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Thanks, you beat me to it.

Assuming all the details are true, I can only think the only source of this leaked info to Yahoo was someone in the current administration likely authorized to do so. If there is no attempt to find the leaker then this theory has validity. Question is, why now? The world knows it was our drones. A logical reason would be to tarnish the Israelis and give the Iranians more reason to hate Israel as well as an excuse to retaliate. As a toofer, they gave up the intelligence method used rendering it likely ineffective from here on out. Yes, future success eliminated endangering national security for political gain or worst, to help an enemy.

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Constitutional and civil rights lawyers welcomed to comment.

Do private entities working for the feds subject to EO 12333 and all amendments and/or later incarnations if it is used to supports some sort of ‘counterintelligence’ investigation? Does this open the door to all sorts of ‘evidence gathering’ or other searches and seizures of data without the owner’s/creator’s knowledge the data is being gathered? Perhaps data you willingly give away under an EULA is not protected (or is it?). Are call data records kept by cell providers fair game to these private entities without needing a warrant or any kind of probable cause? Does this private help extend to electronic monitoring of any type (voice, key loggers, etc.) without the need of a FISA court warrant?

Tinfoil hat wearers wanna know,

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Agreed and add this is a twofer for the left. Take a look at the comments posted to the ‘nbecile link above and you’ll see the “guns to easy get in this country” talk percolating.

As an aside, I am interested to read from someone with authoritative medical knowledge (neurologist/neurosurgeon) comment regarding the incidence of murder/homicide at the hands of brain injury patients. From personal interaction with many combat vets with TBIs, I have not seen violent behavior yet I recognize this is anecdotal and not scientific. Just curious.

At any rate, as r@hmmy chitown don would say, “never let a good crisis go to waste,” the left would dutifully follow thorugh.

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Hmm, what to do when confronted with guerrilla politics? Perhaps go guerrilla as well, infiltrate their corrupt organizations at all levels, quietly gum up the works, and later expose them while staying clean from the scum. Only the brave, stealthy and disciplined should try.

In the Old Country Spanish, ‘bodega’ is a ‘small or cozy wine room’. Its use in NYC is associated with ‘small cozy’ neighborhood stores, specifically in Hispanic areas, selling Hispanic foods and other household use items. The term likely originates back to at least the late ‘50’s & early ‘60’s (West Side Story anyone?) following the first large migration of Hispanics to NYC; Puertoricans. Why Puertoricans the first Hispanic migration to NYC? Well as an old friend of mine recounts, after WWII many returning Puertoricans from the war could not find work on the island. Having learned some English and gotten a taste for adventure and self-reliance, many Veterans moved their families to NYC seeking better economic fortunes. Others followed suit years later despite having no wartime experience yet learning of their counterparts success in NYC. Why NYC. Well at the time Pan Am was the only thing flying out of San Juan and only then to NYC. To summarize, Puertoricans likely coined the term in the late ‘50’s after their large migration to NYC began to refer to the small outlets entrepreneurs opened in neighborhood buildings & their basements which reminded them of the old crowded wine ‘bodegas’ in Spain (it appears next American culture, Spain is the next cultural influence in PR). As I am told, after most island Puertoricans left NYC, subsequent Hispanic groups adopted the term once they arrived to NYC (i.e Dominicans).

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Loved the City By The Bay, not so much now. It is a disgrace what has become of it. The east side of Coit Tower hill had some well hidden beautiful homes along the switch back path & stairs. I also liked the area around Ghirardelli Square and Russian Hill. Knew it was going down hill when I started seeing billboards boasting cats and dogs as the “new kids” a few years back.

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Apple operating systems are based on UNIX. Yes it is their own modified version of UNIX yet the open systems architecture feature is still there. This means ease of modification at the OS level to control IO routines and data management. This is one of the reasons Apple does not allow users command prompt access like Microsoft’s operating systems have done. Unfortunately, just because the average layman user cannot figure out how to get down to the Apple OS does not mean a knowledgeable user will be deterred. I’ve always thought this is why laymen are utterly convinced Apple products are more safe and secure than any of Microsoft’s; pure fallacy. To those with skill and knowledge, they are both equally vulnerable. Now, licensed software developers for Android and IOS have to allegedly abide by both Google’s and Apple’s software requirements before they allow the software to run in their smartphone OSes. I will assume that the larger the demand for the software, the more ‘laissez-faire’ the OS owners are in corroborating second party code developers are adhering to the OS owner rules. This is a business decision while knowing the risk of potentially damaging their brand. Compound this to both Apple’s and Google’s business interests in and with China and you likely have a free pass for China made software with little scrutiny. If discovered, both Google and Apple can always claim being bamboozled by those ‘waskily’ chinese; move on, nothing to see here and the chinese learn how to better hide their stuff. I write this without any actual proof yet much circumstantial evidence and knowing the big tech (as does Hollywood but that is another story) companies see China as their next big market to sell their wares and make more money. What these dolts do not realize is the chinese will copy their products and push them out of the market by underselling them; hello HUAWEI/ZTE. Along the way, Americans get hooked on chinese connected apps like Tik Tok & Zoom. Oh, read this about Zoom despite being labeled an “American’ business (https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/03/zoom-calls-routed-china/); hello Eric Yuan. Meanwhile China spies on the US via its software and electronics. One more thing, I know it is a whole lot of data coming in to through these apps to go through and find the golden nuggets of worthy intelligence. Hence china’s push for AI, supercomputers and the city of Shenzhen (tech super city). Apologies, for being a bit long and ‘ranty’.

