Preston Reed’s Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaign

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Preston DMed me on Twitter to ask me to let people know about his proposed crowd-sourced global tour, and I’m happy to help support him! He was one of the first (if not the first) to use that two-handed highly percussive style that’s all over the acoustic guitar world today, and I’ve been a fan for years.

Here’s the page at indiegogo.com with more info and links to become a contributor (with some great perks as well): Preston Reed NEW ALBUM & TOUR | Indiegogo.

And here’s a selection from his YouTube channel, titled “Ladies Night.”

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146 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:45:10pm

This guy works every part of the guitar.

2 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:45:25pm

Nice stuff. I think I’ll get on board and get a CD for my brother.

3 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:49:37pm

I’ve heard his stuff, just amazing.

4 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:49:44pm
What stunned officials about Snowden was that a low-level contractor could gain access to a number of disparate intelligence programs, each of them walled off behind levels of classification above his top-secret clearance.

Snowden’s job was to ensure that classified computer networks were operating properly; that apparently allowed him to get past security barriers and browse at will.

Headdesk. So much headdesk.

5 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:51:18pm

If you have a Twitter account, please retweet! Let’s help this happen.

6 Kragar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:52:16pm

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

Headdesk. So much headdesk.

Seriously? WTF?

7 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:53:55pm

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

Headdesk. So much headdesk.

Well, that’s just his claim, so far. He may have found a flashdrive or one of the laptops full of sensitive information that seem to get left in taxis on a regular basis.

8 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:55:18pm

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

He apparently comes from a family of civil servants and it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that strings were pulled to help him get these high-paying jobs.

The processes for vetting people for top-secret access through companies like Booz Allen are about to get a serious microscoping.

9 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:55:20pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

If you have a Twitter account, please retweet! Let’s help this happen.

done!

10 GeneJockey  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:57:29pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

The processes for vetting people for top-secret access through companies like Booz Allen is about to get a serious micrcolonoscoping.

More likely.

11 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:58:12pm

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

Headdesk. So much headdesk.

Forget headdesk, this is more like headoffice.

12 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:58:20pm

re: #7 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Well, that’s just his claim, so far. He may have found a flashdrive or one of the laptops full of sensitive information that seem to get left in taxis on a regular basis.

Absolutely - I see a lot of people just taking his claims of extraordinary access at face value. It could be a lot more mundane than that, and he could be exaggerating or making things up. We don’t know the details at this point and shouldn’t accept his word without skepticism.

13 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 4:59:35pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

We already know at least part of his story is bullshit.

His purported “background” is impossible without liberal usage of Time Travel.

14 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:02:55pm

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

done!

also, ordered the CD and shared on FB (I have lots of musician friends).

15 GeneJockey  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:03:19pm

re: #13 ProTARDISLiberal

We already know at least part of his story is bullshit.

His purported “background” is impossible without liberal usage of Time Travel.

He must be the 12th Doctor. Somebody said they were getting younger…
//

16 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:04:59pm

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

Headdesk. So much headdesk.

Because when you have root and admin passwords, you are the system god.

17 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:05:08pm

Clearly, though - he had access to things he should not have had access to, regardless of the details. The Powerpoint slides were genuine classified docs.

The most shocking thing to me is that top secret intelligence programs are being documented with totally fucking shitty vector graphics in Powerpoint.

18 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:06:56pm

re: #16 Vicious Babushka

Because when you have root and admin passwords, you are the system god.

Sudo U believe he had them?

19 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:07:58pm

re: #15 GeneJockey

This is guy is less the Doctor, more the Tivoli.

20 Kragar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:08:03pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Clearly, though - he had access to things he should not have had access to, regardless of the details. The Powerpoint slides were genuine classified docs.

The most shocking thing to me is that top secret intelligence programs are being documented with totally fucking shitty vector graphics in Powerpoint.

I’ve worked on 15 page detailed reports documenting security vulnerabilities which we get returned and are told “turn it into some bullet points for a presentation.” Then we get the guidelines from management based on their misunderstanding the bullet points so the actual problems never get addressed.

Cybersecurity is a joke in this country.

21 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:08:15pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

I volunteer to go teach the NSA about Visio.

22 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:09:47pm

re: #13 ProTARDISLiberal

His background is about as impossible as Cote de Pablo’s character’s background in NCIS.

And guess what? This is reality, not a Televised Crime Drama which I happen to like.

