Camera Phone Predator Alert Act

Do me a favour. Are politicians completely insane?

Legislation for legislation's sake...........

In the US a new bill is being presented to make it illegal for camera phones not to click when used.

How on earth does congressman Peter T. King think this will help deaf people, people in noisy areas, or someone being photographed from a way off - or is there to be an amendment that the click needs to be a minimum of xxx decibels with a huge flash to alert the deaf, then what is he going to introduce the aid the deaf and blind?

More importantly why does he think this needs to become law?

H.R.414
Title: To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/9/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 1/9/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
SUMMARY AS OF:
1/9/2009--Introduced.

Camera Phone Predator Alert Act - Requires any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera's phone. Prohibits such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone. Treats the requirement as a consumer product safety standard and requires enforcement by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).


MAJOR ACTIONS:

    ***NONE***


ALL ACTIONS:
1/9/2009:
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

TITLE(S): (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
  • SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
    Camera Phone Predator Alert Act
  • OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
    To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.

COSPONSOR(S):

***NONE***


COMMITTEE(S):

    Committee/Subcommittee: Activity:
    House Energy and Commerce Referral, In Committee

RELATED BILL DETAILS:
    ***NONE***

AMENDMENT(S):

***NONE***



In this time of economic austerity this congressman has... so far this month sponsored...(source library of congress

1. H.RES.63 : Supporting the goals and ideals of the Knights of Pythias.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/14/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Oversight and Government Reform
Latest Major Action: 1/14/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

2. H.R.358 : -- Private Bill; For the relief of Alemseghed Mussie Tesfamical.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/8/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 1/8/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

3. H.R.414 : To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/9/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 1/9/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

4. H.R.415 : To provide Capitol-flown flags to the immediate family of fire fighters, law enforcement officers, emergency medical technicians, and other rescue workers who are killed in the line of duty.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/9/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Administration
Latest Major Action: 1/9/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

5. H.R.521 : To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the national collection of data on stillbirths in a standardized manner, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/14/2009) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 1/14/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

6. H.R.522 : To amend the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act to authorize the Federal Trade Commission to issue new rules to prohibit any telemarketing calls during the hours of 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/14/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 1/14/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

7. H.R.523 : To establish a United States Boxing Commission to administer the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/14/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Education and Labor; House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 1/14/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

8. H.R.549 : To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish the Office for Bombing Prevention, to address terrorist explosive threats, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/15/2009) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Homeland Security
Latest Major Action: 1/15/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.

9. H.R.620 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an increased work opportunity credit with respect to recent veterans.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/21/2009) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Ways and Means
Latest Major Action: 1/21/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

10. H.R.651 : To provide for certain tunnel life safety and rehabilitation projects for Amtrak.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/22/2009) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Transportation and Infrastructure
Latest Major Action: 1/22/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

11. H.R.652 : To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a comprehensive national system for skilled construction workers to assist first responders in disasters.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/22/2009) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Transportation and Infrastructure
Latest Major Action: 1/22/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

12. H.R.704 : To provide for free mailing privileges for personal correspondence and parcels sent to members of the Armed Forces serving on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Sponsor: Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] (introduced 1/27/2009) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 1/27/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
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Peers investigating Peers

What a surprise....

It seems as though the noble peers of the realm (who make up the upper chamber in British parliament) are under suspicion of taking money to change laws. Hardly a shock and hardly news worthy I wouldn't have thought.

Under our last illustrious Prime Minister, Tony Blair, there was an investigation into 'cash for honour' whereby Peerages were granted for making political donations. The Labour Government managed to avoid any thorough investigation being carried out. So it is hardly surprising that these same peers who paid to get their honours, wouldn't feel completely justified in taking payments to alter legislation.

Corruption breeds corruption and as Winston Churchill once said 'Democracy is the worst form of Government....'

Politicians are careerists and as with any other walk of life there are corrupt individuals, politics seems to attract a higher number of them, which is no great shock.

So the likely hood is we have corrupt peers, who obtained their peerages by corruption. It isn't exactly rocket science is it?

Yet the mantra is still spouted that every country needs a fully fledged democracy like ours. Why?

The political system in the UK is an example of a broken wheel which badly needs fixing and that is not 'fixing' in the sense that many politicians may understand.

Having politicians investigating other politicians behaviour is like having the police investigate the murders they commit.... pointless and a whitewash.

Oh and shock of shocks, Mandelson has managed to fix a bail out for Jaguar as reported under the symbiosis between Mandelson and the Hinduja brothers in an earlier blog entry.

Quite why Mandelson came to mind when I was writing about corrupt peers I am not sure.
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2008 in review

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Junkie actor Oscar possibility - dead cameraman who cares

The morons who watch and are involved in the film industry never cease to amaze me.

Father-of-two Conway Wickliffe, 41, was on a camera truck filming an unmanned special effects car, when it struck a tree. Warner Bros Pictures said the accident had happened at a special effects facility for Batman: The Dark Knight. His death was accidental, a jury ruled.

Miles Francis, who represented the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) at the hearing, said afterwards: "Our inquiries are continuing and a decision will be made in due course whether there will be a prosecution."

