Picking Out Gifts

Maybe what appeared on the selling screen to be instant rapport between the Obamas and the Sarkozys was only the result of information scooping and snooping pre-first meeting, not literal friendship. How sad, but so helpful when picking out gifts.

A Lot More Money

If the NSA is a state-sponsored yet privatized hacker and snooper program and it spends the most money possible because that is one of its goals, and it had some really really good ideas that it was thinking about forming a committee to think about those ideas some more but somebody's big mouth wrecked everything and interrupted its thought patterns, yes the NSA will continue hacking and snooping, only for a lot more money.

"A Goat in their Bathtub"

"Mind if the government pulls  back shower curtain" by John Kass, The Morning Call
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http://www.mcall.com/opinion/national/sns-201401071730--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20140107-20140107,0,4809723.column?page=1
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"And no one wants a goat in their bathtub."