Under moonlight

True day for night :)

The clarity of a cold winter night is simply astounding.

Digital imaging rules. 

Just a little bit

Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps.

Which means a small dataset, when iterated to the max, can generate enormous returns, something akin to how big data can destroy anonymity using a correspondingly limited data set as per the six degrees example.

In the study, titled “Unique in the Shopping Mall: On the Reidentifiability of Credit Card Metadata,” a group of data scientists analyzed credit card transactions made by 1.1 million people in 10,000 stores over a three-month period. The data set contained details including the date of each transaction, amount charged and name of the store.

Although the information had been “anonymized” by removing personal details like names and account numbers, the uniqueness of people’s behavior made it easy to single them out.

In fact, knowing just four random pieces of information was enough to reidentify 90 percent of the shoppers as unique individuals and to uncover their records, researchers calculated. And that uniqueness of behavior — or “unicity,” as the researchers termed it — combined with publicly available information, like Instagram or Twitter posts, could make it possible to reidentify people’s records by name.

End game.

The result, coming on top of earlier demonstrations that personal identities are easy to pry from anonymized data sets, indicates that such troves need new safeguards. “In light of the results, data custodians should carefully limit access to data,” says Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist at Princeton University who was not involved with the study. Or as the study's lead author, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, an applied mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, puts it: When it comes to sensitive personal information, “the open sharing of raw data sets is not the future.”

Orwell anyone?

Thought Experiment

Imagine being inside a sphere (or torus) that is perfectly reflecting - just you and a light source. What would it look like? 

In the Sphereverse, the universe is a sphere 40 units in diameter. When there is a floor present, the floor is 2 units down from center.

In this animation you are sitting back 10 units from the center of the sphere. The light source is translating from left to right centered on the x axis. You are not moving, only the light. All the concentric rings are caused by your multiple reflections in the sphere.

First some comments about the 'observer'. I'm not a good artist, so I didn't try to make a virtual person to be reflected. Instead I went with the simple and just used a simple marble sphere and placed the camera on it, right on its nose, so-to-speak. Here is a picture of 'you' so you know what is being reflected. The camera is placed right in the center where you see the white spot reflection of the light source. Trust me, you probably won't recognize yourself by your reflection most of the time anyway.

Makes one think, right? :)

Flux Lines

SDO never ceases to amaze. Check out the site, it's good for the soul.

Below 32f

As one can easily see by the title, this short clip is a compilation of shots taken in
sub freezing temperatures, something totally normal in the latter part of January in CT. 

Winter is minimalism writ large, a season of beauty & subtle power. Enjoy. :)

Done without mirrors

A kaleidoscope gone wild. Pretty cool I must say. 

Fixing a Hole

BRT's blurb regarding our Infrastructure or the lack of same has now been reiterated by Wired in a post titled It's Time to Fix America's Infrastructure. Here's Where to Start, a primer on how to intelligently spend about 1 Trillion US to get this country back on track again. Nice to be on top of this first but more importantly, isn't it time to do the rebuild instead of extending endless war, with no actual benefit, into infinity with OUR money before it's too late? Sounds viable to me.

The American Society of Civil Engineers says the US needs massive investments in all essential infrastructure, from bridges and airports to dams and railways. According to the society’s most recent infrastructure report card, the US earns a D+ for its infrastructure. It is, in a word, a mess. This is about much more than potholes. This is about keeping the economy, literally and figuratively, moving. Much of the economic boom the United States has experienced over the last 50 years is because the network of highways makes it easy to ship goods. If it continues into a state of disrepair, the long-term hit to our economy could be catastrophic.

