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buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
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The OPM Is the Perfect Symbol of the Age of Obama
Catastrophic failure not only without consequences -- but with barely any media or public notice.
AllahPundit makes a good point. Obama has conditioned us to accept catastrophic failure as the New Normal -- even we conservatives don't expect accountability for failure, because failure now is the plan. It's the ambition. It's the Engine Obama working on all cylinders and eating up highway in fifth gear. And so the Republic dies, not with a bang but with a Reality TV singing show.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: fly gal at June 16, 2015 04:50 PM (8TdcF)
Posted by: fly gal at June 16, 2015 04:50 PM (8TdcF)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at June 16, 2015 04:51 PM (kff5f)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 16, 2015 04:51 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 04:51 PM (ZaZH6)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at June 16, 2015 04:51 PM (kff5f)
Posted by: Alaric I at June 16, 2015 04:52 PM (l3vZN)
Prove me wrong.
(Actually, as I write this, I realize it *isn't* 100% sarcasm)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at June 16, 2015 04:52 PM (kff5f)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 04:52 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Choklit Geezus at June 16, 2015 04:52 PM (ucB75)
We'll be lucky if it's as benign as singing. I expect something far more disgusting.
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 16, 2015 04:52 PM (ZKzrr)
Morons get a pass since we can trust all of you.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at June 16, 2015 04:53 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at June 16, 2015 04:53 PM (UhRGU)
Posted by: Emperor Clusterfuck I at June 16, 2015 04:53 PM (YFFpo)
1st Bradley Manning/WikiLeaks
2nd Edward Snowden
3rd OPM
Bet it's not really the 3rd, though, considering Hillary's email and gawd knows what else has happened that's been hidden/disappeared.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 04:53 PM (k2QA3)
There are definitely consequences.
The person or persons who failed catastrophically usually get promoted.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 16, 2015 04:53 PM (o8Gus)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 04:53 PM (FsuaD)
I am pretty convinced that we will lose our next war. Not Harry Reid lose, but really lose.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 16, 2015 04:54 PM (659DL)
That was presented as testimony at the hearing today, apparently.
http://is.gd/s6cfGy
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 16, 2015 04:54 PM (ZKzrr)
The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations as governing strategy.
Affirmative Action President, y'all.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 16, 2015 04:54 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at June 16, 2015 04:54 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Hillary (MyTurn) Clinton at June 16, 2015 04:55 PM (UhRGU)
Posted by: Barack the Magnificent at June 16, 2015 04:55 PM (JO9+V)
Heh.
Love their solution of offering up fed employees a free subscription to credit check services.
Oh, OK, that'll make it ALL better!!
That will totally protect America from foreign agents using the highly person background info they've obtained to recruit/blackmail key personnel.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 04:55 PM (k2QA3)
____________
And Barky's passport data. Can't have any nosy snoopers looking into Dear Leader's college trip to Pok-ee-stan. Might prove embarrassing to the narrative.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 16, 2015 04:55 PM (o8Gus)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 04:55 PM (ZaZH6)
Posted by: Yo! at June 16, 2015 04:55 PM (q+zA9)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 16, 2015
And as our friend garrett says, affirmative action has its consequences.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 16, 2015 04:55 PM (9mTYi)
Consider: to Progs government can't be wrong. If it's wrong then their entire worldview falls apart.
So ignoring the failures makes sense. You can't hold in your head simultaneously: "The VA is a disaster" and "we need single payer healthcare."
So the progs jettison the former to save the latter.
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at June 16, 2015 04:55 PM (s92xH)
He needs to take the rest of the week off.
...
in some cultures, those linking a piece which has earned a week's rest also get a week's rest themselves.
google it
Posted by: ace at June 16, 2015 04:56 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: Bigby's Noogie at June 16, 2015 04:56 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 04:56 PM (EgOr3)
Wait, what?
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity Dr. Andy Ozment testified that encryption would "not have helped in this case" because the attackers had gained valid user credentials to the systems that they attacked - likely through social engineering
The problem with being a cynic is being right so often.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at June 16, 2015 04:56 PM (kff5f)
Posted by: Uber Liberal at June 16, 2015 04:56 PM (F2IAQ)
I guess I need to hit the liquor store.
Posted by: Lea at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (lIU4e)
google it
Posted by: ace at June 16, 2015 04:56 PM (PA7DS)
Okay. You, too. Nice linking.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (/tNwW)
thank you. sorry I didn't post for a while. sometimes I lose track of when the last post was.
Also, I have a couple of posts i've been half-writing.
Posted by: ace at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (PA7DS)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (k2QA3)
Where the hell is Congress on this?
Posted by: Iblis at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (9221z)
--Is this the proper place for me to bitch more about the FBI investigating a stick-ball scandal?
Posted by: logprof at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (15/oZ)
All feck is half off! We buy in bulk and pass the savings on to you!!
Posted by: Earnie's House of Feck at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (DYI7B)
>>The most secure data in the Obama Administration is the Whitehouse Visitor log.
____________
his college transcripts seem pretty hack proof
Posted by: Yo! at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (q+zA9)
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Soona at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (P25Hh)
That may be, ace.
Don't you wish we lived in one?
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Not dead yet at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (kff5f)
As someone who's wife is a government worker I speak from experience: government workers are stupid.
The credit monitoring is to shut up the workers who are too stupid to see the greater implications (that China isn't interested in fake credit cards). The venn diagram with this group and AFGE members (who also vote 100% democratic) is 0.
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (s92xH)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 16, 2015 04:58 PM (evdj2)
true
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at June 16, 2015 04:58 PM (UhRGU)
All feck is half off! We buy in bulk and pass the savings on to you!!
Posted by: Earnie's House of Feck at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (DYI7B)
I think Feck-for-Less has better prices.
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 04:58 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Golfman at June 16, 2015 04:58 PM (9HX7k)
They never accomplish anything. No one is held accountable. No improvements are ever made. All they do is come up with a new Alphabet Soup Agency and pour more money down the f*cking toilet.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 16, 2015 04:58 PM (9mTYi)
You bet your ass that of the entire federal beuracracy was compromised while a Reupiblican sat behind the resolute desk the shit would be hitting the fan with the media, the opposition, the public and he'll even his own party.
