If on the busiest travel day of the year, the TSA felt it was more important to get people on the planes than to scan them like that, which means they know perfectly well the risk of a terror attack is not that great, and the scanners do fuckall to address the risk.
Yesterday most of the TSA's whole boddy scanners were idled, and very few passengers were asked to go through them. This way the TSA was able to claim that only a small number of people opted out (since only a small number of people were made to choose between getting pornscanned or gateraped.)
So apparently, the threat of bad PR and long lines from National Opt Out Day was a bigger threat than Al Qaeda. That is a more informative datum than the color code.
So clearly, people should chill the fuck out, we are not under a great thread, and it's time to quit pornscanning and fear mongering.
And also, it's time to change the thread scale from the color code to a scale of bitchiness, i.e. how bitchy do you have to be to be considered a bigger concern than Al Qaeda. Yesterday was clearly around a 2 out of 10 (i.e. "Meh") on any bitchiness scale. Even a slight level of bitchiness was enough to be a bigger concern than Al Qaeda. If Osama and his guys get some respite from dodging the Hellfire missiles and plan an actual attack, the level will rise all the way to 10/10 ("Reno 911").
"The Armistice Agreements in 1949 said that neither party would attack the other...Israel broke that agreement and again, invaded, bombed and killed the people of Lebanon."
And Lebanese soldiers began sniper attacks into Israel with the ink still wet, and those have never stopped. Then tehre's that slight matter of raiding parties coming into Israel.
"Iran has never had a war with Israel nor directly attacked Israel."
And the Gottis never killed anyone with their own hands.
Hezbollah is Iran's proxy. So much so that the word "Hezbollah" is what Iranian dissidents use to describe their own regime. That's war enough.
There is a different in pre-emptively attacking someone and attacking someone because they invaded and took over your land.
Actually, no. War is war.
Lebanon declared a state of war with Israel in 1948, and has never, ever withdrawn it.
Israel invaded and occupied Lebanon for 15 years...they bombed them willy nilly 4 years ago...to this day they occupy Lebanese land.
Lebanon has sent raids into Israel sporadically for 60 years. Israel has done the same on a different scale. War is like that.
when Israel stops building settlements outside of their border they'll stop being attacked, every freedom loving person should support that.
The government of Iran holds that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are authentic, and that Jews must be reduced to subjugation and attacked wherever they are.
Which is why the government of Iran went so far as to bomb the Jewish Community Center of Buenos Aires.
And that has nothing whatever to do with Israel's policies. Iran intends to use nukes against Israel. Israel has every reason to do what it can to prevent Iran from aquiring them.
Those people who are angered are relatives of people who died trying to cross. Remembering something doesn't mean turning it into an entertainment. Especially a game. Bear in mind that not only is this a lot closer to home to the Germans, so is gaming. That country is nuts for board games and strategy based computer games.
A google search for "executed in Iran" and "May 9, 1979" doesn't turn up any other names, but if I recall correctly, by that time Tehran's Evin Prison was already an abbatoir, with many more victims killed. Can any Iranian chime in on this ? By May, weren't the Islamists already massacring the leftists?
Iran still has several thousand Jews living in Tehran and Isfahan. To refer to the execution of Elghanian is to invite the execution of some other scapegoat out of the Jewish community. The Mullahs of Iran are very, very easy to offend, tease, tweak, et cetera. There are plenty of ways to put insults aimed at them into this virus without pointing at the Jewish community, and rest assured any Israeli hacker knows plenty.
1) the animals use a very low, non therapeutic dose, most of which is lost in their waste.
This is precisely the problem. Low doses spread over many animals is how resistant bugs are bred.
2) there isn't any good evidence that this causes superbugs. Yes, intuitively it seems so, and there may be a mechanisim in place, and it really wouldn't surprise anyone if this turned out to be the case, but no study backs any of that up.
That is because if you try to gather evidence from a farm, you will be turned away, probably with firearms. Dr. Levy has long complained about Big Ag's efforts to prevent research into this problem.
