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Update: The OPM Hack Isn't Bad.
It's Catastrophic.

But Obama reassured me...!

Whoever now holds OPM’s records possesses something like the Holy Grail from a CI perspective. They can target Americans in their database for recruitment or influence. After all, they know their vices, every last one -- the gambling habit, the inability to pay bills on time, the spats with former spouses, the taste for something sexual on the side (perhaps with someone of a different gender than your normal partner) -- since all that is recorded in security clearance paperwork (to get an idea of how detailed this gets, you can see the form, called an SF86, here).

...

The bad news keeps piling up with this story, including reports that OPM records may have appeared, for sale, on the "darknet." Moreover, OPM seems to have initially low-balled just how serious the breach actually was. Even more disturbing, if predictable, is a new report in the New York Times that case "investigators believe that the Chinese hackers who attacked the databases of the Office of Personnel Management may have obtained the names of Chinese relatives, friends and frequent associates of American diplomats and other government officials, information that Beijing could use for blackmail or retaliation."

Oh, those pesky files merely disclose what foreign nationals US personnel are on friendly, even sexual, terms with.

Do you think some of those people might have been turned to the US for espionage, or at least some friendly influence?

Well, Beijing knows all about them now. And they can sell or trade those names to Russia, Libya, Iran, etc....

But Captain Bullshit wants a no drama administration, so if the Phoenix VA actually kills people by putting them on fake waiting lists, he just has his minions rewrite the report to say that no one died due to the waiting lists, because a "waiting list" is not a cause of death -- heart stoppage is the cause of death.

And just like that, by rewriting reports, by lying, poof! Problems disappear.

Right now ISIS is continuing to ravage the Middle East like a demonic army sprung from the worst passages of the Apocalypse of St. John. But Obama has Marie Harf say that everything's going to plan, and they have some soft-headed retard in Vox write "Actually, we're kicking the living shit out of ISIS and here's why," and poof!, problem solved.

If Obama solves any more problems like this, we're all dead men.

ABCNews: Catastrophe. Obama just found out about this when you folks did, from the mornin' papers.

OPM Hack Far Deeper Than Publicly Acknowledged, Went Undetected For More Than A Year, Sources Say

Jun 11, 2015, 4:59 PM ET

By MIKE LEVINE

The massive hack into federal systems announced last week was far deeper and potentially more problematic than publicly acknowledged, with hackers believed to be from China moving through government databases undetected for more than a year, sources briefed on the matter told ABC News.

"If [only] they knew the full extent of it," one U.S. official said about those affected by the intrusion into the Office of Personnel Management's information systems.

It all started with an initial intrusion into OPM's systems more than a year ago, and after gaining that initial access the hackers were able to work their way through four different "segments" of OPM's systems, according to sources.

Much of that data has been stored on OPM systems housed by the Department of the Interior in a Denver-area data center, sources said. And one of the four "segments" compromised held forms filled out by federal employees seeking security clearances.

As ABC News previously reported, the 127-page forms -- known as SF-86's and used for background investigations -- ask applicants for personal information not only about themselves but also relatives, friends, and potentially even college roommates.

OPM insists the information compromised by the intrusion into its systems does "not [include] the names of family members."

"Family members of employees were not affected by this breach," OPM says on its website.

However, U.S. officials speaking on the condition of anonymity say unequivocally such information was put at serious risk by the OPM hack. Of utmost concern are U.S. employees stationed overseas, including in countries such as China, whose government would covet personal information on relatives and contacts of American officials living in the communist country, according to officials.

Now you may be saying: Gee, the only thing that could make this worse is if they got information about regular citizens, too.

It's worse.

Federal investigators are trying to determine whether the massive hack into federal systems announced this past week impacted far more than the estimated 4 million current and former government employees already acknowledged by the Obama administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

In particular, investigators are considering the possibility that private citizens who never worked for the U.S. government may have also had personal information compromised, sources said.

At the heart of concern are forms filled out by federal employees seeking security clearances. The forms -- known as SF-86's and used for background investigations -- were exposed after hackers infiltrated the Office of Personnel Management's information systems in December, according to the sources.

Acting as the government's human resources division, OPM conducts about 90 percent of background investigations for the federal government. And federal employees who submit the SF-86 forms provide personal information not only about themselves but also relatives, friends, and potentially even college roommates.

Do you know anyone who works for the government?

Well, you may be in the files, then.

Every single day under this dissembling, incompetent, psychopathic regime is like taking the lid off the Ark of the Covenant, just to see what horrors may lurk inside.

Because, you know: YOLO.

On the Job Three Days a Week, Four Hours a Day:


Posted by: Ace at 06:44 PM




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1 Thank God I don't work for the Feds.

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2015 06:44 PM (jBuUi)

2 It's like The Machurian Candidate, but 10^10,000 times worse.

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2015 06:45 PM (jBuUi)

3 But, but pool party!

Posted by: donna at June 11, 2015 06:45 PM (Bn6aD)

4 and so it begins

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at June 11, 2015 06:46 PM (rwI+c)

5 If they have *my* OPM records, they know my love life sucks. Maybe now they'll send a beautiful spy to seduce me...

Posted by: Siergen at June 11, 2015 06:46 PM (Evmuu)

6 "initially low-balled just how serious the breach"

Why do extended testicular sacs have anything to do with this?

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2015 06:46 PM (jBuUi)

7 5 If they have *my* OPM records, they know my love life sucks. Maybe now they'll send a beautiful spy to seduce me...
Posted by: Siergen


I hear Anna Chapman is currently unassigned. Maybe you'll get lucky!

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2015 06:47 PM (jBuUi)

8 And you were worried about the IRS and the NSA.FAKED YOU OUT!!!

Posted by: King Putt at June 11, 2015 06:47 PM (7aUWM)

9 Now, if we just can get the hackers to threaten to release information on any government employee that doesn't start producing quality work immediately...

Posted by: Roy at June 11, 2015 06:47 PM (fWLrt)

10 "If Obama solves any more problems like this, we're all dead men."

That's a lie, some of us will be dead women... and children.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 11, 2015 06:48 PM (QdAXQ)

11 So, Captain Bullshit has low-balls.

Does Captain Lowshit have bull-balls?

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2015 06:48 PM (jBuUi)

12 they can also enter personal computers of govt employees as a backdoor to sensitive tech & intel information. i haven't seen this mentioned.

Posted by: steinmetz at June 11, 2015 06:48 PM (CrYC8)

13 Affirmative Action Has Dire Consequences

Posted by: Garrett at June 11, 2015 06:48 PM (GLrp1)

14 "The Core", has been awakened.

Posted by: redenzo at June 11, 2015 06:49 PM (WCnJW)

15 The hackers have binders of women... and men... and whatevers.

Posted by: Roy at June 11, 2015 06:49 PM (fWLrt)

16 At least Jimmy Carter is happy.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at June 11, 2015 06:50 PM (GpgJl)

17 Medical records been hacked too?

Posted by: torabora at June 11, 2015 06:50 PM (jCwKZ)

18 >>Why do extended testicular sacs have anything to do with this?


Something, something...
Low hanging fruit.

Posted by: Garrett at June 11, 2015 06:50 PM (GLrp1)

19 Upside:

Most government employees are naturally and inescapably in favor of Big Machine Government -- because they're part of it. So the people whose lives might be made miserable are the very ones who need to learn a hard lesson about the perils of centralization and faith in Big Brother.

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2015 06:51 PM (jBuUi)

20 Carly reminds me of my attorney. Bitches get things done. Well rehearsed but, she rolls naturally.

Posted by: redenzo at June 11, 2015 06:51 PM (WCnJW)

21 yes

and I repeat

Remember, IBD called out the JEF on this, too.

Obama's 'Cybersecurity Czar' Is MIA As Hackers Run Wild

http://bit.ly/1MikiLx

...After the Office of Personnel Management revealed the breach of its network, which allowed hackers from China to steal data on 4 million current and former federal employees, OPM head Katherine Archuleta said: "Protecting our federal employee data from malicious cyber incidents is of the highest priority at OPM."

It sure doesn't seem that way.

OPM had been the target of a similar hack originating in China almost exactly one year before, which gained access to some of the office's databases before being caught. And this time around, hackers rooted around OPM's network for four months before being caught.

Less than two weeks before, the IRS revealed that hackers from Russia had stolen data on 100,000 tax returns and filed 13,000 bogus returns to the IRS so they could collect $39 billion in "refunds."

The inspector general had already warned the IRS that its databases were vulnerable, but the IRS failed to act on dozens of recommendations to shore them up.

And not long before that, Russian hackers penetrated parts of the White House computer system after hacking into the State Department's email system.

The U.S. weather service and the U.S. Postal Service have also been breached. The Government Accountability Office warns that the nation's air traffic control system is vulnerable, and the Healthcare.gov exchange has been warned repeatedly that it's not secure enough.

Six years ago, President Obama said that he understood the enormous risk that cyberattacks posed, and he promised to "pursue a new, comprehensive approach to securing America's digital infrastructure."



well, they are too busy spying and hacking conservatives

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 11, 2015 06:51 PM (qCMvj)

22 ... this might include work & spec people took home; passwords; affiliations, etc.

Posted by: steinmetz at June 11, 2015 06:51 PM (CrYC8)

23 I'm sorry, but for those of us in IT security this is just kinda comical

It's been clear for a long time that, while the DoD took things fairly seriously, the rest of the Feds could hardly give a damn.

This was an expected result, and the only real question was 'when?'

IT security at DHS and the rest of the civilian Fed is on a par with TSA crotch-groping.

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor (sometimes JEM) at June 11, 2015 06:51 PM (o+SC1)

24 Elaine Cho? Is that her name? Wife of the chinless GOPer who I cant think of

Posted by: Baldy at June 11, 2015 06:51 PM (sEXjW)

25 Maybe the hackers will release a fresh photo of Kerry with a cast? That is a sho' nuff weird story.

I know people who work for the feds. I have not talked to them today as this would freak me out.

Of course Congress' information was not leaked. Of course. Worthless...all of them.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, supermodel Redneck Queenster at June 11, 2015 06:51 PM (FCPu0)

26 Eighteen months, how much worse can it get in eighteen months?

Posted by: Lostris Mahuna at June 11, 2015 06:52 PM (uOOCL)

27 But the downside -- national security compromised -- is much bigger than the upside.

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2015 06:52 PM (jBuUi)

28 It bears repeating. Marco Rubio has a VERY large boat.

That is all.

Posted by: The New York Times at June 11, 2015 06:52 PM (8ZskC)

29 Let's roll those clips of Captain Bullshit assuring us it is a nothingburger.

Let's see if the WaPo can do as in-depth a story on this as they did about Romney and the prep school haircut.

THAT one was a biggie, for sure. Many thousands of words.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at June 11, 2015 06:52 PM (U6f54)

30

Security Clearance data is the worst...

Yep, this is bad.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 11, 2015 06:53 PM (qCMvj)

31 When Obama finds out about how bad this hack man is he going to be pissed.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 11, 2015 06:53 PM (VRdqG)

32 But John McCain said he was a "Decent Man"
Fletcher: Damn you, Senator. You promised me those men would be decently treated.
Senator Lane: They were decently treated. They were decently fed and then they were decently shot.

Posted by: Mr Wizard at June 11, 2015 06:53 PM (hCdMd)

33 Like I said in the previous thread, time for a pre emptive nuking of Beijing.

Posted by: @votermom at June 11, 2015 06:54 PM (cbfNE)

34 The Barackhenatening is nigh.

Posted by: Garrett at June 11, 2015 06:54 PM (GLrp1)

35 I'm gobsmacked that we just let this data get stolen for free right from under our very noses.

The Clinton Foundation could have sold it.

Posted by: Sir Hillary Edmund Rodham Clinton at June 11, 2015 06:54 PM (8ZskC)

36

and the GOP couldn't find the will to impeach this pos

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 11, 2015 06:54 PM (qCMvj)

37 So were the Obamacare Web guys in charge of this too?

Posted by: Mr Wizard at June 11, 2015 06:54 PM (hCdMd)

38 So I'm guessing that the Chicoms already have all this information on the members of Congress. That would explain a few things.

Posted by: rickl at June 11, 2015 06:55 PM (sdi6R)

39 And I thought "Amateur Hour" was just some antiquated phrase fallen into disuse because vaudeville halls no longer exist, much less have amateur hours.

Little did I know that it describes the current United States government!

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2015 06:55 PM (jBuUi)

40 I'm not sure what a "sieve" is but we're sure as hell leaking like one.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 11, 2015 06:56 PM (8ZskC)

41 Fuck.

Posted by: Le-a is on a boat, MFers! at June 11, 2015 06:56 PM (vmMMi)

42 If the hackers have some good info on TFG and release it... Popcorn!

Posted by: davidt at June 11, 2015 06:57 PM (B+p2p)

43
Does anybody happen to know if former employee of the federal judiciary are in this database? I was an elbow clerk (JS, not GS, and not career) back in the day.

Not that having my personal information would do anybody any good, I just want to know.

Posted by: the other coyote at June 11, 2015 06:57 PM (yK44T)

44 Yeah but do they know which island the condenser is broken on?

Posted by: DaveA at June 11, 2015 06:57 PM (DL2i+)

45 *facepalm*

Posted by: The Keystone Kops at June 11, 2015 06:57 PM (8ZskC)

46 @24 - Chao, methinks.

Not the chicklet who got the big seat at Reddit after her shakedown of her former VC coworkers/penetrators failed.

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor (sometimes JEM) at June 11, 2015 06:57 PM (o+SC1)

47 B+arry couldn't have done this because he was busy golfing

Posted by: torabora at June 11, 2015 06:58 PM (OSfgT)

48 It's not that bad. I mean, these hackers aren't going to sell any of this info to the Republicans, are they?

Posted by: George Tirebiter at June 11, 2015 06:58 PM (/zyrl)

49 Our only remaining viable strategy is to stop even trying to protect sensitive data (since we're completely incompetent at protecting it), but instead flood the zone with massive "chaff dumps" of fake sensitive data, so that the real data gets lost in all the white noise.

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2015 06:58 PM (jBuUi)

50 If you're a man under forty, it's probably best to start hitting the gym regularly. I figure we'll be in a major shooting war in the next ten years.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at June 11, 2015 06:58 PM (OiH3z)

51 My God, it's full of idiots.

Posted by: Dave Bowman at June 11, 2015 06:58 PM (8ZskC)

52 How will this change anything? The POTUS and most of his highest appointees are already voluntarily helping one or more of our enemies. I guess any patriots left on the rolls can now even more easily be pressured not to become whistle blowers but POTUS and crew could already see this data.

Now if we elect Perry or Walker they have a nice big fat cast iron reason to clean house. Of course the GOPe will do their best to get Hillary in and shed majority status in congress.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 11, 2015 06:58 PM (dkExz)

53 what has he touched that hasn't gone to absolute shit.........

Posted by: phoenixgirl at June 11, 2015 06:59 PM (0O7c5)

54 Right now, if you've worked for the Federal government in any civilian capacity since Clinton took office you might as well go down to the local consulate and apply for residency, since they'll have everything they need to know about you.

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor (sometimes JEM) at June 11, 2015 06:59 PM (o+SC1)

55 If Obama solves any more problems like this

He could pull the disappearing act on the national debt. Of course since it's the planetary store of value there might be some glitches.

Posted by: DaveA at June 11, 2015 06:59 PM (DL2i+)

56
I once had a guy apply for a job who spoke nothing but Spanish who handed me a driver's license (with his face on it, no less) and social security card that said "Elliot Goldblum" on them.
I said dude, wrong tribe. But they really did look real. Amazing what you can get at a Texas flea market. And I wonder how much money Elliot Goldblum has contributed to SS over the years?

Posted by: the other coyote at June 11, 2015 06:59 PM (yK44T)

57 excuse me, Chinese consulate...

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor (sometimes JEM) at June 11, 2015 06:59 PM (o+SC1)

58 For a TS it can get picky and detailed.

So is Weasely Clark still dating that ChiCom hottie?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:00 PM (GF78Y)

59 Prove it.

Posted by: China at June 11, 2015 07:00 PM (wkuqO)

60 At least we now know that the pic of TFG holding what looks to be a pack of cigs was not, in fact, a pack of cigs. We know this because Josh Earnest has told us so.

