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Patriot Act to be Expanded
m4dm4n writes "It seems that the patriot act is being expanded rather than scaled back after a vote late Tuesday by the Senate Intelligence committee. The FBI has gained new powers to demand documents from companies without a judge's approval, as well as the ability to designate subpoenas as secret and punish disclosure of their existence with up to one year in prison."
lets do this!
Just wait until 2006 when we have 60 senators. We'll pass everything, have all of our judges nominated... it will be sweet. And all the dumocrats will have is ABC, NBC, NY Times, CNN, Hollyweird, CBS and Err-America radio. Mwahh hah hah ha!
"No, you know what, you go figure it out. You obviously have access to the internet, so you can get news from places other than Fox. Try reading a little. Try a history book, instead of a comic book."
I've got a friend who's really in to comic books, and he'd take offense at that. There's an EXCELLENT Captain America run made after 9/11 that deals with this exactly. Cap starts mindlessly pursuing the "Evil Doers", but soon finds out that there's more to the conflict than he thought, and that things are never black and white.
I can't remember the name, but it should be easy enough to find. Also, the art is top notch. Highly recommended. It ought to be out in a trade paperback by now.
A buddy of mine was working as an associate in a legal firm in kentucky and told me this story last weekend. a 15 year old girl and a 16 year old boy are having a baby - the parents are at war so the boys father gets a law firm and starts the paper work for the blood test when the baby is born. baby is born - test results are in and the boy is not father - the girl claims she had only slept with this boy so they proceed to get 2 more blood test to confirm. results in - the boy still is not the father. the lawyer gets everyone (mother and father of both kids as well as the boy and girl) in a room and asks the boy and girl what actually happened the night in question. the boy says they and another couple went to the drive in in his car - they were in the back seat and the other couple in the front seat. the boy and girl had sex in the back seat only one time and then they left to go home when the movie was over. Question - why is the boy not the father? what really do you think happened in the car - i will give the answer soon. (This is a real story)!!