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  1. I guess that he will finally find out what exactly happened between Claudine Longet and "Spider" Sabich. I had forgot that he was good friends of Robert and Ethel Kennedy and was asked by Bobby to be a Kennedy delegate from California, even though he was a registered Republican. He and Claudine were in the hospital room, to comfort Ethel where Bobby was taken after being shot.

  2. From theblaze.com GOVERNMENT

    WOMAN ALLEGEDLY PREVENTED FROM BOARDING FLIGHT BECAUSE TSA DIDN’T LIKE HER ‘ATTITUDE’

    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:21pm by Erica Ritz Print »Email »

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    An angry airline passenger claims the Transportation Security Administration prevented her from boarding her flight not because she was a security risk, but in retaliation for her “attitude.â€

     

    She explained in the description of an accompanying YouTube video:

     

    This was inside the terminal at the Houston airport. I was not allowed to board a plane (even though I had already been through airport security) because I drank my water instead of letting the TSA “test†it.

    She added:

     

    The TSA agent finally admitted that it wasn’t because they thought I was a security risk-it was because the TSA agent, Louis Godeaux, was mad at me!

    Here is the clip, apparently shot with a cell phone:

     

     

     

    The Huffington Post has a rough transcript:

     

    Woman: “Do you think that I am honestly a threat…?â€

    Male agent: “No, no, no, but with your attitude…â€

    Woman: “Let me get this straight. This is retaliatory for my attitude. This is not making the airways safer. It’s retaliatory.â€

    Male agent: “Pretty much…yes.â€

    Woman: “Is that legal?â€

    It should be noted that the clip does not show the initial altercation, which could have involved more than just drinking water after going through security.

     

    However, the woman admits the situation ended well.

     

    “I was able to get on the very next flight out of [Houston, and] even managed an upgrade! (thanks United),†she wrote.

     

    The passenger concluded: “I know this is not really news (it seems like the TSA is retaliating all the time against people), but it was a little satisfying to get that statement on video.â€

     

    (H/T: Gawker)

     

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    Related:

     

    Discrimination? Beck Details ‘Subhuman’ Treatment He Received on American Airlines & In NYC This Weekend

    ‘Horrible’: Video Catches Woman Sobbing During TSA Patdown

    TSA Agent Spills Grandpa’s Ashes on the Floor After Violating Screening Procedure

  3. We had a numbers cruncher as mayor of Kansas City, Mark Funkhouser. Before being Mayor, he was auditor for the city for 16 years and very much like and respected. He didn't try to make coalitions with other city council members and was often on the minority side of council voting. He did not try to develop any rapport with business people or political organizations. He did hire his wife as a consultant and the city had to settle a law suit brought by her assistant, who was black and claimed that the Mayor's wife had used belittling black phrases in describing her assistant. The council ordered the Mayor to fire his wife and he sued the council (and eventually won, although she did "retire"). A recall petition was started and was finally quashed by Funkhouser because he kept questioning each person that signed the petition and demanding proof that they were a citizen. In his re-election bid in the primary, he came in third, the first time that had happened since the corrupt days of boss Pendergast. But I'm sure that Ryan's political career won't be anything like that.

  4. allistar,

     

    There is a difference between euthanasia and suicide

    But not in the ending. If you are talking about the Dr. Death type of euthanasia, where family member participate in the celebration of the person's life and then death, the pain would be a lot less. Acting on his own, leaving a suicide note, I assume that Ridley Scott (and others)knew nothing of his brother's plan and suffered a lot of pain because of it.

  5. He had inoperable Brain Cancer hence the reason he decided to end it.

     

    Now if I was to find myself in such a predicament I would want to end it, I am all for euthanasia but I would not jump from a bridge.

    A pretty painful way to die (jumping off a bridge) and there is always a small chance that you might survive (probably not much of a concern to someone terminally ill already). In an interview with someone that tried and survived, he said the hardest part, over all the internal injuries, broken bones and broken back, was the look on his mother's face when she saw him. I don't think I would spring killing myself unexpectedly on family and friends.

