The 1980s are calling and John Kerry has picked up the phone:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Russia's plan to buy more intercontinental ballistic missiles was concerning and could herald a return to the international hostility of the "Cold War."
Speaking at a military and arms fair on Tuesday, Russia President Vladimir Putin announced the addition of 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles which, he said, were able to overcome "even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems."
...
Kerry said that, since the 1990s, there had been "enormous cooperation" in the destruction of nuclear weapons that were in the former territories of the Soviet Union.
No one wants to see us step backwards, nobody wants to, I think, go back to a kind of Cold War status," he added.
One might have thought that imagining that it can't happen can lead to a situation where it does happen. But maybe "Peace Through Strength" was just more Cold War nonsense brilliantly rebutted by the "Peace Through Unilateral Disarmament" crowd. Maybe!
this is why punctuation is important, people, yes the irony is not lost on me.
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 02:38 PM
so Greece not only defaults it reneges on the debt wholesale. Expect Greece to join Putin's currency union along with Serbia to form an Orthodox trading block. Ze Jermans will have to go somewhere else to get drunk and sunburnt. The Greek Isles will be reserved for Russian oligarchs.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 02:40 PM
ROFL. Saturn's moon is basically made of oil.
"The hydrocarbons rain from the sky on the miserable moon, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes."
Some deity or other wants to make sure we don't run out of gas.
Posted by: henry | June 17, 2015 at 02:40 PM
A $4.0B divorce? I feel better already...
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 02:42 PM
henry-- wait, Gaia makes oil, as part of her providential bounty?
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 02:43 PM
with that expression, you can see why she wants to divorce him,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 02:46 PM
there's a whole six degrees of kevin bacon, going on right there, juffali chipped in to scowcroft and red queen, christina was formerly with prince andrew, who hung around with borgia, and epstein,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 02:52 PM
Black Hawks Hockey Sticks and Pucks in the Net" territory
Not to mention references to "hat tricks" and the "penalty box". Who knew hockey was such a target rich environment for this stuff?
Posted by: Eric in Boise | June 17, 2015 at 02:54 PM
TCFAH!
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 02:56 PM
You know you're in the Low Country and Charleston when you can get Bone Sucking Sauce and Slap Ya Mama Cajun seasoning.
Posted by: Jack The Trans-Former | June 17, 2015 at 02:57 PM
Jackie Chiles declared the Greek debt to be outrageous, egregious, and preposterous.
Alexander Woollcott thinks it's illegal, immoral, and fattening.
Posted by: Eric in Boise | June 17, 2015 at 02:58 PM
a great interview,
http://www.historynet.com/interview-with-general-james-mattis.htm
of course, most people's historical background is very shortsided, and among those, they learn the wrong lessons,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 02:59 PM
It's a shame the IMF doesn't have Rocco and Vito to visit Tsipras and Company.
When you blow tens of billions on the Athens Olympics; party like Zorba and then retire on the job before you retire for real and no one pays taxes there is a problem.
Didn't a Greek write the grasshopper and the ant?
As to dear Pope Francis, he still doesn't get the fact that capitalism has lifted hundreds of millions out of abject poverty just in the past 20 years. And if he can't understand that surely he cannot understand something as complex as climatology.
Posted by: matt | June 17, 2015 at 03:00 PM
Luigi Vercotti, and the place is already wrecked,
btw, it's now the Canadians turn to be hacked,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 03:04 PM
Thanks for that post on the interview with Mad Dog, narc.
He is warrior's warrior, a vanishing breed in this Regime's military.
Posted by: Jack The Trans-Former | June 17, 2015 at 03:05 PM
Perhaps the Greeks bearing a deadbeat attitude is doing the international financial system a favor. Perhaps it's time for a reckoning.
Or perhaps George Soros can buy Greece. Wouldn't it be great to have your own 100% owned entity own Greece, George?
