Pretty soon the word "racism" will be devoid of all meaning, due to being constantly diluted and trivialized by constantly being used where it does not apply.
What makes you think we haven't actually gotten there already?
Lee will have to engage an attorney to deal with this, which will eat up a shit load more of his time for no good reason.
Well, it looks like Lee has already gotten at least one offer from a lawyer to handle this pro-bono.
Is this anything like the game of Rouge, where you've been miniaturized and have to descend the layers of a woman's handbag? Watch out for things wrapped in tissue, they're deadly.
The Democrats are just as much in the pockets of Big Media as the Republicans. Blame this on the corruption of politicians in general, not just those of one party.
President John Adams was just one of many who noted that unless the citizens themselves prize virtue, government will be corrupt and ineffective.
Which doesn't hold out much hope for a culture that denigrates virtue, does it?
We all complain about various political policies on both sides of the ideological spectrum, but at the core of our most important problems lies a big heapin' helping of hypocrisy... on our part. There's no conspiracy about that. We have to look in the mirror.
Our representatives are much more representative than we'd like to admit
A critical detail absent from the summary is that these tweets took place weeks before their trip -- they weren't done at the airport.
This itself I find interesting. This isn't just the TSA involved here, you have to have some of the U.S.'s intelligence apparatus involved, possibly including the NSA(for capture of communications). This essentially exposes the fact that U.S. intelligence has the capability of taking minor tweets (and no doubt other forms of internet communications), correlating them with the real-life identities of their authors, and matching them to people entering the U.S. These statements weren't made where TSA statements could hear them. That the TSA agents knew about them at all implies some sort of ECHELONish mechanism for collecting even minor tweets such as this and matching them to people entering the U.S.
To some degree, this isn't surprising. Give a government organization the task of keeping terrorists out, and this is the type of capability you would expect them to develop. But why 'spend' this kind of capability on such a minor, harmless target? This implies to me a couple of things:
Finally, does anyone else get the feel of something out of Person of Interest, except that the computer isn't actually capable of spotting malicious intent?
It might not have been matched on the phone number. If you're both on Facebook and friended, it might have pulled the information from Facebook (assuming your friend has also set up the Facebook app (which comes by default in some Android phones)).
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.