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.
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
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
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.
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.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Alan Grayson is Nuts (D-FL)
There is independent fund raising committee whose website, MyCongressmanIsNuts.com, went from near obscurity to National Exposure when Alan Grayson filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Committee to have the site shut down. He also personally asked that Attorney General Eric Holder to fine and imprison Angie Langley (website owner and committee leader) for exercising her first amendment right to free political speech.
This is the same man that purposely held a "Town Hall" meeting in a Union Hall that had a Pro Liberal audience already inside for a previous meeting. The majority of those let in at the door afterwards were supports that were not constituents.
The irony of the last fact is, his complaint against Langley was not one of his constituents. It seems he just has problem with anyone, besides himself, exercising their Constitutional Rights as protected under the First Amendment.
Here is a few words from his fellow House of Representatives Members.
Did you read the $800 Billion Stimulus Bill that you ostensibly co-sponsored and co-authored?
No, seriously, did you read it at all?
Maybe I shouldn't be taking up with the "Evil Republicans." Let's hear what his fellow "kindler, gentler, Democrats" have to say about his behavior.
After Senator Grayson accused Republicans of telling the sick to go off and die under their counter-proposal for Health Care Reform, The Republicans asked him to apologize for his inflammatory remarks. He willing obliges them in the way that only Alan Grayson can.
In conclusion, Mr, Grayson, you are nuts!!
This is the same man that purposely held a "Town Hall" meeting in a Union Hall that had a Pro Liberal audience already inside for a previous meeting. The majority of those let in at the door afterwards were supports that were not constituents.
The irony of the last fact is, his complaint against Langley was not one of his constituents. It seems he just has problem with anyone, besides himself, exercising their Constitutional Rights as protected under the First Amendment.
Here is a few words from his fellow House of Representatives Members.
Did you read the $800 Billion Stimulus Bill that you ostensibly co-sponsored and co-authored?
No, seriously, did you read it at all?
Maybe I shouldn't be taking up with the "Evil Republicans." Let's hear what his fellow "kindler, gentler, Democrats" have to say about his behavior.
After Senator Grayson accused Republicans of telling the sick to go off and die under their counter-proposal for Health Care Reform, The Republicans asked him to apologize for his inflammatory remarks. He willing obliges them in the way that only Alan Grayson can.
In conclusion, Mr, Grayson, you are nuts!!
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