(np)(political) ok this won't be popular.../ Marines making history? / freakishly advanced lie-detector tech...

[Michael Bailey]

...but I am very impressed with the paradigm-changing possibilities
of Obama's aisle-crossing "reacharound" strategy

I really am.   I suspect it will bear fruit, and reward study...


(a-and on a different note, pacifist though I sincerely am, I think
that something very heavy-duty is going on in Afghanistan)


(a-and, just a sidelight - was talking with a friend at work, recent veteran
who talked about the different polygraphs he had had to take for his
security clearance - one of the later ones was just in a regular easy chair
with no electrodes of wires - he figured they had motion sensors and Lord
knows what all, and I guess they could probably sense skin resistance and
potentials remotely now...)



-- 
-- "(Sure, you can build a great sense of self-worth by carrying around
an unfolded accordion, but sometimes a person needs to wallow in self-doubt,
carefully concealing the squeeze-box.)" - why's Poignant Guide to Ruby