Border Patrol

Dear Border patrol agents, do you know who else claimed "We still have to do our jobs"? German soldiers who worked at death camps during WWII. So,... It's not really a good excuse for being a part of separating families and jailing children.

School Shootings

I've always had a rather dim view of private and #homeschooling except under very specific circumstances. I felt it important that children experience the social aspect of public school. But if we can't stop #schoolshootings and, as in Florida, our solution is to put armed private citizens in schools, even MORE GUNS!, I must admit that home schooling is looking more and more attractive. There's little social value in being surrounded by #guns.

Chilla in Manila

I'm sad about all the #msm hype for the #OrangeWhoreInSingapore. Don't they realize they are simply feeding the narcissistic troll under the White House? #DealBreakerInChief ditches allies for Putin and Un. It's a sad day @CBSNews .

"America First" is a Theological Heresy

Look, we are supposed to love our neighbors. There isn't anything intrinsically wrong with loving your home. And that may be extended to include your community, city, and even state and country. 

But to consider yourself better than others by the shear chance upon which you were born, and others somehow less by virtue of their not sharing that chance in common with you is not only wrong, it's a sin!

And it's nationalism bordering on fascism. If you take a kind of hyper pride in where you are from, and consider yourself a Christian, you should probably read this article:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/freelancechristianity/america-first-is-a-theological-heresy/

What's For Dinner?

What's the difference between a garbanzo and a chick pea?

Donald Trump never had a garbanzo on his face.

#DoggerelsBeforeCoffee

Threre are #Witchhunts & #Fakenews
And fascists singing the blues
From #NewYork to old #Mizzou
Sycophants are panicking in #DC, too.

The rest of us are playing "My Heart Bleeds For You".

#DoggerelsBeforeCoffee

Facebook

Facebook just made the stunning admission that 100 percent of its 2 billion users have likely had their personal data stolen by “malicious actors.”¹

That’s right. One hundred percent. If you’re on Facebook, then it’s a virtual lock that your data has been stolen.

This is a massive privacy violation on a global scale, and it’s clear that Facebook simply can’t be trusted with the massive amount of data that they’ve allowed to be stolen and used to manipulate our behaviour, influence elections, and worse.

We’re calling on the government to make sure Canada's privacy laws protect us from modern-day digital threats so this kind of privacy violation can never happen again.

Will you make a donation to help demand action to prevent the next massive Facebook data scandal?

Facebook has been saying for years that there’s nothing to worry about, and even now we wouldn’t even know about these violations if not for whistleblowers and activists.

Canadian whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed how Cambridge Analytica improperly harvested the data of millions of Facebook users to influence voters in the U.K. during the Brexit referendum and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump. Imagine what else has been done that we don’t know about?

The good news from all this is that the Canadian government may finally wake up and take action to put privacy protections in place to prevent this kind of massive data theft from happening again. Already, privacy watchdogs in B.C. and Ottawa are investigating whether current laws were broken by AggregateIQ in its efforts to sway the Brexit vote.² And the Canadian government has FINALLY agreed to push forward mandatory data-breach disclosure rules that have been been delayed for nearly three years.³

But we won’t be safe until the laws covering our privacy rights are significantly strengthened. For example, under current law, our Privacy Commissioner has no power to force compliance with our laws or issue fines. So many companies simply flout the law, knowing that there will be no repercussions.

To harness the momentum from these scandals, we’re launching an emergency campaign to demand a commitment from our government to reform these toothless privacy laws.

Will you make a donation to help demand action to prevent the next massive Facebook data scandal?

Footnotes: 1 Facebook: ‘Malicious actors’ used its tools to discover identities and collect data on a massive global scale: The Washington Post 
2 Privacy watchdog suggests he may join ongoing AggregateIQ investigations: CBC 
3 Feds to enforce mandatory data breach disclosure rules on Nov. 1: iPolitics

Reference:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/04/facebook-said-the-personal-data-of-most-its-2-billion-users-has-been-collected-and-shared-with-outsiders/