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First with a h/t to @MelissaTweets.

Backscatter/Naked scanners/Child Porn facilitators will not even detect plastic explosives like PETN.

http://gizmodo.com/5712481/fool-the-tsas-scanners-with-pancakes

Seems like while we were discussing body cavities it was entirely unnecessary to stick it where the sun don’t shine. Just get out the rolling pin and go. Pancake your PETN or other malleable explosives and walk on through the backscatter machine to your assigned gate.

Innocent homemaker laying out dinner for her family? Or al-Aqsa martyr planning her next attack?

Just roll it down flat and backscatter will not pick it up. According to the report the backscatter will also NOT pickup knives, guns and other contraband if said contraband is properly placed on the body. It relates to image resolution and angles of [...]

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I know no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry I know no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry

Engineers are continually adding to the body of knowledge and principles that comprise their particular art. Bridges get longer, buildings get higher, cars go faster and yet arrive with a higher degree of safety at their destinations. The medical profession uses techniques and knowledge acquired thousands of years ago. And yesterday. We live longer and healthier lives because of it. Mathematicians need not discover Pythagorean’s Theorem today any more than a carpenter need invent a hammer to build with. They are tools that have been given to us by our forefathers which when used properly allow us to do things the original inventors could never do. Pythagoras could never have built the moon lander. Without Pythagoras, neither could we.

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Where are your children?

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
George Orwell.

Among all of the furor and angst over Obama giving a speech to a bunch of kids in school I have just one question, where are your children?

Are your children in the public school system?

The public school system will have roughly 18,000 hours to teach your children.

And they will teach your children that the government can solve any problem. And should.

This school system is hostile to free market economics and results in more than half of today’s graduates holding an opinion on communism as being a “lifestyle” choice like wearing red pants and plaid shirts. Maybe a little odd but not evil.

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