Obama bypasses Congress to raise new taxes...on your cellphone!

Rather than waste his time with the Constitution and Congress, Obama is going straight to the FCC to lobby for the new taxes. The new tax will apply to every American who uses a cellphone.

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There's a friggin' app for that!

From a friend of mine who just flew to New York City:

I was in the limo coming from the airport to my hotel. Pakistani driver, of course. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, I hear the call to prayer! Not from the radio. From where? There's a friggin' app for that! An Islamic call to prayer app that goes off 5 times a day!

Wonder if there'll be an app for beheadings too???

If you own a cell phone, you might as well kiss your privacy goodbye!

Your Cell Phone Makes You A Prisoner Of A Digital World Where Virtually Anyone Can Hack You And Track You

Don't people remember "Loose lips sink ships?"

Michael Yon - Enemy using social media and cellphone geotagging to identify the precise location of troops on a battlefield

DefenseTech at Military.com - Insurgents Used Cell Phone Geotags to Destroy AH-64s in Iraq

HAT TIP: - InstaPundit

Don't text and drive...

GRAPHIC

Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives.

The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.

CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London's biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.

Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England...

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