Members of Congress are living off food stamps for a week to protest Republican cuts. It’s a challenge for them, but GOP cuts would hurt millions of everyday Americans.
Thundering applause!
The United States government’s controversial data collection practices reportedly helped thwart plots to bomb the New York City subway system and New
I don’t care how many lives were saved or plots were foiled. Even if the FBI and NSA can promise ZERO loss of life, would you agree to ZERO privacy to get it? Would you mind being watched and judged at all times just to save a few lives? Would you mind being labeled a terrorist or traitor, simply for saying that you don’t like your government? Isn’t that why we told the British to go fuck themselves in the first place? Furthermore, if they cannot even keep track of one of their own people to prevent a leak like this, what good is their monitoring of the broader populace? And notice the update in the article; even their supposedly foiled plans are total bullshit! I, for one, am glad that civil liberty is finally winning out against the fucking patriot act.
“Patriot” act my ass, patriots fought against this shit! Liberty means having the liberty to do as you please, unfortunately including the ability to commit horrible crimes. Justice means we’re gonna get your ass for it, but never for simply thinking about it. It’s guilty until proven innocent AFTER you commit the crime, not guilty before you do anything. If you watch the world, you make the world a prison. Fortunately, things that are unquantifiable - like all of human ambition and/or desire - usually follow quantum laws ;). The more you look, the less you see.
Also, it’s good to see google and others are speaking out about this as well.
NO NO NO!!! You fucking fucktards! Have we not learned our fucking lesson already?! Are you fucking stupid?! How many times are we going to do this? We send the CIA in to train half of a warring faction of muslims, neither side of which is any better than the other (but it happens to be the opposite side that russia is helping, hmm…), get in the middle of a religious civil war on bullshit pretenses, then wonder why we get targeted by fundamentalist muslim terrorists. We’re just setting ourselves up for another fucking 911! Fuck you Obama, fuck you, you’re no better than Bush, you fucking fuck. LEAVE THEM ALONE! For all we know the fucking rebels probably set off what little sarin they could find on THEMSELVES for just this reason. Both sides are doing the same shit. It’s a civil war of hate, there are no winners or good side. It’s just fucked.
From Reddit:
“I was running on the beach with my stepdad in Santa Cruz. I’m not a runner, but he is, and he was pushing me and encouraging me. Anyway, it was early in the morning, and one of the few other people on the beach at that time was a guy practicing his trumpet, just playing it to the waves. He sees us run by a few times, sees that I’m struggling a little, and turns toward us and starts playing the Rocky theme music. I felt like I could have run a marathon I was so pumped. Freakin’ awesome!!”
They know our strategies. they’ve learned our weaknesses, and the alien attack nearly destroyed us. That must never be allowed to happen again. If we’re going to survive, we need a new kind of soldier. One who doesn’t think the way we think, fear the things we fear, one the enemy would never expect. (Ender’s Game: November 1st, 2013)
