BREAKING: Long Prison Terms Likely If Criminal Abuse Of QRobe 12.227.207.201 IP Address State Of California Data Center Services Department Of Technology San Francisco

     Monday, 26 August 2013, SW CORNER MARKET/VAN NESS STREETS SAN FRANCISCO - The Editorial Board and Global Bureaus of the Ninth Amendment Log unanimously agree, endorse, second and carry the motion fully to support the unchallenged claim and receipt of any and all monetary and/or other rewards solely by the individual who created, applied for to Google, writes, edits, controls, publishes and serves as the Administrator of this site appearing at the above-provided URL address www.waronnothing.blogspot.com commonly understood to be put forth onto the internet at its principal computer server located in Mountain View, California.
     Readers interested in pursuing their right to exercise their own "free speech" by like means including editorial, educational, commercial, social, political and/or all other species thereof as to which Congress shall make "[N]o law", United States Constitution Amendment One, via a means such as this log may be interested to know that the pseudo-experiment of days past conducted by this electronic publication herein described especially as to posts focusing on the techniques of the (extra)ordinary citizen in conducting one's own "Private Investigations" may be pleased to learn that such efforts with minimal focus on algorithms, keywords, megatrends, search engine optimizations and the like have indeed brought a steady increase in the worldwide readership audience through the simple act of writing.
     It is no secret that the CIA has acknowledged including in the press both a public joint venture investment with Google in mapping everyone's house on the planet as well as other investments including through "front" corporation(s) which either invest in Google directly or through the open market, that Google has disclaimed any ill-intentioned complicity in such actions by the CIA, and that Google indeed has even gone so far as to sue President Barack Obama for revelations of the NSA and other "National Security" agencies claimed "uncooperative" shared "data-mining" expeditions within the treasure troves of personally identifying information and cataloging of the identities, characteristics physical and otherwise, habits, no doubt bodily genetic sequences, fluids, hairs and so on of a fair population of the world including many American citizens suspected of nothing whatsoever, in shared efforts with the growing league of "social media" spyhouses run by Twitbot, "Zuck" Zuckerboy's Facelog or Mugbook, Ink 5, Linked-In-Chains, and so on. Real spies like acronyms, tech snoops prefer innocent-sounding names which are not.
     That having been said it strikes the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment log as extraordinarily curious that in the grossly apparent cyber, hacking, harassment, threats of harm, species of extortion, identity theft and myriad other local, state and federal crimes which this publication for reasons which escape us now has been compelled along with our loved ones to endure interfering with our peace, safety, happiness, work, ability to freely express ourselves much less earn a living for what we believe to be entering its third month that the person(s) engaging in such acts would choose of all methods to use those provided by the very federal agencies which can just as easily use those methods to backtrack with such ease their use compels one to wonder just how far their knowledge of anything extends once beyond the narrow confines of the "tech world".
     We will not further belabor the point in a world full of compelling and significant news as we already have spent far enough space in these past weeks fully documenting the apparently freshly illegal footsteps leading right to and through the doors and drawers of our computers, servers, files, and other information repositories and means of communication with our public. Several weeks back we even provided in HEADLINES the exact phone numbers which have ADMINISTRATED our accounts without our ever having provided them to anyone for the purposes, websites and URLS which have mysteriously shown a suddenly enormous amount of interest in our otherwise rather more limited audience political satire posts, and so on.
     Let us distill it to the following evidence that should it in fact prove that which it strongly tends to suggest to be true should provide more than enough fodder for plea bargains and prison sentences of downright UGLY terms. In the course of this education the Ninth Amendment has learned much and as always wishes to share some of that knowledge with our readers. To wit: SEARCH ENGINES: Google and we do not know how many others now save your EVERY search just in case you were interested or had any illusion of privacy left.
     Your every log in and log off of many different accounts, not to mention all changes or even just oddities of settings and habits are now RECORDED. Our dear readers no doubt already are aware that without near-constant diligence with an array of "add-ons", programs, toolbars, sledgehammers and who knows what else YOUR EVERY MOVE IS TRACKED. And it seems that everything that is not constantly updated immediately should be suspected of, what?, started to spy on readers, of course.  Just do a little reading on, say, Mozilla.org creators of the Firefox browser. Go ahead, we dare you.
     In any case we relate the following. By going into our Google accounts section (recall co-owned by the CIA), settings/security/activity, we can get a fairly quick snapshot of what has been going on with log ins and offs, password changes, location of work changes, server changes, IP address changes, etc. Upon doing this we were surprised to come upon the following. By the way, the way, the qrobe.it search engine available as a free Firefox add-on search engine allows us to look into all areas of interest with an https (secure?) connection privately searching terms of which it keeps no record and we would suppose leaves no trace.
     The Ninth Amendment log was surprised to find that just about the time our many diverse interferences with service, authorizations of unauthorized accounts and phones to go into our e-mail and disrupt our posts, our I.P. address suddenly changed from a very long tedious unchanged list to a couple entries for 12.227.207.201 IP Address - State of California - Data Center Services - California Department of Technology, or Dts-mis. This IP stood out from a long San Francisco list but instead supplied the rather "broader" San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose. This location was not too hard too find for this Host Name California IP address, necessitating only a quick qrobe.it search yielding, ta-da, www.IPlocationfinder.com.
     Seems that the "Recent Activity" in our "Google Accounts" in later July 2013 fell under the heading of "Notice of Unfamiliar Activity" (we all know about that, do we not?) Next thing we knew we were descending from the air toward the most recognizable intersection of Market and Van Ness Streets (yes same notorious southwest corner once home of Boas Honda before some incident we seem to remember from the 1990's was it already with a, well, too-young boy.) As we descended we learned that we were approaching IP latitude 37,7749, IP longitude -122.4194, "workplace" address home of the afore-mentioned California Department of Technology, now described by our computer as an agency which "Provides cost effective, large scale data processing and telecommunications (oh great!) services to the state, county, federal and local government. And us, apparently. AT&T Services we learned provides the address. Alas with just two entries on that location which apparently had been performing administrator functions including between our (unknown) "linked" Google accounts to (our previously unknown to exist) Picasa, Youtube, and our independent unrelated (we thought) e-mail account, Google sadly failed us, informing us that the sudden unrush was over as the prior two weeks of OUR July data apparently were disappeared just like that into a simple but powerful notice "Events unavailable prior to this date".
     Funny seemed to us that about half of this past July had felt just about the same to us. Well written.

