Spengler:  Putin Isn’t a Genius — We Are Complete Idiots

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Bloomberg.com:

The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said.

The agency’s reported decision to keep the bug secret in pursuit of national security interests

threatens to renew the rancorous debate over the role of the government’s top computer experts.

The NSA has now said it knew nothing about the Heartbleed bug in a brief statement on Twitter.

Statement:  NSA was not aware of the recently identified Heartbleed vulnerability until it was made public.
— NSA/CSS (@NSA_PAO) April 11, 2014

...by April 7th a patch had been written and committed for 1.0.1e, heartbleed.com had been registered for 3 days, there had been considerable correspondence between the Finnish company and the authors.  Google had allegedly already patched it servers.

And the NSA had not known this?

Which leads to the conclusion they are incredibly incompetent or barefaced liars.  Your choice.

And if they lied about 2 days or 2 weeks how can one believe it wasn’t two years?

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The bad behavior going on at the IRS – whether it is politically motivated or not – does not stop with Lerner.  It has to go higher than that.  How much higher, I do not know, but that’s yet another reason why we need an investigation – a real one.

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Spotted in the Ace Of Spades sidebar:

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The left never believed Obama REALLY in his heart was against gay marriage or, for another example, that he was a seriously observant and practicing Christian when he was running for President.  Rather they abided his saying these things for political expediency.  The left (both their candidates and their voters) know there are certain things they must do and say and pretend at if they are going to achieve their two-pronged goal, power and influence.

Democrat voters aren’t... being fooled or tricked.  They are partners in the deception.

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Los Angeles Times:

After more than 40 years, ‘‘The Tonight Show’’ is leaving Southern California and heading back to New York...
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‘‘I’m old enough to remember when I was in New York and I was a kid, it was, ‘‘Oh my God, the ‘Tonight Show’s’ leaving New York and going to Los Angeles,’ ’’ [Jay] Leno recalled, sitting in the green room next to his studio.  ‘‘It seemed like the most glamorous thing in the world.’’

Things change. New York — a safer, more prosperous city than it was in the 1970s — has solidified its standing as the nation’s media capital, with most of the major news and talk shows originating there.

‘‘‘New York is the bustling city and blah, blah, blah,’’ Leno said.  ‘‘All the excitement’s there, all the movie studios, they start their big campaigns in New York.  So now it’s going back.’’

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The Gwinnett County, Ga., Democrat party tweeted a shot taken in Atlanta during its snow storm of the jammed, unmoving Atlanta interstate with the caption, ‘‘When you spend more than a decade electing people who don’t believe government should exist, don’t get upset when there isn’t one to plow your exit.’’

Which is amazing because Atlanta has been governed by nothing but Dimocrats for 70 years.

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Wendy Davis: My paraplegic opponent, Greg Abbott... ‘‘hasn’t walked a day in my shoes.’’

Wendy Davis Supporters: Our paraplegic opponent, Greg Abbott, is ‘‘running scared.’’

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NSA Goes From Saying Bulk Metadata Collection ‘‘Saves Lives’’ To ‘‘Prevented 54 Attacks’’ To ‘‘Well, It’s A Nice Insurance Policy’’

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