From emails from crazy people emailsfromcrazypeople.com/2009/08/03/devil-worship-and-christmas-lights/

Devil Worship And Christmas Lights

Christopher and Heather XXXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXX
Boone, NC 28607

Dear Mr. and Mrs. XXXXX

We are writing to you as members of the Evergreen Homeowner’s Association about a concern that has occupied all our minds since you moved into this neighborhood. We are a congregate group of good Christian and God fearing people. The display you have set up on the outer section of your lot has us a bit concerned as the statue appears to be a type of Pagan worshipping symbol, unlike the other lawn decorations in our neighborhood. Shirley Whitley, a neighbor of yours says that this is a Satanic being and that you may be involved in the Occult. We have all noticed strange goings on around the neighborhood. There are flashing lights in the sky and numerous dead animals in the road. We understand that you are a homeowner, but if you will read your declaration of restrictions, obscene or vulgar displays on your property are not allowed. We insist that you remove this questionable display at once. Our children are not to be influenced by Devil worship and deviant behavior.

Ardna Tyne
For the Evergreen Homeowners Association

June 16, 2002

Dear Ardna (IF that’s your real name),

I am addressing the issue of my Gargoyle which the benevolent homeowners association seems to take offense to.

I will NOT be removing my Gargoyle any time soon. A Gargoyle is an ancient protector of property, and can be seen all over Europe in the architectural structure. I guess the homeowners association hasn’t gotten to them yet. My Gargoyle basically looks like a puppy with wings. Does this frighten you? I can only imagine you screaming in fear when the Snuggles fabric softener bear is speaking to you through your evil television set.

I would like to file a formal complaint about several yards in the neighborhood. The guy down at 152 has grass that’s over two feet tall. What’s he growing in there? The woman at 138 has a saddle and stirrups decorating her mailbox. What is that all about? I, for one, am not a cowboy, do not like cowboys and find it horrifying how the cowboys treated the Indians and Tom Landry. That guy was the only coach they ever had. Once they fired him, he died. Was that fair? I find cowboys to be highly offensive. Don’t get me started on the pink flamingos in the Whitley yard.

As for the flashes of light in the sky, that’s lightning, you idiot. Have you noticed at about the same time the wicked sky lights are flashing, there are evil drops of liquid falling from the sky? We are in a drought. I would think rain would make you thankful.

As far as the dead animals go, you idiots don’t know how to drive on the winding mountain roads. That is called ROADKILL. If you will notice, these are squirrels and rabbits that just walk in front of you as you drive down the mountain with your retired tunnelvisionist eyes glaring straight ahead.

We live at the top of this mountain. Your friends and neighbors cannot even see my house for all the trees surrounding it, so there is no need for you to freak out over my lawn stuff. I will not be moving things, so take whatever action you feel is necessary.

See you in hell,

Love,

Chris XXXXX

Christopher and Heather XXXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXX:X
Boone, NC 28607

October 25, 2002

Dear Mr .and Mrs. XXXXX

We are writing to you again, not on the issue of your gargoyle, which you are determined not to remove from display in our neighborhood, but on the issue of your Christmas lights.

Are you aware that it is not yet November? You apparently put up Christmas lights the second week of this month and insist on plugging them in nightly. We can all see your glowing display late into the night over the mountain horizon. It is keeping several of us awake at night and we do not appreciate such flagrant non-adherence to the Association rules. Page six of your Homeowner’s Association guidelines specifically states that the neighborhood shall remain seasonal, with holiday displays not to be presented in a period greater than two weeks prior or after said holiday.

Your lights are a distraction to visitors. An acquaintance who works at Boone Airport has said that your lights are obnoxious and a turn-off to visitors who land at the airport. If this is an attempt to retaliate against us for the gargoyle incident, we are becoming increasingly annoyed with your behavior. Legal action may be necessary to either A) force you to move out of our
once peaceful neighborhood or B) obtain a court ordered fine for your continuing defiance of our rules and regulations.

If you think we will back down on this issue, as we did on the issue of your gargoyle, you are sadly mistaken.

