Comments on Advance Indiana™: Federal Probe Of Visclosky Widens

Visclosky should have teamed up with Bush and Obam...

2009-05-30T10:21:01.101-05:00

Visclosky should have teamed up with Bush and Obama Administration folks before he started paying hommage to defense contractors. By all rights, that money should have gone to the Carlyle Group or to someone in the family.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/145903/bushs_uncle_profited_from_20_million.html

It kinda makes you feel sorry for folks like Visclosky, doesn't it? They see all these other people who are openly milking the system and getting away with it, so they think that they can do the same thing. Somehow or other, they've completely missed the fact that when you're not a member of the team, you have to pay the right people if you want to play.

What is especially interesting is the FBI sometime...

2009-05-29T18:24:46.687-05:00

What is especially interesting is the FBI sometime around 2000 had a program called carnivore that could selectively scan internet traffic. Bet the suits will be happy with the prez's new policy.

Admittedly not on-topic but today Prezbo announced...

2009-05-29T17:55:56.385-05:00

Admittedly not on-topic but today Prezbo announced yet another 'protection' to be foisted upon us:

"President Obama declared Friday that the country’s disparate efforts to “deter, prevent, detect and defend” against cyberattacks would now be run out of the White House, but he also promised that he would bar the federal government from regular monitoring of “private sector networks” and the Internet traffic that has become the backbone of American communications."

Given that cyber attacks typically occur on 'private sector networks', I fail to see how 'regular monitoring' would not be employed as claimed.

I'm not buying the story. Especially when it's handed over to another 'czar.' The definition I pulled out of google is "A ruler who claims the same rank as a Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch)."

I despise the notion of 'supreme rulers' being appointed to government positions.

We've already seen the results of czars being placed in charge of transportation - an airline system where everyone is deemed a criminal until they are strip-searched, and where one's personal belongings have a better chance of being stolen (er, 'lost') by the transportation czar's army than they do of arriving intact at one's final destination.