"Fixing A Hole"

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go

I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door
And kept my mind from wandering
Where it will go

And it really doesn't matter if
I'm wrong I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong
See the people standing there
Who disagree and never win
And wonder why they don't get in my door

I'm painting my room in the colourful way
And when my mind is wandering
There I will go
Ooh ooh ooh ah ah
Hey, hey, hey, hey

And it really doesn't matter if
I'm wrong I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong
Silly people run around
They worry me and never ask me
Why they don't get past my door

I'm taking the time for a number of things
That weren't important yesterday
And I still go
Ooh ooh ooh ah ah

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
Stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go oh
Where it will go oh

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Wher it will go (fade out)

The Beatles

The Extraneous 12

12 extraneous rules NOT to live by ... courtesy Alternet

1. Chosen People
2. Heretics
3. Holy War
4. Blasphemy
5. Glorified suffering
6. Genital mutilation
7. Blood sacrifice
8. Hell
9. Karma
10. Eternal Life
11. Male ownership of female fertility
12. Bibliolatry aka book worship

In a world that is teeming with humanity, armed with pipe bombs and machine guns and nuclear weapons and drones, we don’t need defenders of religion’s status quo—we need real reformation, as radical as that of the 16th Century and much, much broader. It is only by acknowledging religion’s worst ideas that we have any hope of embracing the best.

The Golden Rule works for me. 

Book with "Dieu, la Loi, et le Roi" ("God, the law and the king") 

on one page and the golden rule on the other, by Bernard d'Agesci.

A Certain Kind of Progression

Winter walks rule, especially if the walk includes checking out a meandering stream complete with ice, snow and a pretty intense waterfall. Not a bad way to spent the day. Enjoy.

A Relationship to the max :)

This video show earth's true relationship to our part of the multiverse. :)

Of sadness & awaremess

Have seen Interstellar twice as this work makes one think hard about the contradictory notions of how man fits into a vast reality that extends beyond knowing, something Sagan talks about at length in Contact and Nolan, in different fashion, in Interstellar. 

The first part depicts environment degradation, caused by us, resulting in not only runaway global warming but also in the indirect creation of a blight that's slowing killing all plant life on earth, thus dooming man to extinction, a condition devoutly to be avoided if science, tech and courage has anything to do about it. Science and tech are vilified, the Apollo missions consigned to conspiracy and education shoved to the side as food production, in the form of corn, takes precedence over everything else, a logical choice given to just how desperate man has become in trying to survive in the latter part of the 21st century.

The second deals with science, tech and the impact of relativity and physics upon the explorers venturing out, via a wormhole, to find a viable place for man to live, which turns out, in first light, to be futile but is not due to the impact of relativity and how it enables man to unlock the secrets of black holes to save humanity from extinction through the manipulation of gravity. In seeing how this is done, one sees, for the first time, just how powerful the interpersonal impact of the twins paradox truly is, which, IMHO, rightfully places Interstellar alongside 2001 as the second greatest SF movie ever made. 

In indirect fashion, this match cut from 2001 mirrors the move from earth
to Endurance in Interstellar. :)

Moving toward the Eocene

Anyone well versed in phase transitions knows that an increase in anomalies pertinent to the transition always precede the transition itself, something happening as we speak regarding global warming, a rapidly accelerating event caused by us rubes and not some volcano located in Iceland. With this in mind, check out NOAA's map showing last December's anomalies, something sure to warm the cockles of your heart but if that doesn't do it, maybe this blurb from NOAA will. 

The average combined global land and ocean surface temperature for January–December 2014 was the highest on record among all years in the 135-year period of record, at 0.69°C (1.24°F) above the 20th century average.

It gets better.

The oceans are warming so fast, they keep breaking scientists' charts. NOAA once again has to rescale its ocean heat chart to capture 2014 ocean warming.

Ocean heat content data to a depth of 2,000 meters, from NOAA.

When it's all said and done, there should be no more questions regarding GW, right?

Addendum: The early Eocene (Ypresian) is thought to have had the highest mean annual temperatures of the entire Cenozoic Era, with temperatures about 30° C; relatively low temperature gradients from pole to pole; and high precipitation in a world that was essentially ice-free. Land connections existed between Antarctica and Australia, between North America and Europe through Greenland, and probably between North America and Asia through the Bering Strait. 

This is what the world looked like in the early eocene era.

The Perils of Pauline

When looking at XL, one cannot reasonably expect said project's technological capabilities will mirror the  Perils of Pauline flicks where the heroine continually faces horrifying situations, like the one seen below, that are always successfully resolved just in the nick of time, something simply not possible whenever an "oil" spill, consisting of the corrosive and polluting tar sands dibit  occurs, as seen not only on the map above but also in Mayflower, AK, when 210,000 gallons of Canadian crude made its presence known to the town on March 29, 2013.

