Privacy, "Real ID" and do you want to be in a government facial-recognition data base? It's clearly okay for your next-door neighbor, but YOU? That's the question.

Government continues to overreach. Where's the Trumpster on this question. MIA?

This link, for a good report.

What if happenstance has you looking too much like a felonious person who raped a 7-year old in Florida?

It could upset a vacation plan, going through a TSA line at the departure airport. It could waste much time and money, your's in defending, taxpayers' in imposing the imposition.

UPDATE: Do you want to see bullshit before stepping in it? Homeland Security, on "REAL ID" here, search it for two words: facial and recognition.

Has Homeland Security cause to be less than up front with the citizens who, after all, own it?

Go figure.

Don't bury a burning issue.

Gaining useful electrical energy from waste, vs landfilling, seems to have much in its favor.

Does any reader know the full cost/benefit analysis; trucking and processing costs, and indirect environmental costs: carbon dioxide greenhouse gas generation from trash combustion vs methane greenhouse emission from landfills? Are there viable methane-landfill projects to recover the energy content that way?

Has it been thought out fully, or is the aim of trash-to-electricity so appealing a concept that scientific actualities were ignored?

Wind turbines and solar panels seem the best way, but if combustion remains the major electricity production route, what is its contribution to the carbon load vs automobiles? Are there sound studies?

A more burning question, with a global warming denier in the White House, will there be sound science added over the next four years?

Journalism wept.

An imitation of journalism, with a tweet parade, this link.

So, all bad? Not so. Some informative coverage of things that matter greatly is out there. Hat tip to Burns at MPP for originally posting that Hill link before it being posted here.

The size of his crowds matters as much as the size of his hands. The lowest of low quality nominees matters. Bless those true news outlets that recognize the gravity of the matter, and reported it. WaPo has no excuse. It has company, but nonetheless, no excuse. In that same category, coverage of the Gilbert and Sullivan outfit.

An arsonist in charge of the fire department?

A/k/a Betsy DeVos. Do your own web searching. Watch YouTube of her hearing before Senators. Read this. Watch this. Ditz of the Month. Even Minnesota's Col. Kline in championing the rip-off "private universities" who funded his campaigns was not that flat out offensive in his ways and means.That is saying something.

The Teachers Union sure ought to have backed Bernie. Chickens come home to roost. Bless the Nurses.

Featuring those Nike shoes.

This Strib image. From this item.

Big special item, middle of last century, BN [Before Nike]. Still made, for nostalgia seekers.

Twin City troglodytes rally amid clouds and dampness. Sunshine disappears for the duration.

Strib reports on the cramped minds gathering:

They have organized the March for Life for more than 40 years on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion. Each year, they urged passage of laws to restrict abortion. But with a Republican in the White House and Republican majorities in both Congress and in the Minnesota Legislature, they believe this could be the year they achieve goals [...]

At several points, cheers of “defund, defund” broke out when speakers made mention of Planned Parenthood, public funding for abortions or DFL Gov. Mark Dayton, who is a major hurdle for abortion opponents looking to change state laws. Republican leaders in the Minnesota Legislature, including House Speaker Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, pledged to do their best to follow through with those goals.

“With your prayers and your help, I believe we can end taxpayer-funded abortions and defund Planned Parenthood,” Daudt said.

[...] Many in the crowd of 90,000 to 100,000 who descended on the Capitol a day earlier for the Women’s March Minnesota carried signs with messages supporting abortion rights. Some said they see challenges to abortion laws as part of a bigger push to restrict women’s health care decisions.

Andrea Ledger, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota, said she didn’t see abortion as a primary issue that drove voters to the polls on Election Day. She said her group believes there is “broad support” for abortion rights across the country, including in Minnesota.

“I think that it would be a mistake on the part of state lawmakers or federal lawmakers to prioritize this issue,” Ledger said.

Strib surely got one thing dead wrong. Roe v Wade did not "legalize" abortion. It recognized the reach of a constitutional right to privacy and to reproductive planning within the broader private realm of family decision-making, and it excluded government intrusion. It hedged with the trimester stuff, but generally got freedom of decision in private matters correct in toto. This clown bunch wants to deny such rights, and is hence very dangerous, as well as stupid. They are a batch of government intrusion advocates and should view themselves for exactly what they are. They dislike others having basic rights. They are rigid minded. Tee shirts and all. They judge, and then blame God.

Jobs, jobs, jobs!

It might mean looking outside mainstream opportunities, looking past Trump presidency opportunity if you're a Dem or Independent; but some jobs require skills and attitudes you might lack. What's it pay might not be your first question. You might wonder how and why job openings arise.