January 10, 2014
— Gabriel Malor Happy Friday.
Ruh roh. Most uninsured folks are unaware of Obamacare.
DOD report says Edward Snowden stole 1.7 million intelligence files. Sen. Paul, no doubt, continues to think an amnesty is appropriate for the traitor.
Google is still attaching the annoying Google+ to its other products in the hope that it can force people to use the superfluous social network. Gmail users will want to read this on how to opt out of the latest lame scheme.
And, finally, for the early birds, Andy will have a podcast post later, but if ya'll want to get an early start, this week's podcast is posted and available. Lachlan Markay (@Lachlan) from the Washington Free Beacon joined Ace, Andy, Drew, John, Me, and BenK. Don't forget to keep those Ask the Blog questions coming.
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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2014 02:53 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2014 02:54 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/m7deaxz
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:55 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/mc486hf
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2014 02:56 AM (olDqf)
http://tinyurl.com/mwyhh7k
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/kfrkjzt
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:56 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2014 02:57 AM (olDqf)
http://tinyurl.com/ptgz7d8
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/m6azx5n
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/lkfcjsy
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)
http://tinyurl.com/kgd3jpk
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:57 AM (T2V/1)
If only that were true.
http://tinyurl.com/m5z379k
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)
Schools delayed two hours due to freezing rain.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 10, 2014 02:58 AM (GcYmn)
http://tinyurl.com/kxjarcs
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 02:58 AM (T2V/1)
http://t.co/EznP7fyNUM
I feel bad for the free-lunch kids (83% of Indianapolis Public School students?!) whose parent has already blown the EBT/can't be bothered to make a sammich, but what can you do?
Posted by: HR at January 10, 2014 03:03 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2014 03:04 AM (olDqf)
And in the wasteland called cinema a new Hercules movie opens today. Lots of CGI and not much else.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2014 03:05 AM (+Ifkm)
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/5minute_arguments/learned_helplessness_comm.php
Posted by: HR at January 10, 2014 03:05 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: Gem at January 10, 2014 03:05 AM (/nmn0)
Sheesh.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2014 07:04 AM (olDqf)
If he does it will do no good because Mumia was convicted in a State court and the feds have no authority there.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 03:05 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: Case at January 10, 2014 03:06 AM (o00SF)
Posted by: Gem at January 10, 2014 07:05 AM (/nmn0)
I live too far South to see it.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 03:06 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: NCKate at January 10, 2014 03:08 AM (6SdCf)
But they know how big Kim Kardashian's ass is? Right?
Maroons....
Posted by: backhoe at January 10, 2014 03:08 AM (ULH4o)
>>Education experts slam corrupt Holder's call for letting blacks in schools off on disciplinary action. Note the statement in the article from the Holder letter to the schools that said it was a violation of federal law if blacks were punished more than whites. The stupid SOB is either a liar, totally stupid on what the actual laws are, or both.
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.If this letter doesn't prove to the entire Country that is all about race all day every day, then nothing will.
Posted by: Registered Voter at January 10, 2014 03:08 AM (AiKJm)
Posted by: jeffrey pelt at January 10, 2014 03:09 AM (Jsiw/)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at January 10, 2014 03:10 AM (2Ho6D)
Posted by: NCKate at January 10, 2014 03:11 AM (6SdCf)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2014 03:12 AM (+Ifkm)
Schools are closed here because it snowed last Sunday. We've got pussies raising milksops.
Posted by: HR at January 10, 2014 03:13 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: --- at January 10, 2014 03:13 AM (MMC8r)
And the reason I was there to begin with was to check out the Vince Flynn selection. The first book is $1.99 on the web but when go to it from the Android it is $8.99. WTF?
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 03:15 AM (T2V/1)
There was also a bridge over ChappaquiddickÂ…
Doesn't mitigate anything. Just illustrative.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2014 06:54 AM (olDqf)
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In other words, Joisey-gate didn't have a a body count. Unlike the non-stories of Fast & Furious or Benghazi.
That said, I'm not interested in Joisey Budda running for President.
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 10, 2014 03:16 AM (KlVdw)
23: Nothing shocks me anymore.
Speaking of Commie DeBlasio, it remains to be seen exactly how much damage he can actually do to NYC, since most of his ideas would have to be voted on by the State government and the US Congress. Eric Cantor, for example, has already taken shots at DeBlasio's plans for a moratorium on new Charter schools. I predict that this loser will be booted out in one term.
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 03:17 AM (F85AX)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at January 10, 2014 03:17 AM (QR7wx)
Posted by: tobias smoot-bandi-coot at January 10, 2014 03:18 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: jeffrey pelt at January 10, 2014 03:19 AM (Jsiw/)
I suppose Gabe wants us to think that's like 1.7 million files showing where all our nuclear secrets are kept. More than likely that mostly the 1.7 million files Windows accumulates on every machine operating its crappy system.
And half a million government memos, covering everything from how you're supposed to change toilet paper rolls in the rest room, to what forms you need to fill out to request time off.
But Gabe just wanted to take another shot at Senator Paul, so I guess this worked fine.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 10, 2014 03:19 AM (BeSEI)
/facepalm
Posted by: Old grizzled gym coach at January 10, 2014 03:23 AM (QBQcg)
Posted by: MTF at January 10, 2014 03:23 AM (F58x4)
I don't know about everywhere else, but in my school district, it's the bus drivers who determine when school will be held. And the bus drivers are well represented by their union, so the district bows down to them.
