very talkative, sexy, and beautiful black women that I would love to give a good seeing to right about now. And you can’t stop me from imagining that! BWAAHAHAHAHA!!!
I’m just glad that the rape charges have been dropped against Don Imus and that he can get back to broadcasting that great program of his, The Miscegenation and Minstrelsy Hour.
(A big tip of the sombrero to Jeff Goldstein and his reader, John.)
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11.04.06
Posted in Austin, Big Brother, stupidity at 01:26 by Toby Petzold
The Austin City Council are a bunch of assholes for voting to install cameras at lighted intersections so that they can ticket people for running red lights.
I’m all for busting people who operate their vehicles recklessly, but that’s what cops are for. Cameras are for recording everything and keeping tabs. Cops are for making judgement calls and acting on them in the public interest.
This camera thing is just a fucking money grab. It’s a means of introducing and inuring the public to being spied on and controlled. I don’t like it and I hope there will be plenty of civil disobedience on this issue until each and every asshole on the Austin City Council admits that he was just in it for the money and is sorry that he caused a sharp increase in the number of traffic accidents and injuries in this town. Because that is what will happen. People are going to be hitting their brakes in situations where they never did before just for fear of getting ticketed. And they’re gonna to be getting jacked up from behind instead.
Bank on it. Just like the asshole Austin City Council is.
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08.24.06
Posted in Big Brother at 21:53 by Toby Petzold
I don’t know why this fucking software won’t register certain comments, but I’m not going to let that derail my little blog. So, below is one such comment that is in response to my correspondent Arkady. From the “No Standing” post of 22 August:
Arkady, this “right of privacy” you’re talking about is a willful fiction. Why should you, to whom life in America is one unending web of conspiracism, choose to resort to this belief? You are a known quantity —in a thousand different ways. The only thing keeping you from being harmed by this fact is the will of those who hold your information.
Do they have the will? Shit! They barely have the capacity.
Believing that Karl Rove wants you —you— is grandly delusional.
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06.24.06
Posted in Big Brother, Islamofascism at 02:29 by Toby Petzold
Here’s how it works.
The War on Terror —or whatever name you want to give this ongoing confrontation with the Mohammedan Menace— will not be won or ended tomorrow or next month or even in this decade. It is a concept with a long shelf-life and it will be revived from time to time in theater after theater for as long as our leaders believe it’s necessary. Better get used to it. Better pace yourself.
But it will not do in every instance where executive actions outrage the civil liberties theoreticians among us to say that whatever measures are being taken must be taken because we are living in a time of war. I know that. We ought not allow our leaders to resort to the argument that they are only acting on wartime contingencies when they go beyond our comfort levels in pursuing the information they need to wage war against our real enemies. That cannot be their default setting.
But, in some instances, it must do. And you know which instances those are.
I don’t know if you’d call it cognitive dissonance or what, but the American People seem to be having a surprisingly hard time accepting the reality of life in the Information Age. They seem to be struggling with the reality that we are all known to hundreds and thousands of different agencies, companies, and states —right down to the most basic and personal facts of our individual lives. We will not escape this. We will be branded with the marks of the beast.
It would be better for us all to understand now that the virtually omniscient capacity of our governments, creditors, and trading partners to know what we are leaves us equally exposed. And equally free.
That the State may pry into my life and that its agents may know me with some intent is a given. I will not escape it. But I transparently advocate whatever I wish and I will not hide it simply to avoid the consequences of my thought. Hiding and avoiding the consequences of our advocacy is what the haters on the Left do. I don’t want to be that sort of person.
I would rather stand by my own beliefs and accept the consequences.
The possibility of our civil liberties cannot be more valuable than what they are in their essence.
That is to say, I will not deny my Government its ability to investigate those who would commit murder and crimes against my society just because I would rather take offense at the possibility that my Government could investigate me. I am unimpressed by the Leftist conceit that hypothetical violations of our rights are worse than real violations.
I mean, have you been rounded up and sent to a death camp yet?
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