Comments on: BIG BROTHER https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/#comment-28634 TB Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:56:39 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=40755#comment-28634 <p>Paranoia?</p> The IRS attacks political enemies, the NSA taps everything down to tin-can phones, laws control every aspect of our lives at the most trivial levels, and there's a political party whose dearest ambition is centralized control over health care, the energy industry, and everything else. That's just off the top of my head. I could come up with a more extensive list. Dude, a person isn't paranoid about buffalo attacks if he's actually in the middle of a buffalo stampede. Given the current environment, it's the person who has no concern about too much government power that's not playing with a full deck. Paranoia?

The IRS attacks political enemies, the NSA taps everything down to tin-can phones, laws control every aspect of our lives at the most trivial levels, and there’s a political party whose dearest ambition is centralized control over health care, the energy industry, and everything else. That’s just off the top of my head. I could come up with a more extensive list.

Dude, a person isn’t paranoid about buffalo attacks if he’s actually in the middle of a buffalo stampede.

Given the current environment, it’s the person who has no concern about too much government power that’s not playing with a full deck.

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/#comment-28630 BuckGalaxy Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:35:49 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=40755#comment-28630 There were always paranoid anti government nuts on the right, but now that anti-gov paranoia is part of mainstream gop thinking. There were always paranoid anti government nuts on the right, but now that anti-gov paranoia is part of mainstream gop thinking.

]]> By: FrankC https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/#comment-28623 FrankC Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:42:30 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=40755#comment-28623 I am sure they would nail me often for little things like that. I would prefer to give them saliva over money. I am sure they would nail me often for little things like that. I would prefer to give them saliva over money.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/#comment-28622 Jody Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:17:29 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=40755#comment-28622 This is weird....I don't know if it was me. My daughter borrowed my car that week....but I am not sure what day...because...being older than the hills myself, I don't remember! Truth! This is weird….I don’t know if it was me. My daughter borrowed my car that week….but I am not sure what day…because…being older than the hills myself, I don’t remember!

Truth!

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/#comment-28621 DanS Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:42:15 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=40755#comment-28621 Maybe that wasn't you... Maybe that wasn’t you…

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/#comment-28601 DanS Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:14:35 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=40755#comment-28601 Just when they started doing these photo-intersections, I got old and slowed my driving. I decided I was no longer in a death-defying race to get home to dinner. It'll be there. Cheers, Jody. Just when they started doing these photo-intersections, I got old and slowed my driving. I decided I was no longer in a death-defying race to get home to dinner. It’ll be there.

Cheers, Jody.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/#comment-28600 TB Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:09:34 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=40755#comment-28600 You've been on this board a long time, and you know that's not actually true, don't you? You’ve been on this board a long time, and you know that’s not actually true, don’t you?

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/#comment-28594 Jody Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:43:12 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=40755#comment-28594 I just paid a $75 fine from an oopsie at that particular intersection. Photo enforcement caught me turning right on red...which is legal...but I didn't stop first. YAY ME! I just paid a $75 fine from an oopsie at that particular intersection. Photo enforcement caught me turning right on red…which is legal…but I didn’t stop first. YAY ME!

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/#comment-28592 BuckGalaxy Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:57:03 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=40755#comment-28592 Funny how republicans never cared about big brother until we elected a brother. Funny how republicans never cared about big brother until we elected a brother.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2013/11/19/big-brother/#comment-28578 DanS Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:37:38 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=40755#comment-28578 No amount of credentials or flashing red and blue lights are enough to allow supposed medical staff to start sticking me with anything. No amount of credentials or flashing red and blue lights are enough to allow supposed medical staff to start sticking me with anything.

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