In addition, we are disturbed by the constant removal of trees from your property. Sunday morning is not a proper time for you to operate your chainsaw. Our community prides itself on the beautiful forestry that surround our neighborhood and we are determined to stop you from ruining the scenery. Please leave our trees alone!

Ardna Tyne
For the Evergreen Homeowners Association

November 4, 2002

Dear Ardna (I just can’t believe that is your name),

I AM aware of the date. If this neighborhood is like the last one I lived in, you will not be putting up lights at all, no matter what the date is. The last neighborhood, I was the only house on the street to put up lights, as it is Siberian-like weather here in December, perhaps the reason no one puts up lights.

Why do you care that my lights are up? Again, I live at the top of the mountain and nobody can even see my house. If it keeps you awake at night, close your freakin’ windows and quit peering out them like Mrs. Kravitz. I am not up here for your amusement. If you want a show, I will be I glad to give you one on New Year’ s Eve, otherwise, QUIT LOOKIN’ MY WAY .

I will not be taking down my lights because of your meek little letter, as it took me 10 days to put them all up. Page six of the guidelines also is the reference page that my gargoyle fell into. I am officially tearing page six out of my guidelines and wiping my ass with it. I will then post it to the tree nearest my mailbox for all your visitors to see. Feel free to take it down and examine it or use it as evidence against my in your little lawsuit.

Did someone really fly into Boone International Airport? Did they really complain about my lights? If so, then I obtained my goal. Someone noticed my lights and I gave the one person who flies into that parking lot something to go home and tell their friends about. Why did you back off on my gargoyle? Did someone tell you your letter to me, coming off as an inbred Christian fanatic was posted all over the internet, and read by many, many people? I got more feedback from people I don’t even know telling me to sue YOU for civil rights violations than you would know.

As for the trees I plunked down $140,000.00 for this house and the acre of property that goes with it. These are MY trees, and I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about what you think about me cutting them down. Aren’t you in church on Sunday Morning, rescuing the world from
gargoyle-bearing heathens? The way I see it, this is the BEST time for me to cut down my trees. There are over 300 trees on my property and I will cut them all down if I wish. Then you will have a better view of my house, my gargoyle and my feces smeared page six of the Homeowner’s Association rules and regulations nailed to the one tree I will leave standing.

Oh, and I’m not done putting up lights yet. Enjoy.

As always, love,

Chris XXXXX
The Satan loving, electricity burning tree killer.

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Stem Cell Jesus Loves You

From Emails From Crazy People..again....emailsfromcrazypeople.com/category/nutters/

The thing I wonder as I read this is whether Stem Cell Jesus, Embryo Jesus, and Embryo God are interchangeable with Regular Jesus and Regular God, or if they’re sort of the Muppet Babies of Christianity.

(Kim's note: RCIA doesn't mean Roman Catholic Intelligence Agency. It stands for Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults. It is a program to convert to Catholocism, by use of Scripture and Catholic teachings, ending in Baptism, Confirmation, Penance and receiving of First Holy Communion.)

Dear future Saint,

Thank you for all your hard work and giving so much of your time and love to this needy world. Please forgive the SPAM. Jesus might ask me at my judgment why didn’t you send e-mails. Unrepented parents are truly “the poorest of the poor” when abortion strikes.

Stem cell Jesus communion shall never come close to the solid food of the body and blood communion, but we need to defend life against the impossible evils of abortion with impossible prayers to God’s mercy. Unification prayer for Catholic and non-catholic, dear Holy Spirit please help me breathe in stem cell Jesus and Mother Mary with each breath. We must keep asking God for mercy like the widow in the Gospel who asked the judge for mercy.

Our 1 billion martyred babies (40 years world wide) shall not die in vain. Dear, sweet, loving Holy Spirit with each breath help us ALL breathe in stem cell God and breathe out stem cell Jesus, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Breathe in stem cell God by the mercy of our Holy Spirit and breathe out sin…

“We Know that all creation is groaning in labor pains even until now;” Ro 8: 22

“We are the body of Christ” and pregnate with embryo Christ!

