Archive for the 'Big Brother' Category

Review: Shakedown by Ezra Levant

You are sitting in your office, going about the business of your business, when someone presents themselves at reception, saying they’ve come to confiscate your hard drive, your hard files and any peripheral e-storage devices. They have no warrant to back them up, and they don’t need one. They are from the government. They are [...]

Chipping away at liberals’ belief in Obama’s program *UPDATED*

For reasons too complicated to explain, I have more than a passing knowledge about medical informatics — or, in simple terms, the trend to put all patient records in computerized systems.  That’s why, at a soccer game, a young woman who is clearly an Obama supporter asked me what I thought of the move to [...]

Parents, be wary……

I have been obsessing lately on the over-regulation of my life. All of my friends have been made aware, in animated language, that I’m fed up with the control the powers that be exert over me. I’m tired of paying too many taxes for stupid things. I’m tired of electronic tickets given in the blink [...]

Democrats Brazenly Move Toward Socialism

It is no secret among thinking people that the Democratic Party is a socialist group. Most of them mask their Socialistic or Communistic tendencies but they are moving closer and closer to everything being run by the government and redistribution of all wealth except for the wealth of the ruling class. They will remain rich [...]

California Nanny State Proposes Radio Controlled Thermostats

California is proposing that residents add a radio FM controlled receiver enabling the government access in an effort to control thermostats, refrigerators, pool pumps, computers, etc…. If passed, California politicians said that building permits would be denied for any contractor who refuses to comply with the new law.
WND reports:
Add thermostats to the list of [...]

Ants and Grasshoppers

You all remember the Aesop’s fable about the Ant and Grasshopper, don’t you? That’s the one where the Ant works hard all year, while the Grasshopper just dances around. When winter comes, the Ant is comfortable in his warm, well-stocked home, while the Grasshopper is miserable and hungry. Or maybe you know [...]

Legislating to the Fringe

I’ve been researching the Legislative history of a California statute enacted 30 years ago. The statute affected how insurance companies could conduct investigations that would determine their risk in issuing a given policy. At that time, insurance companies would conduct personal interviews with neighbors and colleagues, with the results stored away in files. A secondary [...]

Freedom, But From What?

More than twenty years ago, I attended a speech that famed legal scholar Arthur Miller gave, in which he decried the fact that the zone of privacy surrounding ordinary citizens was shrinking rapidly with the dawn of the computer age. What he pointed out then is even more true today: unless you step entirely off [...]

Warrantless Surveillance: The “Secret Court-Domestic Syping” Spin

Three dozen lawmakers will now have access to the “secret court” orders !
Now that the Dems have pushed for this “compromise”, doesn’t that make you feel oh, so, safe???

Welcome To OttO’s Bar & Freedom Grill

Between a shrinking bar/smoking crowd and price increases, the employees who I could afford to keep are making substantially less in tips.