I may live in a bubble but I am not blind. I see both sides of the story. I see vindictive posts and the fake news. All the time I see hypocrisy from both sides. I take what I see and hear, I weigh that facts and throw the bullshit aside. I use my brain and based on what I find I make a decision. When I post something it is something I believe or ( Read more... )

Data mining is happening all around us. Use a cell phone? Every call is logged and your location is tracked. Got an Android phone? Google is tracking you. Every purchase you make with a check, ATM card or credit card is tracked in real time. Video is everywhere. Licence plate readers are on most police cars. They can read plate numbers at 60 mph or ( Read more... )

No sign of intelligent life. That is why Trump skips intelligence briefings. He thinks intelligence is something he might catch, a disease or something. As a former intelligence analyst I can say his lack of intelligence is dangerous.

We could do things so much better. We could install solar on every home. We could use smaller, more efficient instant water heaters instead of heating water all the time even when we are not at home. We could be driving more hybrid and electric vehicles. They even make hybrid big rigs now. We could have home energy audits, plug those drafts, ( Read more... )

About the alt right... its best to call them what they are. The Associated Press has said this...

"...Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters’ actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience ( Read more... )

We must remember that internment happened once. It can never happen again. No never. NEVER. If you need some lessons, visit Manzanar or go to the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles for that. The link provides some history.

http://www.janm.org/exhibits/instructions-to-all/

Its winter today. Cold, wet, windy. All was fine last night till my propane heater decided to quit. I then opted to add more comforters and hunker down. Woke this morning, cold outside, but snug in a warm bed. Payday is a few days away and I'll buy a new unit. I'm almost tempted to pull up stakes and head to the lower desert. I got to do a bit of ( Read more... )

Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Two despicable men. The personification of greed, mysoginy, bigotry. Trump has Pence to protect him. If you impeach Trump you get Pence. Then you have to impeach Pence. Then you get Ryan. The nightmare continues. It just might be best to overthrow the whole system. Or at least secede as a state of group if states and ( Read more... )

As a kid I played with an old cylinder player. It was the device before records were invented. Then I discovered a massive collection of old recordings. Some were single sided 12 inch disks. Then came vynyl. I remember the first 45 rpm records. Then came the 33-1/3 long playing albums. When I got my first car we only had AM radio. Then came fm ( Read more... )

First their was Occupy. It challenged the capitalist system. It was crushed brutally to send a message that the next time they would substitute real bullets for batons. Now we are seeing a threat to Standing Rock that says to avoid a brutal battle they must disband and move to a "free speech zone". Since when has the government been given power to ( Read more... )