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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (7850)	11/26/2001 8:47:35 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Nukes were the longest part of my career life, there abouts 15 years of crispy critter studies as we liked to call them. From NCA down to the warhead; got my little fingers into where ever I could. Anyone who thinks Israel is our "friend and ally" isn't paying attention. Lots of folks aren't paying attention; they just believe the podium speakers that keep on saying Israel is our friend and ally.... Did you see the blurb that Indonesia declared Israel to be a terrorist state? That was an interesting contrast to Zimbabwe declaring 4 AP writers to be terrorists. newsday.com This terrorist label is beginning to be the in-thing. But we have our own blessed little children here in the US. newsday.com Then propose either of my systems over on any of the liberal threads and watch what happens. They're both simple. As simple as any can be. Oh, and put your helmet and flak jacket on first. VAT might be simple, once you figure out what it subject to VAT. Flat tax; that description alone doesn't really define it as simple. Computing the tax isn't complex. It's figuring out the AGI that's the complex part. Even with the "flat tax" computation, you'll still have 25 pages of tables to look up the tax liability. Fractions? Percentages? The American people? I used to find the fastest way to escape from someone at a party was to announce that I was a mathematician...scared them to death. <LOL> As if this would keep foreigners who wanted it from getting it. For the bureau people that I was talking to who were directly involved in the program, they knew there wasn't any insurmountable obstacles in obtaining near high grade stuff. They were relying on the characteristic that bad people were cheap and lazy. I participated in a couple of industry studies on the use/need of encryption; I usually got to interview the ATF, FBI, DEA folks. It wasn't a part of the study but out of curiousity I asked whether they found any encryption equipment when they nabbed any of the druggies. Druggies had lots of cash, lots of motivation but all the LE guys ever turned up was intercept equipment. Some of it high tech, but never any encryption equipment. You recall the two Navy guys that were prosecuted for fraud? The prosecution was successfull because the FBI wire tapped the dudes and gather enough evidence that way. What wasn't reported, in the general news, was that both of the Navy guys had STU-IIIs on their desk. All they had to do was press that damn "secure" button. An FBI agent told me once...thank god the bad guys are stupid. jttmab