Did you even bother to call and explain why SOPA/PIPA, etc is a bad idea? Did you read anything that was posted on the 18th??

Or did you just go forward with your life?

Watch this video, might help. Take 4 minutes to learn.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

(h/t walls of the city)

It is important. These bills can be used to (and likely will be) shut down blogs which are not approved by your government. Or any larger group who wishes to claim any copytight infringement. No notice, no chance to take down any material which might be an issue.  Just shut the website down.
Guess who gets to make that choice? The government. Do you think that is a good idea?

Many of us, some big, some small, chose to use today as a protest. As a day to (hopefully) educate and motivate the rest of you to take some action by cutting off the “free ice cream”

Or not.

I was impressed by Wikipedia somewhat less by Google, not so much by Drudge and Instapundit.
I guess income trumps taking a stand. Even though taking a stand might well save your income.

Midwest Chick and I spend a fair bit of time shopping this weekend. some high end stores, some low end stores, and most somewhere in between.

While I am all for saving a buck or two, I noticed something:

Wal-Mart and Menards had much less well behaved customers. Same with the cheaper grocery stores.

The stores that were one step higher in price had a much better class of people shopping there. By better class, I mean behavior wise. Same town, same demographic (or so it appeared), but a much higher level of social interaction quality. 

Quite simply, they behaved better. More like people and less like animals.

It may well be worth it for me to pay the slightly higher prices and shop where the lowest common denominator doesn’t.

It’ll be good for my blood pressure

When it comes to the NRC and low doses of radiation.

They are even checking imported tissue holders.

They caution us to be careful sitting near them, as we might get the equivalent of 2 x-rays a day…

Yet there is no check on the scanners that they use in airports at all. Nor on the dosages the TSA personnel get while working.

Interesting, ain’t it?

While I think that the day commemorating his birthday (MLK day) should be on his birthday, not a movable one so that federal and state workers get a 3 day weekend **, the think I want to talk about is this:

What would MLK say about the state of the black culture and the black population today?

What would he think of the fact that more than half of the black population is living off of government handouts?

Of the fact that more than half of the children raised today have no father figure?

What would he think and say about the “Black” leaders today, and what their policies have done to blacks in the US?

Would he think that the black leaders today have destroyed his “dream“? (you can watch it HERE if you wish)

His message was good then. And it is good now. I was raised to believe in what he preached in that speech.

I think he’d be disgusted by what has become of our society in general, and the black society in particular.

**(I mean, seriously, is the reason for the holiday to commemorate the birth of a hero, or who did something impressive…. or to create another day when federal and state “workers” don’t even have to pretend to work in order to collect a paycheck?) 

Car crashes, vehicular assault, and ramming others off the road. Movies are one thing, real life something else.

Those scenes are done under very specific conditions, with professionals piloting (generally) modified cars/trucks.

As these homeboys found out Saturday night.

Laws of physics and all that. But I guess you have to go to high school to learn that those laws cannot be broken….not spend your time selling drugs on a street corner.

Darwin is always watching and waiting. He was there when these boys learned things last night.

Via SCC.

So the young man is learning how to live in the wilderness…mentored by the old coot:

“What do I do if I meet a grizzly bear in the woods?” The tenderfoot asks

“Stand your ground. If you run, you’ll only die tired and bleeding….Stand tall and look him in the eye.”

“And if that doesn’t work?”  The young man persists

“Throw shit in his face as he charges”

“where am I gonna get shit?” the young man wonders

“It’ll be there when you need it, son”

about the Powers That Be watching and listening.

I wasn’t.
While no one wants to see children with firearms…..:

Think about this:
The kid did a Tweet…About a gun
and Twitter’s software alerted someone @Twitter…Who reviewed the message (and blocked it)
And called the school/police.

Big Brother IS watching you…

Text, Email, etc are just as easy to monitor.
Likely voice as well. Maybe your pictures too…The implications of this can be huge.

Be careful what you email, text and say on any phone. You never know who might be listening/watching.

Srsly.

Oh, and just to keep the Echelon (or Carnivore, or whatever) system well fed:

Thermonuclear
Jihad
guns
Biohazard
AMFO
drugs
explode

etc…

Seems the Courtney doesn’t understand why everyone is laughing at her…and thinks she is a loser….and a nanny stater. Did I mention that her actions make me think she is a loser?

And it makes her feel bad and she might cry.

Her name, just so she can find it via Google, is Courtney Fletcher, 23, of Mt. Lebanon. 

 Feel free to laugh when reading the comments.