“Let us (embryonic stem cell God in the Immaculate Conception) make man (embryos) in our image, after our likeness.” Gn 1, 26 Our Father (God) shall do all good things. Vote Pro-Life!

Dear Lover’s of Embryo God,

I painted the incarnation, B.C. changing into A.D. in 1996 and the idea for stem cell Jesus communion came from the divided ovum of Mary looking like a divided host at mass. Many schools have replaced B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (in the year of our Lord) with B.C.E. and C.E. (Common Era) in their text books. If you go to my web-site www.embryojesus.com under First Joyful Mystery you can see the artwork or see attachment. Negative can be changed to positive by the grace of God, as the death of Jesus changed to positive at the Resurrection. Abraham Lincoln changed a negative two year Civil War into a positive just war when he emancipated the slaves in 1863. The bloody abortion war can to be changed into a just war by unifying catholic and non-catholic thru stem cell God communion.

By the power of the holy Spirit please help us all breathe in embryo God and breathe out sin. Stem cell Jesus Christ conceived by the holy Spirit in union with the rainbow heart of God, blessed fruit of the Virgin Mary’s ovum, save us, heal us, feed us and help us respond to your perfect love. Thank you holy Spirit for changing the fruit of the earth, Mary’s ova into embryo Jesus. Dear holy Spirit please change all our food at the moment of consumption into stem cell Jesus communion. Dear holy Spirit please change all our drinking water at consumption into “the living water” inside of our personal savior stem cell Jesus and help us turn away from sin and the forbidden fruit of sterilization. Pre-born babies martyred for the faith of stem cell God feeding tube, desire repentance and unification with their parents, converted from pro-death. This new way of looking at the Eucharist is a feeding tube for born and pre-born. Solid food “the Body of Christ” can be obtained thru R.C.I.A.. Hail stem cell Jesus and hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art

thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, embryo Jesus… Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Thy most sacred heart of fetus Jesus have mercy on us!

Immaculate heart of embryo Mary pray for us!

Please pray for my mother MXXXXXXXXXX, father BXXXXXXXXX and souls and all the souls of the faithly departed.

Fetus Mary help us pray the rosary daily!

www.embryojesus.com

Stem cell God bless and thank you for reading this prayer.

B. MXXXXXXXXX

I woke up to the familiar almost battleship grey of a Syracuse sky, staring at me outside the parlour window I had been anticipating this all week, and damn near celebrated when the first wispy St. Anne's flakes fell as I was out getting really, really important provisions.

I even ran into another Smurf, this one had a 4 inch lift and 31x10 tires, also out running around eagerly waiting to bounce and .and bite and generally 4 wheel through the promised feet of snow.

The bushes outside the window were wearing stoles of anoe and were coloured by cardinals and chickadees. It was a sea of pristine whiteness , with towering evergreens and pines like lighthouses , flecks of green, actings as markers.

The front run was dotted with deer and other animal tracks.
I stood outside in the wind driven, falling snow, which has a serenity to me.

I then checked the back porch. My vehicles looked like icebergs majestically sitting in the driveway

Turning on the TV and watching Action News, with a cup of coffee,snuggled under the blanket and covered with cats as usual, watching the closed state of Delawae, the buried neighbourhoods, the absolute emptiness of the all the highways...I never ceased to be amazed by a deserted Schuylkill or 95....

Even SEPTA wasn't rolling.....

I decided that after housework, I was going 4 wheeling.

After blasting the stereo, and doing the Saturday cleanup, I dressed warmly, and armed with a broom stepped outside.....
and sank right up to my dungaree pockets....

It was exercise in itself to walk from the Hobbit Hut to my truck.  I passed by my bike which my sister and I had covered a few days ago.

I looked at this situation.  The snow was well over my my fenders.....Hell, I can get out of this....
I cleared the drivers side jumped in and she started up. I had locked the hubs and put her in first. I shifted the transfer case into neutral to  disengage the wheels.

