Where is that Basketball when you need it?

So the big rap was always that we are being watched. That GPS tracks our every move and that we have satellites that can zoom down and find you playing basketball and could even tell you what kind of basketball you are playing with. Big Brother is everywhere. Just look at Google maps where the picture of your destination flares up in your phone. Wow. We really have mapped every inch of the planet. Just don't misplace your plane.

Now a Boeing 777 is not small. We can not fit it in our garage or our backyard. Maybe a football field. Yet we have misplaced our jet. You know the  jet that disappeared and everyone thought fell into the ocean and now it turns out it continued flying for seven hours but no one saw it. And no one knows where it went. So while you and I can find Jacks Dairy Queen in the middle of Wisconsin and even see what Jacks Dairy Queen looks like nobody can seem to find a plane with 239 people on board.

So what we are saying that even with  a satellite above at 25,000 miles that the best we can do is transfix a ping. But GPS or radar or the vaunted Google Big Brother Eye...ah no. Nope. Sorry we just don't know where that big mother went. So where is the GPS? Sorry switched off. Oh ok. And after that it's just anyones' guess. I don't know about you but I am going to shoot hoops now feeling much more secure that me and my basketball are anonymous once more.

Oh...it's a Wilson by the way.

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Who Really Won the War on Terror?

We certainly didn't. Now that we have to strip to fly on a plane and we cower every time we hear a firecracker and of course the biggest defeat is the death of our Civil Liberties. Now that we know every phone ball tweet picture video email is being culled through by Prism computers embedded in the NSA we now know we are truly in the land of  Big Brother. And of course we do all of this under the umbrella of stopping the next attack and now that Osama is no longer we really have to ask ourselves...did we win?

If a war is gauged on the outcome then we might have a hard time painting our victory. Two wars later. Broke. Our privacy obliterated. Our sense of trust in our government teetering. Our government polarized if not paralyzed...then we would have to say we won the war but lost the peace. Terror is only triumphant if it changes the society. And we would have to say that those box cutter men changed the world. And now we have a broad sweeping justification for spying on just about anybody to stop the next big one.

And again we have to go back and say at the end...who really won? If Osama Bin Ladens goal was to disrupt the great evil Satan America then he did achieve his goal. Our lives are different. We have lost significant freedoms. Our government is different. We are fearful. He is dead. But what are we now? How do we get back the liberties we lost?

Makes you think about who really won the war on terror....doesn't it?

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