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  • Something's Very Wrong Here With Mitch McConnell

    08/30/2023 1:58:38 PM PDT · by Signalman · 40 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 8/30/2023 | Matt Margolis
    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had another awkward freeze moment on Wednesday, during a press conference with reporters in Covington, Ky. The 81-year-old senator was asked if he plans to run for reelection, and he froze for about 30 seconds. An aide eventually came up to him and asked, “Did you hear the question, senator?” But McConnell still offered no response. It’s a painfully awkward moment, as difficult to watch as when Joe Biden or John Fetterman attempts to speak. According to a report from NBC News, “Once McConnell re-engaged, he responded briefly to another question about Kentucky Attorney...
  • VIDEO: Sen. Mitch McConnell appears to freeze up AGAIN during media presser in Kentucky

    08/30/2023 12:29:32 PM PDT · by vg0va3 · 47 replies
    WLWT ^ | Updated: 2:48 PM EDT Aug 30, 2023 | Emily Sanderson
    KENTON COUNTY, Ky. — U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made a stop in northern Kentucky Wednesday, where during a media gaggle, he appeared to have some trouble understanding and speaking with reporters. McConnell was in northern Kentucky for the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Government Forum in Kenton County. The Senate Republican leader spoke at the podium for several minutes, touching on topics like the Brent Spence Bridge project. During the media gaggle following the forum, McConnell appeared to have another episode where he was having a hard time hearing reporters and taking a long pause before aides...
  • TIA: This Is Africa? No, This Is America: A phrase once used to describe shoddy aspects of African life, now applies to America. Thank you progressives!

    02/24/2023 7:25:17 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 23 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/24/2023 | Allan J. Feifer
    Sometime in the late 70s or early 80s, I had the opportunity to work in Senegal for several months. My very first experience in-country was that the rental vehicle wouldn’t start. While the friendly and talkative mechanic repaired the jeep, he inquired if this was my first trip to Africa. “No,” I replied. “Ahhh!” he said, “then I don’t have to explain the meaning of ‘TIA’ to you.” But I’d never heard that term or what it meant. When I asked, he explained, saying, “This is Africa; nothing works!” Indeed, in my travels, it was much the same in Latin...
  • FR Hannity musing (Vanity)

    10/14/2022 6:57:19 PM PDT · by Fido969 · 92 replies
    My brain | Today | Me
    Big bag of wind sounds like he's had a few.
  • Poindexter Says He Hopes Congress Will Save Part of His Terrorism Research

    08/14/2003 4:06:46 AM PDT · by tomball · 1 replies · 139+ views
    Associated Press ^ | August 14, 2003 | Michael J. Sniffen
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Quitting government service under fire for the second time, John M. Poindexter says he hopes Congress will save the less controversial parts of his much-criticized research project designed to predict terrorist attacks. The more controversial elements Poindexter's project - developing a futures market on Mideast developments and scanning public and private databases loaded with personal information about innocent Americans - drew a hail of criticism from privacy advocates and politicians in both parties. Poindexter said the project had been misrepresented and misunderstood. "I regret that we have not been able to ... reassure the public that we...
  • Birth to Total Information Awareness

    10/10/2019 6:48:38 AM PDT · by Twotone · 1 replies
    Inland NW Report ^ | September 2019 | Vicky Davis
    On September 24, 2019, there was a public meeting being hosted by the Public Health division of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to receive comments on the issue of changing sex on Certificates of Live Birth – changing history as it were. In April of 2017, a case was filed (1:17-cv-00170-CWD) in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho against the Idaho Department of Public Affairs, the Administrator of the Division of Public Health and the State Registrar and Chief of the Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics asking for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief...
  • Why Frankie Muniz doesn’t remember his rise to fame

