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It was pretty flippin’ delicious watching the Twitter meltdown after this:
Jeffrey Toobin: Edward Snowden Is No Hero
Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former C.I.A. employee and current government contractor, has leaked news of National Security Agency programs that collect vast amounts of information about the telephone calls made by millions of Americans, as well as e-mails and other files of foreign targets and their American connections. For this, some, including my colleague John Cassidy, are hailing him as a hero and a whistle-blower. He is neither. He is, rather, a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison.
…. he describes himself as appalled by the government he served … what, one wonders, did Snowden think the N.S.A. did? ….
…. he wasn’t blowing the whistle on anything illegal; he was exposing something that failed to meet his own standards of propriety. The question, of course, is whether the government can function when all of its employees (and contractors) can take it upon themselves to sabotage the programs they don’t like. That’s what Snowden has done.
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@PeteSouza: Photo of Pres Obama w Alan Krueger, chair of CEA, trailed by just-nominated chair Jason Furman and his family
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@VP: VP ceremonially swears in @ErnestMoniz as Sec. of @ENERGY in the Roosevelt Room of the @whitehouse
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Newsie stuff in the morning – chat away.
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PS Happy birthday Sasha …..
The Obama Diary 
Good evening all!
Hi theo!!! Thank you Chips!!!!
Just posted at the bottom of the previous thread, and hope everyone reads the analysis via the link in this tweet ….
…. details are a good thing, analysis of details even better.
#TrustBarack
Thanks for the retweet, Bob (re Google Doodle) I am always honored by your retweets!
Happy to do so, Mary!
Bob
I agree Green Meanie Obama Hater Glenn Greenwald doesn’t deserve anymore bandwidth. However, at the same time I was overjoyed to see Lawrence expose just how hypocritical and illogically Greenwald thinks. Lawrence said he is not afraid which makes me wonder what does Greenwald fear about the prism of information gathered though his credit card purchases the content of his, purchases? All his inclinations can be gathered information by his precious Koch Bros. who have been gathering and collecting data via Karl Rove.
Theo wins! And the crowd goes wild!!!!!!
Theooooooooooooooooooo!
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Woot!
HelloooOOOOOooooOOOOoooo Geeky Queen!
Hello Oh Blog-Goddess!
Until you address me as ‘Fellow Nerdy Geek!’, I will suspect you do not love me entirely. Waiting.
Well, then Greetings and Salutations My Fine Fellow Nerdy Geek!! I Bring You Great Tidings from Beyond Antares!! 🙂
#LLAP
😆 Um, thanks ….. I think!
Kinda played out, but what the heck…
I love it! I missed the whole “Harlem Shake” phenomenon – I saw links to it, etc., but just couldn’t get into it because work was so busy at that time. I have no idea what it all means, but this Star Trek animation is fantastic!
🙂 🙂 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Shake_(meme)
Thanks Dudette – checking it out now!
Nice to see you, Theo, old girl! Is mom back yet, and how is everyone else?
Hey VC – mom is still traveling the world. Everyone else is doing great! Nice to see you! 🙂
This is so creepily hilarious.
Congrats theo67 on your Gold.
LOD is not a lap dog for GG.
Little Sasha is growing into a fine young woman…hope she had a wonderful birthday:)
12 yrs old Natasha Obama, Happy B-Day to you…… and many, many more.
Like I said, LOD is Not a lap dog for GG.
LOD is not buy the GG’s BS.
Buying……..
I have some respect for him, Nena, but sure wish he had waited a few hours before providing any bandwidth to the megalomaniac criminal that Greenwald is.
He’s still in the for-profit newstainment business.
Their ratings have crashed since they fired Ed and replaced him with emoprog Hayes.
Nobody wants to see lazy lefties reading right wing talking points.
You’re right. But he has not the boss of MSNBC.
Ouch! Huffington Post Slams Chris Hayes as ‘Dead Raccoon’ on MSNBC
http://www.allvoices.com/news/14731836-ouch-huffington-post-slams-chris-hayes-as-dead-raccoon-on-msnbc
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I’d say Chris Hayes looks just as much a raccoon head as Trump does as Fox head. 😀
I must confess, this interview with LOD is the 1st GG’s diatribe that I was ever to not have gotten up and changed the channel. I keep the remote away from me, and I force myself to change channels if need be, when I am home sitting and surfing the net.
LOD did a better job than the nonsense I have heard today. Scott, the CBS news man did a better job too.
I didn’t last. Clicked away before GG spoke.
Our President’s National Defense University presentation was certainly going to catalyze major gnashing of teeth among the MIC plutocrats whose cash flow is so dependent on an America perpetually at war ….
… and we are definitely witnessing manifestations of such ….
#TrustBarack He Is Ending The Era Of Perpetual War
This is the link I thought I had posted for the President’s Historical Speech at NDU …
Fixed it for ya Bob, thank you!!!
Thank you, dear Chips!!
