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hasty ambush		2009-10-06 09:12:28 AM

Just imagine how well they will take care of your health care records.

Oldiron_79		2009-10-06 09:12:46 AM

I blame the cigar lobby

redmid17		2009-10-06 09:14:52 AM

Hopefully they encrypted the information. Knowing the government, they probably did nothing of the sort.

EZ Writer		2009-10-06 09:15:33 AM

Meh. I'm in the military, so my identity gets lost, stolen, traded, sold, or otherwise compromised almost quarterly (not kidding). I don't even pay attention to the alerts anymore. At least I got free credit report monitoring out of it...

/Yeah, Bro. That story *was* cool!

Lanny Budd		2009-10-06 09:17:09 AM

hasty ambush: Just imagine how well they will take care of your health care records.

Okay, I hereby proclaim the Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy Law (also known as Teddy's Rule of Socialist Government Health Care Analogies):

"As a Fark discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Socialist Government Health Care approaches unity."

Tigggy		2009-10-06 09:17:27 AM

Large butter popcorn & a Pepsi please....It looks like another Coen brothers movie, just produced itself.

Headso		2009-10-06 09:18:10 AM

hasty ambush: Just imagine how well they will take care of your health care records.

I urge you to stop doing your taxes, think of all the personal info you give them!

black_knight		2009-10-06 09:19:14 AM

And people want government-run health care?

GeeksAreMyPeeps		2009-10-06 09:20:25 AM

FTFA: The government isn't even sure when the hard drive was last seen; the most specific they can get is that it was last spotted "sometime between October 2008 and the first week of February and was discovered missing on or about March 24, 2009."

This is awesome info for a fark political thread. Righties can blame the Obama administration, and lefties can blame the Bush administration. Could have disappeared on either one's watch.

Phil Herup		2009-10-06 09:21:20 AM

"My biggest legacy? Well I lowered the bar of repectability for the office of President. I
took advantage of my power, espcially with a young naive intern who was unfortunate
enough to be assigned to my shark tank. She will never be the same again because
of my selfish actions. All in all, I'm OK with that."

2.bp.blogspot.com

Scotter5000		2009-10-06 09:22:33 AM

black_knight: And people want government-run health care?

Scary!!

Blowmonkey		2009-10-06 09:23:16 AM

Just thinking back to the days of blowjobs makes me feel happy.

ga362		2009-10-06 09:23:40 AM

I remember Clinton. He turned a Roi Tan into a Swisher sweet.

kittyhas1000legs		2009-10-06 09:25:05 AM

I have nothing to contribute to this, so here's a picture of a baby.

i79.photobucket.com

/checked credit report yesterday, nothing suspicious yet

hasty ambush		2009-10-06 09:29:28 AM

GeeksAreMyPeeps: FTFA: The government isn't even sure when the hard drive was last seen; the most specific they can get is that it was last spotted "sometime between October 2008 and the first week of February and was discovered missing on or about March 24, 2009."

This is awesome info for a fark political thread. Righties can blame the Obama administration, and lefties can blame the Bush administration. Could have disappeared on either one's watch.

Or we can just blame government because odds are it involved the same almost impossible to fire, unionized civil service employees regardless of administration.

Shakespeare's Monkey		2009-10-06 09:30:35 AM

What an intern during the Clinton years might have looked like.

/giggity

Xlr8urfark		2009-10-06 09:30:40 AM

Phil Herup: young naive intern

Whatever, I knew her in high school, they used to call her Monica the cock-gobbler.

/fiction

Pair-o-Dice		2009-10-06 09:32:27 AM

Scotter5000: black_knight: And people want government-run health care?

Scary!!

Oh yeah, THAT does wonders for my confidence level in government.

netcentric		2009-10-06 09:34:21 AM

Check Sandy Bergers pants.

...again

TheRaven7		2009-10-06 09:34:26 AM

What. The. fark.

Good job, FARK. Now there's goddamn Ann Coulter ads on the website.

Everyone should be ashamed of themselves.

Braindeath		2009-10-06 09:34:27 AM

Paging Misha Collins.

Pair-o-Dice		2009-10-06 09:35:13 AM

GeeksAreMyPeeps:
This is awesome info for a fark political thread. Righties can blame the Obama administration, and lefties can blame the Bush administration. Could have disappeared on either one's watch.

I got me a rock-n-roll band, it's a free-for-all

vernonFL		2009-10-06 09:35:22 AM

black_knight: And people want government-run health care?

As long as the government doesn't know my social security number or my address, I'm okay.

GameSprocket		2009-10-06 09:36:25 AM

Blowmonkey: Just thinking back to the days of blowjobs makes me feel happy.

