Category Archives: War on…

Georgia governor signs new gun rights law

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/04/23/nathan-deal-stresses-positive-changes-in-gun-bill-hell-sign-today/ The suspicious side of me thinks this was done to set up a Federal judge to throw out the law, thereby creating a “negative law”

Posted in American Politics, Gun ownership | 2 Comments

Local radio and LPFM

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The trickle of new LPFM radio stations are arriving on the air. I’m starting to go through the new arrivals to see what I can find about them. As Clear Channel and Cumulus essentially withdraw from any significant local programming … Continue reading →

Posted in Individual Liberty, Low Power FM, Radio Biz, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Today was Windows XP drop dead date; world to end

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Support for Windows XP ended today. Today, probably the biggest security flaw the Internet has ever had was made public. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2140920/heartbleed-bug-in-openssl-puts-encrypted-communications-at-risk.html The OpenSSL library had a “mistake” introduced in 2011 which could give a third party the ability to extract … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Instability, Privacy | 49 Comments

Cumulus hires new national talk show host

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Mike Rogers is a Republican Congressman from Michigan. He is currently the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees the NSA. He is also a former FBI agent. Washington Post I think a new name just popped on to … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Cumulus Media, Privacy, Syndicators, Westwood One | Leave a comment

Your city needs a free MRAP

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Fred Stiening

There aren’t even 13,000 cities in the United States.

Posted in Collapse of America, Individual Liberty, War and not War | 5 Comments

War for the Soul of Pacifica Radio

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Reason has a story from a former insider http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/19/another-war-breaks-out-in-the-pacifica-r If you don’t know who or what Pacifica is, it was started by folks who refused to fight in a World War II (aka Pacifists). Prior to Pearl Harbor, there was … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Free Speech, Radio Biz | 3 Comments

Southern Non-Food porn

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Fred Stiening

It’s jarring if you lived in Yankee prison for 15 years. I’m stopped at a long traffic signal and this sign catches my eye: Cigarrettes only $3.10 a pack?  Mayor Bloomberg is having a heart attack right now. The small … Continue reading →

Posted in Individual Liberty | 9 Comments

Sharyl Attkisson Quits CBS News

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/03/11/stonewalled-reporter-quits-cbs-news-frustrated-with-networks-liberal-bias-105605 She has been one of the few TV reporters to actively pursue the Obama administrations improper activities like Fast & Furious and according to this article is writing a book about how the establishment media has circled the wagon … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Collapse of America, Examples of Media Bias, Free Speech, Glenn Beck, Global Instability | 2 Comments

BP of the day

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

I promise to not make this a daily feature, but it ties together several recent topics Very long time readers like WesternMA know that in 2009 I wound up in the hospital for 4 days after passing out and hitting … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Individual Liberty, Obamacare, Unauthorized Food | 13 Comments

Kiss your insurance company goodbye

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The worst kept secret is now out in plain sight. The purpose of Obamacare is the destruction of private health insurance providers. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116752/ezekiel-emanuel-book-excerpt-end-health-insurance-companies Ezekial Emanuel (brother of the Mayor of Chicago) is the author of the policy research that has … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Individual Liberty, Obamacare | 10 Comments