All Hank, all the time.

Originally posted by taxwonk
I don't think it's any of Uncle Sam's fucking business what I pay for cable every month

Been hitting the PPV porn pretty hard, have we? I really wish my cable company would adopt a more discreet billing policy, like they have in the better hotels.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
So, lemme get this straight:

1) Leaking location of CIA secret detention centers - ok
2) Leaking foreign phone surveilance techniques - ok
3) Leaking bank tracing techniques - ok
4) Refuting Joe Wilson's lies by tying him to Valerie Plame - treason

No, no, no, you have it all wrong -

1) Holding American citizens indefinitely without charges or access to attorneys - ok
2) Monitoring domestic phone calls without seeking a warrant from a secret rubber stamp panel - ok
3) Checking library records to see what you've checked out - ok
4) Outing a covert CIA operative for political gain - ok
5) Reporting the existence of any of the above - treason

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by ironweed
Been hitting the PPV porn pretty hard, have we? I really wish my cable company would adopt a more discreet billing policy, like they have in the better hotels.

That's why I have a secret account in Hank's name down at the local Adult Video Shoppe. I'll PM you the number, if you like.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
That's why I have a secret account in Hank's name down at the local Adult Video Shoppe. I'll PM you the number, if you like.

any accounts you have in my name are by my design. mostly they're under an agreement with your mom and instead of child support.

[SlaveNoMore]

Sexual Harassment Panda
No, no, no, you have it all wrong -

1) Holding American citizens indefinitely without charges or access to attorneys - ok
2) Monitoring domestic phone calls without seeking a warrant from a secret rubber stamp panel - ok
3) Checking library records to see what you've checked out - ok
4) Outing a covert CIA operative for political gain - ok
5) Reporting the existence of any of the above - treason

Kossack lunatics like yourself prevent the Dems from winning anything.

Please do us all a favor and pat yourself on the back.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
any accounts you have in my name are by my design. mostly they're under an agreement with your mom and instead of child support.

So THAT's the explanation for my dimwitted rightwingnut freeper brother. We've always wondered....well, no matter. He'll always be family.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Why do you hate america so? Are you against the freedoms that it offers?

It is because I love America that I seek to destroy it.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ironweed
Been hitting the PPV porn pretty hard, have we? I really wish my cable company would adopt a more discreet billing policy, like they have in the better hotels.

I've grown pretty tired of porn. I guess I'm just jaded. It's the subscription to HBO that has me worried. You know that network carries shows by enemies of the State like Lewis Balck and George Carlin, don't you?

[Spanky]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I don't suppose it's occurred to you that the story being reported was not that the Feds were looking at Al Queda's banking records, but that they were looking indiscriminately at anybody's banking records they chose? I don't know about you, but I don't think it's any of Uncle Sam's fucking business what I pay for cable every month, and I object to any activity that allows them to ostensilby do just that without having to tell me about it.

These were international banking transactions. There is no expectation of privary there. All jurisdictions involved in an international transaction can do all the inspecting that they want. This goes for phone calls, financial transactions and any goods shipped out or in of the United States.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ironweed
Been hitting the PPV porn pretty hard, have we? I really wish my cable company would adopt a more discreet billing policy, like they have in the better hotels.

And when you're in the better hotels, you should really be calling out for the better quality hookers, if you want discretion.

Originally posted by taxwonk
And when you're in the better hotels, you should really be calling out for the better quality hookers, if you want discretion.

The "hooker" button on the phone was right there between concierge and wake-up call. How was I supposed to know they'd send the cleaning lady and put a separate charge for "in-room ho" on my bill?

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Kossack lunatics like yourself prevent the Dems from winning anything.

Please do us all a favor and pat yourself on the back.

I thought the Cossacks were White.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Spanky
These were international banking transactions. There is no expectation of privary there. All jurisdictions involved in an international transaction can do all the inspecting that they want. This goes for phone calls, financial transactions and any goods shipped out or in of the United States.

Are you stating that as a matter of law or of principle?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ironweed
The "hooker" button on the phone was right there between concierge and wake-up call. How was I supposed to know they'd send the cleaning lady and put a separate charge for "in-room ho" on my bill?

I'm sorry. You said you were staying at a "better" hotel.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Are you stating that as a matter of law or of principle?

Both. If you are involved in any sort of international transaction the other country involved will most certainly feel it has a right to check out what you are doing. So there is abolutely no expectation of privacy. I know the Japanese government monitors all incoming and outgoing financial transactions and phone calls. The listen to them and check them out with impunity.

If the government can check you all they want (including an anal cavity search) when you cross the border why shouldn't they be able to check phone calls and banking transactions that cross the border?

But I think that is the way Federal Law views it anyway.