In the immortal words of Joe Biden, this is a pretty big deal.
Posted by: Kreplach at June 16, 2015 04:59 PM (AtR8s)
Posted by: ace at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (PA7DS)
Standing by to half-read them, master!!
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 04:59 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Soona at June 16, 2015 04:57 PM (P25Hh)
Down goes Chicago
Down goes Chicago
Down goes Chicago
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 04:59 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 04:59 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at June 16, 2015 04:59 PM (UhRGU)
ShitLord or ShitHead?
Posted by: DaveA at June 16, 2015 05:00 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Yo! at June 16, 2015 05:00 PM (q+zA9)
And apparently the list of people who attended the "private" party at the WH last night, where Prince performed.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 05:00 PM (k2QA3)
What the hell else are they gonna do until the good restaurants start dinner service?
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:01 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 16, 2015 05:01 PM (JO9+V)
.gov is a Plethora of Weasels
Posted by: DaveA at June 16, 2015 05:01 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: simplemind at June 16, 2015 05:01 PM (5vV+V)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 16, 2015 05:02 PM (YFFpo)
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:01 PM (EgOr3
Palm, forehead, duh. Some assembly required
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 16, 2015 05:02 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Trumpy at June 16, 2015 05:02 PM (W5DcG)
What the hell else are they gonna do until the good restaurants start dinner service?
Insider trading?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 05:02 PM (ZaZH6)
Posted by: Lea at June 16, 2015 05:02 PM (lIU4e)
Posted by: Peaches
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Fecks-A-Million. Great prices!
And..., hya Peaches. You've been missed around here.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:02 PM (F2IAQ)
And only briefly did the alphabet news outlets pick up and run with the story, only to have it stomped by the trade for B. Hussein Bergdahl.
Posted by: Rex B at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (igEaG)
Posted by: Carol at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (sj3Ax)
A 'big deal' to Joe Biden is defined as a baloney sandwich or an olive with a pimento.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (UhRGU)
* dusts hands *
Posted by: FDA at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (uctT+)
Posted by: LaQuisha Johnson at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (xQX/f)
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (x6d4B)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: mallfly at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (qSIlh)
Posted by: Jeb! at June 16, 2015 05:04 PM (G+wEf)
That's OK.
We wander off on tangents half wishing for new posts.
BTW. Take the rest of the week off. I'm off till Thursday. After that, I've got it.
Still need you in the podcast, though.
Posted by: Golfman at June 16, 2015 05:04 PM (9HX7k)
Tell 'em to leave a message.
...rather than leaving it in the agency they work for. Is there some reason for that?
Because OPM is the one doing the security investigation, not the requesting agency or entity.
Posted by: Lloyd Braun at June 16, 2015 05:04 PM (PMGbu)
But one MLB team hacking another's systems? Why that's almost as bad as Martha Stewart telling a fib! We need to rain G-men down on Saint Louis post haste.
Posted by: Ken in NH at June 16, 2015 05:04 PM (qFlZT)
"I am pretty convinced that we will lose our next war. Not Harry Reid lose, but really lose."
When our enemies share this view, is when the war starts. They aren't there yet, but they areinching up to it.
Posted by: simplemind at June 16, 2015 05:04 PM (5vV+V)
SMDH
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (x6d4B)
NO she did not.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:04 PM (/tNwW)
Mr. Fly Guy and I were having dinner at our usual haunt Friday night, and another regular--a 93-year-old WWII veteran--asked us in all sincerity "Name one thing Obama has done wrong." Every point we cited was dismissed as Fox propaganda.
Why I drink.
Posted by: fly gal at June 16, 2015 05:04 PM (8TdcF)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 16, 2015 05:04 PM (evdj2)
Yeah, Donald. I saw a whole lotta American heroes surrounding *you* today.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Injuin Blackfoot Barry, that eats dog at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (0FSuD)
----
I found only one culture--a sentient arboreal species indigenous to the forest moon of Endor.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (x6d4B)
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (x6d4B)
Posted by: mallfly at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (qSIlh)
Hey, look at this.
Posted by: Carlos Danger at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (ZKzrr)
SMDH
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (x6d4B)
NO she did not.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:04 PM (/tNwW)
Please say this is not true. Or put a link. I am already doing some pre-emptive drinking, so it's okay. Just tell us!!!
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (EgOr3)
1. I thought the FBI did the background checks,
2. Why can't they delete the info when they are through?
Posted by: Lea at June 16, 2015 05:06 PM (lIU4e)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 16, 2015 05:02 PM (YFFpo)
---------------------------------------
Yes it is. The marxists/leftists have been planning on a presidency and regime like this for decades. And they're not done yet. They won't stop until the destruction is complete.
Posted by: Soona at June 16, 2015 05:06 PM (P25Hh)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 16, 2015 05:06 PM (evdj2)
Protecting the personal information of everyone working for the government.
Knowing how often people are calling for takeout food.
I know which one the government thinks is mor important.
Posted by: Buzzion at June 16, 2015 05:06 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (x6d4B)
Not even close. What she said was 100% true. how are you going to get Mexico to pay for a wall? Yeah it makes us feel good to hear Trump say that, but we all know it's just words with no meaning
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:06 PM (/tNwW)
And when the missiles come sailing in, as I'm ever more afraid they're going to do, it's too late.
Gonna be tough to watch Reality TV when your set was toasted by EMP...
Posted by: Lloyd Braun at June 16, 2015 05:06 PM (PMGbu)
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:06 PM (x6d4B)
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:05 PM (EgOr3)
She didn't say anything like that.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:07 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Agent J at June 16, 2015 05:07 PM (yBvnI)
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:07 PM (x6d4B)
____________
And Barky's passport data. Can't have any nosy snoopers looking into Dear Leader's college trip to Pok-ee-stan. Might prove embarrassing to the narrative."
