Liberty is an inherently offensive lifestyle. Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic peace. It's worth it. It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if you don't there is no one to defend yours. -- MaxedOutMama

I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. -- Kim du Toit

The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them.-- Moshe Ben-David

The cult of the left believes that it is engaged in a great apocalyptic battle with corporations and industrialists for the ownership of the unthinking masses. Its acolytes see themselves as the individuals who have been "liberated" to think for themselves. They make choices. You however are just a member of the unthinking masses. You are not really a person, but only respond to the agendas of your corporate overlords. If you eat too much, it's because corporations make you eat. If you kill, it's because corporations encourage you to buy guns. You are not an individual. You are a social problem. -- Sultan Knish

All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. -- Billy Beck

Monday, February 16, 2009

Google: Still Evil

Google: Still Evil

As most of you probably know, Google bought Blogsnot awhile back. Google also agreed to censor the web for those accessing it from China, at the insistence of the Chinese government.

I discovered something fascinating (in a creepy way) tonight. When I write a post, I put the title for it in a block marked "Title," then repeat it as the header to the body of my post. The "Title" space, I suppose, goes out to RSS feeds and such, but if I don't repeat the title in the body, you won't see it. Whatever goes in the "Title" block is made part of the URL for that post, assuming, of course, that the title isn't as long as many of my posts are. It's truncated at twenty letters or so, and "the" and "a" are dropped out. My post last week "Made as China, Norinco", should have carried a URL that reads:

http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2009/02/made-as-china-norinco.html

It does not.

Google truncated the link to http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2009/02/made-as.html

The words "China" and "Norinco" were redacted.

Kinda makes you wonder why, doesn't it?

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