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Marcell Ozuna. Just wow.
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About time. This past weekend was all about good weather, good friends, family and ahhh… I’d like to duplicate that every weekend whenever possible. I am also a big fan of peanuts having grown up on them. My Grandmother called me Charlie Brown while I was growing up in fact and for awhile I thought maybe I was…
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Freaks like Us.
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Fitness Quote of the Day
“1. Decide what you want.
2. Decide how you’ll get it.
3. Out work everyone else.
4. Don’t EVER quit trying.”
Pretty simple
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And With that said USA kicks Ghana 2-1 #worldcup2014
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Watching and waiting as about 100 riders register and pickup their numbers. 8am is start time. Perfect day for a ride. Let’s ride. #happyfathersday2014 #tourdenatick
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Utopian in thought or just bat shit crazy?
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We all know somebody or have known somebody like this. You can either master the art of dealing with them or you just plain avoid them altogether. There really is no grey area Christian.
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It was just over a year ago this week that former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden leaked a trove of secret National Security Agency documents detailing the agency’s massive online spy program. What and how much Snowden took remains a mystery.
On Tuesday, James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, told The Washington Post that Snowden took less than the agency previously thought. So what should we make of Clapper’s claim? Snowden revealed that the NSA tracks cellphones, collects call logs of Americans, uses a secret court to obtain e-mails, chats, photos and videos from Silicon Valley tech companies, and it spies of foreign allies.
According to Clapper, however, “some things we thought he got, he apparently didn’t.” What it was that he didn’t get, Clapper, did not, of course, elaborate upon. In his interview with the Post, Clapper added that the U.S. intelligence community now believes that many of the files Snowden “looked at” he was not able to take from the agency’s servers; and that those he did manage to walk away with weren’t as damaging as it had initially believed.
The original estimate of Snowden’s haul was about 1.77 million documents. That number appears to have first been given on a controversial 60 Minutes segment on the NSA that, since its airing in December of last year, has drawn the ire of media outlets for taking a notably pro-NSA stance. “It was hard to watch the NSA segment and not wonder who was minding the store,” David Carr wrote in The New York Times.
“I never thought it was an accurate estimate,” longtime NSA reporter and author James Bamford tells Newsweek about the NSA’s initial number of documents that were stolen. He adds that Clapper’s new estimate, about 1.5 million, probably “reflects reality.”
Happy anniversary Edward Snowden!
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