By my reckoning - and you're welcome to disagree with me - when someone takes an oath of office to uphold the great Constitution when they take the oath of office, it's not "I'll uphold the parts I like, and change those parts I don't..." Yet, in numerous cases, the present pack of pretenders in DC has strayed from the small government, balanced budget, Constitutional Rights, and transparency that true Patriots wouldn't have a problem with. ...

Ignoring the oath is serious business and I expect most Americans won't stand for it. So, I will give you two predictions. First, the administration will appeal to the US Supreme Court and once there, we will see if hair trigger Dick's duck hunting buddy and his colleagues will rule for the people or whether they will endorse the "soft" benevolent dictatorship and thus show themselves to be a kangaroo court or a respected Constitutional Judicial Branch.. The second prediction is that 2008's elections are already in trouble because I think I know how prediction #1 will go.

Nino has some serious problems.

Settlement time yet?

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7. Payne, W. H., and D. E. Anderson, Significance Levels for the Kuder- Richardson Twenty: An Automated Sampling Experiment Approach, Educational and Psychological Measurement, 28, No. 1 (1968): 23-29.

8. Payne, W. H., and D. E. Anderson, Automated Sampling Experiment Program for Cumulative Distribution Func- tions of the Kuder-Richardson Twenty, Educational and Psychological Measurement, 28, No. 2 (1968).

9. Anderson, D. E., and W. H. Payne, Significance Levels for the Kuder-Richardson Twenty and Automated Sampling Experiments, Proceedings of the 74th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (1968).

Anderson is one of Payne's PhD students in psychology.

Anderson was a student in Payne graduate course in test and measurement in about 1967. Harald Euler was Payne's TA in this class.

Payne learned test and measurement in an industrial psychology course at Purdue University taught by William Owens.

Thus, when an offer came from Purdue University to join the industrial psychology program there, it seemed that the time and the opportunity had come. Accordingly, in 1959 my family and I left Ames, Iowa and moved to Lafayette, Indiana. Probably all changes are stimulating, and this one was no exception. The industrial program, among the best in the country, was big, well-established and moving like a broad river. With that which I had chiefly sought I was almost over-blessed; the graduate students were able, goal-oriented and numerous. I enjoyed them tremendously and recognized them as a virtually unmixed blessing. Consulting opportunities were often present, and many of them required research which could be performed by a graduate student at regular stipend rates and under only nominal supervision. I have always believed that business and industry cannot buy such competent help for so little money in any other way, and that graduate students can't find a better quasi-internship experience.

Payne got his start in computing at Purdue starting in 1959 computerizing Purdue Public Opionion Poll and the Purdue Freshman Placement Test as research assistant in Purdue Educational Reference [later Measurement and Research] center.

And now these skills will be applied to Nino Scalia and generalissmo Suter. Along with more recently necessary acquired computer skills too, of course.