| Bitter Thorn |
NSA chief: Stop reporters 'selling' spy documents
Why should free press matter?
*face palm*
Exclusive: Feds confiscate investigative reporter’s confidential files during raid
| Bitter Thorn |
Report says NSA monitored 35 world leaders, on heels of Merkel spying claim
I'm much less worried about them spying on them than us.
| Bitter Thorn |
Last Year President Obama Reportedly Told His Aides That He's 'Really Good At Killing People'
Don't you feel safer yet?
| Bitter Thorn |
Amnesty International: Drone Strikes in Pakistan Could Constitute War Crimes
Human rights groups may be less excited.
| Bitter Thorn |
Faced with threats, Saudi women drop plans for ‘drive-in’ protest
The UN and Obama will save us, right?
| Bitter Thorn |
Benghazi suspects not on State Department's 'Rewards for Justice' list
At least we are all safe, right?
| Bitter Thorn |
Fla. congressman compares Tea Party to Ku Klux Klan
I wonder how we got this divisive and corrupt. .............
| Bitter Thorn |
Obamacare Navigator Hasn't Signed Up Anyone Because It's Too Expensive
"Thus far everybody has taken a look at the rates and they've walked out the door."If you can't trust Obama who can you trust?
Customers Claim Anthem Blue Cross 'Twisted' Them Out of Health Insurance
I'm sure it has nothing to do with Obama.
| Bitter Thorn |
The Real Consequences of Gun Control: Persecuting a Hero
Play this out thousands of times and see if it doesn't end in tragedy.
Some folks think vets have it coming. ............
| Bitter Thorn |
Why Young People Prize Freedom: Individualism, Charity, and Representative Government
Educational, for those who care. (long)
| Comrade Anklebiter |
My New Hampshire comrade read Dirty Wars and was giving me daily updates on what he had read; I patiently waited for him to finish the book, and then he lost it.
I guess I could go to the library...
On Democracy Now! with Nasser al-Awlaki
| Freehold DM |
4 On Your Side reveals another traffic stop nightmare
This is not an isolated incident.
Welcome to the US drug war.
Tell me again how we don't live in a police state?
someone already posted this in another, hilarious thread. And I'd say no, these guys are in a hell of a lot of trouble, they should lose their jobs and face serious jail time.
| Freehold DM |
Teen Charged With Stealing High Powered FBI Rifles In Andover
Trust them not us?!?
*shrug*
one day, I'd like to see you explain what weapons you feel the fbi, cia, and even beat cops own while also eexplaining how you would feel if someone broke into youe house and stole your guns.
| Freehold DM |
Are you a racist if you own a gun?A response to some of the bigots.
seriously bt? Using a Fox news story as a response to "bigots" regarding guns? Chummer, you gotta be kidding me...
One, iirc, the original story/study was talking about stockpiling weapons with respect to hoarding ammunition, not.carrying a gun to protect yourself or even collecting guns as s hobby. Which was a fair point. If you're scared of those godless (insert slur of your choice here!) and genuinely think they are taking over some virgin neighborhood or something, then yeah, you're going to focus on ammo over guns as it were. But just owning a gun, even a few guns, isn't enough. It's an ugly correlation and it isn't one to one as it were, forget about causation.
| Freehold DM |
Giving Thanks for America's Givers
Maybe private charities are not the enemy.
never said they were, but they deserve bad press and dimgs when their more interested in making other agencies look bad than in helping people or money goes into places other than the charity.
| Freehold DM |
Bitter Thorn wrote:Obamacare Navigator Hasn't Signed Up Anyone Because It's Too Expensive
"Thus far everybody has taken a look at the rates and they've walked out the door."If you can't trust Obama who can you trust?
Customers Claim Anthem Blue Cross 'Twisted' Them Out of Health Insurance
I'm sure it has nothing to do with Obama.
the article showed malfeasance(hope I'm using the right word!) on the part of the company, not Obama. Would that more people checked their plan and took umbrage with individual companies as opposed to blaming the president for everything.
| Freehold DM |
A year after Superstorm Sandy, federal aid trickles in
they need to hold their feet to the fire on this.
| Freehold DM |
NSA chief: Stop reporters 'selling' spy documents
Why should free press matter?
*face palm*
I remain unconvinced of snowdens altruism.
| Freehold DM |
CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds
Doctors were asked to torture detainees for intelligence gathering, and unethical practices continue, review concludes
How is he better than Bush again?
article doesn't mention obama and provides a poor timeline. This isn't the first time this was reported, I remember hearing similar stories in 04.
| thejeff |
Bitter Thorn wrote:I remain unconvinced of snowdens altruism.NSA chief: Stop reporters 'selling' spy documents
Why should free press matter?
*face palm*
I don't particularly care about his altruism or his motivations. Unless they cast serious doubt on his revelations, which judging by the lack of denials and by the grudging admissions from the government, I can't see that they do.
Why should his altruism or lack of it matter?
It often seems part of an effort to turn attention to him personally and away from what he's revealed.
| thejeff |
Bitter Thorn wrote:never said they were, but they deserve bad press and dimgs when their more interested in making other agencies look bad than in helping people or money goes into places other than the charity.Giving Thanks for America's Givers
Maybe private charities are not the enemy.
Certainly not the enemy, but also not a solution on their own.
Much of the low level charitable giving is essentially waste. Or at least inefficient. People often want to give stuff, but stuff is usually far less useful and harder to get to where it's needed than money is. A good chunk of money donated after the Newtown shootings is being devoted to housing all the things people donated.
If you donate food or clothes for the Philippines disaster, it'll be weeks and much manpower and effort before it gets there. Cash can fund the relief agencies operations today and purchase things closer to the need.
And a lot of charity isn't directed very usefully. It tends to hit things that make a big media splash and ignore more long term problems.
| Bitter Thorn |
Bitter Thorn wrote:someone already posted this in another, hilarious thread. And I'd say no, these guys are in a hell of a lot of trouble, they should lose their jobs and face serious jail time.4 On Your Side reveals another traffic stop nightmare
This is not an isolated incident.
Welcome to the US drug war.
Tell me again how we don't live in a police state?
I'll try to reply Saturday night.
I hope they will be held to the full account of the law, but I doubt it.