I happened across this wonderful op-ed piece and I wanted to share it with you. Biochips Endanger Privacy.
The article opens with this thought:
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. – Frederick Douglass
Just how much injustice are we going to allow? Biochips are an invasion of privacy, let alone the Biblical implications. To be tracked wherever you go, to have these movements logged and cataloged somewhere just gets my dander up.
Never mind what I am doing, illegal or not, I do not want to be tracked.
For those thinkers who think getting rid of Evil will leave only Good, you’re wrong. To get rid of world wide hunger is a great idea. But when it comes at the cost of freedom, the cost is too high.
And that is exactly what is coming down the road with these biochips. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon.
Read the article, I hope you will be as shocked and scared as I was.

I don’t think this needs a lot of explaining. Found on Neal Boortz.

There is a time and a place for everything, and this fact is often lost on those politicians on the extreme left. To them, everything is a cause, and politics rules the day. Today brings news of such an example.
Thirty-two-year-old Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich died in Iraq two weeks ago during a mortar attack. At his funeral last Tuesday in Pittsburgh, there were quite a few people packed into the church to pay their respects.
Enter Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll. The good lieutenant governor decided it would be a good time and place to do a little campaigning. She went into the church and during the distribution of communion, took a seat and started asking around to find the family. She also passed around a business card, telling a family member “‘I want you to know our government is against this war.” Not sure what that means….presumably she meant the government of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Whatever.
Some people see a funeral, this woman saw a campaign opportunity. As you might expect, people are outraged. Governor Ed Rendell is going to apologize to the Marine’s family and says he is disturbed by what took place. Rumors have already begun swirling that he might drop her from the ‘06 ticket.
Now would be a good time.

Some people just have no ethics. Assuming that the family was against the war because of the death, she went in for the kill. Too bad she misread and didn’t see a bunch of people who understood the reason for the war and while saddened by the loss, these people were still committed to see it through.
Shame on you Lt. Governor Knoll.

Here’s a wonderful story from FOX News:

Skateboarder Sues Utility Over Manhole Branding
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who was branded with letters from the Consolidated Edison logo when she fell off a skateboard onto a searing hot manhole cover in Manhattan last year filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking unspecified damages from the utility.
Elizabeth C. Wallenberg, 27, was burned just above her buttocks and on her left arm when she fell off her skateboard onto a cover over a steam pipe at Second Avenue and 13th Street in the East Village shortly after midnight on Aug. 11, 2004, said her lawyer Ronald Berman.
“It literally looked like a brand that had been applied by someone,” Berman said about the burn marks left on Wallenberg’s body.
He said she was treated for the injury in the Beth Israel Hospital emergency room and released.
Wallenberg, then a Brooklyn resident who worked for Paper magazine, reportedly said she heard her skin sizzle and saw an “o” and an “n” from the hot cover impressed upon her body. Wallenberg has been told the scarring is permanent, Berman said.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan’s state Supreme Court, accused Con Ed of “negligence, carelessness, recklessness and culpable conduct” related to Wallenberg’s injuries.
Court papers said Wallenberg, now a factory worker who lives in Portland, Ore., is entitled to compensatory and punitive damages because of Con Ed’s “reprehensible and egregious failure and refusal … to protect the public from this manifestly clear and present danger.”
Con Ed spokesman Chris Olert said he had no comment on the lawsuit.

So this woman falls off her skateboard and onto a manhole cover for a steam pipe. She gets permanently scarred by the experience, and she wants ConEd to foot the bill. Why? Why should someone else have to pay for her stupidity? Was she wearing safety equipment? Was she drunk? Why was she going down the middle of the street in the first place? I don’t know, the article doesn’t say.
All I do know is she wants to hold someone else responsible for her mistake, and that’s not right. In this world you are going to get bumps and bruises when you do things like that, take your lumps and move on.