I'm sure you can still give blowjobs. Whatever makes you happy.

Horsebolt McStabledoor		2009-10-06 09:37:36 AM

Xlr8urfark: Phil Herup: young naive intern

Whatever, I knew her in high school, they used to call her Monica the cock-gobbler.

/fiction

Yeah, "naive".

Didn't she pretty much flash her thong at him and otherwise act whorishly?

/not that it makes it Ok for Bill to ruin her dress like that
//just sayin

Phil Herup		2009-10-06 09:38:08 AM

netcentric: Check Sandy Bergers pants....again

No farkin shiat.... pathetic

Phil Herup		2009-10-06 09:40:17 AM

Horsebolt McStabledoor: Yeah, "naive".

He was the President of the United States of America, and you are blaming her?

That is rich.

frankjmattia		2009-10-06 09:45:19 AM

black_knight: And people want government-run health care?

Tell you what... Vote to for the government to give me and every other american all of our lost wages paid into social security and unemployment and THEN we can discuss getting rid of government health care and every other social program out there... Until then - I want every last dime I've paid in to be spent on me by any means necessary.

/Modern Whig actually.
//Believes states should be fixing health care, not the fed.
///Goes along with Ron Paul and says when you have real Liberty, people can choose to make their own socialized programs funded by those who choose to fund them. Not the entire US on some federal mandate.

eraser8		2009-10-06 09:47:15 AM

This woman is making a big deal out of nothing. I got the same letter from NARA. I am not alarmed.

It seems what was stolen were the entry/exit logs from the buildings in the White House complex. So, it's your name, birth date & SSN.

I'd be much more worried if the Secret Service files used for deciding security clearance were compromised...but, that does not seem to be the case. That file would include things like your past addresses, credit information, etc.

The only strange part is that the letter sort of devolved into a sales pitch for Experian:

We have no evidence that an unauthorized individual has actually retrieved or is using your personal data. However, as an added precaution against the possible misuse of your information, we are offering you free credit monitoring, identity theft insurance, and fraud resolution assistance for one year, through Experian's Triple Alert Credit Monitoring program. Triple Alert is completely free and will not hurt your credit score.

Nemo's Brother		2009-10-06 09:50:17 AM

The Clintons kept tabs on everyone in case they had to be "Vince Fostered" later on.

Emposter		2009-10-06 09:51:20 AM

FTA: The National Archives' letter didn't say if another person who happened to be a White House intern at the same time, Monica Lewinsky, also has had her security breached, but based on what they did say, I'm betting it was.

Why would it? And why would you care? Oh, right, you are trying to make your article no one gives two shiats about more "newsworthy" by leeching off a decade old scandal.

Well done.

YodaBlues		2009-10-06 09:51:51 AM

Phil Herup: Horsebolt McStabledoor: Yeah, "naive".

He was the President of the United States of America, and you are blaming her?

That is rich.

You know, I'm no fan of Clinton, but your priorities must be seriously screwed up if you think the worst thing he did was get a beej from some hoochie mama.

/cut and running from Somalia after losing 18 men was bullshiat. Should of let them stay so they at least felt like they accomplished something.
//have known a few Army Rangers who were in that shiat who have said as much.

eraser8		2009-10-06 09:53:07 AM

YodaBlues: cut and running from Somalia after losing 18 men was bullshiat.

We shouldn't have been in Somalia in the first place. You can thank George Bush for that fark up.

YodaBlues		2009-10-06 09:58:52 AM

eraser8: YodaBlues: cut and running from Somalia after losing 18 men was bullshiat.

We shouldn't have been in Somalia in the first place. You can thank George Bush for that fark up.

And we shouldn't be in Iraq either. But you don't leave without finishing the job....whatever the hell that means. My brother did 3 tours in Iraq before we finally convinced him it was not worth going back. The reason why he kept re-upping? He wanted to feel like he accomplished something.

Aexia		2009-10-06 09:59:06 AM

Sucks for them losing it but why is it possible to steal identities with just a name, a birthdate and an ssn?

Harry Freakstorm		2009-10-06 10:01:02 AM

As a vet who had his personal information lost through the VA, I say "Welcome aboard. You're life is about to change forever."

stirfrybry		2009-10-06 10:01:32 AM

ga362: I remember Clinton. He turned a Roi Tan into a Swisher sweet.

MMMMM, tatstes GOOD!

Architectronica		2009-10-06 10:01:39 AM

Newsweek always reads as though it were written by a fourth grader.

eraser8		2009-10-06 10:01:39 AM

YodaBlues: cut and running from Somalia after losing 18 men was bullshiat.

