Did Edward Snowden actually write the statement that appears on the Wikileaks website? Maybe, maybe not , but your Wonkette has accessed the Wikileaks website for you, for the purposes of critical analysis re: said statement. Now the NSA will extra carefully target us for visiting Wikileaks, and just lightly target you all for visiting Wonkette, YOU ARE WELCOME.
HINT: it does not start with you voluntarily fleeing the country and going immediately into hiding. Also too, it's pretty much diametrically opposite of "seeking to have you extradited".
i hate FB, never really use it, don't have it on my phone, NEVER access other sites with it, etc. however, i wonder what footprint i leave just by having an account. with more than a couple friends.
Me neither. AND on FB I don't post my birthday. I don't even announce on sites I'm active on as an incognito commenter when it's my birthday. I keep everything to friends only. I know this is all probably futile, but I am paranoid about stuff like that.
Exactly what I was thinking. I'm getting tired of seeing coverage of every tremendously urgent and earth-shaking pronouncement from this self-important twit. He's got legal problems now? Gee Ed, what did you think would happen when you embarked on your carefully publicized martyr trip? Enough!
He didn't reveal anything that wasn't already known, and I don't think that he deserves all of the attention that he is getting. This doesn't mean that we should ignore the issue of domestic surveillance. We need to finally have the big, serious discussion that we punted on seven years ago when all of this first came to light.
He did seem to get the "You have to pay attention to me, because I'm Edward Snowden, bitch" part pretty thoroughly worked out, though.
But who would breathlessly report on George Zimmerman and the missing co-eds?
You're right, the US intelligence community is happy about this turning into a personality story, in fact they probably pushed hard to make it so. Unfortunately, it doesn't require all that much push, since chasing bright shiny inconsequential objects is default mode for our feckless MSM anyway- balloon boy, anyone?
even dead, he's still a better lawyer than Marcia Clark. I just saw her on the TeeVee pontificating on some current event or another and my first reaction was to consider changing my opinion because it turned out to match hers
Starting to lose my patience with this guy- too much drama queen grandstanding and not nearly enough attention to the actual issues involved. In fact, that's the biggest problem; the way he's monkey fucking what are actually crucially important issues that really do need to be discussed. Instead, we're treated to the continuing saga of where's Edward and get to listen to self indulgent whines about being exiled- dude, you left voluntarily, nobody kicked you out. The worst part is that he's playing right into the hands of those he rails against by making this all about him and thus giving everyone the opportunity to dismiss the whole thing without ever examining those issues properly- in effect, it's a case of the messenger himself shooting the message
I'd be a lot happier if we were actually talking about NSA overreach and the dubious legality of the modern surveillance state rather than Snowden and Greenwald
You guessed it: Frank Stallone.
HINT: it does not start with you voluntarily fleeing the country and going immediately into hiding. Also too, it's pretty much diametrically opposite of "seeking to have you extradited".
i was. a gawker refugee. sucked.
i hate FB, never really use it, don't have it on my phone, NEVER access other sites with it, etc. however, i wonder what footprint i leave just by having an account. with more than a couple friends.
Me neither. AND on FB I don't post my birthday. I don't even announce on sites I'm active on as an incognito commenter when it's my birthday. I keep everything to friends only. I know this is all probably futile, but I am paranoid about stuff like that.
1) Indeed 2) Indeed
Exactly what I was thinking. I'm getting tired of seeing coverage of every tremendously urgent and earth-shaking pronouncement from this self-important twit. He's got legal problems now? Gee Ed, what did you think would happen when you embarked on your carefully publicized martyr trip? Enough!
He didn't reveal anything that wasn't already known, and I don't think that he deserves all of the attention that he is getting. This doesn't mean that we should ignore the issue of domestic surveillance. We need to finally have the big, serious discussion that we punted on seven years ago when all of this first came to light.
He did seem to get the "You have to pay attention to me, because I'm Edward Snowden, bitch" part pretty thoroughly worked out, though.
But who would breathlessly report on George Zimmerman and the missing co-eds?
You're right, the US intelligence community is happy about this turning into a personality story, in fact they probably pushed hard to make it so. Unfortunately, it doesn't require all that much push, since chasing bright shiny inconsequential objects is default mode for our feckless MSM anyway- balloon boy, anyone?
according to Babelfish, Kon Tiki style means- with torches that keep mosquitoes away
ouch...
even dead, he's still a better lawyer than Marcia Clark. I just saw her on the TeeVee pontificating on some current event or another and my first reaction was to consider changing my opinion because it turned out to match hers
especially for the squirrel
Starting to lose my patience with this guy- too much drama queen grandstanding and not nearly enough attention to the actual issues involved. In fact, that's the biggest problem; the way he's monkey fucking what are actually crucially important issues that really do need to be discussed. Instead, we're treated to the continuing saga of where's Edward and get to listen to self indulgent whines about being exiled- dude, you left voluntarily, nobody kicked you out. The worst part is that he's playing right into the hands of those he rails against by making this all about him and thus giving everyone the opportunity to dismiss the whole thing without ever examining those issues properly- in effect, it's a case of the messenger himself shooting the message
there's always Hudsons- at least they have something to read while he bides his time
I'd be a lot happier if we were actually talking about NSA overreach and the dubious legality of the modern surveillance state rather than Snowden and Greenwald