A dusting of snow? They go in, find out they can't start one or two buses, and thousands of kids are made to stay home.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 10, 2014 03:23 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2014 03:24 AM (olDqf)
You did see where he has appointed that commie scrunt from the Occupy Wall street to the lead city councel position. Also the ban on the horse carriages to support the "animal rights" loons. He hasn't been in office a month yet and he is screwing the people in the city right and left, but mostly left.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 03:24 AM (T2V/1)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25663992
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2014 03:24 AM (+Ifkm)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2014 03:25 AM (olDqf)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 10, 2014 03:25 AM (olDqf)
They've got one Zinn book on a list of 500 "books commonly read by college students." But I'm sure it's Amazon's fault it's been required reading in universities for the past decade.
They also had "White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It" on the scroll of "Educational Books." I'm sure someone at Slate or Roots is bitching about Amazon "pushing the hell out of racist teabagger books."
Posted by: HR at January 10, 2014 03:26 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: UWP at January 10, 2014 03:26 AM (2hQRj)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2014 03:26 AM (+Ifkm)
27: "If he does it will do no good because Mumia was convicted in a State court and the feds have no authority there."
Care to lay odds on their "finding" some sort of civil rights violation against the killer?
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 10, 2014 03:26 AM (f6ZLT)
The only upside to the fact DeBlasio turning New York back into a festering swamp for a few years is....New York is full of Yankees fans.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 10, 2014 03:27 AM (JpC1K)
Other than it's overrun with liberal elite; apparently the only demographic that uses it.
Posted by: Wuthering Wander at January 10, 2014 03:28 AM (z28fg)
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 10, 2014 07:26 AM (f6ZLT)
Wouldn't make any difference. He is already serving life w/o parole so they can give him any more jail time. Besides, since he is black it is not possible for him to commit a "civil rights violation". And that is exactly what the racists appointed to the civil rights commission by Obama said.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 03:29 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: Case at January 10, 2014 03:30 AM (tjj0w)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2014 03:30 AM (4ilk5)
"because they think health insurance is unaffordable."
Coupla billion dollars in public service ads by the ad council should be able to fix that, no problem.
Posted by: Wuthering Wander at January 10, 2014 03:32 AM (z28fg)
61: "Wouldn't make any difference. He is already serving life w/o parole so they can give him any more jail time. Besides, since he is black it is not possible for him to commit a "civil rights violation". And that is exactly what the racists appointed to the civil rights commission by Obama said."
What I was getting at was the DOJ may find that Mumia's rights were violated during the trail, and somehow invalidate it. And thus set the stage for a friendlier re-trial.
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 10, 2014 03:33 AM (Kh+vp)
Now imagine Rotwang and Tyrell in Purgatory sharing an American lite beer and playing chess while wondering where their creations went wrong.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2014 03:34 AM (+Ifkm)
I hate change and having to do things new ways. Freshman HS daughter wants a yearbook and today is the last day to order at regular prices. Went to school's webpage to get the who to make the check out to information. Not there. Just a notice directing one to another webpage for ordering info.
Seems one now has to order the overpriced things ($65!) online only. With a credit card and an email address (used for confirmation receipt only and not for marketing purposes from Balfour. - yeah right).
I hate change and progress first thing in the morning.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2014 03:35 AM (BAS5M)
By famous people, or just people in general?
Zombie's got death threats, although that's not really the same thing as calling him "incompetent", I guess.
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/index.php?s=bush
Posted by: HR at January 10, 2014 03:35 AM (hO8IJ)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 03:37 AM (bxKJf)
Posted by: Kreplach at January 10, 2014 03:40 AM (v6YdM)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 03:40 AM (bxKJf)
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 10, 2014 07:33 AM (Kh+vp)
The civil rights act is not designed to do that kind of thing. What it is designed to do is punish white people who the feds think were mean to blacks and were not adequately punished by the State.
The only thing the corrupt Obamanites can do is "ask" the State to let him go. The State can tell them to piss up a rope.
The thing is this worm was supposed to have been executed years ago. But the professional race baiters all started crying and joined forces with the professional death penalty haters who all whined about his trial.
The State rather than go through another multi-million dollar trial commuted the death penalty to life w/o parole.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 03:41 AM (T2V/1)
73: "The civil rights act is not designed to do that kind of thing. What it is designed to do is punish white people who the feds think were mean to blacks and were not adequately punished by the State."
I'll have to defer to those with greater knowledge on this subject.
But I would offer that the administration has been doing a LOT of things that were not designed. Where do we draw the Rubicon on the map?
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 10, 2014 03:45 AM (/qzu7)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2014 03:45 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 03:46 AM (T2V/1)
I don't agree that was the original intent. There were real abuses from the end of the Civil War and into the 1960s.
However, I DO agree that is how the law works in practice, and how it has been working since at least 1968. I also believe Holder's DoJ thinks the original intent of the law is to punish white people.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 10, 2014 03:47 AM (JpC1K)
Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2014 03:47 AM (TE35l)
>>The nationwide survey of 910 adults was conducted December 12-22 by PerryUndem Research/Communication and had a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points.
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.I'm sorry, they only polled 910 adults in ten friggin days of polling for Obamacare? I smell a dead rat that has been floating in $hit for 10 days here. That's not even a hundred people a day.