When ole Josh was then asked what the non-pack of cigs object actually was, he didn't know...but he's sure it ain't no damn pack of cigs you guys.

My guess is that the object is the nuclear football, cleverly disguised as a pack of cigs. Sooooo clever doncha know.

(h/t to WZ on the cig story coverage)

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 11, 2015 07:01 PM (8/umi)

61 I've been Willowed.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:01 PM (FsuaD)

62 @52 - as I've said before, should I somehow end up President I will *crush* property values in the Beltway, the unemployment rate in the DC area will hit 20% within three weeks after I take office.

Promise.

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor (sometimes JEM) at June 11, 2015 07:01 PM (o+SC1)

63 Don't worry. The Republicans will...

will...

...

Posted by: Doomed at June 11, 2015 07:02 PM (bGLSw)

64 Have any of you gone to Hot air lately? The comments there sound like Chuckles from Little green hair balls...

Posted by: donna at June 11, 2015 07:02 PM (Bn6aD)

65 Take it easy on Eliot.

He lost his brother, Jeff, not too long ago.

Posted by: Garrett at June 11, 2015 07:02 PM (GLrp1)

66 My biggest concern is how our global enemies will put such information to use in influencing politics in our country for decades to their advantage.

Have a foreign policy that is counter to Moscow/Beijing/Tehran interests?


*My! Looky here what we found in your file. Says here you like em young.*


Honestly, after the last few years, how much would it take to push America over the edge into civil war 2 with a few well-placed Manchurian candidates?

Sure we have Obama and Hillary now, and we have our suspicions. But this?

Posted by: flounder at June 11, 2015 07:02 PM (ecDRv)

67 It's okay; I understand the Feds are making the move to Windows 98, and foreign hackers will soon be relegated to the dustbin of history.

Posted by: bkeyser at June 11, 2015 07:02 PM (dG7DS)

68 We need to sell more routers to China.

Posted by: Cisco kid at June 11, 2015 07:02 PM (W5DcG)

69 1
Thank God I don't work for the Feds.


Damn, I'm a Fed and there isn't a single lurid or embarrassing fact in my jacket. What a dull life I lead. Well, I do hang out here, so I live vicariously.

@20
My thoughts exactly. Much quicker on her feet than the rest, with the possible exception of Cruz. Even when she's regurgitating the stump speech, she's much better at it than the others. She does have an annoying little tic wherein she repeatedly drops her head while she's talking. I can live with it.

Posted by: pep at June 11, 2015 07:03 PM (LAe3v)

70 Maybe I'm just feeling vindictive but Let It Burn

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 07:03 PM (wkuqO)

71 Maybe they'll show us where Hairy Reed's young victims are buried.

And exactly why Judge Roberts voted in favor of Obamacare.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:03 PM (FsuaD)

72 Thankfully Hillary! has computer expertise which will be invaluable in fixing this right up. Maybe Lois Lerner will be her running mate.

Posted by: Winkish at June 11, 2015 07:03 PM (KCruE)

73 Not the first time the PRC has rooted around. Just a few years ago the PRC apparently got their digital mittens on JSF data.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:03 PM (GF78Y)

74 Woohoo! The "Darknet" makes a reappearance!

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 11, 2015 07:03 PM (VAsIq)

75 @68 you sell them to China so they can block outbound access, we sell them to the US so we can suck up internal traffic

Posted by: Huawei at June 11, 2015 07:04 PM (o+SC1)

76 53
"what has he touched that hasn't gone to absolute shit........."

The Democrat base. It only grows.

Everything else? *shrug*

Posted by: Doomed at June 11, 2015 07:04 PM (bGLSw)

77 Can't wait for them to get the nuclear codes! Yay!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:04 PM (FsuaD)

78 It's all Bush's fault. He should have known there were Chinese hackers and done something to stop them.

Posted by: Hank at June 11, 2015 07:04 PM (y0s0q)

79 "...soft-headed retard...."

The dude can turn a phrase.

This might be Ace's greatest gift; the pithy, demeaning insult.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2015 07:05 PM (Zu3d9)

80 What makes you think Obama is going to retire from office. He just bought a new AF1.

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 07:05 PM (wkuqO)

81 I'm sure the home addresses of service people won't be used against them in any way at all by the people who've threatened to come kill service people at their homes.

Posted by: Lauren at June 11, 2015 07:05 PM (MYCIw)

82 Meanwhile, the really important thing to find out is whether Caitlyn Jenner still has her penis or not.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:05 PM (FsuaD)

83 The problem here is that the horse is already out of the barn.


Leading from behind, what can't it do.


If we win in 2016, we will find more of this everywhere.


Affirmative action appointees=disaster.

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 11, 2015 07:06 PM (0FSuD)

84 Right now ISIS is continuing to ravage the Middle East like a demonic
army sprung from the worst passages of the Apocalypse of St. John


"like'?

Posted by: Methos isn't sure simile works that way at June 11, 2015 07:06 PM (ZbV+0)

85 If Obama solves any more problems like this, we're all dead men.

Phew, I got out just in time.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at June 11, 2015 07:06 PM (LAe3v)

86 Swamp gas. Weather balloons. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2015 07:06 PM (JO9+V)

87 I'm going to just post it again (with 100% fewer typos), because I feel like it.
-------------
OT: A nice essay about "fairness" written by an open-minded Democrat (yes, such people still exist): http://hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2015-06-11.shtml
Start where he begins talking about American Ninja Warrior.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 11, 2015 07:06 PM (VAsIq)

88 81
I'm sure the home addresses of service people won't be used against them
in any way at all by the people who've threatened to come kill service
people at their homes.

Posted by: Lauren at June 11, 2015 07:05 PM (MYCIw)


Well, our vet son is very well-armed. And so are we.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:06 PM (FsuaD)

89
*My! Looky here what we found in your file. Says here you like em young


That depends on your definition of "young".

Posted by: Billy Jeff, Lord of AstroTurf at June 11, 2015 07:06 PM (KCruE)

90 77
Can't wait for them to get the nuclear codes! Yay!


Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:04 PM (FsuaD)

Saw your Wiesbaden note. We were in Hahn AFB until late 70's. Interesting times, yet somehow more stable than now.

Posted by: flounder at June 11, 2015 07:07 PM (ecDRv)

91 Why you so worry, Amricans?

We Have all your files and are most impressed. You all have such big penis.

It a wonder you fear us at all?

What with our small Chinese a penis...

Posted by: Chinese at June 11, 2015 07:07 PM (GLrp1)

92 Every time I imagine EarLeader with the nuclear football I think "surely they only gave him a dummy toy that only alerts a real adult if he pushes anything"

I just can't bear to believe he would have the real deal.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 11, 2015 07:07 PM (dkExz)

93 '...we're all dead men.'

Correct! Tell him what he's won Don!

Posted by: Zombie Bob Barker at June 11, 2015 07:07 PM (UsgHM)

94 Has anyone checked the BATF to see if their gun paperwork has been hacked?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:07 PM (GF78Y)

95 "what has he touched that hasn't gone to absolute shit........."


----

Me!

Posted by: Reggie Love, better than ever at June 11, 2015 07:07 PM (VAsIq)

96 A bunch of my clients have been identity thefted recently with the thieves filing bogus tax returns and the IRS sending the thieves large refund checks.

maybe we shouldn't use the IRS as a welfare payment agency. maybe people should hold on to their own money and pay the IRS once a year.

Posted by: X at June 11, 2015 07:07 PM (xGNLA)

97 Cant help but think that this is China firing the first shots in the china sea war.

Posted by: Chris at June 11, 2015 07:08 PM (czzXR)

98 Great, when Barky is either in jail for life or being prepped for execution for treason, I will believe we are a serious country once more. Until then, I expect more sycophantic, figurative fellating of Chicago Jesus from the democrats with bylines.

I am very sorry for the innocents caught up in this, esp. the Morons and their friends, families, and loved ones -- but to those who voted for Obama? Who hacked and/or shilled for him? The True Believers and Useful Idiots? Hope you get it Good and Hard.

Posted by: acethepug at June 11, 2015 07:08 PM (WK825)

99
Saw your Wiesbaden note. We were in Hahn AFB until late 70's. Interesting times, yet somehow more stable than now.


Posted by: flounder at June 11, 2015 07:07 PM (ecDRv)


I was thankfully so young I didn't know what was going on. And yes, things were much calmer then, in retrospect.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:08 PM (FsuaD)

100 "Can't wait for them to get the nuclear codes! Yay"

1111

Posted by: Lauren at June 11, 2015 07:08 PM (MYCIw)

101 maybe we shouldn't use the IRS as a welfare payment agency. maybe people should hold on to their own money and pay the IRS once a year.
Posted by: X at June 11, 2015 07:07 PM (xGNLA)


Billions but that is a rounding error with this debt.

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 07:08 PM (wkuqO)

102 The problem here is that the horse is already out of the barn.

------

Hobbled, but stable condition.

Posted by: John Kerry at June 11, 2015 07:09 PM (VAsIq)

103 So is it just federal employees seeking security clearances that have to be worried, or should non-federal employees who have/had security clearance be worried, too?!

Can I depend on these incompetent fuckers to let me know my information has been compromised?!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 07:10 PM (L+Tc2)

104 So Gaylord is a hobbled, gelded, weak horse upon the global stage? Or is that Jean Francois Cary?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:10 PM (GF78Y)

105 What you wanna bet that the Middle Kingdom learned something from Hillary's server that helped them with the OPM hack?

Weak-encrypiton on some login credentials that were the same as some OPM account, or someone emailing someone some details unencrypted...

Posted by: JEM (sometimes The Devoceleraptor) at June 11, 2015 07:10 PM (o+SC1)

106 Congress acts like it isn't their money. WTF? Hairy asshole reid blocked attempts for child credit payments for children not even in the usa.

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 07:10 PM (wkuqO)

107 I'm sure the home addresses of service people won't be used against them in any way at all by the people who've threatened to come kill service people at their homes.

Posted by: Lauren at June 11, 2015 07:05 PM (MYCIw)


Service people may be deployed in a base or overseas.

Their families and friends, however, are listed right there ....

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 11, 2015 07:10 PM (0NdlF)

108 thank god this happened when barack obama was president or this could have been a real problem. we're so lucky to have his brilliant, level-headed, dare i say genuinely conservative leadership?

Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at June 11, 2015 07:10 PM (7Kbxu)

109 1111Posted by: Lauren at June 11, 2015 07:08 PM (MYCIw)https://youtu.be/a6iW-8xPw3k

Posted by: Colorado Alex at June 11, 2015 07:10 PM (OiH3z)

110 Every time I think I can't hate Jugears McFucktard and his minions and true believers more, I'm shocked at how much hate I'm still able to ramp up.

Forgive me, Lord.

He truly is an evil, evil little man-child.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:10 PM (FsuaD)

111 @103 - at this point it looks like everyone who's ever taken money from the Federal government since Bush 41 was President.

Posted by: JEM (sometimes The Devoceleraptor) at June 11, 2015 07:11 PM (o+SC1)

112

*fistbump*

But, he's so cool!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 11, 2015 07:11 PM (qCMvj)

113 What you wanna bet that the Middle Kingdom learned something from Hillary's server that helped them with the OPM hack?

-------

lol Middle Kingdom? like with all the dwarves and hobbits? lol

Posted by: LIV at June 11, 2015 07:11 PM (VAsIq)

114 Tammy al-Thor assume the worse and be pleasantly surprised when it turns out not to be that bad.

I would say OPM has all the civilian contractors who have clearances.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:11 PM (GF78Y)

115 103 So is it just federal employees seeking security clearances that have to be worried, or should non-federal employees who have/had security clearance be worried, too?!

Plan for the worst case. So yeah ...

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 11, 2015 07:11 PM (0NdlF)

116 "what has he touched that hasn't gone to absolute shit........."

An undisclosed (so far) number of very young boys?

Posted by: Lark at June 11, 2015 07:11 PM (F/TlN)

117 Mebbe the Chinese will leak the truth about who shot Kennedy? Where the Ark is stored? How a total fuckwit like Obama got into Columbia and Harvard?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2015 07:12 PM (JO9+V)

118 The problem here is that the horse is already out of the barn.

Teresa said I could sleep in the big house again.

Posted by: Jean F. LeKerry, Secretaire d'Etat at June 11, 2015 07:12 PM (8ZskC)

119 While they're at it, I wish whoever hacked the OPM database would also hack Obongo's transcripts. I could use a laugh.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 11, 2015 07:12 PM (oKE6c)

120 But...his pant's crease!! His speeches!! That Sarah Palin idiot!!

Posted by: David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, et al at June 11, 2015 07:12 PM (FsuaD)

121 "He truly is an evil, evil little man-child."

He's just a puppet. Nowhere near intelligent enough to be the Spock-level nine dimensional chess playing Machiavelli he's still purported to be.

Posted by: Doomed at June 11, 2015 07:12 PM (bGLSw)

122 See Ace's update.

It's now a billion times worse.

Not limited to Federal employees.

I myself may never have worked for the govt., but I do have an FBI file as long as my arm.

So maybe I'm in the hacked data as well!

I retract comment #1 ("1 Thank God I don't work for the Feds.").

Posted by: zombie at June 11, 2015 07:12 PM (jBuUi)

123 "But Captain Bullshit wants a no drama administration, so if the Phoenix VA actually kills people by putting them on fake waiting lists, he just has his minions rewrite the report"

This is the point where I remind everyone of the excuse which was cooked up by the Phoenix VA brass after their horrible failures and malfeasances were revealed.

That they would of course have been happy to provide medical care to all of the vets on their secret waiting lists, but oh, too bad, so sad, the Phoenix VA had a severe _budget shortfall_ that fiscal year.

The purported hole in the budget was $11M.

That very same fiscal year, the very same Phoenix VA installed brand new solar carports to charge up electric cars, as part of the federal government's push to go "green". At a cost of $20M.

No circle of Hell sufficiently hot.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 11, 2015 07:12 PM (noWW6)

124 "Maybe they'll show us ... exactly why Judge Roberts voted in favor of Obamacare."
========

You know what? After Dennis Hastert, at this point I'm just going to assume some kind of pedophile scandal whenever something like this happens. It seems to be running rampant wherever there are people in power.

Posted by: Kensington at June 11, 2015 07:13 PM (7Kbxu)

125
We live in obama's Shamelot.

Nothing bad ever happens in Shamelot.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:13 PM (Ry8Bt)

126 Forgive me, Lord.

He truly is an evil, evil little man-child.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:10 PM (FsuaD)


I'm very certain it is ok to hate evil. You are on safe ground.

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 07:13 PM (wkuqO)

127 But my oh my those creases.

Posted by: David Brooks at June 11, 2015 07:13 PM (KCruE)

128 Billions but that is a rounding error with this debt.
Posted by: just saying


just billions according to the people saying this was a nothingburger too.

Posted by: X at June 11, 2015 07:13 PM (xGNLA)

129 97 Cant help but think that this is China firing the first shots in the china sea war.
Posted by: Chris at June 11, 2015 07:08 PM (czzXR)


Mark Levin has been saying that the hacking is definitely an act of war.

Posted by: rickl at June 11, 2015 07:13 PM (sdi6R)

130 King Arthur, "On second thought, lets not go to Shamelot. Tis a dreary and ugly place."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:14 PM (GF78Y)

131 So tired of this shit. So very, very tired.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:14 PM (FsuaD)

132 He's just a puppet. Nowhere near intelligent enough to be the Spock-level nine dimensional chess playing Machiavelli he's still purported to be.

Posted by: Doomed


I'm not seeing that line being pushed anymore among the left. They are focused on the failings of the right, to distract from the failure they elected. All they can do at this point is splutter "Historic!" and mumble about Bush.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 11, 2015 07:14 PM (VAsIq)

133 lol Middle Kingdom? like with all the dwarves and hobbits? lol

Fun fact: America is the "Pretty/Beautiful" Kingdom.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 11, 2015 07:14 PM (0NdlF)

134 @119 - yeah, I'll throw in $1000 to get the Khalidi video.

Posted by: JEM (sometimes The Devoceleraptor) at June 11, 2015 07:14 PM (o+SC1)

135 119
While they're at it, I wish whoever hacked the OPM database would also hack Obongo's transcripts. I could use a laugh.


Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 11, 2015 07:12 PM (oKE6c)

Why would our enemies do that when he is hastily tanking the republic with aplomb? With the MSM happily cheering him on? No good could come of that.

Posted by: flounder at June 11, 2015 07:14 PM (ecDRv)

136 Yeah, I had a secret clearance at Lockheed, and a TS Crypto in the Navy. I guess I should just bless my lucky stars that the gubment is looking out for my best interests. *SPIT* Fuckers.

Posted by: Old Blue at June 11, 2015 07:15 PM (9iR5/)

137 My records are certainly included.

Posted by: Thor's feather duster at June 11, 2015 07:15 PM (JgC5a)

138 100
"Can't wait for them to get the nuclear codes! Yay"



1111

Posted by: Lauren at June 11, 2015 07:08 PM (MYCIw)

That last week this week 1234

Posted by: DOD at June 11, 2015 07:15 PM (0FSuD)

139 Maybe we'll get to see Obozo's grades now!

Posted by: Lark at June 11, 2015 07:15 PM (F/TlN)

140 OPM Hack Far Deeper Than Publicly Acknowledged, Went Undetected For More Than A Year, Sources Say

MORE THAN A YEAR!!!!

Yes, by all means lets give the Top. Men. in the federal government all the power that they want.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 11, 2015 07:15 PM (8ZskC)

141 I almost wish I was blissfully ignorant of what is happening.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 11, 2015 07:15 PM (0x/TW)

142 Whew, at least no one is talking about me anymore!

Well, time to go cash another fat pension check!

Posted by: Lois Lerner at June 11, 2015 07:15 PM (JO9+V)

143 acethepug, #98:

"when Barky is either in jail for life"

Yeah right. He'll enjoy decades of second-guessing his successors, get even more money for his third and fourth autobiographies, and his wife will spend half a lifetime on the lecture circuit retailing the most blatantly racist cracks she can find anywhere as representative of all criticism of her and her husband. Because America - for that brief shining moment it seemed worthy of her pride, but deep down it wasn't.

Posted by: JPS at June 11, 2015 07:15 PM (9ziuC)

144 Oh my, the flaming skull!

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 11, 2015 07:15 PM (0FSuD)

145 The Skull, she is flaming.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 11, 2015 07:16 PM (8ZskC)

146 This is a catastrophe. To get a security clearance, you have to give up your entire personal history, where you've lived, your relatives, friends, etc.

For a DoD Top Secret clearance, you give up references, who they interview to see if you're trustworthy and such.

If there's anything that *might* be used to pressure you it is supposed to be listed on the form - undiscovered crimes, drug habits, debts, etc. so that it can be evaluated as part of the clearing procedure.

This is approximately the worst kind of information to fall into the hands of foreign intelligence, and they got everybody's records back to about 1985, including mine.

Posted by: SparcVark at June 11, 2015 07:16 PM (YLLI8)

147 Mark Levin has been saying that the hacking is definitely an act of war.

Posted by: rickl at June 11, 2015 07:13 PM (sdi6R)


Thank God we haven't sent our manufacturing base over there or anything.

Oh, wait...

Well at least someone made a buck off of it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 11, 2015 07:16 PM (oFCZn)

148 That last week this week 1234
Posted by: DOD

Remarkable! I have the same combination on my luggage.

Posted by: President Screwb at June 11, 2015 07:16 PM (tgnRB)

149 "Can't wait for them to get the nuclear codes! Yay"



1111

Posted by: Lauren at June 11, 2015 07:08 PM (MYCIw)

That last week this week 1234

Posted by: DOD

I thought I told you jackasses to change it to only 3 digits so I can remember it!

Posted by: Presn't Obama at June 11, 2015 07:16 PM (VAsIq)

150 Cant help but think that this is China firing the first shots in the china sea war.

WW3 was a cyber war. China and Russia won. We'll spend the next decade or so hearing about it.

Posted by: Methos at June 11, 2015 07:16 PM (ZbV+0)

151 @140 - IT sec people have been expecting this for a long time.

It's not like anyone knew what was going on, it's just that we knew it wasn't being taken seriously.

Posted by: JEM (sometimes The Devoceleraptor) at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (o+SC1)

152 "Maybe we'll get to see Obozo's grades now!"
=========

Look upon my grades, ye mighty, and despair!

Posted by: Obamandias, SCOAMF of SCOAMF's at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (7Kbxu)

153 Moral sucks thru out the Federal Gov

That is what happens when you have shitty and no leadership

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (rDqRv)

154 The only reason we haven't fucked with you yet is that there's just too many of you. But we're working our way down the list.

Posted by: The Chinese at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (8ZskC)

155 OPM is telling a fib.

When they want to know your friends and family; you have to provide their names, relationship, and current addresses.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (GF78Y)

156 Im personally fucked

Posted by: Mr Pink at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (VRJMx)

157 The Skull, she is flaming.

Posted by: Cicero

Oh, behave!

Posted by: Skull, with a limp wrist at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (VAsIq)

158
Background checks, oh wonderful.

Now they're just trying to scare the crap out of everyone so they can say in the end, it wasn't that bad.

Posted by: Lostris Mahuna at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (uOOCL)

159 Jeebus. The terrifying update. Fucking fuck.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (FsuaD)

160 Can I depend on these incompetent fuckers to let me know my information has been compromised?!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 07:10 PM (L+Tc2)

Well they are sending Feds email saying the email address they will get an email from if their info has been hacked. And to stay calm.

So, what do you think?

Posted by: Le-a is on a boat, MFers! at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (vmMMi)

161 I'm not seeing that line being pushed anymore among the left. They are
focused on the failings of the right, to distract from the failure they
elected. All they can do at this point is splutter "Historic!" and
mumble about Bush.

* * *

Fair enough, but I don't see any genuine retractions of the former fellative hagiographies, either. Nothing they falsely reported about the pre-fab child-man destroyer has or will be memoryholed. Awakened individuals, yes, but the media? No.

Posted by: Doomed at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (bGLSw)

162 And no one will be held to account. No one will go to jail, but millions of innocent lives will be compromised.
This is outrageous.

Posted by: Iblis at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (9221z)

163 If you're a man under forty, it's probably best to start hitting the gym regularly. I figure we'll be in a major shooting war in the next ten years.

Start walking barefoot as much as possible. Shoe and boots will be a premium in The Burning Time.

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (rwI+c)

164 My God in Heaven. Does the 2016 election even matter at this point?

Posted by: jmel at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (L4ZDM)

165 Off the grid.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (vX0qt)

166 Dem Rep. Luis Gutierrez Calls Bernie Sanders A Socialist Who Probably Doesnt Like Immigrants



Not sure if its obvious or not, but Gutierrez is backing Hillary Clinton.

Weasel Zippers

I love it when they eat their own

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (rDqRv)

167 Posted by: JEM (sometimes The Devoceleraptor) at June 11, 2015 07:11 PM (o+SC1)

I worked for an aerospace company and they paid for my clearance, but I don't suppose that makes any difference.

Also have a file with the FBI, very basic info... fingerprints, etc.

Fan-fucking-tastic.

Top.Men.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (L+Tc2)

168 My SF-86 is so boring, they wouldn't find anything to turn me.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (Edob3)

169 Well, husband is fucked. His business works with the government. And all his employees with background checks are fucked as well.

No to mention vet son.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (FsuaD)

170 dammit

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (rwI+c)

171 WTAF

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at June 11, 2015 07:19 PM (GEICT)

172 1 Thank God I don't work for the Feds.

Looked at your tax bill? We ALL work for the Feds.

Posted by: despair at June 11, 2015 07:19 PM (J6suc)

173 "Maybe we'll get to see Obozo's grades now!"
=========

Look upon my grades, ye mighty, and despair!


Posted by: Obamandias

WTF!? How can you get a grade of "Present" in every class?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 11, 2015 07:19 PM (VAsIq)

174 Security clearance includes your grandparents and where they live, and all the places you have ever lived.

Posted by: Lostris Mahuna at June 11, 2015 07:19 PM (uOOCL)

175 139
"Maybe we'll get to see Obozo's grades now!"

You assume they ever existed.

Posted by: Doomed at June 11, 2015 07:19 PM (bGLSw)

176 Unmotherfucking believable. Just unmotherfucking believable. And yet, not one GOP 'leader' will do a motherfucking thing.

Tar. Feathers. President and OPM administration. Congressional Oversight committee members. Some assembly required.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 11, 2015 07:19 PM (ftdxp)

177 Flaming skull for sure if I am in the files, too. Maybe we are all in the files now. Remember, I have the corner bunk at the camps.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, supermodel Redneck Queenster at June 11, 2015 07:19 PM (FCPu0)

178 IT security people have been pulling out their hair for a very long time. No one listens to them because they are just geeks out to ruin your fun and rain on your parade. Them bastages!

Posted by: Old Blue at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (9iR5/)

179 So I'm thinking I shoukd get the kids to study Mandarin this summer.

Posted by: @votermom at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (cbfNE)

180 My God in Heaven. Does the 2016 election even matter at this point?

Posted by: jmel

Of course it does! What's important to you, and that's what's important to me.

Posted by: Pander Bear Party at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (VAsIq)

181 Mebbe the Chinese will leak the truth about who shot Kennedy? Where the
Ark is stored? How a total fuckwit like Obama got into Columbia and
Harvard?


Dak lak rak mak, dak tak tak.

Posted by: Some guest at an air force base in NM, identified by China for further intelligence gathering at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (ZbV+0)

182 Well, husband's (and son's) security clearances will expose MIL and perhaps a few others. Oh, and me. Yay.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (FsuaD)

183 "OPM insists the information compromised by the intrusion into its systems does "not [include] the names of family members."

Except you know, their home addresses and likely their credit information.

Posted by: Lauren at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (MYCIw)

184 "My God in Heaven. Does the 2016 election even matter at this point?"
==========

It already didn't matter. Which of those guys was really going to even attempt to turn anything around, really?

Posted by: Kensington at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (7Kbxu)

185 Remember, I have the corner bunk at the camps.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, supermodel Redneck Queenster at June 11, 2015 07:19 PM (FCPu0)


yeah the corner near the crapper

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (rDqRv)

186 I still remember one SatCom troop at Keesler on hold after graduation due to security clearance issues. He was supposed to PCS to Japan but required a TS. Turned out every reference the troop gave had a criminal record. He finally was assigned Stateside.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (GF78Y)

187 Hmmmm.... I wonder if those of us who are contractors are effected too. This does not give me the warm fuzzies

Posted by: Confuzzled at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (cmUfZ)

188 Now imagine if every government employee woke up tomorrow with zero (0) dollars in their bank account(s). That's all part of the SF 86 as well.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (Z9g7j)

189 So, what do you think?
Posted by: Le-a is on a boat, MFers! at June 11, 2015 07:17 PM (vmMMi)



Fucked, in all caps?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (L+Tc2)

190 Unmotherfucking believable. Just unmotherfucking believable. And yet, not one GOP 'leader' will do a motherfucking thing.

I'll do something. I'll have a single-malt scotch.

*hic*

Posted by: John Boehner at June 11, 2015 07:21 PM (8ZskC)

191 A little OT but not really.
Obama spotted and photographed on a balcony recently with what looks like a pack of cigs. Reporter asks Obama spokesliar if it is in fact a pack of cigs.

He instantly replies NO!, almost before the questioner stops asking.
So she says well, what was it. He doesn't know what it was, but is apparently certain it wasn't the exact same thing it looks like.

Posted by: JD at June 11, 2015 07:21 PM (TzeLs)

192 Like said earlier, the horse is out of the barn.


Nothing can be done. NOTHING. Did anyone watch any of the MSM news shows? Are we still looking for escaped convicts and nothing said about this?

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 11, 2015 07:21 PM (0FSuD)

193 187 Hmmmm.... I wonder if those of us who are contractors are effected too. This does not give me the warm fuzzies

Posted by: Confuzzled at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM
- - - - - -

Short answer....Yes.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2015 07:21 PM (Z9g7j)

194 Where is Walter Peck to shut this all down when we need him?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2015 07:21 PM (JO9+V)

195 We got fingerprinted and FBId when we immigrated. I guess it's 50-50 on our hacked status.

Posted by: @votermom at June 11, 2015 07:21 PM (cbfNE)

196 "It's been clear for a long time that, while the DoD took things fairly seriously, the rest of the Feds could hardly give a damn."

The prime contractors on DoD's major programs are also a complete clown circus when it comes to infosec.

Right now, the United States is betting the farm on the F-35 program. Except it's been reported there are intrusion fingerprints all over the place in the systems of the firms who are actually building the jets, and who are writing the code to run and integrate all of its subsystems.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 11, 2015 07:22 PM (noWW6)

197 "Of course it does! What's important to you, and that's what's important to me."
========

We just need veto-proof majorities!!1!!

Posted by: Hopeless Republican Stalwart at June 11, 2015 07:22 PM (7Kbxu)

198 The opm statement is an easily verifiable lie, you have to list all family members names addresses and phone numbers on the forms as well as DOB. The news reporter is supposedly so stupid and so inept they don't verify that?

Wtf is going on?

Posted by: Mr Pink at June 11, 2015 07:22 PM (VRJMx)

199 I'll do something. I'll have a single-malt scotch.

*hic*
Posted by: John Boehner at June 11, 2015 07:21 PM (8ZskC)


Honestly, that's probably the most honest response of all to this admin.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at June 11, 2015 07:22 PM (GEICT)

200 OT, but Christopher Lee passed Sunday, 93 years old -- hope he's been reunited with old friend Peter Cushing.

Sorry, but I know there are some horror fans here who may be interested (assuming someone didn't already mention)

Posted by: acethepug at June 11, 2015 07:22 PM (WK825)

201
Incidentally, I can't believe I'm gonna say this but

THANK CHRIST FOR WIKILEAKS.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:22 PM (Ry8Bt)

202 Every single day under this dissembling, incompetent, psychopathic regime is like taking the lid off the Ark of the Covenant, just to see what horrors may lurk inside.
__________________________

Not over yet, the fundamental transformation is merely beginning. Wait until 45 million illegal are granted voting privileges. Thaaat's when the fun begins.

Posted by: BuckIV at June 11, 2015 07:22 PM (CLfqv)

203 164 My God in Heaven. Does the 2016 election even matter at this point?

Posted by: jmel at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (L4ZDM)


New Direction! Change! Morning in America! New Direction! Change! Hurr Durr!

Posted by: GOP at June 11, 2015 07:23 PM (oFCZn)

204 We want to assure the American people that impeachment is absolutely off the table.

Posted by: The GOP at June 11, 2015 07:23 PM (J6suc)

205 Second look at heroin?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:23 PM (FsuaD)

206 I bet my comment at #33 doesn't sound so crazy now, does it?

Posted by: @votermom at June 11, 2015 07:23 PM (cbfNE)

207 BUCK FUTTER!

Posted by: Sean Connery at June 11, 2015 07:23 PM (VAsIq)

208 How far back to these records go? Is someone going to offer me a My Little Pony deluxe playset in exchange for very old secrets?

I'm just sayin, deluxe playset or no deal.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at June 11, 2015 07:23 PM (zauWW)

209 Thank goodness the OCare database is secure, considering all that personal info they are storing on you guys.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 11, 2015 07:23 PM (8/umi)

210 178
IT security people have been pulling out their hair for a very long
time. No one listens to them because they are just geeks out to ruin
your fun and rain on your parade. Them bastages!


Posted by: Old Blue at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (9iR5/)

Stock lib answer already robotically trotted out:"well, if the gubmnt paid worth a crap, they would have a decent IT
department...However, the private sector always pays better!!!"
Actual answer.

Posted by: flounder at June 11, 2015 07:23 PM (ecDRv)

211 America was only just a patriarchal construct anyway.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 11, 2015 07:24 PM (8ZskC)

212
Posted by: Colorado Alex at June 11, 2015 06:58 PM (OiH3z)

Unlikely. The war already happened, and the US lost.And once the debt goes boom we'll get to see whether Chinese Communists are worse than American Communists.

