Random Politics & Religion #00

The simple fact that you do not understand that what I quoted and thisis considered offensive shows just how hypocritical you truly are.

Being a verbal asshat should be allowed under free speech. Then others who disagree can counter the hateful comments.

If we take "hateful speech" to an illegal level it just pushes that culture underground and re-enforces the persecution complex that seems to be prevelant among those followers.

I'd rather know who I want to avoid socially, politically, and financially because they were allowed to be transparent.

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Hell >.> fixed

"In God We Trust", "One nation under God", or southern states flying the confederate flag, which one will be removed first? Taking bets now!

I'm also pretty happy this morning... all the crying over the "defamation" or whatever of the confederate flag from the people that usually sit there and lambaste others for being too sensitive or crying about other things makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

The reason most 'rebels' fly the Confederate flag is to rile up liberals. They love it. A way to unnerve people by playing into a symbol that is pro-white, anti-everyone else.

In turn, for attention, I'm going to burn the Confederate flag then raise up the Imperial Japanese colors.

With a Gundam?

Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management. But on Thursday, officials from OPM, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of the Interior revealed new information that indicates at least two separate systems were compromised by attackers within OPM's and Interior's networks. The first was the Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) system, an entity hosted for OPM at the Department of the Interior's shared service data center. The second was the central database behind EPIC, the suite of software used by OPM's Federal Investigative Service in order to collect data for government employee and contractor background investigations.

OPM has not yet revealed the full extent of the data exposed by the attack, but initial actions by the agency in response to the breaches indicate information of as many as 3.2 million federal employees (both current federal employees and retirees) was exposed. However, new estimates in light of this week's revelations have soared, estimating as many as 14 million people in and outside government will be affected by the breach—including uniformed military and intelligence personnel. It is, essentially, the biggest potential "doxing" in history. And if true, personal details from nearly everyone who works for the government in some capacity may now be in the hands of a foreign government. This fallout is the culmination of years of issues such as reliance on outdated software and contracting large swaths of security work elsewhere (including China).

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The damage done to national security by this breach far exceeds anything that could be claimed in relationship to the documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In total, more than 10 million people have active background investigation files in the CVS—either because they have been investigated for a security clearance, or just to obtain permission to work inside federal facilities. Those include all the data from the SF-85 and SF-86 personal survey forms they have filled out detailing much of their personal lives. They include police, fire, and other emergency personnel at state and local levels who have contact with federal anti-terror "fusion" centers, DOD investigators and intelligence analysts. The only agency that may not have been affected is the CIA, which maintains its own background investigation and clearance system.

I speculate that whoever did this is looking for something very specific and as a side project now has some ability to blackmail others and/or make money as a secondary objective.

I speculate that whoever did this is looking for something very specific.

Three Republican candidates for president, Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and former Sen. Rick Santorum said this morning they would return or donate thousands of dollars possibly linked to the head of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a white supremacist group. The group was cited in a purported manifesto believed linked to the suspect in last week’s massacre at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The secret to Cinnamon Toast Crunch won't be revealed so easy.

I'm reminded of my Jr. high history teacher teaching us about the civil war, making the argument that you can't reduce the conflict to "slavery". He flunked anyone who did, as it demonstrated "a severe lack of critical thinking skills".

It's pretty absurd to stick you fingers in your ears, cover your eyes and just stamp your feet that it means what you feel it does. Heavily intolerant too. The idea that we need to ban something because someone somewhere interprets offense from it is nothing short of lunacy.

Whats the basis for flying the confederate flag again?

Whats the basis for flying the confederate flag again?

I'm reminded of my Jr. high history teacher teaching us about the civil war, making the argument that you can't reduce the conflict to "slavery". He flunked anyone who did, as it demonstrated "a severe lack of critical thinking skills".

Whats the basis for flying the confederate flag again?

You know the swastika symbolizes something OTHER than Nazism right?