America’s hero pilot, Captain Sully Sullenberger who successfully landed a crippled jetliner in the Hudson River, doesn’t think the new TSA groping rules are contributing anything to safety : So the TSA says if you don’t want to step into the we-can-see-you-naked x-ray machine, you’ve got to let a gloved TSA employee run a hand over your lady or gentleman parts, all in the name of airport security. But wait! In steps every American’s favorite pilot, the Hudson splash-landing hero of Flight 1549 fame, Sully Sullenberger, to say, you know what? Keep your hands to yourselves. “I can tell you from my perspective as an airline pilot for three decades, this just isn’t an effective use of our resources.” Sully gracefully glided into the story just as the cable nets were whipping themselves into a junk-touching frenzy over the camera phone video of passenger John Tyner’s run in with the TSA at San Diego’s airport, telling agents he considered the uber-sensitive search to be, essentially, a sexual assault, advising agents (and creating a phrase that pays) “don’t touch my junk.” On CNN’s American Morning Tuesday, anchor Kiran Chetry asked Sullenberger what he thinks of the pat down policy, paraphrasing John Tyner’s concerns this way: “I don’t want anybody but my wife and maybe my doctor touching me in the places these people are touching me.” Sully, by the way, can land a passenger jet in a river without so much as getting a passenger wet, but he couldn’t stop the TSA from hand searching his own wife during a recent trip. (Hands off Mrs. Sully, you goons!) “She was touched in sensitive places,” said Sully. There’s video of his interview at the link . And if you think it’s bad now, one website is reporting that if you wear loose fitting clothing or shorts the TSA will put their hands down your pants, not just grope from the outside. I’m beginning if the real goal of the TSA is to kill the private airline industry to pave the way for another nationalized industry.
Continue reading …Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Roy Halladay was a unanimous choice Tuesday for the NL Cy Young Award. He is the fifth pitcher to earn the honor in both leagues. (Nov. 16)
Continue reading …Rep. Charles Rangel, once one of the most influential House members, was convicted Tuesday on 11 counts of breaking ethics rules and now faces punishment. (Nov. 16)
Continue reading …He unfortunately didn’t have one on hand (or at least on stage), but RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie did make a bit of news about the BlackBerry PlayBook at the now-happening Web 2.0 Summit . The first is that the tablet packs what Balsillie described as a “module cavity” — the most obvious use for which would be to add WWAN capabilities to the WiFi-only model (something Balsillie himself suggested), although the possibilities certainly extend far beyond that. Balsillie also later mused a bit about NFC capabilities, stating that “we’d be fools not to have it in the near-term, and we are not fools.” That’s obviously in relation to BlackBerry phones in general and not just the PlayBook, but it does seem like a prime candidate for that aforementioned “module cavity,” which we really hope is not the final name. Jim Balsillie says BlackBerry PlayBook has a ‘module cavity,’ hints at NFC capabilities originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Photos: Onsemble/ Flickr , CC. Goal: Accurate Wind Forecasts The more wind farms we build, the more our power grid will have to incorporate mechanisms to deal with the inherent variability of a wind farm’s output. Part of that will probably be accomplished by having more long-distance transmission capacity and interconnecting regional grids , another part might come from
Continue reading …Multiculturalism has failed in Germany as it’s destined to fail everywhere and Chancellor Merkel realizes that the source of their problems is a lack of basic values : Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans debating Muslim integration to stand up more for Christian values, saying Monday the country suffered not from “too much Islam” but “too little Christianity.” Addressing her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, she said she took the current public debate in Germany on Islam and immigration very seriously. As part of this debate, she said last month that multiculturalism there had utterly failed. Some of her conservative allies have gone further, calling for an end to immigration from “foreign cultures” — a reference to Muslim countries like Turkey — and more pressure on immigrants to integrate into German society. Merkel told the CDU annual conference in Karlsruhe that the debate about immigration “especially by those of the Muslim faith” was an opportunity for the ruling party to stand up confidently for its convictions. “We don’t have too much Islam, we have too little Christianity. We have too few discussions about the Christian view of mankind,” she said to applause from the hall. Germany needs more public discussion “about the values that guide us (and) about our Judeo-Christian tradition,” she said. “We have to stress this again with confidence, then we will also be able to bring about cohesion in our society.” She’s right. Banning discussions and the recognition of Christian values, as we have to a large extent thanks to political correctness, is the road to country with no basic values which then leads to extremist ideologies having free reign.
Continue reading …Photo credit: Harper Collins Publishers Some might argue that with offshore wind and vast solar arrays, smart grids and electric cars, pollution limits and trading schemes, and a burgeoning economy of clean technology and services, it is likely that humanity has all the necessary tools to solve the planet’s mounting problems. The challenge, it has been said many times , is to find a way to wield these tools that is quick, just, and effective. It’s a challenge, HRH The Prince of Wales argues in his new book
Continue reading …CNN, whose new ad claims that they “keep them all honest, without playing favorites,” actually played favorites on Monday's Parker-Spitzer. Hosts Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer failed to give ideological labels to their liberal guests, while clearly identifying Tim Phillips as being president of ” Americans for Prosperity, a right-wing group ” and labeling Bjorn Lomborg a ” controversial author .” Parker and Spitzer's first guest was liberal Congressman Anthony Weiner, who appeared two minutes into the 8 pm Eastern hour. The former liberal governor introduced Weiner as merely a ” Democratic representative from New York .” The American Conservative Union gave the congressman a zero rating in 2008 and 2009, with a lifetime rating of 5.14. The left-of-center Americans for Democratic Action named Weiner one of their “ADA Heroes” in the House in 2009. Clearly, the New York politician is a liberal, but neither host identified him as such. read more
Continue reading …Youth-specific motorcycle helmet laws may be hurting the young people they are designed to protect.
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