23 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:10:07pm

I have a complete irrational unthinking aversion to Powerpoint. I break out in hives when someone forces me to look at one of those godawful things.

24 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:11:08pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

I have a complete irrational unthinking aversion to Powerpoint. I break out in hives when someone forces me to look at one of those godawful things.

I was at several conferences in Scotland a few years ago and even there everyone complained of “Death by PowerPoint”.

25 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:11:50pm

re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was at several conferences in Scotland a few years ago and even there everyone complained of “Death by PowerPoint”.

But Microsoft!

26 jaunte  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:12:00pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

Making sense of marketing-speak rendered in Powerpoint form is a regular feature of my day job.

27 Kragar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:12:35pm

“Can you boil this down to a few bullet points?”

“No. If you can’t understand it, you have no fucking business setting policy on it.”

28 GeneJockey  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:12:58pm

re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was at several conferences in Scotland a few years ago and even there everyone complained of “Death by PowerPoint”.

It’s like any other tool - used properly, it’s an excellent part of a presentation. Used badly, it is 20 lb of suck in a 5lb bag.

29 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:13:25pm

re: #26 jaunte

Making sense of marketing-speak rendered in Powerpoint form is a regular feature of my day job.

Gahhh! I’d rather let a giant tarantula crawl across my chest.

30 jaunte  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:13:27pm

1. ……….
B. ………..
[unrelated stock photo]
And furthermore…..

31 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:13:50pm

re: #26 jaunte

Any one remember this?

Afghan War in Powerpoint form.

32 jaunte  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:14:39pm

re: #31 ProTARDISLiberal

Glenn Beck’s brainscan.

33 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:15:04pm
34 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:16:46pm

Charles: Is that 2nd video..’ Ladies night ’ done in open E tuning?
Amazing player

35 The Mountain That Blogs  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:17:03pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

xkcd.com

36 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:17:52pm

re: #18 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Sudo U believe he had them?

If he was a system administrator (which is kind of a low level job) then yeah, he totally would have had them in order to, you know, administer the system.

37 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:18:09pm

re: #34 HoosierHoops

Charles: Is that 2nd video..’ Ladies night ’ done in open E tuning?
Amazing player

He’s got a bass string dropped way down, could be a C or B.

38 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:18:45pm

re: #36 Vicious Babushka

If he was a system administrator (which is kind of a low level job) then yeah, he totally would have had them in order to, you know, administer the system.

Don’t yell at me!

39 Dr. Matt  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:21:41pm

Snowden, Ron Paultard, Alex Jones, Glenn Beck: proof that libertarians cannot be trusted and should be treated like deviants.

40 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:22:09pm

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

Headdesk. So much headdesk.

Bam, called it last thread!

41 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:24:04pm

re: #36 Vicious Babushka

If he was a system administrator (which is kind of a low level job) then yeah, he totally would have had them in order to, you know, administer the system.

Ironically, this could have been migrated to a large extent with proper ACLs and things like Selinux…which was developed by the NSA.

42 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:24:15pm

Yeah Jane, when wingnuts post shit like this they should totally expect a visit from the Secret Service.

43 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:26:16pm
The Russian authorities will consider political asylum for Edward Snowden, who risks prosecution in the United States for his recent blockbuster spy leaks, if he sends a proper request, business daily Kommersant said Tuesday, citing the Kremlin spokesman.

“If we receive such a request, we will consider it,” Kommersant quoted presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov as saying.

44 Stoatly  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:28:14pm

re: #31 ProTARDISLiberal

Any one remember this?

Afghan War in Powerpoint form.

I cannot forget it:

- people will demand complex things presented in a simple easily digested form (even if that strips all understanding.)

- people love a technological fix
(politicians more than anyone)

- making lists and drawing diagrams is always fun
(even when people are dying)

45 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:29:27pm

re: #34 HoosierHoops

Charles: Is that 2nd video..’ Ladies night ’ done in open E tuning?
Amazing player

Preston answers your question via DM:

Yes, that’s the tuning I use for a “normal” guitar. But for the baritone guitar in the video, it’s BbFCFFC (one whole step lower).

46 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:31:59pm

Mitt Romney, had he won the election, would have been the first “Powerpoint President.”

47 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:33:33pm
48 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:33:58pm

That which has been seen, cannot be unseen.

49 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:34:51pm

re: #48 Gus

Gahhh!

