Comment Re:Let's give them more money! (Score 1) 196
I say the deserve another billion/yr because, afterall, look at all the terrorism they've stopped just this week! [tsa.gov]
Thank god the TSA is keeping us safe from the dangers of canned soup.
I say the deserve another billion/yr because, afterall, look at all the terrorism they've stopped just this week! [tsa.gov]
Thank god the TSA is keeping us safe from the dangers of canned soup.
But Zimmerman's version is that he lost Martin, which legally ends that confrontation.
And how convenient, given that he's the only witness.
I have never heard that term use to refer to Obama
Then you haven't been listening. Second result on Google. First is ubrandictionary defining it as "A play on Barack Hussein Obama II's last name, citing his roots as a typical Apefrican, bongo beating, bush monkey."
That strikes me as a "macaca" charge: and attempt to create racial animosity where none exists by inventing new terms or new meanings for them
Considering that the phrase "welcome to America" came right after the word macaca (aimed at a natural born citizen, by the way), I don't think that the word's usage was anywhere as innocent as you're trying to paint it.
If you're trying to link this incident to other attempts to introduce racial animosity, you could pick better examples.
One big smokestack is easier to regulate (and replace with something cleaner eventually)
The process is already underway. Coal plant construction is ceasing in favor of cleaner natural gas for both economic and regulatory reasons.
Bill Maher's like the left-wing Rush Limbaugh from what I understand.
Except people actually listen to Rush Limbaugh.
I'm not sure what people have against someone who, remember, has already been convicted of a crime, to have to endure special screening before incarceration.
Arrest != conviction. The man in question was wrongfully arrested (for a fine that he had already paid). On the radio this morning they were also talking about strip searches for offenses such as riding a bike without an audible bell and walking a dog without a leash.
The worst thing about this ruling is that it provides police with yet another way to silence people who are inconvenient. Protesters, people who record video of police brutality, and anyone else are now at risk of punitive strip searches. The only sliver of hope in this ruling is that it doesn't overturn existing laws that prohibit strip searches in minor cases. We'll just have to see if legislators try to dismantle those in the next wave of "tough on crime" election year bullshit.
Technicians apparently mis-entered the pattern enough times to lock the phone, which could only be unlocked using the phone owner's Google account credentials.
Why they were even bothering with the unlock screen rather than just slurping up all the data on the phone with a UFED is beyond me.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928