More Random Thoughts....

[Ken]

Have you heard about the new Verizon Wireless Plan?
They’re calling it the “Share Everything with the NSA Plan.”

Will Eric Holder read his Fifth Amendment rights to himself before he begins his investigation?

You know how Google asks if you’ll share your location with them? They’re kidding, right?

Do you think that James Clapper believes his own lies?

I’ll bet that the life insurance premiums for reporters from The Guardian are about to skyrocket.

It’s about time that facebook made some disclosures on its “Privacy Settings” page about government intercepts.

I’m wondering what the millions of people who’ve texted and e-mailed and Skyped intimate pics and videos of themselves are thinking right about now.

I’d love to see the receipts for all of those IRS “conferences.”

Do you get the same strange feeling that I get every time an internet page flickers or needs to be “recovered?”

You know how business people get taxed on some of the perks they receive? Does the same rule apply to the IRS conference attendees?

All of that metadata stuff – I wonder if they have everyone’s various account names and passwords and phone numbers and twitter accounts and facebook accounts and credit card information all cross-referenced. That’s a dumb question. Of course they do.

I wonder if the NSA has caught Joe Biden looking at internet porn. Wait, another dumb question……

I wonder if the NSA has caught Dianne Feinstein looking at internet porn. Wait…..

I’d expect that the NSA could shed some serious light on the calls made to and from Benghazi last September 11^th.

You know how so many people inadvertently delete e-mails and text messages that they wish they could recover but can’t? I’ll bet we could pay off our National Debt if the NSA opened an “Archive Recovery Division” and provided copies of that stuff for a fee.

Shouldn’t the President get taxed for his private use of Air Force One, just like corporate executives get taxed for private use of corporate jets?

Do you think the NSA has also tapped into customer loyalty card databases? If so, perhaps they can do a study on which foods we should avoid to prevent hemorrhoid attacks and whether creams or suppositories work best – depending on the brand of toilet paper we buy.

Now would be a good time to invest in companies that manufacture “burner phones.”

Does the NSA spy on the President, too?

[oldtrap59]

I had a thought today. Don't laugh. I do have one once in awhile.

All this stuff going on right now imo kinda makes,watergate, look like small taters. Just look how we have progressed in about 40 years.

We used to think the Russians were bad cause they spied on their people.

When did Orwell write 1984?

More and more of what I hear reminds me of Johnstone's Ashes series.

Oldtrap

[Eastree]

I agree, Oldtrap. We were talking about the following image here at home recently. Our conclusion is that there's a mix of the two, taking advantage of public distraction by media to implement Big Brother without opposition:

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[Cast-Iron]

I’ll bet that the life insurance premiums for reporters from The Guardian are about to skyrocket.
I was thinking the same thing.

I’d love to see the receipts for all of those IRS “conferences.”
How about this? If they can't produce receipts, they are held personally liable for the costs!

Do you get the same strange feeling that I get every time an internet page flickers or needs to be “recovered?”
Yes, I thought that was just me being paranoid.

Shouldn’t the President get taxed for his private use of Air Force One, just like corporate executives get taxed for private use of corporate jets?
Note to self: Send note to congressmen regarding the president using federal property for personal travel......(I really like this one, Ken. Keep them coming!)

[welderguy]

Have you heard about the new Verizon Wireless Plan?
They’re calling it the “Share Everything with the NSA Plan.”

Will Eric Holder read his Fifth Amendment rights to himself before he begins his investigation?

You know how Google asks if you’ll share your location with them? They’re kidding, right?

Do you think that James Clapper believes his own lies?

I’ll bet that the life insurance premiums for reporters from The Guardian are about to skyrocket.

It’s about time that facebook made some disclosures on its “Privacy Settings” page about government intercepts.

I’m wondering what the millions of people who’ve texted and e-mailed and Skyped intimate pics and videos of themselves are thinking right about now. OMG I wonder what there reaction to Rick in a hong was... Im thinking AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH my eyes is about right!!!!

I’d love to see the receipts for all of those IRS “conferences.”

Do you get the same strange feeling that I get every time an internet page flickers or needs to be “recovered?”

You know how business people get taxed on some of the perks they receive? Does the same rule apply to the IRS conference attendees?

