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Post by fatmenace on Jun 7, 2013 5:54:22 GMT -6
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Post by fatmenace on Jun 7, 2013 5:56:09 GMT -6
and let's not forget that the IRS is about to be the administrators of our health insurance. The f*cking Internal Revenue Service.
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Post by gk on Jun 7, 2013 18:43:35 GMT -6
@ggreenwald: "I'm proud as a Republican to be backing what President Obama has done" on these programs - Ari Fleisher, on CNN, just now.
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Post by fatmenace on Jun 7, 2013 20:20:16 GMT -6
Let's keep in mind Ari was hired to justify the BCS.
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Post by fatmenace on Jun 8, 2013 19:53:48 GMT -6
Steve Rushin @steverushin 1h
64 years ago today in London , George Orwell published "Nineteen Eighty-Four," about a future state that spied on its citizens.
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Post by fatmenace on Jun 9, 2013 8:32:20 GMT -6
You would think the Obama administration would get the hell out of dodge, saving US lives, billions of taxpayers dollars, and have the added benefit of pointing out the complete failure of Bush's wars, and by extension Republican war hawks. Nope. Now it's being referred to, in some publications at least, as Obama's war and Obama's failure. reason.com/archives/2013/06/09/obamas-failures-in-afghanistan
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Post by fatmenace on Jun 18, 2013 13:22:22 GMT -6
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Post by gk on Jul 8, 2013 12:33:43 GMT -6
Rick Perry not running for TX Gov in 2014? I assume this means he'll try again for president in 2016? #oops?
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 9, 2013 5:51:02 GMT -6
yeah he's f*cked over this state as much as he can. time for one last embarrassing romp around the country.
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 25, 2013 8:47:07 GMT -6
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 25, 2013 12:51:21 GMT -6
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Post by fatmenace on Aug 1, 2013 6:19:30 GMT -6
God bless Snowden. www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-dataGood time to quote Sen Frank Church: From The NYRB: One man who was prescient enough to see what was coming was Senator Frank Church, the first outsider to peer into the dark recesses of the NSA. In 1975, when the NSA posed merely a fraction of the threat to privacy it poses today with UPSTREAM, PRISM, and thousands of other collection and data-mining programs, Church issued a stark warning: That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such [is] the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology…. I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return. Church sounds as if he had absorbed the lessons of 1984. From the recent evidence, they are still to be learned.
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Post by fatmenace on Aug 2, 2013 13:15:12 GMT -6
CNN must be under constant NSA surveillance by about now...if Benghazi was a phony scandal, then the CIA is doing a lot to keep whatever it was doing there a secret. In an unprecedented move, the CIA is conducting frequent polygraph tests on its operatives to keep them from talking to the media or god forbid, Congress. It also appears that there were dozens of CIA operatives present on the ground that night. Something bad happened that night that Washington desperately wants covered up. thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08...ack/?hpt=hp_c2
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Post by fatmenace on Aug 4, 2013 12:45:14 GMT -6
New tax code being written. Loophole requests to be kept secret for 50 years. At the National Archives, the massive repository in Washington that stores government records for safekeeping, visitors and staffers alike carry a card that tracks their movements. “We have guards with guns, too,” says Richard Hunt, head of legislative archives. These precautions aren’t quite good enough for a big secret Senate Finance Committee leaders want the archives to keep hidden from the public’s sight. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, and Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, are working on the first rewrite of the tax code since 1986. Instead of revising the existing tax law, they’re taking what they call a “blank slate” approach. They proposed sweeping away the tax code’s thousands of loopholes, then asked their colleagues to submit written requests for the deductions they want put back in, assuring them that the requests would be kept private. The response: silence. Senators didn’t want word to leak that they’d supported special tax breaks. It’s easy to see why. Many of the loopholes that have crept into the law—for oil companies, private equity managers, Hollywood—are hard to defend. There’s no way to pretend they help kids, or create jobs. They just go to people and corporations that donate money. So to get lawmakers to hand over their wish lists without fear of reprisals from voters, lobbyists, and other senators, the committee’s staff has come up with a novel way to let senators do their donors’ bidding in secret. In a July 19 memo obtained by Bloomberg BNA, the committee assured senators that their loophole requests will be locked up—physically locked up—for 50 years. According to the memo, just two paper copies of the requests will be stored in safes on Capitol Hill. Two digital copies will get filed in password-protected computers. Only Baucus, Hatch, and 10 staff members will have access to the documents. Each copy will be given a unique ID number so it can be tracked. Eventually the papers—stamped “Committee Confidential”—will be secured at the National Archives in a special vault, separate from the committee’s other records, until Dec. 31, 2064. ...Assured that their wish lists will be buried, more than 60 senators have now submitted tax proposals to Baucus and Hatch, according to Neary, who says committee staff has received more than 1,000 pages of secret suggestions. “I think it was just a good offer to get people to open up more,” says Hatch. “I’ve had a lot of people open up.” Only in the U.S. Senate would hiding information the public has every right to know be considered “opening up.” Then again, any senator with an idea so potentially damaging to his reputation that it has to be locked away probably wasn’t working for voters anyway. www.businessweek.com/articles...-special-vault
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Post by grubbi on Aug 4, 2013 16:41:56 GMT -6
I'll put a reminder on my calendar to check back in 50 years...
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