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Ninth Amendment Defies Experts Screams To Top Of Charts New Keywords HAARP, Denver Airport Swastika, Qaddafi Shell Casing, F-35 $1 Trillion, Snowden Stumps NSA

     Sunday, 25 August 2013, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK - First and foremost our hearts go out to all living beings threatened by the Yosemite National Park blaze including any and all scattered landowners grandfathered or otherwise in the vicinity of the historic park first named as a "National Monument" by President Theodore Roosevelt. The fire has been deemed enough of a threat to the water supply of San Francisco stored in Hetch Hetchy Reservoir that California Governor Jerry Brown had at last reports available to the Ninth Amendment log called a state of emergency.
     Hetch Hetchy Dam was constructed in the early years of the 20th Century over the lifelong protestations of naturalist and foremost friend of the Earth John Muir who as chronicled in an outstanding PBS (yes another bane of the "Modern" Republican Party) television documentary recounting the historic visit of Theodore Roosevelt (himself a Republican) to Yosemite Valley at which visit he eschewed his planned state dinner at the Ahwautaukee Lodge and instead spent the night speaking with and sleeping in sleeping bags beneath the great rock walls of Yosemite Valley beside the great naturalist John Muir.
     This story is here revisited from an earlier post a couple years back on this log which recounts the great coup of President Theodore Roosevelt which followed. Apparently completely in awe of the natural wonder to which he awoke President Roosevelt experienced a cathartic moment in which the realization overtook him that the transcendent natural beauty of the land of the country, his and John Muir's country that he saw stretching in all directions was not something to be conceptualized as some transitory possession as might be consistent with the prevalent robber baron views of the time.
     What stood before the two men was the representation of a sacred trust they held not just to a few or perhaps even the citizens of a single country, but rather an enduring timeless part of the Earth to which they held a sacred duty to preserve for all peoplekind. In any case the "coup" which unfolded in the furious following months was unparalleled in history. The emboldened and inspired President Theodore Roosevelt returned aglow to Washington, D.C. and in a some might call sleight of hand that bordered on the magical or mystical convinced the United States Congress to bestow upon the President alone the power under the enacted "National Antiquities Act" to with maps of the United States in hand with the stroke of a pencil (we believe he however used a pen) "suggested" a remarkable collection of "National Monuments" to forever be preserved and saved from the petty and transitory destruction of commercial pillage.
     Before the United States Congress knew what had hit it President Theodore Roosevelt had used the presumably modest powers of the Act to mark off reasonably restrained preserves around the country the President instead with the guidance of John Muir and others had with great strokes of his pen forever (one hoped) marked off wide swaths of land in places near and far and encompassing the most spectacular lands of the Country for designation as National Monuments which later were to become the very heart of this Nation's National Park System.
     Alas John Muir did NOT succeed in his one greatest quest to save Hetch Hetchy from being dammed and the valley which the naturalist described unbelievably as being even MORE breathtaking, spectacular, and beautiful than its parallel Yosemite Valley was indeed dammed to satisfy the commercial interests of the burgeoning city of San Francisco. John Muir is said never to have recovered from this most terrible blow and to have then carried for the relatively few more years that he survived to his grave. To this day people still speak of undoing the damage and removing the damn.     
     The agricultural and other interests say impossible. Curiously to this day San Francisco is said to waste far more precious pristine Sierra Mountain water each morning just watering Golden Gate Park with virgin water than ALL such water (carefully reclaimed) used by its supposedly rapacious neighbor to the south, Los Angeles, the City of the Angels.  
     Well darn the Ninth Amendment editorial board has really wandered afar this time. To those readers who have held on the past couple of days and nights we have been in the midst of a GRAND EXPERIMENT. Rather than merely an onslaught of algorithms, keywords, megatrends, search optimizations and so on of which we know, well, very little at this point the Ninth Amendment Log instead has attempted to attract a growing readership (somewhat disturbed shall we say by untoward events of  recent weeks past) amongst its worldwide audience by presenting merely a bit of hopefully decent and interesting writing.
     Surprise! The scheme in the past days would appear actually to have worked as amidst some of our usual digressions we have stuck more or less faithfully to the interesting and even to some intriguing secrets of the profession of Private Investigator. With neither compensation nor remuneration of any kind we have shared as "fair comment" portions of "The Private Investigator's Handbook" by Chuck Chambers, P.I. So after all this it only seems fair that we continue on here for those still with us with a few tidbits from Chapter Eight, "How To Shake A Tail". Particularly as Mr. Chambers seems to have specifically connected these bits to his concern for the safety of women. To wit (per Mr. Chambers):
   
     o   Number of reported stalking cases in the United States each year:  1,006,970

     o    Number of women battered yearly:  6,000,000

     o    Percentage of murdered women each year killed by a current or former spouse:  52

     o    Percentage of clients who come to me because they want to avoid being followed:   3

     Readers of the Ninth Amendment first are referred to previous posts of the past couple days which by inference clearly suggest certain ways to shake a vehicular tail.

     -     The first Make a U-Turn readers may remember is to head for the nearest four-lane highway and make a u-turn there. "After a short distance, maneuver to the left lane and look for the first available break in the median strip where you can safely do a u-turn. Naturally you're looking for any vehicle that makes the same u-turn behind you". As Mr. Chambers says the other car faces a dilemma, and either you've made the tail and/or discouraged them for today.

     -     The second readers will remember is to Head for a Dead-End, one of the "best methods" according to Mr. Chambers unless of course one thinks "there is any element of danger involved". Once the tail follows you into the dead-end street, go into the last residence and pull into the driveway. You now have the tail in a bottleneck and can put your car in reverse and head back out the street. "At this point, you're in a position where you can either confront the person or you can fall in behind him or her and take their tag number. The predator has to pass within a few feet."
            "Your tail knows the jig is up, and with the tag number you can identify who the driver is. If the tag comes back a licensed PI" call your lawyer.

     -     Technique three is Residential Turns which requires paying attention. "If you make three consecutive turns in a residential area and the same car is still behind you, the chances are you're under surveillance. Make a u-turn to shake the tail."

     -     Techniques four, five and six we will simply name and leave to our readers to pursue should they wish. They are: Left Turns, For Sale Sign (Get Ahead Out of Sight Pull Into For Sale Driveway Lie Across Front Seat And Let Tail Pass Which Will Make Most PIs Give Up After About Ten Minutes, next is The Yellow Light which we will bet our readers can figure out if they can gauge their speed then leave the tail at a red, next is Look For A Second Tail, and Finally Is Collect Evidence Of A Tail When Safe To Do So.

     Finally finally from your editorial board at the Ninth Amendment the recently repeated reminder has of late unfortunately become important again -- young women DO NOT STOP for apparent police marked or unmarked lights or no lights up top on dash whatever in ANY kind of an isolated area. Proceed to a nearby police station if you know where one is otherwise calmly continue until you are in a VERY WELL LIT AND VERY OCCUPIED PLACE. When in doubt ALWAYS USE YOUR CELL PHONE FOR 9-1-1 IN OR OUT OF YOUR SERVICE AREA, YOU WILL BE CONNECTED AND NOT HAVE TO PAY.
    
