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That's because I meant Saudi 'prince' instead of 'ambassador'. The ambassador plot never got to square one, apparently. You're supposed to read what I meant, not what I wrote. Google Abdullah Tali Assiri.

Come 5:00 pm tonight, we might find ourselves living in a much more Middle Eastern style country. Chariah, here we come?

They're voting on this today. Morning After Pill and some birth control pills = murder. REALLY hope it'll be defeated, but it's predicted to pass.

When you've got a ball bearing rolling around a colander for a brain, you never know which hole it'll get stuck in.

For those who support racial profiling, its helpful to recall that the plaintiff in the Racial Profiling case was Dr. Bob Rajcoomar, a US citizen of Indian descent and a Lt. Col in the Army Reserve.

LOL. The head of TSA issued a public statement saying that kids as young as 10 have been used as suicide bombers, although not in the U.S., so our 10 year olds have gotta take one for the team. Inconveniently for some, the constitution has this little thing called the Equal Protection Clause - color blind under the law and all that. Doesn't seem to work in practice, but that could change.

We're done, Bill. Like KKK, you're too stupid to be interesting.

This guy was such a tool his own Old Man turned him in to the CIA at the embassy in Nigeria. The feds did not revoke his US visa, despite recommendations by UK intelligence to do so, as well as Mr. Abdulmutallab's inclusion on our own Terrorist Identification Datamart Environment (first rung on the ladder that leads to the No Fly List) however, not wanting to screw up a 'larger Al Qaeda' investigation. I'd say that was perhaps a bad call on their part.

He then shit talked all through his trial...before surprising his lawyer by suddenly pleading guilty on all counts. Whatev, dood. See on the outside in 180 years.

My fave has got to be the Underwear Bomber, who BBQd his ballz in the name of Allah. They frog marched him off the plane, pants burned off, ballz still smoldering. That HAD to hurt.

Doodie Bomb.

Brought to you by the Jello mold that is Bill's cranium.

Didn't kill the Saudi, but it did pepper him with crapnel.

It'd be way kewl if that sucker hit the moon 'n shit.

People have been 'ass bombing it' for drug smuggling for decades. An "I've got a bomb" T shirt probably wouldn't 'fly', but your free speech rights while flying are otherwise secure...until the next time TSA violates them, that is.

BTW, the 'court cases' and 'whining' are precisely HOW you defund stupid programs, like the 'Puffer'. This was a machine designed to 'blow and sniff' bomb material from your body. The TSA bought a bunch without testing them. As part of an expose, a CBS network employee got dusted with bomb material...and walked through 3 of them without being detected. Yeah...program shut down pretty quickly after that little bout of 'whining'. The ACLU (and most other advocacy organizations) also testify directly before Congress. We have a lot of tools in our bag: Public education, amicus briefs, direct representation, congressional testimony, articles, email action lists, lobbying, ballot initiatives, community organizing, protest observation, ads and commercials, partnerships with other organizations on campaigns, direct relationships with police, schools, etc...we use whatever strategically will move the ball forward.

I was not aware of this. Can you provide an example of what the TSA considered prohibited speech? Just so I'm clear on this... this guy had explosives stuffed up his ass? Just to be clear... What a way to collect your 72 virgins... Well, the bomb went off, so...it's kinda hard to tell whether that train left from a northern or southern station. The ACLU sued the TSA (and won) on behalf of Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi born political activist and blogger who was detained and interrogated for wearing a T shirt that read "We will not be silent" in English and Arabic. We also sued (pending) in favor of Nick George, whose free speech rights were violated when he was handcuffed and abusively interrogated for 5 hours for having some Arabic flash cards in his pocket. Limitations on political speech require 'strict scrutiny', the highest level of constitutional protection.

Per your genie in a bottle analogy...we ARE the bottle. Since 2001, the ACLU and other organizations like EPIC have won a number of reforms from the TSA, including: Ending their practice of racial profiling. Re-securing the right to free speech while traveling (no, this does not include joking about bombs). Limiting airport screeners to issues that concern safety, not general law enforcement (they're not customs agents or cops). Limiting the TSA's ability to unlawfully detain/arrest people for perfectly legal behavior. The TSA is now deploying new full body scanner software that only shows an outline of the human body - it only provides hi rez images for 'anomalies'. Unfortunately, those anomalies are largely represented by things like colostomy bags, adult diapers, prosthetics...just the kind of thing you want to show off in a crowd. We're challenging the No Fly List for due process violations...no way to challenge your inclusion on the list, no way to appeal to get off it. EPIC is challenging the full body scanners through for being a violation of privacy and safety (x rays). They don't even really work: they don't pick up powdered explosives or objects hidden in body cavities (the suicide bomber who attempted to kill the Saudi ambassador last year went through 2 full body scanners with just such a bomb) The 'Too late, nothing to be done' excuse is a great way to continue to sit on your ass and complain about things to your innernutz buddies. Most of the time, though, if you get a group of smart, principled people together and pit them against a government that likes to overstep its bounds...you win, sometimes bit by bit (TSA reforms), sometimes all at once after a long battle (Don't Ask, Don't Tell and an admission that DOMA is unconstitutional). Anyway, somebody's gotta do it. The government very rarely reforms itself. See a politician lately? These are people who are not exactly prone to self critique.

After sharing a nice evening with a woman, I like to show my appreciation by pushing her head towards my crotch. HAWT.

The main point I was trying to make was ya gotta watch these security agencies and beat 'em back to the tire chain when they get outta hand.

Is there a dialect of English I don't know about?

It's not a big surprise why the TSA declined to participate in the discussion.

So far, people on the NFL have been denied boarding passes. I don't have the details of how or when that occurred in each case. Some were informed by the gate agent. One guy actually got a refund for a non-refundable ticket...just before he was detained for interrogation, even though he wasn't even going to fly, cuz they wouldn't let him. "Can I leave now?" "No." "Am I under arrest?" "No." Due process clusterfuck, fo shiz.

Things we've sued the TSA for: Air marshals handcuffing a deranged man next to a 1st class passenger of Indian descent, then arresting that passenger because he was watching "too closely" and confiscating his phone so he couldn't even call his wife (who was also on the flight). Handcuffing and abusively interrogating a college student for 5 hours because he had some Arabic flash cards in his pocket. Handcuffing and interrogating a women from Malaysia who'd just requested a wheelchair (she'd just had major surgery) and who was also travelling with her 14 year old daughter. Handcuffing and interrogating an Iraqi born US citizen because he had a "I will not remain silent" T shirt on (in English and Arabic). This guy translated the first Iraqi constitution for US officials, BTW. Putting a commercial pilot through extra screening every time because a co-worker reported him for 'retrofitting his car to hold a bomb' (he removed a broken seat from this beater Mazda). His real crime, of course, was converting to Islam after marrying a Muslim. Handcuffing and detaining a Ron Paul's Director of Development for carrying $4700 in cash (perfectly legal). IE..playing FBI agent when you really just need to stick to airport security screening. We've filed a 10 plaintiff lawsuit against the TSA - they're all on the No Fly List. One US citizen/combat vet is stuck in (Bumfuck) Egypt, another citizen/vet in Colombia. They won't even let him fly to Mexico...and he'd kinda like to know why not. We've sued the shit outta that agency, and they have come through with some reforms, but they also keep making new shit up.

Ginger finally made it on, and the 15 seconds of stuff she got to say was actually really informative.