Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Glenn Greenwald says the "world will be shocked" by upcoming revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance

Well, lets see. Lawless, unsupervised, undemocratic collection of every email, text, tweet, phone conversation, Skype conversation, Facebook post and blog post can be surpassed

The Godless commit less crime, have longer marriages, and are better educated.

That last one is a gimme.

Meet republican assholes, Sandy Eggo city attorney Jan Goldsmith, superior court judge Howard M. Shore, deputy city attorney Paige Hazard and Darell Freeman

You have 1st amendment rights long before a cop, a judge or a city prosecutor says you do.

Gun Owners of America’s Larry Pratt is a fascist


This Neo Nazi calls the Holocaust a “scam” and alleges that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks.

So, it was interesting to listen to Pratt, discussing the George Zimmerman trial on VCY America’s Crosstalk radio last week, pull out his David Barton talking points to claim that the media, Democrats and the left are racist and anti-Semitic.

98 Israeli acts of terror against Palestinians in June

The monthly report referred to Israeli settlers' escalated attacks where 14 Palestinian citizens were assaulted, and 30 cars were burned, in addition to stealing Palestinian monuments in Bethlehem and closing main streets that connect Palestinian villages and cities.

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Bigotry is a reasonable position on "Meet The Press"

“Gay people exist,” Maddow said to republican piece of shit and Pederast Look A Like Ralph Reed, “there’s nothing that we can do that make more or less of us exist. And you’ve been arguing for a generation that public policy ought to essentially demean gay people as a way of expressing disapproval. But you don’t make any less of us exist. You just are arguing in favor of discrimination.” 
“I really can’t let that go,” Reed responded.
Democrats don't have to rebrand, gerymander or speako slowo to the publico to win elections. They need to record and play back the bigotry from conservative assholes like Pederast Look A Like Ralph fucking Reed, Tom Delay contemporary.  

Michael Hayden, ex-head of NSA who denied “probable cause” is in the 4th Amendment, calls for more transparency of surveillance programs

So frankly I think we ought to be doing a bit more to explain what it is we’re doing, why, and the very tight safeguards under which we’re operating.
The NSA is out of control. This is only going to end in scandal, pain and blackmail.

Former senate republican asshole Jim DeMint agrees religion not needed for morality


This son of a bitch, republican asshole Jim DeMint thinks women want to be forced to have ultrasounds. Congratulations republicans. You will never again win a national election.

‘The World’s Dumbest Idea’: Milton Friedman”

Social responsibility is anti-capitalism. -Milton
That's so wrong it's bullshit. But to selfish, anti-intellectual conservatives it sounds like a dream.
“there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”
Except conservative republican assholes instinctively pervert the rules of the game and engage in deception and fraud. Just ask Goldman Sacks or the NSA.  

United States taps half a billion phone calls, emails and text messages in Germany in a typical month

On an average day, the NSA monitored about 20 million German phone connections and 10 million internet data sets, rising to 60 million phone connections on busy days, the report said.

In France, Der Spiegel reported, the United States taps about 2 million connection data a day. Only Canada, Australia, Britain and New Zealand were explicitly exempted from spy attacks.

Think about what this word and this definition means


Because by definition, republicans are petty, mean bigots.

Why can't Portia De Rossi move her face anymore? And who is this 'new' Lindsay Bluth-Fünke?


Saturday, June 29, 2013

From Thin Thread to Stellar Wind, the unaccountable NSA is spying on virtually every U.S. citizen and violating the US Constitution

Supporting and Defending the US Constitution is now an act of Espionage. Unless you're Dick Cheney (Valery Plame), Leon Panetta (Zero Dark Thirty) or James Clapper (Congress).

The NSA has the ability to store one billion phone calls each day


"It talks about a brand new technology that enables the national security agency to redirect into its own repositories one billion cell phone calls every single day. One billion cell phone calls every single day," he said.

"But what we're really talking about here is a localized system that prevents any form of electronic communication from taking place without its being stored and monitored by the National Security Agency," Greenwald continued. "It doesn't mean that they're listening to every call, it means they're storing every call and have the capability to listen to them at any time, and it does mean that they're collecting millions upon millions upon millions of our phone and email records."

We are now dealing with a vast intelligence-industrial complex that is largely unaccountable to its citizens


As it now stands, these programs are ripe for abuse unless we establish ground rules and barriers between authentic national security interests and potential political chicanery.
Bullshit. It's already being abused.