Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
…in so doing, releasing private information of a thousand police association members.
The above clip is mildly amusing (slow build-up to the good stuff at about 5:30)…what follows, not so much:
Along with the IACP data, Anonymous revealed 1000 names and passwords from the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association; 1000 names, ranks, social security numbers, addresses, phone numbers from the Alabama law enforcement systems; and the full contact database Matrix Group, a web development agency serving government websites.
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“We have no problem targeting police and releasing their information even if it puts them at risk because we want them to experience just a taste of the brutality and misery they serve us on an everyday basis,” reads the press release.
Now, go back up and listen to the recording again; put on the spot to explain his reasons, the hacker mutters some nonsense and gibberish about being “bored.”
Captain Obvious sez: This isn’t about brutality or misery, and it isn’t about the one percent oppressing or slighting or hoarding money from the ninety-nine percent. It isn’t even about gettin’-even-with-em-ism, of any kind. It’s about inexperienced and over-privileged kids getting attention. Within this particular stunt, the instigators think of police as a source of trouble and nothing else, certainly not of protection. Okay, then. They haven’t been through anything yet. They love trouble because they’ve never really had any…except, maybe, the kind they’ve managed to manufacture themselves.
I’m thinking there’s a lot of “one percent”-ness about this ninety-nine percent movement.
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It’s about inexperienced and over-privileged kids getting attention.
Heh. You’ve just described pretty much every leftist movement in the history of ever. Certainly in the United States, at least — except for the technology available, there’s zero difference between these clowns and SDS, the Weathermen, and all the other Trust Fund Trotskys who made the sixties such wild and wacky fun. It seems that every couple of generations, a bunch of bored little rich kids realize that the world doesn’t in fact owe them any favors just for getting out of bed in the morning, and it makes them so mad they could just spit.
I sometimes think that 99% of liberalism could be avoided by better parenting in the teenage years.
- Severian | 10/23/2011 @ 08:40It says something that I hear about this and my first impression is not that “these police are being put in harm’s way,” but instead to do a mental replay of the past decade or so with innocent civilians being killed by gung-ho cops in masks during “dynamic entry raids.” And how the Thin Blue Line kept closing ranks every time it happened…
Maybe “anonymous” isn’t something our cops oughta be.
- rhjunior | 10/25/2011 @ 17:58