#TrustBarack Because He Trusts Us
I missed the Lawrence interview, but someone on twitter said GG again tried to link MLK to Snowden. Can anyone tell me what exactly he said, if he actually did try to do it?
Woah, would love to know too Lamh. Seriously, MLK and Snowden??
If GG said that, as an AA I am totally offended. That weasel is not fit to utter MLK’s name.
COS, did you see today a Greenwald Groupie on Twitter comparing Snowden to Rosa Parks? I kid you not.
No Chips. That makes me even angrier. There is absolutely no comparison. I don’t recall MLK or Rosa Parks having a cushy job and betraying this country like these 2 bozos. I am appalled.
No words, COS, no words. The only comfort is that pushback was enormous, as I said earlier it’s hard to know whether these people actually believe the comparison or are just making it out of spite – them being Greenwald/Ron Paul supporters. But, hard to know which is worse.
They’re equating him with Paul Revere in my local paper (SF Chronicle) and saying he’s a patriot. Freaking ridiculous.
He referenced that MLK was tapped and was even encouraged to commit suicide when they accused him of having an affair with a woman that was not his wife. It made no sense. MLK was not breaking any laws. The Gov’t was the aggressor. MLK didn’t jet off to Timbuktu or any other place outside USA for he was Not breaking government secretes.
These tiny minded fools are always reaching back to the Civil Rights Era to tarnish and/or steal the Heroism of those Legends to conflate and distort with their twisted ideology.
Exactly Nena. Neither Rosa parks nor MLK were entitled brats making (the 1960’s equivalent of) $200K, looking for “hero worship” status. This arrogant attempt on the part of the GG and his friends in the MSM to link Snowden to these civil rights heroes is just offensive on so many levels.
This!!!!
“This arrogant attempt on the part of the GG and his friends in the MSM to link Snowden to these civil rights heroes is just offensive on so many levels.”
Thank you hopfruit! What you said needs to be said over and over again! I am sick of privileged and cowardly individuals, like Glenn Greenwald, who are trying to equate their unwarranted acts of treason with the heroic struggle for justice and equality led by courageous people who were OPENLY willing to pay the price to advance those causes. As you so appropriately wrote, what Greenwald said is “offensive on so many levels.”
Snowflake couldn’t shine MLK’s shoes. When did MLK shrink in the face of danger, go to a foreign country and chastise his government. He stood to faced death in the face in THIS country. The same as Rosa Parks…she did not go to Paris and protest wrongful treatment of blacks.
Well said Nena!
Oh, here we are! Waz up? 😉
😆 the ceiling and looking out and up the window, the sky 😉
Hey, MightyPamela. Hope all is well.
😆 thanks Nena, too complicated right now to go into boring details, the good news is I didn’t fall down the basement steps again! Whew….. 😆
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I think it’s AA+ not the AAA in the pic but good news is good news 🙂 http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/17549248/s-p-raises-us-rating-outlook-to-stable/
And if you really want to gag:
Promise I won’t do that again, but sooooo over-the-top, clueless unquestioning DC echochamber.
On NSA Transparency…..Jay Carney
… time to prepare some dinner …
#TrustBarack He Wants Gitmo Shuttered
Thanks for all You do, Doc 😉
Good evening, TODers!!!
What’s GiGi’s next bombshell? That the US and Israel sabotaged Iran’s nuke computers. Well, duh! Try selling that as a bad thing to most of the world. He. Has. Nothing. And the fact that elected officials are trashing him is not going to get many converts among the citizenry. So sit back, relax, and join me in a Manhattan.
Clink!
I hope to have an essay ready for tomorrow, and it ain’t gonna be polite, as is my wont.
The less polite the better, LL – thank you kind sir!
Can’t wait LL. make it as evil as you can. The truth hurts. 🙂
Cheers! (Glass of wine, in hand, clink)
Seems to be a half-life of all the stories of about 5 days – about time now for a revival of Benghazi!
Truly sad that the legislature doesn’t legislate & the media(R,USA) doesn’t talk about issues of interest to the people of the US. I also find it disappointing that PBO seems to be the ONLY democrat who can lead the conversation towards the political/administrative isues. Why aren’t ALL the democrats in congress discussing gun control, immigration, jobs, women’s rights, equal pay etc etc – or do they talk about it and nobody hears?
These are excellent questions. Someone on Stephanie Miller’s show this morning used the phrase: “Legislation, not investigation”. I feel terrible for all the people who are suffering and hoping for just a bit of help from this feckless Congress.
I want in on some of that. But have you got anything fruity? Maybe some sangria? 🙂
One of these days I will have to try my hand at homemade sangria.
That just put a HUGE grin on my face! 😀 😀 😀 😀
Wooooooooooooo!
My strange sense of humor…glad it made you 🙂 🙂 🙂
Trying to redeem myself 🙂 These look yummy and refreshing!
http://www.marthastewart.com/317946/summer-fruit-sangria
Yummy! I might be making some of that this weekend!
