Posts tagged: Department of Homeland Security

DHS Officers Armed With Semiautomatics Set Up Unannounced ID Checkpoint

Residents of Leesburg, Florida were shocked to see their local Social Security office turned into a random Homeland Security checkpoint Tuesday morning, as DHS officers armed with semiautomatic rifles and accompanied by sniffer dogs checked identifications of locals. “With their blue and white SUVs circled around the Main Street office, at least one official was [...]

Thursday January 5th, 2012 in , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

11 Dangerous things you SHOULD let you kids do!

Kudos to the Huffington Post for this very good article! The original idea for a whole book about dangerous things you should let your children do was a bit of a fluke. But after spending a weekend watching kids lick a 9-volt battery for the first time (at Maker Faire Bay Area) or reading about [...]

Saturday August 6th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Toy Remote control car saves the lives of 6 soldiers in Afghanistan

Staff Sgt. Christopher Fessenden is on duty in Afghanistan now after tours with the Army in Iraq. He has traveled with standard-issue equipment — weapons, helmet, uniform, boots and so forth — plus a radio-controlled model truck his brother sent. The truck is not a toy to him. He says it just saved six soldiers’ lives. [...]

Thursday August 4th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Are you being tracked by Apple? YES!

As the world moves toward smart phones loaded with features, the unintended consequences are starting to surface. The fury developing over Apples un-encryped tracking logs showing everywhere you have been, is finally starting to gain national attention. You may wonder, how much is really tracked? EVERYTHING. Here is my map of where Apple has tracked [...]

Thursday April 28th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

The Most Disgusting Video on YouTube – 6 year old gets TSA Patdown.

This is just wrong.

Wednesday April 13th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

U.S. consumers face “serious” inflation in the months ahead

USA Today posted an article that should serve as a WAKUP CALL to Americans. U.S. consumers face “serious” inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart’s U.S. operations warned Wednesday. The world’s largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimize the effect of cost increases and believes its [...]

Thursday March 31st, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Texas takes aim at getting rid of naked scanners

I’m filing this one under the “Don’t Mess with Texas” category! Kudos to Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) for filing HB 1938, with the goal of making it a civil penalty for anyone working in a locally owned airport to install or operate whole-body imaging equipment — “including a device that uses backscatter x-rays or millimeter [...]

Saturday March 5th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Father of 9 year old shooting victim gives his thoughts on the tragedy

What a sad situation. I just can’t imagine what this family is going through. It’s impressive that her father, in the middle of all this, says that he doesn’t want to see more limits placed on our freedom.

Monday January 10th, 2011 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Rape victim handcuffed and dragged away after refusing TSA pat down

From KVUE.com in Austin, TX Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated.  She says she never broke any laws.  But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees. Hirschkind was hoping to spend Christmas with friends in California, but she never made it past the [...]

Saturday December 25th, 2010 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

DHS begins seizing private domain names.

Yet another example that our Department of Homeland Security is more than slightly out of control. There used to be a day in America were the Government had checks and balances that made them at least jump through a few hoops before they could start seizing control of someones assets. The posts on the sites [...]

Saturday November 27th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »