Sunsets, Stars, West, Wind
The DEA reportedly uses NSA surveillance data to prosecute Americans, and is covering it up
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4590452/dea-nsa-surveillance-cover-up
The line between foreign and domestic or even worse terrorist and citizen is fading away in our government. I feel more threatened and violated, if that’s even possible.
Amazon won’t revive the economy
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/03/amazon_wont_revive_the_economy_partner/
I pray Amazon is Not our only hope.
XKeyscore: NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data
Just when I thought I’d been mined out …
Kansas City Star Publishes Editorial Supporting a Single Library Card for All Metro KC Libraries
This would be amazing. Keeping my fingers crossed that it will actually occur.
For Apple, Switching Suppliers Meant Chasing Cheaper Labor
So glad I don’t own any Apple products.
Regional Bias and How NPR Covers America
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2013/04/11/176923885/regional-bias-and-how-npr-covers-america
I quit listening to NPR because of this a long time ago. I still have one of my radio’s memory slots tuned to my local NPR station, but I rarely turn on the radio these days.
McDonalds’ suggested budget for employees shows just how impossible it is to get by on minimum wage | Death and Taxes
No heat line item. Nor one for food or gasoline. So you would be cold starving and stranded while working two part-time minimum wage jobs. What dark dystopian world did that budget come from?
Pushing Boundaries
http://www.lemodesittjr.com/2013/07/12/pushing-boundaries/
GIGO . . . Garbage ln, Garbage Out.
Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) tweeted at 5:18 AM on Thu, Jul 11, 2013:
E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon an Advantage | NYT http://t.co/tYtahTn0gg
(https://twitter.com/PublishersWkly/status/355269788815212545)
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Great quote from this Article: “The Justice Department guns appear to be pointed in the wrong direction.”
The Dependability Fallacy
http://www.lemodesittjr.com/2013/07/09/the-dependability-fallacy/
Again I appear to be living proof of this. I an dependable to a fault.