Buy one war, get the next one free! ($1,000,000,000,000+)

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

( In the wake of our war of choice )

We're going to fight ISIS by assisting Iraqi regime, giving weapons to help Muqtada al-Sadr and al-Sistani (our deadly enemies during occupation of Iraq) fight the ISIS. Iran will be sending militias. Meanwhile in Syria, we are arming the al-qaeda linked fighters against the Syrian regime which fights ISIS. If Saddam were alive, we'd be paying him to fight ISIS. How many sides are on this multi trillion dollar death coin?

End it now.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

And it's a full moon tonight!

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Rush Limbaugh: The Legend

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Breaking news: 11th Circuit rules that cell phone location data is protected under the 4th Amendment

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Source and more details here.

The government and police regularly use location data pulled off of cell phone towers to put criminals at the scenes of crimes—often without a warrant. Well, an appeals court ruled today that the practice is unconstitutional, in one of the strongest judicial defenses of technology privacy rights we've seen in a while. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the government illegally obtained and used Quartavious Davis's cell phone location data to help convict him in a string of armed robberies in Miami and unequivocally stated that cell phone location information is protected by the Fourth Amendment.

"In short, we hold that cell site location information is within the subscriber’s reasonable expectation of privacy," the court ruled in an opinion written by Judge David Sentelle. "The obtaining of that data without a warrant is a Fourth Amendment violation." In Davis's case, police used his cell phone's call history against him to put him at the scene of several armed robberies. They obtained a court order—which does not require the government to show probable cause—not a warrant, to do so. From now on, that'll be illegal. The decision applies only in the Eleventh Circuit, but sets a strong precedent for future cases. The American Civil Liberties Union, who argued the case, said that the decision is a "resounding defense of the Fourth Amendment's continuing vitality in the digital age.

arming the enemy

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MOHAMMED AL DULAIMY: "Well, the weapons—we saw in the previous few days the use of American-made weapons like Hellfire missiles, which can be used with great accuracy. The Iraqi military used it to target Fallujah Hospital, Fallujah Teaching Hospital, that hospital that the United States helped building in Fallujah. It is the same hospital that witnessed the increasing numbers of birth defects that is attributed to the use of different kinds of weapons, chemical and all different kinds of weapons that allegedly was used by the United States troops over there. These weapons are now falling into the hands of ISIS. And we saw images of these weapons being transported across the border to Syria. The United States has always worried that sending weapons to the Syrian more liberal opposition might fall into the hands of Islamists. Well, now they are falling into the hands of Islamists." - link

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Sales of toilet paper plummet after delivery of free copy of The Sun

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Middle class families standing round unsolicited tabloid newspaper on doormat

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Your show sucks and you are not funny

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I got about 2 minutes into Dennis Miller's new 180 degrees special. He opened with a bit about Jerry Brown. Which wasn't funny nor did it need to be since he was playing to a conservative audience that booed when the Governor's name was said. Even Dennis said this was too easy - meaning he doesn't need to be funny, he just needs to name things conservatives hate without really knowing why.

I'm sure the bit about Obamacare isn't working would be equally side-splitting.

Lincoln Says It, It Must Be True

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Via The Skeptics Guide to the Universe.