Not even close
Posted by: Barky's College Transcripts at June 16, 2015 05:07 PM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: Vox at June 16, 2015 05:08 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Golfman at June 16, 2015 05:08 PM (9HX7k)
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:08 PM (EgOr3)
Hillary is so bad-ass. See wold never let bad people steal data.
Ooh, a new reality show about dancing on a desert island..
What were we talking about?
Posted by: LIV Train Of Thought at June 16, 2015 05:08 PM (1BQGO)
If he had been a white male Republican the MFM would be on his back 24/7 for everything after his first 6 months. And they would have good cause to.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at June 16, 2015 05:08 PM (GpgJl)
our usual haunt Friday night, and another
regular--a 93-year-old WWII veteran--asked
us in all sincerity "Name one thing Obama
has done wrong." Every point we cited was
dismissed as Fox propaganda.
Was he a German or Russian vet?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 05:08 PM (ZaZH6)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 16, 2015 05:09 PM (evdj2)
You'll think this guy was just what he thinks he is.
Posted by: tu3031 at June 16, 2015 05:09 PM (YFFpo)
Posted by: Lea at June 16, 2015 05:09 PM (lIU4e)
Posted by: se pa moron at June 16, 2015 05:09 PM (xQX/f)
...
>>in some cultures, those linking a piece which has earned a week's rest also get a week's rest themselves.
I have seen it both ways.
Posted by: Mama AJ at June 16, 2015 05:10 PM (0xTsz)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 16, 2015 05:10 PM (evdj2)
Since Democrats are no longer ashamed of anything they cannot be blackmailed so it's a Hastert problem now.
Posted by: DaveA at June 16, 2015 05:10 PM (DL2i+)
2. Why can't they delete the info when they are through?
1. Used to, but OPM and evermore often, OPM subcontractors, are doing the investigations these days.
2. They really aren't through until the clearance holder dies. That, and you can't maintain a baseline on someone with respect to their periodic reinvestigation for their security clearance if you've deleted all prior data.
Posted by: Lloyd Braun at June 16, 2015 05:10 PM (PMGbu)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 16, 2015 05:09 PM (evdj2)
Right? Something that is obviously supposed to represent, in some ridiculous way, that annoying flappy-mouthed buttinsky pope. I didn't get it, either.
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:10 PM (EgOr3)
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I've been interviewed by State Department guys doing background checks.
Posted by: Sorry, Bob. You'll have to work for it. at June 16, 2015 05:10 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:12 PM (ry4ab)
My office got hit by a "hostage" virus today. Several people got an email purpoting to be about a "resume" with a zip file attached (RED FLAG NUMERO UNO). Of course, one of them clicked on the zip file.
Next thing you know, we were all told to shut down immediately. Not sure what the ransom amount was. I left early because I was dead in the water. They were still running virus scans on our machines when I left.
Kids: DON'T TOUCH THE BUTTON.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:12 PM (0bGVx)
snoopers looking into Dear Leader's college trip to Pok-ee-stan. Might
prove embarrassing to the narrative."
Not even close
Posted by: Barky's College Transcripts>>>
Try again
Posted by: Chicago Bathhouse Membership at June 16, 2015 05:12 PM (wrS2o)
If he'd been a white guy he'd still be trying to get into the Illinois state legislature.
Posted by: Vox at June 16, 2015 05:13 PM (ZKzrr)
Mr. Fly Guy and I were having dinner at our
usual haunt Friday night, and another regular--a 93-year-old WWII
veteran--asked us in all sincerity "Name one thing Obama has done
wrong." Every point we cited was dismissed as Fox propaganda.
Why I drink.
Posted by: fly gal at June 16, 2015 05:04 PM (8TdcF)
We sat at the bar for dinner Friday night with a former Marine who fought in Vietnam. Same damned thing.
And as I picked up my fork to eat my salad, he said, "Let me tell you about a nice summer day, when I crested a hill and saw 600 gook bodies the size of water buffaloes cooking in the sun."
Appetite. Ruined. I did thank him for his service, even though he was an Obamabot.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:13 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 16, 2015 05:14 PM (ZKzrr)
Ah, so this is a change? That makes sense.
>>2. They really aren't through until the clearance holder dies. That, and you can't maintain a baseline on someone with respect to their periodic reinvestigation for their security clearance if you've deleted all prior data.
Most federal employees are non sensitive non secret. Do they really need all that until they die? That seems ridiculous.
At the very least, they could have put this info in a back vault somewhere, instead of in easily hackable places...
Posted by: Lea at June 16, 2015 05:16 PM (lIU4e)
SMDH
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:03 PM (x6d4B
When her good looks leave her, life will be a bitch
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 16, 2015 05:16 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Mickey Shwarma at June 16, 2015 05:16 PM (sCHw2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:13 PM (FsuaD)
Most Vietnam vets came home in one piece, mentally and physically.
Some didn't. I cut them some slack, like you did.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:16 PM (0bGVx)
That is true and I apologize for misquoting her. I still do not like her attitude towards Eric, repeatedly cutting him off. She wouldn't let him answer the question, and her stale attitude represents everything that's wrong with "our" party.
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:16 PM (x6d4B)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:13 PM (FsuaD)
I've spent much time around Veterans, Vietnam era and otherwise. Yes, thanks for your service, but if you behave like an ass, I'm going to call you an ass.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 16, 2015 05:16 PM (TOk1P)
Oddly enough.....
My office got hit by a "hostage" virus today.
Several people got an email purpoting to be about a "resume" with a zip
file attached (RED FLAG NUMERO UNO). Of course, one of them clicked on
the zip file.
Next thing you know, we were all told to shut down
immediately. Not sure what the ransom amount was. I left early because I
was dead in the water. They were still running virus scans on our
machines when I left.
Kids: DON'T TOUCH THE BUTTON.
---------------
Right, no attachments on my resume the next time I submit it to a company. Got ya on it.
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:17 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Carol at June 16, 2015 05:17 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:13 PM (FsuaD)
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I would have looked him in the eye and called horseshit. The NVA and the VC were very efficient in policing up their dead.
Posted by: Soona at June 16, 2015 05:17 PM (P25Hh)
Last interview I had was about two months ago for a friend with the FAA.