  6. Have either the IOC or U.S. Olympic committee pay the taxes. They make enough from sponsors and television rights. Do Nobel prize winners from the uS. also pay taxes on their cash prizes? Should we exempt them from paying taxes on their cash prize? I'm not concerned about athletics from popular sports. They will get a lot of money from endorsements. Its the U.S. Olympic winners that don't receive a call from the President that I would be concerned about. They won't see the endorsement money flowing in.

  7. I was watching the opening ceremonies last night on NBC and as the athletes from Finland passed, Bob Costas for some reason mentioned that the former head of Nokia was fined around $100,000 for speeding on a motorcycle. I don't know if that means he approves the U.S. having the same kind of system; a sliding scale for both taxes and fines, increasing the amount paid for those that are worth more. Or, did he just do the numbers on his own worth to see what he would be paying if the U.S. had the same kind of sliding scale system that Finland has and he committed the same offense that the former head of Nokia committed.

  8. I'd imagine that the majority of the members of Congress would prefer not to release their tax returns, since the laws prohibiting insider trading do not apply to them (as many laws do not). I know that Pelosi was questioned on "60 minutes" about some stock she an her husband bought that she would have had access to inside information about the company.

  9. Just to get into some mindless entertainment banter for a second. I have no sympathy for Katie Holmes. Who gets into a relationship with someone as deep into Scientology as Tom Cruise is? Okay, bang the dude if you're an up and coming actress, appear on the red carpet and get some PR to further your career. I can respect that...but marry and have kids?

     

    http://omg.yahoo.com/news/katie-holmes-used-disposable-cell-phone-to-secretly-plan-divorce-from-tom-cruise--report.html?_esi=1

     

    According to the Los Angeles Times, a friend of Holmes provided her with the throwaway device so she could talk to her New York City-based lawyers without Cruise, 50, or his people knowing what she was up to. Now, yet another report, a People magazine story released on Wednesday, divulges further details on how Holmes caught her husband of five years off guard by meticulously plotting her divorce plans ahead of time, even reaching out to her parents for help. According to the report, Tom Cruise was about to start shooting an action-packed scene on the set in Iceland when he answered an unexpected call from Holmes. “He was about to do a stunt and got off his motorcycle to take the call,†a source tells People. It was during that conversation that Holmes broke the news. “He’s been in shock since that day,†the source adds.

    I was just reading this week's Time magazine and it stated that all 3 of Tom Cruise's wife's are actresses(Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes), each successive wife was 11.5 years younger than the previous wife and they were all divorced from Cruise at age 33. Time speculates on Mrs. Cruise #4 and gives the possibility of Kristen Stewart, Emma Watson and Jennifer Lawrence, all born in 1990. Tom is 50, so there will be a 28 year difference in age. His next divorce will be in 2023. Someone should introduce Tom to LOS, since he seems to like his ladies between 25 and 33. It would be a lot less expensive.

  10. Even if Tom is away on a shoot, he has a cadre of Scientology members that help "take care" of Katie and their daughter. I heard that the breaking point was when those members stopped Katie from disciplining he daughter. Cruise should look for a fellow scientology member to marry. I hear Christy Alley is still available.

  11. Health insurance premiums have risen astronomically for decades. If premiums hadn't risen so much, more people that are uninsured now would have health insurance. I don't hear anyone against Obamacare complaining about that.

  12. HH, I think that Unit 731 was referring to the penalty charged by the IRS to those that don't buy health insurance under Obamacare. If you buy the insurance, you don't pay the penalty. Concerning Americans that live overseas, I did quote one chat form that stated if you lived outside the U.S. for over 300 days, you would not be required to buy health insurance. Maybe, someone should check with HRS to see if that is the government's official policy. In any case, I'm all for constructive changes to Obamacare, to make it better, particularly in containing xosts. I'm not for throwing the whole thing out.

  13. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-mcgurk-iraq-ambassador-20120619,0,2243189.story

     

    Brett McGurk's nomination, which was scheduled for a vote Tuesday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, became endangered after the release on the Internet of sometimes racy emails he sent to journalist Gina Chon while he was married and was negotiating a security agreement with the Iraqi government during President George W. Bush's administration.

