http://www.studio-owens.com/ Thoughts of a Hobbyist Game Developer en_EN Copyright © 2007 Stephen R. Owens owens00x@studio-owens.com Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:10:51 -0700 20 Subdreamer RSS Syndicator Presidential candidate Obama has promised us "Change we can believe in." Now would have been a good oportunity for him to prove that he means it. He had a great opportunity to oppose the FISA ammendment act, but yet he responded with the same conservative bull that is handed to us by the republicans. By Obama\'s responses he has just proven that he dosen\'t care that he promised, "Change we can believe in." Looks like it would be four more years of "Politics as usual," in the Obama camp. Obama needed to read and understand the original 1976 act before making this statement, "It restores FISA and existing criminal wiretap statutes as the exclusive means to conduct surveillance -- making it clear that the President cannot circumvent the law." Obama you fool. Let us have Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the most prominent Republican opponent of the compromise bill, expain to you why the "new" exclusivity provision is meaningles, "that specific provision is now in [the] 1978 act." Specter said Bush just ignored existing law in starting the warrantless surveillance program. Hey Obama! Anyone in there?"The government already has "the authority to collect the intelligence it needs to protect the American people." That authority is called FISA, which already allows the Government extremely broad authority to spy on any suspected terrorists. The current law results in virtually no denials of any spying requests. So how can Obama -- echoing the Bush administration -- claim a new law is needed to provide "the authority to collect the intelligence we need to protect the American people" when the current FISA law already provides that?" -- Glenn GreenwaldAll is not lost. Obama can still change his mind. Read more to find out how you can help. http://www.studio-owens.com/start/blog/p2_articleid/57 Stephen R. Owens Blog Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:39:24 -0700 I have been watching this game for about two years... http://www.studio-owens.com/start/blog/p2_articleid/56 Stephen R. Owens Blog Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:16:26 -0700 I am so sick and tired of un-elected bureaucrats creating laws. I belive we once had a Boston Tea Party (December 16 ,1773) to protest taxation without representation. There may yet be a modern day tea party coming. How long will you sit by and let the un-elected bureaucrats flog you?"It would be unconstitutional for Congress to create a statute stating that it was a crime to engage in conduct forbidden by the AMA, or by particular HCBPs, or by the health care industry as a whole. This is because neither the AMA, nor the HCBPs, nor the health care industry more generally are governmental entities, and Congress does not have the power to delegate law-making authority outside of the government." - DEFENDANTS JOINT MEMORANDUM, United States v. Stephen J. vs. Linda K. Schneider I am reposting this dispatch word for word. Read more and be angered. We need to put an end to this kind of bull... http://www.studio-owens.com/start/blog/p2_articleid/55 Stephen R. Owens Blog Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:20:29 -0700 This blog post is for the more geek of my readers http://www.studio-owens.com/start/blog/p2_articleid/54 Stephen R. Owens Blog Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:21:54 -0700 Data Realms has a fantastic indie game out called... http://www.studio-owens.com/start/blog/p2_articleid/53 Stephen R. Owens Blog Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:39:58 -0700