Oh what a world...

With so much going on in the political world lately, its difficult to pick a single topic.

Gun legislation dying in Congress, because "it'll never work". (Uh, hello? Australia anyone?) No, seriously, have our members of Congress looked at what sweeping gun regulations did for Australia's death by gun rates? No links present atm, sorry, I didn't save those, but The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has a good bit of information for it this week.

The sequester, particularly the FAA furloughs, and Congress speeding a bill through to stop those due to the delays in air travel. (Guess they didn't want to be inconvenienced. Bonus for us~)

Mail laced with Ricin sent to the President, a Senator, and a Judge. (Was Anthrax too obvious for you?) I suppose this was only considered political due to the targets since motive is as of yet unknown from what I gathered.

The (somewhat laughable) George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. (In which he can tell you that you're wrong for deciding to not invade Iraq and why his decision was the right one and you're wrong for saying otherwise.)

And finally, the bill to stop warantless email snooping. Interesting fact currently no email is needed at all to be able to go through your email correspondence. Frikkin fantastic. Thanks to this  bill though (provided it, you know, passes and they don't amend it all to hell to basically make it useless at protecting whatever privacy we deluded ourselves into thinking we had) that will stop and search warants will be required to be able to take that sneakypeak.

Here's a little gem from the article:

Senator Jeff Sessions said major city chiefs of police, FBI groups, district attorneys and others had expressed grave concerns about the bill. "It seems to me these concerns are very real," he said. "In the real world agents sometime have to do 30, 40, 50 pages [of] documents to get a warrant. It intimidates them and they just don't try. [Some] cases, particularly terrorism cases, may never be followed up on simply because of that burden"

I'm sorry if the agents are too LAZY to do the jobs REQUIRED of them when they wish to go searching through and invading someone's privacy. That sounds more like an issue that their superiors need to address directly with said agents, rather than attempting to compromise the freedoms and rights that we as citizens are told that we have. If someone wants to go through any of my things, they better have a bullet-proof reason for wanting to do so. (How many bids that mentioning ricin and the President set off some flags somewhere? If you think I'm paranoid about thinking that, you clearly haven't been paying attention, now have you?)

I'm amazed sometimes that we can get anything done with our elected officials being as split as they are... when it, you know, gets done.