     

    Also

    Scores, many of them Shiites, killed in Iraq bombings Obama highlights end of Iraq war during Memorial Day commemoration

    Iranians criticize U.S. 'crimes' in Iraq while praising IAEA

    The emails indicated McGurk had an intimate relationship with Chon. McGurk has since married Chon, who resigned from The Wall Street Journal last week after acknowledging that she violated in-house rules by showing McGurk unpublished stories.

    Isn't the WSJ owned by Murdoch? I didn't know that they had any in house rules about professionalism. Concerning hiring undocumented aliens, the government just wants their cut, as in employment fees, like social security. When my father died, it took 6.5 years after his death to close his estate, in part because he had Practical nurses taking care of him for his last 2 years and hadn't paid their taxes for half of that time. When it comes to taxes and perjury, the government will get their pound of flesh. I don't know why the Secretary of the Treasury got away with not paying taxes on work done in Europe for years. Even when he was appointed to the Fed board from New York, he refused to pay them. Only when he was nominated for the Treasury position did he pay them. His excuse was that he had used Turbo Tax and it made the mistake. I've used Turbo Tax the last 2 years. I think I'll try that excuse if I'm ever audited by the IRS.

     

    From all accounts this guy was qualified. I hate losing good people in key, hard to fill positions over bullshit. Okay,the guy banged someone. Just tell him, look we know about you banging this broad. you're now gonna be in a very public, very important position. Keep it in your pants. Of course he will. Why lose important people over bullshit reasons? Like people who hired undocumented nannies. So the fuck what? Everyone in LA has hired some guy at the Home Plus to help him move apartments.

     

    We gotta get our collective heads out of our asses and be more practical.

    I thought that the WSJ was owned by Murduch. Since when did he start having in house rules of professionalism?
  14. Before I posted, I did take a look at the type of person that gets an LLB and doesn't intend to pursue a law career and most of the people doing so were accountants. Like I said before, you must be driven to get an LLB, on top of staying up on your chosen profession. I would be careful to keep your emotions concerning the case out of how you and your pursue the case. There is a saying in the U.S. that a person that defends himself in court has a fool for a client. I do genuinely mean good luck on your case.

  15. The system whereby Presidents and Governors are allowed to commute or pardon a prisoner is part of our checks and balances system, where a prisoner might be pardoned if there is reason to believe that he didn't receive a fair trial, or new evidence has been produced that throws doubt on the conviction. Its only when a President or Governor is leaving office that the power to commute is sometimes abused, as it was under Clinton and the Mississippi Governor. Ir doesn't make any difference if the persons in the two terrorist examples that I used have not committed a crime after being released. Punishment, at least in the u.S., is used sometimes as a deterrent. I know, if I were a terrorist, if I were captured, I would want to be tried in Western Europe. Like I said, I would like to remove the people in jail for drug and other minor offenses, and then see the numbers.

  16. I'd have to see the breakdown on what offences the prisoners had committed. Certainly, there are far too many people in the U.S. in jail for drug offences. On the other hand, the idea of letting a prisoner out after 5-8 years for murder is absurd. The extreme would be Scotland, for letting out the person from Libya and Germany, for letting out murdering terrorist (from the 1980's?). Obviously, country sponsored terrorism and terrorist groups are getting the signal that there is a low cost to their actions. I really doubt that Germany has one tenth of the criminals that Louisiana has. They just don't put them in prison, or if they do, for short terms. You would have to show me the various rates of crime in Germany and the typical sentences for those crimes to convince me that Germany is a safer place to live than Germany. However, as more states are privatizing their prison system, Louisiana and Texas could become the capitols of the prison industry in the U.S.

  17. Even then, if you are a stupid politician, you will be found out. Years ago, the school superintendent of Kansas City was on disability leave and convalescing at his Florida home. A TV crew from KC filmed him ding heavy yard work, including chopping wood. I don't believe that he lost his job over this but was sued by the Feds to recover what he had been paid, plus interest and penalties.

  18. CHARLIE DOESN'T GET PAROLE. 77 year old Charles Manson is denied parole for the umpteenth time. His next parole hearing will be in 15 years, when he is 92 years old. I wonder how much the federal government or the State of California have spent in the last 40 years to convict him and keep him in prison.

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