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 03:12 PM
yes, but once you've caught that car then what,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 03:15 PM
For some reason, the attitude of Greece's leaders towards financial continence and the importance of a population's work ethic reminds me of this song from Grease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njSQVLDl3-s
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 03:20 PM
ThomasC-- what did you think of the Malanga take on your world in Wash Exam?
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 03:24 PM
some things are so obvious even jon stewart misses them,
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/06/shes-laura-linney-white.php
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 03:25 PM
chocolate rations deliveries will be waylaid,
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-federal-reserve-interest-rate-20150617-story.html
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 03:31 PM
OT I think.
FOX News just played this exchange at a House Armed Services Committee Hearing today between Joint Chiefs General Martin Dempsey and a Minnesota Congressman John Kline about what we are doing in Iraq.
Harris Faulkner plays this clip:
Congressman Kline: Are we in a quagmire there? Is it a stalemate? Are we winning? What's going on?
Gen Dempsey: I got it. And by the way, lets talk about the personal pronoun "We." This has to be "Them" right?, so if you're asking if the United States is wining, thats the wrong question.
Kline: No, I'm sorry, that's the question I'm asking. We've got soldiers there, we've got a commitment there, we're flying AirStrikes there, are We *(Big Emphasis) the United States, the Free World, Western Allies, our Allies there, are we winning or losing?
Harris then turns to her analyst talking head and says this:
Harris: You know Congressman Kline seems to be asking a pretty basic question. So is this our fight or not, and if it is, are we at least leading it?
Her talking head is some guy named Joshua Katz, former CIA covert Ops Officer; I do not know but he replies: You know Harris, it was a great question. And I think what we saw was General Dempsey...his transition is complete. He is no longer a Military Officer, he is a talking mouth for the Administration and it's policies. So unfortunately General Dempsey did not answer a very basic question. The Congressman was right...
My guess is we'll be seeing that clip many times later today.
Posted by: daddy | June 17, 2015 at 03:31 PM
NK, do you mean his pensions article? He understated the problem if anything. When I think about what rates of growth would be needed to pay federal, state and local unfunded liabilities, and what Obama and then Hillary if she's elected have done and will do to retard growth, I think we may be on our way to being a MegaGreece.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pension-wave-about-to-crash-on-taxpayers/article/2565965
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 03:32 PM
no, it's exactly on point, Dempsey was one of those naysayers, along with Cartwright, when Petraeus was pushing his 'hail mary' counterinsurgency play,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 03:35 PM
ThomasC-- considering you are our JOM Bond expert, thanks for that cheery assessment. Excuse me... I am going to go out and drink some hemlock.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 03:38 PM
Beasts nails it with his last two. Hahaha
Posted by: Gentlejim | June 17, 2015 at 03:38 PM
just a reminder,
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/key-questions-on-chuck-hagel-go-unanswered/
before that Richard Clarke, was their big get, and who was the one who did more favors for the Sauds,
like greenlighting the flights after 9.11
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 03:38 PM
Better song for Trump
Than Rockin' in the Free World
We Shall Overcomb
Posted by: Captain Haiku | June 17, 2015 at 03:40 PM
Harris Faulkner doing a great job sitting in for Shep Smith today. What an improvement.
Posted by: daddy | June 17, 2015 at 03:42 PM
DuDa will rue the day he spiked the football over Gowdy making Issa stomp away mad. Rue. The. Day.
The Treasury Deputy IG has confirmed what most suspect re: Lois Lerner: "There is potential criminal activity."
(ht some lurker in Chicago).
Posted by: henry | June 17, 2015 at 03:42 PM
I will believe a Greek default when I see it with my own 20/15 vision. Having been in lots of developer "work outs" with multiple lenders back when I was a highly paid consultant, I can say confidently that nothing gets done when everyone is talking nice to each other. Someone has to get mad, and I mean really angry swearing out loud mad, before any real progress is going to be made. Perhaps the Greeks had to have the lenders tell them to go see who else will loan you a drachma, in order to get it through their thick heads that they will not be calling all the shots in this.