After using the brom and dumping snow on myself, I put her in 4 low and easily got out of the driveway.

I saw a lot of quads and even the odd 3 wheeler on the unplowed back roads,as well as snowmobiles.  Kids being pulled on sleds behind such, rusty old pick up trucks with more bondo than body, snowplws dangling like a crooked yellow smile.

It seemed like people were friendlier, waving as we passed.
I saw and waved at a snow and muddied LandRover,  AS I got into some of the developments, what ever cars that were out there looked like the almonds n a chocolate bar, so completely covered they were. And except for the Wawas, nothing, not even the State Stores , were open.

I came home around 2100, the snow glittering like a sea of diamonds under streetlights.

I think I ll go out again tomorrow.....

I stayed out for quite a while, just driving around, visiting friends, stopping for coffee at the constantly opened Wawas.

Stayed on the back roads, because of the challenge and yet again, my little tin pony proved unstoppable.

China rejects claims of Internet hacking attacks

BEIJING – The Chinese government denied involvement in Internet attacks and defended its online censorship Monday after the United States urged Beijing to investigate complaints of cyber intrusions in a dispute that has added tension to bilateral relations.

China's policy against Internet hacking attacks is transparent and consistent, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said, nearly two weeks after search giant Google Inc. threatened to pull out of the country after finding that the e-mails of activists had been pried into.

"Any accusation that the Chinese government participated in cyber attacks, either in an explicit or indirect way, is groundless and aims to discredit China," an unidentified ministry spokesman said.

"We are firmly opposed to that," the spokesman said, according to a transcript of an interview with the official Xinhua News Agency posted on the ministry's Web site Monday.

The State Council, China's Cabinet, defended the country's regulation of the Internet, saying it is legal and that other parties should not interfere in Beijing's domestic affairs, Xinhua reported.

The remarks follow a Jan. 12 threat from Google to pull out of China unless the government relented on censorship. The ultimatum came after Google said it had uncovered a computer attack that tried to plunder its software coding and the e-mail accounts of human rights activists protesting Chinese policies.

Google traced the attacks on its computers to hackers in China, but hasn't directly tied them to the Chinese government or its agents.

A Chinese Internet security official questioned Google's allegation that its servers had been attacked by hackers traced to China, saying the search giant had yet to report its complaints to the China National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team.

"We have been hoping that Google will contact us so that we could have details on this issue and provide them help if necessary," Zhou Yonglin, the team's deputy chief of operations, said in an interview with Xinhua, also posted on the Internet security team's Web site.

Most cyber attacks on Chinese computers have originated from the United States, Zhou said, with hackers implanting malicious software such as Trojans, which can allow outside access to the target's computer, to illegally control computers.

Last year, 262,000 Internet protocol addresses — the string of numbers that shows a computer's location — in China were attacked by Trojans planted by nearly 165,000 overseas IP addresses, Zhou said. Most of the attacks were from IP addresses in the U.S., making up 16.6 percent, he said.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology spokesman said China was the biggest victim of Web attacks, and that last year more than 42,000 Web sites were tampered by hackers, while 18 million computers a month were infected by the Conficker worm virus, which can slow computers and steal personal information.

Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized countries engaging in cyberspace censorship and urged China to investigate computer attacks against Google. In a speech in Washington, Clinton cited China as among a number of countries where there had been "a spike in threats to the free flow of information" over the past year. She also named Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam.

China's Foreign Ministry accused the U.S. of damaging relations between the countries while a Chinese state newspaper said Washington was imposing "information imperialism" on China.

Internet control is considered a critical matter of state security in China, and Beijing is not expected to offer any concessions in the dispute with Google. Beijing promotes Internet use for commerce, but heavily censors content it deems pornographic, anti-social or politically subversive and blocks many foreign news and social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook, and the popular video-sharing site YouTube

Muslim anger over US military 'Jesus' scopes

news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100121/ts_alt_afp/usmilitaryreligionweapons

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Muslim groups reacted angrily after it emerged that the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan were using rifle sights inscribed with coded Biblical references.

