If you wondered what that "Get Out of Jail Free"tm card for Eli Lilly in the Homeland Security legislation was doing there, ask yourself just who knew whom in the Administration. Other influence peddlers want to spread their agenda, too, and they may be finding a receptive ear in the Senate. I particularly like this quote from Senator Lott: "The only places where these ideas are considered bad are on the two coasts", he said in an interview. Apparently the millions of people who live on the coasts have non-mainstream ideas and values.
Hopefully you all are more current in your hardware/software than I am; I'm typing on a five-year old Packard Bell 166-mhz 256K Pentium MMX machine, with a 13-inch monitor and Win95 OS. Thus, I pay attention when the year-end computing guides come out, even ones from the WashPost.
Posted by Linkmeister at November 25, 2002 03:31 PMMan, and I thought I was hanging on with my P-200! Then again, I built it myself in '97. ...and it does have the advanced Win95b OS.
...and a 17" LCD <g>.
Posted by: dan at November 25, 2002 07:10 PMboy that homeland security disaster is just full of little surprises, isn't it? i don't see how anyone could, in good conscience, make large pharmaceutical companies exempt from litigation over horrible mistakes they made in children's vaccines. it's just beyond my scope of comprehension.
Posted by: kd at November 25, 2002 08:11 PMIf I were really nasty, I'd say "they were House Republicans. What conscience?" But I don't really believe that. I think they were in a hurry to go home, somebody slipped it into the language, and it made it through. I am continually astonished at how little content of the bills that pass are actually read by the Reps. and the Senators; they rely on their staffs to read the language and vet it. When the Patriot Act was passed, after the fact there were a number of Senators who admitted they hadn't read it.
Posted by: Linkmeister at November 25, 2002 08:24 PM