Posted by: GMax | June 17, 2015 at 03:44 PM
If it's 'them', then I'm not exactly sure why General Dempsey would be testifying. I mean, he's 'us', right?
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 03:46 PM
Daddy, The WH claims:
http://www.weaselzippers.us/226669-white-house-takes-credit-kurdish-fighters-victory-over-isis-in-northern-syria/
Posted by: pagar | June 17, 2015 at 03:47 PM
Hell Triumph the Insult Comic Dog would be an improvement over Shemp Smith...
Posted by: GMax | June 17, 2015 at 03:48 PM
GMax-- in truth Greece already defaulted on a 300M euro interest payment 10 days ago, so they are in 'default' This Parliament cmte Report is outright reneging on 'odius' Bankster debt. I think they want to leave the currency union altogether.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 03:53 PM
I like Triumph the insult dog.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 03:53 PM
Judge Napoltano says this about the Supreme's upcoming decision on the ObamaCare subsidies:
Napolitano: I think we get (the decision) on whatever the last Monday is in June, June 28th. I think, just a guess from the Oral Argument, they are going to allow these subsidies to remain. They are going to find that this was "a Scriveners error," that it was written down improperly.
Harris: Those 5 words, Exchanges established by the State?
Napolitano: That's it.
Hopefully the Judge will continue to be dead wrong.
Posted by: daddy | June 17, 2015 at 03:55 PM
Str8 outta Scranton:
http://www.weaselzippers.us/226722-biden-in-world-war-i-america-should-have-bombed-its-own-steel-mills/
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 17, 2015 at 03:57 PM
World's finest canine weatherman.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3-TfZslHKoo
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 03:58 PM
Cheer up, NK. I suspect TM is the expert from the financial side. Perhaps he has a rosier assessment. Even if he doesn't, eschew the hemlock and go for a glass of Giuseppe Rinaldi Brunate Nebbiolo with a Jameson chaser and a Bruichladdich subchaser. If that doesn't make you mellow, there's always Dom in the champagne room at Scores with Destiny (and your wife, of course).
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 03:59 PM
We did build up our own nation, Ben, and then facilitated more growth by being the military might behind the international trading system. If we recede from this role, there will be no peace dividend; there will either be a successor backstopper (probably China) or there will be war of all against all. In either case, in the US, it will be the poor and middle class who will suffer the most (the Thorne Heinz and Obama and Gore and Billary types will do fine for awhile by continuing to exploit the fruits of spending the capital built up by others).
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 04:11 PM
We did build up our own nation, Ben, and then facilitated more growth by being the military might behind the international trading system. If we recede from this role, there will be no peace dividend; there will either be a successor backstopper (probably China) or there will be war of all against all. In either case, in the US, it will be the poor and middle class who will suffer the most (the Thorne Heinz and Obama and Gore and Billary types will do fine for awhile by continuing to exploit the fruits of spending the capital built up by others).
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 04:11 PM
TC, @03:32:
Do not worry Obama has a plan for that.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/government-paves-way-multiemployer-pension-plan-cuts-155134577--finance.html
"People 80 years old and over are protected from any upcoming cuts, while those over 75 are partially protected."
Posted by: pagar | June 17, 2015 at 04:13 PM
@4:03-- the default advice, follow the ChiCom way.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 04:14 PM
It's much more than a school of thought, re: bringing down Russia through an arms race - it was the idea behind Star Wars. And while the technological advnacement were nice, it was an economic weapon by design.