Thompson hasn’t been fishing much. Ever since Exxon Mobil’s Pegasus pipeline burst in March and spilled an estimated 210,000 gallons of Canadian heavy crude oil two miles from his house, he’s had headaches of preternatural intensity, so bad they wake him up in the middle of the night. He has nosebleeds, and hemorrhoids even though he’s only 36; there’s a rash on his neck that has only gotten worse in the eight months since the spill; and some days he feels so weak that he can hardly get out of bed. He estimates that he has lost almost 35 pounds since the rupture, falling from a fit 220 down to 185. When he went to see a doctor in April, he was told he has a mysterious spot on one lung—but he hasn’t been able to afford to go back.

GLENDIVE, Montana — When an oil pipeline burst in July 2011 and poured 63,000 gallons of crude into the Yellowstone River 200 miles upstream from Dena Hoff’s farm of wheat, beans and corn on the Great Plains in Glendive, she felt disgusted.

When it happened again Saturday, she felt terror. This pipeline breach was underneath the Yellowstone River, just a few feet from her sheep pasture. The new spill poured out some 50,000 gallons of crude oil. Leaders of this small riverside farming and ranching community in northeastern Montana warned residents not to drink their tap water, because benzene, a carcinogen, was found in the municipal water system. Oil slicked the river for dozens of miles, almost to the border with North Dakota. Hoff’s property smelled sickeningly like diesel.

If XL is built, check out how much toxic sludge will be going over the largest aquifer in North America.

About 40 percent of the total project has been built so far, in two segments: a 298-mile stretch from Steele City, Neb., to Cushing, Okla., and a 485-mile segment between Cushing and Nederland, Texas. Oil is flowing through these pipelines from the increased production currently happening in the middle of the U.S.

The remaining segment, if approved, would run between Alberta and Steele City. If fully completed, the Keystone XL pipeline would be able to move up to 830,000 barrels a day of crude from Canada's oil sands south to the U.S. Gulf Coast. There, refineries would process it into gasoline and other fuels.

Sounds like a rather dubious plan given that:

1. The XL needs a price point of $65/barrel to make it profitable 
2. Monies made from the sale & transport of the sludge to China & significant others, go to the oil companies and not to the US as the oil companies desperately need the money to continue to frack and drill for natural gas and shale oil as both enterprises, like the tar sands, need the $65/barrel price point to stay in business and...
3. The tar sands dibit is, as stated before, the dirties fossil fuel on the planet.

3 space

This looks VERY interesting...

A "simple" matter of degree :)

Visually rocks without question. :)

Catching a wave

Basic research, the engine that enables man to better understand the reality in which we all live, matters because, in many instances, practical implementation of such work may not reach fruition for many years. See Quantum Mechanics as an example. To this end, scientists are doing some really creative studies into the inner workings of light with implications that stagger the imagination.

Some physical principles have been considered immutable since the time of Isaac Newton: Light always travels in straight lines. No physical object can change its speed unless some outside force acts on it.

Not so fast, says a new generation of physicists: While the underlying physical laws haven't changed, new ways of "tricking" those laws to permit seemingly impossible actions have begun to appear. For example, work that began in 2007 proved that under special conditions, light could be made to move along a curved trajectory—a finding that is already beginning to find some practical applications.

Implications:

Now, in a new variation on the methods used to bend light, physicists at MIT and Israel's Technion have found that subatomic particles can be induced to speed up all by themselves, almost to the speed of light, without the application of any external forces. The same underlying principle could also be used to extend the lifetime of some unstable isotopes, perhaps opening up new avenues of research in basic particle physics.

It turns out, according to further analysis, that this self-acceleration produces effects that are associated with relativity theory: It is a variation on the dilation of time and contraction of space, effects predicted by Albert Einstein to take place when objects move close to the speed of light. An example of this is Einstein's famous twin paradox, in which a twin who travels at high speed in a rocket ages more slowly than another twin who remains on Earth.

