Snowden where for art thou?

 

The media and government hunt is on, both no doubt spurred by the implication of more embarrassing revelations to come from one Mr. Edward Snowden. A 29 year-old systems administrator for a shadowy and growing Intel-Industrial Complex of unknown proportion. He doesn’t have endless travel choices, but he has more than you might think: [Read more…]

Booz Allen probably just recorded my Google search on “Booz Allen”

It worries me that private contractors are bellying up to the super double-secret Intel taxpayer gravy train. The one Snowden worked for and got access to a dizzying array of classified info is called Booz Allen, and they probably just recorded my search on that name on Google while researching this post. They’re probably recording you reading it, too. And I have a message for them:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
— 4th Amendment US Constitution

Maybe I’ll just leave that up on every post from now on. Since they know so much about us, what can we find out about them? [Read more…]

Here’s what “fair and balanced” looks like in graphic form

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There’s a lot of lessons that can be learned from this. The most obvious being that if only sexual assaults in the military were blamed on Obama, Fox would be all over them. I’m actually surprised House members haven’t trotted that angle out yet. After all, he’s the Commander-in-Chief, you’d think it would be a natural direction to go, right on the corner of Benghazi Blvd between the IRS building and the AP news center. But that might involve admitting the issue exists, which could then lead to support for women in the military and following the blame up the manly chain of command, and that just doesn’t jive with the views of the typical Fox News viewer.

A Nooner unscrewed by the happy Professor

 

Peggy Noonan rides again, this time whining that conservatives were painted and hit by a certain unnamed — possibly Kenyan but we won’t say that — WH executive, or the very least he set the critical arrogant tone (Yet he was somehow also meekly passive, in her wide ranging attack) in the “worst scandal since Watergate”. Her evidence? Four conservatives were audited. Nate Silver points out it was probably a hell of a lot more than four! [Read more…]