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 04:15 PM
Focus on the hair
When Trump says he has your back
Well... not Krauthammer's
Posted by: Threadkiller | June 17, 2015 at 04:17 PM
pagar- and if you like that plan, wait to you see Obummer's soc sec restructuring plan. Retired working class white people getting it the neck is an Obummer speciality.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 04:19 PM
Nationalism, Ben? I'd say I was totally non-nationalistic. I acknowledged that another Westphalian state could backstop the international trading system. Agree or disagree with me, I don't think it's nationalistic to argue that relief from the role of being the world's policemen involves unpleasant tradeoffs.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 04:20 PM
*advancements*
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 04:21 PM
You guys discussing gin or wine to deal with "Fear of Flying" syndrome, may need to switch to double martini's:
DOT to Investigate FAA Based on FOX Business Report
The Department of Transportation is investigating the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) following a FOX Business Network report, which uncovered misconduct and cheating in the air traffic controller program.
FOX Business just ran a story on this, explaining how FOX had uncovered that applicants to become Air Traffic Controllers were being given the answers so they could cheat and pass the tests, and that once it had been reported the FAA had tried to sweep it under the rug via internal investigations. Now it seems that as a result of FOX re-pushing the story, outside agencies (the DOT) will now investigate.
I can't tell from the limited info if the cheating the FAA hirers engaged in was significant cheating, by which I mean whether it allowed incompetents into the job. IMHO, anybody with a decent quick brain, decent verbal abilities, perceptive, and relatively clear thinking, should be able to do the job, so I can't tell if FOX is playing this up since the general public knows nothing of the particulars of aviation and can easily have the bejesus scared out of them with stories like this, but overall I am glad it isn't being swept under the rug as apparently the FAA tried to do.
Posted by: daddy | June 17, 2015 at 04:22 PM
All you need to know from that Malanga Wash Examiner article linked upthread:
Okay, maybe this, too:
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 04:23 PM
King Putt would love to screw with middle class pensions, but I promise that any action like that would bring on his rapid demise. There's no more give left...
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 04:25 PM
Giuseppe Rinaldi Brunate Nebbiolo
I have a few '04s in my cellar if anyone wants to gather and commiserate...
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 04:25 PM
I see the US as the best possible hegemon, Ben, on this level of creation. Does that equate to benevolence? No way. Westphalian states that can preen about benevolence can do so only if another Westphalain state is supplying the muscle.
As far as how the US is viewed in the world, Ben, do a thought experiment. Open immigration for a year. Which country would have the greatest percentage inflow? Something is telling it won't be China or any of the Euro-paradises.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 04:31 PM
Focus on the hair
Another commenter remarked that if Trump gets the nomination there'll be hell toupee.
Posted by: Eric in Boise | June 17, 2015 at 04:31 PM
But I'm plum out of hemlock...
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 04:34 PM
BoE-- Obummer sees it a little differently. While crushing private pensions and Soc Sec screws 80somethings, that plus college loan debt bailouts would make young white people happy and capture their votes. So while pension reneging destroys the Old White Dem Party, it opens the door for Prog Third World party, supported by white millennials.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 04:36 PM
I don't think he cares about the party at all, NK, but I'm not arguing with your policy analysis. Let's just hope the clock runs out before he completes his destruction of our country.
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 04:40 PM
Yep BoE, that should be our plan. We need to call him out every time he tries a smash and grab to pay off his parasite base, at the expense of working people and producers.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 04:45 PM
teaching otto, is an quixotic exercise, like climbing 'the two summitts of Kilimanjaro,
it is rare to be that ignorant of history, economics, or any subject, outside of the Vox masthead, and Zaphod's white house,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 04:46 PM
Let's just hope the clock runs out before he completes his destruction of our country.
Cue the allegro assai double time final movement, maestro...
We can call it a tarantella. Or perhaps an arabesque would be more fitting.
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 04:46 PM
As long as we're drinking really good wine on our way to Belize.
Posted by: Beasts of England | June 17, 2015 at 04:48 PM
in the 'scum and villainy' folder,
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=357392
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 04:48 PM
would that we have another Palmerston,
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/CivitasReviewMarch05.pdf
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 04:53 PM
Since the 70s I have told everyone that would listen that Soc Sec is a scam and its going to blow up on my age cohort ( the youngest boomers). I have said to many incredulous folks, that I would make this bargain in a heartbeat, i.e. "just give me back the money I paid in, no interest required, and I will sign away any claim on another nickel." And I mean it. I am going to file on my birthday when I turn 62 and hope I get it back before the river runs bone dry. That is coming and some will learn to find that cat food with a little salsa aint half bad...( wont be me, as I will track Beasts to wherever he heads in Belize and become his next door neighbor!