     Remember keep your car moving until you are sure as sure can be you are safe, and never, ever, let anyone get you off of the street into a vehicle. Tear out their eyes and scream bloody murder. Did we say that? Well we must have meant it.

     Now let us continuing growing the audience readership, what do our readers say? Sorry but at this point we will just keep those extra keywords in the title until next times, when there are always more topics to turn to, always more stories to tell, always more things to learn. Knowledge is power. POW!

     Stick around here, and we are going to tell our readers how to get the best education money can buy, absolutely for free. Promise. God Bless America where anyone can still go to the Best Boarding Schools, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the Best Law Schools, yeiks they really can, and we will tell you how we did (without even getting arrested -- in most cases!) Or readers can spend a trillion dollars for a bunch of airplanes. If anyone would care to fly them, that is.9

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Worldwide Ninth Amendment Readership Escalation Cements Investigator's Handbook Algorithmic Theoretical Hypothesis Even As San Francisco Sierra Emergency Declared

       Sunday, 25 August 2013, FT. LAUDERDALE, FL - First off readers NO intention to be alarmist here although the above headline would seem justified in light of California stalwart Governor Jerry Brown's declaration of an extended State of Emergency in light of an apparent possible water shortage threat posed by San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir's proximity to the current Yosemite Sierra Rim fire.
       Alas as of this hour most news seems nevertheless to be emanating from New York via Facebook rather than what might otherwise be expected under the circumstances where presently all remains ostensibly quiet in San Francisco but for the parking meter scooters revving up for the infamous trendsetting Sunday morning early Church service parking sweep.  (Unfair that meter sweep actually now takes place on Sunday afternoons to the delight of all San Francisco shopkeepers in the Nation's only city where so many people see things so much more alike than the rest of the Country yet manage to incessantly argue about every nitpicky detail.)
     In any case the Ninth Amendment editorial staff and news bureaus not currently being informed of any further imminently actual threat to life or limb at the moment have decided to go ahead with the sociological pseudo-semi-scientific study of viral audience readership commenced just hours ago as we have watched the number of readers if not race at least ploddingly circle the globe in our examination of the relative success of substantive reading in comparison to statistical manipulative slight of hand.
     Our insomniac readers no doubt will recall that earlier this evening rather than focus on the latest slew of keywords, megatrends, algorithms and the like the Ninth Amendment instead decided to just go ahead and electronically publish some content that was arguably written in some sort of English hastily edited derivative rather "fair comment" material derived from "The Private Investigator's Handbook" copyright 2005 Chuck Chambers P.I. So as not to risk creating too much commotion with unknown events perhaps still unfolding we indeed shall stick to the perhaps predominantly (but not necessarily) male-oriented topic of "tailing the mark" as our readers will recall.
       And here offered as fair comment again without any compensation or other remuneration whatsoever is the Ninth Amendment's continuing recommendation of Mr. Chamber's work as stated by the Private Investigator himself under the topic "Tailing Tactics":
     "From your vantage point of two car lengths back, grit your teeth as your mark drives right past the gym where they claimed to be working out every morning. So where is the bastard going? You have to follow to find out. Here are some basic tactics for tailing with a car:

     o   Two-lane road: Remain at least two car lengths behind.

     o   Four-lane road: Travel in the lane beside the target, either right or left but not behind them.          Ninety percent of drivers who are suspicious of being following or feeling guilty about their destination will check the center rearview mirror as opposed to the sidemirrors. They are generally concerned with the car immediately to their rear.

     o  Approaching an intersection: Change lanes to move temporarily behind the mark in case they decide to make a turn. If the target doesn't turn, move back to the side lane.

     o  Congested traffic:  Remain two car lengths behind in the side lane.

     o  Thinning traffic patterns: Drop back three or four lengths.

     o   Dead end. If the mark turns down a dead-end street, do not follow them! If your target made a wrong turn, he or she will most certainly see you on the way out, as you were traveling in. If it turns out that your target doesn't come back, the mystery destination may be down that street. You'll know soon enough when the mark's car doesn't come back out."

     So readers we thank Mr. Chambers for the rather lengthy quote offered as fair comment with the assurance that if this type of occupation is up one's alley (as it were) this is the best example one can get of the type of material and writing to expect in this book, and should readers decide to acquire it on their own we have in fact borrowed but a most small fraction of the text to give readers the flavor and quality of Private Investigator Chambers work and writing. All in all we recommend the Handbook as an interesting indeed fascinating at points read regardless of one's precise stake in the outcome of the maneuvering described in such detail. Their is something admittedly for us intriguing and engaging both in the author's voice and in the sociological phenomena revealed in the daily pursuits of the well-heeled Private Investigator.
     And so back to our statistics from which we will be sure to report the type of audience response this follow-up post engenders which admittedly we find a refreshing change from endless tomes on such topics as the vagaries of search engine optimization (SEO) and so on. In any case wishing our readers all the best until the next post and our heartfelt thanks for readers (hopefully) continuing interest in the Ninth Amendment Log. We do have a target ahead in our sites as well, as it were, and we shall see. . . .

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Some Fair Comment Excerpts From "The Private Investigator's Handbook" By Chuck Chambers, P.I. - Slick Street Moves For Law-Abiding Investigators