50 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:37:07pm

re: #47 Gus

It’s spelled “Belieber” not “Bieliber”

51 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:37:36pm

re: #47 Gus

What the hell is wrong with you?!?!?

//half-ish

52 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:38:05pm

re: #50 Vicious Babushka

It’s spelled “Belieber” not “Bieliber”

Gah. Fixing.

53 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:39:18pm

re: #52 Gus

That’s why Twitter needs a cutting edge edit feature like we already have here.

/snerk

54 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:40:42pm

Fixed. Stoped bugging Mr. Duns.

55 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:41:01pm

re: #53 Charles Johnson

That’s why Twitter needs a cutting edge edit feature like we already have here.

/snerk

Had to do it three times! Typos. Grr.

56 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:42:19pm

Another limo fire in California.

57 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:45:18pm

another loon who is begging for a visit:

58 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:49:57pm

re: #26 jaunte

Making sense of marketing-speak rendered in Powerpoint form is a regular feature of my day job.

My last few Army years were spent turning data into PowerPoint haiku for generals.

59 EPR-radar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:50:38pm

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

What stunned officials about Snowden was that a low-level contractor could gain access to a number of disparate intelligence programs, each of them walled off behind levels of classification above his top-secret clearance.
Snowden’s job was to ensure that classified computer networks were operating properly; that apparently allowed him to get past security barriers and browse at will.

Headdesk. So much headdesk.

This doesn’t sound right to me. If a system administrator has that kind of access on a classified network, then he or she needs to be cleared for all information that is accessible with sysadmin privileges (i.e., have more security clearances than God).

I can’t believe security has forgotten how compartments work, even with the post 9/11 emphasis on putting all the pieces together.

60 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:52:17pm

re: #46 Vicious Babushka

Mitt Romney, had he won the election, would have been the first “Powerpoint President.”

Instead he’s the first “Cell-cam Pretender”.

61 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:52:20pm

*HEAD DESK*

62 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:53:43pm

Wingnuts cling to their guns, religion and fake quotes.

63 wrenchwench  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:53:48pm


Later, lizards.

64 Political Atheist  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:53:49pm

Patriot Act Poll LGF results

Image: Untitled-1.jpg

73% of votes say rescind the patriot act.

65 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:53:59pm

re: #61 Vicious Babushka

*HEAD DESK*

DEEERRRRPPP!

66 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:55:51pm

re: #59 EPR-radar

This doesn’t sound right to me. If a system administrator has that kind of access on a classified network, then he or she needs to be cleared for all information that is accessible with sysadmin privileges (i.e., have more security clearances than God).

I can’t believe security has forgotten how compartments work, even with the post 9/11 emphasis on putting all the pieces together.

Co-signed. There’s a lot about Snowden’s story that is not ringing true. But it’s still possible that the vast contracting system installed after 9/11 has made it possible for these things to happen.

67 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:57:53pm

GAH

68 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:58:00pm

re: #64 Political Atheist

Patriot Act Poll LGF results

Image: Untitled-1.jpg

73% of votes say rescind the patriot act,

Replace it with the ‘Guardian Bill’.

69 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 5:58:35pm

re: #61 Vicious Babushka

*HEAD DESK*

well, he does say it’s a hat article.
Sounds like a millinery militia…

70 compound_Idaho  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:00:12pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

He apparently comes from a family of civil servants and it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that strings were pulled to help him get these high-paying jobs.

The processes for vetting people for top-secret access through companies like Booz Allen is about to get a serious microscoping.

Maybe they should have monitored his phone and internet activity a bit more closely.

71 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:00:42pm

re: #63 wrenchwench

Wow. That’s so awesome. I got chicken skin.

72 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:01:17pm

re: #64 Political Atheist

Patriot Act Poll LGF results

Image: Untitled-1.jpg

73% of votes say rescind the patriot act.

Commies. //

73 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:06:15pm
74 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:11:03pm

Deleted.

24 hour rule.

75 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:12:07pm

Fake!

76 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:12:43pm

re: #74 Gus

Edited: Too good to be true.

77 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:13:07pm

re: #76 ProTARDISLiberal

So, that would mean the whole “Off to Hong Kong” thing was bullshit?

Will listen to 24 hour rule.

I read somewhere else that he checked out of his Hong Kong hotel room and was “whereabouts unknown” for a while.

78 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:13:15pm

re: #74 Gus

24 hour rule.