Posted by: Registered Voter at January 10, 2014 03:48 AM (AiKJm)
Posted by: Kreplach at January 10, 2014 03:49 AM (iANqq)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 47 days until spring training at January 10, 2014 03:49 AM (u8GsB)
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 10, 2014 03:49 AM (ZshNr)
By famous people, or just people in general?
Famous, basically. I want to shove "civility" down this asshole's throat.
Thanks for the link.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 10, 2014 03:49 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Huggy at January 10, 2014 03:51 AM (wf3Kt)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 10, 2014 03:51 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Registered Voter at January 10, 2014 03:52 AM (AiKJm)
Mexican Government seizing 'yachts' over $70 permit, (to sell at auction) because the Mexican Government needs the money.
US and Canadian retirees hardest hit.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/k8x4swo
Posted by: Wuthering Wander at January 10, 2014 03:52 AM (z28fg)
Posted by: Registered Voter at January 10, 2014 07:52 AM (AiKJm)
Yeah, I covered that yesterday. The ironic part about it was they did that after the meteorologists had already came out and said the vortex had nothing to do with warming.
Just more evidence of how stupid this corrupt admin is.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 03:54 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: NCKate at January 10, 2014 03:56 AM (6SdCf)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 03:56 AM (DmNpO)
Don't forget, Snowden also caused the polar vortex.
And the Ravens' championship in Ray Lewis' last year.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 10, 2014 03:57 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at January 10, 2014 03:57 AM (nj9sX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 10, 2014 03:58 AM (7kkQJ)
He should be drawn and quartered for that alone.
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 10, 2014 03:58 AM (JpC1K)
Like Whoopi Goldberg's "comedy" bit where she compared GWB to pubic hair?
Posted by: HR at January 10, 2014 03:58 AM (hO8IJ)
Just remember that a large percentage of these people are the permanent FSA and are dumber than a creosote post to begin with. Yes, the typical Obama voter.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 03:59 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: mindful webworker - doodler at January 10, 2014 03:59 AM (uHgI5)
Government of Greece takes over EU
http://preview.tinyurl.com/mkq6v47
Remember Greece? EU debt crisis? All of that?
Greece takes over the ceremonial 'Presidency' of the European Union.
Ya, I know. Doesn't mean anything, but apparently that EU debt crisis is now over. Fixed, taken care of, is no more, inconsequential, has been dealt with, resolved.
Hmmm, I wonder, is Iceland still bankrupt? Who knows!
Posted by: Wuthering Wander at January 10, 2014 03:59 AM (z28fg)
Posted by: Case at January 10, 2014 03:59 AM (tjj0w)
In their defense, I'm going to assume the "White House blog" is being written by someone of roughly the same intellectual weight, and moral character as Monica Lewinksi.
I doubt Val Jarrett is writing the thing.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 10, 2014 03:59 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: redenzo at January 10, 2014 04:00 AM (WCnJW)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 10, 2014 04:01 AM (V70Uh)
However, I DO agree that is how the law works in practice, and how it has been working since at least 1968. I also believe Holder's DoJ thinks the original intent of the law is to punish white people.
Well "yeah" of course what is in play here is the mainstreaming through immersion to the kids of the nation that disparate treatment under law is the baseline norm and not proof of a lack of equality. He's hoping he gets sued and navigates the case law to be a precedential first seeding of the idea that punishment is a collective rather than an individual quantity. Rather nefarious actually it would not surprise me in the least if in the donkey long game they are trying to obliterate judicial impartiality overtly finally.
Now think back to the briefing your generation of soldiers and mine had endure sometimes multiple times per year if the EO fairies were in an angry sacrificial mood at Chronos and Ares, what's wrong with this picture?
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:01 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 47 days until spring training at January 10, 2014 04:01 AM (u8GsB)
81 The amount of damage that de blasio can do will be determined if the city council and the governor rubber stamp his policy initiatives.
Exactly. It won't happen, especially if Cuomo wants to run for President.
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 04:03 AM (bxKJf)
No, what I'm saying is, you can point and laugh at those stupid people at the White House who don't know anything about anything, or you can point and laugh at them for letting some lame brained intern run "their blog."
Not exactly the same thing.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 10, 2014 04:04 AM (BeSEI)
The school superintendents have declared the roads are "unsafe" for school... but OK for sports practices.
I'm annoyed and disgusted by Hoosiers bragging about being unable/unwilling to care for their own children for *gasp* a whole week without government intervention. This is why I disagree with Vic's opinion that "red states" will dominate a Constitutional Convention and get us back on track--the "red states" are also full of people who expect government to supply their every basic need, right down to telling their kids to go outside and play for an hour so they can get shit done.
Posted by: HR at January 10, 2014 04:04 AM (hO8IJ)
She was indicted this week by a federal grand jury on one count of visa fraud and one count of making false statements.
The Government of India, retaliates with actions against US diplomats in India.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/qbw2fwu
Posted by: Wuthering Wander at January 10, 2014 04:04 AM (z28fg)
Here, let me shorten it for them: because the youth are young and too stupid to know anything. Because they're youths!
