Facts The Tea Party Doesn't Want You To Know

This is just a friendly re-posting in case you missed It

Terrorists Already Knew about the Programs … The Only People Who Were Kept In the Dark Were the American People

We noted yesterday that government officials aren’t trying to keep the spying programs secret to protect national security, but only to protect their own reputations.
We quoted the former head of the National Security Agency’s global digital data gathering program, who said:

The terrorists have already known that we’ve been doing this for years, so there’s no surprise there. They’re not going to change the way they operate just because it comes out in the U.S. press. I mean, the point is, they already knew it, and they were operating the way they would operate anyway. So, the point is that they’re—we’re not—the government here is not trying to protect it from the terrorists; it’s trying to protect it, that knowledge of that program, from the citizens of the United States.

This was just confirmed by the top counter-terrorism czar under Presidents Clinton and Bush – Richard Clarke – who writes:

The argument that this sweeping search must be kept secret from the terrorists is laughable. Terrorists already assume this sort of thing is being done. Only law-abiding American citizens were blissfully ignorant of what their government was doing.

Tots More Dangerous than Terrorists (Four Year olds with Guns?)

The Jewish Daily Forward noted last month – even including the people killed in the Boston bombing – that you are more likely to be killed by a toddler than a terrorist. And see these statistics from CNN.

Calm Down … You Are Much More Likely to Be Killed By Boring, Mundane Things than Terrorism

We noted in 2011:

– You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack
– You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack
— You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane.  You will note that though people drive a lot more than they fly, you are over ten times as likely to die in an airplane than driving on the road.
— You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack
–You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack
— You are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack
– You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack
–You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack
–You are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack
–You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist
–You are 8 times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack
– You are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack

Now they have scientific evidence that drivers are actually MORE distracted by hands free talking on the phone while driving than they would be with a hand held phone.  The reason seems to be they have these headphones in their ears shutting out street noise.  And often they dictate text while driving, and “the brain has a way of shutting down during text dictation”, which probably explains why so many Born Again preachers who think they are really “flowing in the Spirit’ end up giving such mindless sermons.  The solution would be just to take a couple of minutes and pull over to make the call.  We are so obsessed in our culture to “save time” eating Big Macs while driving or putting on make-up while driving.  But the piece points out that human beings don’t do “multi-tasking’ nearly as well as they believe that they do.   They apparently have some new procedure to repair receding gums that’s a lot more efficient all around than previous techniques.  I have to be honest.  I didn’t think there WAS any remedy for receding gums, but that patients just had to run the normal risks of exposed dentine.  I think there was a survey that men actually sleep better with a female lying next to them than they do alone.  But for women there is no difference.  I don’t know if anyone has done a medical study on the emotional effects of a sixth grade boy having sex with his 32 year old teacher.  Again back in my day they called guys like that “lucky”.  But today’s is a different culture entirely.

In terms of that Rock Compilation on the last posting - - - I was informed that it shouldn’t contain anything by the Doors, Devo, David Bowie, Deep Purple, or the Rolling Stones.  The Who track was a new added track because Mal Evans filed through the Who catalog and gave Jim Morrison a choice of "The Seeker" or "Trick of the Light" and Morrison chose the latter.   And that Ten Years After selection and Ted Nugent are newly added tracks.  Generally the others were already on the album.  This paragraph is a bit of a splice job.  The lyrics to “Can’t Find My Way Home” are kind of “gateway lyrics” to becoming a Born again Chrustian.  The Steve Winwood lyrics play mind games such as the line “Come down off your throne”, which could mean to put Jesus on the throne.  And “leave your body alone’ could mean “stop having sex”.  And “Somebody holds the Key” is also a gateway lyric.  Another song I heard was “One of these Days” by Ten Years after.  The song was out prior to my suicide attempt which makes it at least a whole year prior to “Money” by Pink Floyd.  This would be the third song they ripped chord progressions off of on that album besides “Dark Side of the Moon” and “Breathe”, which rip off “Humbug” by Procol Herum and “Down by the River” by Neil Young, respectively.  Two of the original tracks, the opening two, actually, were taken off.  Just as intoned on the Stephanie Miller show, Jim Morrison believes that Edward Snowden should have turned himself in and made a public issue of his trial- - and gone down confronting his enemies like a man and become a martyr to the cause.  He really ruins his credibility when he says he’s going to flee to a country that’s more compatible with his political beliefs and then flees to China and leaves his pole dancing girlfriend in Hawaii.  I don’t think we know everything there is to know about this guy, not by a long shot.  In the weather it’s funny how we on the “left Coast” have been protected from all the bizarre and wild weather in the rest of the country.  Now they have these “Derechos” which are a dangerous line of storms.  “Derecha” means “right” if my Spanish is correct, and not “line”.  “Linya” is line ( ) and “Delante” is “ahead”.   In Romulan they say “Derante” for “right straight ahead”. 

 

We had that pork slop for dinner and it was just as bad as I had feared.  They really ought to go back to a whole pork chop and noodles.  If this keeps up I’m going to lose my appetite for pork.  Already I’m amazed at that commercial where a person wins a New York steak on some prize show and is asked if he wants to swap it out for a pork chop.  Is he nuts?  This is just a little tip.  Don’t shout out ‘It’s cheaper” when someone is offering you it as a gift.  One thing I like about Dr. Levy is when he serves us cold cuts they’re always of the highest quality.  Maybe they ought to hire him around here and put him in charge of the evening snacks.  Today we had egg salad sandwiches from Donnie and that wasn’t bad.  I made the last of the coffee and may not have any more till Monday July first.  And on that topic of today’s population addicted to their electronics “headed well down the road to self-obsession and narcicism”.  If that’s true it’s a bad sign indeed.  I think Bob Dylan’s lyrics were more than a little self-obsessed, but we fans went along with it because after all, it was Bob Dylan.  I don’t know what’s been going through Dylan’s mind these past twenty-odd years.  Does anybody?   I think we are entirely too addicted to the entertainment industry and “being entertained” constantly.   OK this is a bit later and we are now on page seven.  The ABC news is coming up next and I’ll be watching.