I would like to take a minute, to say thank you, to all the Brave men and women, who are currently serving in our armed forces. I would also like to thank the men and women of the armed forces who have given their lives in service of our country.
Thank You!
Despite my ranting on how invasive Airport Security is currently, and how invasive they want to become… they missed a little something on our flight back from Vegas..
Apparently, Janice was carrying an undocumented and unticketed passenger:
To tell the family members (well..at least the parents on both sides) We took Kael around wearing this shirt:
So..there is now a new category…that will become the New baby’s category.. once we decide what to call it. For now, its Peanut… Kael’s suggestion was baby snuffalupagus… but..that’s to long =)
This falls under one of those ‘bad idea’ categories…
The department of raping and pillaging your rights…err…I mean homeland security. has decided that it didn’t go far enough into humiliating the public when it allowed TSA screeners to fondle and grope any woman they wanted to. Now.. they’ve decided to give TSA screeners the ability to see what they were fondling before.
According to this article, Homeland Insecurity is getting ready to begin trials of a xray machine that only xrays through clothes.. not all the way down to your bones like a normal xray.
From the article:
“Well, you’ll see basically everything,” said Bill Scannell, a privacy advocate and technology consultant. “It shows nipples. It shows the clear outline of genitals.”
Great…so now the TSA screeners get to stare at your genitals.. I’m sure the parents of teenage (or younger) girls are really going to be happy with that. I wonder if whatever whackjob at homeland thought this would be a good idea, would still feel that way if he knew that the machines that are scanned, allow the scanner to save the picture to disc, and can then be viewed on any computer? If so, is he really comfortable with the TSA guys seeing his wife/daughter/mother/girlfriend naked? and then saving that picture…for use later..and maybe uploading it to the internet?
Several of the comments on the Cnet article bring up good points.. why not just skip the xray machine and require everyone to be nude once they arrive at the airport? it accomplishes the exact same thing that this does.
And since looking at pictures of naked children can be considered child porn.. are there going to be police standing by, to arrest every TSA that looks at the naked children that they scan?
In short.. now would be a good time to write to your congressperson, the president, the department of homeland insecurity..and tell them that this is a very bad idea.. and that they should do everything they can to NOT allow this to happen..
As for me? as soon as these are in Airports.. I’m going to insist on hand wanding, I will not go through the naked machine, nor will I allow Janice to go through (IF the TSA wants to see us naked..they can pay us) if they won’t handwand..I won’t fly anymore..
So.. I was bored at work, and surfing the web… I came across this article.
The article claims that if you have a ‘manly’ job..you’re more likely to have a boy. And if you have a ‘caring’ job..you’ll have a girl.
It even goes on to quote a study that claims that for people with ‘manly’ jobs, they had 140 boy babies to 100 girl babies.
Caring Jobs? 135 girls to 100 boy babies…
My opinion? Bullshit.. its like saying that what position you have sex in has any bearing on what sex your baby is (which, if that were true, how do you explain no-one giving birth to a litter of puppies? and how about standing up?)
Really…I just find it amazing what doctors and researchers will waste time studying… what’s next? how your job affects your children’s hair color?
the funny guys over at Jib Jab (they’ve made some election parody videos, ended up on the Tonight Show) have a new one..which introduces thier relationship with Budweiser Beer..and brings back Frankie and Louie!
You can see it here. Note…according to the site, you do need to be 21 to watch the video… probably so they don’t get into trouble because of some obscure, stupid, law regarding advertising beer.
Apparently, those vending machines at Wal-Mart (you know, the ones with the little crane hook, and full of stuffed animals) now accept toddlers as payment to play
According to CNN, a mother turned away for 2 seconds, and her toddler crawled up into the vending machine, since she wouldn’t give him money to actually play the game.
So..like any good parent (myself included) instead of hurrying to get the kid out.. she stopped to buy a camera so she could document the fact, to use for future blackmail.
I wanna know a few things:
1-How the hell did that kid fit up there? I’ve seen those vending machines, and the ones around here..there’s no way a toddler could crawl up there..
2-How come they didn’t try to grab the kid with the claw, and drop him back down the chute?
3- how long do you think it will be before this lady files a lawsuit against WalMart for not choosing a vending machine company that uses vending machines with chutes to small for kids to climb up? (Forgeting about the fact that she stopped watching her kid, so he could even try to climb up)
Kael – here’s a warning for you..if you climb up INTO a vending machine.. plan on staying there until someone wins you as a prize =)
Just a quick reminder… you’ve only got 2 days left to redeem any bottlecaps with song codes on them you may have gotten from the Pepsi/iTunes promotion..
Or, if anyone near you is still selling the promo bottles, you’ve got two days to buy them, open them all, and redeem any winners that may be left (hey..it could happen.. I won a free song at Sesame Street yesterday)
So, this is something I never thought I would say…
Today, we went to see Sesame Street Live.. Kael, Janice and I went with Janice’s friend Rhonda, and her son Max (who’s about Kael’s age..one of them is older.. Don’t ask me which one…)
It wasn’t horrible…but damn.. there were a LOT of toddlers there… it’s like someone opened a toddler hotel….and it sold out…
Kael had fun, at one point, Elmo was running around by our seats, and reached out and rubbed Kael’s head (apparently, Elmo mistook Kael’s head for Budda’s belly…but..what can you expect from a red muppet?)
Lots of pictures are available here. But here’s a good one of Kael:
The other afternoon… Kael turned into Bucket Head:
And then proceeded to walk into walls, furniture, and pretty much beat himself up.
At this rate… he should be one giant bruise sometime in the next 5 minutes
