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Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Jkevinmorton.com] Disability Law Blog: SSA Notices Archives: The proposed eFOIA System is an Internet Web-based integrated system that will afford the public an opportunity to make FOIA requests via the Internet and uses the Department of Treasury's pay.gov service to provide the customer with a fast and effective means to pay his or her FOIA fees. In addition, one system allows SSA staff to keep current with the growing FOIA workload and more fully comply with the provisions of the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996 that amended the FOIA.The new system will contain the following information:"(1) The requester's name, address, control number, and subject matter of the request;

 [Bespacific.com] beSpacific: Press release: "During the next ten years the world faces a 29 percent chance of a nuclear attack and the prospect of four new nations being added to the nuclear weapons club, according to a new survey of non-proliferation and national security experts compile by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar. Over the same period, the experts rated the risks of a major chemical or biological attack as both greater than 30 percent, while the prospects of a dirty bomb attack were pegged at 40 percent."

[Home.earthlink.net] BeatBushBlog: This is particularly amusing since the wingnuts have been screaming ever since this memo was revealed that it's a fraud manufactured by Democrats and/or their co-conspirators in the "liberal media." Here's the pathetic response to this news by Power Line, one of the leading screamers and (absurdly enough) Time Magazine's reigning "Blog of the Year."

[Universaltransparency.org] Universal Transparency: The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center last March requested Office of Homeland Security records on proposals for standardized U.S. driver's licenses, records associated with a "trusted-flier" program and other proposals concerning biometric technology for identifying individuals.

The TCE Blog - -: We've learned that State Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Jerold Nadler have both signed on to Sue Kelly's letter to the EPA. (via Cosmos)

  Impact Analysis: I’m glad to see this kind of constituent services by our representatives, but the conventional wisdom would have had her kind of Republican supporting a strong economy, healthy business climate, regulatory relief, and “sound science”, over hazardous waste cleanup, and telling her constituents to suck it in and get over it. Wonders never cease. (via Cosmos)

  :: Escapism ::: Still, women should be aware that while it's rare, TSS hasn't gone away altogether. I remember I had a teacher in high school put up in the hospital for 2 weeks with the disease, and we all went, "hey, I thought TSS died out in the 80's!" Like our teacher was faking it to get away from us. (via Cosmos)

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