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To the left, NDAs only matter selectively and there are no adverse repercussions if they leak mutually agreed private dealings among citizens if it forwards their agenda. I recall a certain Republican US Senate candidate from the state on IL who withdrew late in the campaign because his embarrassing divorce agreement was leaked in the press. Never mind the court filings were sealed and both parties agreed not to disclose. End result was a democrat winning the election almost unopposed after spending only two or so years in the IL capitol (last minute replacement did not have time to put together a coherent campaign). Already guessed who?

To this day not a single person bothered to look into the egregious breach of privacy, trampling of rights and outright dirty politics, but that is IL for you anyway. So, like many laws, only the law abiding follow them. Lesson is: criminals and those who want to advance their political ideology at any cost do not care about the law. Yep, that lesson is quite obvious yet worth repeating, if not outright redundant.

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Apologies, unfinished thought.

The goal should not be enriching ourselves through litigation against leftists. The use of the courts against the left should be to modify their behavior and tactics to advance our conservative beliefs, to preserve our Constitutional Republic and what it stands for so future generations can enjoy what we see disappearing before our very eyes. That said, as a practical matter, I understand and agree there are cases where financial retribution is called for as in the case of this young man who stood to loose his potential life’s future income to this incident.

Now please follow . . .think how the left has taken many small private business owners to court and ruined their livelihood while advancing the homosexual agenda. The left does not care about the cake or the service allegedly denied; they care about behavior modification of those like-minded with the left’s accused. They want to intimidate and, by the self-censoring of those who disagree with the left, appear as if they are just, the majority in popular thought and way of the future. Unfortunately, conservatives can be their worst enemies. We believe in individualism and as such let our conservative brethren hang in the wind of liberalism until they become tattered and ragged thus reinforcing the left’s tactics. In contrast, the left with their communal beliefs, hangs together no matter how crazy their goals may be. Imagine how much conservatives could accomplish if they had the stick-togetherness of leftists?

We need to be on offense in the courts, in the internet, on the public square; unafraid and unapologetic for what we believe or else the time may come when it will be too late to save this Republic. Let’s pray that does not come to pass.

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Long ago I came to the realization suing these large billionaire owned lefty companies, lefty run government entities or left organizations is fruitless. Think the IRS vs TEA Party, WAPO & NYT libel, and unions. They have the deep pockets backing and often settle for less under non-disclosures leaving them unhurt to continue their malfeasance. A better way to go, I think, is suing the specific individuals personally in civil court. Even if they get help form their wealthy lefty benefactors, over time the hurt should cause other lefty troops to think twice about following through with their illegal and unjust war the Constitution and our rights. Not a lawyer but this makes sense to me.

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The NSA is part of the DoD. DIA is mostly a consumer of raw intelligence data (i.e. Analytical Center) than a creator of raw intelligence data. The DIA only has the Military Attache Corp in Embassies, the DCS (look it up), an few other overt HUMINT programs as original intelligence sources. DIA depends on other entities (NSA, NGA, the Services and even CIA) to conduct analysis called finished intelligence. CIA’s own intelligence production arm does the same. The major national intel programs are generally split (there are other smaller technical ones as well); NSA(SIGINT is DoD), NGA (IMINT is DoD), CIA (premier HUMINT answers to POTUS). DoD owns two out of the three main intel programs and has a small HUMINT one (DIA’s DCS).

The DoD intel entities have military general officers in charge of them with a mixed civilian and military work force. The CIA has had general grade officers in charge from time to time, Petraeus being the last one.

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Invite the parents and kid over for dinner. After a pleasant evening, turn the the discussion to WWII, have some props around if needed to spur conversation. Segue into the holocaust and involve the parents of the little twerp in expressing their disgust for the atrocities of the Nazis. Then bring up how modern day Jews will never forget what they have lived and continue to live through as a people. At this point ask the little twerp if he has anything to say. If he does not have the coconuts to say anything, peel the dad off from the crowd and tell him what has been going on. If he is worth his weight in salt as an officer, he should do the right thing and correct the boy in public.

As an aside, I think their is more going on here. He might be threatened by your daughter academically or perhaps this is his twisted way to get her attention because he likes her. Dunno, more going on that meets the eye.

