Where does freedom of speech start and where does it end?

I am noticing a lot of people are claiming a conversation on a phone or a computer is covered by "freedom of speech".

I don't think so.

When you are talking in your home within or on your property, you have freedom to say whatever you want. No one should bring harm or judgment on what you say given you keep your speech private or personal. I argue that when your speech is heard beyond your "space", ie. property, you are no longer free from being listened to. If you make a phone call and use a phone company's equipment and service, they have a right to listen, if they care to. If you are in a mall the mall authorities have a right to listen to your conversation. Since both these "business" pay a fee (tax, license) to the government, the government reserves the right to listen.

There's been two standards attached to "freedom of speech" and I'm not sure if they both apply at the same time. The first thought is that "freedom of speech" means you can say whatever you want. You can make comments about any public figure no matter how false or mean. You can scream and carry on about anything on the street. Now I believe there's an agreement that yelling "Fire!" in a building when there is none is a crime, but everything else is covered by "freedom of speech". This means if you practice your right to speak, other have a right ridicule and slam that which you said. The second thought is that "freedom of speech" means you can speak any where on anything without the government or anyone else listening without your knowledge. Many states, Georgia included, have made law to get around taping conversations, by decreeing that if one of the parties in the conversation is aware of the recording, it's legal.

I think chatting on a phone or computer is not covered by "freedom of speech". The FBI, CIA, NSA and any government agency the President desires, as well as the provider of the communications equipment and service have every right and if the thought of danger to any citizen is in question, is obligated to listen and monitor any and all communications. I have nothing to hide and to the core of my being, have no intention of bringing harm or distress to my country or countryman. Do you?

Why do we care about the origin of man?

What is this infatuation with determining how man became to be? What value is it to those who are forced to memorize and recite the theory of evolution? No one was taking notes or running a video or audio recorder while man wandered the earth before some thousands of years ago when someone decided to write something on a still wet piece of clay. What does it matter to our existence that we know where we came from? Sure it's nice to know this fact when thinking in the short term so we know what kind of family we are part of. The apple does not fall far from the tree. But what if we came from something we are not willing to accept?

If evolution is fact, then is it obvious that we must consider what we will continue to evolve into. Will we grow any extra limbs? Will we go hairless? I know for the last several hundred years men have been shaving the hair off their face, but it's not evolved away. I'm proof by being bald that men who are bald are not evolved away, but if I don't find somebody soon I guess there will be one bald gene die off in this world, so maybe the jury is still out on that.

What about bears? To me the bear (pick any brand) are the most perfect creatures except for two very important factors. One is the opposing thumb and the other is the ability to think with reason and constructively. If these guys just had the brain of humans and worked around the handicap of having claws instead of fingers, man would either be farm animal or hunted for the flavor of his thighs.

The question of where man came from is as important as the question of where did Tom Cruise come from ( if you care see here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/bio ). No one can really know and at least not in the current state of existence we will never know. This subject serves no purpose but to muddy the minds of students and further justify having another few questions on some exam. It's not like in math where repetition and doing (seeing) as many equations and problems help prepare one for more complicated problems. Practice, practice and then rehearse and rehearse, face as many possible approaches or variables and equations and when the game (exam) is on you will be more prepared. In the Army it's called training and simulations.

What does knowing whether some observations some "naturalist" from England made on some Pacific island many years ago implied that some animals adapted to their environment over some number of generations. I don't care for either evolution (guess the bears don't either) or for "intelligent" design, though I am sure God appreciates we are not calling in "unintelligent" design (but maybe it should be something like "laughable pitiful" design). If it was truly some "intelligent" design I would think we would have wings like Archangel from the X-Men comics. Maybe we would be like your favorite mutant, then it really would be "intelligent" design. I suspect there is a combination of all the above plus something else in the equation we have no idea about. It's a mystery that we won't solve with the current records and data. Maybe some long dead folks named Adam and Eve know (and are laughing at the fools trying to prove that which is not provable).

Oh, I have wondered about the evolution of the dinosaurs. Those huge and beautiful creatures surely had to be victims of evolution. Or were they?

Get rid of the Minimum Wage!!!

There two things occurring because we have imposed pay requirements on legal employers in the US.

First, there are thousands, dare I say millions of illegal immigrants flowing across the border gladly working for less than the minimum wage. They live at least dozen to a house that an Anglo or African family of four would be comfortable living in. They work hard and as a unit usually as a family with strong Catholic values. They do jobs around residential construction or landscape sites. They do the odd jobs or the manual labor that ordinary folks could do over a period of days, but instead gets done in a matter of hours for just a few dollars of cheap blackmarket labor. There is a subculture existing right under our noses and unless you speak Spanish or drive by the hardware stores, you are unaware of it. Where will this subculture lead us to, I don't know, but you can tell by the way politicians dance around being careful not to upset this future voting block. Even now the President does not dare try to deport these people, but wants to legalize what is a violation of one of the most fundamental laws of the land, the status of citizenship.

Second, there is a million dollar plus industry in Asia, more specifically China, of making cheap and easily manufactured items and shipping them to the US. Those countries, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Korea, etc, have such cheap labor and low cost-of-living that they can pay pennies for and that a majority of the cost goes toward paying for shipping the products across the ocean. Even Mexico and Central America is getting into the act and what people call "sweat" shops are really cheap labor businesses that pay the employees just enough to feed and clothe themselves and pay rent. Sure it's not an easy living and one where the chances of having a strong middle class exist is not likely, but it's a living and the alternative too many of those people are well too aware of.

If the USA got rid of the minimum wage, manufacturing jobs would return. The shipping companies probably would not like it and I would hope someone would look into who is filling Senator Kennedy pockets to push this unconstitutional item on America. I left my job in Montgomery, AL, after minimum wage was raised and my pay was not. When they raised minimum wage and not my pay, I saw the two look too close for my liking, so I left that low paying tech job for Atlanta and a better paying tech job. Pro Football players do that all the time nowadays. My fear is, when will China realize that they have the USA at their mercy and then decide to raise prices. I guess this is why the American President kisses their ass every chance he gets.