I just now reread the post and was struck by the same thing:

The very fact that his actions lead to political gain is pretty much the basis of our form of government

Lost in the conversation over whether Dodd did it to bolster his campaign is the questtion "Why would it bolster his campaign?" The answer of course is because there are millions of Americans who actually care about this issue deeply and are willing to reward people for addressing it. No wonder the dinosaurs are nervous!

There are many back-reads of other sorta floppy diva-dabs.

There are many good-puppy 'wags' to read with stubby dog snail silly-tails. I'll tail you a tale or two?

Plus the Ladies with one belly button too?

It don't matter if the belly button sticks outward.

It don't matter if the belly button pokes inwards!

Happy Poke three gals or boys on A Belly Button Day?

We passed each other in the hall yesterday morning.

After a long day's work, I'm catching up on the headlines this fine morning, holding a steaming cup in my hand.

I'd bet a lot of people coming and going here are waiting for your high holiday riffs.

Well, I am at least.

The answer of course is because there are millions of Americans who actually care about this issue deeply and are willing to reward people for addressing it.

There are other issues that millions care about deeply that are also not being addressed.

The entire telecom issue is about unwarranted government intrusion into private lives.

I'm hoping that Ron Paul shakes the establishment to its very core.

This morning's WAPO reports the FBI is going to award a ten year $1 billion contract to build a new facility "deep in the Appalachian foothills" and create "the world's largest computer database."

The system will be able to collect and store almost all key biometric features of any person "of interest," including iris patterns, face-shaped data, scars, even walking and talking habits.

The scope of the technology and its use will allow the human body to be regarded as a "de facto ID card," according to WAPO.

The site will be "bigger, faster, better. That's the bottom line," an FBI official said.

Nothing, apparently, will be left to chance.

The FBI program is called Next Generation Identification.

Another feature of the program will allow employers to ask the bureau to store the fingerprints of employees who have had criminal background checks so the employees can be reported if they have "brushes with the law."

No rock left unturned.

WAPO reports critics of the FBI plan are raising privacy concerns, and they also want to know whether the contraptions under consideration have been tested sufficiently to show that criminals, or "bad guys," can be picked "out of a crowd."

WAPO reports over the last two years the Pentagon has created a database with fingerprints, iris readouts, and faces of about 1.5 million Iraqis, Afghans, and other foreigners who've had recent access to U.S. military facilities overseas.

Whoa! That's an absolutely extraordinary collection you've put together. Jeebus. Nice job!

Yeah, Karrsic, that is quite an effort you made there, and quite a useful tool you produced. Thanks much.

What do we suppose the Point of this might be?

In the end of course so much information is collected, none of it is of any use; nor, ultimately, is it meant to be used.

Just the fact of its existence, however, is presumed to act as a brake on unnecessary dissention, criminality, and terrrism.

Back when the FBI was just getting going, their collection of information was heralded as a Progressive move. And because the FBI would now be able to track and find and positively identify gangsters and criminals crime would finally be brought under control. And everybody would like that. So there was very little objection to FBI data collection in those days; there was a reason, after all, for what they were doing, and there were measurable results from their doing of it. People volunteered their identity and other information.

Now what's the reason?

Is there any way to measure results?

Is anyone being asked to volunteer? Or is it mandatory sweep up of everything?

Again I ask: what's the Point?

I love the way you are always ready to welcome a newcomer or vacationer, throw in some intellectual spice, amaze us with nature and your way of spinin words, warm us up with a smile or laugh when we are down, and deepen us when humanity is scarce and we don’t understand or forget the horrors of wars and their costs.

Take your breaks my friend as needed, just don’t leave us for too long. Then I can relax and breathe normally when you say you are dun.

MERRY SOLSTICE!

Yes, the point.

Well, one point is that is what's on the front page of today's WAPO.

For me, as a theatrical practitioner of some experience and taste, it is always calming to consider the absurdity all around us.

What, for instance, is the point of a government-built "bridge to nowhere"?

The government engineer, like the FBI spokesman quoted this morning, will say: "This is a fine bridge, a very fine bridge. It's bigger, grander; it has the latest high-tech toll booths, and, large scary gargoyles on top. Traffic, well into the future, will flow much faster and with far fewer bottlenecks. What's really great, when you consider our fine taxpayers, is that it came in on time and under budget. Hand me the golden scissors, please; I will now cut the ribbon."

But, the fine new bridge is still a bridge to nowhere.

Watch an old Jimmy Cagney gangster picture and see just how silly the G-men were then. They's just as silly today, even if they have as much data as God.

You need to practice 'talking' on Unlimited Territory like a duck?

Maybe if ya's got leg scars ya's won't win a FBI beauty leg contest?

What if you squawk like a duck, smell like a pole cat, and got shrapnel in the butt?

Oh ah, woe, then what?

Ya's out of duck luck.

Reid's Company will target Dirigo?

I need not 'Dodd' until a Kick Bucket Natural Way.

Let's all learn to pray?

"I confess to belive we okay."

"Nature send Gad Zeuss to smite!"

Quick. O, Yoda Today. Yip Hurray.