The not-so-safe safety deposit box
May 16th, 2008 by Jonathan Maziarz in Breakfast Links, Current Affairs, Editor's Desk, News, Politics• Think that safety deposit box down at the bank is really safe? Not if the government wants what’s inside. Never forget who’s really in charge of your assets once you relinquish physical control — not you.
• An international team of scientists in Switzerland is building the world’s most powerful collider in an attempt to answer some of the more profound questions of quantum physics. What remains to be seen is, if once the collider is operating, it will destroy the earth by creating a black hole. Even those scientists who fully support the project will only say that the creation of a black hole is improbable, not impossible.
• Here’s the real toll from the Iraq War.
• TSA screeners take another page from the Stasi handbook.
• Today in the housing crisis:
• Foreclosures are soaring, up 65 percent in April.
• California is now conducting 1,000 foreclosure auctions every day.
• Most mainstream Republicans hate him, but Ron Paul has no fear. Here he is, shaming the neocons:
• The Air Force wants control of your computer and they don’t want you to know about it.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
can you please lay off the police state links? i’m okay with one a day, but there’s always four or five, and i just don’t understand how it relates to a blog about sarasota.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Actually, the blog is for Sarasotans, but is about everything and anything, though I will certainly take it easier on the police state links. You’re not a cop, are you?
May 17th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
i guess there is some semantic confusion as a blog only for sarasotans on the internet where anyone can access it is different than a blog called the 941 that one would think would pertain mostly to sarasota-related things. but that’s neither here nor there. i’m no cop, and am pretty liberal myself, but shit, you know, the police state stuff just makes me want to crawl in a hole and never come out. i’d rather change the world than learn about how oppressive it is all the time. make sense?
May 19th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Well, part of changing the world is knowing what needs to be fixed. Considering where the U.S. has gone in the last seven years, whether you support Barack Obama on the left or a libertarian like Ron Paul, it’s essential that someone be elected to break the goose-step the country is taking toward becoming a police state.