Ethics

Facebook privacy continues to be a problem on WSJ.com, Politico, Daily Caller and other sites. When you recommend an article via FB, you get an opt-in request that says if you use the FB connection, you give WSJ.com or whatever site access to the names of your friends, your profile info and more. The sites sell this info to marketers and spammers.

If you click "don't allow" the connection is cancelled. I don't use the FB connection on WSJ.com because I don't trust News Corp., which owns The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and Fox News. The WSJ.com comment section also is programmed to invade your privacy and often requires a new log in even though you're logged into wsj.com. It's all very frustrating to me.

Similarly, I don't use Yahoo.com's Facebook connection.

FB and the sites that want you to recommend their articles to your FB friends say that they're not violating our privacy because our Friends and profile info are available to anyone who checks us out on FB. I believe only we should know who our FB and Twitter friends are. Our friends' names should be confidential, imho.

I haven't signed up for Google+ because it wants access to all of my info and the right to sell that info just like FB and Twitter do. 

Global warming skeptics know that Al Gore's global warming alarmists use bad data, rigged computer models and poor science to convince gullible politicians like George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman that humans play significant roles in warming earth.

Roy Spencer recently published an article that may totally undermine the propaganda spready by Gorean alarmists. So they're attacking his integrity and science with the kind of vicious and sensless posts on his blog that you would expect to find in the comments sections of the NY Times and Washington Post.

LINKS:

Editor in chief of Remote Sensing resigns from fallout over our paper, by Roy W. Spencer.

John Andrews has written a book, Responsibility Reborn, that many Small Government Americans will want to read.

After Barack Obama's two years in power and his almost two years of campaigning for the White House, Americans know President Obama very well.

One thing that became clear during the campaign and has since become obvious to the gullibles who voted for him in 2008 is that he distrusts Americans so much that he feels free and compelled to lie, distort and play blame games. Thus, it is no surprise that Americans who don't trust Obama also don't trust or believe his secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, or the stubborn and politically tone deaf head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), John Pistole.

We're still waiting for Colorado's Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet to speak out against the TSA's sexual molestation and use of dangerous body scanners at the nation's airports. The TSA's scanning and molestation scandal  is turning into a war that is pitting the Left's  insistence on political correctness and universal screening against Americans' demands for profiling, personal privacy and liberty.

In addition to the AWOL Udall and Bennet, we have yet to hear from Diana DeGette, Ed Perlmutter, Jared Polis, John Salazar, Mike Coffman and Doug Lamborn. I just checked the web sites of the incumbents who will be in the 112th Congress. None have issued press releases on the TSA scandal. They're hunkering down. These big government types appear to be hoping the controversy will just go away.

It won't. It will only grow as more Americans experience what cya politicians and bureaucrats have dreamed up for them. What the Obama administration is telling us that more terrorists' attacks are expected.

If they aren't stopped, it won't be because the politicians didn't try to stop them. If you're worried about being blown out of the air, don't fly. If you object to Big Brother And Big Sister getting in your pants, don't fly. If you think it will happen to someone else, fly.

LINKS:

Getting touchy at the airport, by Tobin Harshaw. Biochemist says 'naked" X-ray scanner may be unsafe, by Declan McCullagh. Researchers: TSA misleads public on scanner safety, by AVweb staff. Don't touch my junk, by Charles Krauthammer. The T S of A takes control, by George Will. Enduring the bare necessities in airport screening, by Kathleen Parker. How to think about the tiny cancer risks posed by airport scanners, by Michael C. Dorf. TSA terrifies, too, by Al Lewis. $11,000 fine, arrest possible for some who refuse airport scans and pat downs, by John Lantigua. TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine, by Harriet Baskas.

John Tyner, the passenger who refused to let TSA agents sexually molest him, will be investigated and may be fined $11,000 for refusing to complete the pat down process at the San Diego Airport. Where are Colorado's Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet on this case? Where are Congressmen Doug Lamborn, Mike Coffman, Diana DeGette, Jared Polis and Ed Perlmutter? So far, none of them have posted any comments about the TSA's abuse of passengers on their web pages.

Are members of the Colorado Congressional delegation, their families and their staffs exempted from molestations by TSA security agents in Denver and Washington, DC? Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet have the most power to stop intrusive government agents from groping and molesting travelers, but being Big Government politicians who don't want to be blamed if terrorists down a plane, they probably will get themselves exempted from the searches. The TSA is said to be using molestation to force fliers to go through dangerous body scanners, which expose people to radiation that accumulates over time.

And they'll let all other Coloradans suffer the indignities of air travel. Sooner than later, however, air travel will shrink dramatically as tourists and skiers go on buyers strikes. They'll refuse to fly, and they'll stop coming to Colorado on vacation.