Odd but not unpossible. Maybe he came back for his martyr cookie.

79 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:13:15pm

Fake account.

80 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:13:35pm

re: #77 thedopefishlives

latimes.com

81 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:13:56pm

re: #79 Gus

Fake account.

Ah, ok

82 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:15:30pm

Proto-Fascist Infrastructure: The NSA, Booz Allen, Unysis, Verizon… And The Koch Bros.
The only thing missing is a pic of Obama with a Hitler mustache.

83 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:20:04pm

Wherever he is:

If They Come In the Morning (AKA No Time for Love)

Youtube Video

(My current ‘fav song’. The last two minutes are a hair-raising guitar duo. Snowdon and Co. probably don’t deserve the the song, drawn from Angela Davis ghosting Niemoller.)

84 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:21:42pm

Gellman on Rachel’s show tonight. Missed most of it because it was time to feed the wee kittehs.

85 bratwurst  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:26:36pm

This is the kind of stupid we are up against on this story:

What is it about this whole thing that makes nuance completely impossible for so many people?

86 jaunte  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:26:37pm

Threat forces LA-to-Texas flight to land in Ariz.

A “telephonic bomb threat” against a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas, resulted in the plane being diverted to Phoenix on Monday afternoon, the FBI said.

87 EPR-radar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:27:13pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Clearly, though - he had access to things he should not have had access to, regardless of the details. The Powerpoint slides were genuine classified docs.

The most shocking thing to me is that top secret intelligence programs are being documented with totally fucking shitty vector graphics in Powerpoint.

Bad Powerpoint for government docs is evidence of authenticity, unfortunately.

88 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:27:41pm

re: #86 jaunte

“Telephonic Bomb Threat”

….what?

89 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:28:29pm

re: #85 bratwurst

This is the kind of stupid we are up against on this story:

yep…death by really REALLY bad PowerPoint is so much worse than AQ

90 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:29:32pm

re: #87 EPR-radar

Bad Powerpoint for government docs is evidence of authenticity, unfortunately.

This is real.
Image: atl_wall_chart.jpg

91 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:33:16pm

re: #90 Decatur Deb

This is real.
Image: atl_wall_chart.jpg

Do you know where I can order one? We have a running gag at work about putting up the most complex network diagrams/ protocol architectures/ networking stack posters we can find in our cubes. This might be a winner…

92 jaunte  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:34:59pm

re: #90 Decatur Deb

I think I can see Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in there.

93 EPR-radar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:35:12pm

re: #90 Decatur Deb

This is real.
Image: atl_wall_chart.jpg

The entire procurement cycle for a major defense contract on one page? Yikes.

94 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:35:27pm

re: #91 McSpiff

It’s from the Defense Acquisition University (Go Sea Slugs!!). They probably are a little sensitive about information requests this week.

95 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:35:49pm

re: #88 ProTARDISLiberal

Considering that I live in a state of near-perpetual confusion, that picture should become my mascot.

96 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:36:44pm

re: #94 Decatur Deb

It’s from the Defense Acquisition University (Go Sea Slugs!!). They probably are a little sensitive about information requests this week.

Order print copies of chart

Please note that at present DAU Publication has stopped deilvery of the ILC Wall Chart until further notice.
The wall chart is in an intrium state waiting word from OSD on changes to it due to recent policy,
until then no new copies will be printed.

:-(

97 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:37:28pm

Damn it, Fire at the Air Force Academy (or near it.)

Not this shit again. It’s been 11.5 months.

98 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:39:10pm

Linky to the problem.

99 jaunte  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:40:57pm
100 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:42:32pm

re: #90 Decatur Deb

???

101 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:44:02pm

re: #100 goddamnedfrank

???

The answer is right there on the chart.

102 EPR-radar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:45:09pm

re: #101 Decatur Deb

The answer is right there on the chart.

I’d hate to have the job of updating that monstrosity to reflect policy changes…

103 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:45:49pm

Man, reddit is some weapons-grade stupid… They really do believe they’re living in 1984, just getting ready to kick off The People’s Revolution.

104 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:46:06pm

re: #102 EPR-radar

I’d hate to have the job of updating that monstrosity to reflect policy changes…

No problem, it’s a committee job.

105 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:46:15pm

re: #102 EPR-radar

Pretty sure the person who has that job has it as punishment.