Interstellar anyone? :)

Public Domain lives

Public Domain, the notion of work given freely to the public after the copyright has expired, almost expired thanks to Sonny Bono, the unlamented late congressional rep who extended copyright, AKA The Micky Mouse Act,, with aid from the Supremes, from 30 years to 70 years after the death of the person creating the work, something that would, in theory, prohibit the special theory of relativity from entering the PD space as Einstein died in 1955, which means said work, written in 1905, could not, in theory, enter the PD until 2025. 

But something's afoot with the introduction of The Public Domain Project from Pond 5, a new site presenting a wealth of free public domain content available for use by anyone from any country in the world. To pay for providing this treasure trove of material to the public, Pond 5, like Getty Images, does the royalty free stock art route to pay the bills, a tradeoff that makes eminent sense to artists like yours truly. Note: There are many other sources of PD content as well beginning with NASA, JPL, The Smithsonian, Wikipedia along with PD works made available from the Library of Congress.

The Tax Man

Paying your fair share of taxes makes sense because when the ultra rich game the system and don't pay their fair share, the country suffers big time, something in stark comparison to how the country was run back in the day.

This tax-the-rich national mindset was so pervasive that both Democratic and Republican administrations from Roosevelt to Nixon supported enormously high taxes on the wealthy.

For example, during WWII all income over $2.6 million in today's dollars was taxed at a 94% rate. Think about that for a moment. Basically this rate served as a cap on elite compensation. After bankers hit $2.6 million, they received only 6 cents on the next dollar.

In 1956, during the conservative Eisenhower administration, the tax rate was still 91% of all income over $3.4 million. In 1976, 70 cents of every dollar of income over $807,000 went to federal income taxes.

In sum, here was a national consensus that such tax rates were both necessary and proper. For more than a quarter century, we shared an inner sense of justice: To promote the interests of everyone, there should be some limit on what the wealthy could earn.

The current notion that the rich should be able to manipulate the tax codes to pay lower tax rates than the rest of us would have been revolting to previous generations. Not just revolting, but downright stupid. We once understood quite clearly that runaway inequality would surely lead to calamity.

So the question to ask is, what do we do about it given that the nation's going to hell in a hand basket due to not only income inequality but also to the expansion of the military/industrial/congressional complex fueled by fear, debt creation and never ending war instead of creating an intelligent tax system keyed to a graduated flat tax environment that would again create a fundamentally strong and viable economy by reestablishing the same tax percentages applied to the rich as per WWII. Makes sense, don't you think?

Sound effects

Tesla would have loved this if he was alive. The sound alone says it all.

Nikola Tesla

The limits of knowledge

We see and sense so little yet we proclaim just how intelligent and all knowing we are.
E.O. Wilson's  eloquent commentary explains why this is not so.

We humans tend to think of ourselves as top dog of the Earth-based species, and why not? We've managed to sophisticate communication through language. We've harnessed tools to a degree that we've constructed a civilization built upon gadgetry. We've got to the moon and back while bats, ants, and birds are confined to the limits of their ability and intelligence. Still, Wilson says we should keep in mind that there is so much more to this world and nature as a whole that we don't understand because we're only privy to "a microscopic section" of stimuli. We see reds, blues, and yellows but can't pick up infrared or ultraviolet. We can't travel or communicate via echolocation. We can pick up magnetic fields using instruments but we can't sense them like innately to help with our navigation like birds do. We are limited by the breadth of our most basic senses, primarily sight and sound.

Read the article, it's good for the soul. :)

Scanning - Another Wicked Problem :)

Anyone versed in scanning will tell you it's a drag. 1: Capture image, 2:  Process said image, 3: Catalog said image, one by one by one ... The end result is definitely worth it but there has to be a better way due to the sheer number of artifacts to be captured and the Smithsonian was the party who did it.

As the Smithsonian works to digitize its collection of 137 million items, the Digitization Program Office has turned to the National Numismatic Collection housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History along with other legal tender such as bank notes, tax stamps and war bonds. The 250,000 pieces of paper will become the Institution’s first full-production “rapid capture” digitization project.

The term “rapid capture” refers to the speed of the workflow. Before this process was in place, digitizing a single sheet could take as much as 15 minutes, at a cost of $10 per sheet. Now, the team works through 3,500 sheets a day, at less than $1 per sheet.

