So, last week the Senate did something surprisingly good and stopped ill-considered gun control right in its tracks--
While the House, that "last bastion of freedom," passed CISPA by better than 2 to 1, which will keep us free of them ol' cyberterrists with, among other things, warrantless searches and snitch-shield laws for your ISP, bank, etc., etc., etc. Why ask a judge when collaborators are cheap? It's still got to get through the Senate and if it makes it there, there's the rubber-stam- er, Presidential veto. Better stop this in the Senate, which -- oh happy day!! -- would mean telling little Chuckie Schumer* "No! BAD boy!" all over again.
Don't think this hasn't happened before; The Phone Companies have ben deeply in bed with various TLAs since long before you were born -- in bed with them and doing a very good job of keeping it on the down low. Now the bed is getting bigger -- and official.
Speaking of "warrantless searches," how 'bout all the wheel-spinnng in Boston? The fruitless shut-down of a major city, followed by Grampa calling the police after noticing the cover loose on his boat and a-- hey, is that a trail of blood? And this after the photographs of the (alleged, as they say on TV) perps were so successfully crowdsourced, which you might think could be a Helpful Hint about How To Find Malefactors. Here's hoping someone higher-up has a sudden stroke of insight. Or of something.
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* I'm violating my rule about not making fun of politicans by user-modding their names but if anyone has earned it, he has, having never met a Big Brotherism he didn't embrace; he's also the guy who back in 1991 opposed opening up that DARPAnet thing to the unwashed masses, arguing, "...it would be a waste of the taxpayer's money." DARPAnet? You're soaking in it! It changed its first name to "inter" after moving out of the DOD's basement.
BY ALL MEANS CAST SCORN ON THE MISCREANTS WHO SO DESERVE TO BE SCORNED BY THE PEOPLE WHOS TRUST THEY BETRAYED !
ReplyDeleteI try to follow the same rule but Sen. Schumer is an easy target. I've been known to mumble "Chuck Schumer... and get a real Senator."
ReplyDeleteFairness requires me to admit that I do appreciate a couple of things he's done though. Like the "Schumer Box," the summary of credit card costs that must be printed on every statement. I don't care for his nanny-stateism but when he's pushing to help consumers make better-informed decisions, he's all right.
Bobbie
ReplyDeleteThe Senator's full name is Charles "Chuck-you" Schumer.
Please use it with full respect.
I've always kind of preferred "Chew-Shoe".
ReplyDeleteGoes well with, "Dye-Fye".
Here's hoping someone higher-up has a sudden stroke of insight.
ReplyDeleteI think the "." belonged after the word "stroke".