http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ LGF: Little Green Footballs en Copyright 2013 Little Green Footballs http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:18:12 PDT http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/lgf-logo-sm.gif http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ 140 47 Little Green Footballs: Redlining the BS Detector Since 9/12 I predict "war on men" will prove a more enduring idea than "war on women." -- James Taranto (@jamestaranto) June 19, 2013 Discuss. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42156_Wall_Street_Journal_Editor_James_Taranto-_The_War_on_Men_Is_Whats_Important#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42156_Wall_Street_Journal_Editor_James_Taranto-_The_War_on_Men_Is_Whats_Important#rss-sm Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:18:12 PDT Misogyny Wall Street Journal War on Women James Taranto Here's a pretty amazing development that may finally destroy the last shred of partisan hitman Darrell Issa's credibility: Breaking: Full House Committee Transcripts Shed New Light on Genesis of IRS Targeting. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have just released a full transcript of testimony from a key witness in ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42155_Full_House_Committee_Transcripts_Reveal_What_Issa_Wanted_to_Hide#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42155_Full_House_Committee_Transcripts_Reveal_What_Issa_Wanted_to_Hide#rss-sm Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:05:24 PDT Republican Party President Obama Fake Outrage Darrell Issa Undoubtedly the most absurd, ridiculous GOP op-ed you'll see today: creationist Gov. Bobby Jindal's latest "don't be stupid" piece for Politico: Opinion: GOP Needs Action, Not Navel-Gazing - Gov. Bobby Jindal. After the re-election of Barack Obama, Jindal demanded that the GOP reflect on what caused the loss. Well, he's over ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42154_Creationist_Gov._Bobby_Jindals_Hilariously_Stupid_Politico_Rant#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42154_Creationist_Gov._Bobby_Jindals_Hilariously_Stupid_Politico_Rant#rss-sm Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:14:29 PDT Climate Change Creationism Right Wing Bobby Jindal Idiocy Anti-Science Stupidity FLV Movie Via CharlieRose.com. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42153_Video-_Charlie_Rose_With_President_Obama_on_Syria_Iran_and_NSA_Leaks#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42153_Video-_Charlie_Rose_With_President_Obama_on_Syria_Iran_and_NSA_Leaks#rss-sm Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:16:40 PDT Iran NSA Syria President Obama PRISM Edward Snowden Meanwhile, the Republican Party continues pushing insanely stupid regressive social issues, but let's all look over there at the NSA: Texas Congressman: Masturbating Fetuses Prove Need for Abortion Ban. As the House of Representatives gears up for Tuesday's debate on HR 1797, a bill that would outlaw virtually all abortions ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42152_Texas_Republican_Congressman-_Fetuses_Can_Fap_Must_Not_Abort#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42152_Texas_Republican_Congressman-_Fetuses_Can_Fap_Must_Not_Abort#rss-sm Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:30:28 PDT Women's Rights Texas GOP Abortion Social Conservatives Republican Party Bad Craziness Atavism War on Women Regressive salon.com “How do you make abortion funny?” That was a key question mulled at a major conservative gathering Friday on how to make social conservatism appealing to young people, after an election where Republicans got trounced in the battle for millennial voters (who are are moving even further and further ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42151_This_is_not_a_parody-__The_Religious_Right_is_trying_to_make_abortion_funny#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42151_This_is_not_a_parody-__The_Religious_Right_is_trying_to_make_abortion_funny#rss-sm Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:25:56 PDT GOP Abortion Christian-Right Freedom Coalition Conference Millennial Voters Coming soon: don't miss Glenn Greenwald at the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago, sponsored by the extreme left wing International Socialist Organization, the US branch of one of the many Trotskyite groups associated with the International Socialist umbrella movement. Also featured: workshops on "The new movement against Israeli apartheid," "Obama's war ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42150_Coming_Soon_to_Chicago-_Glenn_Greenwald_and_the_Socialist_Workers#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42150_Coming_Soon_to_Chicago-_Glenn_Greenwald_and_the_Socialist_Workers#rss-sm Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:48:59 PDT Communist Glenn Greenwald Extreme Left International Socialist Organization Buzzfeed has a partial transcript of President Obama's interview with Charlie Rose airing tonight on PBS, with some of Obama's clearest and most direct statements about the Snowden case: Barack Obama: Well, in