TL,TL,TL some advice from and OLD COOT, (I saw your pictures on the IW photobook & You look to young to have a sheep skin.) ;)

Sitback and enjoy the show, Here's a special helmet for you it's one I just recently found. "The Helm of Windmills" a +5 helm that will stop all illithid or other mind sucking attacks, by reminding you that a "Windmill is a Windmill" it's blades are fixxed and it spins in only one direction, and always faces the wind.

How about this TL:

Patriot Act II: WITH A WHISPER, NOT A BANG
David Martin - San Antonio Current

Bush signs parts of Patriot Act II into law — stealthily

Excerpt:
On December 13, when U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush not only celebrated with his national security team, but also pulled out his pen and signed into law a bill that grants the FBI sweeping new powers. A White House spokesperson explained the curious timing of the signing - on a Saturday - as "the President signs bills seven days a week." But the last time Bush signed a bill into law on a Saturday happened more than a year ago - on a spending bill that the President needed to sign, to prevent shuttng down the federal government the following Monday.

By signing the bill on the day of Hussein's capture, Bush effectively consigned a dramatic expansion of the USA Patriot Act to a mere footnote. Consequently, while most Americans watched as Hussein was probed for head lice, few were aware that the FBI had just obtained the power to probe their financial records, even if the feds don't suspect their involvement in crime or terrorism.

By signing the bill on the day of Hussein's capture, Bush effectively consigned a dramatic expansion of the USA Patriot Act to a mere footnote. The Bush Administration and its Congressional allies tucked away these new executive powers in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, a legislative behemoth that funds all the intelligence activities of the federal government. The Act included a simple, yet insidious, redefinition of "financial institution," which previously referred to banks, but now includes stockbrokers, car dealerships, casinos, credit card companies, insurance agencies, jewelers, airlines, the U.S. Post Office, and any other business "whose cash transactions have a high degree of usefulness in criminal, tax, or regulatory matters."

Rokenn, I think that news deserves a thread of its own.

Imagine, Mr. integrity sneaking a bill signing like this in on the Saturday of the perhaps biggest news story all year. No fanfare, no speeches on how and why we are all safer now.
Creepy.

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I agree with Chewie in part...seperate thread...as for the rest....I love conspiracy theorists [img]smile.gif[/img] so fun to watch [img]smile.gif[/img] </font>

Praise from the Right and the Left, must be my lucky day [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Hey, I ain't that young! I just had my 30th B-day, and I'm feeling older by the day. As for sheep skin, sorry, but I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing. ;) Sheep are for Scotsmen. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

BTW, does that helmet protect me from tilting at windmills??? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] :D

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I thought they were for NewZealanders.......


As for Windmill tilting..I think that is a time honoured tradition and that the Helmet will just give you better head and neck protection.</font>

NO you're on your own on that one, that's a hard leason and one that can easily be forgotten even by OLD COOTS ;)