Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Saturday Dec 20, 2008 8:00amObsidian Wings: Rick Warren is bad enough. This is worse
Calitics: Pushing California off the cliff: Blocking a budget to destroy the environment and undermine working people
Brilliant at Breakfast: The Republic Window factory closure was all about union-busting
SteveAudio: Georgia judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf
The Poor Man: Nominee for the Gregg Easterbrook Award for Excellence in Science Punditry
Bob Geiger: The Saturday Cartoons
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Duh!
The part about the CEO extracting payoffs for his luxury cars, along with the wages for the employees, was particularly disgusting.
Mencken said "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." I fancy I a normal man, and so the CEO ought to avoid me if I have a knife on me...
If a glorified mall cop TSA agent can shove a hand up your behind without a court warrant just because you’re flying to a funeral in Seattle and they think your bottle of hand sanitizer is a lethal weapon, then thinking that being told to take off a scarf is a violation of civil rights or human rights, isn’t a very clear concept to me.
P.S. Those hands were cold too.
knuckle-dragging. prognathous, mono-browed morons in the TSA. Fucking minimum-wage wanna-be cops and tyrants, for the most part, for whom the Airport is as exotic a destination as they can ever aspire to, they positively delight in subjecting travelers to as much trouble, offense, and humiliation as they can.
As someone who spends time in airports each and every week, these are people whose last jobs entailed asking if we wanted to supersize our orders.
And don't discount that their orders originated with the Rumsfeld/Ashcroft crowd who are of the mind of follow orders only and do not think...ever. Common sense and thinking are not allowed.
We couldn't expect the Bush administration to do any such thing, of course. There are still states that have anti-sodomy laws on the books.
What will really be interesting is whether Obama's administration repairs the breach after January 20, given all the ruckus about Rick Warren.
If a nun attempted to enter a courthouse, would the bailiff ask her to remove her head cover?
Now, if the woman in question went through a metal detector and it didn't go off, then why was she asked to remove her head cover?
If the metal detector DID go off, why wasn't she taken to a private room by a female officer and had it 'inspected' there?
The entire incident reeks of bigotry. It seems it was merely an attempt to antagonize and humiliate the woman.
Meanwhile, the Neanderthals on a local Georgia newspaper are posting comments with "You bleeding heart liberals" and moral relativism.
I wonder if Georgia law calls for 10 days in jail for contempt of court or whether that's the maximum sentence. Could she have been given a fine instead?
women wearing wigs? Or men wearing toupees? People undergoing chemotherapy often lose their hair and try to carry on by looking as much like they did before beginning treatments.
I hope the ACLU takes on her case and that judge loses his seat.
see video: "I myself was twice warned by PBS producers"
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