     Saturday, 24 August 2013, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - The editorial staff and global bureaus of the Ninth Amendment log are all too aware that there continue to be many tragic, frightening and downright sick events unfolding in this all-too-small world which we and our readers like it or not share with an unfortunately large number of often odious, sometimes shadowy and frequently surprisingly obviously unwell characters who have shall we say not for all appearances yet met their Salvation. We are aware the feeling in some cases may be mutual. Amen.
     This post is not about all that, we would hope. Please think of it more in the spirit of the classification of say the awesomely talented author Graham Greene, himself formerly a member of the British Foreign Service (ahem), of an abbreviated weekend "entertainment".  For those of our readers who are as yet unaware of the phenomenon there exist an abundance of materials describing "tips, tricks, traps" and so on (loosely) promising a lifetime of easy money "passive" streams flowing through the mere authorship of logs, blogs, web pages and the like which would seem to rely entirely on the manipulation of design, statistics, keywords, algorithms, natural cures and "free money" (Kevin Trudeauisms). The ability actually to write does not appear to be a requirement for success in this burgeoning field.
     In any case we have decided instead to attempt to entice our worldwide readership with a bit of "fair comment" on some recent summer reading which we found at points particularly engrossing depending in many cases on our individual situations, tastes, hobbies and areas of interest. That reading being namely "The Private Investigator's Handbook," ("the Handbook") copyright 2005 Chuck Chambers, P.I., the author a former Palmetto, Florida police patrolman and later member of the county drug task force who at the time of writing the Handbook claimed over 20,000 cases in twenty-two years as a Private Investigator.
     The back cover of the book attests to his development of "an impressive list of clients, including sports and entertainment personalities". Not the least of whom we will disclose to have learned in the Handbook to be the notorious "Pee-Wee" Herman in case our readers were wondering how the infamous "dark movie theater" outlaw (apart from the alleged but never convicted Lee Harvey Oswald) was whisked by Mr. Chambers unmolested from hotel room to court appearance and back again (also a striking difference of course from Mr. Oswald's fate who perhaps may have fared better in the care of Mr. Chambers than that of Dallas' finest).
     In his own words Mr. Chambers states in the Introduction to the Handbook that "[i]n this litigious time, my goal is to empower the private citizens who need undercover legal assistance, but don't have the money to obtain justice or protect themselves, by hiring a professional. With this book, you can hire yourself."  We found that last sentence especially catchy. . . . But seriously here we wish to emphasize our disclaimers regarding NOT having any particularized NOR OTHER knowledge in this area which we most certainly DO NOT. This post is offered strictly for its human interest value and as intimated above a species of test as to what DOES drive a post's audience.
     Moreover obviously times and laws have changed continuously Mr. Chambers emphasizes, "they" (always?) say it is a more dangerous world, and Mr. Chambers himself stresses that essentially in ANY case where one perceives personal danger BACK OFF and NOTIFY LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES as appropriate. Finally Mr. Chambers' use of the words "protect themselves" quoted above is not read by us to in any way mean that the Handbook nor the advice therein is any substitute for personal protection in any way involving human health or safety.
     The Ninth Amendment repeats its ritual reminder that in making fair comment on the Handbook so far as this post is read as a recommendation of the book itself for any entertainment, information or other value the Ninth Amendment log has received no money nor any other remuneration whatsoever from anyone. Should any related advertisement appear outside the text of the post itself we express no choice nor exert any control in that matter although readers may rest assured if any entity becomes richER as a result of any such commercial "message" as they say on television that would be Google and possibly its joint venturer the CIA (depending on pertinent agreements and law) and alas not us.
     Now enough already would our readers rather have a taste of techniques for catching a cheating spouse or ascertaining the odds of one's vehicle being followed? In the interests of marital harmony as it were we here will opt for a taste of the latter from the pages of the Handbook. . . . Although we first might as well tempt our readers with Mr. Chambers asserted percentages as to the first matter. Aww, never mind who wants to start a Sunday morning like that?

TAILING STATISTICS (PER THE HANDBOOK)
     Percentage of  cases that involve tailing:     70
     Percentage who catch a professional tailing them:     10
     Percentage of divorce cases that require tailing a spouse:     95    (sorry...)
    Number of vehicles used to conduct a one-week tail:     6
    Number of vehicles used on a single tail:     2 to 4
    Percentage of marks who are looking for a tail:     60
    Percentage of cases resolved with evidence from tailing:     90 to 95
    Chances that tailing is illegal if you have a legitimate legal reason:     0  (we hope so)
    Cost per hour to hire a top P.I. to conduct surveillance:     $75      (year 2005)
    Cost to hire yourself:     0 to $350     (year 2005)

     Now before we say farewell and get to studying our readership statistics, we trust our readers will wish to know, according to Mr. Chambers after a lengthy discussion of techniques for tailing on different types of roads, perhaps most importantly "WHEN TO TURN TAIL" might seem advisable:

THEY ARE:
Your mark makes U-Turns on a four lane road
Your mark continues to make turns or circles in a parking lot

     Well that exhausts Mr. Chambers final list, but we are confident OUR readers can think of a couple more circumstances in which "WHEN TO TURN TAIL" might seem even MORE than advisable. As always hoping our readers can save some of their hard-earned cash and, above all, stay safe, be safe.

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Noose Tightens On Federal-Prison Bound Cybercriminals In Resounding National Endorsement Of Free Speech And Global Thirst For Freedom Of Expression, Cheney To Trade Pigheart For Teenage Human Body Parts