It's not a waste pond, it's 100% all natural fertilizer storage the type of which has been in use since humanity began farming, including by those family farms you imagine were run so differently. The alternative is to spread artificial petroleum based fertilizer on everything or not be able to farm the same field after about 10 years. So yeah, to hell with the neighbors who complain about the smell, they don't know what they're talking about.
When it's spread in small amounts over a field, all that waste is inoffensive, and fertilizes it. Go to any rural village in Austria and you can see for yourself. But when it pours into a waste pond in huge amounts, the smell is sickening, the concentration of H2S in the air is a health hazard, and the nitrogen from the waste pollutes the local groundwater and causes illnesses.
When the Dutch want material for an earthworks project, they call the Swiss, and 3 days later everything they need shows up in a barge down the Rhine.
The Kiribatians have neither the money for that kind of project, nor the location. Shipping mega amounts of concrete to the middle of the Pacific is expensive. These people barely even use money day to day.
That is such an utter straw man. First of all, these islanders are not dealing with "theiir own" problems. These problems are being caused by you and me. If I dumped garbage on your backyard and said "your yard, your problem", you would be right to see it very differently.
Having RTFA, it looks like they are taking measures to protect the corals from fisherman with the hope that the gesture will generate awareness and sympathy (ie money) towards their plight. It also hints that by establishing a preserve, they hope to increase tourism to offset the financial loss.
They want to be the Palestinians of the Pacific? That makes more sense than anything else in the article, I suppose.
They just embarked on a gesture that will involve severe sacrifice on their part, and sent their leader to present a calm and mature message detailing their plight, in a way that is meant to arouse admiration and (one hopes) sympathy, instead of horror and revulsion. The Kiribatian approach is as un-Palestinian as a country could possibly be.
Of course not. Is that a rhetorical question? Do the people of Kiribati know about me? Are they interested in my problems?
They kind of have to, because your activities, and mine, are putting the very existence of their country into doubt.
And that is why they are speaking out.
He is closing the fishery to protect fish stocks and to make a point for the world at large.
Protecting people from eating and making a spectacle. Bravo.
Protecting fisheries so they don't get annihilated is the most important task for any Polynesian nation.
As for sea walls, those would do nothing against the salinization of groundwater on those islands. When your well draws sea water, you have to leave the island anyway, which is what is happening in those islands.
I admit to not knowing about island fresh water supplies. I'm not sure I believe a small rise in sea levels would automatically change ground water to salt water. Perhaps there is something constructive to be done about it. But I'm pretty sure whining and prohibiting fishing isn't a remedy.
Well, then, do a Google Image Search on Kiribati. And Tuvalu. You'll find pictures of beaches lined with dead palm trees. Those trees are dead because sea level rise raised the average salinity of the ground water they're rooted in. This is what they are "whining" about: our energy consumption is raising sea levels and making their islands uninhabitable.
Do you even know anything about Kiribati? The country is so small that in New England towns that size still use town meetings for most government decisions. He is closing the fishery to protect fish stocks and to make a point for the world at large. As for sea walls, those would do nothing against the salinization of groundwater on those islands. When your well draws sea water, you have to leave the island anyway, which is what is happening in those islands.
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I wonder how they think about that statement in Palestina and Gaza.
Gaza is well within the fallout cloud if Tel Aviv got nuked.
Think about why they would blow up a bus.
Because they believe that the Muslim is entitled to exercise supremacy over the Jew, and fight for that supremacy if need be.
ok, please keep in mind, I depsise Hamas way of dealing with repression. But, when was the last time they blew up a bus? It's measured in years...
Not for lack of trying. They haven't blown up buses because Israel has them hemmed in and unable to access Israeli civilian areas.
Standing up against warcrimes does not make me Hitler
You're making a ridiculous denial of Palestinian war crimes against Israelis. Which does, to use the figure of speech, make you Hitler.
If on the busiest travel day of the year, the TSA felt it was more important to get people on the planes than to scan them like that, which means they know perfectly well the risk of a terror attack is not that great, and the scanners do fuckall to address the risk.
Now we just have to rub it in their faces.
