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Michael Jackson and The Beatles Together on iTunes
Anyone who regularly listens to No Agenda has probably heard the idea that Michael Jackson was murdered–likely for his music catalog. He did own the rights to the Beatles back catalog, which I imagine is worth quite a bit of money. Not to mention all the music he made. Therefore, I find it a “coincidence,…
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The Hoffachino
via Tweetings
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Irreducible Complexity Cut Down to Size
via youtube.com This is about evolution and how to debunk creationists. However, what I was thinking about when I heard this wasn’t about biology, but about contemporary technology and how it “evolved” in much the same way: things started out simple and “evolved” to far more complex things. If you look hard enough, you could…
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Man arrested after ejaculating during TSA pat-down
A 47 year old gay man was arrested at San Francisco International Airport after ejaculating while being patted down by a male TSA agent. Percy Cummings, an interior designer from San Francisco, is being held without bail after the alleged incident, charged with sexually assaulting a Federal agent. via deadseriousnews.com I can’t find this on…
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Most Post 9/11 Airport Security Measures: A Waste of Money and Time
Exactly two things have made airplane travel safer since 9/11: reinforcing the cockpit door, and convincing passengers they need to fight back. Everything else has been a waste of money. Add screening of checked bags and airport workers and we’re done. Take all the rest of the money and spend it on investigation and intelligence.…
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Proof Positive that the government rates body scanner resisters as “Non-Islamic Domestic Terrorists”
Alternatively, the government has labeled anyone opposing abortion, illegal immigration, or members of the “alternative media” as “domestic extremists.” Such designations were made infamous by the leaked “MIAC Memo,” a shortened reference to the “strategic report” issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center dated 20 February 2009. Careful research will show that the memo, which…
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The EFF Calls the Naked Body Scanners “$2.4 Billion Worth of Security Theater”
The Transportation Security Administration is feeling public heat these days over its combination of whole-body scanners and heavy-handed pat-down searches, and deservedly so. There’s no question that reform is needed to curtail TSA’s excesses. We especially applaud the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s efforts to increase public awareness about the body scanners. But will the heat…
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Errata Security: I was just detained by the TSA
TSA: Don’t you have normal operating procedures at your work?Me: YesTSA: How would you like it if somebody came to your work and disrupted your procedures? How would you like it if people took pictures of you at your work?Me: I don’t work for the government. Government agencies need to be accountable to the public,…
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A Special Message from the TSA
via youtube.com The “Freedom Frisk.”
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Where I draw the line – Roger Ebert’s Journal
I think on this day, for the first time in my life, I can speak for all of America and perhaps for all of mankind, when I say that if proctological examinations ever become part of airport security, that’s where I draw the line. via blogs.suntimes.com Don’t give them any ideas, Roger. Given the way…