TSA'S TRUE ROLE IS TO CIRCUMVENT CONSTITUTION IN WAR ON DRUGS

Re:Correct me if I'm wrong (seriously) (Score:5, Interesting)

by Anonymous Cowardon Friday November 19, @05:40PM (#34286548)

John Pistole (head of TSA) tipped his hand when bragging about the effectiveness of the screening.

His brag is that he has thwarted terrorists, by siezing terror tools such as marijuana and a heroin needle.

Now, marijuana and a heroin needle will not bring down a plane, so what's really happening here?

A DEA agent, or police officer, cant run around shoving his hand down everyones pants looking for drugs. Without cause, that would be an illegal search, and the evidence obtained would be useful.

However, when the illegal search is made privately (I shove my hand down a strangers pants, then call the cops when i find a baggie of weed), the evidence is admissable. I may be charged with assault or something, but the point is the DEA has now made an end run around the 4rth amendment.

That is what this is. The TSA are *not* police, the search is obstensibly for security purposes, but when they find that baggie of weed, it's turned over to the cops and DEA who do their whole civil forfeiture routine.

You might remember a scheme to have postal employees 'on the lookout for terror' right after 9/11. Same thing there. The dumb old constitution limits police power, and they fucking hate it.

The country is bankrupt. They need to sieze more houses, cars, and boats. This is just a loophole through the constitution, and a brand new (illegal) battlefield for the War on Drugs, which is much more profitable than the War on Terror. More people die in a day crossing the road than have ever died of terrorism in the USA. They know there's no real threat.

So, once this is accepted, the TSA will move the road show to train and subway stations, and then start random roadside searches of cars. Look to see more bullshit agencies created by executive order, to illegally search - i mean safety screen - you in other venues as well. After all, a Phish concert certainly is a decent terrorist target, right? We want all those people to be safe, after all.

IANAL, and perhaps a real one could clarify what I'm saying, or tell me why I'm wrong.

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TSA WASTING THE EQUIVALENT OF 1000 LIVES PER YEAR

Searches are a net loss (Score:5, Interesting)

by redelm (54142)on Friday November 19, @05:44PM (#34286600) Homepage

The TSA searches are causing greater loss of useable lifetime than terrorists ever could. Each year, about 800 million people have to arrive one hour earlier at the airport to wait in lines and now suffer increased humiliation. Human beings only live for 700,000 hours. The TSA is wasting over 1000 lifetimes each year.

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TODAY IN NYC: MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR FOUR LOKO

Today, Wednesday, November 17 at 7pm, a moment of silence and candlelight vigil will be observed on the steps of Union Square in Manhattan to protest New York City's ban of the Four Loko beverage.  Local NYC band Anamanaguchi will be performing an acoustic set.

Links:
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HOW TO ALLOW FANS TO TAG YOUR FAN PAGE PHOTOS ON FACEBOOK

1. Go to your Facebook Page.
2. Directly below your Page's Profile photo, click on "Edit Page".
3. In your browser's URL, note the number that comes AFTER 'edit/?id=' That number is your Page ID.
4. Go to this URL, but change REPLACEME to your Page ID from step 3: http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/app_settings.php?id=REPLACEME&aid=2305272732
5. Click the setting for "Allow All Fans to Tag Photos"
6. Save your settings.

In case anyone wants to know why this works, all it is doing is accessing the "Photo Application" settings by using the Application ID (the Facebook Photos Application ID is '2305272732').

(Source:  Nick Coleman on http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=10381469571&topic=3794#topic_top)

THOUGHTS ON WRITING + A "'SHOP JOB" "DISASTER"

Economy of words is important in written communication.  The point of writing is to transfer as many ideas with as much depth and as broad an application to the reader as quickly as possible.  People that lack the most understanding are also going to be the ones who have the shortest attention span.  Busy people are only going to skim what you write, and only read if they have to.  People who are smarter than you are going to stop reading shortly after you start to come across as pedantic to them. 

 Thanks to Frederick's of Hollywood customer L.R. in MI.

STILL LIFE PHOTO

photo by Ginger Elizabeth

WILSON VAN DE MOORTELE AND DEMI-DEMI

I just read this interview with Wilson van de Moortele, mostly about his Demi-Demi fashion concept:  http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2010/07/01/demi-demi/#more-17105.




I was inspired to do some research and found the video referred to in the interview and his own Demi Demi website.  The video is in a foreign language.  It's worth watching to see the clothes he models.



His website is demi-demi.tk (English translation).

I also came across an article reporting on mugging he was victim to in 2007:  original / English translation.  In it, he is described as an ex-accordionist, singer and miniature builder and is said to ride a moped wearing a distinctive helmet. 

This 2006 article from the same site is about his Demi-Demi clothing concept and also mentions his helmet:  original / English translation.


This blog from 2008 mentions that he is a professional electrician:  original / English translation.

There are two facebook pages dedicated to Demi-Demi: Demi Demi (Wilson) and De officieuze Demi-Demi Fanclub!

The Carlocks

At 5 minutes after 5, Odum Carlock cranked down the driver's & passenger's side windows to get some relief from the sweltering hot air trapped inside his late 80s model chevrolet and pulled out of his space at the ancillary gravel parking lot at United Engineering.  He gently guided his car over the insufficiently sloped curb onto the street and took a left two blocks down where he usually goes straight to the highway.  He was going to stop at a flower shop before coming home to get a bouquet of flowers for his wife to celebrate the promotion he was offered at a meeting with his supervisor earlier that day.

Odum arrived at his house and pulled the car into his driveway, avoiding his neighbor's empty garbage can that had been thrown there and left laying on it's side, halfway on his driveway after the usual Friday morning trash pickup.  He put the car in park and looked up when he heard the garage door starting to open.  He could see his wife's feet step up behind the the rising door and wait for a second until it was low enough for her to duck under.

"You goddamn son of a bitch!" she screamed, striding towards him, glaring at him, as he stepped out of his car.  "What the hell is wrong with you?  How many times did I remind you last night to take the trash out? How many?"

"HOW MANY?!"  she repeated as she rapped three times on the bald spot just above his forehead with her knuckles, adding extra force to the last one, before he pulled his head away.

Odum took a step back and lifted his left forearm to defend himself while rubbing the pink mark on his forehead with his right, uselessly trying to disperse the stinging sensation.  "This is the third fucking week in a row!  It's not going to fucking walk itself out of the garage!  I've fucking had it!" she kept on.

Odum remembered the flowers and reached into his car to get them.  "Here, Bonnie," he said.  "I got these for you."   He held the flowers out towards here.

She stared straight into his eyes and he could see tears welling up in hers, the fierceness in them beginning a slow lapse into sorrow. She looked down at the flowers and for a quick instance he saw her brow gather into a confused expression.  Odum noticed the the flowers had partially wilted in the heat inside his car. 

"You son of a bitch," she said, crying.  "It's too late.  It's too late, Odum."

"Bonnie, you know I . . . love . . .," he stammered, wondering how hollow those words sounded.  "You know I . . ."

"I can smell it . . . in the kitchen."  She sobbed softly, finding it more difficult to force her words out until her voice reached a broken whisper.  "The garbage, Odum, . . . the garbage."

PIGEON ON A BIKE

photo by Bucky Turco

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EMINEM ENGAGES IN KOOKY HIJINKS

From http://www.xmradio.com/shade45:

Haven't had a chance to listen to this, but it seems like Eminem is still doing crazy, hilarious stuff.

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