Yes, I am at work.
No, I am not shopping. Nor queuing up in line for alleged “bargains.”
In Sacramento, where I work, the local early morning news shows are indicating a rather dismal response to Black Friday. No real crowds. This may not bode well.
Today is tryptophan-recovery day, also. For me, lamb-recovery.
Do well; be safe. More politics later.
BZ
As you carve the turkey with your family and friends, please be aware that your freedoms are being protected by our American soldiers overseas, and by American peace officers and emergency responders domestically who don’t get holidays off.
Give thanks for your individual and collective blessings.
BZ
From CBSSanFrancisco.com:
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco’s building code got downsized Tuesday with the Board of Supervisor’s approval of a pilot program that will build efficiency
units, or apartments with reduced square footage requirements.
The board, in a 10-1 vote at Tuesday afternoon’s board meeting, approved the ordinance that will change the definition of an efficiency dwelling unit to include units that are as small as 220 square feet, including the bathroom and closets.
There you go, Leftists: LIVE IT. And LOVE IT.
Your “imprint” upon this earth? Minimal. Possess nothing. Because you will have nothing. Because the government upon which you rely will ensure that you have nothing. Except perhaps a water closet as a domain.
The legislation, introduced by Supervisor Scott Wiener, was touted as a way to address the housing crisis in San Francisco where one bedroom apartments and studios can run up to $3,000 per month in rent.
Right. $3,000 per month for a 220-square-foot shoebox — ?
Wiener said the small apartments will offer people an option to live on their own at more affordable prices, with the figure of about $1,500 per month rent discussed as an average rate.
Just one question: in YOUR area, what does $1,500 a month get you? A minimalist apartment? Or an actual home?
The storage shed I built on my property is slightly less than 220 square feet.
The sole dissenting vote came from John Avalos, who said the micro-units don’t seem like the proper solution to alleviate the city’s housing problems, especially for working class families getting priced out of their neighborhoods.
“This overall does not make sense for the San Francisco that I know,” Avalos said.
Avalos cited his own situation as part of a family of four living in the southern part of the city in District 11 in a 950-square-foot home, maxing out all the available space and unrealistically able to move into an efficiency unit.
Squeeze thousands into minimalistic imprints. Make sacrifices. Take mass transit. Shove thousands and then millions into postage stamps. Good for you. Better for me. Experience blackouts first. Experience weather problems first. Experience supply problems first. Experience diffidence first. Experience the lack of independence first. Because you acquiesced to worse than lesser forms. Because you were stupid. Because you were smarter than anyone in “flyover states.” When epidemics break out, you’ll be the first affected. This makes me joyful. You jubilant dupes. Frankly, you’ll be the first to die in massive numbers from any number of problematic issues. GREAT!
Raise your children — your multiple children — in 220 square feet. Insist upon entitlements.
You are now entitled to 220 square feet.
Paid for by the government, of course.
By me: the American Taxpayer.
I’m sure you’ll do SO well in 220 square feet.
BZ
From CNSNews.com:
Andrea Hernandez won’t have to leave her high school for refusing to wear a badge designed to track her every move there – yet – her attorneys announced today.
There you have it. RFID tags for human beings. In this case, students in a Texas high school.
A district court judge for Bexar County, Texas, has granted a temporary restraining order to prevent Northside Independent School District from removing a Hernandez from John Jay High School’s Science and Engineering Academy because she refused to wear a name badge designed to use a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip to track students’ precise location on school property, the Hernandez’s attorneys announced today.
Frankly, to refuse to wear an RFID tag is nothing more than the exercise of one’s freedom from governmental and authoritative agencies. Schools are that very same thing; they are not private. They are publicly funded.
“The court’s willingness to grant a temporary restraining order is a good first step, but there is still a long way to go—not just in this case, but dealing with the mindset, in general, that everyone needs to be monitored and controlled,” said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.
For what ultimate purpose is this RFID chipping of AMERICAN high school students?
“Regimes in the past have always started with the schools, where they develop a compliant citizenry. These ‘Student Locator’ programs are ultimately aimed at getting students used to living in a total surveillance state where there will be no privacy, and wherever you go and whatever you text or email will be watched by the government,” Whitehead warned.
Correct.
RFID chips originated for the tagging of railroad cars and locomotives, in order to keep track of power and individual cars throughout a given railroad system. Pets and livestock are tracked with RFID chips.
Now people.
Treated like cattle and railroad cars.
In this case, Alex Jones is entirely correct.
Considering my prior post and all other instances involving removal of the privacy and liberties of Americans, I ask: where is the outrage? Where is the hue and cry over rights diminished?
I predominantly don’t hear them — those warning cries. Do you?
BZ
P.S.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to re-read George Orwell’s 1984. My copy arrived just this week. And I’m starting it tonight, along with my reading of Jon Meacham’s new biography: Thomas Jefferson, the Art of Power.
Because, after all, the Leftists and Mr Obama want nothing more than to increase your freedoms. Because, after all, the Republicans and Conservatives want nothing more than to negate your freedoms.
I say: uh, no. Your freedoms are entirely repressed by the Left. And this continues to prove that notion:
Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans’ e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files.
A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans’ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law, CNET has learned.
Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns, according to three individuals who have been negotiating with Leahy’s staff over the changes. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans’ e-mail, is scheduled for next week.
This wasn’t occurring under Bush I or Bush II or under Reagan. It is occurring under His Majesty, Barack Hussein Obama — THE ONE.
Let there be no mistake: whatever privacy may exist in the world, will now be mostly gone under this senate bill.
Whatever revelations I wanted in years past, I would have had to mandatorily solicit under any number of crafted warrants. Either search or arrest. They’re not that tough. But they are lawful. If I wanted access as a Detective, I had to write and submit various and sundry but very specific and applicable warrants. To a very specific court.
Warrants grant access to either things or persons.
Under Obama: no.
Under Obama: freedoms DIMINISHED.
BZ