Zeigen mir ihr Papiere. Jetzt! TSA Announces Plans To Subject Domestic Travelers To Biometric Screening by Tim Cushing, Tech Dirt Fri, Oct 19th 2018 As promised/threatened, the DHS is moving forward with expanded use of biometric scanning at airports, including facial recognition and fingerprint matches. What was touted as a way to combat international terrorism …
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Oct 19 2018
How Are Things Going In Afghanistan?
You’ll be sorry you asked. U.S. commander in Afghanistan survives deadly attack at governor’s compound that kills top Afghan police general By Pamela Constable and Sayed Salahuddin, Washington Post October 18, 2018 A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire Thursday on participants in a meeting with the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, killing …
Oct 18 2018
Innocent All The Way
C’mon, don’t you think Sam Bee is innocent? I mean, sure she has 3 kids but they were virgin births. Jason Jones had nothing to do with it Why doesn’t it work? It’s not supposed to. What do poeple that don’t vote think? Who Cares!
Oct 18 2018
Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent
Slight griefs talk, great ones are speechless. What the Arab world needs most is free expression By Jamal Khashoggi, Washington Post October 17, 2018 I was recently online looking at the 2018 “Freedom in the World” report published by Freedom House and came to a grave realization. There is only one country in the Arab …
Oct 17 2018
Mid Game
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. In Chess this is the most interesting part because you’ve run out of the cheats in your Big Book Of Openings (I favor English because it’s unusual, unexpected, and works on …
Oct 17 2018
Beto
So early voting in Texas starts next Monday, October 22nd, and by most accounts Ted Cruz is sitting on an 8 or 9 point lead. On the other hand even after the dark money kicks in O’Rourke has about $10 Million more in the kitty (that he should not dish to other Democratic candidates who …
Oct 16 2018
A Bladder Full Of Hot Air
How about that left hand. Ace? How about that left-handed draw? Mr. Ace Hanlon. Scourge of the sagebrush. The terror of Tucson. A bladder full of hot air.- The Quick and the Dead Well Mr. Herod, you did shoot him dead. Not so full now. So the House of Saud is threatening “responses” to any …
Oct 16 2018
All Hallow
It is a scary time right now. Sarah Sanders has been run out of restaurants. I mean, there’s a list of things going on. Now you’ve got witches that are placing a hex on Brett Kavanaugh! Did I mention I’m an atheist? I’ve often thought that should I run for public office I’d elide that …
Oct 15 2018
Confusion in Trans-Allegheny
Well, that was what they called it before the Pro Slavery Insurrection when they defied the General Assembly’s Declaration of Secession and were rewarded with their own State in compensation. It was a proud moment and a high water mark for a region that has become progressively less… Umm… progressive? I hate that term as …
Oct 15 2018
MBS
I know what ‘it’ means well enough, when I find a thing. It’s generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?- A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale Usually in my writing MBS stands for Mortgage Backed Security (kind of a bad thing that ought to be closely regulated) but …
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