The Daily Kos has the blog post My fellow Americans, please stop being idiots.

You people have all been in the internet for awhile now. Haven’t you learned the first lesson? Don’t feed the trolls. That’s what a terrorist is at heart, an asshole playing you for a reaction. Someone who gets off, not on the things he is doing, but on seeing how badly those things upset you. And what does a troll do when you react? Something worse.

I think this fits in nicely with this anniversary date.  I don’t know why we keep picking at the scab of 9/11.  At least this year was a little less focused on those nasty terrorists and how they made us victims.  This year, what few words I listened to in the media seem to focus more on how we worked to recover.

There have been hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed in the wars because of the 3,000 that died on 9/11. I simply cannot understand why it takes the videotaped murder of two journalists to make us forget what we have learned about the futility of these wars.  We now want to make more death and destruction and spend billions of dollars to avenge the death of two people.  I don’t think any troll on the internet could ever hope to get such an overreaction.

If the John McCains, Lindsay Grahams, John Boners, CBSs, NBCs, NYTs of the world could just hold their tongues, we could quietly go about taking what action we need to take without feeding the trolls.

Naked Capitalism has the post Has Apple Pay Just Put Apple in the CFPB’s Crosshairs?

…Apple’s newly announced Apple Pay service puts Apple under the CFPB’s jurisdiction but[sic] virtue of having made itself a regulated financial institution. And Levitin means all of Apple’s consumer services, not just Apple Pay. He believes that Apple is now a “service provider” under the Consumer Financial Protection Act. That makes Apple subject to CFPB examination and UDAAP.

What, say you, is UDAAP? UDAAP stands for “unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts and practices”. UDAAP is the CFPB’s most feared power.

Chalk up another win for Elizabeth Warren.  Somebody has to put the brakes on Apple taking over everything.  As Microsoft’s evil empire declines, there is Apple ready to move in.