    10/13/2017 12:11:17 PM PDT · by bgill · 38 replies
    Page Six ^ | Oct. 10, 2017 | Tamar Lapin
    Former child star Frankie Muniz said he doesn’t remember acting in the hit sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle” because of damage to his brain caused by a series of strokes and concussions. “I’ve gotten to really do anything I wanted to do, but the truth is I don’t really remember much of that,” Muniz said in an interview that aired on “Dancing with the Stars” Monday night. “I think it almost feels like it wasn’t me. There’s no negative feelings, I just don’t remember.” Muniz, 31, told viewers he’s suffered nine concussions and several mini-strokes that have made him forget...
  • NBC reporter raises Hillary Clinton questions

    12/31/2012 8:30:49 AM PST · by Zakeet · 95 replies
    Politico ^ | December 31, 2012 | Kevin Robillard
    The top science reporter for NBC News raised questions Monday about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hospitalization, raising the possibility the blood clot causing isn’t linked to an earlier concussion. “It’s not exactly clear what is happening with Secretary Clinton’s health,” NBC News chief science and health correspondent Robert Bazell said “All we have is a statement from her office. The hospital isn’t saying anything and the statement from her [office] says that she had this blood clot that stemmed from the concussion and she’s being treated with blood-thinning drugs,” Bazell continued. “The problem is that usually when blood clots...
  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot following concussion

    12/30/2012 5:04:06 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 331 replies
    AP ^ | Sunday, December 30, 2012
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot following concussion.
  • Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection (Big Government™ is watching you)

    10/07/2011 8:18:33 PM PDT · by rabscuttle385 · 80 replies
    CNET ^ | 2011-10-07 | Declan McCullagh
    An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned. If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called "Minority Report," or the CBS drama "Person of Interest," it is. But where "Minority Report" author Philip K. Dick enlisted psychics to predict crimes, DHS is betting on algorithms: it's building a "prototype screening facility" that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to "detect cues...
  • Using Magnets to Help Prevent Heart Attacks: Magnetic Field Can Reduce Blood Viscosity...

    06/08/2011 10:27:16 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 33 replies
    Science Daily ^ | 06-07-2011 | Staff + Temple University
    If a person's blood becomes too thick it can damage blood vessels and increase the risk of heart attacks. But a Temple University physicist has discovered that he can thin the human blood by subjecting it to a magnetic field. [snip] Because red blood cells contain iron, Tao has been able to reduce a person's blood viscosity by 20-30 percent by subjecting it to a magnetic field of 1.3 Telsa (about the same as an MRI) for about one minute. Tao and his collaborator tested numerous blood samples in a Temple lab and found that the magnetic field polarizes the...
  • Tampa:Muslim Student Tries to Get on Plane With 7" Butcher Knife

    06/17/2009 6:51:52 AM PDT · by Islaminaction · 27 replies · 2,296+ views
    Islam in Action ^ | June 17Th, 2009 | Bill Warner
    Saudi Arabian Muslim Student Raed Al-Saif at Univ. of Tampa Tries To Get On Plane With 7 inch Butcher Knife in His Carry On Bag, the last name "Al-Saif" is linked to Al-Qaeda. Fifteen of the nineteen on 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia they used box cutters and small knives to take over control of the 4 airplanes on 9/11. The United States government determined that al-Qaeda, headed by Osama bin Laden, bore responsibility for the attacks, with the FBI stating "evidence linking al-Qaeda and bin Laden to the attacks of September 11 is clear and irrefutable". The Government...
  • Is Bob Barr A Good Alternative?

    05/21/2008 10:01:44 AM PDT · by mukraker · 105 replies · 247+ views
    mukraker
    I'd like to ask my fellow FReepers what you think about the Presidential candidacy of Bob Barr? Given our current choices for President, Obama, Clinton & McCain, is Bob Barr a good alternative this year? I know no one will agree 100% with any candidate's positions. But, instead of not voting, would a vote for Bob Barr be an alternative you would consider? As a disappointed Republican, I'm considering going Libertarian this year. I like most of their positins, especially on safeguarding Liberty for All. I'm tired of carrying Big Brother with me everywhere I go. I'd like to see...
  • Bob Barr, Civil Libertarian: The right wing of the ACLU (2003)

