{"id":195438,"date":"2008-07-09T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/09\/damn-telco-amnesty-and-surveillance-state-bill-passes\/"},"modified":"2008-07-09T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T22:18:00","slug":"damn-telco-amnesty-and-surveillance-state-bill-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/09\/damn-telco-amnesty-and-surveillance-state-bill-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn!!!  Telco Amnesty and Surveillance State Bill Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2008\/07\/09\/fisa-final-votes-on-the-fisa-amendments-act\/\">FDL<\/a> it was 69:28.<\/p>\n<p>Of my senators, Cardin voted nay, Mikulski voted aye. <\/p>\n<p>Barbara Mikulski will never get my money or my vote again.<\/p>\n<p>As to the Democrats, to paraphrase a book I read decades ago from memory:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>In the old days, there was an operation performed on young boys.<\/p>\n<p>They would either die, keep a lovely singing voice into adulthood, or become a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Democrat in Congress<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to FDL it was 69:28. Of my senators, Cardin voted nay, Mikulski voted aye. Barbara Mikulski will never get my money or my vote again. As to the Democrats, to paraphrase a book I read decades ago from memory: In the old days, there was an operation performed on young boys. They would either &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1067,998,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-communications","category-congress","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}