November232010

Man re-enters the US without going through pornoscanner or groping

noblasters:

He starts to defer responsibility to the officers. They emphasize that no – they have no issue with me and they are only acting on his behalf. It is his jurisdiction. It is policy. They won’t detain me unless he tells them to.

So I emphasize the iPhone again, and ask,” So, if I were to get up, walk through the metal detector, and not have it go off, would you still have them arrest me?”

The Supervisor answers, “I can’t answer that question. That is no longer an option because you were selected for the Backscatter.”

People like these are my heroes, because they can calmly assert their rights (and therefore my rights) in the face of tyranny authority.

BoingBoing.net received word that the TSA plans to announce a new policy that will deny entrance to the airport for anyone who refuses a pat-down.

Source: noblasters

privacy news technology society security theater 

May242010

Britain bans doctor who linked autism to vaccine

The doctor whose research linking autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella influenced millions of parents to refuse the shot for their children was banned Monday from practicing medicine in his native Britain.

The council was acting on a finding in January that Wakefield and two other doctors showed a “callous disregard” for the children in their study, published in 1998 in the medical journal Lancet. The medical body said Wakefield took blood samples from children at his son’s birthday party, paying them 5 pounds (about $7.20) each and later joked about the incident.

Hey, nice sampling strategy, jackass.

(via Britain bans doctor who linked autism to vaccine | guardian.co.uk)

news science healthcare 

April202010

School lunches are a threat to national security

School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.

That’s not a reference to the mystery meat served up in the cafeteria line either. The retired officers are saying that school lunches have helped make the nation’s young people so fat that fewer of them can meet the military’s physical fitness standards, and recruitment is in jeopardy.

From: [MSNBC], Photo credit: [john.murden@flickr]

fitness politics news 

April92010
House on fire in Trenton, NJ, across the street from where I’m working today. Update (4/10/10): Times of Trenton reports two abandoned buildings were destroyed, three families were displaced, and one firefighter was injured. Every on-duty firefighter in the city responded to prevent it from spreading. [link]

House on fire in Trenton, NJ, across the street from where I’m working today.

Update (4/10/10): Times of Trenton reports two abandoned buildings were destroyed, three families were displaced, and one firefighter was injured. Every on-duty firefighter in the city responded to prevent it from spreading. [link]

news 

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