Posted on 12/16/2009 11:23:18 AM PST by aic4ever
Today, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to the healthcare bill currently being debated on the Senate Floor. When the motion to introduce the amendment as written was raised, Senator Tom Coburn objected. This forced the entire 767 page amendment to be read on the floor, a process so far estimated to take between 12 and 36 hours.
As this process takes place, with the amendment being read by what I suppose is a series of clerks, it seems an ingenious stall tactic to me that Republicans could continue this process in liew of filibustering for as long as they can come up with amendments. And here is where the vast usefulness of the internet comes into play.
In the spirit of the now infamous SCIgen website, that was created to randomly generate gibberish scientific papers in the name of exposing fraud in the peer review process, I assumed there must be something similar for creating randomly generated legalese. Lo and behold, a few minutes of Googling brought me to The Lorem Ipsum Smorgasbord.
All one need do here is define the number of sentences one wants generated, between 1 and 10,000, and the site spits out piles of legal-style gibberish, looking like this:
(Excerpt) Read more at organizedexploitation.blogspot.com ...
“Generate Your Own Healthcare Amendment”
How about we just borrow the Tenth?
Include the entire text of the novel in the text of the amendment.
Require it to be read on the floor.
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