You decide to take a Presidential trip to some steel mill to blame
somebody for something, but you know you’re going to have to pass them to get on the plane. They stand straight as a bayonet on the tarmac, their
impeccable uniforms standing out in stark relief against the white of
the helicopter. The brass on their belts and covers shines like gold,
their shoes like black mirrors. Their salute is pure snap-and-pop, the
product of years of living a disciplined, purposeful life, a life where
every man is expected to give everything he has and then some for the
good of the mission and the Corps, where excuses are simply not
tolerated, where responsibility, respect, and honor are not quaint,
outdated concepts, but a living part of who they are as individuals and
as a brotherhood of warriors. (And a sisterhood as well. I’m talking to
you, Elizabeth Jane Arens, the finest squad leader I knew.)
And you have to salute these men back. And it
galls you, to the deepest pit of your soul, because you know that when
you salute those Marines standing by that helicopter, you’re actually
saluting better men than yourself. Men that share a tradition
of excellence that goes back 238 years, and it’s something that, no
matter how many elections you win, or how many bad laws you manage to
ram through a dithering and ineffectual Congress, you can never be a
part of. They have something you don’t, and never will, have.
They have the title.
Yeah, that's some first-class system eating all your personal data.
Not only did they process an application I did not submit, the letter
says they referred my application to a state agency -- a state agency
with which I did not authorize them to share any information. (BTW, this
particular state agency outsources application processing and claims
that state and federal privacy laws don't apply to them.)
Speaking of,
Appearing before Congress on Thursday, the magicians of Obamacare
eventually conceded that, on their supposedly HIPAA-compliant database,
deep in the “information architectural process” is a teensy-weensy
little bit of “source code” that reads, “You have no reasonable
expectation of privacy regarding any communication of any data
transmitted or stored on this information system.”
Democrat members of the House committee professed to be bewildered at
why anyone would be either surprised or upset to discover that his
information can be shared with anyone in the federal government,
including a corrupt and diseased IRS that uses what confidential
information it can acquire to torment perceived ideological enemies.
A previous endeavor by the company handed that no-bid contract:
CGI is not a creative free spirit from Jersey City with an impressive
mastery of Twitter, but a Canadian corporate behemoth. Indeed, CGI is so
Canadian their name is French: Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique.
Their most famous government project was for the Canadian Firearms
Registry. The registry was estimated to cost in total $119 million,
which would be offset by $117 million in fees. That’s a net cost of $2
million. Instead, by 2004 the CBC (Canada’s PBS) was reporting costs of
some $2 billion — or a thousand times more expensive.
A new helmet for the Army... I just don't know.
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