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That cracked me up! BTW, when I was that kids age I'd have rented my organ out to willing females. As a parent, I can only hope my kids are smarter than this....but I have some doubt of course. Full story for posterity: "A teenager in Huaishan, Anhui Province has sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPad2 tablet computer, as reported by SZTV on June 1. The 17-year-old man surnamed Zheng, a freshman in high school, got connected with a kidney-selling agent through the internet, who pledged to pay him 20,000 yuan ($3,084.45 ) for one of his kidneys. On April 28 of this year, Zheng went to Chenzhou, Hunan Province to have his kidney removed under the supervision of three so-called middlemen, and received 22,000 yuan ($3,392.97). Then he returned home with a laptop and an iPhone. Zheng's mother discovered her son's new electronic products and forced him to reveal how he came to afford them. Then she took Zheng to Chenzhou and reported the matter to local police. The three agents' telephones have not been answered since that time. Chenzhou 198 Hospital, where Zheng had his surgery, has no qualifications for kidney transplantation, according to SZTV reporters. The hospital has denied any connection with the kidney removal operation, and has said that its urology department is contracted to a businessman in Fujian."

Hell yeah!

Wow, that's a hell of a story Prole. Nice find. I'd bet that fella and I share a lot of similar viewpoints on this issue. They can afford to hire hall monitors and spend a shitload of scratch to make our country more of a 1984 style police state, but they are still cutting teachers and increasing class sizes....... You see the US killed 8 children from an aerial raid in Afghanistan yesterday? Wonder what that F**** ing cost, and what the cost will be in anger directed to our country. Fortunately, it ain't happening in our country, we can just go climbing and ignore this crap, while the Afganis are screwed. Here I am on the First ascent of Wyde Syde at Cliff Cliff (Rock Creek). Photo Chad Ellers

Damn dude....did you also miss that the article is talking about "malintent", not "malcontents" (my tongue in cheek interpretation) such as yourself and Pat? You didn't see that slight of hand either I'd bet. But not to worry, it will only be utilized for screening terrorists, so have a cookie and "I promise, by the time you're done eating it, you'll feel right as rain." "‘Malintent detection’ technology tested in the northeast United States By Eric W. Dolan Monday, May 30th, 2011 -- 6:20 pm The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun field testing new technology designed to identify people who intend to commit a terrorist act. Nature reported that the DHS has been conducting tests of Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) in the past few months at an undisclosed location in the northeast. The technology uses remote sensors to measure physiological properties, such as heart rate and eye movement, which can be used to infer a person's current mindset. According to a Privacy Impact Assessment (PDF) released by the DHS in 2008, the technology is intended to measure a person's malintent -- the intent to cause harm. "Behavioral scientists hypothesize that someone with malintent may act strangely, show mannerisms out of the norm, or experience extreme physiological reactions based on the extent, time, and consequences of the event," the report stated. "The FAST technology design capitalizes on these indicators to identify individuals exhibiting characteristics associated with malintent." The DHS has claimed accuracy rates of around 70 percent, but some scientists have questioned the results. "Even having an iris scan or fingerprint read at immigration is enough to raise the heart rate of most legitimate travellers," Tom Ormerod, a psychologist in the Investigative Expertise Unit at Lancaster University, told Nature. John Verrico, a spokesman for the DHS, said he could not comment on the performance of FAST because the results were still being analyzed and that additional tests would continue to be conducted."

They developed a machine which they wish to deploy which you and everyone else will need to walk through if you want to fly. Soon machines like this will be in other public places and you will be forced to walk through them all if you are going that direction. Train stations, Courthouses, etc etc.... It will (they say) identify your attitude. Your mental state.....your feelings. Then I say with some future guesses.......Did you think that they will announce the future uses of said machine? ....which part you stuck on Kevbone? This is regarding

Hmmm, to add: GOOD NEWZ! They will be able to pre-identify malcontents now, so you can breath easy. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/30/malintent-detection-technology-tested-in-the-northeast-united-states/ BAD NEWZ. All you spray posters, however, will be facing reeducation camps once they get you identified. Thought crimes. Coming soon. Of course, if you have nothing to hide then you shouldn't have anything to worry about. Should you?

I'd bet most of us agree with you, this is really what occurs when you give money and power away....Look at congress these days, afraid to declare war and get voted out of office so they start "allowing" the President that function, next thing ya know, you got wars going all kinds of places.....I'm probably sounding like Pat here, I certainly agree with him up thread on this..... Seriously Jordan, any big bureaucracy will wind up with lots of examples of exactly this kind of thing. The bigger it is and the more money they have the worse it will be. Might be best to just roll over and let them pound sand up yer ass cause there ain't a damn thing you can do about it unless you can defund them. Even then, those dickheads in charge often defund things of good measure first so that YOU feel it. Either way, you wind up with the jbs of the world howling about budget cuts....... Certainly in this case, at least there is a rational, scientific case to support da gobment position. ...now, about those tsa pat downs.....