The company producing the sights, which are also used to train Afghan and Iraqi soldiers under contracts with the US Army and the Marine Corps, said it has inscribed references to the New Testament on the metal casings for over two decades.

The British Ministry of Defense meanwhile announced it had placed an order for 400 of the gunsights with Trijicon but added it had not been aware of the significance of the inscriptions, in a decision criticized by the opposition Liberal Democrat party.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) called on US Defense Secretary Robert Gates to immediately withdraw from combat use equipment found to have inscriptions of Biblical references after it emerged that Trijicon has contracts to supply over 800,000 of the sights to the US military.

The Pentagon sought to defuse the brewing controversy, saying it was "disturbed" by the reports.

"If determined to be true, this is clearly inappropriate and we are looking into possible remedies," Commander Darryn James, a Pentagon spokesman, told AFP.

The codes were used as "part of our faith and our belief in service to our country," Trijicon said.

"As long as we have men and women in danger, we will continue to do everything we can to provide them with both state-of-the-art technology and the never-ending support and prayers of a grateful nation," a company spokesman said on condition of anonymity.

The move appeared to be a direct violation of a US Central Command general order issued after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq that strictly prohibits "proselytizing of any religion, faith or practice."

A whistleblower group that first alerted ABC News to the issue this week warned the practice was putting troops in harm's way by raising fears of Christian proselytizing in Muslim-majority nations home to militants resentful of US military presence.

"This is the worst type of emboldenment of the enemy that you can imagine," Military Religious Freedom Foundation founder and president Michael "Mikey" Weinstein said in an interview.

Weinstein, a former White House legal counsel in Ronald Reagan's administration, said his group would submit a filing in US federal court in Kansas City, Missouri by February 4 in a related case.

"Having Biblical references on military equipment violates the basic ideals and values our country was founded upon," MPAC Washington director Haris Tarin said in a statement.

"Worse still, it provides propaganda ammo to extremists who claim there is a 'Crusader war against Islam' by the United States," he added.

The shocking revelation raises fresh fears of Christian fundamentalism seeping through the US military's ranks.

"It's got to stop. It's wrong on a million levels," said Weinstein. "This is massively endangering the lives and well-being of our members of the military."

His foundation, he added, represents nearly 16,000 troops, the bulk of them Christians.

A Muslim-American soldier, who declined to be named due to fears of persecution, said he was "ashamed" and "horrified" by the writings on the gunsights of weapons he used during deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"There are many other soldiers who feel as I do. Many are Protestant and Catholic and they fear reprisal just as much as I do for trying to stand up to the Christian bullies in uniform who outrank us," he said in a letter dated January 14 and addressed to Weinstein and his foundation.

The Secular Coalition for America demanded the US military end its contracts with Trijicon.

"Trijicon knew that the scopes they were producing were for the use of the US military and their decision to keep these engravings shows a flagrant disregard by a private contractor of the laws that govern our land," said the group's director Sean Faircloth.

According to photographs seen by AFP, the coded inscriptions include JN8:12, an apparent reference to John 8:12: "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."

Trijicon, a defense contractor founded by devout Christian Glyn Bindon, vows on its website to follow "biblical standards" it says make America great

Including this biblical standard?

John 13:34-35 (New International Version)

 ³⁴"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. ³⁵By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

And just to hammer the secular point....

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the establishment of a national religion by the Congress or the preference of one religion over another, non-religion over religion, or religion over non-religion. Originally, the First Amendment only applied to the federal government. Subsequently, under the incorporation doctrine, certain selected provisions were applied to states. However, it was not until the middle and later years of the twentieth century that the Supreme Court began to interpret the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses in such a manner as to restrict the promotion of religion by state governments. For example, in the Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet, 512 U.S. 687 (1994), Justice David Souter, writing for the majority, concluded that "government should not prefer one religion to another, or religion to irreligion."

In 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Inouye v Kemna, ruled that a parolee can not be forced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings as a part of his parole when there is a conflict between the religious belief of the parolee and that of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Totally useless week...On top of all the other festivities, I had and still have the goddam flu and am confined to quarters. All I have done is sleep , vomit and be delirious.