All of that metadata stuff – I wonder if they have everyone’s various account names and passwords and phone numbers and twitter accounts and facebook accounts and credit card information all cross-referenced. That’s a dumb question. Of course they do.

I wonder if the NSA has caught Joe Biden looking at internet porn. Wait, another dumb question……

I wonder if the NSA has caught Dianne Feinstein looking at internet porn. Wait…..

I’d expect that the NSA could shed some serious light on the calls made to and from Benghazi last September 11^th.

You know how so many people inadvertently delete e-mails and text messages that they wish they could recover but can’t? I’ll bet we could pay off our National Debt if the NSA opened an “Archive Recovery Division” and provided copies of that stuff for a fee.

Shouldn’t the President get taxed for his private use of Air Force One, just like corporate executives get taxed for private use of corporate jets?

Do you think the NSA has also tapped into customer loyalty card databases? If so, perhaps they can do a study on which foods we should avoid to prevent hemorrhoid attacks and whether creams or suppositories work best – depending on the brand of toilet paper we buy.

Now would be a good time to invest in companies that manufacture “burner phones.”

Does the NSA spy on the President, too?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rick]

The Watergate breakin was the paper and file cabinet version of PRISM. Let's hope the outcome is the same. Wait a minute...that leaves Joe Biden.....Oh, now this is a conundrum.

[Cast-Iron]

The Watergate breakin was the paper and file cabinet version of PRISM. Let's hope the outcome is the same. Wait a minute...that leaves Joe Biden.....Oh, now this is a conundrum.

No it's much worse than that, Rick: Biden is implicated and resigns his office; next Obama names house minority leader Nancy Pelosi as his new VP; finally Obama steps down in a deal to avoid federal prosecution, imprisonment, and eventual deportation back to his native Kenya.

[Ken]

No it's much worse than that, Rick: Biden is implicated and resigns his office; next Obama names house minority leader Nancy Pelosi as his new VP; finally Obama steps down in a deal to avoid federal prosecution, imprisonment, and eventual deportation back to his native Kenya.

[LowKey]

If everyone who rubberstamped the FISA decisions on this mess are taken out of the succession, where does that leave us...?

[Cast-Iron]

If everyone who rubberstamped the FISA decisions on this mess are taken out of the succession, where does that leave us...?

In a MUCH better place!

[Rick]

Amen to that.

[BENESSE]

Stop fantasizing, you guys. Nothing much is going to happen...unfortunately. Or I'm buying drinks at the next jamboree. Oh, yeah...I'll show up for that reason alone.

[Solar Geek]

To Ken's point on the flickering of the internet page and then "recovery".
In the last 5 months I have noticed my incredibly reliable YAHOO mail is totally unreliable. People don't get stuff I send, the system tells me often there is a "problem with the PAGE" when I am typing or sending, and ultimately I have to exit and re-enter it. This occurs on my brandy new ASUS laptop, my 3 year old HP desktop and on my 7 yr old Toshiba laptop (that we keep to print as Canon refuses to create drivers for a perfectly good commercial printer to print on Windows 7 or 8 so must keep only computer with VISTA).
I must have yelled at the computer 10 zillion times as I rely on email quite a bit. Totally blamed (1) my computers, (2) me, (3) DH (I blame him for anything technical)
and finally YAHOO.
NOW I know it was NSA.

[rebel]

Missed opportunities. Too bad the folks in Boston didn't sit on their property with a loaded weapon when they were looking for the bombing Bros. What a message that would have sent on several levels!

[BENESSE]

As to the OP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSrXpFb7jFo

[canid]

It's not just the NSA. Remember CiQ? Pre-installed root-kits installed by all the popular vendors of smartphones?

[Wildthang]

I swear going off grid almost sounds appealing sometimes because we simply have no privacy anymore! Our founding fathers are probably rolling over in their graves right now!

[canid]

If they are, it's being monitored by keyhole satalites in all spectra.

[Rick]

Now that right there ain't funny I don't care who you are. God bless those spying little pygmies down there in New Guinea.

[Rick]

Why you try to put up a front for me
Im a spy but on your side you see
Slip on, into any disguise
Ill still know you
Look into my private eyes
Private eyes
They're watching you
They see your every move
Private eyes
They're watching you
Private eyes
They're watching you watching you watching you watching you

Hall and Oates