Posted by: BurtTC at January 10, 2014 04:05 AM (BeSEI)
We don't, but one thing we do know is that Val Jarrett is very very smart, unlike many of the other knuckleheads associated with this administration. Which is why it's more reasonable to assume the evil that comes from them originates with her. The stupidity most likely originates elsewhere.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 10, 2014 04:06 AM (BeSEI)
Posted by: Plaintiff Pug at January 10, 2014 04:07 AM (Qev5V)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 10, 2014 04:08 AM (zF6Iw)
Well the average child gets:
5*5*36*6=5400 hours of immersion in the evils of capitalism and white hypocrisy and the foibles and failings of western civ...
AND that is assuming that direct "grievance" studies 101 is not injected into the curriculum by a crusader NEA Commisar.
I am talking about a baseline, paint by the numbers, apathetic teacher just following the textbooks narrative.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:09 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 47 days until spring training at January 10, 2014 04:10 AM (u8GsB)
Sen. Paul, no doubt, continues to think an amnesty is appropriate for the traitor.
Until you and the rest of the Beltway Boys start applying the epithet "traitor" to the much more deserving POS infesting the Oval Office, Gabe, your opinion means less than a mosquito fart.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 10, 2014 04:10 AM (zF6Iw)
It's a lot more important to be worried about Snowden than Lerfner, a weaponized IRS, and an NSA with the potential to destroy anyone who has the wrong views.
Snowden could do a LOT of damage to US Interests Like:
1)lose stability in Iraq through abandoning the AO
2)empower a nuclear Iran and try to mainstream the notin of relations
3)topple a relatively stable Libya and Egypt and empower radical Islam in both
4)slash the defense budget while verbally saber rattling in a regional cold war between 2 military allies and China
5)destroy patient privacy through Obamacare
You know "damage?"
Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2014 07:30 AM (4ilk5)
What you have pointed out is the original poster's perspective distortion; to his mind, being a traitor to a Marxist government is far more egregious than having a Marxist government - which is made up of traitors - in the first place.
If a person holds a quarter close to the face and examines it intensely and passionately it looks bigger than the moon to them. Everyone else can see how dumb that person is when he announces that the quarter is larger than the moon - but he doesn't understand how the others can say that - since the 'truth' is easy for him to see.
Posted by: [/i] [/s] [/u] [/b] An Observation at January 10, 2014 04:11 AM (ylhEn)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 10, 2014 04:11 AM (yU1Dt)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at January 10, 2014 04:12 AM (nj9sX)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at January 10, 2014 04:13 AM (659DL)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at January 10, 2014 04:13 AM (yU1Dt)
Posted by: mindful webworker - doodler at January 10, 2014 04:13 AM (kUq7A)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/mol2ou9
Great picture of The President of the United States looking like a school boy being taken to the principle's office for discipline.
Posted by: Wuthering Wander at January 10, 2014 04:14 AM (z28fg)
Posted by: Plaintiff Pug at January 10, 2014 04:14 AM (Qev5V)
Heather the prevailing attitude is "I PAY TAXES FOR THESE SCHOOLS THAT I HAVE TO WORK FOR" it is the illusion of ownership democrats have made a cornerstone of the modern state.
You are allowed to have "ownership" when the system fails you emotionally so you are led to think you need it, BUT you do not have any ownership so far as oversight of the mores and values the school teaches.
Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment are the same way.
In stress people embrace them, but there are a LOT of people who understand on a purely intellectual level these are con games. Ego and a longing for justice for the taxes and defacto graft of the system create distortion and a sort of cognitive dissonance for values and reason. It is why I have embraced "to the MOON" for the Libertine left and rights' hedonistic "FREEDOOOOOMM" impulses for intoxicants.
You have to figure after 25-500 years we may accidentally get some economic liberty.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:14 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: freaked at January 10, 2014 04:14 AM (JdEZJ)
Posted by: Countrysquire at January 10, 2014 04:14 AM (LSJmV)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 10, 2014 04:15 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Case at January 10, 2014 04:15 AM (tjj0w)
Posted by: mindful webworker - doodler at January 10, 2014 04:16 AM (kUq7A)
Posted by: --- at January 10, 2014 04:16 AM (MMC8r)
I don't think ANYONE here is saying elect Snowden President.
Last time I checked Snowden just did what dissidents do he fled and has been granted asylum.
It's over until he is no longer a guest of the fine hospitality of the Russian Federation.
At least that is what the fucking democrats told me for my entire life until 1989 about their pet dissidents.
http://tinyurl.com/plh89nd
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:18 AM (TE35l)
If people could avoid the Shiny!11!! distractions of Snowden, Fat and Furious and other "crises," "scandals" and "missteps" so beloved of the MFM, perhaps we could get Choom Boy put out to pasture for his high crimes and misdemeanors.
One day of the current regime's operations results in more felonies than all the Squirrels! foisted on (and eagerly snapped up, debated, discussed and analyzed by) us from the friggin' leftoids.
Posted by: MrScribbler at January 10, 2014 04:18 AM (ff7/5)
Posted by: shredded chi - broke, busted & disgusted at January 10, 2014 04:19 AM (UUSGT)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at January 10, 2014 04:19 AM (659DL)
Oh and in "news of the treasonous fuckheads"
Searchlight Stalker betrayed the GOP Senate idiot Caucus and said after cloture, "nah fuck you we are not allowing amendments to this Unemployment Insurance Bill" essentially playing his usual game of "I am the Obama of the Senate!"
It's not a problem, BUT it is going to be used as a cudgel to pretend the GOP is evil and mean for election 2014.
