It’s time to dispel some hasty generalizations that a disturbing number of people have about gays.
1. We are the main spreaders of AIDS. In fact, the incidence of AIDS has been falling in the gay community for over a decade. There is a larger and growing incidence among intravenous drug users and African American women. In Africa, AIDS has always been a disease of heterosexuals.
2. We are sluts. Some gay men are, sure, but the biggest ...
<< MORE >>Well, no. What makes the Indian report so interesting is that unlike
our Ross Garnaut, who just accepted the word of those scientists
wailing we faced doom, the Indian experts went to the trouble to check
what the climate ...<< MORE >>
Once we go down this path — giving one device authority over other devices — the security problems start piling up. Who has the authority to limit functionality of my devices, and how do ...
<< MORE >>You laugh, but the good cops never let problems get to judges. They are judge on-site, I like to say. And, I don’t mean just for stupid things like kids shoplifting — you might get the kid by the neck, make him to apologize and work for the store owner for free. I mean for serious things.
In Chicago, back in the 1980’s, ...
<< MORE >>SF [US Special Forces] can advise and assist HN [Host Nation] forces in developing and implementing control measures. Among these measures are the following:
This is something I don't think even Ronnie Raygun himself would say.
His talk show host son is recently on record saying we should shoot all those who question the official version of 9/11.
You can hear his actual words on YouTube.
He gets away with this, but if this isn't hate speech, I don't know what is.
...<< MORE >>
The deal could also impose strict regulations on
Internet service providers, forcing those companies to hand over
customer information without a court order.
Called the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the ...
"That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything. Telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology. I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."When Sen. Church made this statement, the NSA was not authorized to spy on American citizens. Today it is