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LET US START 2013 THE RIGHT WAY. BLAZINGCATFUR NEEDS OUR FULL SUPPORT
December 24, 2012 — xanthippaThe Jewish Defense League Calls On Our Supporters To Attend An Emergency Fundraiser For Blogger Blazingcatfur
Radical Muslims are attempting to shut down Blazingcatfur.
Monday January 7TH, 7:30 PM
Toronto Zionist Centre, 788 Marlee Avenue
For additional information call JDL at 
416-736-7000
EFF Patent Project Gets Half-Million-Dollar Boost from Mark Cuban and ‘Notch’
December 19, 2012 — xanthippaFrom the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
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San Francisco – America’s broken patent system needs major reform to protect innovators and the public. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is announcing a major new boost to its patent work: a half-million dollars in funding from entrepreneur Mark Cuban and game developer Markus “Notch” Persson.
“The current state of patents and patent litigation in this country is shameful,” said Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks. “Silly patent lawsuits force prices to go up while competition and innovation suffer. That’s bad for consumers and bad for business. It’s time to fix our broken system, and EFF can help. So that’s why part of my donation funds a new title for EFF Staff Attorney Julie Samuels: ‘The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents’.”
Cuban’s $250,000 donation also funds the hire of a new attorney experienced in patent reform and high profile patent litigation: Daniel Nazer, who will join EFF in January as a Staff Attorney. The rest of EFF’s seasoned intellectual property team includes Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry, Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl, and Staff Attorney Mitch Stoltz. The team is also assisted by EFF fellows Michael Barclay and Jason Schultz.
Persson’s separate donation of $250,000 cements EFF’s ability to tackle the systemic problems with software patents. With a blend of lawyers, technologists, and activists, EFF will push for reform in the courts, through activism campaigns, and by educating the public and politicians about what is wrong with software patents and what needs to change.’
Read the rest here.
Big Brother is listening – on the bus
December 18, 2012 — xanthippaDaniel Hannan: How about a Nobel Prize for Margaret Thatcher?
December 12, 2012 — xanthippaGrowing up as the daughter of a political dissident behind the iron curtain, it would have been just about impossible for me to have not become aware of ‘politics’ from a young age…
And, aware I of politics I did become! On both the macro and the micro scale.
When I was of kindergarten age, the parents of other kids feared letting their children play with me: what if someone saw it and noted in their dossier that from an early age, the child had consorted with political undesirables? It may seem preposterous or paranoid to most people living in our society, but, back then and there, even a small notation like that could prevent a student from being accepted to the school of their choice…
I also started to notice political cartoons in the only newspaper available – the party rag. Rather, I noticed a change in tone, or tenor, or whatever the roper term is, in the political cartoons. First, they were contemptuous cartoons depicting a buck-toothed smiling guy. The others were not contemptuous – even though they were meant as a ridicule, even I could see that the woman they depicted struck true fear into the political people in charge.
The one openly disrespected and ridiculed was Jimmy Carter.
The one clearly feared was Margaret Thatcher.
And that was when I began to admire her!
Reason TV: Judge Napolitano: How Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
December 12, 2012 — xanthippa
“I escaped a North Korean prison camp” – Shin Dong-hyuk’s Survivor Story
December 2, 2012 — xanthippaPat Condell: December is “Hatred and Violence in the Koran” Awareness Month!
December 1, 2012 — xanthippa
And here is the longer version – a better one, in my never-humble-opinion:
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 