     Sunday, 18 August 2013, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - The Ninth Amendment this week celebrates a spate of birthdays amongst dear friends, close schoolmates, famous persons and B-B-Q lovers not the least of whom is former President Bill Clinton who shares a birthday with one particularly devoted figure who has contributed doggedly to the steady quality growth of readership in the Ninth Amendment for over half a decade now. It is only fitting this post is submitted out of the above dateline location that being the ostensible home of our main server location with of course mirror locations around the globe.
      "Mirror servers" remind us of one particularly ugly investment in Akamai pushed on us by a former sellout friend who was a decent attorney and personal investor but became a very sorry lapboy pig of criminal "full-service" brokerage PaineWebber that sure did some full service on all the retirement money we ever made in public interest work. Later combining with confessed criminal Swiss bank United Bank of Switzerland in the "dynamic criminal duo" UBS PaineWebber those greedy morons actually discouraged investments in Akamai when a prescient non-insider engineer at Akamai who said "buy, buy, buy" with it selling at about three dollars a share pnksheet, because there was nothing in it for UBS PW. Later once criminal UBS PaineWebber underwrote the stock, however (was on the take) it encouraged purchases at $375 a share the day before Akamai plummeted "good-bye" about a third never to return from an excruciatingly long dive to bankruptcy. For most that was a GOOD investment with UBS PaineWebber one's one-place stop for capital losses.
     Come to think of it we cannot wait to write some posts on that and some other criminal financial services "full-service" outfits and their ugly practices such as taking (legal, huh?) kickbacks for executing your orders on the many exchanges which actually make up a single exchange hunting for a trade like a pig snorting for a truffle on which IT not YOU makes the money, innocuously known as "flowback for order flow" as annually fully disclosed on index cards only legible when read in a mirror with 3-D glasses. Yes they sure do give a reader FULL SERVICE with the GARDEN HOSE. 
     The only one that must give us a bigger chuckle is BANK OF AMERICA which is simply put the biggest bunch of "legitimized" thieves in the world (just our humble uninformed opinion) who admittedly cannot even perform simple math without making exponential errors consistently in guess whose favor? Dear Readers, think we would mislead you?  Find out at your peril.
     We cannot even dissuade our mothers from trusting their Canadian pennies (that is usually all that is left by the time BANK OF AMERIKA is done with their change purses and shaking out grandmother's mattresses) at that -- VERY loosely speaking "bank". Do our readers think B your A will come after us for such irresponsibly absolutely totally TRUE statements? Unlikely. We just have one thing to say to our readers who have their money or anything of value (Bank of Amerika shamelessly even steals senior citizens wallets right out of their purses while fingerprinting them --  a practice with which B your A management certainly should feel comfortable) at the money facilitator of that which happens to be the largest criminal or any other kind of bankruptcy in history. PARMALAT, Italian style - look it up and weep.
     And five dollars to cash a check on one of its own bank account holders' instruments?  These people have neither shame nor brains, but their teeth sure are white (and sharp). Our regrets to the many clueless employees of B your A -- in this case we strongly recommend another job or sure even the unemployment line -- better that than working for these crooks unless of course one is in training to become one oneself.
     Gosh, did we say that? Well we must have meant it. Perhaps these cybercriminals who have been chocking up the years -- see earlier posts for their phone numbers and other identifying information they were good enough to leave behind on their criminal hacking forays -- have gotten to us a bit interfering with our speech and threatening our children and those we love. Our thanks again to any and all Feds who have been on the good side throughout. And once convicted we look forward to sharing their sorry attempts in our fabricated e-mails at . . . the English language?
     Please keep posted because should anyone slip through the cracks we fully expect a significant reward will be on the way for information directly leading to the arrest, convictions, and no less than two oh let us say five years federal prison time. First let us sit back and watch the rats jump from the ship, pointing their dirty nails at one another. Everyone loves a rat with dirty nails. . . .
     Finally the Ninth Amendment is delighted to be back with a lot of really fine equipment on loan. And no kidding the "stats" we soon will compile and share with readers not already having done it (somehow) on their own do show the Ninth Amendment is now read by readers in more than half the countries on the planet including nearly the entire Northern Hemisphere with the exception of North Korea. One can only sell so man pairs of the Elvis (later years' look) sunglasses.
     Soon we expect to be sharing the highlights of those stats -- even if they are supplied by Google with joint-venturer the Center for International Assassinations (CIA). If compiling our stats keeps the CIA from murdering people and leaving the American people to face the inevitable unexpected mystery killer "blowback" we are all for that.
     In the meantime think about how much the average reader might wish to contribute to the reward (held in trust) and as with all not to be collectible by those doing their jobs anyway to help send these criminals away -- start dangling a handful of dimes (in the words of Jim Morrison) in front of their noses, and it sure will be interesting to see for how much the rats will sell each other down the river.  Not much we would guess as by all accounts the stupidity of the cybercrime is just how easily the trail leads both ways. Oh my blowback indeed. 
      And soon enough back to some of the pressing questions by necessity pushed aside. Has the DEA really committed YET ANOTHER colossal blunder sending America's sick and in pain and young to the morgue with bodies full of super-strong heroin in the latest in a long uninterrupted history of MAJOR POLICY BLUNDERS in the same sorry name of "public safety"? "Public safety" for the D.E.A. means taking away their guns and giving them water pistols and toy doctor bags somewhere they can stay out of trouble for a long, long time, as in until their D.E.A. mousepads (available in YOUR local dumpster) have rotted away and no one really remembers what the acronym stood for back to its proud (huh?) origins in Prohibition. Dumb Enough Already (DEA).
     But could it be that President Obama former admitted drug dealer himself will actually live up to some of those nearly decade-old campaign promises and, along with Attorney General Eric Holder, let some of the EIGHT HUNDRED PER CENT increase in the federal prison population go into treatment and leave a little room for the truly violent? Those who we largely have the phony "war on drugs" to thank for anyway, and sorry folks by the way it did not start in the 1980's. It has been a cynical ploy since well before that that had nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with all the lies of Republican icon "Tricky Dick" Nixon ("the Christmas Day Bomber") and sidekick "Spiro Agnew" who supplied his failed condo complex as the still present-day EPA Headquarters above a Safeway, pardoned just in the nick of time as they were dusting his cell in the Republican Hall of Fame. Spiro "my man" the only Vice President who maybe even had one up on fellow "construction" investor on Dick "Pigheart" Cheney (we hear he is trading in Central American teenage body parts down on the Mexican-Belize border, may even get one himself a new heart when the kid stops screaming). And the Republicans are afraid of Hillary?

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No Warning: Hacking For Dummies 415 Email "Terror" Hacker Rejects Two-Year Plea, Loses House And Gets 18 Years In The Big House (Not By The Sea)

     Saturday, 10 August 2013, BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS  The Editorial Board of the Ninth Amendment log is most grateful for Little L's generous diversion of time from her own most busy and intensive, independent investigative work currently on projects with others to assist the Ninth Amendment log in its cooperation with both public and private Law Enforcement Individuals and Agencies in Washington D.C., Austin, Texas, and the San Francisco Bay Area to whom the Ninth Amendment remains most grateful and confident  in their abilities to bring the CRIMINALS responsible for a growing  list of cyber and other crimes related to the matter of the attempted disruption of this publication unfettered exercise of it's Constitutional Rights to swift and certain (not to mention extremely lengthy see-below terms-of-justice).  We of course are all saddened for the moment by the present unfortunate circumstances until these Criminals are cooling their heels for a decade or two in Federal Prison.  In the meantime, in the Spirit of as they say in New Hampshire "Live Free or Die" Little L shares with our readers some of the benefits of  her own recent research should those readers be concerned about the integrity of their own personal email and other computer communications.  In that Spirit, Little L wishes to offer to, yes it is true, FACTS FOR THE DAY:  (1) We call the address bar at the top of our or any web page the URL line.  We do not know and we do not care the important thing is that we look at the beginning in the upper left for the letters "https".  The "s" stands for "Secure".  It does not mean our connection is totally secure (President Obama-Bama-BoBama and his sell-out Geek College Students, as well as, some of the bad guys can still read it).  But it is better than nothing.  (2)  The second and to me the more exciting FACTS FOR THE DAY, and our fine readers will learn more about this in our promised upcoming post when we can get  one out after the criminals take a break from increasing their prison terms is that in my recent research assisting the Ninth Amendment  RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS, Research Bureau I discovered that the Ninth Amendment is about to rate the following (SHHHHHH you did not hear it from me) our favorite word "FREE" and is based in an exotic foreign country where they do not let the monkeys read your mail and you choose your own super-cool  ".com" in your email address.  And the WINNER is as the foregoing hints www.hushmail.com!  Be sure and pick yours soon before all the good ones are gone.

     As Big M always reminds us in instances such as this the Ninth Amendment log never  under any circumstance receives any money nor remuneration whatsoever for suggestions, endorsements or recommendations that we make in our posts which are based solely on our own experience, opinion or information.  The Ninth Amendment of course is not responsible for nor does it make any decision as to the placement of advertisements by Google Ad Sense or nor any of Google's other most recent commercial endorsers.

