Crabby Blogging Lady

WHAT kind of IDIOTS are in our government, will someone please tell me?? These people are so stupid, their brains are leaking from their noses. That, or they are tyrannical, wicked, control-freaks. You choose. Probably both. Just because someone has an online college degree doesn’t make them SMART.

The government is going to block “controversial websites.”

So much for freedom of speech, eh?

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency’s computers, including halting access by staffers to any Internet pages that contain a “controversial opinion,” according to an internal email obtained by CBS News.

The email was sent to all TSA employees from the Office of Information Technology on Friday afternoon.

It states that as of July 1, TSA employees will no longer be allowed to access five categories of websites that have been deemed “inappropriate for government access.”

The categories include:
Chat/Messaging
Controversial opinion
Criminal activity
Extreme violence (including cartoon violence) and gruesome content
Gaming

The email does not specify how the TSA will determine if a website expresses a “controversial opinion.”

Oh it’s a GOOOOOD thing they’re still allowing cartoon violence, gee! (P.S. What the heck are they DOING with “cartoon violence” and “gaming” on federal agency computer’s anyway?!?

And does anyone see a big problem here– namely, that porn is not “controversial” content?! HELLO!?!!? They are banning “controversial opinion” but not porn?!? Everyone knows that porn is very prevalent among federal agency computer use. Ohhh but THAT’s OK! It’s not “controversial” like those Tea Party kooks who are always quoting George Washington and waving the flag! Dangerous!

IDJITS.

All the hooplah has died down about Obamacare, but I’m still PRETTY steamed about it. I find it unconscionable that Americans will be forced to pay for that crap. AND if we don’t, be fined to the gills, sicced on by the IRS, or thrown in prison.

It’s unconscionable!!!!

Then there’s this– some groups are claiming exemption because of their faith, such as the Amish. I think that’s great– hey I would be a conscientious objector, right!

Wrong.

The recent health-care reform legislation carries a controversial mandate that all Americans obtain health insurance, but careful study of the passed law reveals there are some groups – the Amish, for example – that can obtain an exemption.

For devout Muslims, however, whose religious beliefs forbid purchasing insurance, the mandate is still binding, religion or not. And most other religious, political or conscientious objectors will similarly find themselves out of luck if they hope to be excused from the requirement.

There is a clause in the fine print, however, that could provide an out for those willing to take it.

Section 1501 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adds a new chapter to the Internal Revenue Code mandating all “applicable” individuals either obtain health insurance that meets the bill’s “minimum essential coverage” standards or pay a penalty on tax day.

Those wicked politicians are using the income tax as a way to control us. The power to tax is the power to destroy and all that.

*sigh*

My faith isn’t against caring for my health. Like DUH. But it IS against having the government care for it!!

I don’t understand why more people aren’t screaming against this. Maybe they are lulled into believing that they will get free stuff and still be able to live a comfortable lifestyle (because other people are paying for it) and make their own health care decisions (not!). You think the politicians are going to let you keep sucking on those electronic cigarettes and eating eclairs all day???? NOT! Wake up, folks! The whole thing is incredibly insane.

In case you didn’t hear, the latest hoo-hah from the FTC is the suing of Lifelock, the much-heralded identity-theft protection company.

“While LifeLock promised consumers complete protection against all types of identity theft, in truth, the protection it actually provided left enough holes that you could drive a truck through it,” said Jon Leibowitz, the FTC chairman.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, one of the state attorneys general involved, was also highly critical of LifeLock.

“This agreement effectively prevents LifeLock from misrepresenting that its services offer absolute prevention against identity theft because there is unfortunately no foolproof way to avoid ID theft,” she said. [emphasis mine]

You’d better believe there isn’t any “foolproof way to avoid ID theft”! That’s because bureaucrats and businesses and banks go OUT OF THEIR WAY to invite it. Like plastered our Social Security numbers all over our tax forms?! Or allowing banks and even shoe stores and grocery stores to collect our identifying information for their reward card, which is then harvested in data banks, for any laptop-stealing thug to sift through! Hello?! How about forcing banks and cedit card companies to use better password encryption and etc for their online banking websites, huh? My online Photobucket account is more secure than my online credit card account!

Identity theft is completely avoidable!!! But the government has no intention of stopping it! Just like they have no intention of curing cancer, because that would put the medical industry out of business! Just like they have no intention of stopping the dumping of corn syrup into our foods, to stave the explosion of obesity and diabetes in this country since the 70s, because the corn industry is heavily regulated and pads a lot of pockets. Sheesh!

