Give us a Call...

I don't know what particular violence Oakland, California Mayor Quan is leading an effort to stop, but she was doing it today according to the local news reader. 

The blah, blah, blah coverage of the mayor walking & talking with the usual suspects while saying & doing nothing of note is suddenly bloodcurdling with the following casually read line:

"...Police chief Howard Jordan was also there to talk about a gun buy-back effort. He wants people to call a gun tip hotline if they know of someone with a gun."

Anyone who understands the evil of the previous sentence requires no comment from me. Anyone who doesn't cannot be saved, and to attempt any explanation is pointless.

Welcome to fucking Utopia, suckers.

The Gunslinger

Battered Redux...

I've used this image before, but it bears repeating—right through November. The flowers, the quote and the "wife-beater". Whoever created this is an image genius. Are we going to take him back for more of the same, or burn the fucking bed?

The Gunslinger

For Your Own Good...#101

You think I'm paranoid....

Not so much.

To quote Bruce Dickinson:  "Run to the Hills!"

The Gunslinger

They Want Your Guns

This is lovely. Thanks, Larry. (See his blog at Last Refuge of a Scoundrel.)

He has a link to: The Seven Varieties of Gun Control Advocates.

Pretty much nails it. I 'specially like his description of "The Fearful" with a more than normally unpleasant picture of Michael Moore as an example of the type.

It is wisely illustrated.

The Gunslinger

From the Mailbag...

Day in the Life of an "Occupier"

My Personal "FUCK YOU" to Big Brother

From the Mailbag. Some cool alternatives to Google stuff.


The Gunslinger
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Begin forwarded message:  

'Big Brother'' is watching...........!

Please read and learn how to protect yourself online from Google's prying eyes...

Source: Independent Living

I copied this from an email I received.  I have heard alot of scary things about what Google is doing lately.  The article details things you need to know and what to do to protect yourself before their new policies take affect.

Please share with those you care about...
Google Coopted by Federal Government to Spy on Customers

The federal obsession with peering into people's lives continues to metastasize. Today, I want to alert you to an alarming new situation where Google, the mega Internet search engine service, is in cahoots with Uncle Sam to root into Americans' personal lives.

Google's upcoming changes to their privacy policies are causing an uproar, because the new versions read more like "invasion of privacy policies." If you use any Google service and are concerned about your privacy and anonymity, there is a need to better protect yourself.

Sitesell.com founder Dr. Ken Evoy wrote a terse letter to Google regarding its upcoming changes. His gripe is Google is not being clear on how its new privacy policies affect the typical Google consumer. Therefore,Google is forcing the consumer to accept a new contract without properly informed consent.

The typical internet user does not fully understand the business transaction taking place when using Google's free services: The real reason you get to use Google services for free is because Google sells away all your privacy to advertisers. That's the exchange; that's the contract. You may already understand this reality because my readers are more savvy than others, but few consumers in the mass market are truly informed.

Google is a private company, can choose how to operate its business, and can make changes to its privacy policy at any time. At the very least, though, it should make its policies clear so the average consumer understands them and can give proper consent, which in this case means agreeing to compromise his or her privacy in exchange for use of Google's services. There is one more problem, though...

The Feds Want Copies of Your Private Online Activity and Google Happily Complies...

The public uproar focuses on how freely Google offers up your private online activities to the feds and other governments around the world.

Google's Transparency Report on Government Requests shows that in just a six month period in 2011 the U.S. government made 5,950 requests covering 11,057 specific accounts. Google complied 93% of the time! Due to all the different gag-like laws, you will never know if you or someone close to you was part of this or any future government dragnet.

India's government had the second most requests at only 1,739 covering just 2,439 specific users. In this instance, Google complied only 70% of the time.

If we look purely at Google's "percentage of compliance," the number two spot after the U.S. is tied between Brazil and Japan, at 87%. What's telling is Brazil's government only made 703 requests, while Japan only made 75 requests in the same period.

It seems from the data that other governments are more discriminating than the U.S. when it comes to rifling through the public's online activity. The feds' numbers are off the charts and Google happily complies.


What Can You Do About It?