The process uses a conveyor belt and a custom-designed 80 megapixel imaging system, making details available to the world that had only ever been seen by a select few. (By contrast, the new iPhone camera has only eight megapixels.) The conveyor belt resembles the ones used by security at airports. Markings on the belt guide team members in placing the sheets. The belt advances when the sheet at the end has been removed. Such equipment has never before been used in the United States.

Cataloging said images will still take time but at least the tech used will facilitate the process big time.

Quiet Solitude 1/17/15

Quiet solitude 1/17/15

Wonderment

Whether it's a massive school of fish pivoting to avoid predators or, as seen in this incredbile video, starlings moving as one to go from place A to place B, the impact on the viewer remains forever the same, wonderment.

Sci-fi: then & now

 A travelog  through time of sci-fi flicks from 1902 - 2015. Enjoy

Free Speech

xkcd's toon explaining, in 6 panels, what free speech really means resonates when it comes to Charlie Hebdo and it's right to offend everybody without having to worry about someone getting murdered for doing so, something people are beginning to understand as we move further into this already violent new year.  

People are starting to realize this, as seen in the many marches and shows of solidarity all over the West, and in the declarations by some Muslims that the right of satire should also apply to Islam. A new poll by YouGuv found that 63 percent of Americans believe that it’s more important to protect free speech than to “protect the dignity of sincerely held religious beliefs,” while only 19 percent held the reverse view.

As Salman Rushdie, who has suffered for decades from the deadly censorship of radical Islam, once said, “Nobody has the right to not be offended.” 

Any questions?

Moliere, if he was alive, would love the explanation of what this cover means
as per Luz, the artist who drew it.

I had this idea that I was stuck on: to draw my caricature of Mohammed, the one that had started all the chatter. And to do him holding a “Je Suis Charlie” sign. It made me laugh. It was my last-ditch effort. So I drew my little drawing, and I looked at his face, and it made me laugh. I saw this character who had been used in spite of himself by nut jobs who set shit on fire, by terrorists. Humorless assholes: That’s what these terrorists are. Of course everything is forgiven, my man Mohammed. We can overcome, because I managed to draw you. I showed my drawing to Richard Malka, then to Gérard Biard, and then we cried. Because we had it, a cover that looked like us, and that didn’t look like everyone else or like the symbols that have been imposed on us over the last few days. Not a cover with bullet holes, but just a cover that makes us laugh. - Luz

Moliere - More relevant then ever.

Wanderers

Awesome video on the possibility of man exploring the solar system for real.

The depiction of Titan rocks.

Blue Indigo

Starting to get the infrared process down but the real bennies will come with winter snows and spring leaves on trees as both elements reflects infrared like crazy. :) 

Works for me

Random Walk

Yours truly is an incessant walker, particularly in the winter as it's too cold to bike so walking becomes the next best thing, particularly when carrying a camera to see if something of interest can be "shot". Hopefully this is the case for this "gem" depicting a cold but thus far relatively snowless winter as seen from the vantage point of woodlands and the LI sound. Enjoy. :)

Time passages

Had to do another but this time, it's what the tide does with sand. Enjoy. :)

Icelines

The formation of ice on a stream never ceases to amaze as it shows, in wondrous fashion, how time evolves in our little part of the multiverse. Enjoy.

More then a little touch of irony

Seems BRT was right regarding the false premise of the US being the biggest oil producer in the world in lieu of the Saudi Arabian gambit of crashing oil prices in order to crush Russia & Iran (Syria anyone?) but we already knew that, right? 

With one quick drop in the price of oil, the shale oil boom is officially bust. In less than a week, 61 oil rigs across the United States closed up shop, according to the most recent rig count from Baker Hughes. The U.S. has 1,750 oil rigs still hunting for new oil wells, but that number is expected to fall by another 400 rigs by the time spring rolls around.

The whole episode is a wake-up call about just how much of a fairy tale North America’s oil boom really was. It was a fairy tale with real drills, sure — and since it was exempt from the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, it will continue to have real consequences for the people living near it. But when it costs Saudi Arabia $10 to get a barrel of oil and it costs shale oil operations around $65 to make that same barrel, it should have been obvious that America was only a titan of oil production because another country was letting us be.