Posted by: Lark at June 11, 2015 07:24 PM (F/TlN)

213 And yet, according to the MFM, this will be just a slight blip on the radar. Nothing to see here, move along.....

Posted by: Old Blue at June 11, 2015 07:24 PM (9iR5/)

214 NY Slime has a hot story. NC will let magistrates not marry gheys.



Damn that's important. NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING on the data breech

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 11, 2015 07:24 PM (0FSuD)

215 I am sad about Christopher Lee passing. One of the greats, imo.

Posted by: @votermom at June 11, 2015 07:24 PM (cbfNE)

216 Unlikely. The war already happened, and the US lost.And once the debt goes boom we'll get to see whether Chinese Communists are worse than American Communists.

Posted by: Lark

Their food's better.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (VAsIq)

217 We want the American people to know that we will address this issue at the first opportunity once illegal alien amnesty is passed and signed into law.

Posted by: The GOP at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (J6suc)

218 SpongeBob, the current holders can correct me. But IIRC one has to go back at least 10 years on the forms.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (GF78Y)

219 205
Second look at heroin?


Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:23 PM (FsuaD)

Learning Mandarin, might be a better choice.

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (0FSuD)

220
Nope; 2016 is irrelevant.

It all ended in November 2008. Once that terrorist obama was given the keys to the federal government, it was over.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (Ry8Bt)

221 The opm statement is an easily verifiable lie, you have to list all family members names addresses and phone numbers on the forms as well as DOB. The news reporter is supposedly so stupid and so inept they don't verify that?

Wtf is going on?

Posted by: Mr Pink at June 11, 2015 07:22 PM (VRJMx)



That's why they're news reporters and not truth reporters.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (0NdlF)

222 Fox is all random murders, murders, murders. Jeebus.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (FsuaD)

223

No wonder China is being considered in the Trade agreement.

They have no choice.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (qCMvj)

224 Is this a Lifelock commercial?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (W5DcG)

225 A huge boat! Marco Rubio has one!!!!!!!!

Posted by: The New York Times at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (8ZskC)

226 Not for nothing, but if they didn't put a stake through his heart, stuff his mouth with garlic AND chop his head off, Christopher Lee will be back.

Because vampire.

Posted by: Kensington at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (7Kbxu)

227 *eyeroll*


Paper Tiger.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at June 11, 2015 07:26 PM (GEICT)

228 Well, the good news is Obama loyalists have petitioned Obama to nuke Russia. (Apparently on the white house web site, one of those petition the president things.)

Posted by: Lostris Mahuna at June 11, 2015 07:26 PM (uOOCL)

229 We want the American people to know that this horrendous criminal act will have no effect on government salaries.

Posted by: The GOP at June 11, 2015 07:26 PM (J6suc)

230 Marco has a long mustache


Marco has a long mustache

Posted by: Biggie Large at June 11, 2015 07:26 PM (8CdUx)

231 The thing about Sir Christopher Lee being dead is that it doesn't immediately strike you as being much of a career setback. - Telegraph film critic Robbie Collin

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:26 PM (GF78Y)

232


Spielberg will be working overtime for TFG's re-imaging.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at June 11, 2015 07:26 PM (qCMvj)

233 Join my party, and the ancient Chinese symbol of the Panda Bear will mystically keep you safe.

Posted by: Pander Bear Party at June 11, 2015 07:27 PM (VAsIq)

234 We want America to know that this theft of your private information will not compromise IRS investigations of conservative organizations.

Posted by: The GOP at June 11, 2015 07:27 PM (J6suc)

235 We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!

*hic*

Posted by: John Boehner at June 11, 2015 07:27 PM (8ZskC)

236 Mandarin is for closers! The rest of you will learn Cantonese.

Posted by: Chinese at June 11, 2015 07:27 PM (VAsIq)

237 "That's why they're news reporters and not truth reporters. "

They repeat what their well cultivated inside source told them.

That makes them repeaters, not reporters.
Fricken rumor mongers.

Posted by: Lostris Mahuna at June 11, 2015 07:27 PM (uOOCL)

238 So does the Federal government have an unshielded exhaust port?

Posted by: despair at June 11, 2015 07:28 PM (J6suc)

239 acethepug,

I am planning a Hammer fest this weekend in Lee's honor.


Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at June 11, 2015 07:28 PM (W6ipS)

240 The 2016 election (assuming it happens at all) will be little more than a "fun" test too see what fraction of the electorate can go through EIGHT(!) years of SCOAMF rule and not give a shit about that.

Posted by: Lark at June 11, 2015 07:28 PM (F/TlN)

241 "It all ended in November 2008. Once that terrorist obama was given the keys to the federal government, it was over."
=========

Remember all those numbnut dipcraps calling for Bush to resign right after the election because they just couldn't bear the thought of waiting two more months for that JEF to start...doing his thing?

Posted by: Kensington at June 11, 2015 07:28 PM (7Kbxu)

242
Unlikely. The war already happened, and the US lost.And once the debt goes boom we'll get to see whether Chinese Communists are worse than American Communists.
Posted by: Lark at June 11, 2015 07:24 PM (F/TlN)
No war is every fought just in cyberspace. Anyone who believes that is an idiot.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at June 11, 2015 07:28 PM (OiH3z)

243 My friendsh...

Posted by: Sen. John "GrrArrg" McCain at June 11, 2015 07:28 PM (uctT+)

244 "Stock lib answer already robotically trotted out: 'well, if the gubmnt paid worth a crap, they would have a decent IT department... However, the private sector always pays better!!!'"

I have actually heard public sector workers here in Commiefornia get butthurt and defensive when their platinum-plated pay and retirement packages are brought up, and have heard them say indignantly,

"WELL. Those of us who have SACRIFICED to SERVE THE PUBLIC don't get STOCK OPTIONS the way those of you in the private sector do. None of us in government are going to GET RICH OFF AN IPO."

I'm sure this will come as news to a bunch of you who are holding down private sector jobs that simply by dint of being in the private sector, a shower of stock market riches are shortly to descend upon you.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 11, 2015 07:29 PM (noWW6)

245 >>188 Now imagine if every government employee woke up tomorrow with zero (0) dollars in their bank account(s). That's all part of the SF 86 as well.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 11, 2015 07:20 PM (Z9g7j)

Serious question, would it help to change accounts or would they just have the new stuff anyway?

Posted by: Le-a is on a boat, MFers! at June 11, 2015 07:29 PM (vmMMi)

246 Fricken rumor mongers.

Posted by: Lostris Mahuna

I'll take a crack at 'em. I already took down Iron Monger.

Posted by: Tony Stark at June 11, 2015 07:29 PM (VAsIq)

247 Learning Mandarin, might be a better choice.>>>

So second look at Opium den?

Posted by: Robinson at June 11, 2015 07:29 PM (+1K+6)

248 So does the Federal government have an unshielded exhaust port?

Posted by: despair

Yes. *giggles*

Posted by: Reggie at June 11, 2015 07:29 PM (VAsIq)

249 Maybe the Chinese will sell us a copy of the Trade Bill so we can see what is in it?

Posted by: Garrett at June 11, 2015 07:29 PM (GLrp1)

250 We want to assure the American people that impeachment is absolutely off the table.

That's real retarded, sir.

Posted by: Rachel Jeantel at June 11, 2015 07:30 PM (UVfht)

251 With the SF-86, the cyber-pirates will probably have 90% of the common challenge questions for your accounts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:30 PM (GF78Y)

252 'ma' has four different meanings in Mandarin, depending on the context and on exactly how you pronounce it


two of the meanings are 'horse' and 'Obama should be getting people coffee for a living'

Posted by: Biggie Large at June 11, 2015 07:30 PM (8CdUx)

253 Remember all those numbnut dipcraps calling for Bush to resign right after the election because they just couldn't bear the thought of waiting two more months for that JEF to start...doing his thing?

Posted by: Kensington at June 11, 2015 07:28 PM (7Kbxu)


Remember The Office of the President-Elect?

They even had a Latin motto, which, when translated meant, "I went boom boom in my pants".

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 11, 2015 07:30 PM (oFCZn)

254 President Obama's approval ratings soar.

Posted by: Gallup Poll at June 11, 2015 07:30 PM (J6suc)

255 So second look at Opium den?

Posted by: Robinson

That's where they invented Dodgeball!

Posted by: Patches O'Houlihan at June 11, 2015 07:30 PM (VAsIq)

256
Well crotch.

Even unto the elderly.

Thanks, shitsplats.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 11, 2015 07:31 PM (jeCnD)

257 but it's not Friday yet

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 07:31 PM (7RXcs)

258 It's curious that the Chicoms could steal all this info, when it is damn near impossible to get your Navy Security Clearance re-upped without them losing it at least twice?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 11, 2015 07:32 PM (rDqRv)

259 So, what will our worthless Congressional leaders have to say about this?

Or the Secretary of State? Oh, wait. Harf.

Or, the WH.Ha. You funny. He is golfing. Or iRegging. Or smoking. Or admiring his bird legs while his suits are taken in weekly.

What...WHAT is it going to take to get a righteous outburst from the leaders in Congress? A full on attack where they hold hands and sing again? This is an attack you simpering empty suits. Same as 9/11 only impacting more people of the country you swore to protect. Someone? Anyone?

It is a scary thought that morons are more aware than most of DC, no?

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, supermodel Redneck Queenster at June 11, 2015 07:32 PM (FCPu0)

260 Damn. That update hurts.

Posted by: Garrett at June 11, 2015 07:32 PM (GLrp1)

261
Remember all those numbnut dipcraps calling for Bush to resign right after the election because they just couldn't bear the thought of waiting two more months for that JEF to start...doing his thing?

Yes I do. They wanted obama to "fix" the economy right away.

And obama obliged them by having a podium plaque specially fabricated with the "seal" of the president-elect.

obama started presidentin' before he was sworn in so he could, as he put it, hit the ground running.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:32 PM (Ry8Bt)

262 @196 - there's a bunch of levels here.

Knowing you're a target, identifying the attack, and dealing with it appropriately - may not be 100% secure but you do what you can.

Identifying an attack in progress, responding appropriately even if you weren't able to shut the door immediately.

And then there's cluelessly spreading your butthole for a year when all that matters is Amazon's ability to ship K-Y to Shanghai.

Posted by: JEM (sometimes The Devoceleraptor) at June 11, 2015 07:33 PM (o+SC1)

263 It's already well known that the Chinese government has formal and informal hackers that are continuously hacking perceived enemies and allies all over the world. I could understand if the US government declines to say if we have such a group, but I would bet dollars to donuts that we don't.
The US has always been a day late and a dollar short on espionage because it conflicted with our sense of fair play. Even the Brits thought we were foolish.
Forget all our white hat hackers. If I were in charge, I'd have every black hat hacker I could hire on the payroll and I'd make those other assholes pay.

Posted by: Old Blue at June 11, 2015 07:33 PM (9iR5/)

264 It's curious that the Chicoms could steal all this info, when it is damn near impossible to get your Navy Security Clearance re-upped without them losing it at least twice?

Posted by: Nevergiveup

That was us, too--we used to steal them one at a time.

Posted by: Chinese at June 11, 2015 07:33 PM (VAsIq)

265 "Maybe the Chinese will sell us a copy of the Trade Bill so we can see what is in it?"

Speaking of which, Obamacare cleared a key procedural hurdle in the House today, lining it up for a vote tomorrow, which is expected to be close. Intense pressure is being exerted both by Obama's machine as well as by the DIABLO bloc (Paul Ryan in the forefront of that).

It wouldn't hurt to call your House rep's D.C. office early tomorrow and voice some stern disapproval of the bill.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 11, 2015 07:33 PM (noWW6)

266 >>>>>Most government employees are naturally and inescapably in favor of Big Machine Government -- because they're part of it. So the people whose lives might be made miserable are the very ones who need to learn a hard lesson about the perils of centralization and faith in Big Brother.
.
.
.Zombie, you are painting with an extremely broad brush there. I am sure there are tons of Federal employees who do think that way, but as a former DOD Fed employee (and retired Navy Chief with 22 years AD) who knows hundreds more like me, I can assure you that is not a true blanket statement for the people I worked with in DOD.

And you are saying I need to learn a hard lesson that big Government is not the answer and my life along with that of my wife needs to made miserable? Seriously?

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 11, 2015 07:33 PM (iONHu)

267 Will my name be in the files even if my relatives are now all retired from their government work?

Posted by: Slippery Pete at June 11, 2015 07:33 PM (BDZWU)

268
Remember The Office of the President-Elect?

The fuck, bro?
You couldn't wait a minute until I finished my comment? You had to sweep the rug out from under me?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:33 PM (Ry8Bt)

269 @ Diogenes... Thanks. .. Figured as much.... I figure that it must really suck to be a diplomat right now...since as much as it irritates me, it doesn't put my nuts in a vice security wise

Posted by: Confuzzled at June 11, 2015 07:33 PM (cmUfZ)

270 It occurs to me that a single gubmint database admin security officer's username and password combo would be, as Blago once put it, a valuable fucking thing.

Something a foreign gubmint might be willing to cough up a few millions for.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 11, 2015 07:34 PM (8/umi)

271 If nothing else, to soothe nerves! The preznit should appear on camera in his windbreaker!!! That will scare the Chinese!

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, supermodel Redneck Queenster at June 11, 2015 07:34 PM (FCPu0)

272 220
Nope; 2016 is irrelevant.

It all ended in November 2008. Once that terrorist obama was given the keys to the federal government, it was over.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (Ry8Bt)



I agree. He then proceeded to create a shadow government run by unconstitutional, unaccountable "czars" who were undoubtedly pro-Communist or pro-Muslim. He also nominated judges who graduated from law schools dominated by Communists, who teach that "social justice" trumps the Constitution.

And Congress just rubber-stamped them.

Posted by: rickl at June 11, 2015 07:34 PM (sdi6R)

273 Yes, yes, still respect you.

Yes, yes will call in mo'ning.

Posted by: The PRC at June 11, 2015 07:34 PM (uctT+)

274 Uh Oh. Flaming skull. That's never a good sign.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at June 11, 2015 07:34 PM (on01m)

275 Most government employees are naturally and inescapably in favor of Big Machine Government -- because they're part of it. So the people whose lives might be made miserable are the very ones who need to learn a hard lesson about the perils of centralization and faith in Big Brother.
.



Completely wrong. Completely uninformed. Completely stupid.

Standard.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at June 11, 2015 07:35 PM (GEICT)

276 That was us, too--we used to steal them one at a time.
Posted by: Chinese at June 11, 2015 07:33 PM (VAsIq)


OK, can I buy mine back. It takes hours to put that form together. Make me an offer

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 11, 2015 07:35 PM (rDqRv)

277 well, obama did say his would be the most transparent administration...

Posted by: steinmetz at June 11, 2015 07:35 PM (CrYC8)

278
Because of obama, every single federal department is rotten to the core. FBI, CIA, all of them. It'll take a generation to clean them up -- which will never happen.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:35 PM (Ry8Bt)

279 well, obama did say his would be the most transparent administration...
Posted by: steinmetz at June 11, 2015 07:35 PM (CrYC

ouch

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 11, 2015 07:35 PM (rDqRv)

280 >>You couldn't wait a minute until I finished my comment? You had to sweep the rug out from under me?



As a sayer of soothe, you should have seen that coming.

Posted by: Garrett at June 11, 2015 07:36 PM (GLrp1)

281 Data's flyin' around out there, all they gotta do is stick out a catcher's mitt.

We bitch an' moan about the NSA and the IRA and the FBI. We shake a finger and say, "You better not look at our stuff! We have a Constitution!"

Yeah.

But what about OTHER GOVERNMENTS? They don't need to obey any of our laws.

This whole "Let's run the world with computers" thing is looking dumber and dumber every damned day.

Posted by: RKae at June 11, 2015 07:36 PM (ME3Du)

282 "I don't, you know, want to be inundated with a bunch of chatter about politics every day"

Where, there is your problem, Emperor Inept, you won the political battle, stop campaigning and execute your position.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 11, 2015 07:36 PM (NaeCR)

283 Nope; 2016 is irrelevant.



It all ended in November 2008. Once that terrorist obama was given the keys to the federal government, it was over.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:25 PM (Ry8Bt)

We can pray. I still do not believe that the NSA would not catch this hack.
You think this could happen in Israel? Shit they are hacking the security firms and not getting caught.