the end, and what I've said, and I continue to believe, is that we don't have to ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42149_Obama-_The_NSA_Cannot_Listen_to_Your_Telephone_Calls_Cannot_Target_Your_Emails#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42149_Obama-_The_NSA_Cannot_Listen_to_Your_Telephone_Calls_Cannot_Target_Your_Emails#rss-sm Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:31:12 PDT NSA Glenn Greenwald Transparency President Obama Distortion Edward Snowden Charlie Rose Let's examine some of the claims made by NSA leaker Edward Snowden in his Q&A session (stage-managed by demagogue Glenn Greenwald) this morning, shall we? Edward Snowden Q and A: NSA Whistleblower Answers Your Questions SNOWDEN: First, the US Government, just as they did with other whistleblowers, immediately and predictably ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42148_Edward_Snowden-_The_US_Government_Wants_to_Murder_Me#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42148_Edward_Snowden-_The_US_Government_Wants_to_Murder_Me#rss-sm Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:06:05 PDT Espionage Guardian Glenn Greenwald Libertarian Edward Snowden Tonight, Chinese state newspaper Global Times is calling for Edward Snowden to remain in China: Snowden Extradition Would 'Tarnish Hong Kong's Image', Says China State Media | South China Morning Post. A state-backed Chinese newspaper on Monday said extraditing former spy Edward Snowden to the United States would be a ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42147_Hong_Kong_Wants_to_Keep_Edward_Snowden_as_a_Symbol_of_Chinas_Growing_Power#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42147_Hong_Kong_Wants_to_Keep_Edward_Snowden_as_a_Symbol_of_Chinas_Growing_Power#rss-sm Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:18:09 PDT NSA China Glenn Greenwald Hong Kong Edward Snowden Tonight ZDNet, sister company of CNET, is "pulling the plug" on the bogus CNET report that the NSA can wiretap US citizens' phones without a warrant: Congressman Denies Report Claiming NSA Can Listen to Calls Without Warrants | ZDNet. Update at 2:50 p.m. ET on June 16: We're pulling the ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42146_ZDNet_Pulls_the_Plug_on_That_Bogus_CNET_Story#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42146_ZDNet_Pulls_the_Plug_on_That_Bogus_CNET_Story#rss-sm Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:45:37 PDT NSA cnet Fake Outrage Declan McCullagh ZDNet The Director of National Intelligence has released an official statement rebutting the hyperbolic claims made by CNET's Declan McCullagh: ODNI Statement on the Limits of Surveillance Activities Sunday, June 16, 2013 Office of the Director of National Intelligence Washington, DC 20511 The statement that a single analyst can eavesdrop on domestic communications without ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42145_Director_of_National_Intelligences_Statement_on_CNETs_Bogus_Story#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42145_Director_of_National_Intelligences_Statement_on_CNETs_Bogus_Story#rss-sm Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:58:38 PDT NSA Wiretapping cnet Fake Outrage Declan McCullagh Eavesdropping Exaggeration Well now. I'm at a loss to understand how Edward Snowden's latest disclosures could possibly have been inspired by his much-vaunted concerns about civil liberties, since he's now revealing details about US espionage against Russia. American spies based in the UK intercepted the top-secret communications of the then Russian president, ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42144_Edward_Snowdens_a_Hero_All_Right_-_to_China_and_Russia#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42144_Edward_Snowdens_a_Hero_All_Right_-_to_China_and_Russia#rss-sm Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:42:24 PDT Russia Espionage Guardian China Glenn Greenwald Edward Snowden In a conversation about NSA leaker Edward Snowden's decision to flee to China, Glenn Greenwald can't resist approvingly retweeting one of the craziest over-the-top statements I've seen yet: If you want to have a society in which whistleblowers are prosecuted more aggressively than ever, don't blame them when they leave. -- ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42143_Glenn_Greenwald-_America_Is_The_Most_Brutal_Sprawling_Prison_State_on_Earth#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42143_Glenn_Greenwald-_America_Is_The_Most_Brutal_Sprawling_Prison_State_on_Earth#rss-sm Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:45:17 PDT Glenn Greenwald Advocacy Journalism Idiocy Libertarian Edward Snowden And now we have the definitive jump-the-shark moment for CNET's absurdly misleading NSA story, as raving demagogue Pamela Geller puts on her hate goggles and makes the connections between NSA spying and the SEKRIT MOSLEM CONSPIRACY: OBAMA ADMIN IS LISTENING IN ON YOUR PHONECALLS "SIMPLY BASED ON AN ANALYST DECIDING ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42142_Pamela_Geller_Connects_the_NSA-Sekrit_Muslim_Dots-_Do_They_Attend_the_911_Mosque#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42142_Pamela_Geller_Connects_the_NSA-Sekrit_Muslim_Dots-_Do_They_Attend_the_911_Mosque#rss-sm Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:09:43 