THURSDAY AFTERTHOUGHTS (How Congressmen try to keep YOU from reading their bills!)

Nealz Nuze ^ | Thursday, September 24, 2009 | Neal Boortz

[FreeKeys]

Intentionally misspell a word? Yup, that's the word we get from our Washington correspondent Jamie Dupree. Jamie was talking with a fellow reporter on his way into the Capitol today when an employee of the congress joined in. Can't remember just what office Jamie said this person works in, but it deals with drafting legislation. Anyway ... she revealed to Jamie that sometimes when she's preparing the legislation to be printed and uploaded to the Internet she is asked to intentionally misspell words. Why? So that those words - key words - won't be found when someone uses a search engine to figure out what this legislation is and is not doing. Wunnerful; just wunnerful. Anyone surprised?

[FreeKeys]

Does anyone have easy access to any think tanks that can set up a department to start googling these sleazeballs' favorite misspellings and foil their tactic?

[La Lydia]

You can find any legislation that has been introduced through the Library of Congress Thomas site. You can search by number, by member, by key word, by the committee that has jurisdiction, by other criteria and by Congress, such as 110th, etc..

http://thomas.loc.gov/

[reformedliberal]

I am unsure that we need to do that. As a terrible speller who relies on spell check, I have noticed that even when I misspell a word in a google search, the first line of the results will be a question, (did you mean_____________?) with the word in question spelled correctly and linked. The original search will still return many of the correct results and a few that were also misspelled in the original.

Now, the next problem would be in using the *find* function to search within a page. That is where a collection of misspellings would be useful. The only way to collate the varieties of misspellings, IMO, would be keep trying variants with the *find* function and keeping a list if any are found. Barring that waste of time, one might as well just take a deep breath and read the entire bill, if it can be obtained.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Google is sometimes smart enough to figure out misspellings in texts. What may be needed is a tool which can work with a local (downloaded) version of the text.

In the meantime the sleazes should be outed for fraud if they do not do a minimal due diligence (like using a common word processor’s spell checker).

[FreeKeys]

Good points. Thank you.

[Clioman]

This is simply another reminder...never, ever forget that spell check can be your enema.

[HiTech RedNeck]

or else your fiend.

[FlyVet]

A few weeks ago Dupree reported that it took him hours to read a portion of the bill that hid the new congressional aircraft purchase, because he couldn't search it. Different reason that time, the sleazeballs scanned the document using image format instead of OCR (text).

It's too bad so much of the public doesn't know and doesn't care how dishonest these creeps are.

[Salvation]

Let us read the bill!!!! 

Let us read the bill!!!!  

Let us read the bill!!!!  

Let us read the bill!!!! 

Let us read the bill!!!!

 

Email, call, fax, write your senators.  Burn up the lines!  Shut down the Senate switchboard!!

 

U. S. Senate

 

 

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

or your firends