     Hello, this is your LOYAL Little L, REPORTER-AT-LARGE.  Before I report the most instructive news report below, I first wish to tell all our Dear Readers how pleased I am to have this opportunity to visit, if only for a short time.  I miss you all, I will be back

     Now lets get back to the Guy I mentioned in the headlines above, WOW talk about a wicked neighbor, this guy takes the cake!  I don't know about you, but I certainly do not want a guy like this living next to me.  I have provided the following link so that you can read for yourself the lengths some really sick and mentally deranged people will go to to be vindictive and downright evil. Are you ready? Oh, by the way, make sure and read the rest of this post.  I have highlighted some of the most important and pertinent information from the article for your safe keeping should you find yourself victim to someone like this GUY!!!!!.  Okay, here is the link to the article I want you to read from Wired.com. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/hacking-neighbor-from-hell/

     I know, I know I was really sick after I read the article myself.  But the good news is that this Oldie, but Goodie Article gave you and me some very valuable information.  I learned, that there is help available.  I would not hesitate to contact any and all authorities including my local Police, District Attorney, as well as the FBI, just to mention a few if I felt my accounts had been compromised.  I would also tell everyone I know about my predicament.  I would ask them all to notify me immediately if they felt they had receive any suspicious correspondence. In addition, the victim in this article had legal help.  The victim had a PACKET SNIFFER installed and the victim had a forensics computer investigator who reviewed the packet logs. which ultimately led to the apprehension of the perpetrator.

     Dear Readers, we at the Ninth Amendment hope that this never, ever happens to you, but if you do find yourself compromised, we hope that this information helps.  Until next time, be nice to your neighbors or don't.  It's your call!!!

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Some Sly Tricks Of The Tradecraft As It Were, Keywords Hack, Steal, Spy, Eavesdrop, iPhone, E-Mail, Master, Password, Phrasestring, Privacy, Constitution, Guns, Lawyers, Money

       Thursday, 8 August 2013, NORTH HAVEN, MAINE - Well the ruling elite is off from their five-day weekend houses in the Hamptons to their five-week summer houses off the coast of Maine. The cooks, au pairs and housekeepers are keeping the children out of sight and setting out the hard liquor  We are fighting with the locals and longtimers over mooring amongst the sailboats our 250-foot power yacht (just slightly longer than the Ferry) bought with Google AdSense pocket change and tastefully emblazoned down the hull in "graffiti-look" the words "AMENDMENT NINE AIN'T SHE FINE!" Seems our fuel requirements to fill up will empty the Vinal Haven marina fuel tanks until sometime next Spring. Perfect!
       Anyway dawn is breaking over Penobscott Bay or maybe it is just early evening but anyway we did promise SOME content. Okay, this one is not on e-mail as expected (look up "hush mail" readers who just cannot wait), but we know are readers are sure to love it anyway. No doubt some are aware of the battle raging between the D.A.s of San Francisco and Manhattan about the disabling of MePhones. The D.A.s say they now are responsible for something like half of all street crime. The manufacturers meanwhile are saying it is impossible to turn one off (unless the bill is not paid). No really one can only imagine the hit to sales and SHARE PRICE of Apple and Samsung if everyone were not forced to buy two or three of each model of phone due to theft. It could bring the economy to its knees.
       Now here is a Ninth Amendment solution courtesy of an unnamed friend who comes up with ideas like the following about three a minute when not dumpster diving in the abandoned DEA trash (did readers know the Agency even has its very own MOUSEPADS?) or especially Costco's (it has been known to throw out entire RACKS of mountain bikes because they are last season's or cases of super-expensive light bulbs because a couple were broken in shipping), and that is just the START of an evening's dumpster shoppin. . .
       The idea for the MePhones is fairly simple but then are not all the best ideas? Have our readers figured out what all those buttons and holes and little switches and things do yet? Do not worry neither have we. Just find the sequence which allows one to put some text across the front of the phone, and if being a reader not a video game player one cannot find it have a child do it for you. Then just pick some effective phrase and have it display across the front of the phone. In our case it is amazing how effective the two simple words "No Service" have been in eliminating all interest in our phones. Sorry Apple and Samsung.
       Well the e-mail tips will mostly have to await another day, but the phone one above was worth at least a few hundred dollars would our readers not say? Readers first tip, though, is that according to the computer magazines which we do NOT read, the password/master password thing is out for most of us who otherwise spend our nights awake sweating trying to remember what we have forgotten no longer having any time to actually do anything like write e-mails, bank, pay bills, etc., as we are so busy managing all our passwords and latest security devices and updating our operating systems, browsers, add-ons, tending to sick plug-ins and so on, and then it is time to go out and buy the next generation of "heavy equipment" . . . 
       Anyway, they call them "passphrases" and we really could not tell our readers if they are adequate or not. Supposedly anyway after having been told that pet names, birthdays, and now just any old words are out because of "dictionary" attacks we understand the latest things are "passphrases" which are a few words strung together in a not completely predictable way and which we actually might have a chance of remembering. Oh and one more thing of course is the big recommendation of late that one do the "two-step" security with the second step being, you guessed it naturally, a final security code to punch in called to the phone which one just had stolen. . . .
       Until next time, happy computing, and get ready for some more real tried but true "tradecraft", like the three consecutive turns when being followed, the (states names will be coming next time) trust for the car's registration and about ten other things one would rather keep private, clicking the car door open just BEFORE, PLEASE SAFETY FIRST the tow truck is about to pick it up (occupied vehicle), the homemade mailbox added at the end of the rural row, and so on. . . .  But first and foremost, and we will remind you again before we continue:  Never do anything about which one has doubts before consulting a duly licensed attorney.
       Living off the grid without the good old U.S.D.A. grade "A", hey, hey, hey.

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"Zuck" Zuckerboy Facebook Security Threatens "Fight" United States And World Governments No PRISM Prison

                                          *  THIS POST RE-EDITED FOR COHERENCE *

       Monday, 5 August 2"013, DUBLIN - In the pages of Google Bloggerdom it is a time for quiet reflection on the modest advances made by Google in the past ten years. It has been an arduous long journey from the MIT-spawned little honest-to-goodness little "link-based" academic search engine that could lugging its boxes of test tubes and printer cables out to a garage in Palo Alto (oh, please) to just another giant Beltway-Tech Gulch national security front that would catalog the world and everything that lives on, in or under it after first selling them each and every one something and call it (why not?) "social media" whatever that supposedly means. And just as in the spirit of the others everyone gets a badge, just like in Nazi Ger. . .  oh never mind.
     This fine day as a few more pennies roll into our Google "trust" account we reflect as destiny or perhaps less glamorously merely petty human interruptions beyond our immediate control would have it writing our post with some regularity or at least let us say "from time to time" ever mindful of the Ninth Amendment Log's fundamental duty to our very own (hard)core public followers and very secret other admirers (well, okay, readers anyway) perhaps now so jaded that nothing ever surprises this close circle of Ninth Amendment "elite" except at times that darn CIA (is it still around,  it did what?)  and those occasional Republican upset victory winners who land in the Beltway propelled straight out of the Dark Ages (or the early skirmishes of Boston Harbor in the Revolutionary War they might imagine) from what state? threatening what? This is not always so easy as it might seem, even with our global staff of ten thousand and growing. (No we do not get the proceeds from the tasteful little billboards Google insists on hanging from the Van Goghs and the Dalis.)

