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My city fell for that one.

So, it has to cause permanent blindness before it passes the Anonymous Idiot test?

How can anyone be so wrong about "not one single person..." in this age of Google?

http://www.kob.com/article/sto...
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news...
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...

The list goes on and on.

They don't think it's Ebola but they want to be sure:

http://www.kob.com/article/sto...

And this is just ONE person! Even if this one is not the one, statistics says a plane or boat full of carriers is coming sooner or later. May be time to stock up on Tyvek suits and bleach, for starters...

The average family practice doc starts at $120k or so and might top out near $200k if they are lucky.

Saw this on the local news a couple nights ago:

"A physician was hired in Roswell, a family physician, straight out of residency at a salary of $230,000 a year, which is sort of unheard of," said Montano.

That's Roswell, NM, where a nice 3-br home is $150K. Being a doctor seems to be the last "sure thing" in making big bucks, IF you get in. I think we need to focus on allowing/enabling more people to become doctors.

Behavioral profiling is effective.

Considering that TSA can't even weed out criminals during the hiring process I don't have much faith that TSA agents will prove much more adept at picking out terrorists in a 30 second interview prior to boarding an airplane.

I've often wondered why the TSA's "Behavioral Detection" crap can't detect thieves like Brown, Burton, Simmons, Defelis, Noukeo, Burley, German, Persad, Webb, Pepper, and Arato, or actual sex offenders like Sean Shanahan and Charles Henry Bennett, or complete suicidal whackjobs like Diego Gonzales who was an actual TSA BDO. Shouldn't his fellow BDOs have noticed... I don't know... something wrong?

Now, I don't think it's fair to rag on TSA officers, particularly. But it is good to remember that, like everybody, they're only human.

This reminds me of something I've seen in Albuquerque: cops looking down at their computer screens (and maybe typing; I can't tell) while driving. Swerve, swerve, swerve. Seriously, if they could just see themselves, they would pull themselves over and give themselves a sobriety test.

Sometimes they mysteriously hit people and we never find out what really happened. I've personally seen them take left turns from the right lane, without signaling, using emergency lights, or even seeming to be in a hurry -- they're just oblivious to their surroundings.

Hell, we just had a semi hit an overpass on I-25. If they can't navigate US Interstates safely, how the hell will they handle rural roads?