The isolated psycopath or sociopath may be the ultimate threat to national security.
They're not, though. While capable of doing horrible things they are a local threat at best. Nothing they do will have national effects beyond "This thing happened so I, a politician, will sign this legislation that saves my face"
The NSA's job is to spy on the rest of the world, but leave the US citizens alone. This guy seems unable to accept that one little limit in their charter.
I was under the impression they actually were playing by these rules, but exploiting the loophole of "Hey, THOSE countries are the ones doing the collection of data on US citizens. It just so happened we also had interesting information on their population so we decided to trade."
The fact we haven't had another major terrorist attack in over a decade is notable.
Not really, they didn't happen that frequently to begin with.
I don't think the the NSA has enough disk space (or interest) to collect the porn of the average American.
No, just the metadata about every session.
Its not like one would run around the woods with a pressure cooker bomb to hunt deer or a car bomb as a party favorite.
Someone doesn't know any rednecks
Okay, you get funny points, but in case anyone takes you seriously, automatic transmissions pretty much became the norm in the U.S. in the 1950s and from your list only eating and sleeping were available in the car.
Don't forget drinking!
Only a truely evil human being would bring a child into this world as it is today.
~Said pretty much anyone at any point in history
How could it possibly get WORSE?!? We're at the bottom now with reference to the leadership of this country.
You know you're spoiled when you're saying this in America. We still have a looooooong way to go before we hit rock bottom.
If you follow Romney's logic, you don't even need to pull the jail card. Think about this scenario:
Oh my God, all those groceries I bought and ate were PEOPLE D:
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
