Friday, November 19, 2010

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Woman Says Her Lambert Security Screening Was Sexual Assault

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:59 PM PST

We Still Hold These Truths

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:39 PM PST


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TSA 'Enhanced Screenings' Causes Particular Distress For Sexual Assault Survivors

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:33 PM PST


If the 'enhanced screenings' worked and were somewhat rational, while I would have sympathy for those people I would air on the side of security. As it is now, this is just needless hardship. It applies to both male and female victims, and both people who have been physically attacked ('enhanced pat downs' groping) and targets of video voyeurs (naked body scanner).

http://jezebel.com/5693483/what-the-tsa-screenings-mean-for-sexual-assault-survivors

"Among the constituencies pissed off about the TSA's new security measures: Sexual assault survivors, for whom both the body scans and the patdowns can be triggering.

It's obvious but still needs to be said, as one Reverend Angie Collins wrote on Yahoo! News:


A woman who has been sexually victimized through molestation and rape is more likely to have triggers, flashbacks, and panic attacks of the incident ensuing from words, images, and actions that remind her that her body is no longer sacred. For a rape victim, an enhanced pat down from a stranger in public may come with emotional consequences for her, altering a simple flight to an incident of victimization.



It's probably not a coincidence that a spokeswoman for We Won't Fly is herself a rape survivor. She told Newsweek that she was told by a rape survivor that a leg patdown at the airport gave her a panic attack."

PJTV - Michelle Caruso-Cabrera: Keep Your Hands Off of Her Pocketbook

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 02:56 PM PST


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What's The Matter With America? (Soros, Huffington, Maher, & Olbermann Can't Be Wrong)

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 02:27 PM PST


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PJTV - Don't Touch My Junk: Napolitano Turns TSA Into Department of T&A

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:56 PM PST


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BirthOrNot.com

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:50 PM PST


BirthOrNot.com is a site set up to allow you to vote on if a particular couple should have an abortion or have a baby. My guess (and hope) is that it is a publicity stunt either for the couple or for the pro-life cause. The alternative is pretty disturbing. I will also guess this kid, assuming they have the child, will have some issues to work out in therapy.

http://gawker.com/5692958/vote-on-whether-this-couple-gets-an-abortion

"We pointed out an obvious flaw with his logic: The vast majority of people who are pro-choice aren't pro-abortion, so it wouldn't figure that they would automatically vote for the abortion option. The only people who would probably vote for the abortion are trolls who want to piss off pro-lifers. (In fact the anarchic message board 4chan has already hijacked the poll a couple times, tilting it to the "abortion" side.) Pete countered that during elections, "people do silly stuff all the time, and their votes get counted anyway."

We're not sure what to make of Pete and Alisha Arnold, to be honest. But here are three possibilities:

1) It's is an idiotic prank. Pete and Alisha are intent on becoming famous any way they can, and they've hit on an outrageous way to get media coverage. But if this all was a prank, wouldn't they have gotten the word out before now? They've been blogging since September.

2) This is a pro-life stunt. Pete said he's a non-practicing Catholic, while Alisha is a Methodist. Although the Arnolds describe themselves as political independents with Libertarian leanings, Alisha likes Glenn Beck on Facebook, and a Google search turns up an old pro-Bush comment Pete made on CNN. (Pete said he voted for Bush in 2000, but not in 2004.) Could this site be a confused parable to illustrate the peril of putting an unborn baby's life in the hands of voters?

3) It's true. Pete and Alisha are actually going to choose to have an abortion based on an Internet poll.
Regardless of your position on abortion, all of these possibilities suggest these people should never, ever raise a kid."

Rockefeller (D) - 'FCC Should Shut Down Fox News And MSNBC'

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:38 PM PST

Argentinian Politics Gets Physical With a Slap

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:34 PM PST

James Carville (D) - "If Hillary Gave Him [Obama] One of Her Balls, They’d Both Have Two"

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:27 PM PST


Further tension in the ranks for Dems?

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Raw Foods Raid - The Fight For The Right To Eat What You Want

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:20 PM PST

TSA Agent Arrested For Raping a 14 Year Old Girl

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:14 PM PST


Someone has to ask if this agent was a screener involved in either viewing the naked body scan images or in the 'enhanced pat down' / groping.

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David Boaz Makes the Case for Libertarianism

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 08:02 PM PST


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Palin - 'I Could Beat Obama'

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 07:44 PM PST


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Jon Stewart to Media - 'Stop Running Stories on Palin’s Kids'

Posted: 18 Nov 2010 07:20 PM PST
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