The Wikileaks docu-dump has arrived, and the
NYT is a hog wallowing in mud. I guess someone has launched a DOS attack against
Wikileaks (horse, barn?).
HuffPo (bought and paid for by your friendly neighborhood Spooky Dude) is hyperventilating. Mr. Big lefty Harold Koh, (yes, THAT Harold Koh) is
screaming bloody murder at Assange, while Assange thumbs his nose and preens in the mirror.
Meanwhile, cloistered away in the White House, Obama lays on the royal couch nursing his split lip and dreaming of the purple heart he'll give himself.
In the progressive trenches, Hillary is burning up the phone lines doing damage control. It's hell when the lefties turn on each other, pure hell.
Popcorn anyone?
I'm not minimizing the impact this could have on our troops and what's left of our credibility. I'm mad as hell, but watching this administration get repeatedly bitch-slapped by Assange, and watching all these crazy a**holes become embroiled in a third grade catfight is beyond ridiculous. I mean, WTF?
ReplyDeleteIf Obama can't handle Assange, he should call my mom. She'd make short work of that nasty little weasel, and she wouldn't need twelve stitches when the smoke cleared, either.
ReplyDelete"If Obama can't handle Assange, he should call my mom. She'd make short work of that nasty little weasel, and she wouldn't need twelve stitches when the smoke cleared, either. "
ReplyDeleteLOL, I believe you too!
If Obama can't handle Assange, he should call my mom. She'd make short work of that nasty little weasel, and she wouldn't need twelve stitches when the smoke cleared, either.
ReplyDeleteOh, I do love you. :)
If Obama can't handle Assange, he should call my mom. She'd make short work of that nasty little weasel, and she wouldn't need twelve stitches when the smoke cleared, either.
ReplyDeleteKinda says it all, eh?
:-)
Did you get your rhodies florrie?
ReplyDeleteAssange is past his sell-by date.
ReplyDeleteHe has no friends and allies anymore. Every government, intelligence service and diplomatic corps on the planet will be regarding him as hostis humani generis.
If I wrote for The Onion I'd be doing a story: WWIII breaks out over who gets to liquidate Julian Assange. And I'd be writing it tonight, because The Onion has a hard enough time staying a step ahead of reality.
Lewy .... agree that Assange is way past his "sell by" date. Not even worth a bullet now. A good ass kicking would be in order, however ... repeatedly.
ReplyDeleteMy concern is how and through who he gained access to all the various documents. It can't just be the dick head PFC who is to be tried shortly .... or can it?
Just for the PFC's part, I judge DoD's IT security as an abject failure ... no doubt due to too much "process" and not enough results testing. Regrettably, I have seen it before and am a distant witness to it as we speak, for those I still consult with there.
Example: Prohibition of using "Thumb Drives" on DoD computers to prevent someone taking information away. Hello? Never mind there are multiple FTP sites individuals can set up for that purpose, most even zip file the data for you...at least mine does.
In short, there are elaborate "rules" and technical blocks for data transmission....except that for web based databases, you cannot really block FTP transmissions so easily.
The REAL issue is access to the data in the first place ... and that a PFC E-3 recruit had such access, unsupervised to boot, is absurd. Security clearance level is NOT the answer. On those days, long ago, in a war armistice zone, that I performed as the Group Staff Duty NCO (you get to validate coded emergency messages and attack reports, among other things, and notify commanders et al) I had access to information I still can't talk about today even. Yet a Fookin' PFC boot licker had access to damn near everything, even outside his assigned theater of operations?
Good luck with that.
VE tink maybe de vighthous might be involved in zee leak. It makes a good distraction.
ReplyDeleteNoah - LMAO!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Ari, and I'll bet you a home-made bagel that DoD will respond in 100% the wrong way: by adding more process rather than assessing results.
There was one general at a particular assignment AFG had (I shall not name names, although when I *do* mention this particular name to anyone in the Air Force the response is always immediate and disgusted) who routinely violated security procedures and bullied his underlings when they balked at the violations.
This same general was driving to work one day and saw an airman walking along that he felt was too fat - so he made the airman get in his car and personally drove him to the HAWC for an evaluation.
If there is a serious effort to curb security issues, they'll start with people like that (and this is not a blanket indictment on all general officers - I personally know some I would follow to the gates of Hell - also known as my Mother-in-Law's abode).
Aw, Fay, you're sweet to ask. Yes, I got 17 (the most that we could fit in the truck) and the rest are held until I go back. I got 8 in the ground today and hope to do the rest tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI'm on cloud 9 :-)
Wow, that's great florrie. I would love to see your garden in the spring when they are in bloom...
