Just when you thought you could relax a little...
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rolanniI had honestly thought this was a dead issue. Silly me.
(CNN) -- Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says there are no plans for a federal database of drivers' information.
The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending and tsunami relief bill, aims to weave driver's licenses and state ID cards into a sort of national identification system by May 2008. The law sets baseline criteria for how driver's licenses will be issued and what information they must contain.
The Department of Homeland Security insists Real ID is an essential weapon in the war on terror, but privacy and civil liberties watchdogs are calling the initiative an overly intrusive measure that smacks of Big Brother.
The rest of the story, in glorious doublespeak.
Office packed. Again. Will report to updated quarters bright and sunshine early on Monday and unpack same. Again. What fun.
The nifty word meter over at zokutou.co.uk has gone missing, which is really too bad. This does not, however, mean that we here at the Confusion Factory have stopped writing. Or counting.
edited to add new meter
Progress on Duainfey:
Today's Special:
They passed the last homestead at mid-morning; the road thinning to a thred of dusty track through country overgrown with sparse, leggy shrubbery.
Becca recognized redthorn and thessel, wild carrot, coinflower, and bluebows. Fire plants, the lot of them, their only virtue that of quick growth and quicker die-off, to enrich the ground so that sturdier, more useful plants might re-grow.
(CNN) -- Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says there are no plans for a federal database of drivers' information.
The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending and tsunami relief bill, aims to weave driver's licenses and state ID cards into a sort of national identification system by May 2008. The law sets baseline criteria for how driver's licenses will be issued and what information they must contain.
The Department of Homeland Security insists Real ID is an essential weapon in the war on terror, but privacy and civil liberties watchdogs are calling the initiative an overly intrusive measure that smacks of Big Brother.
The rest of the story, in glorious doublespeak.
Office packed. Again. Will report to updated quarters bright and sunshine early on Monday and unpack same. Again. What fun.
The nifty word meter over at zokutou.co.uk has gone missing, which is really too bad. This does not, however, mean that we here at the Confusion Factory have stopped writing. Or counting.
edited to add new meter
Today's Special:
They passed the last homestead at mid-morning; the road thinning to a thred of dusty track through country overgrown with sparse, leggy shrubbery.
Becca recognized redthorn and thessel, wild carrot, coinflower, and bluebows. Fire plants, the lot of them, their only virtue that of quick growth and quicker die-off, to enrich the ground so that sturdier, more useful plants might re-grow.
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Date: 2007-08-18 07:46 am (UTC)However, it a a violation of state laws for anyone to access DMV records without a valid law enforcement reason or without paying a fee. Basically, the whole issue is a mess.