Inverted Body Scanner Image Shows Naked Body In Full Living Color

Inverted Body Scanner Image Shows Naked Body In Full Living Color:

Of course, if they all looked like the pic on the right, I'd have no trouble with it. 

California DA Vows to Prosecute Airport Screeners Who Touch Travelers Inappropriately

FoxNews.com - California DA Vows to Prosecute Airport Screeners Who Touch Travelers Inappropriately: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Why Profile for Air Travel

Finding a terrorist is like looking for a needle in a haystack. So why not figure out a way to make the haystack smaller? Profiling will do just that, by dramatically reducing the number of people who get scrutiny.

Intensive searching of all American citizens as they try to use air travel is not only a violation of due process rights, but as an effective matter, it baloons the size of the population that will be searched - 99%-plus unnecessaily.

The government runs it.  With their track record, does anyone think it's smart?

An Ellis Island for Terrorist Control

How many more freedoms will the Obama Administration take away from everyday Americans before we realize we're not free and also not safe? The pat-downs do nothing but violate the US Constitution because they violate the reasonable search and seizure clause; there is no just cause to search everyone without a credible threat. But that aside, it's also ineffective.

Why is this ineffective? Because the threat is not from passengers who are American citizens and originating their flights from the US. The documented threats have come from foreigners outside the US who hate Americans. Richard Reid and the diaper-bomber were that. So how often does it have to happen before American officials get it through their thick heads they're looking in the wrong place? Americans with white skin and outside the ages of 18-45 are just not doing this stuff.

Ah, political correctness, I forgot. Everyone has to be treated equally as they sing Kumbaya and drink bottled water from mountain springs.

The dreaded P-word must be brought to bear: Profiling must be used, because it's the most powerful weapon in our arsenal. It's also the smartest. It's also the least intrusive to the greatest number of people. (Hmmm, might have a Marxist idea going there, but I digress...). Simply out, we know who these people are.  Let's look for them.

There's no question that more than a few people will be insulted when they are profiled. However, that's just how the dice roll; they are unlucky enough to be born of the same race as those who would harm us. But if they are people of good will, they will understand. And,  this policy works under the 4th Amendment, because these individuals are of the ethnic makeup of ALL of those who did prior bombings.

That we don't so this is just so damned stupid.

As a side thought, maybe it's why we haven't found Osama Bin Laden; I guess the administration, in it's zeal to not make anyone feel bad, is looking for an 80-year-old white man with bad teeth and speaks cajun rather than a 6-foot-5-inch tall Muslim terrorist of Saudi descent with dark skin. Yeah, that makes sense.

OK, even if you won't profile, at least make some attempt to stop foreigners from bombing incoming international planes. Here's an idea: 100 years ago we had ports of entry like Ellis Island and Locust Point to control the incoming flow of people. Frankly, it was to control the spread of disease and protect Americans from epidemics. In its day, Ellis Island was the foremost public health hospital of its kind in the world. Today, Americans need the same kind of protections, except in this era, from the disease of terrorist air passengers.

Let's build a big airport in Maine, where all international European flights must land and be searched. The people don't even have to get off the plane - send a bomb-sniffing dog down the aisles and through the cargo bay. If the bomber sets off the bomb during this search, well, at least it didn't happen over a densely populated area. I feel bad for the dog, though.

The plan has to be something like this because the threats are clearly aimed at the US from outside. We can't do the searches outside of the US because it's not our sovereign territory. So perform this non-invasive, yet thorough search on our own soil.

It's such a simple idea, no wonder the politicos and bureaucrats can't get their intellectually-paralyzed brains around it.

TSA Boss: New Pat-Downs Are More Invasive - FoxNews.com:

The Democrats and Illegals

Here's how the Democrats have treated those in the country illegally:

Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-NC) Assaults Student on Washington Sidewalk

Gov't Fails Latest Test of Trust in Gulf

Who does this surprise?

FOXNews.com - AP: Gov't Fails Latest Test of Trust in Gulf: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

The cleanup is on us

One can talk about special interest this and special interest that, but in the end, it is the government who holds all the power.  It is government who makes the laws and decides on policy. Special interest doesn't.  Special interest throws around a lot of money in the hopes of influencing those laws and policies, but in the end, it's the government who accedes to the money and the will of the special interest and gives them what they want.  This is called corruption.

Our government is corrupt. If they needed to apply different policies and didn't because they were bought off, that's corruption. Doesn't matter who was bought, doesn't matter what administration did it, doesn't matter what party did it. What matters is that it needs to change. 

The gulf right now is a mess because of this corruption. BP had a terrible accident, but the cleanup should have been initiated by the government in office at the time of the disaster because it's their frigging JOB.  No matter how many fingers get pointed at past administrations, it is now on Obama's shoulders and his response is miserable. He's had 2 months to initiate cleanup, and has done virtually nothing. Except point fingers and say he's going to find out who's "ass to kick." Might I suggest he kick his own?

But ultimately, it's now up to the voters to clean up not just the gulf, but to clean house in Washington and get some decent people in there who care about more than just their party and themselves.

Common Sense? No, Immigration and Unemployment Nonsense

What sense does it make to have a nearly 10-percent unemployment rate while sending American jobs overseas, and at the same time defend an illegal influx of unemployed foreign nationals who are looking for the same work as Americans?

Somewhere, someone needs a kick in the head.

Business as susual in Congress

Envoy had business ties to Pelosi's husband - Washington Times

Since 1991, Mr. Pelosi's real estate partnership investments with Mr. Tsakopoulos have netted him between $1.4 million and $9 million, according to Mrs. Pelosi's personal financial disclosure statements. In 1993, Mrs. Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis joined the business, AKT Development Corp., which was founded by her father, becoming its president in 1997.

Craig Holman, legislative representative for Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C.-based consumer advocacy group, described the appointment of ambassadors as a "favoritism system based on money." He said that in this case, Mrs. Pelosi should have mentioned her family's business ties to the Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis family during the confirmation hearing.

"It would have been better if there was a conflict of interest to clear the air," he said.

"Unions have priced themselves out of a job."

Los Angeles, Toledo, Other Cities and States Press Municipal Labor Unions to Cut Pension and Health-Care Costs - WSJ.com

Verizon shelves plans for future FiOS rollouts, relocations to Massachusetts set to boom -- Engadget

Is this an unintended consequence of the health care law? Verizon already announced that they were taking a billion-dollar charge due to ObamaCare's requirement to insure all it's employees. But has it affected Verizon's ability to conduct business? Probably, since communication companies are capital investment-heavy operations, and if that capital has to be moved to health insurance, it has to come from somewhere - either increased prices or operating capital.

So if you were waiting for FIOS, thank Obama and the Democrats for not getting it.

Verizon shelves plans for future FiOS rollouts, relocations to Massachusetts set to boom -- Engadget

an Associated Press report notes that the operator has canned all public plans about expanding its FTTH home network, though it will continue to build-out where it had previously announced service (Washington, D.C., New York City and Philadelphia, namely).