No wine…but will toast with a glass of wild cherry seltzer water…..Cheerssss
https://twitter.com/zizii2/status/344286333595951105
joshuafoust @joshuafoust 56m
Interestingly, job postings for working on PRISM require a BS or MS, neither of which Snowden has
I took out the job postings from this Tweet
This character is telling a very fishy story. I’m staying out of it.
Yep fishy!
He lied on his resume, or bluffed his way in with the CIA background, or invoked “sympathy: with his injury in service story, or he’s a well protected mole inside the NSA, has a powerful sugar-daddy, is a white affirmative action hire. Or worst of all Booz and Allen Hamilton hired him WITHOUT reading/checking out his resume
Probably ALL THE ABOVE. Seems like EVERYONE at Booz gets a TS clearance….THIS is the real issue here.
He’s someone’s son, nephew, or maybe his girl friends family got him into that job. It was purely nepotism working here and he is so ungrateful while so many men, soldiers would love to have a $200K job living in Hawaii….what a punk.
I was listening to Randi Rhoads this afternoon and she was right on. There is more there and no one in the lazy media is asking the right questions. How the hell does a high school drop out with some computer classes, drop out of the service get a job with a Government Contractor making $200K, living in Hawaii and he has a beef with the Federal Government? How does someone with less than three months on the job get access to sensitive information that someone can sell to the highest bidder to China, Russia, or Al Qaeda? The media is too busy spreading lies rather than focus on the real story.
I listened too…the last hour anyway, I forgot she was back from vacation and I don’t listen when Nicole is there. Can’t stand her.
Now that I have iheart radio on my android I listened to Thom Hartmann in the afternoon but he was no better. Bill Press and all the rest of the progressives are perpettuating lies and calling this loser a hero.
The Daily Show—-with John Oliver sitting in—-is acting all shocked that any of this snooping stuff was possible——phone calls, internet searches, etc. ——-I don’t get the pretense of shock here——where have people been? Now showing a clip of Chris Hayes to prove a point—–and now slamming President Obama for the usual stuff. Wonder how they would be if they were president and responsible for the safety of the country. Some previously held ideas may change quick as a bunny.
So the Obama bashing continues, I assume? What really irks me about this whole story is how they are trying to make it new and everyone is going down this slippery slope. I will be waiting for Chips to post her egg on face photo.
They should save their shock for the poor kids and elderly citizens going hungry because of sequester cuts, and he many soldiers currently in harms’ way – and the fact that the media and many in Congress couldn’t care less.
THIS!!!!
So John Oliver’s not old enough to remember the Prince Charles phone call with Cammilla? 😉
Hmm, we need some music in honor of Sasha. Something a 12 yr old might like. Or maybe something from back when some of us were 12. 🙂
How ’bout this?
Was that Sasha or Malia who likes these guys?
Probably both but it was definitely Malia who had the crush in 2008/9 but she was only eleven back then.
100’s of corrupt N.J. doctors involved in a $100 million Medicare fraud scheme.
He could run for Governor…..Republicans love to vote in Medicare thieves.
When doctors are obviously needed – how sad that they do this sort of thing. The loss of a lab testing firm/president will have little impact on health care – but the loss of a number of doctors will – or do they just say sorry & than are allowed to continue raking in the millions?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIRST DAUGHTER….NATASHA OBAMA!
Maybe he just found out that Hong Kong has been part of China since 1997?
How about the song that made them famous…..
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I thought I posted this but it got eaten! This is a clear demonstration imho of how POTUS has earned the trust of Dems. So much so that they have changed their opinion on a pretty controversial subject; imho becaue they trust his leadership.
Holy Crap there’s no hope for this country…….
Whether it is ok to wiretap without a warrant is not the same thing as whether it’s alright to use the proper legal channels as provided by FISA law.
I have a crush on them….and I am over 50. Have they been to the White House? President Obama should book them for a big birthday bash for Sasha and Malia.
I think the girls did met them, but I can’t remember if it was at the White House or some kids event (like an awards show).
He’s gone dark!
Yep, Thom Hartmann calls Libertarians as folks (mostly men) who want to smoke dope and get laid.
Chris Brown before he lost his damn mind. [I just like this song]
Despite he was treated as a “joker, funny man” by the right, Al Franken is one of the few senators who took his new job seriously, kept his head down and supported PBO. Not like GOP newcomers who spend their time on the media proclaiming their stupid and knowing nothing that they should know.
And THIS is what it is all about – keep the poor, poor & blame the President – keep the unemployed, unemployed – and blame the President – etc etc
I CAN’T WAIT!
First season is out of DVD….
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/11/chat-away-172/
Crusty old desert dwellers.. Check out the answers to “what’s too damn hot in Phoenix?”
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2013/06/how_hot_is_too_damn_hot_in_pho.php
Anything over 100 degrees make no difference……it’s just H.O.T.