Contractor.
Posted by: VIA, Self Identified Vagitarian at June 16, 2015 05:17 PM (VPLuQ)
However, the reflexively nasty attitude to new ideas is instructive.
Posted by: Vincent Vega at June 16, 2015 05:18 PM (x6d4B)
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:08 PM (EgOr3)
Well feck me to tears.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 16, 2015 05:18 PM (9mTYi)
Dumb fucks.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at June 16, 2015 05:18 PM (U6f54)
Most Vietnam vets came home in one piece, mentally and physically.
Some didn't. I cut them some slack, like you did.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:16 PM (0bGVx)
Yeah. I lost a couple of high school friends over there.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:18 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:17 PM (ry4ab)
As I said, it was a zip file. If you've got to convert your resume to a zip file to send it to an employer, you're doing it wrong....
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:19 PM (0bGVx)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 16, 2015 05:19 PM (evdj2)
Why put any of this online anyway? Gather it on paper, sign the guy off, file it in a vault, get it out of the vault as needed. Whatever advantage they got putting it on disk was ENTIRELY lost.
Posted by: DaveA at June 16, 2015 05:19 PM (DL2i+)
I'm more concerned about them targeting key personnel should we be under an attack - say a key decision-maker at DHS in the event of a city/region having its utilities attacked, or someone who approves visas, that sort of thing. Not people in the public eye.
The hackers now have info on everyone in federal government, so they can finess a wide variety of shenanigans by pressuring just the right nameless, faceless bureaucrats who are gatekeepers in some capacity.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 05:20 PM (k2QA3)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:20 PM (FsuaD)
Let's not quibble about who he is being transparent to.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2015 05:20 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Tex Lovera
I had a lot of videos that I felt helped explain my previous career.
Posted by: Jenna Jameson at June 16, 2015 05:20 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 05:20 PM (ZaZH6)
convert your resume to a zip file to send it to an employer, you're
doing it wrong....
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:19 PM (0bGVx)
And if someone in your firm is paste-eating stupid enough to open a zip file from an unknown source, I hope they are now unemployed.
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:21 PM (EgOr3)
I'm still not clear on how someone could get almost a total majority of their base, the majority of the independent middle, and a slim piece of the opponent's base... and still lose. Some kind of mathematical miracle or something.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 16, 2015 05:21 PM (GsvmL)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:21 PM (FsuaD)
Uncompetitive salaries are a very large part of the problem. As I've said on this site before, the problem is that in the government, those with low skills are overpaid, and those with high skills are underpaid. We train 'em up, get them a security clearance, and they're out the door. What sentient being wouldn't leave for the chance to double or even triple their salary?
Job security doesn't mean much when there are literally tens of thousands of IT jobs in VA alone going begging.
Posted by: pep at June 16, 2015 05:21 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 16, 2015 05:21 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Carol at June 16, 2015 05:21 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:21 PM (EgOr3)
Nope, probably be working for the Federal Gov next
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:22 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Injuin Blackfoot Barry, that eats dog at June 16, 2015 05:22 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Nip Sip at June 16, 2015 05:22 PM (0FSuD)
We are all surrounded by FUCKING idiots.
Posted by: Golfman at June 16, 2015 05:23 PM (9HX7k)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:23 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:21 PM (FsuaD) <<<
Yes.......Yes, you will.
Posted by: The Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic States at June 16, 2015 05:23 PM (sCHw2)
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:21 PM (EgOr3)
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This is true. Where I work, we all get emails every 90 days warning all of us about this. No excuse.
Posted by: Soona at June 16, 2015 05:23 PM (P25Hh)
Most federal employees are non sensitive non secret. Do they really need all that until they die? That seems ridiculous.
At the very least, they could have put this info in a back vault somewhere, instead of in easily hackable places...
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Yes dear Lea, the government needs to keep ALL employee data of ALL levels in the same server farm with the same 10-year old security protocols and the same 10-year old computer networks to access them. And location of the vaults is not really a thing, since the hackers simply got into the electronic back door and got everything. The USA is the #1 internet linked nation, but we are not #1 in internet security, and the whole world knows it.
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:23 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:23 PM (0bGVx)
Posted by: Burt
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I feel nothing but respect and gratitude for all Vet's service...., but they do not get a pass for entertaining flawed social/political perspective. See: John Kerry
Posted by: Sorry, Bob. You'll have to work for it. at June 16, 2015 05:24 PM (F2IAQ)
A GENERAL just talked about his HUSBAND FFS. Theoretically it's a big deal, practically the blackmailers are liable to get a LOLWUT.
Posted by: DaveA at June 16, 2015 05:24 PM (DL2i+)
Jane, I was a bit too young to have any of my friends over there. But my
older siblings did. I know there was at least one of their friends who
didn't make it back alive.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:23 PM (0bGVx)
Our goofy, class clown was killed three weeks after arriving there. Sweet, kind, funny kid.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:25 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Yo! at June 16, 2015 05:25 PM (q+zA9)
I know that you know what I'm saying, which is that OPM is dumb. And reckless. And I'm really, really pissed about it. Right?
Posted by: Lea at June 16, 2015 05:25 PM (lIU4e)
Picture is from this (January 27th, 2014): "A crow and a seagull attacked two white doves released by children
standing next to Pope Francis on Sunday at St. Peter's Square.The birds
of prey swooped down after the peace doves flew from the open window
in the Apostolic Palace."
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 05:25 PM (k2QA3)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 05:26 PM (ZaZH6)
enough to open a zip file from an unknown source, I hope they are now
unemployed.
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:21 PM (EgOr3)
My money is on someone in upper-level management, 60+.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:26 PM (0bGVx)
Theoretically it's a big deal, practically the blackmailers are liable
to get a LOLWUT.
Posted by: DaveA at June 16, 2015 05:24 PM (DL2i+)
Exactly! Aside from that idiot Hastert, what is left for anyone to feel threatened by?
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:26 PM (EgOr3)
All in one block:
POPE ISSUES DIRE CLIMATE WARNING...
'UNPRECEDENTED DAMAGE'...
RICH NATIONS DESTROYING POOR...
