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And yet, inspite of such math, it is happening. Not just in Denver but other places. In fact, I would not be surprised to see Colorado work at creating a strain of pine that can withstand the pine beetle and a drought. Once that happens, we will probably fill in all the kill area in our forests.

It has happened to innocent people over the last 5 years. Jose Padilla (held without charge for over three years, finally indicted over the objection of the government, not yet tried), Khaled el-Masri (arrested in the Balkans, transported around the secret prison system, tortured, later released), Maher Arar (Canadian & Syrian citizen arrested while changing planes in the US, deported to Syria and held for a year on US orders); and that's just off the top of my head.

That's also not counting the innocent people being placed on watch lists for no good reason.

In the distant future, when western civilization falls because people didn't want to get their hands dirty fighting to save it, who will speak out?

Puh-leaze. Are you listening to yourself? You're just reaching for stupid hyperbole because you can't answer my charges, and it's making you sound like an utter tool. Terrorism is not going to cause the end of Western Civilization. Not now, not then, not ever. Western civilization has weathered much, much worse in the last thousand years and not only survived but came out the other side wiser for the experience (go learn about the Thirty Years' War, or the Mongol invasions, or the Black Death sometime). However, your apparent favorite way to combat terrorism is very likely to erode our democracy and our liberty until it exists only in name. That is a real threat to America--but even that would not be the end of Western civilization.

And for the record, I am fighting terrorism. I'm also fighting the creeping authoritarianism that's growing in response to the fear that terrorism has engendered.

Colorado, for some people, is the most important state in the country right now. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/9638818/d etail.html

Maybe it is just the *reporting* of these false arrests that are making more news. If that's the case, then it's a good thing. Maybe it's just because there are more people with cameraphones, security systems, and cameras.

But I'm not convinced. Things like arresting somebody for taking a picture of a power plant, etc., etc. were almost unheard of 5 years ago. Of course, we still have to contend with things like Air Marshals putting random photographers on "suspicious persons" lists and the like. That sort of behavior is not at the local level, and it can be attributed to post-9/11 mindset/laws. This is where I think the connection lies. Local law enforcers see their federal counterparts engaging this activity, and they think they can do it, too. It may be a tenuous connection, but it certainly warrants further evaluation.

So long as the press keeps doing its job and reports incidents like this, I don't see us approaching any type of police state. But we photographers must stand up for our rights!

Maybe the policy is to prevent these guys from just sleeping all day on their assigned flights.

No, that can't be it.

7News has a link from that article to another article about air marshals protesting a different set of regulations, one which directly endangers passengers. One air marshal quoted in the article has already lost his job for working within the system to get things fixed. Congress investigated and issued a report that also criticized TSA management. TSA management continues to ignore both Congress and their employees.

Basically, the TSA is preventing air marhals from being anonymous.

I respect the air marshals who are risking unemployment because they see a safety problem.

There is an article linked to from that page about how horribly mismanaged the Federal Air Marshals Service is.

I was watching a police videos show the other day and they had a segment on a copuple of teens who were drving around some town at night with paint ball guns and doing "drive bys" on unsuspecting pedestrians. And to top it all off they were video taping the whole thing and had lots of colourful narrative to go with the action.

This all came to an end with their last victim who they "shot" in full view of a police cruiser (which you actually see on the tape)

Man my jaw dropped. I was astounded at their level of stupidity.

Mind you the Dumb and Dumber bank robbers in Denver made me laugh my ass off as well. Although not in this article, I do remember that they were caught with pictures of themselves in "gansta" poses hlding their "loot"

Firefox? The particular application I have open at this very moment? Perhaps uninterestingly, I have exactly 17 tabs open right now, with no (noticeable) adverse consequenses. 18, if you don't include opening the parent link, of course. I am a somewhat-regular user of fark.com (not sure if I should admit that) which, by its nature, allows itself to opening MANY pages at once. If you would prefer, I can list every link I have open at this exact moment, for reference:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170983&op=Repl y&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=95&mode=nested&pid =14243431 (which is this /. reply page)
http://mail.google.com/mail/
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/h c-11154432.apds.m0309.bc-ct--statdec11,0,3518180.s tory?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2005/12/11/nation al/a02121105_02.txt
http://www.pcomelet.com/articles1details.asp?NewsN um=40
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pag ename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid =968163964505&cid=1134344411957&col=968705899037&c all_page=TS_World&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pa gepath=News/World
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/johnleo/20 05/12/12/178651.html
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AtXC1y50oxBO 7AL1gup9Q5.8vLYF?slug=ap-heat-vangundyresigns&prov =ap&type=lgns
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-12-12-brit ish-inferno_x.htm?csp=34
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051212/od_uk_nm/oukoe _uk_india_bangalore;_ylt=AosQuO8FvVJ0Vd3RebwSpmVva A8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212/ap_on_el_pr/de mocrats_one_community;_ylt=AsioggEugZtPPwnu2ul_1Ii s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-
http://www.wfmy.com/watercooler/article.aspx?story id=53576
http://www.wytv.com/news/regional/2075952.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/132 7686.cms
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/technology/5517017 /detail.html?r