You know Mitch fucking McConnell never played this kind of hardball...
Nanzi thinks that by targeting 3 House GOP members she will get back Thor's Gavel at which point the rule of law is probably done in the nation.
but yeah fuck that let's focus on Snowden
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:22 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: mindful webworker - doodler at January 10, 2014 04:22 AM (yFFC0)
Expect a very big day for obama today. Unemployment is about to be supposedly sub-7%. Of course it's all bullshit, but the media will pound it and the Dumb People will lap it up like pabulum.
Also, because of this, expect HClinton to poke out her stupid head...so that she's associated with the 'good' economic news.
Posted by: soothsayer at January 10, 2014 04:22 AM (gYIst)
And that would have been the right way to do it but instead they strip searched her. What the hell is wrong with this country?
If they have advanced to strip searching diplomats how do you think your wife will be treated should she have a run in with "Johnny Law"?
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at January 10, 2014 04:23 AM (FtCW+)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 10, 2014 04:23 AM (102Hx)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 04:23 AM (bxKJf)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 10, 2014 04:25 AM (N/cFh)
Posted by: shredded chi - broke, busted & disgusted at January 10, 2014 04:25 AM (UUSGT)
Posted by: sen. lisa murkowski at January 10, 2014 04:26 AM (PK+r9)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 47 days until spring training at January 10, 2014 04:26 AM (u8GsB)
Of a long, long list, this is the best euphemism for taking a dump EVAR.
Posted by: Jaws at January 10, 2014 04:26 AM (4I3Uo)
Putin understands he does not have the manpower density, or lift and logistical capacity to make up for the global impact of the decline into the Idiocratic States of America.
The media is going to spend the rest of the year sucking Obama's dick as hard as they can to try to magic up coattails for the reggie sucking SCOAMF ass.
and as always "our" GOP will just stare dumbly and wag its tail BEGGING to pass Donk Agenda items.
Why "to the moon?"
Because I don't want a Marxist America to have as much power as we had in the last 8 years and it IS coming.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:27 AM (TE35l)
148: Pelosi got a little testy the other day when a reporter referred to "Obamacare".
"Its called 'The Affordable Care Act'.
They've come a long way from "Obama Cares", no?
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 04:28 AM (bxKJf)
The image of Hill as a snapping turtle comes to mind....
She looks positively awful in recent pictures I've seen.
Then again, there is that "historic 1st" thing.
Worked for Duh!1, didn't it?
Posted by: backhoe at January 10, 2014 04:28 AM (ULH4o)
Posted by: Beagle at January 10, 2014 04:28 AM (sOtz/)
Posted by: --- at January 10, 2014 04:28 AM (MMC8r)
I'll be as bothered by Snowden as the democrats want me to be when they acknowledge that Ted Kennedy and the Democrats overtly aided foreign communists under Reagan with verbal aid and comfort and subtly through HumInt and Document drops.
Until then I have to clean my nails.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:29 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 10, 2014 04:30 AM (N/cFh)
Understand, she said, that these are the kind of people who voted for Obama and who Obamacare was allegedly designed for - mostly low income blue collar workers. They don't make a lot of money and what money they do make they do not want to spend on health care.
Now what's going to happen is those penalties are going to kick in and they are going to be pissed. And even those who do have coverage now through their - mostly small businesses - employers are going to be in for a shock when it disappears and they are going to be pissed.
With a little luck they'll be pissed before the mid-terms but they are sure to be pissed before 2016.
None of this is news I guess, but it's pure joy to hear about it in play first hand . . .
Posted by: TRO at January 10, 2014 04:30 AM (jHEiO)
For the next 12 months Hclinton will be like a groundhog, only poking her head out when something 'good' is occurring.
Posted by: soothsayer at January 10, 2014 04:30 AM (gYIst)
"hmmm"
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:30 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: 'Ette, in training but the bar is too damn high! at January 10, 2014 04:31 AM (zvxqj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 10, 2014 04:31 AM (7kkQJ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - doodler at January 10, 2014 04:32 AM (wPzgV)
'hit a bump in the road, a snag, a roadblock." a minor procedural delay, an inconvenience, minor setback, a delay, when Senate Majority leader Harry Reid filled all the slots available for amendments before the GOP had a chance to propose any of their own, so the Senate when home because the GOP is unwilling, unable, to participate, and everyone wanted to get out of town, but mostly everyone wanted to get out of town now that aircraft are flying again after weather delays.
Posted by: Wuthering Wander at January 10, 2014 04:32 AM (z28fg)
Was thinking of you and Dave while at the Mickey D's on Joppa across from Hooters the other day.
Still waiting on Mrs VIA's paperwork.
9-17-13 and counting.
Drive safe today.
Morons are everywhere.
And not the good kind.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 10, 2014 04:32 AM (GcYmn)
Posted by: shredded chi - broke, busted & disgusted at January 10, 2014 04:33 AM (UUSGT)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at January 10, 2014 04:33 AM (DoZD+)
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 10, 2014 04:33 AM (V70Uh)
6.7%
the Stimulus worked
obamacare worked
the Fed stimulus worked
this is the bullshit youll hear today
Posted by: soothsayer at January 10, 2014 04:35 AM (gYIst)
Posted by: --- at January 10, 2014 04:35 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Plaintiff Pug at January 10, 2014 04:35 AM (Qev5V)
The less foaming-at-the-mouth response here is to think about what "1.7 million intelligence files" actually means. In all likelihood it's a stupid stat of gross tonnage mined versus actual valuable mineral obtained because of the grab-everything nature of Snowden's strip-mining operation. On the other hand, if these were 1.7 million true treasures, one ought wonder why so many files to begin with and why Snowden was able to make off with them.
