BIG BROTHER’S NEW TOY

Our pal Munz sent over this item. If it’s true, we’re screwed. 

“Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away,” reports Gizmodo. “From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you.” The scanners have been developed by the CIA’s technology front group, In-Q-Tel. The company has continually pushed Minority Report style pre-crime technologies and is seemingly obsessed with dominating electrical appliances and turning them into tools for surveillance. The scanners are said to be millions of times faster and more sensitive than the current naked body scanners the TSA uses, and have a much more extensive range. They can potentially be used on anyone and everyone entering an airport, or any public place for that matter, much like the iris scanners in Philip K. Dick’s landmark dystopia.
Subcontractor Genia Photonics boasts that the scanners are also extremely portable and can be moved around easily. Given that the TSA and Homeland security are increasingly moving out of airports and are being seen at bus and train stations, sports events, malls, political events, and even music concerts, it is no giant leap to imagine these things being deployed at such locations. The trickle down effect would inevitably extend to law enforcement. So, next time you read another story about TSA body scanners and think “hey what’s the fuss about”, we can always opt out”, think on. The time to stand up and stop the use of such invasive technologies becoming commonplace is NOW.  (Click here for the video)

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The secret word is Fucked 

BOB SEZ…

STOP PRESS – Added later

Click here for Bob in Hyde Park. I sure as shit hope they don't take this down. It's excellent.

JONES DUETS

How many of you remember the old Tom Jones TV show circa 1969/71? It always ended with a storming duet and here are two that storm pretty good that have lately showed up on YouTube.

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Big Jim Sullivan – RIP 

THE FROZDICK FAMILY

Miami Frozdick aided her gator.

AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR...

EUGENE HAD A DAUGHTER

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TODD AKIN IS ONE MORE FOOL WHO MUST BE STOPPED

Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin made a rancid asshole of himself in August when he justified his opposition to abortion by claiming that victims of "legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." But this is not the first time the Republican congressman's made rabid fool of himself on the subject of abortion.

"It is no big surprise that we fight the terrorists because they are fundamentally un-American, and yet we have terrorists in our own culture called abortionists. One of the good pieces of news why we are winning this war is because there are not enough heartless doctors being graduated from medical schools. There is a real shortage of abortionists. Who wants to be at the very bottom of the food chain of medical profession? And what sort of places do these bottom-of-the-food-chain doctors work in? Places that are really a pit. You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die."

The secret word is Incredible

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WHEN COPS STOP SERVING THEIR MASTERS…

…you know the revolution is really here. 

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GRATUITOUS CHANDELIER

MEMO FROM MAO

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

The secret word is Rise

(This post and the one below have an unholy connection.)

MEMO FROM MANSON

This is supposedly a recent note from Charlie Manson to Marilyn Manson. Our pals at Dangerous Minds claim it's genuine, but plainly hard to understand if you don’t speak Manson. It reads…

“To Marilyn Manson –

It’s taken me a long time to get there from where I could touch M. Manson.  Now I got a card to play – you may look into my non-profit, ATWA, and give Manson what you think he’s got coming for Air, Trees, Water, and you. Or I will pay Manson what you think Manson got coming – the music has make Manson into Abraxas Devil, and I’m SURE you would want some of what I got from what I got.  It’s a far out balance.  Beyond good and bad, right, wrong.  What you don’t do is what I will do – what you did a sing-along, and let it roll and said how you saved me a lot of steps – I don’t need, it’s not a need or a want.  Couped – coup.  Ghost dancers slay together and you’re just in my grave Sunstroker Corona-coronas-coronae – you seen me from under with it all standing on me.  That’s 2 dump trucks – doing the same as CMF 000007

Charles Manson”

COLT UNDER WATER

Andrew Tuohy of Vuurwapen Blog captured this high speed shot of a .45 caliber M1911 handgun (one of my favorite pistols) being fired underwater. Did he have to modify it to fire underwater? "Nope," he writes. John Moses Browning knew what he was doing when he invented that Mike Hammer heater.

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Wikipedia Note…

Plotting the hints from Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” trilogy of songs, one can determine approximately where to find Rosa’s Cantina. At a juncture about 1.6 miles (2.6 km) NNW of where Texas, Chihuahua, and New Mexico converge, at the bottom of a hill, with a back door from which the narrator can run, there is an actual neighborhood bar called Rosa's Cantina (3454 Doniphan Drive, El Paso TX 79922-1644 (915) 833-0402)

Its ambience lends itself to the lyrics of the three songs.

DOC’S PAPERBACK CLASSICS # 105

SPACE OPERA

SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Got up, got out of bed, went to the drawer and took my meds. As always I wished that I could have a smoke, but I can’t do that any more. What a drag it is getting old. What drugs one takes getting old. What would Elvis have done? But thank heavens for the NHS – in the USA I’d be dead. So I can’t complain and I cope. Refuse to mope, although processes are slowing. But I hope. It’s been hard to do all that was expected of me, write a new thread of demented fiction, write a review of Bob’s Tempest, write a bit of a song, and keep up the Doc40 posts. Oh yes my friends, I write. I write so I’m still in the vanguard of the charge but sometimes I must slow to a canter and catch my breath. Last week for example, I missed the chance to comment on Mitt Romney’s problem with the airplane window not opening. Damn! I cursed. Maybe it’s my overwhelming ego claiming that the world can’t get along with me, but, on the other hand, why should I give it the luxury?  

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The secret word is Medicine 

MORE SUNDAY BREAKFAST

MARILYN SEZ…

“Do we always have to chose between pills and grog?”

JAMES DEAN IN THE PENNY ARCADE

GRATUITOUS BARDOT

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Herbert Lom – RIP