Friday, March 29, 2024

Campaign Speech: TX House_20 in 2024

Good Afternoon. Good to see y'all.


Many of us here today were alive, if kinda young, when expanded voting and civil rights were encoded into law in the mid-1960s, same for when Roe v. Wade became legal precedent in the early 70s.


We gained a certain level of satisfaction and went on with our lives. Surely these things will not change.


Here we are, now... All those things have, in fact, changed, because too many of us didn't show up at the polls to make sure those things would not be changed.


There were, and still are, folks who stewed in resentment about those issues, and more, who have come out from under the rocks, where they'd festered for decades, when an African, American man was elected President of these United States; twice.


Time to restore, and stand with, an America that works for all Americans.


I'm campaigning for TX. House, district 20, this year. Population growth has shrunk the district down to western Williamson county.


I'm running against an incumbent who votes to send public money to private schools...


Public education for all is the key to success, for all.


Doesn't seem to know anything about Climate Change.


We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children. We must strive to leave everything better than we found it, for ourselves and all who will follow.


Shows no knowledge of the crisis created around women's health care issues. The attack on a woman's, maternal, health care is dangerous, fatally so for some.


A woman's ability to control all aspects of her own health care is an essential right.


Doesn't demonstrate knowledge about international borders, and throws 100s of millions, to billions, of Texas taxpayer's money at the work that the Constitution assigns to the federal government.


Legislation to improve the situation at the border was hashed out in a bi-partisan, US Senate committee, then trashed, because Republicans want to run on problems at the US border with Mexico. Senator James Lankford (R-OK) was rebuked by the Republican party of OK for his work on said committee...

The audacity!


No good deed goes unpunished.


Arizona's SB1070 in 2010... TX's SB4 in 2024...


This is what happens when insecure, white people, who know naught about, “love thy neighbor,” are reacting to something called minority/majority. I find legislation like this to be idiotic, embarrassing and wrong; needs to be repealed.


I was a stranger, and you welcomed me.”


Save America! Register to vote, check your registration and vote for Democrats for every office, in every election!


Democracy is in our hands!


If you don't believe that, you need to peruse the Heritage Foundation's, Project 2025...


Orwell's , 1984, realized.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

The DOJ's Late Stage Evidence Drop...

The DOJ recently released 10s of thousands of pages of evidence related to the criminal charges facing the 45th President, and some of his associates...


Why now?


Let's speculate...


Is it because some of the evidence was acquired via intelligence sources whose identities, means and methods need protection?


Did that information need be reacquired/verified, because intelligence agencies don't necessarily follow court approved rules for the collection of intelligence that has proven to be valuable as evidence?


Did the evidence need be sheltered from the personnel that the 45th President seeded some federal agencies and offices with; folks whose loyalties were more to said 45th President than to their oath of office?


At this stage of the prosecution of the many indictments against the 45th President, and his associates, a bombshell, of the aforementioned nature, would be seriously appreciated.

Friday, March 15, 2024

TikTok's Shared Security Risks

TikTok uses, “cookies,” as well as other means and methods, to collect data about each and every user of their application (a.k.a., app)... So does every app in the computer/Internet universe. The data collected is for sale, internally or externally, to generate revenue/money/profits. Selling user data is very profitable; ask your tech mega-millionaires and billionaires.


Make, “cookies,” illegal, and make protecting any user data collected a legal obligation... Make selling user data, without specific user consent, illegal. Make vendors charge for their product or service up front, and payment data becomes another information cache that vendors are legally obligated to protect.


If vendors aren't able to protect user data that is criminal negligence, at best. Ignorance of illegal data access is not a defense against criminal charges; ignorance of the law has never been a defense. Getting “hacked,” is criminal negligence. Large, successful hacks are felonies for hackers and hacked.


If information is perceived as valuable it will be sought by criminal means if it is not legally available. Therefore, collecting and retaining user information requires vendors take appropriate protective measures, and are criminally culpable if said measures are insufficient.


Protecting collected data against unwarranted access is a universal obligation for any, and all, who collect and, no matter the time frame, store data.