Snowden = squirrel.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 10, 2014 04:36 AM (mYm3B)
None of this is news I guess, but it's pure joy to hear about it in play first hand . . .
Posted by: TRO
................
Unfortunately for the 2014 elections, these IRS regs won't show up until 2015. Yes, they are effective this year, but the tax forms won't for 2014 won't get to people until 2015.
But, like you said.. it should piss off a bunch of voters before the presidential elections in 2016!
And.. the employer mandate from Obamacare is already hitting workers.. it will only get worse as the year goes by.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 10, 2014 04:36 AM (b/lt+)
Posted by: --- at January 10, 2014 04:36 AM (MMC8r)
http://tinyurl.com/kfrkjzt
Posted by: Vic at January 10, 2014 06:56 AM (T2V/1)
The commie mayor wants the stables for condos.
Posted by: Lobsterlen at January 10, 2014 04:36 AM (ztKLQ)
170 11 The people driving those horse drawn carriages that were banned by the new NYC commie mayor are fighting back.
I believe he campaigned on it, so I can't imagine them feeling too stupid.
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 04:37 AM (bxKJf)
correct ONLY in the biased M$M's doublethink mental schema can it be logical to castigate Snowden as a designated villain WHILE feting the people who broke in to the FBI to expose CoIntelPro
http://tinyurl.com/pfbrg6g
Clip of the fellation of the "heroes"
If the donkey party gets to play partisan games for "rights" hey guess what?
We get to play partisan games for rights, and since OUR media won't report it we have to make allowances for the leakers to run like hell.
I'd be happy for Gabe to explain to me how 1+1=spoon on the morality of personal espionage and "whistleblowing"....
Please explain to me how the 1971 break-in trying to hurt an administration and domestic LE/Intel agency looking into the motives of people undermining the Vietnam war is not equivalent to exposing the NSA's hoover vacccum cleaner aimed at political dissidents whose sin is not agreeing with Barack Obama's policies and or ending the war on terror?
I am having a hard time accepting that the people that spent my life time shitting on deference to the state now get to demand absolute loyalty while dismantling it.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:37 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 04:37 AM (DmNpO)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 10, 2014 04:37 AM (PK+r9)
Posted by: katya the designated driver at January 10, 2014 04:37 AM (DoZD+)
How about "somewhere in Texas a village is missing its idiot"?
The left so loved it the stuck to bumpers around the country.
Posted by: Typo Dynamofo at January 10, 2014 04:38 AM (FtCW+)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 04:38 AM (bxKJf)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 04:38 AM (DmNpO)
Well, most uninsured adult Americans are obviously smarter then your average Democrats. Because with out even looking at the website, they guessed correctly.
Posted by: Marcus at January 10, 2014 04:38 AM (rPa1a)
Posted by: --- at January 10, 2014 04:39 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Countrysquire at January 10, 2014 04:39 AM (LSJmV)
Turn it into a fantasy video game and subcontract it out to Koreans.
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 10, 2014 04:39 AM (PK+r9)
Posted by: phrastic array at January 10, 2014 04:40 AM (gUoN4)
Posted by: Countrysquire at January 10, 2014 08:39 AM (LSJmV)
Oh, shit. Thoughts and prayers coming your way!
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 04:41 AM (bxKJf)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 04:41 AM (DmNpO)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 47 days until spring training at January 10, 2014 04:41 AM (u8GsB)
Posted by: --- at January 10, 2014 04:41 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 04:41 AM (DmNpO)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 10, 2014 04:41 AM (PYAXX)
Posted by: Countrysquire at January 10, 2014 04:41 AM (LSJmV)
Posted by: runningrn at January 10, 2014 04:41 AM (o6g4X)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 04:42 AM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Case at January 10, 2014 04:42 AM (o00SF)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette: Winter Borscht at January 10, 2014 04:42 AM (IXrOn)
Rockmom says the same thing, and refuses to accept that the M$M and the local media can be used by the editorial level journalist class to achieve different objectives.
I understand it must be tough being a NJ GOPer grasping that nationally he is to at least a plurality of Republicans toxic.
I don't tell NJ they can't have him, but as an Ohio voter I will say nationally I don't want him.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:43 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 04:43 AM (DmNpO)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 47 days until spring training at January 10, 2014 04:43 AM (u8GsB)
After all, if there is anyone who knows who the important traitors to a country really are; it is a victorious enemy.
*So awarded by the Communist Government of Vietnam in 1983.
Posted by: [/i] [/s] [/u] [/b] An Observation at January 10, 2014 04:43 AM (ylhEn)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 10, 2014 04:43 AM (N/cFh)
He has a nice truck, it has an 8 ball on the gear shifter and heated mirrors.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:43 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Countrysquire at January 10, 2014 04:44 AM (LSJmV)
Posted by: mindful webworker - doodler at January 10, 2014 04:44 AM (ma3QC)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 04:45 AM (bxKJf)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 10, 2014 04:46 AM (PK+r9)
Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at January 10, 2014 04:46 AM (D/mKE)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 10, 2014 04:46 AM (PYAXX)
Countrysquire, I'm so sorry. My prayers.
