Author Archive: Stephen Green

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Toyota Warns (Again) About Electrifying All Autos. Is Anyone Listening?

When the people who want to sell electric cars tell the government that demands we drive electric cars, that there’s not enough electricity to run all the electric cars, but the government won’t listen, then the only conclusion is that the government doesn’t want many people driving cars, period.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Bill de Blasio Promises to Use NYPD to Fight Thoughtcrime.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is police intimidation not police intimidation?

Answer: When they’re establishing #Unity whether you want it or not.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

  • White House cracks down on pot smokers at least until Obama wants to visit
  • Quantum computers are racist
  • Joe Biden impersonates Chevy Chase impersonating Gerald Ford

Bonus Sanity: Even The Atlantic now says it’s safe to travel with your kids.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

TYLER O’NEIL: The Progressives’ Fatal Conceit. “The Progressive movement altered the way American politics worked. Alongside the branches of government established by the Constitution and ultimately held accountable to the people, a fourth branch of government grew — and this vast administration edges ever closer to becoming entirely independent of the American people.”

PRIVACY: This Surveillance Company Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-Time.

The Ulysses Group, which offers “cutting edge operational and intelligence services, support, and equipment” to government clients, says it can “access over 15 billion vehicle locations” worldwide every month. This data, which can be viewed “historically” or in real-time, should be used operationally by U.S. agencies, the company says.

A document obtained by the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, which was first reported by Motherboard and shared with Gizmodo, shows Ulysses claims to be able to “remotely geolocate” cars in “nearly any country,” with the exceptions of Cuba and North Korea.

Wyden is usually solid on privacy issues, so I’m curious to see what he tries to do with this — and how much opposition he’ll face from members of his own party, busy whipping up imaginary domestic terrorism scares.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Time To Tell Idiot King Biden That He’s Awful At His Job. “The topic at hand is that I’m really tired of the puppet show’s occupation of the White House. A lucid Joe Biden would have been a big enough nightmare as president. The people who are controlling the empty, babbling shell that resembles Joe Biden really seem to be intent on hastening the demise of the American experiment.”

JOANNE JACOBS: ‘We don’t need no education.’ “If this nation is going to spend billions of dollars on public schooling, surely we want more than day-care centers with breakfast, lunch, snacks and copies of Anti-Racist Baby.”