PDT Pamela Geller Idiocy Lunacy Anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade Hate Goggles CNET has finally gotten around to posting an update to their absurdly hyperbolic article, formerly titled: "NSA Admits Listening to U.S. Phone Calls Without Warrants." The new title: NSA Spying Flap Extends to Contents of U.S. Phone Calls. But even though Rep. Nadler has now made it exceptionally clear that the NSA ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42141_CNET_Updates_Article_Continues_to_Make_False_Claims#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42141_CNET_Updates_Article_Continues_to_Make_False_Claims#rss-sm Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:23:55 PDT NSA cnet Jerrold Nadler Declan McCullagh A followup to our post from yesterday about CNET's ridiculous over-heated claim that Rep. Jerrold Nadler said the NSA "admitted" that "the Justice Department has secretly interpreted federal surveillance law to permit thousands of low-ranking analysts to eavesdrop on phone calls" ... Uh, no. He didn't. Update Rep. Nadler in a ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42140_Remember_When_Rep._Nadler_Supposedly_Said_the_NSA_Could_Listen_to_Phone_Calls_Without_a_Warrant_Not.#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42140_Remember_When_Rep._Nadler_Supposedly_Said_the_NSA_Could_Listen_to_Phone_Calls_Without_a_Warrant_Not.#rss-sm Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:50:13 PDT NSA cnet Fake Outrage PRISM Jerrold Nadler Reuters is reporting that they've obtained an unclassified "government paper" saying the US government only accessed detailed information on fewer than 300 phone numbers, out of the millions of pieces of metadata they collected in 2012 -- and that this information directly led to the thwarting of terrorist plots. (Reuters) ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42139_NSA_Paper-_Fewer_Than_300_Phone_Numbers_Examined_in_Detail#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42139_NSA_Paper-_Fewer_Than_300_Phone_Numbers_Examined_in_Detail#rss-sm Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:23:40 PDT NSA Terrorism New York Subway PRISM Edward Snowden Uh, wait a minute. The latest fear-mongering story about the NSA appears to be bogus. Here's the story at CNET: NSA Admits Listening to U.S. Phone Calls Without Warrants | Politics and Law - CNET News. Sounds pretty inflammatory, right? The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42138_CNET_Says_NSA_Admits_Listening_to_US_Phone_Calls_-_But_Thats_Not_What_the_Video_Shows#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42138_CNET_Says_NSA_Admits_Listening_to_US_Phone_Calls_-_But_Thats_Not_What_the_Video_Shows#rss-sm Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:49:33 PDT NSA Privacy cnet Distortion Fake Outrage Richard Mueller Jerrold Nadler Vimeo Once upon a midnight dreary, while Mike, the ever grumpy debt collector, left work weak and weary. He then finds himself in a dark basement car park where silence sleeps. All that could be heard is the echo of his footsteps hitting against the cold, hard concrete floor, and ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42137_A_Terrific_Animated_Film_From_Malaysia-_Exit#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42137_A_Terrific_Animated_Film_From_Malaysia-_Exit#rss-sm Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:22:44 PDT Malaysia Video Short Film Animation Vimeo YouTube Speaking of fear-mongering, the ultimate fear fix for paranoia junkies is the BIBLICAL END OF THE UNIVERSE. (Something made me type that in caps. Sorry.) Glenn "Raving Freakazoid" Beck has been peddling End Times hooey to his gullible listeners for years, and yesterday he hauled out the snake oil again. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42136_Glenn_Beck-_Cannibalism_in_Syria_Means_We_Are_at_the_End#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42136_Glenn_Beck-_Cannibalism_in_Syria_Means_We_Are_at_the_End#rss-sm Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:09:46 PDT Fundamentalism Glenn Beck Right Wing Fanaticism End Times Religious Right Nut Sandwich Raving Freakazoid Wacko Award Throughout the ongoing NSA/PRISM scandal, one of the most incendiary accusations has been Glenn Greenwald's initial assertion that major tech companies such as Facebook, Apple, Google, and Microsoft were givng the US Government direct, unfiltered access to their servers. This access would allow the government to spy on people seemingly ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42135_Facebook_Microsoft_Release_Data_Request_Numbers#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42135_Facebook_Microsoft_Release_Data_Request_Numbers#rss-sm Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:26:14 PDT NSA Guardian Security Glenn Greenwald Microsoft Facebook law enforcement PRISM Direct Access NSA Scandal Today, in his regular "On Security and Liberty" Guardian column, Glenn Greenwald sought to address some of the criticisms of his PRISM