Happy Blog Quotez

Wall Street Journal: 

President Obama said Thursday he hasn't decided whether to attack Syria, adding that any strike would be a brief "shot across the bow" in response to the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons. We can't recall another President suggesting his goal was to miss his military target  

Joe Biden:

...the president has no constitutional authority to take this country to war ... unless we’re attacked or unless there is proof that we are about to be attacked. And if he does, I would move to impeach him.

 @TheHutchReport, Twitter:

President Obama is an airstrike away from becoming the first person to win two Nobel Peace Prizes.

Needles in Haystacks

A brilliant quote from Techdirt's Mike Masnick about the recently leaked NSA budget:

  ...the NSA is swimming in so much information that it asked for nearly $50 million to cope with the problem of having too much information. We've pointed out for years that the trick to finding the needles in haystacks isn't to build bigger haystacks, but that's long been the NSA's approach. However, those haystacks have become so big that the NSA asked for $48.6 million designated for "coping with information overload." Here's a simple, and cheaper, plan: don't collect so much irrelevant data.