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MATRIX - A Dossier for Every Person in Utah
jxs2151 writes: "According to the Deseret Morning News former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt signed Utah's 2.4 million residents up for a pilot program that gathers dossiers on every single man, woman and child and didn't bother to tell anyone. According to the article MATRIX -- Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange '...cross-references government records from both public and private databases, putting together a dossier on individuals for use by law enforcement.' The state's homeland security specialist dismisses concerns: '...any data gleaned for Utah's participation in MATRIX is information already available to law enforcement.'
The Utah legislature is trying to figure out how to get the state out of the program but the question is how was the Governor able to enroll the -whole state- without anyone knowing?"
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hey guys,
:) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!
i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!
i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!
anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.
i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheap these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner
anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!
ok see ya later,
cyndi
God Help America!!!
(This is a great blog! Spend some time there and learn about the wacko Mormon Church. Truly a bizarre chapter in American history.
As usual, the ex-members of a cult (yes, Mormonism is a cult) are the ones to talk to, since they have been on the inside and figured it out.
As is usual in other cults, Mormonism is simpy about founder Joseph Smith's desire to avoid honest work, make money, rule other people, and screw lots of women. He was a charismatic leader much like David Koresh. Some of the funny parts:
Joseph Smith joined the Masons, and copied all thier secret rituals. This is what mormons do in their "Temples" even today.
Joe Smith was a great storyteller and treasure hunter in his early days. He used a "peep-stone" (rock) in a hat to trick people into giving him money to locate buried treasure. He used his imagination adn this rock-in-hat to dictate the "Book of Mormon" to a secretary. (this kind of folk magic was popular in new england in the 1800's).
He had many polygamous "spiritual" wives (the youngest, Fannie Alger, was just 14), all a poorly kept secret to his first wife Emma. His usual M.O. was to send the husband away on a proseliting trip, and marry the wife in a secret ceremony, after which he took her to bed.
He owned a saloon attached to his house.
He was feared by the U.S. government because he had an army of 8,000 men at a time when the standing U.S. military was only 2,500 men.
Polygamy was openly practiced until the U.S. government threatened to withhold statehood for Utah, at which time a "revelation" from God was recieved which put an end to it.
Racism was openly practiced (no blacks could hold the "priesthood") until in 1978 the U.S. government threatened to withdraw the church's tax-free status, at which time a "revelation" from God was recieved which put an end to it.
Mormonism is a fascinating, disgusting, bizarre subject. I used to be one myself! (I'm feeling much better now) ;)
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