is there anybody out there ?

just nod if you can hear me (p.floyd)............remember the NSA ? remember the Patriot Act ? remember the outrage over our government listening in on phone calls as collecting data ? remember the hailing of whistleblowers like Snowden as the heroes of the left for exposing such atrocities ? remember the DEMAND to reign in the govt spying agencies because they were trampling our freedoms ??.......................well apparently Claire Mcaskell doesn't . Yesterday when the head of the NSA ( Adm Rogers) was testifying on Capitol hill he claimed he doesn't have the wide ranging powers he needs to stop the Big Bad Russians from meddling in our elections....to which Ms Mcaskell responded "Why the Hell not"?......hmmm.....well that didn't take long.....she didn't even wait to catch her breath before jumping off the NSA is bad band wagon and leaping onto the GIVE the NSA all the power they need ......frightening how opportunistic or just plain stupid our politicians are.....lets give the NSA all the powers in the world to go after bad Russians from spreading fake stories on social media...BUT don't you dare use those same powers to spy on our citizens.......hint, the Russians will be wearing Red Carnations, the good guys will NOT.........to be clear, we are talking about concerns of fake stories planted by Russian spies on the internet influencing our voters in elections......because we have created a generation of morons that can't decipher if a story on facebook claiming that Bernie Sanders is a Demonic Robot that needs to eat human flesh to survive and was built on Mars is a true story or fake news......that story btw was planted by the DNC not the Olympic Athletes of Russia....(total side note, I am delighted that when the filthy commies finally won Gold that they weren't able to hear their anthem or raise their flag at the gold medal ceremony....and that OVECHKIN was not a part of the victory).....but sadly as a nation we continue to become nothing more than 30 second sound bites on the evening news.....the shameless exploitation of the Florida High School shooting by Demi Lovato and all these phonies is frightening...and honestly I am starting to think that Marjorie Stoneman must be a school for the arts....I have never seen so many overly dramatic, theatrical assholes in my life.....from the principal offering hugs to everyone VIA TWITTER.....to the Teachers Posting a Group Shot on Social Media, to the students themselves giving interviews to anyone and anything that had a microphone.....its been two weeks and you are not dead, get the fuck over it.......in 2001 I drank beer in seabright on September 12th....took a few deep breaths, thought about the prior 24 hours and went the fuck back to work on September 13th....no balloons, TV cameras or invitations to the Tonight show were offered to me....we are becoming a nation of pussies......as for gun control ? I have been clear on my position for years....ill never own one, but as long as the government can not be trusted ..and it NEVER CAN....we NEED an armed citizenry to keep despots in line......that being said.....raising the age to 21 seems reasonable......but since cars, and trucks are the weapons of terrorists these days...lets raise the driving age and voting age to 21 to........"is there anybody home" ?