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 11, 2015 07:36 PM (0FSuD)

284 If they can hack this my money is on they can hack even deeper. Hacking war plans would have as much value as decoding Ultra in ww2. Intelligence wins wars too.

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 07:36 PM (wkuqO)

285 "President Obama, peace be upon him, doesn't see this OPM situation as a hack; instead it sees it more as an opportunity for foreign governments to find the right employees on US soil, which, in the end, makes our economy more prosperous and is good for everyone. "

Posted by: The Boot Licking MSM at June 11, 2015 07:36 PM (eV59V)

286 If nothing else, to soothe nerves! The preznit should appear on camera in his windbreaker!!! That will scare the Chinese!

Posted by: ChristyBlinky,

Ooh! He should put on his mom jeans and bicycle helmet!

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 11, 2015 07:36 PM (VAsIq)

287
As a sayer of soothe, you should have seen that coming.

Shit.

I can't argue with that.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:37 PM (Ry8Bt)

288 .Zombie, you are painting with an extremely broad brush there. I am sure there are tons of Federal employees who do think that way, but as a former DOD Fed employee (and retired Navy Chief with 22 years AD) who knows hundreds more like me, I can assure you that is not a true blanket statement for the people I worked with in DOD.

What percentage of the federal budget does the DOD get again?

It's not aimed at you, don't take it personally. On the whole, most of the feds is not defense related ... and most of it is bureaucracy, which is built around perpetuating its own existence.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 11, 2015 07:37 PM (0NdlF)

289 It does the black void where my heart used to be proud to see so many fans of Lee. Thank you.

And a Hammer-fest this weekend sounds GREAT! Gonna watch all his Dracula movies, and a few with Cushing, and even "The Beast Must Die" from Amicus(?)

Posted by: acethepug at June 11, 2015 07:37 PM (WK825)

290 This whole "Let's run the world with computers" thing is looking dumber and dumber every damned day.

What? What could go wrong with going on-line with everything so it can accessed from any starbucks cafe world-wide?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 11, 2015 07:37 PM (NaeCR)

291 277
well, obama did say his would be the most transparent administration...

Posted by: steinmetz at June 11, 2015 07:35 PM (CrYC8 )

A+ post.

Posted by: Lark at June 11, 2015 07:37 PM (F/TlN)

292

But, but, but-

Caitlyn Jenner just got a TRAMP STAMP!!!!!!


For reelz, guyz!!!!

Posted by: The MSM at June 11, 2015 07:37 PM (0cMkb)

293 >>>>Most government employees are naturally and inescapably in favor of Big Machine Government -- because they're part of it. So the people whose lives might be made miserable are the very ones who need to learn a hard lesson about the perils of centralization and faith in Big Brother.
.


Completely wrong. Completely uninformed. Completely stupid.

Standard.
.
.
.
.,See my #266. The original comment went way beyond personal.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 11, 2015 07:37 PM (iONHu)

294 274
Uh Oh. Flaming skull. That's never a good sign.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at June 11, 2015 07:34 PM (on01m)

What's up TR? Did you get that huge T storm a couple of nights ago?

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 11, 2015 07:38 PM (0FSuD)

295 Do you remember the speech not long after Obama was sworn in and the Presidential Seal fell off of his podium?

Inexpiable omen.

You could not slaughter enough goats to make that right. In a sane world the augurs would have removed him from office immediately.


Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at June 11, 2015 07:38 PM (W6ipS)

296 Did they get Facebook login info?

Posted by: torabora at June 11, 2015 07:38 PM (7aUWM)

297 Obama needs a beer summit with the Chinese Prime Minister. A photo op to show we are still friends. A statement from the Chinese Prime Minister that he had nothing to do with the hack, and the US will still have transit rights through the China Sea.

I would find it reassuring to see President Obama enjoying Chinese beer.

We have always been friends with the People's Republic of China. Always, since the very beginning.

Posted by: Lostris Mahuna at June 11, 2015 07:38 PM (uOOCL)

298 Completely wrong. Completely uninformed. Completely stupid.

Standard.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at June 11, 2015 07:35 PM (GEICT)


You think zombie is wrong, uninformed, and stupid?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 11, 2015 07:39 PM (0NdlF)

299 Is AF1 being built by the CHICOMS??

Posted by: Freddy the Freeloader at June 11, 2015 07:39 PM (HvEH7)

300 What's the biggest threat to national security?
Global warming.

Posted by: Gwyneth's steaming hooha at June 11, 2015 07:40 PM (Cz/08)

301 295
Do you remember the speech not long after Obama was sworn in and the Presidential Seal fell off of his podium?

Inexpiable omen.



And the rat that ran in front of the podium? And the flies on JEF's face?


There's your signs.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:40 PM (FsuaD)

302 The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist should be the 44th President of the United States.

Posted by: Verbal Kint at June 11, 2015 07:40 PM (LF5/M)

303 Is AF1 being built by the CHICOMS??

Posted by: Freddy the Freeloader

Don't be absurd--we outsourced that job to Iran and North Korea years ago.

Posted by: Chinese at June 11, 2015 07:40 PM (VAsIq)

304 Hey, doesn't 'OPM' stand for 'Other People's Money' or am I late to the party? OPM hacking, hmmm...

Posted by: PiperPaul at June 11, 2015 07:41 PM (vacPn)

305
Dear God, please lightning strike obama right now.
Amen.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:41 PM (Ry8Bt)

306 The moment the world's evil leaders saw the JEF struggling to get an umbrella through a garden gate, they laughed in unison.

And rubbed their hands together gleefully.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:41 PM (FsuaD)

307 300
What's the biggest threat to national security?

Global warming



Yes, yes it is.

Posted by: General Martin Dempsey at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (0FSuD)

308 Tilikum, you and me both. I'm about ready to drop out of the news scene for the sake of my BP and sense of futility. All caring does now is frustrate me and make my BP skyrocket.

I'm no Irongrampa; I'm a not particularly sturdy 71-yo woman with a disabled husband. We might be able to take out one or two if they came at us with a SWAT team, if we were particularly lucky, but realistically, if the pogroms come, we're dead.

So I'm thinking seriously about giving my health a break, and mentally moving to Skyrim, where at least my character can go after evil with a chance of surviving, which the real me couldn't.

Posted by: Empire1 at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (WdDnr)

309 >>>What percentage of the federal budget does the DOD get again?

It's not aimed at you, don't take it personally. On the whole, most of the feds is not defense related ... and most of it is bureaucracy, which is built around perpetuating its own existence
.
.
.DOD is the largest employer of Civilians in the entire Federal Government by an order of magnitude.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (iONHu)

310 Danny boy, oh Danny boy, the skull, the skull is flaming.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (+aCe4)

311 Well.... to be fair to Obama.... this could have happened to almost any Preside...... Fuck it. No it couldn't. We are getting Underpantsed around the world because of this Dopey, Lazy Motherfucker. Maybe it would be best if HILLARY wins because really.... We are done for anyway.

Posted by: Truck Monkey is a Mime..... Serious at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (fLKzW)

312 And I've got a baguette in the oven and am copying J. J. Sefton's dinner recipe for mussels.

And I have no appetite. But husband does.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (FsuaD)

313 That's a real screen grab?

The fucking asswipe in chief doesn't want to be bothered with all that politicin' and world burnin' stuff so he watches sports to get away from it all?

Fuck me - we don't have to wait for SMOD. The nukes will do the job just fine.


Posted by: Clutch Cargo at June 11, 2015 07:43 PM (sH832)

314 Umbrella through a gate? I wonder how he had children.

Posted by: Freddy the Freeloader at June 11, 2015 07:43 PM (HvEH7)

315 Given the feral children that support him, "Lord of the Flies" is an apt title for Obama.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (W6ipS)

316 What's the biggest threat to national security?


Global warming


I think that when the nukes go off, the temperature does climb, yes.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (sH832)

317 >>I almost wish I was blissfully ignorant of what is happening.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale

Well I am and it is nice. Much better since I quit reading the papers where I found out all kinds of outrageous things.

Posted by: Barry Obama at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (sQzB6)

318 314
Umbrella through a gate? I wonder how he had children.



You think they're his? Bwahahahahahaha. They could be, if Mooch used a turkey baster.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (FsuaD)

319 The problem is the whole government runs like Hillary's Blackberry, one operation at a time.

Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (24ct0)

320 Looks like it's time for an honest conversation on data security!

Posted by: Weasel at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (e3bId)

321
Sounds like the perfect guy to handle unlimited constant surveillance of everyone in the US.

He'll keep all our information secure.

Posted by: The Republicans that Voted for Patriot Act II: Electric Boogaloo

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (kdS6q)

322 314
Umbrella through a gate? I wonder how he had children.

Posted by: Freddy the Freeloader at June 11, 2015 07:43 PM (HvEH7)

I helped out

Posted by: Reggie at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (0FSuD)

323 Oh feathers. Just realized that I had written "Obamacare cleared a key procedural hurdle in the House today, lining it up for a vote tomorrow".

Ummmmm right. Obamacare having been a while ago.

ObamaTRADE.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (noWW6)

324
The IRS, CIA, State Dept, and many other departments arefull of people who see themselves as the law, social justice warriors, and world citzens first.
They HATE the peasants they "serve".

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (m3iiU)

325 Shithead never wanted to be president. He wanted to be what Hollywood makes it look like what being president is.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (z/Ubi)

326 Wow it's really falling apart quickly now isn't it. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I've been feeling kinda numb latley.

Posted by: freaked at June 11, 2015 07:45 PM (BO/km)

327 So I'm thinking seriously about giving my health a break, and mentally moving to Skyrim, where at least my character can go after evil with a chance of surviving, which the real me couldn't.
Posted by: Empire1 at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (WdDnr)


I've considered almost the same. But then I think take one with you.

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 07:45 PM (wkuqO)

328
Oh I think obama long-fantasized about being a supreme ruler.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:45 PM (Ry8Bt)

329 If you are going to have a Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing film fest this weekend, don't forget The Gorgon. Or The Devil Rides Out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:46 PM (GF78Y)

330 "And the rat that ran in front of the podium?"

Rats in both the front and back.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 11, 2015 07:46 PM (noWW6)

331 >>> Wow it's really falling apart quickly now isn't it. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I've been feeling kinda numb latley.

This is it...!

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic at June 11, 2015 07:46 PM (PA7DS)

332 42 If the hackers have some good info on TFG and release it... Popcorn!


Dude, they have exactly the same priorities and objectives as our media, so TFG's secrets are safe... excepting those about about how enchanting he is!!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 11, 2015 07:46 PM (c41Rr)

333 Hey Reggie, A hand here please?

Posted by: Freddy the Freeloader at June 11, 2015 07:46 PM (HvEH7)

334 Honestly, I'm surprised that the Chinese or Russians-

who have to have all of Obama dirty secrets by now given all the successful hacking of...well, everything

haven't started releasing his info ju-u-u-u-u-ust to dick with him.

Just becuz they can.


That seems like the obvious and perfect Putin move.

I guess that means the Russians got squat.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 11, 2015 07:46 PM (0cMkb)

335 Tomorrow, Josh Earnest will tell us that no one is more upset about this than the JEF.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:47 PM (FsuaD)

336 318 314
Umbrella through a gate? I wonder how he had children.


You think they're his? Bwahahahahahaha. They could be, if Mooch used a turkey baster.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:44 PM (FsuaD)



It's been a while since I've seen pictures of his spawn but the older one is certainly his. She looks too much like him which is about as bad as saying she looks too much like her mom.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 11, 2015 07:47 PM (z/Ubi)

337
And, it turns out all the data files were unencrypted. Everything in f'ing "data.txt" files.

Not even the most cursory of data security.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 11, 2015 07:47 PM (kdS6q)

338 A comment from the ABC news site:

Well the Russians have our IRS data and the Chinese our background
checks - next year you'll have to petition Russia for your tax refund,
but they will run your background check through the Chinese for
approval. Even then it'll probably be more efficient than the system we
have now.

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at June 11, 2015 07:47 PM (eV59V)

339 >>On the Job Three Days a Week, Four Hours a Day:

And we appreciate every one of them, Ace.
Thanks.

Posted by: Garrett at June 11, 2015 07:47 PM (GLrp1)

340
TPP- The ruling class gets together to finally kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
I pray I'm wrong, but evidence seems to be pointing to me being right.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 11, 2015 07:48 PM (0x/TW)

341 Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at June 11, 2015 07:38 PM (W6ipS)

I LOLd.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 07:48 PM (L+Tc2)

342
I guess things have to get as bad as need be before the straightening out begins.

It could stop at any point here and we could begin the resolution, okay?

Posted by: irongrampa at June 11, 2015 07:48 PM (jeCnD)

343 Hey Jane! Y'all are really cool!!!

Posted by: Freddy the Freeloader at June 11, 2015 07:48 PM (HvEH7)

344 You think zombie is wrong, uninformed, and stupid?

zombie has the right of it. There are no innocents working in government. Who Obama was was known before he took office any anyone still taking a government paycheck has chosen to be his servant. You may not bear the same level of guilt as those people at NSA or the IRS, but you're still part of it.


Posted by: Methos at June 11, 2015 07:48 PM (ZbV+0)

345 >>On the Job Three Days a Week, Four Hours a Day:

And we appreciate every one of them, Ace.
Thanks.

Posted by: Garrett at June 11, 2015 07:47 PM (GLrp1)



Ok...that's funny.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at June 11, 2015 07:48 PM (GEICT)

346 Anna,

Probably going to start with "Horror Express" tonight.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at June 11, 2015 07:48 PM (W6ipS)

347 So I'm thinking seriously about giving my health a break, and mentally moving to Skyrim, where at least my character can go after evil with a chance of surviving, which the real me couldn't.
Posted by: Empire1 at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (WdDnr)


I've considered almost the same. But then I think take one with you.
Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 07:45 PM (wkuqO)
*******
I have. Don't go most places political anymore, here included. I do drop in from time to time but I simply cannot stand where we are headed. I play online poker and trivia games mostly. Don't even go to Drudge anymore.... it is all too depressing.

Posted by: Truck Monkey is a Mime..... Serious at June 11, 2015 07:49 PM (fLKzW)

348 Cushing, "Monsters! We're Englishmen!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:49 PM (GF78Y)

349 328


Oh I think obama long-fantasized about being a supreme ruler.
---------------

"Many Bothans got away scot-free to give us this information."

Posted by: PRC Spymaster at June 11, 2015 07:49 PM (ry4ab)

350 326
Wow it's really falling apart quickly now isn't it. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I've been feeling kinda numb latley.

Posted by: freaked at June 11, 2015 07:45 PM (BO/km)

Yep. It feels kind of like standing at the precipice, looking over the edge, and anticipating the next strong wind.

Posted by: flounder at June 11, 2015 07:49 PM (ecDRv)

351 And, it turns out all the data files were unencrypted. Everything in f'ing "data.txt" files.


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 11, 2015 07:47 PM (kdS6q)


Please tell me this is a joke.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 07:49 PM (L+Tc2)

352 zombie has the right of it. There are no innocents working in government. Who Obama was was known before he took office any anyone still taking a government paycheck has chosen to be his servant. You may not bear the same level of guilt as those people at NSA or the IRS, but you're still part of it.

Posted by: Methos at June 11, 2015 07:48 PM (ZbV+0)



Be sure to let Washington Nearsider, Bannion and multiple other commenters and cobs know that.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at June 11, 2015 07:50 PM (GEICT)

353 Countdown for the inevitable Obama response, 5, 4, 3 ...

"BOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH!!!!!!"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 11, 2015 07:50 PM (uctT+)

354 If someone could photoshop horns onto that photo I would feel better...and it would be more realistic.

I think I may stop reading the news again.

I think I speak for many when I say that never, ever, in my lifetime, under any president (including Carter and Clinton), was I afraid for the safety and security of my country as I am since 2008. And it grows deeper daily, which is why sometimes I just quit reading. It is a bottomless pit of despair and horror and disgust. And GOP leaders? You are going right down the pit with him. Now is your time and ::crickets::

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, supermodel Redneck Queenster at June 11, 2015 07:50 PM (FCPu0)

355 So I'm thinking seriously about giving my health a break, and mentally moving to Skyrim, where at least my character can go after evil with a chance of surviving, which the real me couldn't.
Posted by: Empire1 at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (WdDnr)


I've considered almost the same. But then I think take one with you.
Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 07:45 PM (wkuqO)
*******
I have. Don't go most places political anymore, here included. I do drop in from time to time but I simply cannot stand where we are headed. I play online poker and trivia games mostly. Don't even go to Drudge anymore.... it is all too depressing.

