January 31, 2014

loser fuckheads accusing obama of using soldier as a "prop"

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/01/29/General-Scales-Accuses-Obama-of-Using-Wounded-Vet-As-A-SOTU-Prop

at breitbartvomit.com

Don't click it because fuck them.

But just so you know.

January 30, 2014

Clinton has largest recorded early primary lead in at least 30 years.

Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a commanding 6 to 1 lead over other Democrats heading into the 2016 presidential campaign, while the Republican field is deeply divided with no clear front-runner, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Clinton trounces her potential primary rivals with 73 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, reinforcing a narrative of inevitability around her nomination if she runs. Vice President Biden is second with 12 percent, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is third with 8 percent.For 2016, Hillary Clinton has commanding lead over Democrats, GOP race wide open

Although Clinton’s favorability rating has fallen since she stepped down as secretary of state a year ago, she has broad Democratic support across ideological, gender, ethnic and class lines. Her lead is the largest recorded in an early primary matchup in at least 30 years of Post-ABC polling.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-2016-hillary-clinton-has-commanding-lead-over-democrats-gop-race-wide-open/2014/01/29/188bb3f4-8904-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html

Damn she is kicking some ass.

January 30, 2014

Obama Approval

Do you approve or disapprove of how President Obama is doing his job as president?

January 25, 2014

Like PRISM on Steroids. SORM will monitor all electronic communication in Sochi area

"a perfect storm of terrorist threats, autocratic government and limitless resources..."


“It’s almost like Sochi has been turned into an independent state,” said Mark Galeotti, a specialist in security affairs and modern Russia, who teaches at NYU. “It is an extremely extensive control zone.”

On Wednesday, I spoke to Andrei Soldatov, a Russian investigative journalist who broke the biggest security story of the Sochi Olympics: SORM, the Russians’ virtual surveillance system. The Russian FSB (successor to the KGB) will monitor all communications between spectators, journalists, athletes and anyone else who visits (or lives in) Sochi. The U.S. State Department has warned business travelers to be careful with sensitive information, which “may be taken and shared with competitors, counterparts, and/or Russian regulatory and legal entities.” One security expert said SORM was like “PRISM on steroids.”

“There’s not public outcry about these measures,” Soldatov said. “After every big terrorist attack, like Volgograd,” — where suicide bombings killed 34 people last month — “Russian society approves half-measures. And metadata seems quite innocent in comparison to what was proposed.” In October, for example, the lower house of the Russian Parliament approved a law to hold the relatives of terrorists financially responsible for crimes. Muslim women in nearby Dagestan say they have been asked to provide saliva samples to the FSB so that their body parts may be identified in the event of a suicide bombing.

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/25/the_sochi_olympics_putins_shiny_new_surveillance_state/

January 25, 2014

Regarding the Maryland Mall Shooting - not sure which was more inappropriate

during the CNN coverage - the woman plugging her store during a phone interview, the guy in the background during the sheriff's press conference on the phone and clearly smiling and talking to a friend who was watching him on teevee or the person who kept honking their car horn during the same.

January 24, 2014

Holder: Possible plea deal for Snowden

In an interview with MSNBC, Attorney General Eric Holder ruled out what supporters of Edward Snowden have demanded: Were the whistle-blower to return to the U.S. from hiding in Russia, he would not be granted clemency.

However, Holder suggested that a possible plea deal could be negotiated. “We’ve always indicated that the notion of clemency isn’t something that we were willing to consider. Instead, were he coming back to the U.S. to enter a plea, we would engage with his lawyers. ”

Crucially, this should not be read as a hint toward leniency for Snowden. Indeed, Chelsea Manning put forward a plea — admitting to handing over a trove of classified material to WikiLeaks — to face lesser charges. The whistle-blower received a 35-year sentence in a military prison. Indicating continued anger at Snowden, Holder declined to call the fugitive a whistle-blower: “I prefer the term defendant. That’s the most apt title,” he said.

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/24/holder_possible_plea_deal_for_snowden/

January 24, 2014

MSNBC interupts interview with congresswoman about the NSA to report on Justin Bieber

Watch MSNBC Interrupt a Congresswoman for Breaking Justin Bieber News

Yesterday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchel interrupted a conversation about the NSA with former congresswoman Jane Harman to introduce some breaking Justin Bieber news.

To be fair: Justin Bieber's arrest was the biggest story yesterday (though the most important story was the cannibal rat ghost ship). But there was probably a better way to handle the transition.

http://gawker.com/watch-msnbc-interrupt-a-congresswoman-for-breaking-jus-1508120364

January 24, 2014

Riddle me this: let's say the GOP loses House seats but still hangs on to a slim majority BUT

the tea baggers are the majority within the now smaller GOP overall majority. Would Boehner start trying to cut deals with some Dems to join the remaining non crazy GOPers and keep him as speaker? And what would be a big enough concession to the Dems for them to consider it? Control of certain committee?

January 24, 2014

"I am for decriminalization but not leglization" is going to be the "I support civil unions but not

gay marriage" of the pot prohibition end times.