Also, I hear people biatch about this...but I don't usually hear those same people biatch about Reagan's cutting and running after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing:

The Marines were moved offshore where they could not be targeted. On February 7, 1984, President Reagan ordered the Marines to begin withdrawal from Lebanon. This was completed on February 26, four months after the barracks bombing; the rest of the Multinational Force was withdrawn by April.

Crunch61		2009-10-06 10:02:21 AM

eraser8: YodaBlues: cut and running from Somalia after losing 18 men was bullshiat.

We shouldn't have been in Somalia in the first place. You can thank George Bush for that fark up.

We (Americans) nearly had Somalia taken care of. It was the UN that farked things up for the US and Somalia. Read Gen. Anthony Zinni's take on Somalia in "Battle Ready".

/end threadjack

farkingatwork		2009-10-06 10:02:29 AM

Aexia: Sucks for them losing it but why is it possible to steal identities with just a name, a birthdate and an ssn?

nice troll

Phil Herup		2009-10-06 10:03:13 AM

YodaBlues: but your priorities must be seriously screwed up if you think the worst thing he did was get a beej from some hoochie mama

I do not think that at all

YodaBlues: t and running from Somalia after losing 18 men was bullshiat.

That was just one of his security/military failures.

eraser8: We shouldn't have been in Somalia in the first place. You can thank George Bush for that fark up.

Ohhh... the spin never stops. Holy crap, what is like to be so obtuse?

Meowsertd		2009-10-06 10:03:45 AM

Harry Freakstorm: As a vet who had his personal information lost through the VA, I say "Welcome aboard. You're life is about to change forever."

Maybe they will buy you a COLA this year for your service....oh wait hope your not thirsty till 2012

stirfrybry		2009-10-06 10:04:34 AM

frankjmattia: black_knight: And people want government-run health care?

Tell you what... Vote to for the government to give me and every other american all of our lost wages paid into social security and unemployment and THEN we can discuss getting rid of government health care and every other social program out there... Until then - I want every last dime I've paid in to be spent on me by any means necessary.

/Modern Whig actually.
//Believes states should be fixing health care, not the fed.
///Goes along with Ron Paul and says when you have real Liberty, people can choose to make their own socialized programs funded by those who choose to fund them. Not the entire US on some federal mandate.

LOL
do you think they're going to spend your money on YOU?

eraser8		2009-10-06 10:06:30 AM

YodaBlues: The reason why he kept re-upping? He wanted to feel like he accomplished something.

This is faulty thinking. It's what kept us in Vietnam so long. Reminds me of that exchange from War Games:

Stephen Falken: The whole point was to find a way to practice nuclear war without destroying ourselves. To get the computers to learn from mistakes we couldn't afford to make. Except, I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.

David Lightman: What's that?

Stephen Falken: Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.

Jennifer: What kind of a lesson is that?

Stephen Falken: Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?

Jennifer: Yeah, of course.

Stephen Falken: But you don't anymore.

Jennifer: No.

Stephen Falken: Why?

Jennifer: Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie.

Stephen Falken: Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless! But back at the war room, they believe you can win a nuclear war. That there can be "acceptable losses."

Harmania		2009-10-06 10:07:54 AM

Why is it that when a credit card company loses the information of MILLIONS of people, these same tinfoil hat nutbars don't squeal about private industry?

ZOMG LETZ SEE IF I TRUST PRIVATE INDUSTRY WITH MY HEALTH CARE ANYTIME SOON DEATH PANEL RATIONING ZOMG ELEVENTYONE!!

Morans.

DeadZone		2009-10-06 10:09:10 AM

<b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4679228&IDComment=54950533#c549 50533">redmid17</a>:</b> <i>Hopefully they encrypted the information. Knowing the government, they probably did nothing of the sort.</i>

No, they probably did, and the password to decrypt is probably "password"

stirfrybry		2009-10-06 10:09:11 AM

Harmania: Why is it that when a credit card company loses the information of MILLIONS of people, these same tinfoil hat nutbars don't squeal about private industry?

ZOMG LETZ SEE IF I TRUST PRIVATE INDUSTRY WITH MY HEALTH CARE ANYTIME SOON DEATH PANEL RATIONING ZOMG ELEVENTYONE!!

Morans.

Nice strawman. I don't anyone who didn't care about records being lost

eraser8		2009-10-06 10:09:55 AM

Phil Herup: Ohhh... the spin never stops. Holy crap, what is like to be so obtuse?

What's it like? You tell me.

Besides, did George Bush involve US forces in Somalia after he had lost the farking election? Yes or no? Was the national interest at stake in the situation?