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Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans
Pickens writes "CBS News reports that the Obama administration is currently drafting the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which will be released by the president in the next few months. 'We are not talking about a national ID card,' says Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, whose department will be in charge of the program. 'We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.' Although details have not been finalized, the 'trusted identity' may take the form of a smart card or digital certificate that would prove online users are who they say they are. These digital IDs would be offered to consumers by online vendors for financial transactions. White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt says that anonymity and pseudonymity will remain possible on the Internet. 'I don't have to get a credential if I don't want to,' says Schmidt. There's no chance that 'a centralized database will emerge,' and 'we need the private sector to lead the implementation of this.'"
"getting everyone an IP address."
And tell me the difference between "getting everyone an IP address" and national ID.
So...the worst we have to worry about liberals is having some sort of concern over governing power and maybe being gay... And the worst we have to worry about teabaggers is they're all talk about concern over uneconomic governing power, but they're really just a delusional group who think Republicans represent God on Earth. I think you can guess which group I'd rather be incorrectly labeled as. But, then, I'm not so insecure about my sexual identity and I am concerned about actual governance, not a bunch of empty rhetoric.
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The Tea Party were the first ones to call themselves "teabaggers". But don't let facts get in the way of your little rant (Teabaggers never do).
That they were so clueless and idiotic and naive to not know what "teabagging" really was made it a perfect word for those outside the idiotic Tea Party movement (not all liberal by a long shot) to describe them, as it captured their ignorance perfectly.
Seriously, coming up with a "Taxed Enough Already" party during a period where their Federal taxes are the lowest in three generations, and ranting against a President who has now cut their taxes TWICE? Pure idiocy.
The "Tea Party" is a fake movement where the justified outrage of individuals over the wallstreet bailouts was twisted and redirected against the wrong people by multi-billion dollar corporations and billianaire conservatives (The Koch brothers to name two). The gullible Tea Party members swallowed it whole and now rant and rave against their own best interests and serve their billionaire masters without even knowing it. Stupid lemmings, all of them.
Interesting all their ranting against "spending" never materialized during Dubbya's massive spending increases and massive budget hemmoraging. But when Obama tries to invest in this country (instead of in destroying others) and actively prevents us from falling into a Depression and utter economic collapse, somehow HE'S the bad guy. Not the guy (or the party) whose policies directly lead us into the financial collapse and massive budget deficits. Riiiiight.
The Tea Party is a party of morons being lead by and funded by cynical and selfish elites pushing their own agenda of amassing ever more power and wealth. The Tea Party is best summed up by one of their most infamous rally signs: "Keep the government out of my medicare!" ... the depths of the ignorance and hypocrisy it takes to come up with such a sign is stunning, but par for the course from virtually every Tea Party member out there.
Teabaggers indeed.