Google's new privacy policy centralizes ALL your activity on its separate services and companies (YouTube, Gmail, online search, web browsing through Chrome, etc.). This makes it much easier for the government to pry into your online activity, past and present, without your knowledge or consent.

Before this change, each service was separated and compartmentalized by an internal "Chinese Wall" of sorts. When the new policy begins on March 1, all your Google activity will be consolidated, traced, recorded, and permanently stored in big centralized databases out of your control and oversight.

The first steps to push back (... if they can't "see" you, they can't trace you easily):

For the tracing and recording of your activity to work, you must be logged into Google's services. Make sure to log-off from all your Google services if it doesn't require you to be logged-in to use it. For example, you don't need to be logged into YouTube to watch videos.

Set your Google services to the maximum security available. For instance, Google's browser, Chrome, can be set to Incognito Mode to give you a bit more privacy. Simply strike Shift-Control-N while in Google Chrome to open a new window in Incognito Mode.

Look over Google privacy tools for further directions.


Other Alternatives outside Google's Hive

Because centralization of your data is an Achilles' heel to privacy and anonymity, decentralization is one important solution. Here are a few Google-product alternatives:

Online Search Alternatives to Google Ixquick is a privacy conscious search engine. It doesn't record your IP address when you search, and it has additional privacy tools like a proxy server to look at search results anonymously.

Hushmail offers free online email similar to Gmail with one unique advantage: built-in tools to encrypt emails making them more secure from eavesdroppers. If you're open to a paid email service, Simon Black from Sovereign Man suggests adding a layer of protection from the feds by working with an email provider located in privacy friendly jurisdictions: He mentions NeoMailbox headquartered in Switzerland and SecureRunboxlocated in Norway.

Web browser Alternatives to Google's Chrome - Apple's Safari is a popular browser and so is Mozilla's Firefox. Firefox also has many free security and privacy related add-ons that allow more anonymity.


Alternatives to Google Maps Rand McNally gives you online directions and helps you find local businesses and hotels. Mapquest can do the same, plus it gives you traffic conditions.


Here's What's Truly Disturbing...

Considering Google's intrusion of privacy and how readily it surrenders customer data to the feds, many privacy critics on security forums shared this similar comment: "... be careful what you write or text in your email, blog, SMS; what you say over Google voice; what you browse or search for online..." In other words, Censor Yourself!

Before you capitulate to self-censorship, try some of the suggestions above to maintain more of your privacy, anonymity, freedom of speech, and especially freedom of thought!


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Barometric Pressure

Boss's daughter comes to work at the family business. Annoying little shit. Might turn out okay. But for now, this is how I'm feeling about it.

Just sayin'

The Gunslinger

(*R&R Trivia: Anybody recognize this guy?)

For Your Own Good...

Here's the story that illuminates this ('shopped) photo.

The Gunslinger

So Egregiously Out of Control

You think I'm paranoid.

Not so much...

Red State's Francis Cianfrocca's piece: The Stakes in the Catholic Church Abortion Debate are Higher than You Might Think.

In this case, the Obama Administration has ruled unilaterally that health insurance programs provided by the Catholic Church must pay for abortions. Forget about the welter of discussion about whether the Federal mandate extends beyond those of many states. That’s not the core issue here.

For the government to say, as it has, that its goals are prior to the Catholic Church’s core beliefs, is precisely to say that government power is unambiguously senior to all other claims.

This is radically counter to the doctrines of the American founding. It’s more radical than anything that even FDR said during the New Deal. It quite simply elevates government to the level of a religion.

Democrats should beware. Imperial Government is bad for everyone; even them, eventually.

The Gunslinger

Killing Christ

You think I'm....

Never mind. You get the idea:

"When the attacks on freedom of speech and religious liberty are coupled with the dangerously imprecise National Defense Authorization Law, the nation is faced with a poisonous mix that could well prove fatal to liberty.

If American Christians and others of faith, including those in the military, don't rise up against the tyrannous conduct of this administration, they shouldn't be surprised when their local priests, pastors, or chaplains are hauled away to prison for teaching what the Church believes."

Read the whole thing.

This foulness isn't defeated in November, we are totally screwed. And unless we get a real conservative to immediately start rolling back the worst of the asshole's offenses and outrages, we're screwed anyway.

The Left WILL NOT STOP. But we have not been vigilant.

