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Why the DMV anti-terrorist actions are bogus.

  This is the complaint I filed with the New Jersey DMV. I'll report on their response as soon as I get it. It's very disheartening to go get your license and have to wait 4 hours but I put up with it because my fellow citizens were putting up with it. So it was that I and a woman who was ahead of me on line (by 2 or 3 spots) approached the 3 staff members at the North Bergen DMV. My documents were all in order but the woman had some difficulty with her documents. While a supervisor was vetting my documents, she was simultaneously tending to the woman's concerns. Apparently, that woman was feeling a little concerned that she would be able to endure the extra wait (we were all at the half way point) and the supervisor offered her some chocolate to get by. OK, I believe in being kind especially when it comes from public officials. But the woman who had difficulties with her documents and with her stamina ended up behind me (I was 157). After a few minutes had gone by, I ...

Why do so Many Lawyers go to the Senate?

Hell, that's an easy one. Nowhere else can a lawyer utter specious arguments and not be ridiculed by a judge. Case in point from the few minutes that I allowed myself to be subjected to Senatorial arguments on the Patriot Act on C-span: McConnell says that the U.S. Constitution is null and void (my words) with regard to NSA surveillance because the U.S. Constitution pertains to our person and our personal effects and the phone records? Well, they belong to the phone companies (who are obviously not people in this particular case). I see, so, the moment any information leaves your person or your home, they are fair game. OK, so we are to leave school records, medical records, military records, and anything else no longer under our lock and key at the purview of the NSA? Sound good to you? Earlier, I heard Senator Coats say repeatedly that only metadata was to be collected (phone, time, and duration) and that "time was of the essence" when it came to collecting possibly...