The Colorado and U.S. economies will suffer as the politicians cover their tails and millions of Americans lose more jobs.

This is not an Obama problem. This nonsense started under President George W. Bush and his GOP Congress, and it continues under the Obama Democrats.

It's time for Udall, Bennet and U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, Mike Coffman, Ed Perlmutter and other members of our delegation to force the TSA to use racial, ethnic and other kinds of profiling rather than universal profiling.

And it's time come up with other ways to protect Americans in the air. It's time to restore our liberties and freedoms. And it's time to crush the terrorists where they live.

Click on this link to read the account of a woud be flier who defied the TSA and has been told that he could be subject to a $10,000 fine for refusing to be x-rayed or patted down.

The link also is on http://www.Drudgereport.com. So if the government spends $1 million to prosecute the flier and suffers $1 billion or more worth of bad publicity, Americans who will help the flier pay for a defense will be the winners. And the politicians will show what kind of people they really are.

Since 9/11, we've flown only once or twice a year, if that, because I don't like to go through security at airports. Big government is too intrusive. Politicians are spending billions scanning everyone and everything and making little kids and old folks go through ridiculous security checks. From George W. Bush to Barack Obama and the Congresses that have enabled them, the politicians have imposed airport security checking systems to protect themselves from public criticism if a plane is blown up, not just to protect the traveling public. To be politically correct, politicians force everyone to go through security. It is time to use racial, ethinic and other available techniques that screen people who are real threats, not everyone. We shouldn't be giving terrorists such a huge victory by letting them cripple our economy and take away our rights to privacy and to move around the country and world freely. No trip is so important that you have to get some place overnight. It is time for all travelers to drive or stay home until the politicians come to their senses. 

Desperate Democrats are putting ethics on the back burner as they run dishonest ads against Republicans who are about to beat them. The ads being run by Michael Bennet, Cary Kennedy and Stan Garnett are backfiring. And I've long believed that Tom Tancredo's ad that tries to blame John Hickenlooper for an illegal immigrants' accident that killed a child is just unfair and dumb. LINK: Low blows debase high-profile races; unfair attacks by 527s are one thing, but candidates who wish to serve the public should keep punches above the belt. Denver Post editorial.

Did a Dan Maes supporter try to entrap gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo into making a deal with Dan Maes so that Maes would quit the race? Or was he really trying to make a deal without realizing that it would be illegal and that it would look like a last desperate effort to smear Tancredo?

Conservative blogger Ross Kaminsky's post, Dan Maes' new low, blasts the bitter Maes for celebrating the fact that his opponent lost money in ponzi schemes. Every day, Maes makes it even clearer that he is a vindictive guy who blames others for his failures and is unfit to receive a single Republican vote on Nov. 2.

When candidates like Colorado's appointed Obama Democrat Michael Bennet (D-Washington, DC) hide behind body guards so reporters and bloggers can't ask them questions, most voters tend to shrug and not give it much thought. But when Alaska's  Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller hires thugs to protect him and they handcuff a blogger who wants to ask an embarrassing question, you know that Miller has no business going to the U.S. Senate. LINK: Reporter handcuffed at Joe Miller event, by Alexander Burns.

Dan Maes has confirmed months of rumors that he had filed bankruptcy. Bob Balink, a prominent El Paso County Republican and member of the state party's central committee who had tried to help Maes get his campaign finances in order called him irresponsible in an email that Balink sent to Maes Saturday. At a huge Republican rally for Tom Tancredo Saturday, his running mate, Pat Miller, announced to some 600 or more Republicans that she had been told that Maes has turned off his cell phones. This hasn't been confirmed, but the rumor is out there. Also, Tancredo said that a precinct leader in Aurora who was handing out a GOP brochure told a voter to vote for Tancredo because Maes "can't win." There also was an unconfirmed but relliably sourced rumor that Pete Coors, a long-time community leader and GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006 will be holding a fundraiser for Tancredo. This is my 290th post on Maes since Oct. 29, 2009. LINKS: News sparks new calls for Maes to drop out of race, by Karen E. Crummy. Why I think Dan Maes is too unethical to be governor of Colorado, by Donald E. L. Johnson, 8.16.2010.

David Kopel, a legal scholar, says a Michael Bennet ad that attacks Ken Buck's ethics is off target. But even if it is, I think it hurts Buck with independents and voters who think ethics are a big deal. LINK: Kopel: Ad targeting Buck misfires, by David Kopel.

Hours after the Democrats announced a new $750,000 attack ad against Ken Buck's ethics, Buck replied with a very detailed charge that appointed Obama Democrat Senator Michael Bennet "Makes big money from Chinese and Russian human rights violators" and "Bennet's Wall Street investments show profits in notorious companies." This looks like an opposition research dump, and you've got to read the whole thing here.