Posts Tagged ‘standards’
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, June 3, 2020
MN US Senator Amy Klobuchar-D
This morning, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar (D) was interviewed by Steve Inskeep on NPR’s Morning Edition news program, and she mentioned that establishing a minimum set of national (Federal) police standards is an idea which many legislators are considering.
Though she mentioned a couple of her senatorial colleagues by name, she didn’t mention if the idea was exclusive or joint to the Senate, and/or the House.
Her pertinent remarks occur at 5:54, and are her final comments in the interview. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Today is Election Day!
The 2018 Mid-Term Elections are NOW underway!
Which brings us to another point:
With the proliferation of confusing and contradictory laws varying from state-to-state, often-unnecessary voter purges, voter suppression efforts, disenfranchisement attempts, and often outright intimidation, it makes perfectly good sense for Congress to step up to the plate, and take control of the 50-state hodgepodge patchwork mishmash voting-related varieties to establish National Uniform Voting Standards.
They certainly have the authority, as evidenced by the various laws concerning voting, including the 15th Amendment, 19th Amendment, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (aka Motor Voter), and others.
Now, they should act!
There are MANY excellent examples we could follow, including Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, August 20, 2018
If the GOP and POTUS have their way, your cell phone GPS, cell phone clock, Internet clock, atomic clock, communication satellites, and countless other devices reliant upon accurate timekeeping which are not even owned by you could go awry. Even our power grid could suffer.
Why?
First, some background.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has for many years operated our national Atomic Clock. In fact, in 2014 they “launched a new atomic clock, called NIST-F2, to serve as a new U.S. civilian time and frequency standard, along with the current NIST-F1 standard.”
According to the NIST’s news item, Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Saturday, April 14, 2012
This morning, as I was going about my morning routine, it occurred to me in that process that I am Read the rest of this entry »
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