Additionally ...

All of which means that TransCanada may well find itself delighted that protesters stopped it from building a big, expensive pipeline to get now-unprofitable tar-sands oil to market. I wouldn’t count on that one, though.

Maybe pigs can fly after all. :)

A different shade of blue

Infrared, the color set just below what we see, is mysterious and beautiful with a look akin to a full moon over a snow covered landscape. Seen above is your truly's first relatively successful infrared pix, with more to come as the process to generate these "gems" is interesting to say the least. :)

Andromeda as seen in the infrared by Hubble.

Are you an extremist?

As seen above, the US is No. 1 in terms of the size of the prison population vs us "free" rubes.

Do you know what an “extremist” is?  In the wake of the horrible terror attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in France, Barack Obama is speaking very boldly about the need to win the war against “extremists”, and he has announced plans to host a major global summit on “extremism” next month.  And on the surface that sounds great.  But precisely how are we supposed to determine whether someone is an “extremist” or not?  What criteria should we use?  As you will see below, your definition of an “extremist” may be far, far different from the definition that Barack Obama is using.  

It gets better, 72 times better as to what actually constitutes an extremist.

1. Those that talk about “individual liberties”

2. Those that advocate for states’ rights

3. Those that want “to make the world a better place”

4. “The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule”

5. Those that are interested in “defeating the Communists”

6. Those that believe “that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations”

7. Anyone that holds a “political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable”

8. Anyone that possesses an “intolerance toward other religions”

9. Those that “take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals”

10. “Anti-Gay”

11. “Anti-Immigrant”

12. “Anti-Muslim”

13. “The Patriot Movement”

14. “Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians”

15. Members of the Family Research Council

16. Members of the American Family Association

17. Those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States “are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the ‘North American Union’”

18. Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol

19. Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform

20. Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition

21. Members of the Christian Action Network

22. Anyone that is “opposed to the New World Order”

23. Anyone that is engaged in “conspiracy theorizing”

24. Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21

25. Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps

26. Anyone that “fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations”

27. The militia movement

28. The sovereign citizen movement

29. Those that “don’t think they should have to pay taxes”

30. Anyone that “complains about bias”

31. Anyone that “believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia”

32. Anyone that “is frustrated with mainstream ideologies”

33. Anyone that “visits extremist websites/blogs”

34. Anyone that “establishes website/blog to display extremist views”

35. Anyone that “attends rallies for extremist causes”

36. Anyone that “exhibits extreme religious intolerance”

37. Anyone that “is personally connected with a grievance”

38. Anyone that “suddenly acquires weapons”

39. Anyone that “organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology”

40. “Militia or unorganized militia”

41. “General right-wing extremist”

42. Citizens that have “bumper stickers” that are patriotic or anti-U.N.

43. Those that refer to an “Army of God”

44. Those that are “fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”

45. Those that are “anti-global”

46. Those that are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”

47. Those that are “reverent of individual liberty”

48. Those that “believe in conspiracy theories”

49. Those that have “a belief that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack”

50. Those that possess “a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism”

51. Those that would “impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”

52. Those that would “insert religion into the political sphere”

53. Anyone that would “seek to politicize religion”

54. Those that have “supported political movements for autonomy”

55. Anyone that is “anti-abortion”

56. Anyone that is “anti-Catholic”

57. Anyone that is “anti-nuclear”

58. “Rightwing extremists”

59. “Returning veterans”

60. Those concerned about “illegal immigration”

61. Those that “believe in the right to bear arms”

62. Anyone that is engaged in “ammunition stockpiling”

63. Anyone that exhibits “fear of Communist regimes”

64. “Anti-abortion activists”

65. Those that are against illegal immigration

66. Those that talk about “the New World Order” in a “derogatory” manner

67. Those that have a negative view of the United Nations

68. Those that are opposed “to the collection of federal income taxes”

69. Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr

70. Those that display the Gadsden Flag (“Don’t Tread On Me”)

71. Those that believe in “end times” prophecies

72. Evangelical Christians

Do you fit into any of those categories?

Personally, I fit into a couple dozen of them.

Me too.