kurtster wrote: 
Farting - But the EPA is working on that one.

Here is some food for thought ...

Name an activity which has not been codified or is unregulated ... 

Republicans Eye Changes to Food-Stamp Program

 aflanigan wrote: 
Because there's profit in it?

 sirdroseph wrote: 
See also here:

Why are So Many Americans in Prison? 

 kurtster wrote: 
Yeah, well, they haven't gotten into my head yet, Kurt. I think I'm still ahead of the game.

 kurtster wrote: 
The battleground of the war you believe you are fighting in may be far more limited in scope than you perceive . . . 

 

Samsung TVs injecting ads in owners' videos

 Coaxial wrote: 
actually, its working all too well ...  

...Is not working.

Jails Have Become Warehouses for the Poor, Ill and Addicted, a Report Says

TSA Demands Internal Passport for Domestic Travel

This is nothing less than the federalization and standardization of all identifying documents throughout the United States. Those who are unable to document such niceties as their existence (that is, their birth) will become second class citizens. They will be unable to fly and excluded from entering into federal buildings, which may be necessary for them to obtain government permissions or fulfil legal requirements. Joining the ranks of the second-class will be the holders non-compliant licenses; these lack a white star and are  stamped "Not for Federal Official Use" instead. "Not for Federal Official Use" holders will need a traditional passport or to apply for alternate DHS documentation if they wish to fly.

What To Expect Many states and, so, many individuals will not make TSA's January 2016 deadline for Real ID. Some hope the humanitarian TSA will push back the deadline as it did last year. And a delay may happen...for logistical reasons. If it does, those who wish to escape a nation with internal passports may have another year to do so. But the main hope of delaying Real ID is a confrontation between the federal and state governments. In 2012, the governor of Montana declared,

“Montana will not agree to share its citizens' personal and private information through a national database, nor bear the exorbitant cost building such a database. Furthermore, the Act tramples on our state's right to determine our own licensing procedures and protocols, and would interfere with our state's work to improve drivers' license security. Montana is in no mood at all for another heavy-handed play by the federal government, such as what transpired in 2008 when the homeland security director threatened to prevent Montanans from boarding an airplane unless we complied with the REAL ID act. We refused, and will refuse again.”


Brave words. But Real ID is coming. When it arrives with both feet, Real ID  will make it much more difficult for freedom-loving people to avoid the federal behemoth. Of course, that is its purpose. FATCA and related global measures gave the feds access to every cent that any American possessed in the world. Now Real ID wants to ensure that no American can avoid federal detection within domestic borders.

Still valid today:

Is The World Run By Psychopaths? See What John Lennon Had To Say About It

State Departments of Agriculture are Attempting to Regulate Seed Banks Out of Existence

 DaveInVA wrote: 
Looks like not for long.

WikiLeaks publishes CIA tips for traveling spies

Thought of miamizsun when I saw this:

 Steely_D wrote: 
I can get behind that and have long been behind a government service commitment in lieu of military service.

It wouldn't necessarily do what my point about the draft was about as much, but it would be a middle ground for this point in our history.  My point about the draft was that with the implementation of the lottery, the possibility of being drafted was a totally random process that would keep all on their toes and paying attention.  A national service would be a predictable thing which by being predictable would not foster the kind of attention that would awake the masses from the deep apathy we currently suffer from.

Your last sentence rings so true regardless and I couldn't agree more. 

 sirdroseph wrote: 
I never meant to imply this as common. I'd expect to only see this in a very few peripheral suburban areas that are fairly affluent. That is where you would probably find the particular intersection of bored, entitled people who would do this and owned/operated power structures that would make it okay to do so.