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Justice Dept.: President Obama’s administration may take action on BCS - NCAA Football - SI.com.

The BCS sucks, but not nearly as bad as a president who thinks it’s his place have everything in the country run to his personal satisfaction.  Obama is GREATLY over reaching his place once again.  It’s like he said a while back, having this much power really can go to your head and it obviously has with him.

Sprint Turns Over User GPS Data to Police 8 Million Times a Year | Maximum PC.

Are you worried about your rights being violated?  You are in the minority apparently if you answered yes.

Sprint, it turns out, has been routinely handing over GPS information on its customers to law enforcement for some time. So commonplace is the practice that Sprint has setup an automated system for law enforcement to check on subscriber whereabouts (apparently even without a court order).

Sprint coughed-up GPS information to law enforcement eight million times last year. Not on eight million users, Sprint is quick to point out. Rather law enforcement can request GPS information on any particular user every three minutes for up to 60 days. (After that Sprint doesn’t say what happens.)

And Sprint isn’t the only one handing out information about you.

Yahoo and Verizon also provide law enforcement access to customer information. Neither company will discuss the nature or extent of law enforcement surveillance for fear their customers would be “shocked” or “confused” by what types of surveillance law enforcement is permitted. Verizon further justifies its secrecy in the matter saying it doesn’t want to commit resources to dealing with customers that might be concerned with its practices.

The willingness, if not eagerness of companies, such as Yahoo and Verizon, and Comcast and Cox Communications, to ‘rat’ you out is easily explained: they get paid for the service they provide. Comcast, for example, in 2007 charged $1,000 for the first month of a wiretap, and $750 each month after. Cox Communications charges $2,500 for a 60-day pen register/trap-and-trace order, with each successive 60-day interval going for $2,000. Yahoo wouldn’t divulge its pricing scheme, claiming it was “confidential commercial information.” All-in-all, it’s better than 30 pieces of silver.

(Law enforcement’s activities here may well be legitimate. But how can we be certain if, as it appears, there is no system for accountability?)

Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist - Iraq

Charging these men is a disgrace and a crime in itself!  President Obama, show some integrity and some balls!  Stop this atrocity in its tracks before it’s too late!

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

Computer Security Company Takes Out Enormous Botnet | Maximum PC.

Pretty Awesome if you ask me:

Security firm FireEye has reportedly struck a massive blow against spam. The so called “Mega-D” or “Ozdok” spam botnet was effectively dismantled by these intrepid security researchers. After studying the beast, FireEye launched an attack by notifying ISPs, having command and control (CnC) domains removed, and then registering unused CnC domains.

Almost immediately, the spam ceased. No small feat, considering Ozdok was probably responsible for one third of the world’s spam. This takes the load off ISPs which were forced to filter the spam from this botnet. Individual users probably won’t notice much difference.

House Committee on Ways & Means

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

So here’s your health “reform” from those you elected.  How do you like me now?

Filmmakers demand Polanski’s release - CNN.com.

Hmm, Woody Allen is in on this.  He’s sure credible.

Read this:

“It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him,” said the petition,

How can these jackasses sign their name to a petition that is trying to free a convicted child rapist?!?!  They are horrified that they are subject to the same laws as everyone else!  In their self-indulgence, they believe that their cultural events are more important than justice for a child who will forever be haunted by what this monster did to her.  Yet they are only concerned about what a great filmmaker he is???

Fourth Videotape Reveals ACORN Advising ‘Pimp,’ ‘Prostitute’ in California

Why are we not surprised.  I only wonder how many more videos/locations there will be.

America somehow elected a lawyer who served as council for this organization.  I think that the reason Republicans lost is very much the same as 1994 when the Democrats lost.  After so many years of power you get complacent and lose your way.  It usually takes something big to wake you up again and get  you moving back in the right direction.

Look at major sports figures.  They are allowed to think that they are something special in high school, then it carries on to college and if they don’t screw up big enough there, they often do in the pros.  Ask Michael Vick, Ryan Perrilloux, or Kobe Bryant.

Representative Bob Inglis also admitted that when he lost his first election, it really made him take a look at himself and brought him back to earth.  I’m sure that this has happened to many others as well.  The problem becomes everyone’s problem though when it’s such a huge shift to a single party control like we have now.  If not for all of the buyers remorse kicking in, we’d likely be in much worse shape than we are right now.  Tea Parties and town hall meetings are overflowing with people trying to save America from the OSM.  It’s going to take a very long time to climb out of the hole that those trying to punish the Republican party dug last year.

Human nature got us into this mess but only good old fashioned American Patriotism through making our voices heard will get us out.  Eventually.

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet | Politics and Law - CNET News.

CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!  This administration and the Democrats are doing their best to remove free speech from every aspect of American life.  They are making more moves every day to make it a reality.

If this weren’t enough, the FCC now has a “Diversity Officer” in charge of what?  Making sure that the Left’s views are heard and everything else is censored.

White House Reveals Identity of Firm That Sent Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform

This president is showing day by day why he was a terrible choice.  As I said before, he reminds me more of Richard Nixon than any other president.  He’s breaking the law in so many ways and using our tax dollars to do it.  Sending out unsolicited emails is the definition of spamming and there is a law against that though it seems that he has the opinion that he’s above the law.

He’s like a child acting out because he’s not getting his way.  He’s spending us into oblivion and to make sure of it he’s funding an ad campaign with yet more of our tax dollars.  Whats a few million more I guess, right?

How 10 digits will end privacy as we know it | Security - CNET News.

Americans in particular are so used to freedom that we freely give out information that can very easily be used against us.  For instance, security questions to change email passwords can be found on most people’s personal websites or blogs or even just by asking them.  Hey, what’s your mother’s maiden name, etc…

Be careful out there.