106 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:47:17pm

re: #104 Decatur Deb

No problem, it’s a committee job.

First-Sea Lord of the Grand Poster.

107 EPR-radar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:47:17pm

re: #92 jaunte

I think I can see Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in there.

Except that the famous chart for Napolean’s retreat is comprehensible.

Without getting into any of the details that are also on that chart, the gist is immediately apparent.

108 Velvet Elvis  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:49:03pm

re: #103 McSpiff

Man, reddit is some weapons-grade stupid… They really do believe they’re living in 1984, just getting ready to kick off The People’s Revolution.

Snowden is likely a redditor

109 EPR-radar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:49:13pm

re: #106 McSpiff

First-Sea Lord of the Grand Poster.

Q: And what was your career in the civil service?

A: My responsibility for 30 years was to keep track of the relationships between three of the boxes of the Procurement Chart of Doom.

110 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:51:21pm

re: #103 McSpiff

Man, reddit is some weapons-grade stupid… They really do believe they’re living in 1984, just getting ready to kick off The People’s Revolution.

The derp, it floweth freely.

111 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:51:30pm

re: #109 EPR-radar

Q: And what was your career in the civil service?

A: My responsibility for 30 years was to keep track of the relationships between three of the boxes of the Procurement Chart of Doom.

Fortunately, there are personality types that took personal responsibility for such things and did them with considerable passion. Better them than me.

112 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:51:38pm

re: #96 McSpiff

The wall chart is in an intrium state

Would that be interim?

113 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:51:59pm

re: #101 Decatur Deb

The answer is right there on the chart.

That’s what it says, but it can’t be what it means, right? I’m pretty sure it’s actually some kind of attempt to diagram unified quantum gravity or suchlike.

114 EPR-radar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:53:19pm

re: #109 EPR-radar

Q: And what was your career in the civil service?

A: My responsibility for 30 years was to keep track of the relationships between three of the boxes of the Procurement Chart of Doom.

Q: Your most interesting experience?

A: We waged a 5 year battle with the Office of the Minister of the Jade Portal over whether boxes 2 and 3 were connected with a dotted line or a dashed line, and we prevailed.

115 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:53:28pm

re: #112 Vicious Babushka

Would that be interim?

OH G-D THEY KNOW…too much

116 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:54:20pm

re: #108 Velvet Elvis

Snowden is likely a redditor

Ugh, some aspects of that site are amazing… but some of it is just so… bad…

117 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:54:50pm

What happened with that dastardly Dulles airport plot?

118 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:55:40pm

re: #117 Gus

What happened with that dastardly Dulles airport plot?

Turns out they were just planning to disappear some nachos.

119 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:55:40pm

re: #116 McSpiff

Yeah, I’ve heard of some of the issues there.

120 jaunte  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:58:13pm

re: #117 Gus

He says he’s working on it:
twitter.com

121 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:59:03pm

On the fact that Snowden checked out of his hotel today:

[-]TextofReason 2 points 1 hour ago
Good! Now Glen needs to update his statement to the effect that he may have known where Ed was, but does not know where he now is.
He should leave that message somewhere, and get himself and his family members to a safer and unknown location, with their new safer and unknown names, and all further writings should be under a collection of completely different nickname, using a collection of VPNs, and thrown into pastebin.

122 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 6:59:24pm
123 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:00:49pm
124 AlexRogan  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:02:02pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

He apparently comes from a family of civil servants and it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that strings were pulled to help him get these high-paying jobs.

The processes for vetting people for top-secret access through companies like Booz Allen are about to get a serious microscoping.

Shit’s about to get real for people at Defense Security Service (the agency responsible for vetting and granting defense contractor security clearances).

125 EPR-radar  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:02:09pm

re: #123 Vicious Babushka

An article on RedState today has the headline “Julian Assange has a Point”.

126 jaunte  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:02:48pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

He hates it when people say “blowing things up is easy.”

127 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:03:44pm

re: #124 AlexRogan

Shit’s about to get real for people at Defense Security Service (the agency responsible for vetting and granting defense contractor security clearances).

Yep, I’m waiting for our National Security Agreement to come under some serious scrutiny. Can’t wait to see what paper work I need next.

128 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:03:52pm

re: #125 EPR-radar

An article on RedState today has the headline “Julian Assange has a Point”.

Pffftt.. Greenwald has a PowerPoint.

129 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:04:19pm

re: #128 Decatur Deb

Pffftt.. Greenwald has a PowerPoint.