This still continues

Some moronic actor - The ones who think they matter because they are puppets acting the words and actions others - His name Heath Ledger - got a little flustered because his former fiancee was about to serve papers demanding sole access, went on a drugs binge. I wonder why she didn't want some out of control junkie looking after her child?

Both are mentioned in the film credits, but who does the film world think was wonderful? The junkie father, or the loving father of two?

Funnily enough, the pathetic junkie wins the 'we care' badge.

The film industry really has got its head up its own a**e.

The Oscars are nothing more than the international photocopier salesman of the year awards, but because of wealth have managed to capture the headlines.

........

While ranting on the topic, wtf.

ER featured actors salaries average at US$20 000 per episode. These are puppets pretending to be medics, proper Doctors in the US who actually save lives in emergency care are paid an average of US$ 240 000 per annum. Nurses with 20 years experience, who work 40 hours a week earn US$56 000. A Doctor in China earns on average US$81 000 and a nurse US$49 000.

But still the morons in the USA feel they are underpaid and are threatening a strike, actors such as Mel Gibson, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris, feel it is all justified.

Who in their right mind thinks a junkie who overdoses should receive a reward and what arrogant mentality must you have to believe your pretending to save lives is worth more than people who actually save lives?

Perhaps they are just spouting the words of their puppet masters.
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Hitmen for free

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On Israel and Gaza

The West and the UN is so busy jumping on the band wagon of how Israel is killing civilians in Gaza, they seem to have forgotten their own atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

It is extremely irritating to hear Politicians from the UK and US lambasting Israel over civilian deaths.

Absolutely right that The opponents of Israel do this, they tend not to obfuscate and equally criticise the West for civilian deaths.

It is estimated 151 000 civilian Iraqis have died as a result of the US led invasion of Iraq.

Approximately 80 000 Afghanistani civilians have been killed.

December 17th 2008 - Kabul - An official in eastern Afghanistan said Wednesday three civilians were killed and two others were wounded when their house was attacked by US soldiers.

26th July 2008 - British soldiers in Afghanistan today killed four civilians and injured three more after opening fire on a vehicle

11th July 2008 - 45 women and children and two men were killed when a US aircraft bombed a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan last Sunday, .

September 3rd 2008 - Helicopters ferried U.S.-led troops to a border village in a raid that left at least 15 people dead on Wednesday, including civilians, officials said. A Pakistani army spokesman said the attack was the first ever ground incursion by foreign forces on its territory and warned that it undermined efforts against terrorism.

So the list goes on.

The UN appointed Tony Blair, a man with few ethics and no sense of decency to become the UN peace envoy to the Middle East, a man who snuggled up to the USA in what most sane commentators view as an illegal war led by lies (Hans Blick and his team was actually in Iraq, informing the UN there were no weapons of mass destruction when the US decided they had to invade right now, this minute) and almost certainly a classic case of Oedipus Complex, over the invasion of Iraq.

But despite this, the UN and the West still see fit to condemn Israel, without giving a thought to their own behaviour.

Surely a case of a mote in the eye
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Nationwide Building Society - nothing but porn loopers

If you are an internet account holder of the Nationwide Building Society, you know the one, stupid ads with some fat git and abysmal service.

Try making contact through their secure messaging service.

You will be taken through a loop of contact us here, sign in, contact us here, sign in, contact us here, sign in..... ad infinitum.

There is a telephone number, when you call it..... The response is, well you need to contact us via the internet if it is an internet issue.

There is an obscure link to contact the webmasters, so like any reasonable person (fed up as you may be) you try to use that one, all looks good. But no chance. The message comes back.... Call our help line number, which is the same number that tells you you need to contact the website directly.

Anyone at the Nationwide give a flying .... Of course not. Directors of bankers really are w.....s
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The energy wars, Poland and the missile placement

Russia may have slipped away from being a world military superpower, so say the pundits... But somehow I can't see all those nuclear weapons just melted away, regardless of that, energy is the new weapon of control.

Russia, who supply 20% of the Eu's gas, piped through the Ukraine, have got a little upset with Ukraine, once again and stopped their supply, but have said that they are not going to disrupt gas supply to the West. Gazprom, have said, they have in fact increased supply to the West recently through the Ukraine pipeline.

Despite words of reassurance, in the UK, Gas suppliers are likely to delay reducing fuel prices to consumers, as wholesale prices once again became more volatile after Russia's action in the Ukraine. Wholesale gas rices rose by 2.5% yesterday.

Meanwhile the USA persists with its desire to place missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic on the pretext that these weapons will ensure safety from a North Korean or Iranian missile strike into Europe.

Russia, funnily enough do not believe a word of it and just take a look at a world map to see how unlikely the scenario really is



The US government appear to have failed to notice Russia stuck in the middle of the route for any missile travelling from North Korea on the bottom right of the map to Europe over on the left, not to mention China sitting in the way.

It would in fact be an easier target to aim a missile form North Korea into the USA than into Europe. The missile would only need to fly over Japan.

It may well be that many Americans fail to grasp World Geography, but I would have thought their Generals would have some concept and at least acknowledge that Russia and China may get a little upset if North Korea starts to use their airspace to launch missiles. Not to mention to slight issue of distance, which is in excess of 4,500 miles.

At some point in time the world will wake up to the fact that Russia hold enormous energy supplies and getting the country irritated is not necessarily the best thing to do.
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