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Huffington Post Goes NSA on Its Members

Hi Tracey! Where’s your cute little dog?? 🙂

» Posted By funksands On December 13, 2013 @ 10:04 am

Ad, I wish I’d read this before I wrote what I did. As usual you crystallize the thoughts I barely have completely.

» Posted By funksands On December 13, 2013 @ 9:34 am

Imus, its good to see you. I’ve been a big fan of yours for a long time.

» Posted By funksands On December 13, 2013 @ 9:23 am

HLL, the bigger an organization gets, the harder it is to maintain the sense of community. Don’t you think?

» Posted By funksands On December 13, 2013 @ 9:01 am

Murph, your comments give another example of why you are you. You are one of the nicest, big-hearted people I electronically “know”. I have no doubt that there are smart, dedicated, excellent, honest people over at HP. There are no doubt smart, dedicated, excellent, honest people at AIG, Bank of America, Walmart too. That doesn’t mean that these companies don’t occasionally engage in activities that are counterproductive to our goals and interests. They are driven to do one thing: Maximize the profits of the firm by growing sales and cutting expenses.

Humans have a tendency to make things personal. In this case we shouldn’t. HP is simply evolving in a way that the owners and shareholders of the parent firm feel will grow sales (advertising) and maximize shareholder return.

They might be right, they may not be. They wouldn’t be the first business to make bad decisions in the pursuit of more money.

Organizations like this are useful until they are not. WE are useful to companies like AOL until we are not. Maintaining he personal relationships that we have with one another is the only thing that needs to fretted over.

» Posted By funksands On December 13, 2013 @ 8:57 am

Ad, I thought my personal data was safe with you! 8-0

» Posted By funksands On December 12, 2013 @ 3:42 pm

It’s just the standard processing fee. Grow up.

» Posted By funksands On December 12, 2013 @ 3:29 pm

JASlob, at least those guys tried in their own weird way.

» Posted By funksands On December 12, 2013 @ 3:28 pm

Ad, I’m thinking that Buzzfeed better watch its ass….

» Posted By funksands On December 12, 2013 @ 3:27 pm

I’m really excited to see some of the “faces” and names that have been popping up here. I sincerely hope to see more of you as time goes on. I’ve been malingering here for some time and really enjoy it.

» Posted By funksands On December 12, 2013 @ 3:22 pm

Hey! You figured out how to make a profile! Must have had one of your kids help you….

That aside, I don’t think HP cares one way or the other. This smells like the pre-cursor to absorption and assimilation into some other mutant press-like creature.

» Posted By funksands On December 12, 2013 @ 3:12 pm

They’ll let anyone in here. 😉

» Posted By funksands On December 12, 2013 @ 2:58 pm

GOP Attacks the Passage of Time as Obamacare Distraction

http://screen.yahoo.com/einstein-express-preferred-destination-000000389.html

» Posted By funksands On November 25, 2013 @ 8:34 pm

God’s Blog – Jesus and Subway Sandwiches

Dear God, thanks so much for your words of infallibility. Why do so many people yearn for the Big Apocalada? Is it just too much effort to be nice? Too hard to avoid temptation? Too easy to vote for people like Sarah Palin? Is it so exhausting that rapture sounds like a relief? Is it so much effort for people to rise to your son’s standards that they compromise by lowering the standards? I wonder about these things sometime.

By the way any reason why your son spends so much time helping football players score touchdowns? It seems a little odd.

Respectfully yours,

» Posted By funksands On November 13, 2013 @ 7:50 pm

How to Win a Congressional Election Against Your Republican Opponent – 2014

Thanks Sally. If anything good comes out of this awful mess of the last few years, let it be that the typical apathetic non-voter is motivated to get involved. (crossing fingers)

» Posted By funksands On October 11, 2013 @ 11:05 am

Kalima, thanks so much. I really hope you are right. I don’t have a lot of confidence that Democratic powers-that-be are able to recognize these opportunities when presented with them. They seem stuck in trying to deal with and compete against the GOP with a set of rules that the GOP abandoned 20 years ago.

» Posted By funksands On October 11, 2013 @ 11:04 am

Sue. Tell them to. I’m going to.

» Posted By funksands On October 10, 2013 @ 4:14 pm

Tell it Clady! And thank you!

