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What is DHS doing in Waco Texas hours before the explosion? Video blogger engages in speculation about some connection to Boston but is clueless what will happen 42 minutes after this was uploaded.

On the day that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced that at least 200 private-sector jobs will be added at the new CIGNA insurance headquarters in Bloomfield, the governor said he is moving forward with laying off as many as 6,500 state employees to balance the state budget.Layoff notices have already gone out to hundreds of employees, but the vast majority will be going out in the coming days to all departments throughout the state. Even the Department of Correction and the state police — two areas that traditionally had been seen as protected from employee reductions — are not exempt....

Let me get this straight. We're going to get a health care plan shoved down our throats that is written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, signed by a president who smokes and also hasn't read it, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What possibly could go wrong?

** Flurry of techish bills introduced in new Congress Members of Congress introduced a flurry of new technology-related bills this week, including two bills that would require companies with data breaches to notify affected customers. Senators Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, and Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, introduced the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act. In addition to requiring data breach notification, the bill would also require data brokers to disclose what information they hold on individuals. The bill would allow individuals to correct information held by data brokers, and it would require companies that have databases with personal information...