reporting. As when asked about his "direct access" claims in a recent interview, Greenwald again framed his PRISM story as not being about details of any actual ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42134_Greenwald-_We_never_claimed_direct_access_was_true#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42134_Greenwald-_We_never_claimed_direct_access_was_true#rss-sm Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:01:39 PDT NSA Glenn Greenwald PRISM Direct Access Guardian PRISM Overreach PRISM Story YouTube http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42133_Friday_Jam-_Queens_of_the_Stone_Age_-_I_Appear_Missing_(Live_on_Letterman)#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42133_Friday_Jam-_Queens_of_the_Stone_Age_-_I_Appear_Missing_(Live_on_Letterman)#rss-sm Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:54:04 PDT Music Video Rock Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age Kurt Eichenwald's piece for Vanity Fair today has some of the clearest information I've yet seen on exactly how the NSA's data collection programs work, what they're used for, and the many layers of legal oversight and limitations placed upon them: PRISM Isn't Data Mining and Other Falsehoods in the ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42132_Must-Read-_Kurt_Eichenwald_on_PRISM-_Its_Not_Data_Mining_and_Other_Falsehoods#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42132_Must-Read-_Kurt_Eichenwald_on_PRISM-_Its_Not_Data_Mining_and_Other_Falsehoods#rss-sm Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:21:37 PDT NSA Terrorism Glenn Greenwald Data Mining Edward Snowden Today CBS News is confirming that reporter Sharyl Attkisson's computer was hacked, and the entire right wing blogosphere is jumping to the conclusion that our evil President must be behind it, of course. That investigation has reached the following conclusions, according to CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair: "A cyber security ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42131_CBS_News-_Multiple_Breaches_of_Sharyl_Attkissons_Computer#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42131_CBS_News-_Multiple_Breaches_of_Sharyl_Attkissons_Computer#rss-sm Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:57:39 PDT Internet CBS News Security Right Wing Hacking Justice Department Sheryl Atkisson This afternoon the always loquacious Glenn Greenwald took to the Twitters to make one of those self-aggrandizing, absurdly overblown comparisons for which he's well-known: Are there any meaningful differences between the actions of Dan Ellsberg & Edward Snowden? -- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 13, 2013 Since Greenwald has blocked me ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42130_Greenwald_Asks-_Are_There_Any_Meaningful_Differences_Between_Ellsberg_and_Snowden#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42130_Greenwald_Asks-_Are_There_Any_Meaningful_Differences_Between_Ellsberg_and_Snowden#rss-sm Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:14:33 PDT NSA Glenn Greenwald Leaks Pentagon Papers Edward Snowden Daniel Ellsberg News of major significance, just breaking... BREAKING: .@SenJohnMcCain just said WH will announce aid to Syrian rebels and that Asaad has used chemical weapons -- Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) June 13, 2013 UPDATE at 6/13/13 2:18:00 pm WH statement: "Our intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42129_Breaking-_US_Confirms_Syria_Used_Chemical_Weapons_Will_Aid_Opposition_(Update-_The_Maverick_Jumped_the_Gun)#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42129_Breaking-_US_Confirms_Syria_Used_Chemical_Weapons_Will_Aid_Opposition_(Update-_The_Maverick_Jumped_the_Gun)#rss-sm Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:09:43 PDT WMD Syria Chemical Weapons President Obama Good news, bloggers of America! Have you seen those ads running on a lot of websites asking if Sarah Palin should run for the Senate? Well, apparently God has told Sarah to forget that and sign a contract with Fox News instead: Sarah Palin, Fox News Together Again. According to ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42128_Reunited_and_It_Feels_So_Good-_Sarah_Palin_and_Fox_News#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42128_Reunited_and_It_Feels_So_Good-_Sarah_Palin_and_Fox_News#rss-sm Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:09:19 PDT Fox News Right Wing Sarah Palin Idiocy Fox and Friends Today the LA Times has a report on how NSA leaker Edward Snowden smuggled classified documents out of the Hawaii office in which he worked: with a USB thumb drive. This is interesting information because it flatly contradicts yet another detail in the Guardian's reporting. WASHINGTON -- Former National Security ... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42127_LA_Times_Contradicts_Guardian_Story_of_Snowdens_Four_Laptops#rss-sm http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42127_LA_Times_Contradicts_Guardian_Story_of_Snowdens_Four_Laptops#rss-sm Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:26:19 PDT NSA Glenn Greenwald Leaks Hong Kong Edward Snowden