Laura DiDio denounced these penguins.

Yeah this is a good idea.

First we complain about drivers being distracted with phones while on the road. Just wait till we have skiers/boarders doing the same. Not being able to hear when you are listening to your iPod is really safe

On a sidestep... the number one song in Germany right now: "Somebody please transalte this is from Google this kid is too cute and I must have the exact translation!!!"

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/entertainment/4069 061/detail.html

http://213.158.118.36/schnappi/

http://213.158.118.36/schnappi/schnappi.mp3

sing-a-long text

TEXT ZUM MITSINGEN Ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil komm aus Ägypten, das liegt direkt am Nil zuerst lag ich in einem Ei dann schni schna schnappte ich mich frei Ref: schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp schni schna schnappi schnappi schnappi schnapp Ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil hab scharfe Zähne und davon ganz schön viel ich schnapp mir was ich schnappen kann ja schnapp zu weil ich das so gut kann Ref. Ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil ich schnappe gern das ist mein Lieblingsspiel ich schleich mich an die Mama ran und zeig ihr wie ich schnappen kann Ref. ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil und vom schnappen da krieg ich nicht zuviel ich beiss den Papi kurz ins Bein und dann dann schlafe ich einfach ein Ref.

Link to story:

Link to song page:

(Original Version)

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/holidays/4027215/d etail.html

"I got a chuckle out of putting a clock up in the window and having the hands of the clock display the right time (it actually started out 3 minutes slow, but then gained a minute a day, until it was 4 minutes fast, and then reset itself) -- again, all computer trickery!" Komarnitsky said on his Web site Monday.

The Lafayette man said he accomplished the trickery by taking 12 "base" photographs of the house with lights on and off and then constructed a Web page that appeared to show lights going on and off when the Web visitor clicked, but after performing web server stress testing, he replaced the test images with real-time camera generated images for the holiday season.

Not everything on the internet is a forgery.

Hey /.'ers ... it was all fun ... I'm SLAMMED ... will say more later ... but be SURE to read MY story of the events and also what Wall Street Journal guy wrote ... and then if you want, go to that Channel-7 site and cast your vote if I was naughty or nice!

Well, if we're also going to take the first amendment literally, then you also have to consider the part that says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". We seem to have forgotten that second part in this modern age.

So there, plain as day, the government shall pass no law preventing me from praying to whatever I want, wherever I want. That means I should be able to pray in schools, pray in libraries, have my religious floats in Christmas parades, etc etc. Instead, in 200 years we've managed to turn the amendment around to "freedom from religion", where noone is allowed to practice their religions on public property because someone might be offended... not in the pledge, not on our money, not in our courts, despite the fact that the founding fathers were quite religious (not by-the-book Catholics, but definitely not secular nor atheist), and wove that into the framework of our governmental bodies.

From an article on the incident here: A mechanic examined the car Monday and said a transmission reverse gear cluster anchor bolt fell out, preventing the car's transmission from moving into another gear. He also found the car was idling at a very high rate, which would cause it to go fast if it were already moving in 5th gear. The Center for Auto Safety previously reported problems with sudden acceleration in Pontiac Sunbirds and other GM "J" cars.

How the F! do you protect birds that might fly into the beam?

A quick google search revealed this page, which answers your question. In fact, it even answers many of the other questions posted here. Check it out!

Maybe because we don't like forest fires.

Seriously, the twisters don't come every year, Moore just happened to get hit twice within a 4 year period. Lets not forget that the May 3rd tornado was the first F5 rated tornado to EVER hit the OKC area.

Why do people move near the Mississippi river? It seems to flood all the damn time? Why do people live in Flordia? They get hit with hurricaines and probably cost us a lot more to replace than a trailer park.

There isn't a safe place to live, period. You are just fooling yourself if you think that snow is harmless.

That is all.

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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house"