David Snowden may be a
lot more dangerous to the security than we figured. Two people on Face the Nation today and one
on Meet the Press said they are ‘Pretty sure that Snowden had to have had
help. First of all getting around the
Security measures for some of the secrets he collected took more knowledge than
he would have had. Snowden’s motive isn’t
what he claimed it to be that “many young people born today have no concept of
what it is to have any privacy at all”.
Well, they can blame some of that on their helicopter parents. Snowden revealed a lot of military secrets
and a whole lot to compromise our security such that the United States has had
to abandon whole methods of operation because now our enemies are aware of
them. One must keep in mind that our
National Security Administration was doing nothing illegal and there have been
very few abuses. A few NSA agents have
checked in on old boyfriends and girlfriends for personal info. The Martin Luther King parade tomorrow will
be carried on KABC. I watched most of “Face
the Nation”. Snowden’s trek out of the
country was that of someone with a purpousful plan and not the random acts of
some fleeing amature. We have a lot to be concerned about with
Russia in general and not because of all the suspicious help they gave Snowden. But of course Russia has a thing or two to
explain too about the Boston Marathon bombings and how those two brothers were
able to get into this country and the Russians didn’t do anything about it or
warn us adequately. Besides this we now
learn that Russia is NOT helping out much with security with the Olympics as
far as working with our federal agencies, as has been a longstanding tradition
between the United States and whatever nation was holding the Olympics. It would seem that Vladimir Putin bears a lot
of personal animosity to the United States.
I don’t trust Russia these days, and I don’t trust any nation that would
be in a close military alliance with them.
But that’s just me. It seems
that the CIA chief made 46 specific recommendations of changes to the NSA, but
I don’t know how many of these were taken up by the Administration. One question I have is “If Google and Yahoo
and AT&T are holding all this information, suppose they decide to
themselves “We don’t need all of this volume of information cluttering up our
data banks. Let’s get rid of it.” Will then these private companies be brought
up on charges of Treason for violation of an implied contract? Now ABC news is coming on and saying that
there are threats of chemical weapons being let loose at the Russian
Olympics. There is a new video released
by the same terrorist group that says “The attacks on Volgagrad are only the
beginning, we have more in store including chemical weapons”. One US Senator says it’s now unsafe for the
United States to go to the Olympics.
Vladimir Putin was interviewed today by George Stephanoplis and Putin
says “Snowden has a perfect right to travel anywhere in Russia with no
limitations, even the Olympics”.
They are activating the
“alarm clock” on this space craft that was launched ten years ago with a
mission to land on a comet to learn its secrets and whether water from a comet
gave earth it’s first prospect for life.
It will be like landing on a speeding bullet because the gravity would
be very slight and I guess they have to bore into the ice of the comet to
secure the craft. One might think the
gravity would be so slight a man could physically lift the craft off the
ground.
A thief can get a tax
refund in your name with virtually no ID.
All he needs if your social security number, and fill out a form and he’s
in. So basically it’s easier for someone
to steal your tax refund than it is to vote in some states..He can have your
refund in his pocket before you even getting around to filing for it. They claimed as high as 1.6 million people in
America have fallen victim to this, which sounds like no minor thing, but we’re
just now hearing about it.
A few minutes ago the ‘49ers
are clinging to a 17 to 13 lead but now Seattle has scored a touchdown on a "free play" and are now leading 20 to 17 and so the crowd is happy. There's a whole quarter to go but I'm starting to get a grim feeling about this game. Even if the ‘49ers should lose
this game, they have nothing to be ashamed of because they have played
well. But knowing the home team momentum
with the cheering crowd and all the sheer energy may enthuse the home team and
they could well come back to win. The '49ers were cheated out of a "roughing the kicker" call that would have given then fifteen yards and a first down. There was another base of bad officiating and a "not reviewable" clause, that awarded Seattle the ball. I hope the game doesn't turn on a case of bad officiating. But karma caught up with the Sea Hawks because they blew an easy touchdown, and now the '49ers have gained yards and have the ball with 8:18 to go. In the Patriots and Broncos game earlier, the game turned on New England failing to make a two point conversion leaving
them down 26 to 16, and right there is where the score stayed. They were saying the weather was mild despite
the fact they were playing in Denver.
This is a bit later and they just awarded the Lamar Hunt AFC
championship trophy.
We are hearing a whole
new counter-charge in this whole Governor Christie deboccle. Now the right is accusing the democratic
party of “orchestrating” all these multitudes of charges against the
governor. As you know the mayor of
Hoboken was denied flood relief or something out of retaliation. I didn’t know this was directly allotted
Hurricane Sandy money congress had voted out.
So Christie does a campaign commercial for himself with his family in it
with the money, but denies the people of Hoboken the right to flood relief
congress wanted them to have. That’s my
understanding. David Gregory tried a
little “too hard” to appear neutral.
Some things are so glaringly obvious they don’t call for neutrality but
objective pointed questioning. Gates was
on- - and of course he isn’t nearly as anti-Obama as FOX news would portray
him.
I went out for coffee break after two and
ended up having three pieces of some kind of flavored strawberry pink cake and
vanilla icing, and two cups of coffee.
The birds are still in a chirpy mood.
Lisha was out there and it’s the second time I’ve seen her with that guy
she said she was “Just friends with” when they were showing amorous affection
in public. I wanted to mention that
sometimes I borrow traits from others.
For instance I got the phrase “There you go!” as a useful phrase for all
sorts of occasions, I got from ex apartment neighbor Ken Hancock. And that silly laugh John Metz does- - I do
that one too, just not nearly as much.
It’s kind of half embarrassed and a little sarcastic. Just so I can remember when I wrote this
paragraph it’s short of two and a half years after Labor Day 2011. Two things occurred on this day. First Ray the lime time senior cook left in
the kitchen and things haven’t been the same since. Also as I flog my memory- - it’s the point in
time where Dr Levy drastically cut back his classes from one long and one short
class per week, to basically one short class per week, on those weeks he even
deems to show his face. What this means
is that in the less than five years I’ve been attending his classes, half of that
period was of a “truncated nature”. I
remember in the spring of 2012 when Levy was skipping a lot of classes that I
considered it a problem then.
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