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[Flashermac]

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p.s. Sometimes things seem like a good idea after a few big bottles of Chang Export.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Steve]

What I like so far is Paul's emergence. He's riding high in a few polls. He won't win the nomination. I'd love him to but if I were a betting man I'd put my money on Romney. He's the chosen one for the heirachy for the simple reason he polls best against Obama.

 

However, Paul's visibility will force both Romeny and Obama to answer some hard questions. My hope is he reamins visible and vocal and he gets air time and asks the questions that the mass media are too scared to.

 

With regards to the nationaal election, the question isn't for me if Obama is doing a good job or not. He can do better, that's obvious. He's not as bad as Republicans claim though. My question is this. Is Romeny an improvement on Obama? In 2004 I wasn't a big fan of Bush and I didn't like Kerry much better. I think I let Republicans influence a bit more than I would like about Kerry. I went 3rd party but in hindsight Kerry would have been an improvement. At the time I didn't see much of an improvement but Bush's last 4 years were so bad, Kerry would have seen a Godsend.

 

Anyway, if Romney is not a market improvement I will vote for Obama. Its said that a President spends his first four years trying to get elected and the last 4 trying to get into the history books. So, if Romney is not an improvement or only a slight one, then I don't think he'll do much in the first 4 years than play it safe and try and not to f*ck up. Basically, what he's doing now. If the political theory is right, Obama will spend the four years trying to leave a legacy. Given the choice then its Obama for now based on that. No guarantee he will do that but its what many Presidents have done (Nixon trip to China towards the end of first time in office, Carter, peace between Egypt and Israel, Clinton came close between Israel and the Palestinians, etc.).

 

So, my thinking could be wrong but that's where I'm coming from. Paul, Johnson and Huntsman (in that order) are the only ones I think will do what's right even if its not politically the right thing to do.

[Flashermac]

There has long been a tale that JFK plan to withdraw US troops from South Vietnam AFTER he was reelected and started his second term. It is probably nothing but speculation, but it does say something about how presidents make decisions. Rule #1 is stay in office as long as possible. Everything else is secondary.

 

 

 

 

 

[Flashermac]

Another Elderly Woman Says She Was Exposed At Kennedy Airport

 

 

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Lenore Zimmerman, 85, was angry and embarrassed after what she claims was a strip search at Kennedy Airport Tuesday. Now another woman in her 80′s at the very same terminal says she was exposed one day before.

 

From her home in Sunrise, Florida, 88-year-old Ruth Sherman says she knows for a fact senior citizens are being violated at a screening checkpoint at JFK.

 

“I felt like I was invaded,†she told CBS 2′s Dave Carlin.

 

Sherman says week-long Thanksgiving holiday with family in New York ended with an ordeal that started when the screeners wanted to check the bulge from Sherman’s colostomy bag.

 

“This is private for me. It’s bad enough that I have it,†she said. “I had to pull from my sweatpants and I had to pull my underwear, my underwear down.â€

 

“You don’t do that anybody,†she added. “I felt like I was invaded.â€

 

She says she initially complained to JetBlue and told her family, but is now going public after watching Zimmerman on television, recounting a frighteningly similar tale of what she says was her strip search, at the same JetBlue terminal at JFK, one day later.

 

“They decide this 85-year-old lady needs to be strip searched,†Zimmerman said. “After they patted me down, they took me into a private room and they strip searched me. I said ‘why are you strip searching me? Do I like look a terrorist’?†she said.

 

Zimmerman says she was allowed to keep her top on.

 

Zimmerman, who lives most of the year in Long Beach, Nassau County and spends the winters in South Florida, says she will sue the Transportation Security Agency. She said she wanted a patdown, that her defibrillator is why she cannot go through the machine, but that she never expected a strip search.

 

The TSA released a statement Sunday, apologizing to Zimmerman but disputing her story.

 

“TSA contacted the passenger to apologize that she feels she had an unpleasant screening experience; however, TSA does not include strip searches in its protocols and a strip search did not occur in this case,†the statement read.

 

State Senator Michael Gianaris of Queens wonders how the TSA can be so sure. He says with no cameras in the private screening rooms, it is a screener’s word against the passenger’s.

 

“It’s outrageous,†he said. “What they need to find out is exactly what happened and if someone crossed the line they need to be penalized.â€

 

“I missed my flight and I had to wait two and a half hours for the next one,†Zimmerman said.

 

When she finally made it to her winter home in Coconut Creek, Florida, she called her son Bruce in Long Beach, Nassau County, who told CBS 2 the family plans to sue the TSA.

 

“I do want them to have some sort of consequence. I think the two agents that escorted or initiated the strip search should be terminated,†Bruce Zimmerman said.

 

Zimmerman will return to New York in early April, but admits that she is nervous after her experience.

 

Both Sherman and Zimmerman say many times seniors are too cooperative and afraid to speak up when humiliated. Sherman wants that to change.

 

CBS 2 contacted a TSA spokesman about Ruth Sherman’s alleged strip search and were told only that the TSA will research this new case.

 

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[Flashermac]

Has the War with Iran Already Begun?

 

 

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[Bangkoktraveler]

None of the candidates have spoken out about abusive strip searches. I guess that is not important.

[allistar]

None of the candidates have spoken out about abusive strip searches. I guess that is not important.

I doubt if any of the candidates have flown commercial in many years.

[TroyinEwa/Perv]

I used to check in Gingrich alot. He and his ugly trophy wife used to fly into the city I worked quite often. He flew commercial then and would expect still does.

[Flashermac]

Pelosi: I’ll reveal information on Gingrich 'when the time is right'

 

 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding back some information on Republican Newt Gingrich that could detract from his presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday.

 

“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,†Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff."

 

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Gingrich reacted to Pelosi's comments by thanking her for an "early Christmas gift."

He also said Pelosi would be violating House rules and abusing the ethics process if she disclosed anything from the ethics investigation.

"That is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House," Gingrich said in New York following a meeting with Donald Trump. "She's now prepared to totally abuse the ethics process."

 

Got to love American politicians ...

[TheCorinthian]

Fox News version.

 

 

I guess I dont understand why you would have to lie about something.

 

Now everything you post is questionable.