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[Xno Kappa]

Lol epic.

[MaachaQ]

http://www.infowars.com/man-kicked-o...nti-tsa-shirt/
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Man Kicked Off Flight Over Anti-TSA Shirt

Questioning authority is a suspicious activity

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

A man and his wife were treated as potential terrorists and kicked off a Delta Airlines flight over a satirical T-shirt because it made passengers and employees feel “very uncomfortable”.

Writing on his blog, Arijit Guha describes how he was flying out of Buffalo-Niagara Airport after attending his wife’s grandfather’s funeral. Having passed through security without a problem, Guha was approached by a Delta agent who informed him that his attire was making passengers nervous.

The t-shirt features a TSA logo along with text that satirizes the agency’s paranoid and overbearing approach to airport security.

“I was then questioned by TSA about the significance and meaning of the shirt,” writes Guha. “I politely explained that it was “mocking the security theater charade and over-reactions to terrorism by the general public — both of which we’re seeing right now, ironically.” The agents inquired as to the meaning of the term “ZOMG” and who it was that I thought was “gonna kill us all.” As best I could tell, they seemed to find my explanation that I didn’t think anyone would be killing us all and that I was poking fun at overwrought, irrational fears exhibited by certain members of the flying public to be satisfactory. And moreover, they clearly deemed my shirt to be no legitimate threat.”

Having been told by Delta agents that him and his wife could take the flight only if they submitted to another search of their belongings and if he removed the t-shirt, Guha agreed, but as he was boarding the plane he was pulled aside yet again by a Delta supervisor accompanied by three TSA agents as well as multiple Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority transit police.

“I was questioned some more and my wife was also pulled out of line for additional questioning and screening. Our bags were searched, my shirt was photographed, we were asked multiple questions about the cause of our visit, how often we make it to western NY, and our drivers’ license numbers were taken and radioed in for what seemed to be a quick background check,” writes Guha.

Despite having their belongings screened numerous times, Guha and his wife were still eventually barred from taking the flight after the pilot insisted their presence would cause consternation amongst other passengers.

Incredulous, Guha demanded to know why he was not allowed to take the flight, to which a Delta official responded, “Just use your imagination.”

Guha writes that his actions in being willing to “question authority” led officials to make the leap of logic in surmising that he was a potential terrorist.

“Why even bother with the bloated security apparatus — since Delta pilots have discretion to kick off passengers who’ve passed multiple checks, after all?” asks Guha.

After being booted from the flight, Guha and his wife were subjected to even more intense interrogation, with transit police demanding to know where Guha’s brother lived because he had originally purchased the t-shirt as a gift.

“You had to think about that one. How come?,” she asked. I explained he recently moved. “Where’d he move from?” “Michigan,” I respond. “Michigan, what’s that?,” she says. At this point, the main TSA agent who’d questioned me earlier interjected: “He said ‘Michigan’.” Unable to withhold my snark, I responded with an eye-rolling sneer: “You’ve never heard of Michigan?”

“This response did not please her partner, a transit cop named Mark. Mark grabbed his walkie-talkie and alerted his supervisor and proceeded to request that he be granted permission to question me further in a private room. His justification?: “First he hesitated, then he gave a stupid answer.” Michigan, my friends, is a stupid answer.”

Guha also states that the reason given by a Buffalo-Niagara transit police officer for subjecting him to extra interrogation was because “He looks foreign.”

According to the police, it was also suspicious that Guha’s wife did not share his surname.

“And she’s your wife? How long have you been married? And she refused to take your name? “WHY wouldn’t she?” the cops asked Guha.

After being searched yet again, this time with the aid of a drug-sniffing dog, Guha was told by cops that another reason for him being treated as a potential terrorist was the fact that he opted out of a naked body scan.

Guha was eventually told he would be put on a flight at 7am the next morning and was left to find his own accommodation.

“But the larger question remains: why’d this happen? Clearly, the problem originates with the paranoid minds of my fellow passengers who misconstrued a shirt mocking the overwrought security process as a terrorist threat,” writes Guha.

Bolded my favorite part.

[Eurell]

As fucking stupid as the tsa is, what exactly did he expect to happen? Wore the shirt to make a point, that's exactly what happened lol, good job!

Edit: did lol though at Michigan being a bad answer.

[Drex]

all the worst terrorists come from michigan

[Cail]

this is the closest we have to a misc. news thread, so....

Bomani Jones ‏@bomani_jones

RT @NYDNSportsITeam: Lance Armstrong abandons fight against doping charges. Will be stripped of Tour de France titles and banned for life.

[Sepukku]

Lance is still a dominant athlete. Does some formal official notation that he doped change my mind about him? Not really. I never fully believed he was clean to begin with. That whole sport is loaded with dopers. Just like I don't care about Roger Clemens doping. He was still a great athlete. Its just lance isn't god level like MJ or Babe Ruth now.

[hey]

this is the closest we have to a misc. news thread, so....

The closest thing? That's exactly what this thread is.

[Kerberoz]

http://lancearmstrong.com/news-event...august-23-2012

[Cail]

The closest thing? That's exactly what this thread is.

well i meant usually this thread is the joke news stories, to make us laugh or wtfffff. although, i guess you could come back with cycling is a joke story nowadays

[Hiryo]

Noone talking about this yet?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...-building?lite

Several people shot outside Empire State Building
By NBC News

Multiple people were shot outside the Empire State Building Friday morning, according to police and wire reports.

Follow @NBCNewsUS

The gunman is dead, officials told the Associated Press.

The Fire Department of New York told NBC News they responded to a call about the shooting at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street at 9:07 a.m. Friday and arrived at 9:13 a.m.

The circumstances of the shooting weren't immediately clear.

Please check back for more on this breaking news story.

[Ragnus]

http://www.infowars.com/man-kicked-o...nti-tsa-shirt/
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Bolded my favorite part.

It's not surprising. When I was flying home from Houston there was a PSA message playing about once every 3-5 minutes reminding travelers that joking about or mocking the TSA may result in your immediate arrest. It was a retarded move one the dude's behalf yet, personally, I think this falls under free speech with all the shit that gets labeled as that these days.

[Cail]

Lifestar medical helicopter transported a motorcycle crash victim from Interstate 691 eastbound in Meriden to Hartford Hospital on Friday morning.

State police found Carlton Crooks 28-year-old Waterbury on the side of the highway near exit 11 at 8:16 a.m. after a passenger in a truck saw a crash scene.

Crooks was alert when police responded and he told them he'd been involved in a crash around 11 p.m. on Wednesday.

The motorcycle was hidden from sight by brush and there were no reports of crashes so police could not confirm the time it occured.

Police said Crooks was driving at a curve, hit the guardrail, slid under it and was ejected.

He suffered severe injuries to his lower extremeties.

this was in the town next to me. dude wiped his bike out, and they didnt know about it or find him for 9 hours. The FD's twitter account made it sound like they might have had to do an onsite amputation or something

[Manako]

Unable to Afford Corn, Ranchers Forced to Feed Their Cows Candy
Neetzan Zimmerman
Drought has caused corn to become prohibitively expensive for many ranchers in Kentucky, forcing them to look elsewhere for livestock feed.

United Livestock Commodities in Mayfield, for instance, has turned to candy.

"It has a higher ratio of fat than actually feeding straight corn," said owner Joseph Watson, who has made candy the main source of nutrition for his 1,400 cows. "It's hard to believe it will work," he added, "but we've already seen the results of it now."

Watson purchases rejected candy deemed unfit for human consumption and combines it with an ethanol by-product and a mineral nutrient before giving it to his cattle.

"This ration is balanced to have not too much fat in it," said Watson, noting that the cows appear to be healthy and are gaining weight as expected.

http://gawker.com/5936923/unable-to-...eir-cows-candy

[pohibaba]

Those are going to be delicious cows.

[Salodin]

http://gawker.com/5936923/unable-to-...eir-cows-candy

Can't fucking wait to taste filet from candy-feed cows.

[jmc]

One woman made life a little easier for police Monday when she drove to the police station and turned her husband in for annoying her.

An officer was about to stop a black SUV near La Crosse and Seventh streets after noticing a burned out headlamp when the driver pulled into the parking lot outside the La Crosse police headquarters.

She told the officer she had picked up her husband, Johnnie Bolds, on Island Street and wanted to drop him off because he was "talking stupidly" and swearing.

Bolds, 53, was arrested on two outstanding warrants. His wife received a warning for the headlight.

Love it lol

[Milkster]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/24/32...amages-verdict

In a landmark ruling in the Apple vs. Samsung patent trial, the jury has just awarded damages to Apple for Samsung's violation of its various software, hardware design patents, and trade-dress dilution. For its various violations, Samsung must pay Apple $1,049,343,540 in damages, the jury determined. The damages, by device, are as follows:

• $57 million for the Samsung Prevail
• $44,792,974 for the Infuse 4G
• $53,123,612 for the Mesmerize
• $3,350,256 for the Replenish
• $954,060 for the Transform

Despite the substantial damages awarded to Apple, the jury found that Samsung was owed no monetary compensationfor its own utility patent claims. The jury was tasked with reviewing each patent, assigning a cumulative dollar amount to over 700 patent-specific questions. The jury returned a verdict after just two days of deliberation.
Developing. Follow our complete live coverage of the case here.
Update: After delivering its initial verdict awarding Apple $1,051,855,000, the jury was asked to address discrepancies regarding two items on the verdict form. The verdict has been updated to reflect the new total damages owed to Apple, which is $1,049,343,540.
We're broadcasting a live special edition of The Vergecast! You can watch the show live via Livestream immediately below. We also use the regular Vergecast Livestream feed and iTunes / RSS feeds, so you'll get these shows automatically if you're subscribed.

[Milkster]

A New Jersey appeals court has affirmed a lower court's ruling to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against a book author who claimed the real estate magnate/reality TV star isn't really a billionaire.
In a ruling issued on Wednesday, the appeals court affirms that Trump hasn't demonstrated that author Timothy O’Brien committed "actual malice" by citing three unnamed sources who estimated the net worth of The Apprentice star to be between $150 million and $250 million.
Trump filed the $5 billion lawsuit in 2009 over O'Brien's book, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald. The lawsuit was rejected in 2009 by a New Jersey superior judge. Trump then appealed the judgment on the theory that relying on anonymous sources could rise to the actual malice standard needed for public figures to prevail in a libel suit.
But a New Jersey appeals court doesn't see the logic here. According to the decision:

"There were no significant internal inconsistencies in the information provided by the confidential sources, nor was there 'reliable' information that contradicted their reports, so as to provide evidence of actual malice. Nothing suggests that O'Brien was subjectively aware of the falsity of his source's figures or that he had actual doubts as to the information's accuracy."

The latest decision will likely give Trump another reason to gripe about the nation's libel laws. In past public comments, Trump has said these laws "have never been fair."
As for Trump's own estimation of his net worth, Trump's lawyer says it has been "proven conclusively" to exceed $7 billion.
Then again, during a deposition, Trump admitted that his sense of financial worth depends on his feelings day-to-day. Asked whether it was really true that his "net worth goes up and down based upon [his] own feelings," here's Trump's funny response:

"Yes, even my own feelings, as to where the world is, where the world is going, and that can change rapidly from day to day. Then you have a September 11th, and you don't feel so good about yourself and you don't feel so good about the world and you don't feel so good about New York City. Then you have a year later, and the city is as hot as a pistol. Even months after that it was a different feeling. So yeah, even my own feelings affect my value to myself."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr...lawsuit-232923

[Mazmaz]

Five Billion Dollar lawsuit? lol

[Cail]

yea wtf lol