Saturday, March 27, 2010

“I love those gigantic tits” or Tales from the Airport Perv Scanner

Since the introduction of the virtual strip search machines, privacy rights activists and Libertarians have been screaming foul. Despite assurances from the TSA and other government agencies that you don't see actual genitalia, our worse fears have been realized.

Recently reported in the Idendity Project Blog, Papers, Please! titled "Heathrow body scanner operator: “I love those gigantic tits”; a Heathrow Airport scanner operator snapped a picture of a coworker accidentally wandered into the machine. This happened in less than two months after the machines were installed.

Jo Margetson, 29, told reporters: "I can't bear to think about the body scanner thing. I'm totally traumatised. I've spoken to the police about it. I'm in too much of a state to go to work."

It did not take long for Critics of the machines to be proven right.

One could hope that this abuse of governmental power and invasion of privacy will be dismantled now, especially since a scant three days prior, it's been reported that terrorists have already found a way to circumvent the perv scanners.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Socialist

I saw these bumper stickers one day



And they remind me of posters of my youth











Coincidence? I think not.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Democrats Seek to Defy the Voters

With compromise unlikely, Dems eye shortcut for health care and defy the will of the people.

If it was just a question of finding ways for the uninsured to have equal access to Health Care Insurance, there would be little debate. The issue at hand is the Government wants to expand its control over everyone's health care insurance. President Obama stated that
...we must also address the crushing cost of health care.

This is a cost that now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds. By the end of the year, it could cause 1.5 million Americans to lose their homes. In the last eight years, premiums have grown four times faster than wages. And in each of these years, one million more Americans have lost their health insurance. It is one of the major reasons why small businesses close their doors and corporations ship jobs overseas. And it’s one of the largest and fastest-growing parts of our budget.


This is coming from the same Government that fails to exercise any real oversight to put an end to Medicare/Medicaid fraud. This costs the Government in excess of $10 Billion a year. Yet our President and his Democratic henchmen in Congress want to control the costs on existing Health Care plans? Based on Government Run insurance already, it will end up costing all of us ten-fold to have insurance.

Mr. President, with all due respect, you need to fix the Medicare/Medicaid mess first before you take on any real reforms. So far, the only references that any Heath Care Expansion Bill has had were cuts to the Social Security funded Health Care and reducing its scope of coverage. In fact, as of 1 March 2010, you have slashed the amount of money paid to Doctors by 21%.

Based on what you honestly desire, by the time you finish reforming my existing coverage, it will be laying in smoldering ruin. After your "cost controls" finish chasing away the best Doctors, we will have to go third world countries to get the best medical care.