       In short the readers who keep our WOT "sociometer" rating at a solid "what" (insuring at least on good days almost a nickel trickling in per post to our Google trust account after Google gets its cut with which one day we can rest easy knowing our heirs will hit "payday" (that poor word now forever maligned by those crooks who never really worked for a true "payday" in their lives, the ones whom they used to take out back in the Bible and flog for "usury" along with the early issuers of the made out of stone "just say 'charge it'" credit cards) when our advertising account balance actually reaches the allegedly distributable sum of $100. 

       Believe it or not that figure was $10 when Google actually sent one a check when we started this "blogger" thing last Century but we did not make it there to the promised "e-z money" $10 in time after the first couple years before that figure went up tenfold. No doubt by the time we reach the now $100 minimum for distribution "in Google trust" it will have with inflation been put up to $1000 to cover the cost of the stamp and just about then Google after some good decades will no doubt be "reorganizing" anyway and do you not know the lawyers get all the money from that anyway? In any case we thank the Golden circle from keeping that WOT "sociometer" rating hovering in the safe mid-zone rather than the needle taking the final plunge to "no trust", abandon,  "delete address bar and history cache" immediately, "smash computer and throw hard drive in dumpster (in small pieces) sinking in Hackensack 'Meadowlands'".
       Yes we recognize that ALL THIS is but for the small fanatical group to which we duly pay homage as but for this broom-closetful-of inexplicable readers (aww, here come the broom ads) our very own "top inner echelon" of readers at embassies, consulates, stink-tanks, international global conventions on micro-monetary policy for the 23rd Century, Bohemian grove types, informants looking for something to pawn off on their contacts as "original" to get their next taxpayer handout to buy the next fix. And so must be dished up some extra juicy obscure news item reassuring these our most special readers they are in the know like President Bama-Bam Bomb-Bomb Oh Bam-Bama) and  HERE IT COMES RIGHT NOW THE BIG SCOOP:  Extra  favorite super special VERY top-level secret CIA agent Mister, ahem, Zuckerboy (aka the "Zuck") -- okay we have finally "spilt the beans" but please those of our most recent new readers with our complimentary subscriptions yes we mean the last election members of Congress and political appointees who have just now found their offices, do not choke on your Monday afternoon breakfast extra rare prime rib should you be one of those newer readers we will have you up to speed in no time.
        Now here at the Ninth Amendment we of course do not know about OUR faithful readers' every habit since we do not make it ours to read OUR constituents e-mail or "social media" communications on any kind of a regular basis -- nor in fact our own for that matter -- although no doubt whatever diehard enthusiasts this very-grateful Ninth Amendment Log still may have remaining at this point (their every move being fair game given our VERY special relationship with Google wherein "the Goog" as we insiders know it goes to the staggering expense of carrying this blog on the taxpayers backs and so on . . . .)

        Well even our editorial board more or less forgot what this post was about however we did know we wished to reply to the following which presented itself to us when we today made the rare foray onto Facelog, Mugbook, F*ckbook recently suggested by a reader, what have you, to remind ourselves of who it said our friends were -- it really has gotten so good it more or less just manages the whole social thing, faces, friends, social groups, even other body parts now as we saw it even can take care of the whole time-consuming courting and marriage thing for one, too -- we just power it up and type in a few words now and then, check off a couple more of our remaining two or three rights (in the words of The Clash' magnificent "London Calling") and the next thing we know we are all set up for the next segment of our lives, excuse us, "timelines".
       We are sure if somewhere along the way one forgets who was made one's spouse that can be looked up as well, Just have to remember not to exclude them from the major life "activities". In fact did not the Reverend Sun Yung Moon think up this whole deal quite a while back? Apparently long enough back for most everyone to have forgotten the whole ordeal, getting married in Madison Square Garden and all that.  Anyway we always find ourselves wondering what Zuckerboy's timeline looks like -- did they include the CIA training and the dropping out of wherever it was he dropped out (or was that just Gates and Jobs the other salespeople/visionaries of our times, you know seems that it is time some women really got in on this "golden ages" racket, or did we just miss that you know computer shaped like a zucchini. . . .

       All right already here goes, direct from Facelog just a few hours ago, apparently Zuckerboy has his posts done by "Facebook Security", as was this below. (We do not even want to imagine). Seems he was worried about this whole PRISM thing, the switching of the last "M" simply being a matter of changing it to "ON" apparently not being lost on him. Immediate response obviously being the best defense is a good (aww, our readers know how it goes).  So here it is straight from "Facebook Security's" mouth (apparently they do not indent) on Zuckerboy's behalf:

I want to respond personally to the outrageous press reports about PRISM:

Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers. We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon reportedly received. And if we did, we would fight it...See More


       After careful consideration we decided not to hit the apparent link there. The thought of Facebook Security speculating on Zuckboy's behalf as to how it/he would take on the "US or any other government" was just too amusing (and time-consuming) for words. After all it might be a rather lop-sided fight as the ole' "Zuck" arguably is perhaps a "little bit out of the loop". Could be he is more a voyeur than the fighter he apparently believes. 
       Finally though we simply cannot help but noting having now so long being at this writing/editing thing while we are not quite sure how Facebook Security keeps busy that right there in sentence one above Zuckerboy maybe might have wanted to have someone in Facebook Writing review the work of Facebook Security. We are confident those readers who have been with us for a while now might spot the apparent weak links (as it were) there too. Probably with a little more careful review someone in the spyforce may have reconsidered the inclusion of the words "direct" in Zuckerboy Facebook Security sentence one and "blanket" in two. As they used to say in third grade English it really does not "seem to add anything" but rather if anything would tend to "weaken the argument". Just a thought.
       Coming up in a post very soon, promise, some fairly deeply researched information about choosing and using an e-mail service we found likely both best and most trustworthy. And of course our favorite word. Free. We believe the research time was well worth it and trust our readers should find the results quite helpful as well.  Until then....