Posted by: GMax | June 17, 2015 at 04:53 PM
Speaking of discrimination...
Having just spent a week back East I find how easy it is back there to wake up and quickly catch-up with the JOM threads, whereas now being back on the West coast, here it is 12:42 local and I still haven't caught up with the threads and usually don't until about dog walk time after 4 PM.
This is discrimination pure and simply. Me and A(B) have to put in 4 to 5 times as much effort as you East Coast guys, simply to catch up and not say stuff that's redundant or stupid.
Obviously we need compensation for this burden, but I haven't yet figured out what form that ought to take yet. What do the rest of you Time Zone oppressed West Coast JOMer's think the East Coast JOMer's owe us for this
CronyismChronos-ism?Posted by: daddy | June 17, 2015 at 04:54 PM
daddy,
The interview with Mad Dog Mattis and the answer by Humpty Dempsey are so startling different you will understand why WE are in a quagmire and losing the war on ISIS whether we like it or not that its the Iraqi's problem.
Posted by: Jack The Trans-Former | June 17, 2015 at 04:54 PM
It's the peak, Ben, if one concludes, as I do, that (I) mankind lives in original sin, and (II) even if one is an atheist, original sin is appropriately viewed as a metaphor for man's social relations. Don't make the ideal the enemy of the workable.
As for what attracts immigrants, what attracted my Christian Armenian uncle for whom I worked as a child in his Manhattan deli (today he would have been fined or arrested for violating child labor laws, and I wouldn't have had the opportunity to serve the most diverse group of customers imagineable) was a better opportunity than that provided by the Religion of Peace in the Ottoman Empire. As to whether the laziness of Americans entered into his calculations, I don't know for sure, but I suspect not.
By the way, Ben, although I have disagreed with you on many occasions with your view that strategic anarchism can produce a more just society, I do think you hold that view in good faith.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | June 17, 2015 at 04:56 PM
So, narc, based on your 4:40 is Greece also going to drop out of NATO?
Posted by: Jack The Trans-Former | June 17, 2015 at 04:57 PM
Greece is IN NATO?
who knew
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 05:00 PM
it's the one thing, the right and left wings of the coalition probably agree on,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 05:02 PM
there'll be hell toupee.
Eric,
What a great line:)
Posted by: daddy | June 17, 2015 at 05:02 PM
daddy:
Obviously we need compensation for this burden, but I haven't yet figured out what form that ought to take yet.
Look, I'm just junior part time blogger here, but let me put in a good word for you with the staff at JOM HQ and we might be able to get you a refund on your membership fees. No promises, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Fingers crossed!
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | June 17, 2015 at 05:03 PM
NK,
You're joking right? About Greece's membership in NATO.
Turkey will hold rallies if they drop out and then decide to annex Cyprus fully. Let Putin's navy come to the rescue. After all that is where all the Russkie money is buried.
Posted by: Jack The Trans-Former | June 17, 2015 at 05:05 PM
TALIAN FAMILIES PROTEST FORCED CROSS-DRESSING OF SCHOOLCHILDREN
Posted by: Extraneus | June 17, 2015 at 05:06 PM
While you're at it, Jeff, the JOM mens room is out of handtowels and aftershave. Thanks.
Posted by: lyle | June 17, 2015 at 05:07 PM
I'm quite serious about Greece joining Putin's Orthodox currency and security union.The Greeks can rationally conclude that offers a grate deterrent against Erdogan than Nato.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 05:09 PM
'greater'
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 05:09 PM
Well, this means the Chinese aren't necessarily great hackers, but the govt IT folks make the ACA website people look competent.
