Crying wolf over defeat of intel bill
All due deliberate speed does NOT mean “break-neck vote in something…anything…garbage, just so we give the appearance of accomplishing something meaningful”. It means, amongst other things, deliberate as in to deliberate and give careful considered thought. This is what Representatives Sensenbrenner and Hunter are trying to get the rest of the House to do.
And what do they get for the troubles: shrieking from certain very biased members of the 9/11 Commision that are seeing their pet little sectors of their proposal being changed. Their job [the commission] is over and done with, but they will not back away and let those charged with proposing and enacting legislation to do their job. A commission is chartered and charged with a specific task: to investigate a matter and issue a report. They are then done with their job. They have no more function.
The make-up of that particular commission was made deliberately broad and wide. BUT, and this is the BIG ‘but’, some of them misunderstand that they were only a commission, neither dictators nor geniuses. The two Representatives above are both extremely knowledgeable about intelligence agencies and see serious flaws in the initial proposal that need to be addressed, rearranged, improved, and generally reworked to make sure that the intended overall purpose of the bill really does what is needed, not just give the appearance of ‘doing something useful’. We’ve been down that road once before with The Patriot Act, which had/has many serious flaws. Let’s not go down that path again.
1 commentOy Vey…
This might explain why I got kicked out of confirmation class…in the first session.
You scored as Jewish. You are a Jew.
You understand that there is something basically missing in the teachings of religion and so-called
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Via: Paul also came up all Jewish.
4 commentsSo what do you put on pants to eat em?
like a criminal
did you think it could be like on tv?
where you could be big in your own movie?
—john lydon
I came across this recently by accident, but I remember reading about it at the time—it happened quite a few years ago and I thought it was funny enough to clip and enter into a database (sadly, now irretrievably corrupted) that I was using at the time.
Stettler is a small town in Alberta, about midway between Edmonton and Calgary.
The Experiment
The Sage was standing with the plain-clothed officer at entrance to the building which his colleague had run from in such haste. After the snickering and amusement of Ruperts reaction to all of it, the Sage was contacted by his friend in the Scottish Unusual Squad (known internally and to its friends as the Nessie Squad). It was because of this contact that the Sage was in front of this building on this rainy day.
The Sage had been relieved to see that the Scottish executive had not wound them up in a past flurry of cost-cutting. The Sage suspect the unit was saved when the English had announced the ending of their unit only weeks before the Scots were planning to so. The Scots were loath to ever been seen to be copying the English at anything.
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