Oh, if only the FTC and other government bureaucrats would spend more time and energy fighting the battles that REALLY mattered, such as protecting our identity and cleaning their own houses full of corruption, lies, false advertising, and identity theft!

And how about they go after some of the real snake oil sellers out there– yeah, the companies who advertise that drinking their soda quenches your thirst, or that taking their diet pill makes you as skinny as an Ethiopian! How about dem apples?

*grrroooooooooaaaaannnn*

US Treasury Web sites hacked, serving malware

Three Web sites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software, security vendor AVG says.

AVG researcher Roger Thompson discovered the issue Monday on three Web domains associated with the home page of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. As of late Monday, all three Web sites were still actively serving malicious software and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Web site should be avoided until it’s clear that they’ve been cleaned up, Thompson said in an interview via instant message.

Although the Treasury Department could not be reached for comment, IT staff there appear to be aware of the problem. On Tuesday morning, all three sites had apparently been taken offline and were returning a “page not found” error.

Please. PLEASE. I don’t hate the government. The government just BEGS to be despised. WHAT a bunch of nincompoop idiots! Not only was this super-duper secure website hacked, but the malware REMAINED on the sites because the nincompoops couldn’t get it off! (Or didn’t want to get it off… after so many times, ya gotta wonder if they do this stuff on purpose?!).

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This is just sick. Makes me sick! Read this article. Tell me if that phrase “government’s role in health care” gives you the shivers like it gives me the shivers.

Senate Panel Previews Electronic Health Technology

The Senate Committee on Aging last week offered a preview of the government’s future role in health care, showing how Americans will interact with doctors and other health care providers. The demonstration offers a glimpse at an overlooked effect of health care reform.

The effort, loosely called e-Health or e-Care, combines health-care technology with 21st-century Internet connectivity. It will allow doctors to interact with their patients through innovations such as video chats, telephone health checkups, and home-health monitoring devices that relay data over wireless Internet connections.

Home-health monitoring devices? Hey, I like the Internet…. it’s a great place to get information on best term life insurance quotes or whatever. But I want to be in control of me, ok?

“The development of the broadband network and health information technologies has the potential to truly transform health care and simultaneously enable better outcomes and lowering costs,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).

One of the new health technologies on display last Thursday was an automatic drug dispenser that can monitor and adjust medication dosages wirelessly, allowing doctors to tailor dosages of drugs such as insulin without having to schedule in-person visits with patients.

“What we’re talking about, folks, is using a device like this one,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said, as he displayed the small device. “It attaches to the patient’s skin and is loaded with drugs that are administered in the exact way that the doctor prescribes – wirelessly.

“That means that a doctor can vary the doses based on the information the doctor is receiving [from the monitor]. The patient doesn’t have to go in to the doctor and then the pharmacy to change his or her prescription,” he said.

So is this the reason for the government mandate to get everyone connected with broadband??

Am I the only one really creeped out about this? The government is forcing us to have their health “care.” Then they force us to get rigged to the computers, to have drugs or whatever dispensed by SOMEONE ELSE through a WIRELESS connection. This is INSANE.

These senators act like they have a bunch of new toys to play with. Us.

What the heck ever happened to getting the government out of our bodies, huh???????? Where’s Betty Friedan and Jane Fonda now?!

What a dumb news “story.”

Hating the government finally goes mainstream

Three years ago, the Republican establishment piled scorn on the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul.

Today, he is in a statistical tie with President Obama in 2012 polling. His son, an ophthalmologist who has never run for elective office, is well ahead of not only the GOP’s handpicked candidate for Senate in Kentucky but also both Democratic contenders — all statewide officeholders.

What happened? Did America suddenly develop an insatiable appetite for 74-year-old, cranky congressmen from Texas? Is the gold standard catching on?

Paul will not likely be the next president. And his son still faces the most arduous part of his journey as Democrats spend millions to paint him as soft on defense, lax on drug enforcement and too radical on welfare programs.

But there’s no doubt that hating the government and the powerful interests that pull Washington’s strings has gone from the radical precincts of the Right and Left to the mainstream.

If that is not the stupidest, r-wordest, most idiotic drivel! You know what the truth really is? The government being HATEFUL has gone mainstream! The government is just BEGGING to be hated! Why else would these idjits continually, decade after decade, tax us to the gills, pass laws that we have to obey but they don’t, get away with literal murder and theft, lie like rugs, and flip us off when we complain.

I’m not the one who’s hating here! BIG BROTHER GOVERNMENT is the problem- they’re being hateful! On purpose!