Less than a week after I first opined (and the TSA and family weighed in) on the TSA’s use of enhanced pat-down on a 6-year-old girl, new video has surfaced from Portland, Oregon, showing a similar incident with an 8-year-old boy. Seattle’s KING-5 has the story (from YouTube, story not on KING-5 Website):
2011 archive
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Apr 13
TSA and family respond to incident
A few days ago I posted a video showing a six-year-old being patted down by a TSA screener in New Orleans. Now, like clockwork the TSA has responded (from the TSA Blog): Some folks are asking if the proper procedures were followed. Yes. TSA has reviewed the incident and the security officer in the video …
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Apr 09
What happens when a vendor sells an outdated product?
I have been a longtime user of Copernic’s Agent Professional – So long, that I found a receipt for it from 1999. Agent Professional is described as a Meta-Search tool, sending a search query to multiple search engines, parsing the results, and presenting a filtered list back to the user. The product has worked reliably for years, …
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Apr 08
Internet Unplugged by Grandma
From Fox News: Internet service in all of Armenia was cut off for several hours when a 75-year old Georgian woman inadvertently cut the main service line between the two countries. The woman was scavenging for scrap metal when she discovered the primary fiber-optic cable which runs through the two countries. Service went down when …
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Mar 22
Happy Birthday
Happy 40th Birthday to… Me. Oh, and Happy 80th Birthday to William Shatner, Star Trek’s original James T. Kirk. Now I’m feeling old.
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Feb 06
Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan!
Ronald Reagan was born 100 years ago today. Most of my school years was with him as President, with George H. W. Bush elected during my Senior year. In studying the Presidents of the United States, Reagan was likely the most influential of the 20th Century. The four Presidents that have followed have not been able to …
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