» Posted By funksands On October 10, 2013 @ 3:46 pm

Ad, I think your last sentence is a brilliant idea that can and SHOULD be fleshed out.

If they can put a creepy Uncle Sam with a speculum ad on the air, we should be able to equate voting for the GOP with contracting gonorrhea.

» Posted By funksands On October 10, 2013 @ 3:45 pm

Sue, your eye is verrry discerning. The first five paragraphs are mostly lifted from the President’s opening remarks from his first debate. Wasn’t really sure how to credit him in the post w/o ruining the effect.

» Posted By funksands On October 10, 2013 @ 3:43 pm

Nirek, ask this of any knuckle-foamer that starts spouting about “out of control spending” or “$17 Trillion!!!”

“That’s a lot of money. What is Obama spending it all on?”

“Where did all of the debt come from?”

Make them start unpacking their thoughts. Its an interesting experience.

» Posted By funksands On October 10, 2013 @ 9:41 am

WATCH: The First GOP/Tea Party Film Festival

Ad, funny you should bring up this clip. The prosthetic dummy they used was actually filled with the oozings of Dick Morris. True story.

» Posted By funksands On October 2, 2013 @ 12:20 pm

How could we forget this one?

» Posted By funksands On October 2, 2013 @ 9:12 am

In Remembrance of KQuark

It looks like this was published the day before I left town on vacation. I regret having missed it. This is the news I had been fearing, having not heard from him in so long.

I’ve missed him here and over on Twitter, where he was really coming into his own using that medium.

My sympathies to all of you that knew him so well for so long.

» Posted By funksands On September 30, 2013 @ 7:36 am

WATCH NOW: Live Video of Senate Debate on Use of Force in Syria

Kes, I don’t know. This guy was literally forced to take over the country. His brother was groomed to take over for his dad while Bashar was supposed to become a doctor. Brother died and he got drafted. He hasn’t shown any initiative to do anything other than keep control of his own country and his family business intact. Your most basic dictator thug.

» Posted By funksands On September 5, 2013 @ 9:39 pm

Choice, your third paragraph is what I hope is really going on. I really do. Fingers crossed.

On another point, what does a “Global Red Line” mean if the entire globe yawns when it is crossed?

I think that yawn give the President a LOT of leverage to travel the earth shaming the hell out of Syria’s neighbors and our friends. Not to prompt them to give a thumb’s up to military strikes, but rather to prompt them to take political and humanitarian action to start fencing this mess in so it doesn’t spill into something bigger.

» Posted By funksands On September 5, 2013 @ 5:40 pm

Kes, someone needs to play devil’s advocate. We only need about 100 more of them to address each issue.

Assad isn’t threatening to overrun another’s borders.

He’s made no threats against other countries.

He’s a monster (even taking the chem weapons out of the conversation) but he doesn’t rise to the level of 1980’s Saddam, let alone Hitler.

» Posted By funksands On September 5, 2013 @ 5:35 pm

Nirek, its very telling that our FIRST response wasn’t: “Oh my god, Syria is so awful. We need to marshall all of their neighbors and help them establish top-flight refugee camps, doctors, translators, money, food.

50% of Jordan’s TOTAL POPULATION is now refugees.

WHAT THE F***????

This poor country is literally drowning itself trying to accommodate refugees from Israel, Iraq, and Palistine and we’re casually talking about lobbing “something” in the middle of Syria?

I know where 100% of the US attention, money and time should be spent.

» Posted By funksands On September 5, 2013 @ 5:32 pm

Nirek, in McCain’s defense he is also mostly unhinged. I don’t think he’s quite all there.

» Posted By funksands On September 5, 2013 @ 5:26 pm

Ad, I think your take on the Presidential status quo is spot on. I may differ with you a bit though. This has the feeling of Obama getting caught in the current of this issue by his own words, the MIC, and Syria’s own actions.

His actions over the last week have struck me as someone who’s suddenly realized he’s three miles downstream. “How the hell did I get here??”

To his credit he’s put on the brakes on his end, but once Big Mo gets rolling at State and the Military it is really hard to turn around.

It strikes me that many in our security apparatus would rather do something and be wrong than have to backtrack and do nothing.

» Posted By funksands On September 5, 2013 @ 5:00 pm