By turning the scanners off, they tacitly admitted that the public's discontent is a bigger issue than Al Qaeda.
Now we just have to make them say it outright.
The TSA decided that the Opt Out protest was a bigger concern than Al Qaeda.
That is a tacit admission that 1. the threat is not that great and 2. these damn scanners accomplish nothing to reduce it.
Don't let them forget this!
Yesterday most of the TSA's whole boddy scanners were idled, and very few passengers were asked to go through them. This way the TSA was able to claim that only a small number of people opted out (since only a small number of people were made to choose between getting pornscanned or gateraped.)
So apparently, the threat of bad PR and long lines from National Opt Out Day was a bigger threat than Al Qaeda. That is a more informative datum than the color code.
So clearly, people should chill the fuck out, we are not under a great thread, and it's time to quit pornscanning and fear mongering.
And also, it's time to change the thread scale from the color code to a scale of bitchiness, i.e. how bitchy do you have to be to be considered a bigger concern than Al Qaeda. Yesterday was clearly around a 2 out of 10 (i.e. "Meh") on any bitchiness scale. Even a slight level of bitchiness was enough to be a bigger concern than Al Qaeda. If Osama and his guys get some respite from dodging the Hellfire missiles and plan an actual attack, the level will rise all the way to 10/10 ("Reno 911").
Howzat?
"The Armistice Agreements in 1949 said that neither party would attack the other...Israel broke that agreement and again, invaded, bombed and killed the people of Lebanon."
And Lebanese soldiers began sniper attacks into Israel with the ink still wet, and those have never stopped. Then tehre's that slight matter of raiding parties coming into Israel.
"Iran has never had a war with Israel nor directly attacked Israel."
And the Gottis never killed anyone with their own hands.
Hezbollah is Iran's proxy. So much so that the word "Hezbollah" is what Iranian dissidents use to describe their own regime. That's war enough.
Basically, yes. A little angling of the hips and that scatter scan becomes child porn.
Well, they are not posing lasciviously, so it could still be legal. But never mind that. Legal issues are easy to deal with: change the law.
Moral issues are another matter. And the issue there is simple:
Young girls should not have to have their boobs bared by this scanner just to fly.
There is a different in pre-emptively attacking someone and attacking someone because they invaded and took over your land.
Actually, no. War is war.
Lebanon declared a state of war with Israel in 1948, and has never, ever withdrawn it.
Israel invaded and occupied Lebanon for 15 years...they bombed them willy nilly 4 years ago...to this day they occupy Lebanese land.
Lebanon has sent raids into Israel sporadically for 60 years. Israel has done the same on a different scale. War is like that.
when Israel stops building settlements outside of their border they'll stop being attacked, every freedom loving person should support that.
The government of Iran holds that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are authentic, and that Jews must be reduced to subjugation and attacked wherever they are.
Which is why the government of Iran went so far as to bomb the Jewish Community Center of Buenos Aires.
And that has nothing whatever to do with Israel's policies. Iran intends to use nukes against Israel. Israel has every reason to do what it can to prevent Iran from aquiring them.
Iran's proxies in Lebanon have been attacking Israel repeatedly for over 30 years.
Iran's security services have gone further afield, and bombed Jewish sites in such places as Buenos Aires.
And Iran's president has openly spoken of nuking Israel. It should hardly be a surprise that Israel would act in hopes of depriving him of the means.
"And for what reason did they do it? "
Uh, to prevent their being murdered? DUH.
Those people who are angered are relatives of people who died trying to cross. Remembering something doesn't mean turning it into an entertainment.
Especially a game. Bear in mind that not only is this a lot closer to home to the Germans, so is gaming. That country is nuts for board games and strategy based computer games.
A google search for "executed in Iran" and "May 9, 1979" doesn't turn up any other names, but if I recall correctly, by that time Tehran's Evin Prison was already an abbatoir, with many more victims killed. Can any Iranian chime in on this ? By May, weren't the Islamists already massacring the leftists?
