Have no fear, the December ish is here!

It's another December to dismember at The Last Word, as our December ish is now pub!

This ish talks about  a "magic kidney", a crude map of Sesame Street, a person crinkling a candy bag at a play, a Sarah Palin look-alike chewing bubble gum, and more!

So roo and poo...

https://www.scribd.com/document/542103734/The-Last-Word-12-2021

If that doesn't work, bip your beeper here...

http://bunkerblast.info/lastword/lw2112.pdf

Drawing the line

All over America and around the world, people have fought for justice. If one is innocent of a crime, judges and juries must acquit. If one is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, a conviction must result. I am not in a position to weigh the facts of every case, and I can only hope jurors and judges reach the right verdict. This blog entry is not a commentary on the outcome of a particular case, regardless of how we may feel about it. There is another issue at play that poses a major threat to Americans' civil liberties, and I want to make sure everyone is warned of it, so they're not caught off guard.

If you can endure even one second of the media's coverage of major news events lately, you may have noticed a lot of media attention focused on whether a defendant crossed a state line. I don't think the media was desperately trying to convict the defendant. Rather, I think the media is more interested in the long game of preparing us for a looming "papers please" dystopia.

What is the significance of state lines? Some state lines aren't even based on visible features but were arbitrarily mapped out. Why would lines that are largely invisible determine a defendant's guilt or innocence? The media cares about state lines because it lays the groundwork for the day when crossing a state line will require all of us to submit papers or undergo a search.

There's pretty convincing evidence that this is their goal. It was happening already during the full lockdowns last year. There were orders prohibiting or limiting interstate travel even into this year. There were even checkpoints between states. I heard from family of a checkpoint between Ohio and Indiana. New Mexico decreed that state parks were closed to out-of-state residents. Albuquerque's bus system was open only to New Mexico residents, and it even checked passengers' ID's. Even federal orders on things like masks refer only to interstate travel.

The priority of our pundit class is a permanent police state. The state line obsession encourages the public to accept limits on interstate movement.

I'm kind of big on all this civil liberties business, you know.

Virginia! Tennessee! Game day bucket go boom!

August's trip to Roanoke, Virginia, yielded a grand total of 165 photos of Scholaring interest. It's hard to believe it's been 3 months, but time flies and you are there!

So bip your bunker here...

http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21a.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21b.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21c.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21d.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21e.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21f.html
http://bunkerblast.info/roadpics/roa21g.html

GOP retakes Virginia governorship

Oh no!

Anyway...

Bill would require social media sites to verify your identity

I had no idea this was 1998.

As Big Tech book-burning continues unabated, it does of course have its enablers in Congress. Among them is Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah), who is floating a draft plan to require social media websites to verify users' identity.

This will gut the anonymity vital for many users. Anonymity isn't just for right-wing churches and the Chinese Communist Party flooding newspaper comment sections with gobs of sockpuppets. Anonymity is also important for people who seriously discuss sensitive topics. It also protects those who blow the whistle on government or corporate scandals. And it protects other folks who may desire extra privacy.

Under Curtis's proposal, people would be prevented from creating accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, or any similar site from making an account unless they submit identification. It's a "papers please" law for the Internet.

Furthermore, these websites would be required to report users to the Federal Trade Commission if they are suspected of using phony ID's. The FTC would be required to submit these reports to the Department of Justice.

America isn't the only land were there are proposals like this. The dictatorship in Australia has a similar plan.

It's like the Communications Decency Act, Real ID, the Patriot Act, the Social Credit System, and vaccine passports all rolled into one.