I get emails from Bruce on a semi regular basis....He writes with a lot of fire, but a lot of his substance seems to fall flat.

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AL QAEDA'S MANY "MASTERMINDS": RECRUITED FROM MENSA? OR MADE UP FOR THE MEDIA?

Even after removing all references to "al quaeda" and "mastermind" that also mention any of these names...

abed abssi ahmed amara aqeel awlaqi badawi badri barot hammoud
khalid kini masri mejjati nashiri noordin osama rachid rami rangzieb
rauf saleh sayyid shahri zafar zakaria zarqawi zawahiri zubaydah

...our top three search engines--Google, Yahoo and Bing--still serve up six-figure results regarding a host of supposedly brainy bad guys, which should be more than enough to keep the American Sheeple scared, silent and submissive:

tinyurl.com/masterminds-google

http://tinyurl.com/masterminds-yahoo

tinyurl.com/masterminds-bing

Is Al Qaeda recruiting from MENSA, perhaps?  Or is this ceaseless succession of Jihadist genuises--which we are told we must corner, collar, cripple or kill--as fake as some of the faces of Osama Bin Laden they try to sell us?

http://tinyurl.com/ydpq436

http://tinyurl.com/ydy8hv7

http://tinyurl.com/y956rl9

Oh well ... there's money to be made ... "the War" must go on.  And we can't sell bullets without bad guys to blast. So even if Benazir Bhutto really was assassinated for spilling the beans about Bin Laden being blown away...

http://www.youtube.com/watch

...you can bet your baby's combat boots that America's masters will never let the mental midgets in our media run short of talented terrorists to talk about.

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Repeal the Patriot Act:

http://ldrlongdistancerider.com/03

Reject Internet Censorship:

http://ldrlongdistancerider.com/02

Re-Elect NOBODY:

http://ldrlongdistancerider.com/01

Really Investigate 9/11:

http://911truthbikers.com

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More good news for the sheeple....
yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/19/145227/FBI-Violated-Electronic-Communications-Privacy-Act

An anonymous reader writes to tell us of a report from the Washington Post which alleges that the FBI "illegally collected more than 2,000 US telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records." The report continues, "E-mails obtained by The Washington Post detail how counterterrorism officials inside FBI headquarters did not follow their own procedures that were put in place to protect civil liberties. The stream of urgent requests for phone records also overwhelmed the FBI communications analysis unit with work that ultimately was not connected to imminent threats. ... FBI officials told The Post that their own review has found that about half of the 4,400 toll records collected in emergency situations or with after-the-fact approvals were done in technical violation of the law. The searches involved only records of calls and not the content of the calls. In some cases, agents broadened their searches to gather numbers two and three degrees of separation from the original request, documents show."

From Wikipedia.org

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. It was ratified as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, in the American Revolution. The amendment specifically also requires search and arrest warrants be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. Search and arrest should be limited in scope according to specific information supplied to the issuing court, usually by a law enforcement officer, who has sworn by it.

In Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment applies to the states by way of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court has also ruled that certain searches and seizures violated the Fourth Amendment even when a warrant was properly granted.

Now, this is what I found today....

From /.
yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/19/0337249/The-Fourth-Amendment-and-the-Cloud

CNET has up a blog post examining the question: does the Fourth Amendment apply to data stored in the Cloud? The US constitutional amendment forbidding unreasonable searches and seizures is well settled in regard to the physical world, but its application to electronic communications and computing lags behind. The post's argument outlines a law review article (PDF) from a University of Minnesota law student, David A. Couillard. "Hypothetically, if a briefcase is locked with a combination lock, the government could attempt to guess the combination until the briefcase unlocked; but because the briefcase is opaque, there is still a reasonable expectation of privacy in the unlocked container. In the context of virtual containers in the cloud...encryption is not simply a virtual lock and key; it is virtual opacity. ... [T]he service provider has a copy of the keys to a user's cloud 'storage unit,' much like a landlord or storage locker owner has keys to a tenant's space, a bank has the keys to a safe deposit box, and a postal carrier has the keys to a mailbox. Yet that does not give law enforcement the authority to use those third parties as a means to enter a private space. The same rationale should apply to the cloud." We might wish that the courts interpreted Fourth Amendment rights in this way, but so far they have not.