    05/03/2008 6:38:48 PM PDT · by Kurt Evans · 17 replies · 355+ views
    Reason Magazine (CA) ^ | December 2003 | Jesse Walker
    After entering the House of Representatives in 1995, Georgia Republican Bob Barr acquired a reputation as one of the most conservative members of Congress. It was Barr who in 1996 wrote the Defense of Marriage Act, which said states didn't have to recognize gay marriages performed in other states; it was Barr who protested when he learned the military allowed soldiers to practice Wicca. A former federal prosecutor, a firm social conservative, and a strong supporter of the War on Drugs, Barr doesn't fit most people's image of a civil libertarian. But in his eight years in Congress (he failed...
  • Tampa Bay,FL: TIA Passenger Had Box Cutter In Hollowed-Out Book

    02/21/2008 4:40:40 PM PST · by yankeedame · 7 replies · 228+ views
    Tampa Bay On-Line ^ | February 20, 2008 | Thomas W. Krause
    TIA Passenger Had Box Cutter In Hollowed-Out Book Photo provided by the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority. A security officer at Tampa International Airport found a box cutter hidden in a hollowed-out book on Sunday. By Thomas W. Krause of The Tampa Tribune Published: February 20, 2008 TAMPA - A 21-year-old Clearwater man was arrested at Tampa International Airport this weekend after security personnel found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book, authorities said. Benjamin Baines Jr. If convicted, Baines faces up to 10 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine for a federal charge of attempting to board...
  • Threat Matrix: February 2008

    02/01/2008 6:55:58 PM PST · by nwctwx · 1,614 replies · 19,265+ views
    Is the U.S. Failing in Afghanistan? It was malice in wonderland at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday as Bush Administration envoys insisted things are getting better in Afghanistan, while angry lawmakers from both parties cited facts and figures showing just the opposite. Even the senior Republican on the panel, Senator Richard Lugar, found the Administration's claims wanting. "I'm not sure that we have a plan for Afghanistan," he said. Long seen as the "forgotten war" eclipsed by Iraq in U.S. priorities, Afghanistan is in the Washington spotlight this week with the release of three independent reports concluding...
  • Boxcutter in Hollowed-Out Book at TIA

    02/20/2008 3:44:16 PM PST · by jdm · 53 replies · 381+ views
    Little Green Footballs ^ | Feb. 20, 2008 | Charles Johnson
    He forgot it was there: TIA Passenger Had Box Cutter In Hollowed-Out Book. TAMPA — A 21-year-old Clearwater man was arrested at Tampa International Airport this weekend after security personnel found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book, authorities said. About 7:30 a.m. Sunday, airport security ran Benjamin Baines Jr.’s backpack through an X-ray machine and saw the image of a box cutter, according to a report from the Transportation Security Administration. When searching the backpack, a security officer found a book titled “Fear Itself.” The book was hollowed out, and the box cutter was inside. After Baines was read...
  • Homeland Security revives supersnoop

    03/08/2007 6:39:04 PM PST · by Anti-Bubba182 · 28 replies · 679+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | March 8, 2007 | Audrey Hudson
    Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations. The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast privacy violations. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the project called ADVISE -- Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement -- was requested by Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. The investigation focuses...
  • Total Information Awareness

    03/08/2007 4:49:14 AM PST · by Golden Press · 15 replies · 437+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | March 8, 2007 | Audrey Hudson
    Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations. The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast privacy violations.
  • <strike>Total</strike> "Terrorism" Information Awareness (TIA)

    05/14/2006 5:50:59 AM PDT · by NMC EXP · 5 replies · 274+ views
    Latest News --EPIC Urges Scrutiny of Proposed Federal Profiling Agency. In a letter (pdf) to a House subcommittee, EPIC urged careful scrutiny of the Department of Homeland Security's proposed Office of Screening Coordination and Operations. This office would oversee vast databases of digital fingerprints and photographs, eye scans and personal information from millions of American citizens and lawful foreign visitors. Homeland Security has announced that the office's operations would be conducted in a manner that safeguards civil liberties, but the agency has not yet explained how it proposes to protect privacy rights or ensure accountability. For more information, visit EPIC's...