CALLS FOR NEW GLOBAL AUTHORITY...
Nationwide exorcism in Mexico...
What happens when an entire country becomes infested with demons?
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 16, 2015 05:26 PM (evdj2)
>>exdem13
I know that you know what I'm saying, which is that OPM is dumb. And reckless. And I'm really, really pissed about it. Right?
Posted by: Lea at June 16, 2015 05:25 PM (lIU4e)
Lea, hold a glass next to your USB port and I'll share a nice, cold white wine.
And...I saw something I thought I'd never see in the super Kroger last week.
Wine in cans.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:27 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 16, 2015 05:27 PM (ZKzrr)
of prey swooped down after the peace doves flew from the open window
in the Apostolic Palace."
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 05:25 PM (k2QA3)
Us Lutherans gloated while eating Jello Salad.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 16, 2015 05:27 PM (9mTYi)
of prey swooped down after the peace doves flew from the open window
in the Apostolic Palace."
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 05:25 PM (k2QA3)
Us Lutherans gloated while eating Jello Salad.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 16, 2015 05:27 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 16, 2015 05:26 PM (evdj2)
You're soaking in it . . .
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:27 PM (EgOr3)
171
I think the US government still uses floppy disks, the big ones.......
Posted by: Yo! at June 16, 2015 05:25 PM (q+zA9) <<<
We rate this TRUE!!
Posted by: International Prostitutes at June 16, 2015 05:27 PM (sCHw2)
Posted by: Lloyd Braun
On the bright side, your disappointment will be brief.
Posted by: pep at June 16, 2015 05:27 PM (LAe3v)
Right, no attachments on my resume the next time I submit it to a company. Got ya on it.
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:17 PM (ry4ab)
As I
said, it was a zip file. If you've got to convert your resume to a zip
file to send it to an employer, you're doing it wrong....
Posted by: Tex Lovera
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What you said is true, but I have been known to overlook details and that final edit before.
Sadly my ham-handed computer experience and skill is the median range of the average American office worker. Probably the statistical mean of the government workers. Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:28 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 16, 2015 05:26 PM (evdj2)
It is then a part of the Islamic Caliphate
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 16, 2015 05:28 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:28 PM (FsuaD)
We figure if we put it all out there, they won't have anything on us.
Sir Shankalot
Posted by: Golfman at June 16, 2015 05:28 PM (9HX7k)
We no longer ask that question. The answer, it turned out, was option A: It is most definitely intentional.
He is America's sworn enemy. Since Day 1 he has been trying to Bring It All Down.
Posted by: zombie at June 16, 2015 05:29 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 16, 2015 05:29 PM (wrS2o)
Posted by: Peaches
The fact that some guy with access to a secure facility has a daughter in China, and China, now knowing his security clearance and the location of his daughter thanks to the hack, can make this guy do whatever the hell they want him to do.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 16, 2015 05:29 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 16, 2015 05:29 PM (ZKzrr)
I think the US government still uses floppy disks, the big ones.......
5 1/4?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 05:26 PM (ZaZH6)
Hell, they probably still use IBM keypunch cards and reel tapes...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:29 PM (0bGVx)
Posted by: Typhus at June 16, 2015 05:29 PM (F2IAQ)
Wine in cans.
Just because you're facing the zombie apocalypse shouldn't mean you can't enjoy a refreshingly impertinent little Pinot Grigio now and then.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 16, 2015 05:30 PM (8ZskC)
Fresh dairy products are what I will miss most in the Burning Time. Cows are just too dumb and tasty to survive the collapse.
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 16, 2015 05:30 PM (evdj2)
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Edited.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:30 PM (F2IAQ)
There are still some taboo vices. They could also go old school and prey upon someone who is in a lot of debt, gambling problem, or send a honeypot to seduce someone in a bad marriage (Ana Chapman), etc.
People are still human and have secrets and weaknesses, despite the current let-it-all-hang-out culture, and they are still vulnerable to recruitment or extortion. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 05:30 PM (k2QA3)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 16, 2015 05:30 PM (8ZskC)
Remember when the JEF conveyed to Russia that "after his next election"
he'd have more flexibility to deal with Russia? WTF was that about? Will
we ever know?
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I bet Putin knows about that "flexibility" and I bet that it has been mutually beneficial to both parties in that conversation.
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:30 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Media Sycophant #69 at June 16, 2015 05:30 PM (sCHw2)
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Edited edit...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:31 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 16, 2015 05:31 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 16, 2015 05:31 PM (VAsIq)
Wine in cans.
My local Kroger has wine in Tetra Paks. I've no idea if it's any good.
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 16, 2015 05:29 PM (ZKzrr)
I just read an article saying the Tetra Paks and canned wines are very good. I've actually bought boxed red wine and it keeps well on the bar and husband says it's very drinkable. Especially when he uses the wine aerator.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:31 PM (FsuaD)
>>People are still human and have secrets and weaknesses, despite the current let-it-all-hang-out culture, and they are still vulnerable to recruitment or extortion. Where there's a will, there's a way.
nah, not today
Posted by: Facebook at June 16, 2015 05:31 PM (q+zA9)
199
I think the US government still uses floppy disks, the big ones.......
Wax cylinders.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)
cough **stone tablets**cough
Posted by: pep at June 16, 2015 05:32 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: zombie at June 16, 2015 05:32 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Federal Gov't Worker at June 16, 2015 05:32 PM (WiU5D)
Hell, they probably still use IBM Honeywell keypunch cards and reel tapes...
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Edited.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:30 PM (F2IAQ)
Heh.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:32 PM (0bGVx)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 16, 2015 05:32 PM (8ZskC)
Drudge picture is a Raven attacking a Dove.<<<
Didn't that happen when the Vatican announced the selection of the new pope?
I mean, it's not an omen or anything, just a predator killing prey for sustenance.
Posted by: Fritz at June 16, 2015 05:32 PM (GFrM3)
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That assumes an innate sense of shame.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:33 PM (F2IAQ)
You're giving him too much credit. It's like saying, "The retard we sent to the tournament with Gary Kasparov has lost every game. He's conditioning us to expect failure".