Posted by: Truck Monkey is a Mime

You guys need some cheering up? PM me on Twitter!

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at June 11, 2015 07:51 PM (VAsIq)

356 My god, Obama is such an asshole. How anyone could have voted for this arrogant, smug, petulant prick is beyond me. Obama is a dick. Period.

Posted by: Mistress Overdone at June 11, 2015 07:51 PM (2/oBD)

357 You may not be interested in the burning times...

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 11, 2015 07:51 PM (+aCe4)

358
328
Oh I think obama long-fantasized about being a supreme ruler.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 07:45 PM (Ry8Bt)



Yeah but that's not being president. That falls more in line with the Hollywood idea of what the president does.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 11, 2015 07:51 PM (z/Ubi)

359 Well, I've got to ladle out mussels in garlic butter sauce and slice a baguette.

Husband is home and hungry.

And I'm too filled with rage to eat.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:51 PM (FsuaD)

360 i can't take TFG.

Posted by: ace at June 11, 2015 07:51 PM (PA7DS)

361 Have no fear, the next president will fix this.Everything will be encrypted. Then someone will steal the keys, or someone will forget the keys, and all that data will be lost, and everyone will have to fill out all those government forms again

Just as soon as we get some experts in charge, this will all be taken care of. Have no fear.

Posted by: Lostris Mahuna at June 11, 2015 07:52 PM (uOOCL)

362 Just Saying -- well, if they do come after us, we'll try. But in the meantime, I'm going after bad guys I can really (in-game) do something about. I'm sure my doctor will thank me.

NB: I'm having fun with my Skyrim fanfic. It's tricky keeping things between game and story straight, but a lot easier on the BP and nerves.

Posted by: Empire1 at June 11, 2015 07:52 PM (WdDnr)

363

Nuclear_Launch_Codes_Top_Secret_PLZ_DONT_READ.txt

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 11, 2015 07:52 PM (kdS6q)

364 Henny Youngman, "Take TFG!!! Please!!!!!!!!!!!eleventy!!!!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:52 PM (GF78Y)

365 Yeah, the ChiComs have all the dirt now that the Clinton's had gotten from the 900+ FBI files Craig Livingstone and pals rooted around in and then some.

If you've ever filled out an SF86 they know about you. Yes, real names are in those files, no, neighbor next door or neighbor two doors down is not used, their real names and addresses are along with everybody in your immediate family and people you went to school with along with previous employers info. Any arrest record, traffic ticket etc... If you put it down, and I know you did, because I've filled out my fair share of them, you're in the sweep and they will use that intel for their benefit, not yours.

That bastard in the WH did this, no one else.

Posted by: Gmac- Pulling in feelers in preperation... at June 11, 2015 07:52 PM (4CRfK)

366 i can't take TFG.
Posted by: ace

Funny, he said that same thing about me at first.

Posted by: Reggie Love at June 11, 2015 07:53 PM (tgnRB)

367 >>>>zombie has the right of it. There are no innocents working in government. Who Obama was was known before he took office any anyone still taking a government paycheck has chosen to be his servant. You may not bear the same level of guilt as those people at NSA or the IRS, but you're still part of it.

.
.
.
.Did you want to come and brand the Mark of the Beast on everyone yourself?

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 11, 2015 07:53 PM (iONHu)

368 308 Tilikum, you and me both. I'm about ready to drop out of the news scene for the sake of my BP and sense of futility. All caring does now is frustrate me and make my BP skyrocket.

I'm no Irongrampa; I'm a not particularly sturdy 71-yo woman with a disabled husband. We might be able to take out one or two if they came at us with a SWAT team, if we were particularly lucky, but realistically, if the pogroms come, we're dead.

So I'm thinking seriously about giving my health a break, and mentally moving to Skyrim, where at least my character can go after evil with a chance of surviving, which the real me couldn't.

Posted by: Empire1 at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (WdDnr)



Yeah, I've been reading Paul Johnson's "The Birth of the Modern". It's about the period from roughly 1815-1830.

It's better reading about the birth of the modern world than watching the birth of the new Dark Age in real time.

Posted by: rickl at June 11, 2015 07:53 PM (sdi6R)

369
You guys need some cheering up? PM me on Twitter!
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at June 11, 2015 07:51 PM (VAsIq)
*********
Got any Huma Pics? Or are you so narcissistic that you only take pictures of your Johnson....

Posted by: Truck Monkey is a Mime..... Serious at June 11, 2015 07:53 PM (fLKzW)

370 332
42 If the hackers have some good info on TFG and release it... Popcorn!



Hope they don't have that cabbie's name in Chicago.

Posted by: Reggie at June 11, 2015 07:53 PM (0FSuD)

371 I have. Don't go most places political anymore, here included. I do drop in from time to time but I simply cannot stand where we are headed. I play online poker and trivia games mostly. Don't even go to Drudge anymore.... it is all too depressing.
Posted by: Truck Monkey is a Mime..... Serious at June 11, 2015 07:49 PM (fLKzW)


I monitor my blood pressure. Routine morning bp was 130/80 had to deal with State govt. Just checked out of curiosity and it bumped to 147/ 85.

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 07:53 PM (wkuqO)

372 "And GOP leaders? You are going right down the pit with him. Now is your time and ::crickets::"

Sorry, did you say something?

Can't you see we're very busy over here?

We're concocting the official rescue plan for Obamacare in case the subsidies get struck down by the Supreme Court next week.

So leave us be. This is important.

Posted by: Your Republican Party, working for you! at June 11, 2015 07:54 PM (noWW6)

373 Now the Chinese know how many kids live in Reid's basement.

Posted by: Jerry at June 11, 2015 07:54 PM (F/TlN)

374 i can't take TFG.

Posted by: ace

Oh, he's not as big as you'd think.

Posted by: Reggie at June 11, 2015 07:54 PM (VAsIq)

375 So... does that mean that Chi-coms know who in congress is being currently blackmailed by the president?

Or which ones are involved in illegal activities?

Do they have Preezy O's college records?

Or perhaps they now know what passport he traveled to Pakistan with?

I, for one, welcome these disclosures by our new Chinese/ Russian/ Hacker overlords.

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at June 11, 2015 07:54 PM (eV59V)

376 This whole "Let's run the world with computers" thing is looking dumber and dumber every damned day.
Posted by: RKae at June 11, 2015 07:36 PM (ME3Du)

This is what happens when you use the lowest bidder for cybersecurity. If this kind of failure can't be prevented, then quite frankly, systems that contain critical information should not be connected to the internet where any old hacker can have a go at them.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 11, 2015 07:54 PM (HalrA)

377 Bob will gone for moer than owa.

You may caw me Chang

Posted by: Chang at the NSA at June 11, 2015 07:55 PM (sdPF/)

378 'i can't take TFG'


Oh it's eásy he's got a pencil dick

Posted by: Reggie the Love Doll at June 11, 2015 07:55 PM (BO/km)

379 373
Now the Chinese know how many kids liveare chained up in Reid's basement.


Posted by: Jerry at June 11, 2015 07:54 PM (F/TlN)

FIFY

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 11, 2015 07:55 PM (0FSuD)

380 You may not want to read the news but you would be well advised to know where the attacks are coming from.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 11, 2015 07:56 PM (vX0qt)

381 You know what, I'm gonna to try to pretend like my info is not on the black market for sale for a while.

I'm going to start the mindy project an maybe have some whiskey. And tomorrow I'm going shopping.

Posted by: Le-a is on a boat, MFers! at June 11, 2015 07:56 PM (vmMMi)

382 It's better reading about the birth of the modern world than watching the birth of the new Dark Age in real time.
Posted by: rickl at June 11, 2015 07:53 PM (sdi6R)

We're headed to collander facemask world at a breakneck pace now.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 11, 2015 07:56 PM (HalrA)

383 If only hot rage would burn the calories of a nice, soft cheese.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:56 PM (FsuaD)

384 164
My God in Heaven. Does the 2016 election even matter at this point?
----------
We do not know yet. Please send a list of candidates for our due consideration.

Posted by: PRC Spymaster at June 11, 2015 07:57 PM (ry4ab)

385 Well this directly affects my family, in ways I can't disclose, but it fucking sucks.

Posted by: wooga at June 11, 2015 07:57 PM (yqyNY)

386 @ Methos.... that is pants on head retarded. Do you mean to suggest that those of us who disagreed with Obama should have put in our two weeks notice as soon as Romney lost? Get real

Posted by: Confuzzled at June 11, 2015 07:58 PM (cmUfZ)

387 I have been interviewed several times by the FBI because one of my best friends holds a high rank in the State Department.

In normal times, I would be feeling really boned about this but there so many other ways we're getting boned that this is barely a blip on the Boned Radar.

People will die because of this, and we'll hear nary a peep from the MFM.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at June 11, 2015 07:58 PM (0RdKg)

388 ''Countdown for the inevitable Obama response, 5, 4, 3 ... 'BOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH!!!!!!'"

Worth reminding ourselves that it's not as though Fedzilla had top-notch infosec precautions under Bush, either.

Obama failed to fix an inherited problem.

Which he inherited from GWB, who failed to fix an inherited problem.

Which he inherited from Clinton. Who failed to fix an inherited problem which he inherited from GWB's dad.

Lather rinse repeat.

Insofar as Obama deserves special blame, it's because the warning signs of systematic intrusion had become much more intense on his watch.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 11, 2015 07:58 PM (noWW6)

389
Despite all this, I still believe we will prevail.

I expect none of it will be easy, and some will be very bloody but because WE are Americans victory is ours.

My regret is that I may not live long enough to see that victory attained.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (jeCnD)

390 Anyone got any good recipes?

Posted by: Truck Monkey is a Mime..... Serious at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (fLKzW)

391 Everything's cool. We'll change the launch codes: add a '!' and randomly capitalize a letter and everything's right as rain.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (7RXcs)

392 Its not lowest bidder... this is like the 404Care security people pencil whipping that they are willing to take the risks.

OPM did the same thing. Probably because that is how its always been done. Even though they are supposed to take mitigation measures ...

And lets also remember with the DoD networks, SecDef Gates ordered opened the firewall ports to Facebook and other social media places.

There is a lackadaisical and complacent mindset at play here.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (GF78Y)

393 Well, it's "good" to know my son's, husband's, and my info is out there.

And I'm glad that no one will be more angry about that than the JEF.

In the meanwhile, Her Majesty, the Mooch, gave another angry commencement speech on Tuesday about how The Man held the Obamas down. Oh, how that nasty bitch and her bitch husband have suffered.

*types* *deletes*


Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (FsuaD)

394 OOOohh. Easy Zombie. Love you but there are those that are always hooked in. There are a lot of LIV in the gov. as well. They are not all in the barrel. Some are to low level to fight, and may pick there battles. Not all are on line....

Posted by: Freddy the Freeloader at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (HvEH7)

395 Maybe they'll really stick it to those ******* RINOs who are selling us out. I could live with that.

Posted by: Agent-J at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (9Mtv3)

396 Maybe they'll really stick it to those ******* RINOs who are selling us out. I could live with that.

Posted by: Agent-J at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (9Mtv3)

397 DOD is the largest employer of Civilians in the entire Federal Government by an order of magnitude.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 11, 2015 07:42 PM (iONHu)


Using Wiki, I get

4.2 mil Fed employees (3.0 Mil DOD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_executive_departments

Of 3.23 mil DOD, 718k civilian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense

So 1.2 million non-DOD employees vs. 718k civilian DOD. (possibly different years, but should be close enough)

Care to list your numbers?

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (0NdlF)

398 I wonder how many people will admit to having been TFG supporters after the collapse. Will it be like in France where, once liberated, nobody was a collaborator and everyone was in the resistance?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (tgnRB)

399 FYI, I have exclusive, sensitive information that only a sexy, foreign honeypot can extract.

You know my number.

Posted by: Fritz at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (GFrM3)

400 Encryptin' be hard, yo!


In reality, I can't even summon gallows humor anymore. I'm working on guillotine humor now!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 11, 2015 08:00 PM (ftVQq)

401 Insofar as Obama deserves special blame, it's because the warning signs of systematic intrusion had become much more intense on his watch.
Posted by: torquewrench at June 11, 2015 07:58 PM (noWW6)

This ain't the 1/2 of it.

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 08:00 PM (wkuqO)

402 Have any state government databases been compromised?

Posted by: Lostris Mahuna at June 11, 2015 08:00 PM (uOOCL)

403 My first job was as a part-timer at a college, and was with the Department of Education. Even had to take a service oath and everything. So my info's probably for sale somewhere.

So if anyone buys it, could you do me a solid and hack my student loan debt into nonexistence? Or just have Barack Obama personally take over the payments? Thanks.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 11, 2015 08:00 PM (HalrA)

404 Methos, #344:

"Who Obama was was known before he took office any anyone still taking a government paycheck has chosen to be his servant."

Methos, I like you from what I can tell. That said: Bull-f%^&ing-shit.

I took the oath before this President became Commander-in-Chief. My oath is to the Constitution. I haven't quit because my job (part time), in the event that something truly, unconventionally horrible happens, is to help save lives. I happen to believe this CiC has made that eventuality more likely. You'd rather I quit in protest, and watch from my civilian job when that day arrives, thinking, I could have helped. People are going to die that I could have saved.

Posted by: JPS at June 11, 2015 08:00 PM (9ziuC)

405
My God in Heaven. Does the 2016 election even matter at this point?


Nnnnnnnope.

"I would say the best part of the Obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using, you know, the big metadata programs, the NSA being enhanced," Jeb Bush said on the Michael Medved radio show on Tuesday. "Even though he never defends it, even though he never openly admits it, there has been a continuation of a very important service, which is the first obligation I think of our national government is to keep us safe."

4.22.2015

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 11, 2015 08:01 PM (kdS6q)

406
remember Milli Vanilli's Dont Forget My Number?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 08:01 PM (Ry8Bt)

407 @ Methos.... that is pants on head retarded. Do you mean to suggest that
those of us who disagreed with Obama should have put in our two weeks
notice as soon as Romney lost? Get real


No I mean McCain. And only if you had any character. If the check representing funds that were stolen from the rest of us at gunpoint was more important to you then by all means stick with it.

Obama was always known to be *that* bad.

Posted by: Methos at June 11, 2015 08:01 PM (ZbV+0)

408 Good to see the Fiery Skull is back.

Posted by: dissent555 at June 11, 2015 08:02 PM (yR6A1)

409
Fritz-"FYI, I have exclusive, sensitive information that only a sexy, foreign honeypot can extract.

You know my number"
Sorry, but your job has been outsourced to China. Buh bye.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at June 11, 2015 08:02 PM (+aCe4)

410 *eyeroll*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at June 11, 2015 08:02 PM (GEICT)

411 Irongrampa for the win. You, sir, are a gem.

Posted by: Truck Monkey is a Mime..... Serious at June 11, 2015 08:02 PM (fLKzW)

412 398
I wonder how many people will admit to having been TFG supporters after
the collapse. Will it be like in France where, once liberated, nobody
was a collaborator and everyone was in the resistance?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (tgnRB)

I have a list with the worst ones, for when that moment will come.No way I'm letting the Communist rats escape.

Posted by: Lark at June 11, 2015 08:03 PM (F/TlN)

413 What we need is singe payer identity insurance.
ObamaLock.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 11, 2015 08:03 PM (W5DcG)

414 I have a list with the worst ones, for when that moment will come.No way I'm letting the Communist rats escape.
Posted by: Lark at June 11, 2015 08:03 PM (F/TlN)


God bless you

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 08:04 PM (wkuqO)

415
Worth reminding ourselves that it's not as though Fedzilla had top-notch infosec precautions under Bush, either.

Obama failed to fix an inherited problem.

Which he inherited from GWB, who failed to fix an inherited problem.