Jordon, (paraphrasing) the full story is that the Feds sent an earlier demand/violation notice order. The response from the farmer was to change the way he sold the milk. He told his customers, who love this guy and his product, that they needed to join a club or co-op and pay just for the labor: and the milk was free or something like along those lines. Anyway, they finally got this Al Capone of pure milk sales-thank god we are all safe now. So the truth is that we must not need that kind of product as the gobment says so. What we all must need is more unneeded antibiotics and vitamins in the unhealthy dead milk, and that shit, as you see, has already made Pat mental so you can see where it leads......

It was a year long multi-jurisdictional investigation too. Wonder what we paid to have big government stuff this down our throats. This only proves once more to me that they are getting way too much money from us in taxes that they can waste it this way. Probably be a few million dollars more in prosecution fees before it's over.

"Political class"!!!? HAHA, they're catching on. "Greeks vent anger at entire political class" http://ca.news.yahoo.com/greeks-vent-anger-entire-political-class-211328854.html It will be interesting to see what the "Socialist entitlement Class" hereafter to be refered to as the "jb class", does when the Political Class" really starts in with true cuts so as to not go bankrupt. http://www.cnbc.com/id/43214540 ...and how long until it comes to our shores and budget, which is still out of control heading into the red hole pit of despair.

Unfriggan unbelievable, it's that damn Obama with teh hope and change I bet. "You need to understand that when you are talking about the police that it's really just the bad apples who give the other 5% a bad name"...LOL! .... [video:youtube] How about this one? Could be worse, police took 6- 9 seconds from the time that they knocked on this guys door and woke up the family to the onslaught that killed the homeowner with 60 shots. You ever wake up in 6 seconds? Me either. He had grabbed his rifle, yet the safety was still on. http://www.kgun9.com/story/14736691/raw-video-pcsd-helmet-cam-clip-shows-swat-raid-and-firefight They let him bleed out for an hour (60 shots in his body) Then they hauled the widow downtown and in her exhausted and emotionally drained state after seeing her husband die and he child taken away by the "authorities", proceeded to interrogate her and tried to get her on tape saying anything that would mitigate the murder of her husband by the police. She didn't know that they were police. Then they started lying and making up shit after the fact and got caught in the lies. Welcome to AmeriKa.... Fucking fuckers who murdered that man should be in jail, badges or not.

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As jb and other oppressives continually instructs, taxpayers in the US have unlimited money, no need to even consider our budget or debt.....

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Volunteering must not be in the Oppressive's playbook....big government will fix everything, all it takes is tax payer money, and everyone all the oppressives know that is unlimited.

You are framing the questions as if SOMETHING MUST be done Rob. Why do that?

Typical oppressive bullshit. Attack anyone that doesn't stand behind them going "rah rah".

Wha huh?

You seem to be suggesting that the gov't step in and do something....That would be par for the course for progressives, "oppressives". Once we are fully a police state you can rest easy. We're heading there, probably to your joy. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2725204/posts They already are mandated to put the ingredients and other information out there, what's wrong with people choosing to eat it or not?

DON'T SEE NO STINKIN' PAPER OR ANY MEDIA HERE DO YA? RIGHT! BLISS DAWG KNOWS THE TRUE PATH....