Posted by: John Boehnbag at June 16, 2015 05:33 PM (xkSSa)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 16, 2015 05:33 PM (GsvmL)
nah, not today
Posted by: Facebook
Criminal acts.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 05:33 PM (ZaZH6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 16, 2015 05:32 PM (8ZskC)
But, the TRS-80s, they should have been secure!!!
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:33 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Hank at June 16, 2015 05:33 PM (y0s0q)
So blackmail.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:33 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Federal Gov't Worker at June 16, 2015 05:32 PM (WiU5D)
Where do you purchase the thermal fax paper from?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 16, 2015 05:34 PM (9mTYi)
We just got this new machine in our office called a fax machine. It only takes 12 minutes per page! 12 MINUTES PER PAGE!!!!!
Posted by: Federal Gov't Worker at June 16, 2015 05:32 PM (WiU5D)
Using thermal paper, no doubt.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:34 PM (0bGVx)
Posted by: zombie at June 16, 2015 05:34 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Golfman at June 16, 2015 05:34 PM (9HX7k)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
I'm sorry? What does that even mean?
Posted by: Kim Kardashian at June 16, 2015 05:34 PM (LAe3v)
in China, and China, now knowing his security clearance and the location
of his daughter thanks to the hack, can make this guy do whatever the
hell they want him to do.
Also, remember that Hansen dude who was filming his wife and other people surreptitiously (IIRC - he was weird)? He also had a ginormous ego and spying against America made him feel oh-so superior. If they got security clearance background info does this mean they have psych evaluations, personality profile type info?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 05:34 PM (k2QA3)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:34 PM (0bGVx)
Posted by: Algore at June 16, 2015 05:35 PM (4oRGs)
Screwed and not in the good way.
Posted by: Cheri at June 16, 2015 05:35 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Lace Wigs at June 16, 2015 05:35 PM (xQX/f)
Yeah I agree, there's not any big overarching plan with these guys. They aren't Bond villains working this all out around a big table with trapdoors under the seats. They're more like an insane asylum with power, continuously flooding the world with their lunacy and incompetence so badly that nobody can keep up.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 16, 2015 05:35 PM (GsvmL)
>>exdem13
I know that you know what I'm saying, which is that OPM is dumb. And reckless. And I'm really, really pissed about it. Right?
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Yes Lea, I read you loud and clear on the government-level stupidity involved. I'm telling you from past employment experience that you are sadly correct and are not lowballing the lack of imagination involved at storing government data. And the lack of security in guarding it.
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:35 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:35 PM (/tNwW)
This may actually be a feature and not a bug. Since nobody in government has a sense of shame anymore and it seems we are now allowed to be whatever we want to be, I'm currently torn between an orca and a great white shark, we may be approaching a government that is beyond blackmail.
I bet those commies didn't see that coming!
Posted by: JackStraw at June 16, 2015 05:35 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at June 16, 2015 05:35 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: Peace Prize Preznit at June 16, 2015 05:36 PM (8TdcF)
Posted by: mattress girl at June 16, 2015 05:36 PM (wa1is)
It will come as a .zip attachment.
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 16, 2015 05:36 PM (evdj2)
I just received another email telling me to watch for correspondence
either by snail mail or mail to tell me if my info was compromised.
Then all of us unlucky saps get to sign up for a credit monitoring
service that OPM has contracted with.
Screwed and not in the good way.
Posted by: Cheri at June 16, 2015 05:35 PM (oiNtH)
Actually, if I was the hacker, I'd send just such an email, but directing you to a bogus site, where you'd enter even more of your sensitive information.
I'm a warped kid that way.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:37 PM (0bGVx)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:37 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: 55yo Fed Employee at June 16, 2015 05:37 PM (q+zA9)
Yeah, I've had that conversation, too.
I only wish that Fox was putting out 24 / 7 anti-Dem propaganda instead of the pitiful krap they have.
Can't bear to watch their RINO-meets-Commie-lite BS.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 16, 2015 05:37 PM (OCcU9)
I'm gonna have to try a can of wine someday. Something tells me though that it might taste a little like Delaware Punch.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at June 16, 2015 05:37 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: Ricardo
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We are a landscape of honor, character and good taste , relative to D.C.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:38 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: ThunderB at June 16, 2015 05:38 PM (wa1is)
Sorry for the O/T. The EMP talk got me thinking about food and survival.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:38 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: zombie at June 16, 2015 05:38 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: logprof at June 16, 2015 05:38 PM (15/oZ)
So blackmail.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Cardinal Richelieu
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 16, 2015 05:38 PM (uctT+)
??
Posted by: 55yo Fed Employee at June 16, 2015 05:37 PM (q+zA9)
It's a file that's been sprayed with WD-40, so it goes through the fax machine faster!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 16, 2015 05:39 PM (0bGVx)
Posted by: Golfman at June 16, 2015 05:39 PM (9HX7k)
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Not my department. I'm only responsible for typewriter ribbons and white-out. You'll have to ask to paper procurement department in the office of redundancy office.
Posted by: Federal Gov't Worker at June 16, 2015 05:39 PM (WiU5D)
watch-seth-rollins-trolls-lebron-manziel-on-wwe-raw-in-cleveland
Posted by: logprof at June 16, 2015 05:39 PM (15/oZ)
Yeah, I've had that conversation, too.
I only wish that Fox was putting out 24 / 7 anti-Dem propaganda instead of the pitiful krap they have.
Can't bear to watch their RINO-meets-Commie-lite BS.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 16, 2015 05:37 PM (OCcU9)
Thank you!
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:39 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
Same here! All my squash-type plants this year are tiny and shriveled. Last year I had a ton. This year I won't harvest a thing.
Mainly it's been because May was totally chilly here in Norcal, and the drought means no rain too.
Posted by: zombie at June 16, 2015 05:40 PM (jBuUi)
I totally agree that there's minimal shame nowadays.
What was Bradley Manning's deal -
why did he do what he did? Did it have to do with his identify/sexuality
issues, or was it really just that he didn't like what the US was
doing?
