In an example of lucky timing, the GSA scandal proved why Darrell Issa’s DATA act was needed. Transparency in government allows for oversight. So the bill passed the House by voice vote.

I first floated a while back the idea that this sudden, strident CISPA opposition was roote d in a desire to distract the public from the much stronger and more dangerous Lieberman-Collins bill in the Senate. It’ll work with the libertarian left because hey, they’ll believe whatever the left says about eeevil Bushitlerian Rethuglicans. But it disappoints me when the right, including FreedomWorks, is tricked and puts effort into CISPA instead of Lieberman-Collins. Did we learn nothing from Net Neutrality?

But yeah, when the usual whiny groups along with Barack Obama and the administration are joining together to talk exclusively about CISPA but not at all about Lieberman-Collins, I’m right.

House Republicans may in fact limit the bill in response to the veto threat, but the fact is we need a flexible legal framework to empower the good guys to have information which is critical when countering bad guys who share information all the time.

International attacks are real though. In fact, everyone may want to check into this account by the FBI about a thwarted attack that may still infect your computer.

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In an example of lucky timing, the GSA scandal proved why Darrell Issa’s DATA act was needed. Transparency in government allows for oversight. So the bill passed the House by voice vote.

I first floated a while back the idea that this sudden, strident CISPA opposition was roote d in a desire to distract the public from the much stronger and more dangerous Lieberman-Collins bill in the Senate. It’ll work with the libertarian left because hey, they’ll believe whatever the left says about eeevil Bushitlerian Rethuglicans. But it disappoints me when the right, including FreedomWorks, is tricked and puts effort into CISPA instead of Lieberman-Collins. Did we learn nothing from Net Neutrality?

But yeah, when the usual whiny groups along with Barack Obama and the administration are joining together to talk exclusively about CISPA but not at all about Lieberman-Collins, I’m right.

House Republicans may in fact limit the bill in response to the veto threat, but the fact is we need a flexible legal framework to empower the good guys to have information which is critical when countering bad guys who share information all the time.

International attacks are real though. In fact, everyone may want to check into this account by the FBI about a thwarted attack that may still infect your computer.

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Previously on Tech at Night I linked to a story that suggested there was a split between Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley on FCC transparency. It turns out the story I relied on, had it wrong. Oversight wasn’t grading transparency itself; the committee was grading the management of FOIA requests, and FCC did relatively well by having established processes for dealing with FOIA. and tracking the requests in a systematic way.

The Oversight committee was not saying that the FCC is open. Because, in fact as pointed out by Mario Diaz-Balart, FCC rejects more FOIA requests than CIA, amazingly enough. That’s a serious transparency problem.

Speaking of transparency, Eric Cantor is soliciting citizen co-sponsorship of the DATA Act which would try to get more data about government out into the open, where the public can apply oversight.

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Previously on Tech at Night I linked to a story that suggested there was a split between Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley on FCC transparency. It turns out the story I relied on, had it wrong. Oversight wasn’t grading transparency itself; the committee was grading the management of FOIA requests, and FCC did relatively well by having established processes for dealing with FOIA. and tracking the requests in a systematic way.

The Oversight committee was not saying that the FCC is open. Because, in fact as pointed out by Mario Diaz-Balart, FCC rejects more FOIA requests than CIA, amazingly enough. That’s a serious transparency problem.

Speaking of transparency, Eric Cantor is soliciting citizen co-sponsorship of the DATA Act which would try to get more data about government out into the open, where the public can apply oversight.

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The House is doing anything but shirking its responsibility to apply oversight to the Obama administration. The FCC in particular is getting the attention it needs. “Regulatory hubris” in picking winners and losers is part of the problem, says Commissioner Robert McDowell. He should know, as he’s on the inside.

Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley disagree on the FCC’s transparency though. Issa gives them a good grade, oddly enough, even as they continue to stonewall Grassley.

And so it’s good that Jo Ann Emerson questions the FCC’s hypocritical and questionable demand for senseless record keeping in others.

Though it’d be nice if somebody asked “Senator” Wendy’s questions about Free Press, in relation to the FCC.

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The House is doing anything but shirking its responsibility to apply oversight to the Obama administration. The FCC in particular is getting the attention it needs. “Regulatory hubris” in picking winners and losers is part of the problem, says Commissioner Robert McDowell. He should know, as he’s on the inside.

Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley disagree on the FCC’s transparency though. Issa gives them a good grade, oddly enough, even as they continue to stonewall Grassley.

And so it’s good that Jo Ann Emerson questions the FCC’s hypocritical and questionable demand for senseless record keeping in others.

Though it’d be nice if somebody asked “Senator” Wendy’s questions about Free Press, in relation to the FCC.

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ACTA. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is Darrell Issa’s next project, as he’s not happy about the treaty. So, he’s put the treaty online for all to see.

I still don’t know of any specific reason to oppose the treaty. My understanding is that it basically brings the west in on the DMCA. There may be details I’ve missed though. The best argument against the treaty is a process argument: it’s a bad precedent to pass a treaty kept from the public the way ACTA has been.

