Fourth of July America Links USA USA – 2
* Once you have been accepted into the elite, it is considered perfectly normal for various elite institutions to just give you vast sums of money for doing almost nothing, for the rest of your life. And the idea that outsiders might find these arrangements shocking, corrupt or simply sleazy is totally baffling to the people in charge of elite institutions. They don’t get it, at all.
* America’s Left: Find it on Twitter. Warning: He names names.
* Mr. Pickering was targeted by a longtime surveillance system called mail covers, but that is only a forerunner of a vastly more expansive effort, the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year. It is not known how long the government saves the images. The innocent have nothing to fear he swore an oath to keep us safe is this even really news &c.
* Killer Robot Won’t Stop Killing Itself.
“When we first turned it on, it just quietly looked around the room for several minutes, and then shot itself,” said Samsung engineer Do-hyun Gyeong. “At first, we thought there was just a problem with the battery. But when we fixed it up and took it out for its first flight, it just threw itself in front of a truck.”
* Good guy with a gun shoots and kills two innocent bystanders after suspect was already apprehended.
* Mavericky: McCain Slams Efforts To Curb Rampant Campus Sexual Harassment As Violating Free Speech.
* When the NSA came recruiting at UW Madison.
* On the merits, Snowden’s claim for asylum would not count for much in any country.
* It’s official: Military coup in Egypt.
* Obamacare’s going to be a complete debacle, isn’t it. Sigh.
* The Candy Crush Menace. Don’t let it happen to you!
* And Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal discovers there’s just a man behind the curtain.
Gerry Canavan 
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