Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

Web 2.0 has taken hold at Whitehouse.gov as the web site moves to reliance on Drupal (?) open source code for the underpinnings.

Considering the 1000+ page  length of the America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 and America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 bills currently being considered by Congress it is interesting that the Executive branch is now spinning an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder explanation…

From Whitehouse.gov

Got four minutes? Watch a quick video that sums up the President’s plan to provide security and stability to those who have insurance and coverage for those who don’t.

With all the hot air circulating in the corridors of Gov Doc land, it is sad to see the big daddy of wind tunnels take a tumble. But alas, the LFST is no longer serviceable.

Dan Brown’s latest blockbuster, The Lost Symbol, drones on for 528 pages but has nothing on one of the latest incarnations from the US Weapons Lab at Los Alamos, MaRIE, (Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes).

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The grand opening of the Locust Street Facility (LSF), located at 3301 Locust Street, is being held today and the building’s official name will be Searls Hall in honor of law librarian Eileen Searls.  The SLU depository collection is housed in this state-of-the-art facility.

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Seems like just yesterday it was 2005.  And if you visit the National Archives via GPO it is only 2005 in George Bush years.  Indeed, the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States series is stuck in time, awaiting the “codification” of the last the Bush years.  But then I guess we already know how the story ends.

Need the “scoop” on the latest Presidential flap (or pseudo flap)?   Media Resources is the place to go.    Although it is reminiscent of 43’s   “Setting the Record Straight“  it appears to be somewhat less defensive.

An Internet blackout may be the news that ends the annual August news lull (forces the reporters back to work from vacation). A report by Homeland Security implies that the “internets” are at risk…  Summary here at the Financial Times.

So much about the bureaucracy that I will never understand — here is a little gem from FedBizOpps.gov:

Under the authority of FAR 6.302 1, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) intends to award purchase orders to Professor Frank E. Vecchio, Dr. Gene Corley, Professor Jerome F. Hajjar, and Professor James Jirsa to allow them to become members of a peer-review group being formed by the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). This peer-review group will inform the NRC staff with respect to their confirmatory review of the sufficiency and adequacy, from the point of view of safety, of the technical bases for the design and analysis methodology, construction method, and inspection method being proposed for a seismic Category I structure of composite modular construction that has been proposed for plants of a new reactor design. The title of this project is “Review of Design Methodology for Safety-Related Nuclear Power Plant Structures of Modular Composite Construction.”

OK, so we have a bit of ugly “discourse” taking place over America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 which has probably been read only by those that wrote it.  In the spirt of public service you can download the full 1017 triple spaced pages PDF here. Congressional Research Service summary follows:

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