New terror alert in USA

Just watching BBC News and apparently the airport terminals have been evacuated and a woman has been detained after some containers she was carrying were tested positive for possible explosives by sensors and a sniffer dog.

Story from the BBC website

i once had a sniffer dog indicate that i had drugs on me in a london tube stn
so afther the poice had sheach me i asked them why did the dog not jump up and down as i thought that how they where trained
but the policeman told me that the dog indicayes by sitting down...
to which i replied well dont you think it gets tierd of doing this all day long and just wants to lay down or sit
the polite policeman told me to *;/# off ...

Actually, these dogs have also been trained to sit whenever the handler wants them to. Either by a certain tug on the leash or with a slight handmovement. This was mentioned in a story, on one of the US news shows many years ago.

They uses this tatic to pick people out for searching under the guise of "The dog detected something" even if the person didn't
have any drugs, or whatever the dog is trained to search for. And guess who gets this treatment the most...
Yup, Blacks,Spanish and people of Middle Eastern Org.

Curry powder, gunpowder. It all smells the same to me.

Go to Condition A-Bit-More-Paranoid-Than-Usual Alert*

*It is ok to have serious nervous flatulance... providing you don't do this on an aircraft

This coincided with a "we are doing great and we are totally safe" speech George shit-for-brains Bush gave this morning.

They are considering raising the security level to "we-are-all-gonna-die-if-them-democrats-get-in-God-is-watching-you"

I gotta admit, when I saw the frontpage of The Indie with Two Jags saying, "Bush is crap", I laughed out loud. It would take one piece of crap to know another now, wouldn't it?

Tell me Crawlie, just out of idle interest (on account yer 'over there'): Are lobotomys a thing of the past now in American medical circles? One would imagine that they hardly seem necessary anymore.

Still a very much thriving industry Sin. That and anti-terrorist kits as well as companies producing "fool-proof" online voting systems that are sponsored by the government.

You know? I am worried. I have to have an interview for my resident permit and what if they hook me up to a lie detector and ask what I think of the current administration and their fight for freedom from terrywrists

i'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

Anti-terrorist kits? I can imagine it contains some extremely violent weapon. Fool-proof? Is that really possible where you are (think about it)?

If they ask you what footie team you support and you tell the truth, they'll tick the box marked 'thieving git'. If you lie and tell them you support The Arse yer straight on yer way to Gitmo. Bin Laden was an Arse supporter. Fact.


No, no, no mere. It's:

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy.

It is very amusing. Apparently they are having "problems" with the new online voting system for the up and coming elections in November. Apparently it lets you actually choose other candidates apart from Republican

I got in big trouble yesterday. I called the anti-terrorist squad to our street when after I observed everybody taking out containers and placing them in the road. I assumed they were explosive devices designed to cause death and destruction to unsuspecting passing motorists.

How the fuck am I supposed to know that you have to take your rubbish bins out onto the street over here FFS? Oh well, you live and learn.

They (US) has been having problems with E-voting machines, since they were intro'd after the 2000 pres. screw-up.. Slashdot even had a story about how one of these computer security groups managed to get one of the things, and found that all that was required to bypass ALL SECURITY and tamper stuff was to flip 2 DIP switches on one of the boards, allowing the machine to boot/use untested,unproven,outsider programs.

Are we talking about voting machines here or is this insider Republican jargon for "How to Become the President of the United States of America"?

Both... Have a read:

Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine
Voting Isn't Easy, Even if Cheating Is

Watching the Beeb breakfast news this morning and it turns out this was a false alert

Which will obviously surprise Sin

He's only voicing what most of the government, bar one, thinks anyway.

Actually the one I read is:

I´d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

I know...I have been sitting for two days with my finger on the panic button or is that the toilet handle?

NO??? Fancy that eh?

Better not pee on the floor of the cabin, either. No matter how long the line to the loo is.