ReplyDeleteI'll take some pics, I know I will want to show off the plants. Of course some of them, like the big-leaf species, won't bloom for 10 years or more.
ReplyDeletej-ass has a brand new bumper sticker to reflect his sovereign status:
ReplyDeleteimgw:"http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d170/lewy14/fckd.jpg"
florrie - how about you come out to my house in the spring and help me get my yard in order. I killed hosta this year, that's how hopeless I am.
ReplyDeleteAnd lewy - I must have that sticker. Must.
I killed hosta this year, that's how hopeless I am.
ReplyDeleteMental note: Don't mess with afw; she's killed hosta.
That is some serious bad-ass gardening, afw. Perhaps while florrie's at your house, you can come to the Fortoo House and edadicate some pachysandra (which may or may not be spelled that way)
(Hmmm... it seems I can't spell eradicate either.)
ReplyDeleteThat's a great sticker, lewy. Quite appropriate.
Perfect for J-ass, lewy!
ReplyDeleteUh oh, the hosta are dead? Did they dry up, afw?
Heh, we will make it to Ferkakta for a pachysandra search and destroy mission and afw house for a plant intervention one of these days, tee hee...Tom & I want to go to DC and be tourists.
I thought of adding pachysandra to a wooded area I wanted to cover up but it is so prolific I ended up not getting it. Alphie, it's really tough to pull all the roots out once it gets started.
ReplyDeleteflorrie - I have NO IDEA how I killed the hosta. I was told to plant it there, as there was shade from three trees in my postage stamp back yard. Then they looked like they were burning up. Truly! Burning!
ReplyDeleteAnd then they died.
My lantana was beautiful, though. I think I'm putting that everywhere next year.
Also - I should move to the real south. That'll cure that whole kudzu epidemic.
Yeah, hostas are a woodland plant, they don't want to be in the sun and they need lots of water.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I do too, afw; if something is doing really well, plants lots of it!!
OK, so now I see: florrie - I have NO IDEA how I killed the hosta... and I'm thinking damn, I knew afw was badass, but now she's killing hostages, and she doesn't even remember how... just who the f**k have I gotten mixed up with, anyway?!?!
ReplyDeleteLewy, LMAO!!! I'm cryin' here!
ReplyDelete-))
LOL!!
ReplyDeleteOur afw IS badass!!
OMG - lewy! You're making me cry here! And I just had a double root canal, so that HURTS!
ReplyDeleteLMAO!
Shirtless Putin told me to do it!
:D
ReplyDeleteYou know, I really _did_ have a kind of WTF?! response on seeing afw's comment in the sidebar, because I had no idea what a "hosta" is...
ROOT CANAL?!?
ReplyDeleteOMG
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As this seems to be a completely OT thread, here I go.
ReplyDeleteMatt and I had a couple of appointments today and in between we went for lunch at a sandwich shop. Sitting at the next table were two young women and one young man, probably all were 20-23 and had Aussie/Kiwi accents.
I heard the young man say something like "In 50 years time the world will run out of oil" then one of the young ladies said, "Really, then what will we do for energy?" he replied: "Well, we will have lots of alternative forms of energy by then."
The young lady who hadn't said anything up to this point chirped in, "But how we will cook our food if there isn't any olive oil?"
I kid.
You.
Not.
Holy cow, batman!
ReplyDeleteOh Holy Heaven. And I'm supposed to trust my kids to the Department of Education? I think not.
ReplyDeleteSuch a public display of utter stupidity is...stunning.
ReplyDeleteBut hey, it's not her fault! I think we should show more compassion and understanding. Let's give her a trophy...and a ribbon! A blue ribbon! With a "first place" medal dangling from it!
Ahhh, that's more betterer.
Well duh. Of course we'll run out of olive oil with those nasty jooooos constantly bulldozing palestinian olive groves!
ReplyDeleteLOL Lyana, excellent point!
ReplyDeleteI heard the young man say something like "In 50 years time the world will run out of oil" then one of the young ladies said, "Really, then what will we do for energy?" he replied: "Well, we will have lots of alternative forms of energy by then."
ReplyDeleteThe young lady who hadn't said anything up to this point chirped in, "But how we will cook our food if there isn't any olive oil?"
My mother had this conversation way back in 1973 in London. It was around the time of the Yom Kippur War and the Arabs had hiked the price of crude oil. Mum had gone out to buy cooking oil and the price had gone up. Mum complained to the shopkeeper and he said, without blinking or blushing, "Well, you know there's an oil crisis and the price has jumped".
My mum nearly jumped him!
Oooh! Annie!
ReplyDeleteAnnie - may I congratulate you on the Star of David atop the Iran Air headquarters?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/30/report-star-david-spotted-iranian-airport/
Well played, Israel. Well played.