[Infowarrior] - FW: [attrition] rant: I read the news today, oh boy.

[Richard Forno]

http://www.pogowasright.org/blogs/dissent/?p=210

(Dateline Washington , D.C., January 6, 2031)

The first session of the 122nd Congress opened today, with Senate leaders
vowing that this would be the year that they would pass the Leahy-Specter
Memorial Data Protection and Mandatory Breach Notification Act. Some
Beltway insiders had suggested that previous failures to enact the
legislation were due to the unpronouncabilty of "LSMDPMBNA," but others
had suggested that until now, Congress's priority had been to debate how
we landed up in wars with Iran, Korea, and Canada without Congress ever
authorizing any of those wars.

Over the holidays, members of Congress were shocked to read that
unencrypted data on a laptop computer lost by a Kaiser Impermanente
employee had been found and leaked to the media. The data revealed how
Representative Kale Jackson.s daughter had had 4 elective abortions before
the age of 15, how Senator Reid Smither's son had undergone inpatient
treatment for early-onset Huntington's Chorea and narcotic abuse, and how
Representative JoAnne B. Lane was currently under psychiatric treatment
for depression following her recent divorce.

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