I bet foreign agents have built-in recruits thanks to schools and media teaching kids to hate America.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 05:40 PM (k2QA3)
punch card! EBT status, political donations, STD diagnosis -- everything
that defines a person in Obama's America, on one handy card!
And then you can have it made into a blanket! I suddenly want to apply for an art grant.
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 16, 2015 05:40 PM (ZKzrr)
Don't tell the Chicoms.
Posted by: pep at June 16, 2015 05:40 PM (LAe3v)
There
are still some taboo vices. They could also go old school and prey upon
someone who is in a lot of debt, gambling problem, or send a honeypot
to seduce someone in a bad marriage (Ana Chapman), etc.
People are
still human and have secrets and weaknesses, despite the current
let-it-all-hang-out culture, and they are still vulnerable to
recruitment or extortion. Where there's a will, there's a way.
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Nailed it in one, here. What is cool in Hollyweird is not cool in some other circles. Also the PRC intel guys can reverse-network info and find out who our Secret and Top Secret guys have spoken to overseas. I have no idea how many intel networks have been compromised, but I guess we'll find out in a while. And here I thought the Walkers had done the most damage to the USA...
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:40 PM (ry4ab)
Me thinkith he protest to much?
And if it smells like a communist, quacks like a communist, and talks like a communist, it probably is a COMMUNIST!
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:41 PM (/tNwW)
So far here a bumper crop for squash and especially zucchini.
Posted by: Golfman at June 16, 2015 05:41 PM (9HX7k)
??
Posted by: 55yo Fed Employee
I lost George Zip. He was a good pilot--a good man.
Posted by: Ted Striker at June 16, 2015 05:42 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:42 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: ThunderB at June 16, 2015 05:43 PM (wa1is)
The government was bound to flub up on securing personal data at some point. Did you expect it to do a good job? Did you expect it to run a tight ship?
Posted by: Crowley at June 16, 2015 05:43 PM (tZ4pA)
The only Federal agency that is reliably Republican is DOD, and even then mandatory hiring of minorities and women into the bureaucracy compromises that.
And yes, I am sure my SF86s got lost in this too. Fuck it, I make forty thou a year and live in rural Tennessee, no one in China gives a fuck what I think. The Chinese illegal aliens who run all the local buffets pick up more info than I do.
It will all end in tears anyway.
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at June 16, 2015 05:43 PM (nUNAu)
I'm a warped kid that way.
Posted by: Tex Lovera
Well Mr. Smarty Pants, the email we received said exactly that! It warned us against spear fishing bogus emails trying to trick us into giving out our persona info to sign us up for monitoring.
So basically, we won't know what's real or not without a phone call to the actual monitoring company.
Posted by: Cheri at June 16, 2015 05:43 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: The Greeks at June 16, 2015 05:44 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at June 16, 2015 05:44 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2015 05:44 PM (NE6lA)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 16, 2015 05:44 PM (GsvmL)
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier
Seriously, that would be fascinating -- fabric deign based on a visualization of your digitized data.
Posted by: zombie at June 16, 2015 05:44 PM (jBuUi)
You wouldn't think it would be that easy to hack into a network of Commodore 64s
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Cicero exaggerates, but not by much. If I took a poll of name, maker and year of PCs, portables, and tablets being used by Morons here, they would ALL be newer on the average than the average desktop or portable PC used by the typical U.S. government drone.
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:44 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 16, 2015 05:44 PM (GsvmL)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:38 PM (FsuaD)
So far here a bumper crop for squash and especially zucchini.
Posted by: Golfman at June 16, 2015 05:41 PM (9HX7k)
I've got cherry and tiny yellow pear tomatoes on the deck blooming like crazy, pepper plants on the deck are going gangbusters, the heat-tolerant 'mater bush in the raised bed next to the house is blooming, the eggplant doing well, but the zucchini and squash are...pitiful.
The damned deer ate my meyer lemon tree. Kept bugging husband to put deer fencing around it and he forgot.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:45 PM (FsuaD)
Me thinkith he protest to much?
And if it smells like a communist, quacks like a communist, and talks like a communist, it probably is a COMMUNIST!
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:41 PM (/tNwW)
Yeah, that guy is really chapping my ass.
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:45 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:45 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 16, 2015 05:45 PM (NE6lA)
Please call 1-800-2FUKS-2GIVE
Operators are standing by!
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 05:45 PM (ZaZH6)
And plenty of Vietnam guys hate LBJ, but they hate Nixon and Ford worse for being in office when it ended. About half of the Vietnam guys I know, I cannot discuss politics with them at all. Everything they knew, they got from Walter Chronkite, and refuse to hear that he was a lefty propagandist.
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at June 16, 2015 05:46 PM (nUNAu)
And remember this ass isn't done yet.
That the MSM engineered the election of a foreign agent is bad enough. The really scary thing is that the rot - and the treason - may go many levels deep, and government-wide.
Posted by: despair at June 16, 2015 05:46 PM (J6suc)
portables, and tablets being used by Morons here, they would ALL be
newer on the average than the average desktop or portable PC used by the
typical U.S. government drone.
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:44 PM (ry4ab)
And, yet, here we are. No mega-trillion dollar debt, either! Go figure.
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:46 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Gov't Employee at June 16, 2015 05:46 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Jane
----------------
Next time get your husband to 'water' the lemon tree.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:46 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Crowley
The Dems are all to happy to lead the electorate to believe that.
Genius, really; when the Feds inevitably screw up, the Dem's can just launch into their tax-and-spend sermons.
If we had a set of representatives that gave a shit about our Republic, these screw ups wouldn't be allowed to fade into the static.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 16, 2015 05:47 PM (uctT+)
Next time get your husband to 'water' the lemon tree.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:46 PM (F2IAQ)
Do you mean what I think? Ewwww.....
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:47 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: ThunderB at June 16, 2015 05:47 PM (wa1is)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 16, 2015 05:48 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Luis at June 16, 2015 05:48 PM (eu2CH)
Posted by: ThunderB at June 16, 2015 05:47 PM (wa1is)
Maybe someone should point out to him where Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon is on a map.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:48 PM (/tNwW)
Prior to Bambi ruining it - how well was it growing and are the lemon actually better than your average?
