A New Home for the Tinfoil Hat

The Snowden revelations about the NSA have switched things up: Now, if you DON’T think the government is spying on you, you’re crazy.

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  • The government has been reading my postal mail and tapping my telephone ever since the mid-1970’s after I returned from a 6-year stay in Germany! 🙁

  • Protester, rabble-rouser, organizer, outspoken & extremely critical writer (letters t’d editor; the occasional “guest editorial” – not to mention the blog-o-sphere.) Oh, yeah, I figure I’ve been on a coupla lists since at least Reagan’s stint as “president.”

    In a way, the NSA almost makes me feel free. Why bother hiding any more? (Answer: because I make a hobby of taunting armed sociopaths (“Republicans”)) But hey, at least I don’t have to try to dodge the long dick of the law any more.

  • Any rube who proclaims that (especially in America) no government conspiracies are ever committed against a governed population is the new fantasist straw man (no brains). Anyway Ted, do you know just how hard it is to find REAL, radio-resistant tin foil nowadays? All aluminum substitutes are vastly substandard.

    DanD

    • I was fine with the aluminum substitutes until I discovered that they work only when staple in place. (That was a real bummer!)

      • past tense = stapled (Damn! Where’s the “Edit” button? 🙁

      • > Where’s the “Edit”

        Y’know I’ve decided I like the lack thereof – even tho I make a slilily typeoe once in a while.

        It prevents people from going back and changing their posts after the fact. That’s kinda fun when somebody lets loose with a rant they later realize to be over-the-top.

        OTOH, it’s a lot of fun when you ask some twit a bunch of numbered questions, they answer, then you go back and change the questions…

        :: grinchly grin ::

      • An “Edit” button could permit a member an allotted number of minutes (say 5?) to correct typos; after that set time, no changes should be allowed. I could live with that; otherwise, I’m reduced to a follow-up post that takes up bandwidth and causes somewhat of a distraction. (As a former English teacher, it irks me to see that I’ve posted errors, in spite of my best efforts.)

  • How is it that CrazyH can post multiple times within 5 minutes and if I try to post more than once within that time I get told I’m posting too quickly? Ted, are censoring me?

    • I’m not important enough for anyone to be watching me.

      • Naw, I get that one once in a while, too. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with my actual posting rate – but rather the load on the server.

    • I don’t censor anyone, certainly not you.

      • I know, I was being facetious…I am not important enough to be censored. Nor am I important enough for “them” to be after me, or to have an FBI file or something like that.

      • @ Aggie_Dude –

        ” Nor am I important enough for “them” to be after me, or to have an FBI file or something like that.”
        .
        Neither am I. I’m just a suspicious character who spent six years in Germany during the 1970’s and more than seven years in Mexico of late.
        .
        They have to keep an eye on someone who spends that much time out-of-country, you know?

  • Just because people are *not* watching you doesn’t mean that you’re not paranoid ?…

    Henri

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