SEC. 309. PROCEDURES FOR THE RETENTION OF INCIDENTALLY ACQUIRED
            COMMUNICATIONS.
        (a) Definitions.--In this section:
                (1) Covered communication.--The term ``covered communication''
        means any nonpublic telephone or electronic communication acquired
        without the consent of a person who is a party to the
        communication, including communications in electronic storage.
[...]
(b) Procedures for Covered Communications.--
                (1) Requirement to adopt.--Not later than 2 years after the
        date of the enactment of this Act each head of an element of the
        intelligence community shall adopt procedures approved by the
        Attorney General for such element that ensure compliance with the
        requirements of paragraph (3).

(3) Procedures.--
                        (A) Application.--The procedures required by paragraph (1)
                shall apply to any intelligence collection activity not
                otherwise authorized by court order (including an order or
                certification issued by a court established under subsection
                (a) or (b) of section 103 of the Foreign Intelligence
                Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803)), subpoena, or
                similar legal process that is reasonably anticipated to result
                in the acquisition of a covered communication to or from a
                United States person and shall permit the acquisition,
                retention, and dissemination of covered communications subject
                to the limitation in subparagraph (B).
                        (B) Limitation on retention.--A covered communication shall
                not be retained in excess of 5 years, unless--

Government forcing medical procedures on anyone is really not something we want, especially since government won't take responsibility for the (admittedly unlikely) consequences of a bad result.

Under the NCVIA, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) was created [in 1986] to provide a federal no-fault system for compensating vaccine-related injuries or death by establishing a claim procedure involving the United States Court of Federal Claims and special masters.

We need better education to counteract the Jenny McCarthys.

As we have increased the number of vaccines being given to children, we have also seen an increase in debilitating illnesses.

Yeah yeah, correlation does not prove causation but we can't even study at this point because anyone questioning is an "Anti Vac Whacko".

How about, if you come down with something, it's your problem for not getting yourself vaccinated.

if the public good is really being served here by improving safety of citizens, why isn't the discussion framed more along these lines?

Pretty sure grocery stores do pay for repairs/stock loss/insurance through increasing the price of their goods. How else would they do it?

Also, waterboarding was done on 3 prisoners, though the media would have you believe every single prisoner in gitmo had it done to them.

The CIA has maintained that only three prisoners were ever subjected to waterboarding, but the report alludes to evidence that it may have been used on others, including photographs of a well-worn waterboard at a black site where its use was never officially recorded. The committee said the agency could not explain the presence of the board and water-dousing equipment at the site, which is not named in the report, but is believed to be the âoeSalt Pitâ in Afghanistan.

I'm sorry, I don't rent my operating systems. Or my applications for that matter.

and "Net Neutrality" strikes me as an intrusive shell game... Hoping I'm wrong.

How do we get back to real competition and value for our money?

You can see the whitelist of allowed sites here: https://easylist-downloads.adb... - along with Google and it's Doubleclick network, other notables and other publishers and trackers not easily recognized have paid up. Adblock Plus got the install base and trust, then they change the arrangement.

Seems like it would take some careful calibration to make a laser that would burn off wet leaves plastered to the rail and yet not soften the hardened steel of the rail that's going to have a multi-ton train passing over it in seconds.

All of this would not be necessary, if existing laws would be enforced the way they were intended to. What is here not to understand " ... secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects".

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

if it is in fact cheaper.

Why not ask someone who's been involved in the security decisions for a few years why things are the way that they are first?