jdreyer wrote on Jun 6, 2013, 15:09:
The surveillance and the drone strikes are the two biggest issues I have with this president.

And yes, considering the man is a lawyer and constitutional scholar, I do expect him to be better on these issues.

Also, not everyone let these issues go when Obama was elected.

I wish Romney were president. He would have shut these programs down for sure.

The court order appears to explain the numerous cryptic public warnings by two US senators, Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, about the scope of the Obama administration's surveillance activities.

For roughly two years, the two Democrats have been stridently advising the public that the US government is relying on "secret legal interpretations" to claim surveillance powers so broad that the American public would be "stunned" to learn of the kind of domestic spying being conducted.

Because those activities are classified, the senators, both members of the Senate intelligence committee, have been prevented from specifying which domestic surveillance programs they find so alarming. But the information they have been able to disclose in their public warnings perfectly tracks both the specific law cited by the April 25 court order as well as the vast scope of record-gathering it authorized.

At present, border agents do not have to provide a warrant or have reasonable suspicion to search your laptop—they essentially just need a hunch. For some time now, civil liberties groups have been pressing to change that policy. At the very least, these groups would like to compel the government to explain its legal rationale.

Prez wrote on Jun 5, 2013, 15:24:
You have GOT to get that dog chipped. Just this week we were able to reunite two dogs with their owners at the animal shelter where I work because of their id chips.

Mr. Tact wrote on Jun 5, 2013, 10:15:

Verno wrote on Jun 5, 2013, 10:09:
That one scene in Heat is great too:

Alan Marciano: Why'd I get mixed up with that bitch?

Vincent Hanna: Cause she's got a great ass... and you got your head all the way up it!

Haha, yeah. Heat is definitely a five star film as far as I am concerned. Pacino's character is awesome. There is a lot of good dialog in that film, like the scene with Pacino and DeNiro sitting down for coffee.