And this is what happens.

Evil does not rest....so neither can righteousness.

The Gunslinger

Of Bunkers and Bunkum

You think I'm paranoid, right?

Not so much...  this time on American Thinker.

What does a patriot do now?

The Gunslinger

Just More of the Same

You think I'm paranoid, right?

Not so much.

Read and weep.

The Gunslinger

" I SEEEEEE You.....

They are watching you. Yes they are. It can happen here. It is happening here.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)recently obtained close to 300 pages of documents, as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, detailing the federal agency’s “intelligence gathering” practices on the web.

Among the documents were guidelines from DHS instructing outside contractors to monitor the web for media reports and comments that “reflect adversely” on the agency or the federal government.

The Gunslinger
EOTIS
(Enemy of the Imperial State)*

*Too insignificant to be on their radar....for now.

ZZZZZzzzzzzz....

In case you've been wondering, here's a recap of the differences between the Occupy "movement" and the Tea Party.

A few scofflaws might make us a little less boring.

Not suggesting it. Just making an observation.

The Gunslinger

Ulterior Motives?

Maybe the real reason Muslim women where Burkhas is so that all the government cameras can't see them, identify them, bust them. They are anonymous actors; something the rest of us can't be in America anymore. At least in the cities. And soon, with the recently approved drones flying over America...there will be no refuge anywhere, anytime.

Maybe I'll get measured for one. Black is my favorite color, after all.

I mean, just think of the stuff you could hide under there.

(I mean besides bad hair and winter's extra 5 pounds.)

The Gunslinger

Terminator TIme

Safer?

Safer from what? SkyNet?

What is the plan to stay out of government Eyes-in-the-Sky? Is there a place where a person can be alone, safe from intrusion? Safe from government spying?

Man...this is totally freaking me out.

The Gunslinger

No Fear

Fetch Me My Flying Monkeys brought this to my attention. Thought I'd share:

Click on it to make it bigger.

The Gunslinger

Manly America

My friend Kerr Mudgeon posted this: James Madison talking about the "manliness" of the American people.

I thought that was interesting, because just this morning I was thinking, how...well, let me put it to you the way it floated into my head while hauling ass over the mountain, listening to Michael Monroe's latest CD.

It was sort of me in the afterlife, explaining:

"When I was an American, America was badass. Nobody fucked with us. We were rich, happy, free and generous.

Now America is a pussy. They're disdained, insulted and attacked from all sides. They're broke, depressed, subjugated and dependent on handouts."

I'm sorry it turned out the way it did. And I wish I hadn't lived to see it. But I'm glad I grew up in the invincible America with "manly" Americans.

It was a lot more fun.


The Gunslinger

Quote of the Day

"...the only people for me are the mad ones."   


- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Connect the Fucking Dots...

Congress okays using drones in American airspace for spying on citizens.

Is it still too early to shoot the bastards?

The Gunslinger

Where DID I put that Crucifix?

We're all Catholics now.   At least, we'd better be.

Alas, it's not a question of the administration being tragically "tone deaf," as one American Jesuit claimed, to specifically Catholic concerns. Nor is the bedrock of President Obama's position, in the end, a commitment to "women's health." Outside the ghoulish world of Planned Parenthood, pregnancy does not qualify as a disease. A fertile womb is no threat to human life.

No, this is all about the absolutization of choice for the sake of choice. It's also about creating a society in which any discussion of the actual ends we choose is considered unacceptable in public debates about law and morality.

The Gunslinger
EOTIS

Intense Training Needed......Really?

Article at American Thinker:  You May be a Terrorist if you Oppose Taxes and Regulations. 

The money quote:

"How widespread is the problem:

Legal convictions of such extremists, mostly for white-collar crimes such as fraud, have increased from 10 in 2009 to 18 each in 2010 and 2011, FBI agents said.

"We are being inundated right now with requests for training from state and local law enforcement on sovereign-related matters," said Casey Carty, an FBI supervisory special agent."

Meanwhile, they arrested 400 radical leftists in Oakland last week for throwing IED's, lit flares, broken glass, and bricks at police during an OWS demonstration while 18 tax scofflaws represent a threat to the republic. (emphasis gunslinger)

The Gunslinger