NSA Incompetance and Television

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Friday May 26, 2006 · 10:13 AM PDT

2006/05/26 · 10:13

I admit that my Tivo catches every CSI, and Numbers, and a fair share of other formulaic detective style shows. I like that every once in a while they can suprise me, and its good mind candy to decompress from the day. I think, like many Americans, I want to believe that law enforcement and government agencies are filled with dedicated, smart people who have the technology and problem solving skills to track down the elements in our society that with us harm. I also understand that the gap between reality and fiction is wider than we may expect. Even now some FBI agents do not have email and many of the tools in the labs are not available to any department not in a major city. My belief is that criminals aren't caught because they weren't smart enough, but because they just can't outsmart the combine manpower and diligence of law enforcement.
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Ethics and Security

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Saturday January 21, 2006 · 1:21 PM PST

2006/01/21 · 13:21

The republicans have stated that they want to make the midterms about security, and the Democrats want to make it about ethics. I propose we make it about both and take the fight right into the heart of their talking points.
If they want to peddle the idea that it will make us safer to have 160,000 of our soldiers in a foreign country that has nothing to do with Al Queda, prior to us invading, let em. I say we should turn the tables, and insist we bring the troops home to protect us from an attack here in the United States as promised by Osama in his last audiotape.
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Fightin' Words

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Friday September 23, 2005 · 11:07 AM PDT

2005/09/23 · 11:07

So here goes, my first attempt at a diary, but I guess we all start somewhere.

My wife and I had this conversation yesterday, and I thought it might be worth putting it in front of a larger audience.
My wife is not politically active whatsoever, she gets the majority of her political news from the daily show. I think in some ways she really does represent the majority of the voting public. She has always thought that GW was an idiot, to the point that she shows disgust anytime he comes on the television, she cannot see how people don't get that. I was on my soapbox, again, telling her about something I had read here and expressing my disgust at the lack of democratic response to the obvious failures and corruption. (she is very patient considering her lack of interest in politics)
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