Posted by: henry | June 17, 2015 at 05:11 PM
that juffali fellow'a got a nice crib in Surrey, they only show the pool in Kensington,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 05:11 PM
Wow,Dana Perino really hates Trump.
Posted by: Marlene on Kindle | June 17, 2015 at 05:11 PM
Well, this sucks:
Maybe if we just go Greek on it? How much is $19bil in drachmae?Posted by: Cecil Turner | June 17, 2015 at 05:12 PM
anyone spot the paradox in that statement?
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 05:14 PM
narc,
His joint in Kensington is an old chruch he renovated with the indoor pool. When you're as ugly as he is its imperative you have beaucoup money.
Posted by: Jack The Trans-Former | June 17, 2015 at 05:14 PM
The Greeks might want to have a talk with the Czechs, or maybe the Hungarians or maybe the Lithuanians about cozying up to a grizzly bear. Takes quite a bit of time, talent and effort to ever break free of the grip and the bear sometimes gets hungry...
Posted by: GMax | June 17, 2015 at 05:16 PM
First I read this and muttered "damn":
But now I am trying to set the betting line on the over/under for Josh Incredibly Not Earnest telling us about Recovery Summer. What will this be, Part Seven? Only Jason has more lives than this talking point...
Posted by: GMax | June 17, 2015 at 05:30 PM
Maybe if we just go Greek on it?
We have an option not open to the Greeks, which is to default by debasing the currency. I don't see a viable alternative, though it's hard to see when the fun will begin.
Posted by: jimmyk | June 17, 2015 at 05:30 PM
Ex-that is straight out of UNESCO standards. I have them somewhere. I remember the reader who sent them to me offline in horror.
Posted by: rse | June 17, 2015 at 05:30 PM
Shocking that a party outsider like PeRINO would hate Trump.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | June 17, 2015 at 05:32 PM
Actually there is one viable alternative to inflating away the debt, and that is large cuts in spending, plus entitlement reform. Those seem about as likely as discovering oil under Manhattan.
Posted by: jimmyk | June 17, 2015 at 05:35 PM
Not until the Cypriot banks did the "bail-in" and buried the Russkie cash. You really are an idiot.
Posted by: Jack The Trans-Former | June 17, 2015 at 05:36 PM
Jack, he probably thought giving the Chinese outsourcers root access to the OPM system was a good idea. Oops, that was Obama.
Posted by: henry | June 17, 2015 at 05:40 PM
lyle:
While you're at it, Jeff, the JOM mens room is out of handtowels and aftershave. Thanks.
Thank you for for contacting JOM. Your comment is very important to us. Please stay on the line and your comment will be answered in the order in which it was received. Para espanol escribe el numero dos por favor.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | June 17, 2015 at 05:44 PM
The Fed Sez: "The economy continues to suck under Obummer" DO TELL!
CBO Says: "Obuumernomics have bankrupted the country with Debt." DO TELL!
JOMers have been saying this for 6 years. WE ARE SOOOPERGENIUSES!
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 05:49 PM
As henry's links make clear, nobody who's been in the belly of the beast will be surprised at the hacking.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | June 17, 2015 at 06:00 PM
former IRS Commish Miller was none too pleased.
Posted by: NKonChrome | June 17, 2015 at 06:02 PM
we're at full Brawndo, of course the pieces don't explicitly point out, the policies involved, those just happened,
Posted by: narciso | June 17, 2015 at 06:05 PM
Jeremy Clarkson on Greece.
Posted by: Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Ignatz | June 17, 2015 at 06:13 PM
~ ` ' `, ~ ' . ` ,
.oOo. . . .oOo.
Posted by: Ben Zaynus | June 17, 2015 at 06:17 PM
The gov't, with trillions of dollars of spending each year, couldn't secure their own computer systems.
I think I should read the ending of this before it's too late:
The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction
Posted by: Extraneus | June 17, 2015 at 06:17 PM