Archives for the ‘War on Intelligence’ Category
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Another mental patient has died while in government care. The solution being touted, as usual, is more government oversight.
The state sent a team Tuesday to help Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro draft new procedures to ensure patients receive proper care.
An investigator’s report released Monday found that 50-year-old Steven Sabock died in April after he at one [...]
Tags: bureaucracy, cherry hospital, citizens, deaths, department of health, department of health and human services, doctors, government oversight, health and human services, hospital staff, indifference, journalists, medication, mental patient, north carolina counties, playing cards, psychiatric hospital, state of north carolina, surveillance, watching television
Posted in Apropos Rumination, Banality of Bureaucracy, Current Events, Federal Wars, Government, Inhumanity, Nanny State of Mind, United States, War on Intelligence | No Comments »
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Some college bureaucrats around the country are banding together to send a message that the federal nanny system isn’t working in regards to drinking age.
Top university officials in Maryland - including the chancellor of the state university system and the president of the Johns Hopkins University - say the current drinking age of 21 “is [...]
Tags: bureaucrats, chancellor, college presidents, current society, drinking age, environments, individuality, johns hopkins university, mentality, nanny state, obligation, prohibition, public debate, subtle message, university officials, university presidents, young adults
Posted in Banality of Bureaucracy, Federal Wars, Government, Memewars, Nanny State of Mind, War on Drugs, War on Intelligence | 2 Comments »
Thursday, 14 August 2008
So what exactly is the legal status of the nearly 20,000 people who forgot or simply didn’t want to present ID in order to fly?
The TSA began storing the information in late June, tracking many people who said they had forgotten their driver’s license or passport at home. The database has 16,500 records of such [...]
Tags: airports, american civil liberties, american civil liberties union, barry steinhardt, checkpoints, civil liberties advocates, civil liberties union, felons, government bureaucrats, kip hawley, law enforcement agencies, passport, scrutiny, security purpose, security threat, terrorists, troublemakers, tsa, usa today
Posted in Banality of Bureaucracy, Citizen Soldier, Correct Me Please, Federal Wars, Government, Memewars, Nanny State of Mind, War on Intelligence | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Scientists sometimes introduce a predator into an ecosystem in order to take care of a pest that is threatening say, the potato crop. These experiments often go wrong - the predator turns out to be more dangerous than the pest. Social engineers do the same thing as scientists, except with human beings. One example is [...]
Tags: berwyn heights, contraband drugs, Drug War, false premise, Government, home invasion, human freedom, innocent civilians, overpopulation, potato crop, pound package, social engineers, swat team, two dogs, violent assault, war on drugs, war on freedom
Posted in Apropos Rumination, Citizen Soldier, Correct Me Please, Current Events, Drug War, Federal Wars, Government, Ideas, Inhumanity, Memewars, Nanny State of Mind, Politics, Self Defense, United States, War on Drugs, War on Guns, War on Intelligence | No Comments »
Friday, 8 August 2008
Transhumanist technologies are going to explode in the next two to three decades. We already have a crude artificial heart on the market. Now it appears that an artificial pancreas is just around the corner.
Today, people with diabetes have a range of technologies to help keep their blood sugar in check, including continuous monitors that [...]
Tags: adequate amounts, artificial heart, artificial pancreas, blood glucose, blood sugar levels, continuous monitors, diabetes outcomes, diabetes research foundation, executive decisions, glucose levels, human pancreas, insulin pumps, islet cells, juvenile diabetes research, juvenile diabetes research foundation, leaving the body, nerve damage, transhumanist technologies, type 1 diabetes
Posted in Apropos Rumination, Best of Show, Cool Science, Correct Me Please, Federal Wars, Government, Memewars, Technology, War on Intelligence, longevity | 2 Comments »