I have to agree with Mr. Coulliard. Even though the cloud was a concept beyond the scope of 18th century technology, intrusion by tyrannical authority was a fact of life for the Founding Fathers.
The cloud, is a private space, used by a citizen, for whatever medium, thus falls under the prtection of said amendment.

A bright spot today.....

The Cowgirls lost to Minnesota 34 -3

The most ubelievable complaint.....that the Vikings were "running up the score"

www.cbssports.com/mcc/messages/chrono/19630295

OK, you bandwagon jumping piles of buffalo chips..."Your Team" beat the crap out of us 2 times in 2 weeks, one by a shutout..why cause our guys left their game somewhere between gadfly and gangrene and forgot how to play.....

And we, the "horrible, drunken Iggles Hooligans" didn't make a wussy, broken nail complaint like this....

SO yes, as is tradition, I ve been up all night keeping vigil.I know the Fish is with you. It s the same scene over and over, with grandmom, and my mother until the last of us is in the ground.
So yes, I ve been here all night...
Elf is coming up with Godzilla to ull the plug.
Pull the plug...on you...that just soo damned unfair, so fucking senseless. Someone as feisty as you , they have to pull the fucking plug.

I can see you in my minds eye..your pupils blown out, no response, no brain waves....Did you see Felix or Joann or your mom first? Who came for you?
I know you were floating around looking at yourself. It's pretty neat, isn't it? Like an innertube .....

I don't want to imagine the damage to you when you hit the ground, when your heart stopped.

It was a few days ago, I passed the Packer Park Swim Club....coming home with the Smurf. If I close my eyes, I can still hear our parties there.. the double bubble bus stop I think we did to damn near every dance tune in 1980 that Bob Moreland spun..Yes I can see him with his DA, uber greased...bigger than he was. Uptown Saturday Night, Double Dutch Bus, then we hit the Oldies...all of us jitterbugging in various degrees of exuberence and drunkeness

I couldn't wait for Fridays back then....Mom had Wilbur, My Father's visitation was pick me up,give me a hundred bucks and he d take off with my stepmom. I d end up at 2202 Croskey...
Then I simply got to hitchhiking after school , up 95 Friday at 2:15

I remember running down to Wildwood at 2 am, all ofus packed in your trailer....not sleeping, laughing....Putsie wutsie with his wonder scooterand the killer raccons from 3 mile island that I said were at the campground. That was after Fish tried starting a campfire with a lot of lighter fluid....

Getting News Of The World and fracturing We Will Rock You... all with drinks in our hands....yeah, we d all be on the news now for that....Mexican flags fixing the Barracuda...4 wheeling in the Smurf, singing Sinatra until we were hoarse.

Blessing the 69 AMC Ambassador with St Joseph's oil...and holy water, and god knows what else you had in that schoolbag....I swore half of that stuff came from Jesus himself...

I stayed with you a year and change in Pulaski. No Matter where you were, it was still South Philly. It could've been Nome, Alaska, it was South Philly, before these fucking guidos and guidettes that need to be killed popped up.
It was Italian Wedding Soup, and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer....Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve and the Mummer's Strut in a trailer park with 2 feet of snow, banging pots and pans in a dull Central New York town....hoping one of the cable channels carried the parade, or hell with it, lets just go...and we did....

And now, I wonder where you are....
Rob s coming up as is Jenn. I'll watch Katie for you, while Elf and God zilla say goodbye and set you freeEventually, We have to do a ride.
When you're let go...I'll have some Pabst and the soundtrack of those years playing....Bob Moreland burned it into my brain...
We'll do a ride, once we decide where youll be placed...Remember Joanns ride ended up at Clementon Lake Park?

