Crap Throwing Monkey

Actually, it's more like a one-to-one correlation. Which would still means it has no merit...if it were just that simple.

Of course, his point was that we were spying on people who didn't intend to do us harm, not terrorists. Again...reading comprehension...

First intelligent thing you've ever said...

David Carr would disagree with that observation.

In the history of the planet, what entity has ever said "We can't do that; we have a treaty."? And personally, I know of no treaty that forbids spying on diplomats. I can't believe any nation would willingly hamstring themselves by agreeing to that sort of clause.

Actually, the plural of octopus is (or should be) "octopoi", according to the ancient Greek roots and despite what the dictionary says ("octopuses" or "octopi"). Yeah, I know ancient Greek. Is anyone really surprised?

Oh good. I've got another stalker.

First thing you've said in weeks that I agree with...

Or lack thereof.

Four footer, the video said. Which is not huge, as sharks go...but that still makes it a big friggin' octopus.

No. If I do, Johnny might start a poll asking what it stands for...

But on this line, that's an actual accomplishment.

Do I get credit for thinking TD sucks AND JP is a first-round bust?

Oh goody. Let's rehash the Johnson vs. Flutie debate again. I never tire of it.

Far too obvious a set-up. You've got to be more subtle. You can't beg for it. I don't know if it was "used" or not with the Lackawana Five. Something tells me that "use" of something so broad is a slippery concept anyhow.

Which is why, the more I think about it, the more innocuous this seems. I'm sure we spy as best we can on all the embassies we can...and the difference between spying on diplomats in embassies and diplomats at the UN is...? The way I see it, you're either for or against the gathering of intelligence. I don't see why the UN should rank any differently than an embassy. And for me, it is, as it falls under the "Yeah, no sh--, tell me something I don't know" clause of "How The World Works." Elaborate little plot you've cooked up. I believe I saw that in a movie once.

In other words, you can't name a single success, nor can you name a single person who was victimized by it. Basically, you know precisely jack sh-- about how its been implemented and executed. All I really wanted to know, thanks...

How come no one ever responds to what I write, just what they think? News flash: I said WE have been spying on the UN forever. Not the Germans. Not the French. WE. Nor did I make any sort of judgement about the spying...I merely judged the story, characterized as it was as some big investigative reporting revalation, as overblown reporting along the lines of "Francisco Franco is STILL dead!" Screaming "Oh my God, look at the police state we've become!" is patently ludicrous when one's example is something that's been going on for forty years. But as for the spying itself...is your problem with the concept of spying, or the idea of spying at the UN? Because if you're NOT going to spy on the UN, who are you going to spy on? The UN is where the friggin' foreigners are.

Oh, you're not THAT bad.

Hasn't the NSA been spying on the UN for decades? Wasn't Kennedy getting some of his intel during the Cuban Missile Crisis from UNSC sources? It's not that I don't see it as a big deal, as much as I don't see it as some sort of huge breaking news story. "Breaking news: we're still spying on the UN! Details again at 11..."?

For that matter, name a single success of it. I mean you specifically name one.

Will you get a life and stop posting these stupid !@#$ing polls???

It's the Reagan philosophy. Life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Although, in the interest of giving alternative theories equal time, the State of Kansas does require me to point out that I may have been intelligently redesigned.

When you grow up.