Iran still has several thousand Jews living in Tehran and Isfahan. To refer to the execution of Elghanian is to invite the execution of some other scapegoat out of the Jewish community. The Mullahs of Iran are very, very easy to offend, tease, tweak, et cetera. There are plenty of ways to put insults aimed at them into this virus without pointing at the Jewish community, and rest assured any Israeli hacker knows plenty.
1) the animals use a very low, non therapeutic dose, most of which is lost in their waste.
This is precisely the problem. Low doses spread over many animals is how resistant bugs are bred.
2) there isn't any good evidence that this causes superbugs. Yes, intuitively it seems so, and there may be a mechanisim in place, and it really wouldn't surprise anyone if this turned out to be the case, but no study backs any of that up.
That is because if you try to gather evidence from a farm, you will be turned away, probably with firearms. Dr. Levy has long complained about Big Ag's efforts to prevent research into this problem.
It's not a waste pond, it's 100% all natural fertilizer storage the type of which has been in use since humanity began farming, including by those family farms you imagine were run so differently. The alternative is to spread artificial petroleum based fertilizer on everything or not be able to farm the same field after about 10 years. So yeah, to hell with the neighbors who complain about the smell, they don't know what they're talking about.
When it's spread in small amounts over a field, all that waste is inoffensive, and fertilizes it. Go to any rural village in Austria and you can see for yourself.
But when it pours into a waste pond in huge amounts, the smell is sickening, the concentration of H2S in the air is a health hazard, and the nitrogen from the waste pollutes the local groundwater and causes illnesses.
When the Dutch want material for an earthworks project, they call the Swiss, and 3 days later everything they need shows up in a barge down the Rhine.
The Kiribatians have neither the money for that kind of project, nor the location. Shipping mega amounts of concrete to the middle of the Pacific is expensive. These people barely even use money day to day.
That is such an utter straw man. First of all, these islanders are not dealing with "theiir own" problems. These problems are being caused by you and me. If I dumped garbage on your backyard and said "your yard, your problem", you would be right to see it very differently.
Having RTFA, it looks like they are taking measures to protect the corals from fisherman with the hope that the gesture will generate awareness and sympathy (ie money) towards their plight. It also hints that by establishing a preserve, they hope to increase tourism to offset the financial loss.
They want to be the Palestinians of the Pacific? That makes more sense than anything else in the article, I suppose.
They just embarked on a gesture that will involve severe sacrifice on their part, and sent their leader to present a calm and mature message detailing their plight, in a way that is meant to arouse admiration and (one hopes) sympathy, instead of horror and revulsion. The Kiribatian approach is as un-Palestinian as a country could possibly be.
O RLY? Care to tell where? Some Kiribatians might be interested to move there. (And Bengalis, and Dutch.....)
Do you even know anything about Kiribati?
Of course not. Is that a rhetorical question? Do the people of Kiribati know about me? Are they interested in my problems?
They kind of have to, because your activities, and mine, are putting the very existence of their country into doubt.
And that is why they are speaking out.
He is closing the fishery to protect fish stocks and to make a point for the world at large.
Protecting people from eating and making a spectacle. Bravo.
Protecting fisheries so they don't get annihilated is the most important task for any Polynesian nation.
As for sea walls, those would do nothing against the salinization of groundwater on those islands. When your well draws sea water, you have to leave the island anyway, which is what is happening in those islands.
I admit to not knowing about island fresh water supplies. I'm not sure I believe a small rise in sea levels would automatically change ground water to salt water. Perhaps there is something constructive to be done about it. But I'm pretty sure whining and prohibiting fishing isn't a remedy.
Well, then, do a Google Image Search on Kiribati. And Tuvalu. You'll find pictures of beaches lined with dead palm trees. Those trees are dead because sea level rise raised the average salinity of the ground water they're rooted in. This is what they are "whining" about: our energy consumption is raising sea levels and making their islands uninhabitable.
Do you even know anything about Kiribati? The country is so small that in New England towns that size still use town meetings for most government decisions. He is closing the fishery to protect fish stocks and to make a point for the world at large. As for sea walls, those would do nothing against the salinization of groundwater on those islands. When your well draws sea water, you have to leave the island anyway, which is what is happening in those islands.