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Texas "Superstupid" U.S. Senator Ted Cruz Leading Force Of "Tea Party Revolt" Modeled On Disgraced Senator Joseph "Morphine-A-Go-Go" McCarthy

       Thursday, 1 August 2013, HAVANA - Readers your attention and patience please for the evolving prediction of the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment log that this current American century-span, roughly defined as commencing with the storming by the Allied Forces led from the West by the United States military racing into literal collision at Hitler's besieged Berlin Fuhrerbunker with the crush of Stalinist Russian masses from the East, soon eclipsed by the so-called "atomic" bombings of Nagasaki and within days Hiroshima, through the paroxysms of "McCarthyism" here at home from the Atlantic seaboard clear to sunny Hollywood on the Pacific Coast, the overseas global Cold War now known indeed to have brought our planet Earth to the very brink of extinction from a conflagration with the Communists off the shores of Cuba, and all that has since followed right up to the present with the United States heir apparent Superpower now its greatest towers smashed but feverishly rebuilt yet inexorably losing its grip on that mantle (F-35 "weapons system" or not we are afraid) to the undeniable gravitational force of the burgeoning population black hole of the Far East as the mid-East writhes in the seasons of its discontent, only that we now should suffer for some surely unfathomable reason the murmurings of another but this time self-inflicted, what?..... "Tea Party"!
       No mortal knows where this dizzying span will have led us in another quarter-century but the Ninth Amendment here predicts the historians of future eras certainly for no short time will puzzle, ponder, wonder, and no doubt make it their vocation to examine exactly what, went . . . .
       Something in the spy-filled air of late gripping our great Nation not altogether surprisingly compelled our editorial staff this evening past to revisit in a noticeably unpolished Wikepedia piece on the late (we rather took for granted) disgraced Wisconsin United States Senator Joseph McCarthy in some wonderment the similarities to which our country seemed to have so soon again allowed itself to succumb to inchoate fears and have kept our eye so obediently on the ball therefore as to more or less unwittingly let mechanism of the witch-hunt gear up, again. The human tragedies of that 1950's era need not be revisited here, the slim reeds upon which they by most accounts all too often rested, and what we took to be the generally accepted conclusion that when the heat of the moment (and the Senator increasingly undeniably . . . .unwell as in ill) and resultant dust died down indeed a few traitors most likely had been exposed, punished, paid the price for treason. But what of the other sometimes estimated ninety-five per cent or so who most likely just had the misfortune to be named because, well, they had a name, and one seemed needed for the moment, their talents, their livelihood, their family, their life.... be damned?
       Somehow the story when it unraveled really did seem to have become stranger than fiction to use that worn cliche. Senator McCarthy apparent champion of all American and not aberrant quite undeniably himself turning out to be, well, a heroin addict? Maybe not, but no one seemed to do much more than turn away in disgust as it really was beyond denying that he was at least a screaming alcoholic, even in his heydey, with at least a serious morphine addiction perhaps to relieve the effects of the alcohol. Somehow when the time came most apparently was more or less overlooked, or at least very downplayed.
       Downplayed n fact by the very one who first quite publicly revealed it in his early 1960's memoir, that is except for leaving out the Senator's name (as if too many personalities of that era fit the bill). But at this point the historians are all sure to find it rather just getting a little too odd to ignore. The person who of course revealed the Senator's addiction was none other than the Nation's universally acknowledged and still longest tenured drug czar in United States history. Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (successor to the Prohibition era bureau) for an unprecedented and needless to say never repeated period of thirty-two years spanning from 1930 to 1962.
        And then the story becomes really strange. Commissioner Anslinger in fact it turns out had a while before become aware of Senator McCarthy's habits as he had acknowledged, and in the end agreed to make arrangements with a local Washington, D.C. pharmacist that the Senator would receive a steady supply of morphine. Apparently in the end the Commissioner was convinced by Senator McCarthy that should the truth come out it would mean the "end of the Free World" or roughly those words. It was thought better meanwhile to concentrate on blaming the opiate menace on the Communist nations abroad. Remarkably when this information more or less came to light including with the Commissioner's publication of his memoirs, no one really seemed to care that much at all about the matter, McCarthy having sometime ago fallen from grace. Or so it seemed. Meanwhile despite his apparent knowledge of this situation President John F. Kennedy actually appointed the Commissioner's to a further term even in light of the knowledge that he had been allegedly condoning the supply of drugs to McCarthy.
       And there readers we find ourselves more or less come up to the present day. Apparently Senator Joseph McCarthy has had a resurgence as a voice of today's Tea Party movement. The heroin rumor reportedly was never that well disseminated. Apparently if the Senator's heavy drinking at night necessitated the assistance of some other opiate to get through the hearings of the following day, that might even be understood for the sake of the country. Or so went the reasoning. After all it was for a good cause, or so the thinking of some has gone so far as to justify the casualties to others and to the Senator himself along the way.
     Finally as if to come perhaps full circle or full something in any case today there is in the growing movement of Senator McCarthy's resurgence a body of support amongst the Tea Party movement. And somehow, the  new junior Senator from Texas Ted Cruz has come to be associated with it.  The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment wishes to emphasize that there is no connection whatsoever suggested between the personal habits of Senators McCarthy and Cruz, however readers who care to delve into the subject of oddities in the remarkable life of Senator Cruz we believe will be most surprised at coincidences that seem again beyond imagining.
       Senator Ted Cruz is no Rick Perry. He is not brain dead still standing. Professor Allen Dershowitz reportedly has acknowledged that he is absolutely brilliant, no holds barred. He has held positions and for tenures that have been unheard of before for a person of his young age. He graduated Princeton University nearly a decade after some of the editorial staff of this log. Yet oddly his father fought with Castro for the Cuban Revolution, although he apparently had said he "did not know Castro was a Communist". Perhaps most oddly for us, Senator Cruz actually is a scholar of the last two of the Bill of Rights, believing in the same tenets as the editors of this log do as to the simple but compelling logic that the Ninth Amendment (and the Tenth as well) were not written as mere verbiage. The Founding Fathers did not write words in the Constitution for the sake of ornament.
       Please do not be complacent readers, however, there is no doubt that this Senator Ted Cruz is a force to be reckoned with. He has worked with Ed Meese. He has worked with others and for other causes about which many readers will have strong feelings, no doubt. Senator Cruz also clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court. As Solicitor General of Texas he successfully argued to keep many, many prisoners on death row whom a World Court already had decided should be taken off of it because of human rights violations in their trial proceedings. Senator Ted Cruz is someone interested parties would be most well advised to watch and work to follow their beliefs in influencing Texas politics. Texans cries out for justice..
       Stranger stories there have been. And we have shared a few oddities here. But the world works in mysterious ways, and that is why we introduced this piece with the observation that the hundred year span we will be ending mid-century can well be expected to hold  a great many mysteries for the historians to try to unravel. A final conundrum we leave readers with here is this. Mr. Cruz was born in Canada. However his mother was a United States Citizen. Apparently on that basis the "consensus" analysis is that Mr. Cruz COULD serve as United States President because his mother's status qualifies him as a "natural born citizen". We have not researched this, but we do not follow. To the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment the words of the Constitution sound unambiguous. We always took it for granted that they meant the United States President actually had to be born on U.S. soil. We just do not want any more coup d'etats around here. The election 2000 debacle proved the enduring wisdom of the Founding Fathers.
        God Bless America and the United States Constitution..

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