Clapper made this dire warning: "This is a dreamland for foreign intelligence services to recruit, particularly as employees -- already many of whom are subject to furloughs driven by sequestration -- are going to have even greater financial challenges."
In other words, the shutdown is increasing the risk that intelligence and law enforcement officials fall into debt and paying off debt is a key sales point foreign governments make to potential spies.
In fact, many U.S. intelligence agencies won't give security clearances to applicants who have significant debt out of fear they could be vulnerable to foreign governments' recruitment efforts.
It's bad enough that we've been betrayed by people who never missed receiving their paychecks. It's more than likely that unknown traitors have died of old age while receiving federal pensions.
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Why worry about "agent's" betraying you when you have primaries engaged in destroying the free market, individual liberty, the sanctity of private property and believe you exist to serve the state?
Your grandchildren will be communists - Nikita Khrushchev.
And the answer to that question is, "Yes - that's why you're here." ;-p
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Reminds me of STAR TREK:TNG's LT.WORF > [IIRC = paraph] "The Warriors of the Klingon Empire are hungry for SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE".
NOT "MATERIALISM" = WEALTH, BUT "MORALISM".
* Also, STARS-N-STRIPES > DEMAND FOR AMERICAN IMAMS GROW.
'Tis how HIDDEN IMAMS = ISLAMIC MADIS are made, when a future young angry US Elite Soldier whose sibling is MADONNA + "NAPOLOLEON", ETAL. becomes disappointed in the JudeoChristian political establishment. converts to ISLAM, + then proceeds to conquer the world.
"Wicked webs ...", and all that.
[THOR-VS-LOKI-VS-RAGNAROK HOLLYWOOD MOVIES here].
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No fair stealing Joe's schtick, cristin.
Posted by: Barbara ||
10/08/2013 22:35 Comments ||
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Shutdown also causes AIDS, famine and premature baldness. Just like global warming.
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Doncha love how they work to find inoffensive people to squeeze? Start with 70ish veterans, and retirees trying to vacation, add survivors.
For five years, three and a half million people been out of work, and none of these yaahoos gave much of a damn.
Eighty some thousand get furloughed for four days (with pay) and we've got a cataclism on our hands. (And these are all workers deemed 'non-essential'.)
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h/t Instapundit
Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.
Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.
Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.
..."Of course, I want people to have health care," Vinson said. "I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally." Says it all, doesn't it?
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Its easy to spend someone else's money--until its yours that is being spent. "O" voters having second thoughts about the AFC also known as Obamacare?
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A planned immigration reform rally will take place on the National Mall on Tuesday even though the site is closed due to the government shutdown.
Organizers for the "Camino Americano: March for Immigration Reform" were spotted Monday setting up a stage and equipment on the National Mall for the rally which will take place on Tuesday.
A few scattered barriers around the park have signs informing visitors that the area is closed as a result of the government shutdown.
Susana Flores, a spokesperson for the rally, confirmed for the Washington Examiner that the Park Service will allow the event to take place under the group's rights granted by the First Amendment.
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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".
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If the shutdown lasts until January, will the Park Service allow the annual Right to Life march? It is held every January on the anniversary of Roe v Wade.
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Someone with the chops and the time (not me, sadly) could have a lot of fun with this:
Rushmore in distance / PP putting out cones at overlook / MR goes ka-Bamiyan / Usual dust and shouting (sub O for Al) / Clouds clear, revealing single-headed Rushmore crowned by rays of morning sun overlaying O logo (creepy praise song in background, or NA if you wanna go there)
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Mt. Rushmore has a different set of problems now:
"The cones first went up Oct. 1, said Dusty Johnson, Gov. Dennis Daugaards chief of staff. The state asked that they be taken down, and federal officials did so with some of them. The state was told the cones were a safety precaution to help channel cars into viewing areas rather than to bar their entrance.
I think reasonable people can disagree about that, Johnson said.
The cones were down again Friday as a blizzard hit the Black Hills and plows needed access to the roads, Johnson said. He said the state would be monitoring to see whether the cones are put back along viewing areas."
The Black Hills area is still paralyzed by the recent winter storm, so the issue is rather academic.
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So why is it the governors of these states are not out front opening the fences? Because they know the nazi trooper from the Obama camp will attack from all directions. He has this country afraid to stand up.
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Folks who live in the Great Smoky Mountains have just about reached their breaking point with the federal government.
Its almost like they are pushing to see how far they can push before the American people say enough is enough, said Ed Mitchell, the mayor of Blount County, Tenn. We were founded on a declaration of independence. And they are about to push the people to the line again.
Nearly a third of Blount County is inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. So when the federal government shut down the park, it also shut down one of the areas chief sources of revenue.
The National Park Service also closed the Foothills Parkway, a major thoroughfare in the county. The closure came without warning and left the local school district scrambling to get children back to their homes.
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So Fema camps are not such a crazy idea after all.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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