It s sunny out...
Everything's gonna be allright

Bye,Aunt Connie
Thanx for everything
It was a great run.......

That the aliens left the anal probe in Rush.....

news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100115/pl_politico/31539

How about one from last year? How does Rush know? Anyone ever ask him?
mediamatters.org/mmtv/200905200034

OK, we have maybe 100,000 people dead there, and that may be erring on the low side, and these charlatans, spew hate for their true master, power. Yeah I said it. They are no more for good than Hitler.

Been catnapping all week..sleeping in 2 hour shifts, not fully awake until the afternoon. Was going downside Monday, Tuesday was totally non functioning. Barely got dressed...Wednesday, I honestly dont know how I got to therapy..
I went and helped the Elf out then Tugger and I took out the trash.
Today I just catnapped until I was asked for help.

Blago sez he "is blacker that "President Obama. How is this possible?

Mark McGwire used steroids. His HR record needs to be expunged. As does Barry Bonds. The end.

Harry Reid is an idiot for saying that President Obama doesn't speak in a negro dialect unless he wants to.

Michael Vick was 90% useless and the WTF move of the year

Letting Brian Dawkins go was the supremely idiotic WTF move of the century

Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol..why is this news?

My supposed father...nuff said

only seems to listen to those who give big to the church.....Jesus really pissed on this when he said do not be as the hypocrites.....yet it is those who seem to get everything, while the "good" (and define that) get to suck it while waiting for an afterlife that may or may not exist.

So therefore god is schizo

Not sure what the hell I am doing here....seems I don't fit in...nothing is sacred.

Want to just go.....

But you moronic sheeple think all this is good...You need to be killed.....



New York City set guidelines yesterday recommending maximum amounts of salt for various restaurant and store-bought foods, aiming to cut salt levels in food by 25 percent overall in five years. The initiative is voluntary, unlike the city's ban on trans fats in restaurant meals and its requirement that chain eateries post calorie counts on menus.

Senate Bill 506: More Nanny-State Legislation

By Georgia Politics Unfiltered

I'm just going to come on out and say it; the government cannot solve everyone's problems, especially problems such as childhood obesity.

Late last week, state Sen. Joseph Carter (R - Tifton) introduced Senate Bill 506, the "SHAPE Act." What the bill does is require local school systems to "conduct body mass index testing of each student two times each school year,once during the fall and once during the spring; make a student´s individual body mass index data available only to such student´s parent or guardian; and designate schools that don't comply with the statute as an 'unhealthy school zone'"

In an interview with the Athens Banner-Herald, Sen. Carter said, "We want parents to know what's happening as far as physical education and whether schools comply. We'll see students that are healthier, more well adjusted and better students." [Source: 2/26/2008 Athens Banner-Herald article "State may label some schools 'unhealthy'"]

Is this legislation really necessary?

Do we really need to require schools to measure their students' body mass index?

Do we really need to spend money on a website that tells the world where Georgia's fattest schools are?

I think not.

New Year’s Legislation

We at SwiftEconomics would love to wish our readers a Happy New Year and apparently, so do all the city, state and federal legislatures. According to CNN, starting on or near January 1st, 40,697 new laws will come into effect. Some are very sensible, such as restictions on human trafficking. Others, well others simply epitomize the nanny state at it’s petty and invasive worst. Such as:

“A California measure that limits trans fat in restaurant food also takes effect January 1. Enacted in 2008, it requires restaurants to use oils, margarines and shortenings that have less than half a gram of trans fat per serving. A similar provision will apply to baked goods in 2011.”

As if we didn’t have enough laws already. As we speak, you almost certainly broke the law today in some way, form or fashion, as did I. This new wave of legislation reminds me of Harvey Silvergate’s disturbing new book, Three Felonies a Day (the approximate average for an American citizen) or Gene Healy’s, Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Nearly Everything. We simply have too many laws in this country and it’s time our legislatures made the resolution to start thinning out our law books.

Even Marcus Aurelius let his hair down once in a while




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