FISA,PATRIOT ACT Fixes Under Way?

Feingold, Durbin to intro FISA, PATRIOT fixes
by ben masel Sun Aug 23, 2009

I caught up with Senator Feingold at his re-election fundraiser/picnic this
morning.He and Senator Durbin have given up on waiting for the Administration to submit a package of amendments to the PATRIOT and FISA Amendment Acts, and are drafting their own. Rollout in approximately a month.
I also asked Russ about legislation creating statutory privacy rights in the location database collected by cellphone carriers, which are not covered by existing law, and courts have been mixed in requiring warrants for law enflorcement access. He's going to see if Durbin wants to include this in the package, otherwise he'll do a standalone bill. I'd discussed both topics with Representative Nadler, Chair of House Judiciary's Subcommitee on Courts and Constitution in the elevator at Netroots Nation, convinced him to hold hearings on the location privacy issue "in a couple months."

Latest Polling From Rasmussen

As of Tuesday, August 17, 31% of our country strongly approves of the way that President Obama is working as our President. At the same time, 46% strongly dislike the way that Obama is handling things. We knew that the numbers would be going down in time, but this is lousy timing as Obama attempts to get his Healthcare plan going. The Prez needs all of the support that he can muster!
In other polling stats, 42% of voters now expect that their taxes will be going up during the Obama years, while only 6% of voters expect a tax cut. I do hope that those 6 percent aren't to shocked when their taxes do go up. Common sense will tell you that taxes will have to go up in order to finance our debt and the programs which will come into being under this administration. Remember this though, Bush was responsible for many of the cutbacks which will have to be re-instated once again by President Obama.
The final numbers on Obama's approval/disapproval? 49% of voters say that they overall approve of Obama's job performance, while 50% disapprove. Well hell! You can't please everybody, can you?
SOURCE:http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Celebrity Deaths...

...have been a big happening this week, in case you've been on a deserted island and haven't heard about them yet.
Fisrt off, we had Johnny Carson's sidekick Ed McMahon die on Tuesday at the age of 86. Cause of death has not been released as of yet.
Next up, we had Farrah Fawcett die on Thursday after a three year battle against cancer.
Also on Thursday, pop star Michael Jackson bit the dust at the age of 50 from cardiac arrest.

Cardiac arrest is a condition in which the electrical signals to the heart become abnormal, making it impossible for it to properly pump blood through the body. In over 90 percent of victims, death occurs.

The first sign that something was wrong with Jackson likely occurred when an ambulance arrived at his home and took him to the medical center just a few miles away. But even if paramedics responded immediately, Jackson's chances would not have been good.

"This is something where minutes count," said Cannon. "Survival tails off from 50 percent survival down to 1 percent over a 10-minute period."

Cannon said cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack, which is normally the result of a blockage in an artery that supplies the heart with blood.

abcnews.go.com

Jackson's death came as quite a shock to many of his fans, who did not know that Jackson had been having some serious health and drug problems over the past few years. It is reported that stress had been a major issue with Mr. Jackson.
It has been said by some Jackson Acquaintances that Jackson was a heavy user of the drug Demerol, a pain killer. (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MichaelJackson/story?id=7934491&page=1)
I am not a very big fan of Michael Jackson, even though he did release a few tunes that I did happen to like. " Dirty Diana" and " Billie Jean " being a couple of them. Mr. Jackson was a very real talent who was popular with most everyone no matter what race. It is a shame that we will never see Michael doing his comeback tour, which would have kicked off next month.
Another " American Gothic " comes to an early end.