Full text with origination link: "Staged Death Of Bin Laden: New Revelations – OpEd Written by: News Central Asia May 21, 2011 By General Mirza Aslam Beg, Former Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan From the cool comfort of the White House Obama watched the drama of raid on the house in Abbottabad. This was a CIA operation, meant to fool the world and embarrass Pakistan but the fact of the matter is that the whole exercise was a fake and a lie, same as the 9/11 episode was to find an excuse to launch the Crusade against the Muslim World. On the day of attack, that is 2nd May, I made the comment to the Pakistani media, that “It was a drama and a lie, to embarrass Pakistan. There was no Osama there, attack helicopters came from Tarbela base, carrying an Osama look-alike and killed him in cold blood, in front of his family members who were living in the house.” ——- The truth is stepping out in daylight for all to see. And now, as more information is coming through, it is getting clearer that Osama was killed in 2009 and his bullet ridden photo was published and the same picture was shown on 2nd May 2011, but was immediately withdrawn, when the mistake was realized. The Iranian President, in his recent statement, has said “Osama was captured a few years back and now they have played the drama of killing him in Pakistan for political gains.” Some of our eminent journalists, who visited the sites and interviewed eye-witnesses, have something very interesting to reveal: “The people from village Kund Hassan Zai of Kala Dhaka, claim that the two helicopters came from the direction of Tarbela, midnight 1/2 May, flying low, along the river and landed in the fields of Manab Khan, stayed there for about thirty minutes and flew away in the direction of Mansehra. In the morning we saw wheel marks of the helicopters and some trash also.” The locals of Abbottabad living in the proximity of the house said that “The two helicopters came over the house and as they hovered, we saw fire in the compound of the house, which soon got extinguished. If a helicopter had crashed and caught fire, the fire could not have been extinguished in such a short time. Later on, when we visited the site we saw burnt-up plastic pieces with letter ‘NSA’ written on one of the piece. There was no trace of a burnt-out helicopter.” The local school teacher Muhammad Asif revealed: “There is no question of Osama living here for the last five years. This house is located a little away from the main road, on a lower ground. It has no telephone connection and no other communication facility. Other houses also have high boundary walls and we just cannot believe that such a high value target was living there, with no security cover at all.” A neighbour, said: “On several occasions I met Khan Sahib, his brother and children, living in this house but never saw any elderly person. They spoke Pashto, but spoke to us in Urdu. It appears the Americans brought here some one other than Osama and killed him, for a specific purpose.” A neighbour, Latif Akbar says “on night 01/2 May, due to load shedding, there was no light when the two helicopters came over the house from the PMA side, past mid night. One helicopter threw a flare, which lit-up the area of Thanda Choa – Bilal Town. As the two helicopters hovered over the house, we came-out of our houses and saw about 20-25 soldiers jump-out, close to the outer wall of the house, while soldiers from the second helicopter, came sliding down the ropes inside the house compound. In the meantime, some 20-25 of us neighbours had collected in the lane leading to the house. Suddenly the lights were switched on and one of the soldiers shouted in Pashto: “Lights-off Laka” and soon the lights were switched-off. In the meantime, we heard three explosions and a portion of the boundary wall fell-down. Some of the people who had collected there, rushed inside through the gap, thinking it was Pak Army helicopter, which needed rescue but soon rushed back as they saw the foreigners. A few of these were taken prisoner and whisked away. We heard shots being fired from inside. The operation continued till about one thirty at night. Pak troops came later, when the two helicopters had flown away in the direction of Mansehra. Its surprising that for the next two days, the residents of the area and the media, had free access into the house.” It is rather unfortunate that the government of Pakistan and the institutions fell victim to this ploy and accepted security lapses without finding answer, to these basic questions: • This house was raided in 2009, to capture Abul Faraj and why couldn’t they find Osama then, if he and his family were living there since 2006? • Reportedly, two of our fighter aircrafts scrambled, within thirty minutes of the raid, but failed to intercept. Why? • Our civilian intelligence apparatus, such as the IB, CID and the SAC (Special Anti Crime) units have the prime responsibility for the security of the urban and rural population. What was their role and why the entire blame has fallen on the ISI? • The USA had been our ally for the last half a century and we also earned the title of “most allied ally, and the non-NATO ally of USA” and yet we have been stabbed in the back and are being blamed for failing to protect ourselves, from this “friendly deceit.” Senator John Karry is in town and the joint declaration says: “Jointly we shall undertake such actions in the future”, which means that the drone attacks will continue and now we will be asked to capture Aiman-al-Zawahari and after him, the next and the next and the blood of innocent Pakistanis will continue to be spilled. Why can’t we have the courage to tell the Americans to lay-off because Osama, the source of all terrorism is dead? In fact terrorism started with the occupation of Afghanistan and will end when occupation ends, and that should have been the crux of the declaration, i.e., “the end game and the time frame of exit.” General Aslam Beg is one of the most authoritative analysts in Pakistan. He can be reached at friendsfoundation@live.co.uk" http://www.eurasiareview.com/staged-death-of-bin-laden-new-revelations-oped-21052011/

I save the corn syrup for my cars gas tank, where it screws it up as bad as if I had rammed it down my own gullet..... More government stupidity. Mandated ethanol and subsidies that increase the price of corn even further for all the folks who want to nosh on it.

Actually, go back and re-read my take. Certainly based on what he said, change seemed to be in the air. Who knew he'd get all George Bush on us concerning the wars and the now Obama tax cuts for the rich that Bush started. Big goverment, intrusions into private lives and overspending were all Bush facts that Obama has easily adopted as well. I did then and still do, consider Obama a much better choice than Grandpa Simpson...*cough* McCain I mean, to lead our country. Neither one was my choice, but McCains stupidity was outed for all to see in advance with his poor choice of Palin for his Vice President, while Obamas was a smart and savvy one.

We're drinking again...aren't we........?