And thanks, Horde, for the Dubya suggestions. I think that's enough now, in view of Countrysquire's worries.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 10, 2014 04:47 AM (zF6Iw)
shhh we're not supposed to remember these things, nor remember that John McCain calls him CodeName: My Friend the Hatman Magician.
I do at times wonder if they do not really give a fuck about the left's long march and are their allies in undermining our nation as it was understood on the hill.
You know what you call a guy who was possibly doing doc dumps and humint briefs to a delegation of people killing US service members in Paris France?
"Secretary Kerry"
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:47 AM (TE35l)
Shoulda
Woulda
Coulda
Story of my life lately.
And...I assumed you were over at class.
Got that part wrong too I see.
Time to take our "Little" down the road to the student corral, free lunch emporium and county run teenager day care center.
BBL
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 10, 2014 04:47 AM (GcYmn)
Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at January 10, 2014 04:48 AM (N/cFh)
Posted by: runningrn at January 10, 2014 04:48 AM (o6g4X)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette: Winter Borscht at January 10, 2014 04:49 AM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 04:49 AM (DmNpO)
I thought Kerry threw it over the White House fence in protest?
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at January 10, 2014 04:49 AM (PK+r9)
Posted by: Gran at January 10, 2014 04:49 AM (nPMjI)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at January 10, 2014 04:51 AM (659DL)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 04:51 AM (DmNpO)
How hard is it to say "If labor participation rate were where it were when Obama was re-elected Unemployment 3 is at 7.9%....
Obamanomics the quaint notion less Americans working is a growth hotrod?"
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:52 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 10, 2014 04:52 AM (32Ze2)
Posted by: Case at January 10, 2014 08:42 AM (o00SF)"
This!
Whether it's Inflation, Unemployment, whatever, it is a lie.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 10, 2014 04:52 AM (V70Uh)
3 years ago I wouldve said that Christie in the White House would only slightly slow down the appproach to the cliff.
But we've already gone over the cliff. It's over. So I don't care who's in the White House anymore.
Posted by: soothsayer at January 10, 2014 04:52 AM (gYIst)
Posted by: Baldy at January 10, 2014 04:52 AM (2bql3)
Posted by: maddogg at January 10, 2014 04:53 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 10, 2014 04:53 AM (PYAXX)
Do you remember when Jimmy P and I were SHOUTING at the lies being told about U6?
He made charts and everything....
and Romney smiled and said "he's trying just not good enough"
They REALLY are going to run and win on this insane asylum coterie of economic and healthcare policies.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:53 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: shredded chi - broke, busted & disgusted at January 10, 2014 04:53 AM (UUSGT)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)-also drooling imbecile incapable of doing algebra or something at January 10, 2014 04:53 AM (659DL)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 10, 2014 04:55 AM (PYAXX)
Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2014 04:55 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 04:56 AM (DmNpO)
Posted by: --- at January 10, 2014 04:56 AM (MMC8r)
He bought my silence on his flaws and pointing out M$M' fucking hypocrisy.
That's all he gets.
An elected Christie will destroy the conservative movement in the United States for a generation and it is a generation we do not have.
His flaw is he is Obama ethically in a Madea suit and no matter how much better and swift his punishment of his malefactors it does not change how petty and small an environment he fosters.
He'll push gun control, AGW Kult sacrifices, raise taxes, happily with the democrats and MSM colluding to destroy the GOP if they don't cave.
He can have my silence, but he'll never have my vote.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 04:58 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Plaintiff Pug at January 10, 2014 04:58 AM (Qev5V)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 10, 2014 04:58 AM (PYAXX)
That's the rub. All you have to do is convince people that any of roves "chosen ones" will stay to the right of Obama after they are elected.
Good Luck.
Posted by: Freiherr Wilhelm Von Klink VI at January 10, 2014 04:59 AM (nkPV9)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 10, 2014 04:59 AM (PYAXX)
But the TV gives you pretty pictures, distractions, and white noise, so?
"Remain Clam- all is well...."
Posted by: backhoe at January 10, 2014 04:59 AM (ULH4o)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 04:59 AM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at January 10, 2014 04:59 AM (EhwdY)
1. Folks who had insurance, need insurance and no longer can afford insurance.
2. Folks who are healthy and choose not to buy insurance.
3. Folks are are too stupid to know what insurance is and whether or not they need it.
Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 10, 2014 05:00 AM (V70Uh)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 10, 2014 05:01 AM (32Ze2)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 10, 2014 05:01 AM (PYAXX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 10, 2014 05:01 AM (7kkQJ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 05:01 AM (DmNpO)
but the numbers don't reflect the reality of someone standing in a soup line or the UE line. We have a shot in 2014 and in 2016
EXACTLY. Talk up the economy all you want, talk about how great Obamacare is: it won't matter. Voters are stupid, but not THAT stupid.
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 05:02 AM (bxKJf)
A few years ago I was browsing the history shelves at the library and came across that book. I checked it out and brought it home. After reading the two or three pages I started skimming the book.