Winning.

130 AlexRogan  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:04:28pm

re: #43 goddamnedfrank

Of course they will, because they want what’s in Snowden’s head, if there is anything to speak of.

The Cold War, to an extent, was never over, it just went into hibernation.

131 Randall Gross  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:05:00pm

So it’s really not the Falcon and the Snowman, it’s more like the Mothman and the slushy.

Youtube Video

132 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:05:24pm

re: #125 EPR-radar

An article on RedState today has the headline “Julian Assange has a Point”.

Yeah, it’s on the top of his head.

133 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:05:44pm

re: #131 Randall Gross

So it’s really not the Falcon and the Snowman, it’s more like the Mothman and the slushy.

[Embedded content]

Failcrap and the Special Snowflake

134 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:05:48pm

re: #127 McSpiff

Yep, I’m waiting for our National Security Agreement to come under some serious scrutiny. Can’t wait to see what paper work I need next.

You can prepare by memorizing the Chart of Doom.

135 AlexRogan  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:07:32pm

re: #127 McSpiff

Yep, I’m waiting for our National Security Agreement to come under some serious scrutiny. Can’t wait to see what paper work I need next.

No doubt.

The company I work for has a fair number of defense and space contractors in Huntsville who deal with classified info as clients, so we have to deal with DSS ourselves; this can be nothing but bad news and more bureaucratic bullshit.

136 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:08:39pm

Hey, Amazon is having a sale on some BBC stuff now.

You know what I am doing. Especially with my Birthday this week.

137 jaunte  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:09:14pm

re: #125 EPR-radar

An article on RedState today has the headline “Julian Assange has a Point”.

I just went over and read that, and it’s just a few paragraphs of incoherent babbling, with a side of lazy President smear.

138 McSpiff  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:10:09pm

re: #135 AlexRogan

No doubt.

The company I work for has a fair number of defense and space contractors in Huntsville that deal with classified info as clients, so we have to deal with DSS ourselves; this can be nothing but bad news and more bureaucratic bullshit.

Luckily most of that for us is handled by a wholy owned subsidiary, but just in general I think anyone that deals with Tier 1 US telecom networks is going to be dealing with this for a while. Its not classified data formally, but its “regulated”…

139 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:11:19pm

re: #138 McSpiff

Luckily most of that for us is handled by a wholy owned subsidiary, but just in general I think anyone that deals with Tier 1 US telecom networks is going to be dealing with this for a while. Its not classified data formally, but its “regulated”…

You could just contract it out to Booz, Allen.

140 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:13:56pm

re: #130 AlexRogan

Of course they will, because they want what’s in Snowden’s head, if there is anything to speak of.

The Cold War, to an extent, was never over, it just went into hibernation.

I’m wondering why he didn’t just go straight to Iceland, seems like an asylum request would have better odds of being granted if he filed it from in country.

141 Gus  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:18:46pm


Douche. There’s another I’ve had on my shit list for years.

142 jaunte  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:20:56pm

re: #141 Gus

“Why doesn’t Daddy fix everything?”

143 blueraven  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:21:34pm

re: #82 Killgore Trout

Proto-Fascist Infrastructure: The NSA, Booz Allen, Unysis, Verizon… And The Koch Bros.
The only thing missing is a pic of Obama with a Hitler mustache.

Oh Look

‘Impeach Obama’ movement leads to protests, traffic jam


Read more: dailycaller.com


But…Patriots //

144 Randall Gross  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 7:36:02pm

The Daily Banter’s Official Helpful Media Guide for Interacting With Glenn Greenwald
thedailybanter.com

145 funky chicken  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 9:36:14pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

Co-signed. There’s a lot about Snowden’s story that is not ringing true. But it’s still possible that the vast contracting system installed after 9/11 has made it possible for these things to happen.

Well, Manning was an active duty low-level guy. I would have hoped that episode would have resonated to other intel agencies, but I guess now we know it didn’t.

146 funky chicken  Mon, Jun 10, 2013 9:39:11pm

re: #136 ProTARDISLiberal

Hey, Amazon is having a sale on some BBC stuff now.

You know what I am doing. Especially with my Birthday this week.

Thank you! My daughter loves BBC shows and our package from Cox doesn’t have BBC America. I’d trade all of the stupid MTVs and their related channels for BBC America. I’d pay extra to have the choice.


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