Well, gang, you'll be proud of me... I didn't forget my wife's birthday!
Oh... and on that happy note... this girl Becky does seem like a nice young lady, doesn't she?
(*GRIN*)
Ah... com'on... doesn't that video remind you guys of all the fun we used to have when we were... um... not quite as mature as we are today?!
(*WINK*)
Let's see... what else...?
Oh! Duncan D. Hunter pissed me off last nigh!
Now no doubt young Congressman Hunter is a good guy. (Seriously... take a moment to read the guy's biography.)
How did Hunter piss me off? Well... last night Laura Ingraham was guest-hosting The Factor for O'Reilly and Hunter was one of her guests. His role was to defend the indefensible budget "compromise" bill.
Basically the guy hid behind the troops.
(*SHAKING MY HEAD IN DISGUST*)
Hunter claimed that he had no choice but to vote for the budget deal - which he defended on the "merits" by the way - because had the government shut down... "the troops" would not be paid.
That's bull!
First of all, even if checks were in fact delayed, the troops wouldn't miss one dime in pay. Military paychecks could theoretically get delayed in terms of being cut, going out, but pay itself wouldn't have been cut; "the troops" would have gotten every red cent owed to them.
Second of all, I have no doubt whatsoever that had it come to that, both Democrats and Republicans would have created "emergency" legislation authorizing stand-alone continuing financing of military pay regardless of any other temporary funding stops.
I mean... give us a frigg'n break, Congressman.
(I mean... perhaps Hunter would like "explain" to his congressional colleague marine Col. Allen West (Ret.) why West's principled "nay" vote was "an attack upon the troops.")
(*SNORT*)
Like I say, gang... no doubt Hunter believes he's being "loyal" to "the troops" - and to John Boehner - but as I've explained ad nauseum... not only did Hunter and his colleagues pass a bad bill, but worse, they've been telling more lies to justify their actions than Satan at a Baptist revival meeting!
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
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http://federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=35&sid=2345684
* UM... FOLKS...? THIS IS FROM FEDERAL NEWS RADIO. PRETTY AUTHORITATIVE. (*SHRUG*)
Under a White House plan, the Homeland Security Department will have far-reaching oversight over all civilian agency computer networks.
Federal News Radio recently viewed a draft copy of the legislative proposal.
"I have to question why the Executive branch is writing legislation," said the source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about it. "This is not a proposal or white paper like the White House usually sends to Capitol Hill. This is the actual legislation."
The source said the 100-page document is going through interagency review. DHS sent the document around to agencies late last Friday and asked for comments by Monday. The source said few agencies had time to take a hard look at the document, especially in light of the possible government shutdown.
A DHS spokesman said the agency doesn't comment on pending legislation.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Under critical infrastructure protection, the bill lets the DHS secretary decide what is critical infrastructure, assess audit systems for cyber resilience and create an industry of third-party accreditors and evaluators to assess private sector owners and operators systems for meeting cybersecurity requirements.
* CREATE AN INDUSTRY..??? (*SCRATCHING MY CHIN*)
The proposal also requires the development of voluntary consensus standards by industry, academic and government experts for each sector.
* REQUIRES... VOLUNTARY...? (*SCRATCHING MY HEAD*)
The bill states that owners and operators of critical infrastructure shall develop cybersecurity measures, and a senior accountable official must sign and attest to their implementation.
* Hmm...
In addition to federal cybersecurity, the bill goes into details about cyber crime and critical infrastructure security.
For instance under cyber crime, the proposal would expand the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to include a series of criminal offensives for cyber attacks and confidentiality abuses. It also would expand the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to establish criminal penalties for cyber crime.
* FOLKS. (*PAUSE*) WE DO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CYBER-SECURITY - NO DOUBT. AND, YES... JUST AS GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR NATION'S PHYSICAL PROTECTION, OUR NATION'S COMPUTER NETWORKS (COMMAND AND CONTROL AS WELL AS DATA MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY) MUST ULTIMATELY BE UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF GOVERNMENT PROTECTION - PARTICULARLY IN TERMS OF POTENTIAL CYBER-THREATS POSED BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AND TERRORISTS.
* STILL... THIS NEWS REPORT IS KINDA CREEPY. I'M GONNA EMAIL THIS NEWSBITE TO A FEW FOLKS AND ASK FOR THEIR OPINIONS.
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