Off topic: Verizon, FICA, FISA, PRISM, et al.

Right or Left, if you have been following the news the last few days regarding the Obama administration's abuse of power violating the privacy of US Citizens at large, you should be angry as hell.

According to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post, The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets.  The companies allegedly in cahoots with feds are Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, PalTalk, Youtube, Skype, AOL (are they really still around?), and Apple.  Dropbox, the cloud storage service, is described as “coming soon.”

Ok Folks. This is off topic and please pass this around!

For those who don't know me, I ride a motorcycle.


I was almost hit Tue. night as well while in the carpool lane on South 85 in Mt. View. I was doing the 50 mph in the carpool lane with a nice space cushion in front of me and back when a black car from the #2 lane swerved into the car pool lane doing about 10 mph just 10 yards in front of me. I had microseconds to react and avoid hitting this guy's car and was forced into the shoulder to avoid the Alpha Hotel who cut me off. 


Please remember to use your turn signals and check your mirrors before you change lanes.