For something this complicated, it’s really hard to design products by focus groups.
A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
Steve Jobs
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In response to Obama's in-your-face welcoming party of LGBTs & dissident nun for Pope Francis, may I suggest Napolitano, Woods, and Tucker?
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 19, 2015
Tell-tale symptom of cronyism: when they argue their motivation is not self-serving, but in the public interest. https://t.co/WEAmY0Mksf
— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) September 20, 2015
Earlier One-Off Post: More Comments on the Rand Paul CampaignImage of the Day
Comrade Bernie Sanders Meets the Late Show
I could take the time to refute the economically illiterate economic fascist Bernie Sanders in detail, but Tom Woods interviewed a couple of northern European economists who take on Sanders' absurd Statist fantasy in a free ebook he recently released, with chapters dedicated to Bernie's idiotic talking points. (I have not promoted Tom Woods in a while because several months back we had a spat in one of his Facebook threads. He lavishly praised Ron Paul, while taking a cheap shot at Mitt Romney, which I thought was unnecessary, unfair and hypocritical. The fact is that he has a wider audience, he has made his mark on the libertarian movement, and I haven't. I doubt that he's felt the impact of my "boycott".) Here's a separate essay on Scandinavian "exceptionalism".
Make Trade, not War
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"Mr. Snowden was a security guard with the NSA, moved into its information-technology department and was sent overseas, Mr. McConnell said. He then left the agency, joined another company and moved to Japan. But Mr. Snowden wanted back in with the NSA. He then broke into the agency's system and stole the admittance test with the answers, Mr. McConnell said. Mr. Snowden took the test and aced it, Mr. McConnell said. "He walked in and said you should hire me because I scored high on the test."
"The NSA then offered Mr. Snowden a position but he said didn't think the level—called GS-13—was high enough and asked for a higher-ranking job. The NSA refused. In early 2013, Booz Allen hired Mr. Snowden..."
Let's pick up from biography.com: "In May 2013, Snowden began copying top-secret NSA documents while at work, building a dossier on practices that he found invasive and disturbing...After he had compiled a large store of documents, Snowden told his NSA supervisor that he needed a leave of absence to undergo medical treatment. He had been recently diagnosed with epilepsy. On May 20, 2013, Snowden took a flight to Hong Kong, China..."
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Let's be clear: it would one thing if his job required him to use PRISM and he raised conscientious objections to using the program. (I have not seen any such claim or a discussion of exactly how he became aware of PRISM, how he knew information collection had not been done through due process, etc.) But downloading classified information was a direct violation of his security clearance, to which he had specific terms of nondisclosure; it's government property. There are mechanisms for whistleblowing; I've seen no evidence Snowden tried to work through them.
Randy England Visit the Memorial for the victims of Snowden, Assange & Manning.
{Quiet Please} https://wikileakswall.wordpress.com/
Don't be a retard. These people for all we know could and may have used the information to blackmail people and parties, say who were vulnerable in the field. These people knowingly downloaded documents which went beyond their contractual obligations. In the cases of Manning and Snowden, they did not simply reveal things they ran across in the course of their jobs; they literally downloaded secret documents because they were secret, all the ones they could find.. There is no evidence they complied with whistleblowing regulations. So stop putting lipstick on a pig.
There's a difference between doing the job you signed up for and refusing to do unlawful extraneous parts; and choosing a job which you go in knowing its wrong
You're full of shit. He didn't refuse an illegal order. He downloaded documents against his clearance contractual obligations. Libertarians still hold to honoring one's contracts.
Rubio Playing Catch
I didn't realize that Rubio played wide receiver and defensive back in college football (I had to Google a lot to find that out, not discussed in the biographies I've read) or that his wife is a former Dolphins cheerleader.
Marriage and Family
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Lionel Richie, "Say You, Say Me". His final #1 on the Hot 100; this was 1985, near the end of his incredible Top 10 run over the early- through mid-80's. He would go on to score to a couple more #1 hits on the adult contemporary chart; unlike others who peaked in the 80's, he's shown an ability to hit the AC charts after his peak popularity.
