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To the NSA guy who's bugging my phone and seeing me type this out on my computer: Get rid of that damn clip-on tie and the pocket ruler already! What year do you think this is, 1955?
 
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It doesn't bother me, I'm a pretty boring person. Anyone watching me would turn the channel out of boredom. :p
All my wild days happened before there was the internet and cell phones. ;)
 
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Calliegirl said:
It doesn't bother me, I'm a pretty boring person. Anyone watching me would turn the channel out of boredom. :p
All my wild days happened before there was the internet and cell phones. ;)
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That's what I say! Not that I ever would have been body painted for a Key West parade in my 20's or anything :innocent:

If there had been cell phone cameras and you tube, different story entirely!
 
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Apparently even the most "boring" Google searches can bring a SWAT team to your house.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/nsa-action-writers-house-raided-based-innocent-google-search
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Sad.
She says from your link:
"Catalano adds:

Mostly I felt a great sense of anxiety. This is where we are at. Where you have no expectation of privacy. Where trying to learn how to cook some lentils could possibly land you on a watch list. Where you have to watch every little thing you do because someone else is watching every little thing you do."
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Bars around the world have stopped serving Russian vodka to protest the country's recently-enacted anti-gay laws.

The movement comes in the wake of several laws implemented by Russian president Vladimir Putin in recent months that ban same sex couples from adopting Russian-born children, allow police to arrest foreigners they suspect as being "pro gay," and outlaw "homosexual propaganda" as pornography...." continues http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/31/news/russian-vodka-boycott/index.html
Yikes.
 
ledboots said:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

Bars around the world have stopped serving Russian vodka to protest the country's recently-enacted anti-gay laws.

The movement comes in the wake of several laws implemented by Russian president Vladimir Putin in recent months that ban same sex couples from adopting Russian-born children, allow police to arrest foreigners they suspect as being "pro gay," and outlaw "homosexual propaganda" as pornography...." continues http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/31/news/russian-vodka-boycott/index.html
Yikes.
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Good to see it's occurring internationally. I thought it was just in West Hollywood, but it's occurring everywhere. :)

But if Stoli is supportive of the LGBT community, what good will it do to boycott the brand?
 
ledboots said:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

Bars around the world have stopped serving Russian vodka to protest the country's recently-enacted anti-gay laws.

The movement comes in the wake of several laws implemented by Russian president Vladimir Putin in recent months that ban same sex couples from adopting Russian-born children, allow police to arrest foreigners they suspect as being "pro gay," and outlaw "homosexual propaganda" as pornography...." continues http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/31/news/russian-vodka-boycott/index.html
Yikes.
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I was reading where 'gangs' were putting in personal ads looking for gay men. When someone would answer the ad and show up for a meeting, they were tortured by these gangs, often it was video taped, and when it happened in a public place, people would cheer them on. For some reason, I always thought Russia was much more liberal when it came to LGBT people.
 
I hope we never add capitalism to any endangered "species" list. Not because I want it protected, but because I want it extinct.
 
I think a lot of humans cooperate with other humans because it benefits them (or manipulate others cynically to get their own way) so it is basic self interest at the root. :confused:
 
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