Which he inherited from Clinton. Who failed to fix an inherited problem which he inherited from GWB's dad.

Lather rinse repeat.

Insofar as Obama deserves special blame, it's because the warning signs of systematic intrusion had become much more intense on his watch.
Posted by: torquewrench


All true of course. Bush was as big a Big Gubba'ment acolyte as Billy Clinton was even if Oblamo has outdone them both.

My snark was meant to imply that the Left is going to blame Boooosh for "cutting" taxes and spending - i mean "investment" (COUGH FART GAG) in the Federal government.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 11, 2015 08:04 PM (uctT+)

416 Do you mean to suggest that those of us who disagreed with Obama should have put in our two weeks notice as soon as Romney lost? Get real

I think the spoils system is better than the "professional" government employee system we have now.

If public employees have a union, they're not serving the public.

And I remember the noise when we got the furlough letters. "We're innocent, make sure we get our proper paychecks!"

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 11, 2015 08:05 PM (0NdlF)

417 Irongrampa for the win. You, sir, are a gem.
Posted by: Truck Monkey is a Mime..... Serious at June 11, 2015 08:02 PM (fLKzW


Damn straight and I will lose my fucking mind if he ever stops keeping up morale by reminding us who we are.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 08:05 PM (L+Tc2)

418 >>>''Countdown for the inevitable Obama response, 5, 4, 3 ... 'BOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH!!!!!!'"<<<


Don't blame me.


Blame Algore... he invented the internet in the first place.

Posted by: GWB at June 11, 2015 08:05 PM (LF5/M)

419 So if all the information is out there now, then there really isn't much need to pay for data security anymore, is there?

He's SAVING us like a gazillion dollars!

Posted by: Weasel at June 11, 2015 08:06 PM (e3bId)

420 As someone who worked for the US government a few times, including the IRS, my life is currently on a hard drive in Beijing. I am pretty small potatoes compared to a lot of people, but this really burns me something fierce. And sadly, I can vouch 100% for the lack of security at many U.S. government offices. The National Security stuff is electronically guarded, but nothing else is, and the office networks in most cases are too old and too slow to run the latest software. Truly I tell you, the Chinese hackers had to do very little to get into the OPM files, and once they were in the files could all be hoovered lickety-split. And I DO believe the files were stored in data format, some of the PCs at my IRS office would be old enough to vote right now if they were there, and they probably are....

Posted by: exdem13 at June 11, 2015 08:06 PM (ry4ab)

421 Why are sensitive materials stored on a database that is connected to the Internet in the first place. Am I missing something? All sensitive information should be stored in a closed system.

Posted by: Cruzinator at June 11, 2015 08:06 PM (C7UJR)

422 Methos is like the fuckers on the Internet all ' I always wear my seatbelt, you deserve what you get'

I'm pretty sure I'm at types/deletes place so clearly I need liquor.

Posted by: Le-a is on a boat, MFers! at June 11, 2015 08:06 PM (vmMMi)

423 My oath is to the Constitution. I haven't quit because my job (part
time), in the event that something truly, unconventionally horrible
happens, is to help save lives.
Posted by: JPS at June 11, 2015 08:00 PM (9ziuC)


That, and somebody has to stay inside to open the gate.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 11, 2015 08:07 PM (NaeCR)

424 Give me the Remote and I'll fix everything right up

Posted by: Jebby Shrub at June 11, 2015 08:07 PM (fLKzW)

425 This level of incompetence and criminal negligence has the stink of Jaime Gorelick.

That bitch has to be involved in this somehow.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 11, 2015 08:08 PM (VRdqG)

426 Maybe Janet Incompetano is right, at least at the senior levels of government, meritocracy IS a myth!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 11, 2015 08:08 PM (ftVQq)

427 In reality, I can't even summon gallows humor anymore. I'm working on guillotine humor now!
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 11, 2015 08:00 PM (ftVQq)


I've been at bubonic plague/smallpox humor for 6 months or so

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 08:08 PM (7RXcs)

428 I'm pretty sure I'm at types/deletes place so clearly I need liquor.

Posted by: Le-a is on a boat, MFers! at June 11, 2015 08:06 PM (vmMMi)


I started when this thread was new.

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 08:08 PM (wkuqO)

429 Ultimately, it was a job. It is a job that can be executed with noble intentions ... but how do you explain IRS and CIA and other bureaucratic abuse, if "good" federal employees are the majority?

So the "good" majority lets the rest of them abuse the system to that degree? That's not painting a very convincing picture of innocence. At some point, the buck has to stop.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 11, 2015 08:08 PM (0NdlF)

430 Actually now that I think on it, given the nature of my life on government media... I foresee a nondescript Asian man approaching me at Aldi sometime in the future with some questions on accessing government facilities in Ohio, and promising enough $$$ to truly allow me to move off the grid.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 11, 2015 08:09 PM (ry4ab)

431 I believe for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 11, 2015 08:09 PM (W5DcG)

432 Moved to Skyrim. Paid Farengar a dragonbone and two scales for a warmth spell on my armor. May see you on the non-political weekend threads.

Posted by: Empire1 at June 11, 2015 08:09 PM (WdDnr)

433 In a better day China would be a smoking hole right now.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 11, 2015 08:09 PM (NnN0z)

434 They should have been selling this information in the first place. This regime would have lost nothing in honesty.

Posted by: Freddy the Freeloader at June 11, 2015 08:09 PM (HvEH7)

435 I wonder how many people will admit to having been TFG supporters after

the collapse. Will it be like in France where, once liberated, nobody

was a collaborator and everyone was in the resistance?



Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at June 11, 2015 07:59 PM (tgnRB)

Not hard - same as THEY do - anybody who is a card carrying D is a pretty good clue.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 11, 2015 08:09 PM (NaeCR)

436 I'm pretty sure I'm at types/deletes place so clearly I need liquor.

Posted by: Le-a is on a boat, MFers! at June 11, 2015 08:06 PM (cmmmi)



Wait....you haven't even started yet?????

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at June 11, 2015 08:09 PM (GEICT)

437 So do we all get 2 years of credit monitoring for free now?

Posted by: Weasel at June 11, 2015 08:10 PM (e3bId)

438 >>ObamaLock.

That's a little move I used down at Man's Country.

Posted by: Barry Obama at June 11, 2015 08:10 PM (sQzB6)

439 Why are sensitive materials stored on a database
that is connected to the Internet in the first place. Am I missing
something? All sensitive information should be stored in a closed
system.

Posted by: Cruzinator at June 11, 2015 08:06 PM (C7UJR)


It is well known that this is the only way to avoid a hack, it is also expensive, cumbersome, and is never proposed by the low bidder crony that gets the IT contract!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 11, 2015 08:10 PM (ftVQq)

440 I'm so happy to have my info and my husband's scooped up by the Chinese government. It's so liberating not having to worry about my info being unsecured. Now, that it's out there, I feel so unburdened. Grrrrr! Hell, at least when the Phoenix VA had employees walk off with servers, I got a letter telling me to be on the lookout for fraud. With this asshole, all we get is "who me? I just heard about it on the news."

Posted by: no good deed at June 11, 2015 08:10 PM (GgxVX)

441 I do believe fingerprints are digitized nowadays.

Posted by: mrp at June 11, 2015 08:11 PM (JBggj)

442 If the PRC comes in via a compromised system with a valid account with the proper permissions that OPM trusts, then they are in the hen house stealing all the eggs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 08:11 PM (GF78Y)

443 I will make the Leviathan work for you Citizen!

Posted by: Jebby Shrub at June 11, 2015 08:11 PM (fLKzW)

444 Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 11, 2015 08:04 PM (uctT+)

Why you guys keep listening to broken record I'll never understand.

Posted by: Cruzinator at June 11, 2015 08:11 PM (C7UJR)

445 Not hard - same as THEY do - anybody who is a card carrying D is a pretty good clue.


Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 11, 2015 08:09 PM (NaeCR)

Or a member of the GOP leadership!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 11, 2015 08:11 PM (ftVQq)

446 432
Moved to Skyrim. Paid Farengar a dragonbone and two scales for a warmth
spell on my armor. May see you on the non-political weekend threads.
----------------
Awesomeness, old girl, have fun storming the castle! I will be going back to SWTOR soon, ready to save at least one Republic from itself and the Sith-class monsters wanting to destroy it.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 11, 2015 08:12 PM (ry4ab)

447 Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 11, 2015 08:04 PM (uctT+)

Simpler premise...

You get faster technical innovation in a free society.... its a historic trend which the US took to warp speed...

Right now, those of us who work Computer Security are hampered by a huge amount of oversight and rules. We can't make the changes we need to actually fix security... because it takes so long for any change to get through the system...

Hackers, are more free to innovate than we are.... so they are winning...

Posted by: BB Wolf at June 11, 2015 08:12 PM (qh617)

448 in France, after liberation, few claimed to be in the Resistance but no one admitted to being Vichy--even the govt members under Petain, who said they were forced to stay in office


it was as if 4 to 5 years never existed. The best we can hope for is to be able to forget and never / rarely speak of 2008-2016.


interestingly, coins from the Vichy era were still being used more than twenty years later. As I recall, they were inscribed 'Etat Francaise' instead of 'Republique Francaise'. 'French state' instead of 'French republic'

Posted by: Biggie Large at June 11, 2015 08:12 PM (8CdUx)

449 Update: The OPM Hack Isn't Bad.
It's Catastrophic.







The damn cats have nothing to do with this!

Posted by: Sheriff Buford T. Justice at June 11, 2015 08:13 PM (JO9+V)

450 Lest anyone doesn't get it, all this political correct speak enforcement that is getting people fired as in McKinney Texas also is taking place inside the federal government.

Anyone who isn't a team player, anyone who stirs up trouble, anyone who is investigating things that would embarrass the President spends the rest of their time in civil service cleaning porta potties in Fairbanks, and that's only if they are not accused of a crime and in prison. (See the whistle blowers testimony in the senate hearings as reported on fox.)

Posted by: Lostris Mahuna at June 11, 2015 08:14 PM (uOOCL)

451 My God, I just realized the AoS PlatinumMmembership files might be compromised as well!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 11, 2015 08:14 PM (ftVQq)

452 ALL YOUR DATABASES ARE BELONG TO US!

Posted by: Chinese Hackers at June 11, 2015 08:14 PM (GrXXa)

453 Posted by: no good deed at June 11, 2015 08:10 PM (GgxVX)

Right? I seriously doubt we'll even be notified for months. They will spend half the summer denying it's even a problem.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 08:14 PM (L+Tc2)

454 My God, I just realized the AoS Platinum Membership files might be compromised as well!


I hates this keyboard!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 11, 2015 08:14 PM (ftVQq)

455 what shall we use for barter? Liqour, ammo, cigarrettes? Food is too hard to stockpile. Not near as many smokers as there used to be.

I'm thinking liqour & ammo...and porn, for bartering with morons

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 08:16 PM (7RXcs)

456 If you have nothing to hide why should this be a problem?

Posted by: Reggie the Love Doll at June 11, 2015 08:16 PM (BO/km)

457 429
So the "good" majority lets the rest of them abuse the system to that degree? That's not painting a very convincing picture of innocence. At some point, the buck has to stop.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at June 11, 2015 08:08 PM (0NdlF)



Just like "good cops" tend to look the other way when "bad cops" do their thing.

Good government workers = Good Germans?

Posted by: rickl at June 11, 2015 08:16 PM (sdi6R)

458 455 what shall we use for barter? Liqour, ammo, cigarrettes? Food is too hard to stockpile. Not near as many smokers as there used to be.

I'm thinking liqour & ammo...and porn, for bartering with morons

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 08:16 PM (7RXcs)


Buy GOLD!

Posted by: G Gordon Liddy at June 11, 2015 08:17 PM (qh617)

459 I'm thinking liqour ammo...and porn, for bartering with morons

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 08:16 PM (7RXcs)


Dime Girls!

Posted by: Burnt Toast at June 11, 2015 08:17 PM (NaeCR)

460
I wonder how many people will admit to having been TFG supporters after the collapse.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig




After? Waaaaay ahead of you.

I deny supporting him while I'm voting for his bills.

Posted by: Thom Tillis - Stherious Cthonservative

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 11, 2015 08:18 PM (kdS6q)

461 Maybe will make the 9pm showing for Jurassic World and imagine every person getting snacked on by the dinosaurs is one of Gaylord's cyber-security experts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 08:18 PM (GF78Y)

462 Those saying that the feds are all innocent angels have never had to deal with the FDA, EPA, or IRS.

No duh, there are some good peeps, but there are also a lot of not so good peeps.

Posted by: East Bay KG at June 11, 2015 08:18 PM (YUrE9)

463 You know me name.
You know me number, too.

-The Beatles

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at June 11, 2015 08:19 PM (0RdKg)

464 If Obama was a cold war weapon designed to kill the West and America in particular what would he have done different.

Oh and thank goodness that impeachment is off the table for our first african american president.

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at June 11, 2015 08:19 PM (TV9BR)

465 Think we can have a little peek at the Kate Upton part of the files?

Posted by: Weasel at June 11, 2015 08:19 PM (e3bId)

466
So if I want to know what is in the trade bill, I should just call China?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 11, 2015 08:19 PM (ODxAs)

467 I wonder how many people will admit to having been TFG supporters after the collapse.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig




Try to find a Carter supporter. It's easier to find Sasquatch.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 11, 2015 08:19 PM (oKE6c)

468 Uhh.... she LOOKED 18 in those pictures!!!

Posted by: Bob at the NSA at June 11, 2015 08:19 PM (GrXXa)

469 I could hoard toasters for ya'll to put your dicks it, but there won't be any electricity so that'll be an issue

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 08:20 PM (7RXcs)

470
what shall we use for barter? Liqour, ammo, cigarrettes? Food is too hard to stockpile. Not near as many smokers as there used to be.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah




I plan to travel light.

All I need is a tube of lipstick -- and a willingness to debase myself.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 11, 2015 08:20 PM (kdS6q)

471 in

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 08:21 PM (7RXcs)

472 New Chinese Gov. revenue model.

Americans! Find out what your secret file says, just $9.99.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at June 11, 2015 08:22 PM (UVfht)

473
Think we can have a little peek at the Kate Upton part of the files?
Posted by: Weasel



For extra dark humor, the FBI cyber-crimes unit was patting itself on the back this week for narrowing down the location of the "Fappening" hacker.

While missing all this other stuff.

Priorities.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 11, 2015 08:23 PM (kdS6q)

474 I will be going back to SWTOR soon, ready to save at
least one Republic from itself and the Sith-class monsters wanting to
destroy it.


Posted by: exdem13 at June 11, 2015 08:12 PM (ry4ab)
....................Hey now. Anyway, technically I'm a Revanite, but don't tell the Emperor or we'll have to have another *accident*.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 11, 2015 08:23 PM (bLnSU)

475 this thread should stay up until ONT, it's just getting good and it's not yet 8:30 EST

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 08:23 PM (7RXcs)

476 Another Emperor about to get the Shaft?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 08:24 PM (GF78Y)

477 Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 11, 2015 08:23 PM (bLnSU)

HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 08:24 PM (L+Tc2)

478 "The OPM data hack is going to be one of Barack Obama's greatest achievements."

Joe "Choo-Choo" Biden

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at June 11, 2015 08:24 PM (TV9BR)

479 So will Gaylord get really annoyed with the PRC is they hack his sex toys?

http://www.ufunk.net/en/gadgets/lovely/

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 08:24 PM (GF78Y)

480 types
deletes
types
deletes

Fucking fucks wouldn't do a damn thing if we were straight out attacked. Planes would stand down, troops die in their barracks, the missiles would stay in their silos.

But nope, nobody does nothin' about it, nosiree, can't rock the boat, wouldn't be responsible.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, by the Pale Moon light at June 11, 2015 08:24 PM (m9V0o)

481 Right? I seriously doubt we'll even be notified for months. They will spend half the summer denying it's even a problem.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 08:14 PM (L+Tc2)


Most of the basic info you'll need is already on the OPM website.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 11, 2015 08:25 PM (V+kmg)

482 Likki don't lose that number.

Posted by: ChinaHack at June 11, 2015 08:25 PM (W5DcG)

483 @ Methos.... That's absurd. There are jobs in the government that are necessary.that doesn't change because of the fact that McCain lost... and I did mean McCain not Romney. . Brain cramp there.