I would also enroll your daughter in Krav Maga or Gracie Jujitsu. Either one will get a young lady out of a jam with a stronger opponent.

Remind your daughter everyday how beautiful she is so when she hears it from some creep she does not fall for what she’s not heard before.

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How about Moochelle My Bell?

And there you have it . . . 2020 October Surprise in July 2019.

I think this has nothing to do with Epstein yet all to do with the left (and their media) opening another more repugnant front against Trump. This is a reasonable conclusion if it is true Comey’s daughter is leading the prosecution; sorry to for the doubt yet I have not seen convincing evidence of this. If Comey’s daughter is in charge, expect the media’s narrative to lead the effort by suggesting Trump was involved without focusing on what Epstein did or any others involved. Later the DNC will join in demanding investigations of Trump’s involvement.

I hope I am wrong yet in the end, Epstein will get another slap on the wrist, all the powerful involved will go untouched, all the case documents will be sealed (Trump blamed for this) and the media will have from now until Nov 2020 to spread rumors and innuendo from “anonymous sources close to the investigation.” This is all designed to erode his support leading to the elections.

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Yep, this is not one of those instances you can use Occam’s Razor to ascribe causation. A county’s economy is a complex beast with many variables working in conjunction. If it were not, we in the U.S would have been able to avoid our own economic problems. I would submit to every person using ‘oil price drop’ as the reason for Venezuela’s woes to explain why other OPEC and non-OPEC countries with oil based economies have not suffered the same ills as Venezuela? I would add, the only element that can influence, and dare I say control, many of the variables influencing a country’s economy are the government’s policies. In Venezuela’s case, these policies have been of the socialist bent for approximately 20 years. Look no further than that fact to explain why Venezuela is where it is today.

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Since you insist, I’ll play.

I will assume by your handle you are, or once were, in the Air Force? Or were you just “wanna be”?

Since using such a handle would be tantamount to pretending to be something you are not which would be lying (and we know how opposed to lying you are), I will assume you are or were in the Air Force at some point in your life.

So, if you were in the Air Force, and appear to be proud of it enough to use it as a handle, let’s then assume you were at least inside the air frame since the odds of any Air Force person being at the “stick” are very low.

Ok then, if you were inside the air frame AND if you were in any combat mission were killing enemies was the objective, then that makes you a murderer by choice since you did not have to volunteer. And in the case you are old enough to have been drafted, you could have been a conscientious objector.

Ergo, by your rationale, every military member ever involved in actual combat is a murderer by choice just like any parent who introduces Santa Claus, or any other gifting character, to their child is a liar.

I went through this exercise not to denigrate yet to point out how life’s choices are not as clear or damming as you want to make them. BTW, I have been in combat.

In the end we will all be judged by God for our own individual sins and not by other mortals. No matter how holy and mighty any human may think they are, they should not judge others (Matthew 7:5).

Have a Blessed weekend.

Your inference is incorrect. I did not advocate lying to as rearing parental technique nor as a routine way of dealing with children. Despite your absolutist and assuming diction, no one is perfect; Romans 3:23. Notwithstanding that truth, forgiveness is at hand. Even for you.

Interesting. Here is one that saved me money on my last entertainment purchases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNBiAV4UnM

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Your statement appears to express the conclusion that a child who believes in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and The Great Pumpkin (did not know Linus proselytized) leads to atheism. I will have to disagree.

The aforementioned childhood characters cease to exist when a child learns it has been the parents all along. Consider this; parents can never fulfill the promise of Jesus Christ (forgiveness of sins and eternal life). If parents cannot meet the promise of Christ, how does believing in any childhood character leads to atheism? Atheism is rebellion against God, not the fault of Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, or The Great Pumpkin. Not all children that grew-up with believing in these characters are atheists as adults.

Christian parents grounded on the Bible should have little difficulty in having their children first understand and later have faith in Christ after exposing their children to the aforementioned characters. I do not have empirical evidence to convince analytical minds yet have the witness of my Bride’s and my own family’s multiple generations as well as those families of the many Christian churches I have been a member of throughout my many years of moving while in the Service.

There is something about the innocence of childhood which needs to be preserved until their minds and hearts are ready to deal with the cold hard realities of life. A parent’s love to a child demonstrated via gifts from a mythical second party is harmless in my mind. Particularly when the child learns it was a selfless act from their parent.

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It happens, remember ADM Borda? Committed suicide because of some sort of issue with allegedly unearned ribbons.

After 25-plus years of Service, my experience tells me general/flag officers almost exclusively commit suicide to avoid disgrace before some sort of legal trouble which would result in loss of rank/prestige/honor/benefits to survivors....pick one or more. NCOs and enlisted ranks are more prone to suffer from PTSD or other difficulties related to adjusting to life after combat. Logically so since NCOs and enlisted troops are closest to actual combat with a few commissioned types thrown in.

So, IF it was suicide then odds are it was likely related to some impending investigation with a less likely reason, yet probable, mental condition.

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