Many of the poorest and most rural states in the country tend to favor Republican politicians.

Lord, don't I know it. Fitting that today is Halloween, as during All Hallows Eve when Obama was first running, all the Obama yard signs (and only the Obama yard signs) went missing from all the front lawns in my little burg located deep inside a deep Red State. "High school kids playing a prank", said the cops. Sure. Sure they were. But even if they were, they learned their blatant racial hatred from Mom and Dad.

It's part and parcel of the severe mental illness of poor GOP voters: "If I vote to let billionaires become trillionaires, I myself will magically become a millionaire solely because I'm White!"

People are living life with their assholes puckered.

Well, I'd certainly hope so.

Because I have better things to do with my life than sit in my car, and because speed limits are always set far below the speed at which I feel safe driving.

Make way! Someone more important than our safety is coming thru!

the complete range of devices under investigation has not been disclosed, it is reported that one of them is an "implantable heart device."

Please let it be the same one DICK Cheney uses. Though if it is on the list, he'll just switch back to yet another heart of a forsaken orphan.

Not to mention that it gives those same companies huge incentives to medal in politics.

Well that's unintentionally true - especially for assholes like the Kochs that are awarding gold medals to lapdog morons across the US.

point being, they're breaking the law in the country where the servers were in... they're going to slip up some day and hack someone that sues them abroad and in usa...

Sue? Nah, I want the offended country to consider the hacking as an act of war, justifying the seizing of assets and jailing of US government officials on charges of espionage. And a big country; too big to drone / carpet bomb. I'd advise Brazil to conduct a test case.