i like this cartoon..
Posted on 12/19/2005 5:36:07 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Bush to Hold Press Conference at 10:30 a.m. EST This Morning
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i like this cartoon..
He is calling Durbin's bluff
My family just might have to get by on store bought cookies of this gets any funnier!
Here's a little something on Eschelon, from NRO:
ECHELON AND NOW [Mark R. Levin]
Under the ECHELON program, the NSA and certain foreign intelligence agencies throw an extremely wide net over virtually all electronic communications world-wide. There are no warrants. No probable cause requirements. No FISA court. And information is intercepted that is communicated solely between U.S. citizens within the U.S., which may not be the purpose of the program but, nonetheless, is a consequence of the program. ECHELON has been around for some time. The media and members of Congress didn't accuse Bill Clinton, under whose administration the program apparently moved into full swing, of "domestic spying" or violating the Constitution. Is ECHELON constitutional? Congress hasn't defunded it. So, it seems to me this entire current debate, unleashed by the New York Times last week, about expanding the NSA's eavesdropping authority (exactly what is expanded and how, we still aren't certain) is, well, disconnected from reality.
Harry has flunked English class w/a F-! (And I am a former English teacher. lol)
I have always thought Jon Kyl would make a good Republican candidate for president. He has one of the most important qualities that I look for in a candidate-he does not seem afraid of Democrats.
Would you look at this: Kyl has completely turned this around and said, "look, we have another week, let's vote next week!"
And Kyl said flat out that a vote to fillibuster is a vote AGAINST the Patriot Act!
Kicking ASS..............even Specter!
ROFLMAO....me, too!
So true!
I would have said "Extended? Why not renew it?"
Funny how folks with (R)'s next to their names keep demanding a vote and folks with a (D) by their name keep running away from those votes. Kyl just made a very good statment. Time to Vote Democrats.
Time to take the cat to the vet. If they are going to be here for the rest of the week, I guess I'll be back in time to see more fireworks!
I'm still trying to figure out how he got elected in the first place.
I'd be embarrassed to be uneducated from a one room schoolhouse like little Harry.
I will tell you two "newbies" something: during the 2000 recount, I'm willing to bet you that every poster here was NOT ready for Christmas!
My kids still talk about that year because it was the best Christmas they EVER had.......I bought whatever was in the aisle at Bed Bath and Beyond!
If there are 2 that I absolutely DO NOT trust, it is the Turban and stopsign Reid!
More (personally, I think this article is years late)from - http://www.endtimeprophecy.org/Content/Articles/Articles-Echl/echln-12.html
Clinton Proposes Orwellian Computer Monitoring System
Dean: 'Big Brother Will Know Your Every Move'
Free Congress Foundation Press Office
July 28, 1999
Washington, DC - The Clinton Administration has formulated
an anit-cyberterrorism plan to monitor computer networks in
critical industries, raising concerns from civil liberties
groups and privacy advocates, The New York Times reported
today.
"This computer tracking system should make every American
shudder at the thought of their loss of privacy," said Lisa
S. Dean, Vice President of Technology Policy at the Free
Congress Foundation and leader of the effort to expose the
proposed Know Your Customer regulations. "Every electronic
transmission will be under a microscope. Big Brother will
know your every move."
"Given the aggressiveness with which the Clinton
Administration has pursued policies that would erode the
privacy and liberty of American citizens, coupled with the
numerous IRS abuses and the 900 FBI files that that were to
be kept confidential, it is realistic to be concerned about
how the federal government could misuse this information
against law-abiding citizens," Dean continued. "Another
grave concern is how this system would integrate civilian,
military, intelligence and law enforcement components toward
this end. But worse yet, the monitoring system itself could
be open to security breaches, giving hackers or terrorists
access to a one-stop shop for government and corporate
electronic information."
The National Security Council contends the plan is a
necessary measure to ward off potential threats to the
nation's vital computer infrastructure.
As reported by John Markoff of The New York Times, "[a]s
part of the plan, networks of thousands of software
monitoring programs would constantly track computer
activities looking for indications of computer network
intrusions and other illegal acts."
The plan would create Federal Intrusion Detection Network,
or FidNet, with the National Infrastructure Protection
Center, an interagency task force under the auspices of the
FBI, as the central repository.
The plan, to be released in final form in September and
fully implemented by 2003, resulted from a May 1998
Presidential directive calling for a security review of the
federal government's computer systems.
Dean warned, "If the average American believes that this
system won't affect him, he will soon face a very harsh
reality."
Duncan Campbell
I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.
Howlin, you never cease to make me laugh. Thank you!
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