Morning LInks | Reality Thinking

No more Saturday mail delivery. which is expected to save about $2 billion annually (equal to about an eighth of its annual losses). The postal workers union is condemning the move, which is probably the best indicator that it’s a step in the right direction. Interestingly, this decision is being made by the USPS without Congressional approval (like so much of what happens in the Executive Branch these days).

Media outlets are reporting on a secret CIA drone base in Saudi Arabia from which drone attacks in Yemen are launch. While the American media has known about this base for some time, they withheld reporting on it at the government’s request because “the goddamn American people have no business knowing what their government is doing in their name.” [That last comment is really more of a paraphrasing of American governmental attitude than a specific quote]

18 y/o girl gets 30 days in the slammer for flipping off the judge. This is right after the judge doubled her bond because of her lack of contrition. The girl was charged with possession of the prescription drug Xanax. Most media hasn’t even batted an eyelash at the harshness of the 30-day penalty. While it might not have been in her best interest to piss off the judge, like her, I have no respect for a justice system that would charge and prosecute someone for possession of Xanax to begin with.

Fresno cops deny defense attorney’s’ request for pictures taken during arrest of three men for having guns and ammunition in their car, saying no pictures were taken during the arrest, which is true if you don’t count the pictures the Police Department posted on their Facebook page.

Several colleges are suing students over their failure to repay federally subsidized Perkins Loans which are basically loans given to people who are too poor to be likely to pay back the loan to begin with. As everyone knows, the government sees opportunity where private financial institutions see only risk.

A new report says the that the Britain’s MI5 wants to install black boxes on UK networks to enable them to monitor virtually everything their citizens say and do online. While there is some speculation that encryption would render such a system useless, the part of the report that deals with that issue was redacted because, as is the case in any modern democracy, the government can’t have the population knowing what they plan to do.

Fornication, oral sex, dirty books and movies, car sex, adultery, strip clubs, and prostitution are all still illegal in Virginia. And yet, with all that morality, they still have one of the country’s highest divorce rates.

Geeks and hackers may be today’s biggest defenders of privacy and civil liberties.

2 thoughts on “Morning LInks”

Sandhillpam February 10, 2013 at 8:42 am

I just found this blog! I’ve missed seeing your commentary Dave. Wondering where the other commenters are… not showed up yet, or did I miss a link?
Anyway happy to see you started a blog!

Dave Krueger February 10, 2013 at 10:09 am

The only link to this site is the one I posted in the comments of Radley’s last article in theagitator.com announcing his move to the HuffPo. I’m a little surprised that more people aren’t commenting here, but my subject matter is not quite as narrowly defined as The Agitator. Also, Radley’s style is more directed at convincing a broad audience of his message whereas mine is more like preaching to the choir.

In any case, the number of visitors to this site it growing, so comments will probably start to happen eventually.

Thanks for visiting. And commenting!

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