Not sure I'd want to be traveling to Moscow if I was on record as strongly critical of Putin. Not without a Geiger counter and a food taster.
And keep a sharp eye on guys carrying umbrellas.
Shareholders are rejoicing today. Lindsey is running for President.
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If it gets the Mets a WS, fine.
It won't.
Hey, I have an idea. Let's not have sht like this happen.
This summer, Kiev. 2016, forward to Warsaw.
In Putin's Russia, the band puts you back together.
Look! Up on the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the FBI!
http://wtop.com/politics/2015/06/fbi-behind-mysterious-surveillance-aircraft-over-us-cities/
ZOMG ur turning into flaggy tin foil hat derka derka muhammad jihad!
There are many differences between the link joecct provided and the links you generally provide. First, this one doesn't call for all TRUE PATRIOTS to gun down those illegally searching planes. Second, it had quotes and interviews with government authorities to discuss the use and intent of the surveilance flights.
Let me guess, the government authorities are saying "Remain calm, all is well" like they're Kevin Bacon or something.
Or you could click the link and read the article for yourself.
All McConnell got out of this exercise was causing Republican senators to revolt along with Rand Paul and provide him with a massive leadership defeat. His amendments—to gut the privacy advisory board to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, to extend the transition of data retention to the telecoms from six months to one year, and to require that telecoms notify the government 6 months in advance of changes in data retention and that the Director of National Intelligence certify that the program transitions successfully—all failed with comfortable margins on simple majority votes. This was a remarkable and embarrassing miscalculation on McConnell's part, from his insistence that the Patriot Act be extended without reforms to his attempt to bully both the Senate and the House.
The result is he forced the three expiring Patriot Act provisions to be shut down. He gave a huge platform to Rand Paul and in the future to Ted Cruz to use opposition to him in their presidential bids. He needlessly alienated other Republicans and further poisoned his relationship with the House leadership. It's as massive a disaster in leadership as we're used to seeing in the House! It's also unthinkable that McConnell's predecessor from the other side—Harry Reid—could have ever bungled anything so thoroughly.
I'm surprised you aren't gushing about Rand, seeing as he is the one leading this issue.This has been a pretty good day all around.
I really could not care less what the implications are for GOP unity or Mitch's leadership. The key here is after cowering under the bed for 14 years, the US just took the first little baby step towards putting its big girl panties on again.