@conservative monster. .. I don't like the idea of public sector unions either. I think that they should go away. I think that took often they and the government management have the same goals in mind as far as growing the government and no one speaks for the taxpayer. I don't think the spoils system is necessarily realistic. You can't completely re-form the government every four years

Posted by: Confuzzled at June 11, 2015 08:25 PM (cmUfZ)

484 TAMMY! {{HUGS!}}

Hope things are going well.

Also, Anna! Not that we don't talk more often, you actually-writing-person you!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 11, 2015 08:25 PM (bLnSU)

485 467
Try to find a Carter supporter. It's easier to find Sasquatch.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 11, 2015 08:19 PM (oKE6c)



*raises hand*

I voted for Carter in 1976, when I turned 18. My first election.

Just in the interest of honesty. It's not like I'm proud of it or anything.

The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 in the early 70s, during the Vietnam war. The argument was, "We send these kids to fight and die for their country, but we don't let them vote." It was hard to argue with that.

The draft ended shortly thereafter, but the 18 year old voting age stayed. Maybe it's time for a second look at that.

Posted by: rickl at June 11, 2015 08:25 PM (sdi6R)

486 >Obama spotted and photographed on a balcony recently with what looks
like a pack of cigs. Reporter asks Obama spokesliar if it is in fact a
pack of cigs....


Let's just take a few steps back and ask two questions:

--- Why is the MSM asking about this instead of something a little more important, like, say, what is your f#$%ing strategy in ISIS??!?

--- Why is the WH more concerned over Obama's image re" smoking than the fact that, say, he STILL doesn't have a strategy for dealing with ISIS?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2015 08:26 PM (k2QA3)

487 Obongo reassuring anyone is like me reassuring Ned Beatty I would pull out before letting him get back in his canoe. Squeal like a pig purty mouth!

Posted by: Redneck Sodomite at June 11, 2015 08:26 PM (JG47A)

488 You get faster technical innovation in a free society.... its a historic trend which the US took to warp speed...

Right now, those of us who work Computer Security are hampered by a huge amount of oversight and rules. We can't make the changes we need to actually fix security... because it takes so long for any change to get through the system...

Posted by: BB Wolf at June 11, 2015 08:12 PM (qh617)


THIS

On steroids.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 11, 2015 08:26 PM (V+kmg)

489 'Try to find a Carter supporter'


I know of one. Did I ever mention that I have a painting of Billy Carter's horse?

Posted by: freaked at June 11, 2015 08:26 PM (BO/km)

490 Whoa. Holy shit. I just...whoa.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 11, 2015 08:27 PM (mx5oN)

491 The real tragedy is that with a Pelosi-Reid Democrat controlled Congress we don't stand a chance!


Oh, what's that you say,,,

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 11, 2015 08:27 PM (ftVQq)

492 Hey Merovign! Hope you doing better today.

Yeah Jurassic World is calling because it will be away from the Internet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 11, 2015 08:27 PM (GF78Y)

493 >>>"The OPM data hack is going to be one of Barack Obama's greatest achievements."

Joe "Choo-Choo" Biden


Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at June 11, 2015 08:24 PM (TV9BR)<<<

GM is alive. And bin Laden data security is dead.

Posted by: Joke Biden at June 11, 2015 08:28 PM (LF5/M)

494 Obama spotted and photographed on a balcony recently with what looks
like a pack of cigs. Reporter asks Obama spokesliar if it is in fact a
pack of cigs....


Next president is hoping the brits come and burn down the white house. Never be able to get the smell out.

Posted by: just saying at June 11, 2015 08:28 PM (wkuqO)

495 A society that wants "nice things" like a safety net and high standard of living has to do the things that are required of such a society.

The hardest part of that list is *letting things go*, particularly letting go of the belief that you can or should control every damned thing.

The same people who want the trappings of wealth want the control to throttle a society so it can't provide them, and they're too dumb to learn that lesson, as history shows.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 11, 2015 08:28 PM (bLnSU)

496 Most of the basic info you'll need is already on the OPM website.


Those LifeLock commercials are sounding pretty good.

Posted by: no good deed at June 11, 2015 08:29 PM (GgxVX)

497 I've not filled out an SF86 but I'm damn sure listed in several.

Fuckers

Posted by: TJ Camper at June 11, 2015 08:29 PM (lpg2r)

498 BREAKING: 9:00 AM Tomorrow....There will be a White House press conference co-starring Marie Harf and PJen Psaki explaining the data breach and what exactly is being done about it. Each presenter will use a hand puppet to help articulate the detailed steps that are being taken.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 08:29 PM (7RXcs)

499 Mrs. Hadley warned me in the 3rd grade about things going into my Permanent Record!

Posted by: Weasel at June 11, 2015 08:29 PM (e3bId)

500 So tired of this shit. So very, very tired.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:14 PM (FsuaD)

That's the whole point, Jane. Does the phrase "Stockholm Syndrome" ring a bell?

Posted by: creeper at June 11, 2015 08:29 PM (bd/JC)

501 Kind of ironic that now it's the government employees who have to worry who has all sorts of embarrassing and destructive information on their private lives ...

But hey, as you fed guys tell us.. "If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about"

Posted by: kbdabear at June 11, 2015 08:29 PM (GrXXa)

502 "The real tragedy is that with a Pelosi-Reid Democrat controlled Congress we don't stand a chance!"
----------------------

Ahemmmm,,,

Posted by: John Boehner & Mitch McConnell & Ryan Now at June 11, 2015 08:30 PM (TV9BR)

503 You know I think it might have been stated earlier, or not: every service member with a security clearance fills out paperwork for a background check. I wonder if they've been compromised?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 11, 2015 08:30 PM (ftdxp)

504 So will Gaylord get really annoyed with the PRC is they hack his sex toys?

-
Do they have that in extra large?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at June 11, 2015 08:31 PM (OFsYt)

505 Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 11, 2015 08:25 PM (V+kmg)

I guess my point is, had I not read it here, I wouldn't have known. Part of that is on me, since I don't watch TV, or get a paper, etc, but you'd think they would have to notify those affected.

And I'm sure they will, eventually.

Didn't this happen a year ago, though??


Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 11, 2015 08:31 PM (L+Tc2)

506 yes COJ.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at June 11, 2015 08:31 PM (kmtse)

507 So Zero was spotted on a balcony with a fag? Was he playing Romeo or Juliet?

Posted by: freaked at June 11, 2015 08:31 PM (BO/km)

508 Odds that the O'bumbles admin will lay the source of the hacks on NYC Chinese busboys who just happen to have the same addresses as Hillary! 2008 campaign donors? I say even odds.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2015 08:31 PM (JO9+V)

509 Anyway, technically I'm a Revanite, but don't tell the Emperor or we'll have to have another *accident*.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 11, 2015 08:23 PM (bLnSU)


Looks like another guy fell on his lightsaber. I'm putting this one down as "workplace accident".

Posted by: Sith Agent at June 11, 2015 08:31 PM (0NdlF)

510 Oh, and since I bothered to post, this is what they call an inside job. I'm certainly not sure whether it was "human engineering" or a paid insider or deliberate sabotage.

It does have the whiff of Cloward and Piven about it, but everything smells like that the last few years.

Now's the time to let your freak flag fly, Feds. No secrets for you, two decades!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 11, 2015 08:31 PM (bLnSU)

511 Those LifeLock commercials are sounding pretty good.
Posted by: no good deed at June 11, 2015 08:29 PM (GgxVX)


I bought it immediately after the first TRICARE hack back in the day.

Haven't regretted it.

Haven't needed it either.

Until now.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 11, 2015 08:32 PM (V+kmg)

512 >>
Kind of ironic that now it's the government employees who have to worry
who has all sorts of embarrassing and destructive information on their
private lives ...

Yeah, if only it were just assholes like Lois Lerner and Obama WH staff who got hacked. This cluster f#$% has taken it to whole new level.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2015 08:32 PM (k2QA3)

513 Nood. It gets worse.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, by the Pale Moon light at June 11, 2015 08:32 PM (m9V0o)

514 Think they have my Brownell's password? I seem to be locked out of my account.

Posted by: Weasel at June 11, 2015 08:32 PM (e3bId)

515 But hey, as you fed guys tell us.. "If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about"
Posted by: kbdabear at June 11, 2015 08:29 PM (GrXXa)


Who said that?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at June 11, 2015 08:32 PM (V+kmg)

516 Note: The Private Reserve frozen mussels from Kroger don't compare with actual home-cooked ones.

Nasty, chemical taste in mouth. *reaches for moar wine*

I'm jealous of whoever's having dinner with J. J. Sefton tonight.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 08:32 PM (FsuaD)

517 Looks like another guy fell on his lightsaber. I'm putting this one down as "workplace accident".

Posted by: Sith Agent at June 11, 2015 08:31 PM (0NdlF)
............Your diligence will be rewarded. Here, have a Twi'lek.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at June 11, 2015 08:33 PM (bLnSU)

518 "So Zero was spotted on a balcony with a fag? Was he playing Romeo or Juliet?

Posted by: freaked at June 11, 2015 08:31 PM (BO/km)"---------Catcher

Posted by: John Boehner & Mitch McConnell & Ryan Now at June 11, 2015 08:33 PM (TV9BR)

519 Americans! Find out what your secret file says, just $9.99.

-
Find out what's in your boss's file for $99.99.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at June 11, 2015 08:34 PM (smwn1)

520 >>>So tired of this shit. So very, very tired.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 07:14 PM (FsuaD)

That's the whole point, Jane. Does the phrase "Stockholm Syndrome" ring a bell?
Posted by: creeper at June 11, 2015 08:29 PM (bd/JC)<<<

**looking giddy**

This is all too overwhelming.

**squirt**

Posted by: Cloward and Piven at June 11, 2015 08:35 PM (LF5/M)

521 I monitored my credit after the Phoenix VA breaches, but those were just employees walking off with equipment and leaving info vulnerable. This is more...worrisome.

Posted by: no good deed at June 11, 2015 08:35 PM (GgxVX)

522 455 what shall we use for barter? Liqour, ammo, cigarrettes?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 11, 2015 08:16 PM (7RXcs)



I wouldn't barter ammo unless it was someone I literally trusted with my life.

I can think of many, many ways that could go wrong.

***

"Hey, man, I'm out of ammo. Can you help me out? I can trade you some food."

"OK, sure, here."

(racks shotgun) "Now give me everything else you have."

Posted by: rickl at June 11, 2015 08:35 PM (sdi6R)

523 Five reasons why the OPM data hack is an 11th dimensional chess move by Obama.....

Posted by: Matt Yglesias at June 11, 2015 08:36 PM (TV9BR)

524
Anyone see this movie?


Flight World War II

Flight 42 was on its way, when it comes across an unidentifiable storm. Realizing they must go through, find themselves in France, 1940, World war II. A young soldier (Robbie Kay) tells them they are in the middle of a war zone. Dodging bullets and bombs the flight will attempt to make it back to modern day, without changing history too much.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Lovin Spoonful at June 11, 2015 08:37 PM (Ry8Bt)

525 The demorats took America down economically and then made China number one-from a third world status. Excellent work slick willy and Obama, and now everything, even vital security is given away to our enemies, gratius. The UTOPIA SOCIETY IS HERE, and remember, no matter how bad it gets, the de3morats and Obama didn't mean any of it, so you got no one to blame. (Unless you wanna blame yourself). They sure now how to play suckers and fools to the bitter end, eh ?
Glad God was expelled and muslims replaced them EVERYWHERE, yet ?

Posted by: ron n. at June 11, 2015 08:37 PM (YVQn/)

526 Don't know about Dem13, but my character actively does not want to be Empress. She's far too busy bringing the dragons under control since Odahviing swore fealty to her. The Skyguard is growing, and the Thalmor are beginning to realize they're no longer welcome in the Empire, so things are getting interesting.

Posted by: Empire1 at June 11, 2015 08:40 PM (3lMPc)

527 Nood. More doomy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 11, 2015 08:41 PM (FsuaD)

528 If you like your secret personal data, you can keep your secret personal data.

O by the way, all your medical records were mandated to go on line to...EVERYBODY'S records. Don't worry we have a double super secret lock box on all of them....EVERY single one.

Oh and you are welcome.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar of Fecal Touch at June 11, 2015 08:42 PM (TV9BR)

529
Note: "CyTech Services, is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business"

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 11, 2015 08:42 PM (kdS6q)

530 474
I will be going back to SWTOR soon, ready to save at

least one Republic from itself and the Sith-class monsters wanting to

destroy it.




Posted by: exdem13 at June 11, 2015 08:12 PM (ry4ab)....................Hey
now. Anyway, technically I'm a Revanite, but don't tell the Emperor or
we'll have to have another *accident*.
----------------
The Revanites come across as sane and reasonable people, so of course they will have to go. The Sith have their playbook, and they're not changing it for anyone. They are not going to share power with wussy Light-side users either. It's the Sith way or the trash compactor. Choose wisely, Imperial subject.

Posted by: exdem13 at June 11, 2015 08:43 PM (ry4ab)

531 @389. Bless you irongrampa. xoxo

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, supermodel Redneck Queenster at June 11, 2015 09:29 PM (FCPu0)

532 >>So Zero was spotted on a balcony with a fag?

Yes. He was alone.

Posted by: Aviator at June 11, 2015 10:06 PM (sQzB6)

533 Captain Bullshit.

Damn that made me laugh.

Posted by: Hamilton at June 11, 2015 10:25 PM (tR8og)

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at June 12, 2015 05:42 AM (GpgJl)

535 People, this is not just federal employees we're talking about. OPM handles the background checks for ALL applicants for security clearances whether they are federal employees or contractors working on government contracts, such as myself. If you haven't started preparing for the worst, the time is now. SF86 data is second only to raw FBI data, in its potential to ruin your life. And depending on the level of clearance being applied for, the time frame required to report on can go back as far as 15 years. What have you had to admit do doing in the last 15 years that you wouldn't want anyone else to know?

Posted by: TimInVirginia at June 12, 2015 10:56 AM (BsxA+)

536 So, what about contractors who work for the government. DoD. Companies like Raytheon and Boing and General Dynamics.

Posted by: DonS at June 12, 2015 12:20 PM (Q2pWM)

537 You know, this is not actually a bad thing.

I mean, we are literally seeing all of the crap that has compiled for the past two hundred-ish years. Now that we see it, we can fix it. That the process of fixing will be gore-y may even be the source of some glee.

So that is encouraging. Yeah I can't really write my usual book and a half here. It is that bad.

Posted by: CthulhuDreaming at June 12, 2015 04:33 PM (NB+Vr)

538 168
My SF-86 is so boring, they wouldn't find anything to turn me.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at June 11, 2015 07:18 PM (Edob3)<p>
I don't think I said anything on my SF86 about raging wood over Chinese leather-clad femdoms. I'll have to go back and check, though.

Posted by: SpankmeMistressChi at June 12, 2015 05:59 PM (ev1Yh)

539 Maetenloch

I am Ira Wetheral
My Disturbance of some ONTs is directly in response to Cooth's INSISTENCE that I
am responsible for his IT misfortune,

luap nor AKA Tim in Illinois was also called out and harassed, but seemingly didn't get the ban hammer because he did the 'turn the other cheek maneuver' which is cool.

I scream back at cooth, unperson, and a growing band of yahoos who seem to be swayed by his...
Magnificence. Buzzion fell into this as well as bebe.

The main point I want to make here, there is not and never will be any "evidence" pointing toward
implicating me. One night he got a bug up his ass, and never quit.

He is the sphincter in this case.

My belief, is while his fiancee was out of town, He stumbled into some bad shit on a porn site.

Maybe not, but he sure didn't get it from me.

Now my pal Mr Hat has been given over to the dark side.

Do I really have to wait for an apology from cooth?

When will his expensive "investigator" finger the culprit, if ever?

Late at night, all I have ever done was some silly back and forth you-tube music videos with hat and piercello. No fun anymore.

I don't see a resolution to this in the near future

But if you can, I'm amenable.

Seriously,
Ira

Posted by: I.W. at June 14, 2015 12:34 AM (Wlght)

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