Posted by: Cheri at June 16, 2015 05:48 PM (oiNtH)
Maybe the Pope should make his mission defending Christians. Like not
just one in a speech, but like a mission. To actually save humans. That
would be nice
Posted by: ThunderB at June 16, 2015 05:47 PM (wa1is)
This. I'm sick to death of the left using "Climate Change OMG!" as the Worst Danger Ever while people are being slaughtered.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:49 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Francisco Franco at June 16, 2015 05:49 PM (WiU5D)
Posted by: ThunderB at June 16, 2015 05:50 PM (wa1is)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:49 PM (FsuaD)
yeah but it is easier to blame the Weather and Israel than to actually look in the mirror
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:50 PM (/tNwW)
Unlike Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Hey, we beat Grenada!
Posted by: despair at June 16, 2015 05:50 PM (J6suc)
Posted by: Yo! at June 16, 2015 05:50 PM (q+zA9)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 05:51 PM (ZaZH6)
Posted by: ThunderB at June 16, 2015 05:51 PM (wa1is)
details?
Posted by: Yo! at June 16, 2015 05:50 PM (q+zA9)
Greece.
Posted by: Peaches at June 16, 2015 05:51 PM (EgOr3)
Posted by: Burt Munro at June 16, 2015 05:51 PM (F2IAQ)
Jane - I've wanting to buy a Meyer Lemon tree and found a website that offers a 3 year warranty should said tree dies.
Prior to Bambi ruining it - how well was it growing and are the lemon actually better than your average?
Posted by: Cheri at June 16, 2015 05:48 PM (oiNtH)
Meyer lemon trees are cheap here. I'm heartsick that an old-ish large lemon tree (not Meyer) was killed two winters ago. It produced HUGE lemons (sixty in its final harvest). The deer never touched it, or even its blooms.
The Meyer is a deer magnet. So I'm going to my local nursery to see what other varieties they have.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 16, 2015 05:51 PM (FsuaD)
No kidding. ISIS and Boko Haram are so gleefully flooding social media with threats, graphic pictures and video you have to work really, really hard to deny that there are bloodthirsty monsters out there.
Serious denial.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 16, 2015 05:51 PM (k2QA3)
One of the core tenets of Gaia worship is that billions of people (mostly poor brown people; slaughter of Christians is a plus) need to die to save Her.
Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 16, 2015 05:52 PM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Jane
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Every morning.
Really puts a "twang" in those lemons.....
Posted by: rickb223 at June 16, 2015 05:53 PM (ZaZH6)
Posted by: ThunderB at June 16, 2015 05:53 PM (wa1is)
Obama is launching a Clean Energy Impact Investment Center at the Energy Department to make information about energy and climate programs accessible and more understandable to the public, including to mission-driven investors.
The White House is also ordering the IRS to come out with guidance and rules to get nonprofits to invest in green energy technologies, along with creating more government financing options for small businesses looking to go green.
Weasel Zippers
get you program here, can't tell your Solyndra's without a program. Get your programs
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 16, 2015 05:53 PM (/tNwW)
Posted by: Trump at June 16, 2015 05:53 PM (XzRw1)
How was the Gucci store today? Busy?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 16, 2015 05:54 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Cheri at June 16, 2015 05:54 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:54 PM (ry4ab)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 16, 2015 05:54 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at June 16, 2015 05:55 PM (W+6Gl)
Posted by: John Boehnbag at June 16, 2015 05:33 PM (xkSSa)
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And I think you're underestimating the enemy.
Posted by: Soona at June 16, 2015 05:55 PM (P25Hh)
exdem - My collection of Tandy Model 100's might drag the average down.
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OK you are the low end of our curve to keep us from thumping the Feds too much. I still know the united Morons can beat the pants off 'em.
Posted by: exdem13 at June 16, 2015 05:57 PM (ry4ab)
You'll think this guy was just what he thinks he is.
Religions have formed out of "Star Wars". There will be churches erected to Obama within our lifetimes, and the people will not believe a word we tell them about him.
Posted by: despair at June 16, 2015 05:58 PM (J6suc)
Posted by: Swifty at June 16, 2015 05:59 PM (EWJFg)
Remember when the Pope released doves from the balcony, to symbolize peace or something, and they were immediately attacked and killed by other birds? That.
Posted by: despair at June 16, 2015 06:00 PM (J6suc)
2. Just read on SANS that Obama has now ordered that all Federal agencies will perform basic network security tasks like patching systems, running anti-virus, checking logs and using two factor authentication. I work at a federal government agency. We have been doing all that during the time I have been here and we have to attest to it every quarter on our FISMA reports. I have to wonder, what the hell have these other agencies been doing?
Posted by: chad at June 16, 2015 06:47 PM (V5lLy)
That would be my bet.
McCarthy was a piker, and the Birchers were innocent, trusting fools, compared to the likely reality.
I don't think it is any accident that what is being built up in this country looks and works so much like the old Soviet Union.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 16, 2015 07:10 PM (OCcU9)
Posted by: Chici, MSgt (ret) at June 16, 2015 07:14 PM (9IEnB)
Posted by: scrood at June 16, 2015 07:30 PM (3b9U4)
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at June 16, 2015 08:20 PM (yyMsG)
I'm Not dead!
I'm gettin' better, Guv'nor, honest, I am......
I think I'll go for a walk.
Posted by: The Thread at June 16, 2015 10:33 PM (2mJMN)
= = = = = = =
That's the "plus-side" of being a (Progressive) failure during highly-Progressive era: You can only fail UPWARD.
Nixon was threatened with impeachment, he was persuaded to resign "for the good of the nation".
But for Progressives:
Clinton: "It all depends on what your definition of "is" is."
Obama: "I just read about that in the newspaper, and doggone it, I'm as mad about that as anybody could be."
Hillary: "What difference, at this point, does it make?"
... and all of them kept on with business-as-usual. They get to just shrug off the scandal, shrug off the failure, shrug off the responsibility ... and keep grabbing all the perks they can with both hands.
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