After an hour I closed it up and set it aside. It is a POS. But look at all the "good reviews" it gets at Amazon and all the attacks the negative reviews get.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 05:03 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 10, 2014 05:04 AM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 10, 2014 05:04 AM (PYAXX)
It occurs to me that if the best policy that those intel guys, military advisors, and assholes at Foggy Bottom can come up with is:
Keep aiding terrorists in toppling relatively stable strongman dictatorships and replacing them with radicals and fuck our dead for the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan and you know what we can't help there but let's send US troops to STAND BODILY as a buffer to Israeli reciprocity for Palestinian Terrorism at the "new nation's borders"....
Dismantling and a reduction of US Power is not the worst thing.
I am on the precipice of the cliff of accepting the United States as I understood it is gone.
Why should the USSA gets ALL its toys and tricks?
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 05:05 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Joffen, fucking sunshine patriot at January 10, 2014 05:06 AM (bxKJf)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 10, 2014 05:06 AM (PYAXX)
It is a great book to expose the dishonesty of the Left.
They sublimate Truth and Fact for political expedience.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2014 05:06 AM (QFxY5)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 05:06 AM (DmNpO)
I'll bet there is not a moron here this morning that doesn't have a friend or relative who is out of work.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 05:08 AM (T2V/1)
Posted by: RWC at January 10, 2014 05:08 AM (fWAjv)
When anecdotal evidence is clearly more accurate than the data supplied by the government, we are screwed.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 10, 2014 05:10 AM (QFxY5)
Posted by: grammie winger at January 10, 2014 05:11 AM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 05:11 AM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Vic at January 10, 2014 09:08 AM (T2V/1)
______________________
I have been employed intermittently over the last 3 years. I would land something and it would get hinky soon after I started. So I started my own business. It comes with great rewards but back breaking stress. I need to set myself up at a level where I can reduce stress and keep the biz steady. The economy sucks bad. It is only good for politicians and Wall Street.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 10, 2014 05:12 AM (32Ze2)
Everywhere I go in my county I see failed businesses, whole shopping centers emptied out, "for sale" signs that have been up since it was obvious the fix was in for Historic First!"
Nothing is selling- even at giveaway prices. Real Estate is dead.
Posted by: backhoe at January 10, 2014 05:13 AM (ULH4o)
I suspect so...look James P is a great guy and if you ever have CNBC on watch...he is a great guest and you know what he never says?
"Hey uh this economy sucks and here's structural reasons why..."
b//c he'd never get back on the boob tube...
and THAT kids is why D-Lamp and I say "the media the media"
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 05:13 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2014 05:14 AM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 10, 2014 05:15 AM (T2V/1)
rather than run as the world's most effective soup kitchen operator(through UE bennies and Foodstamp growth) Obama is running as FDR/Reagan
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 05:21 AM (TE35l)
I'm old enough and shameless enough now to admit, I saw her on the big screen... with the Mrs!
For all that may be wrong with porn per se, the industry generally, and Lovelace's life in particular... her performance was... inspiring... educational! and she was apparently a good "actress" as far as seeming to enjoy her role.
Nowadays, of course, we know that kind of act is wrong, but this was before we had Va. politicians to raise our moral standards.
Deep Throat was actually light-hearted and funny with a touch of SF premise. Sort of tongue in cheek, you might say. You might say; I wouldn't."
Ah, the Good Old Days when a man could escort his wife to a one-handed theatre and take in a pr0n movie the way The Framers intended. Bravo!
Posted by: Jaws at January 10, 2014 06:02 AM (4I3Uo)
Posted by: adolfo_velasquez at January 10, 2014 06:13 AM (VRc/p)
Excellent post and summation of nearly all my point on the matter.
Betraying traitors is no vice.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 10, 2014 07:34 AM (TE35l)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 10, 2014 08:48 AM (Y92Nd)
Posted by: Chris_Balsz at January 10, 2014 09:17 AM (5xmd7)
Some context: I approve of the Obama administration crackdown on journalists for publishing classified information. That crap has done serious damage to our national security over the decades, including spilling the details of the Manhattan Project. I think that people who shop journalists to spill secrets for political purposes belong in prison, where I'd have been if I did the same thing.
And even *I* get sick of hearing about the 'Snowden = Traitorous bastard' garbage. This is not a Manning-style passive aggressive prank that dumped every generic Secret document in reach onto the Internet. This is not an Ames-style betrayal to a foreign enemy for money. It was a targeted, principled action that revealed some honest to God disturbing truths about NSA activities, Against Americans. That they lied to Congress about. Repeatedly. For years. And intensified.
If violations of the law by the executive are classified by the executive and subject to enforcement only by the executive and hidden from other branches of government, THERE IS NO CHECK ON THEM. Do any of you expect Eric fucking Holder to do anything about it?
Whether or not he violated a statute, Snowden delivered very important matters into the public sphere and made it clear to Congress and the Courts just how much has been deliberately hidden from them. Accountability for secret activities *against Americans* is necessary for anything even remotely approaching a free republic to exist.
And re: the "he stole X million documents" angle. He did. And he has not released them all. So far, they exist as insurance to keep President McDroneHappy--who has a record of assassinating American citizens, if you recall--from killing him.
But my ultimate point is that if someone like me, who a national security hawk who still thinks gunboat diplomacy has a place in the world and whose career was directly relevant to this topic, thinks Snowden is more than a villain, then maybe those others of you (looking at you, Gabriel) who don't should revisit the topic.
Posted by: dawnfire82 at January 10, 2014 09:29 AM (1/hzQ)
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