In much more amusing news, Anonymous and affiliated online terror cells continue to get rolled up, in some cases with the help of members and leaders already caught.

They’re not anonymous. They have names. They’re not legion. They are limited in number. They’re not an unstoppable idea. They’re specific people who can be jailed. And we’re doing it.

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ACTA. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is Darrell Issa’s next project, as he’s not happy about the treaty. So, he’s put the treaty online for all to see.

I still don’t know of any specific reason to oppose the treaty. My understanding is that it basically brings the west in on the DMCA. There may be details I’ve missed though. The best argument against the treaty is a process argument: it’s a bad precedent to pass a treaty kept from the public the way ACTA has been.

In much more amusing news, Anonymous and affiliated online terror cells continue to get rolled up, in some cases with the help of members and leaders already caught.

They’re not anonymous. They have names. They’re not legion. They are limited in number. They’re not an unstoppable idea. They’re specific people who can be jailed. And we’re doing it.

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Obama assured us that the stimulus money would be used to promote economic recovery. He promised to keep the unemployment rate below 8% stating that the stimulus would have an immediate impact mentioning shovel ready jobs. It wasn’t until 2011 that Obama laughed and said, “Shovel ready was not as shovel ready as we expected.”

Did we miss a joke here? None of the 14 million Americans out of work or millions more who can’t find enough part time work to keep their head above water are laughing! He has a perverted sense of humor – not one college student or senior citizen sees any humor in the “shovel ready” remark.

Obama touted in 2009 that the stimulus bill would help millions get out of the poverty trench. The fact is over 6 million taxpayers have been pushed over the cliff and landed in that trench. The Africa Americans have been totally neglected by Obama – all he wants from them are their votes and support for the 2012 Presidential Election. The Hispanics haven’t recovered from his lies in 2009.

Child poverty has increased and many of the Americans counted in the unemployment figure are working part time which is a big red flag equating to more dependency on the Government – that is exactly what Obama wants. He wants big Government controlling our every move; he wants all classes to be totally dependent on “Big Daddy Government.”

The clean energy and “green economy” didn’t create millions of jobs as promised. The DOE (Department of Energy) had a feeding frenzy with 35 billion dollars of our stimulus money and we know before the year is over we’ll be hearing about more green companies who gobbled up our money and then closed their doors after receiving big bonuses.

In a recent Gallup poll unemployment is around 9% and climbing – by the end of March we’ll see the new figures from the Bureau of Labor. It doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out that unemployment is hovering around 15%, because part time and temporary jobs are weak band aids and the 1.1 or 1.8 million who gave up looking for employment must be included.

The rest of the story about our stimulus money isn’t pretty; in fact it’s very disturbing and brings us to this question. While Obama’s Administration was redistributing our money like drunken sailors – no one was following up on what the grantees were doing with the money. No one in the White House was looking out for the taxpayers or their money except a few like Chuck Grassley and Darrell Issa

We always get the bad news after the fact – after the ravenous wolves have just swallowed another billion or two. We hear about Obama Care, AARA, Solyndra, Sun Power, Telsa, GM, the Chevy Volt, Fast and Furious gunrunner operation after our money is gone, our jobs are lost and people have been murdered.

OIG (Office of Inspector General) definitely has done intensive research and studies into the use and misuse of the stimulus money, their findings only confirm the fact that not any Republicans or Democrats were monitoring the grantees(the ones receiving) our money.

Here is a site that is a real eye opener on Government Waste by Tom Coburn (MD). He states that the Government does not include metrics and standards to Government programs, which basically means the right hand never knows what the left hand is doing at any given time.

http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=ed30e791-037c-45c6-aa7b-62f3a52b781a

http://www.gao.gov/assets/320/315920.pdf

It’s not only the Obama Administration that is destroying our Nation! Obama did just what he promised he showed us “Change,” in three years minus the “Hope.” In addition to Obama, Americans have a Congress that is lackadaisical, not engaged, not accountable and perfectly content to spend our hard earned money.

Remember the “Super Committee” supposedly the dream team who would find solutions to pay for the debt ceiling increase? Our Government is trashed, beyond recognition and we must take it from the hands of those who just don’t give a “Damn.”

May God Bless America
As Always,
Little Tboca

Yup, I’m back. And I have roughly a week’s worth of stuff to cover, so let’s go.

Top story seems to be that The Obama/Holder Justice Department has no problem with Google’s vertical integration takeover of Motorola Mobility. Interesting. I also await word on whether Google will drop all aggressive patent lawsuits, as they claim to use patents only defensively.

Some people never learn. Google and Microsoft support the runaway FCC against Republican attempts to constrain the regulators to using clear, consistent, fair rules for spectrum policy. Sure, I understand that some such as Darrell Issa are unhappy about the unlicensed spectrum restrictions, but my view on this bill is mend it, don’t end it. What we do need to end is the ability of the FCC to micromanage industry by managing the FCC in a reasonable and responsible way. Greg Walden’s bill should pass in some form.

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