Keeping America Safe, One Nipple Ring at a Time

There is no problem that can't be made worse by having the government fix it.
Transportation Security Administration agents provide
typical government service to air travelers

Like most government-run agencies, the Transportation Security Administration has it bass-ackwards: long on providing "administration"; short on providing "security".

A Texas woman who was forced to remove a nipple ring with a pair of pliers in order to board an airplane last week in Los Angeles, demonstrating the TSA's commitment to keeping America's skies safe from breast piercing jewelry.


Mandi Hamlin called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil-rights investigation.

"I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Hamlin said.

Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems.

The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest, the Dallas-area resident said.

What's the one thing the Transportation Security Administration does seem to do well?

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Tortured Dog and Gun: Is Press Romance with Huckabee Over?

In this booking photo released by the Pulaski County Sheriff's office, David Huckabee, 26,

a son of former Arkansas Gov, and Republican presidential hopeful Mike

Huckabee, is shown in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, April 26, 2007.

David Huckabee was arrested at Little Rock's airport Thursday after a

federal X-ray technician detected a loaded Glock pistol in his carry-on

luggage. (AP Photo/Pulaski County Sheriff)

Mike Huckabee has found that along with press love comes press scrutiny.

Touted with headlines such as the "surging" Huckabee, the "Huckabee support strong" and "Surprising Huckabee", Huckabee's campaign has to now deal with the "A Son's Past Deeds Come Back to Bite Huckabee" headline and story at Newsweek.

Under the mug shot from the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department of son, David, is a story detailing Jr. Huckabee's past run-ins with the law: allegations of torturing and hanging a stray dog, being arrested with a pistol at the Arkansas Airport and allegations that dad Mike leaned on some people to keep the dog story from escalating.

One issue likely to get attention is his handling of a sensitive family matter: allegations that one of his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark.

It also prompted the local prosecuting attorney— bombarded with complaints generated by a national animal-rights group—to write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed.

But John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee's chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor's request.

Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed chief by Huckabee's Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer's intervention as improper and terminated the conversation. Seven months later, he was called into Huckabee's office and fired. "I've lost confidence in your ability to do your job," Bailey says Huckabee told him.

One reason Huckabee cited was "I couldn't get you to help me with my son when I had that problem," according to Bailey. "Without question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his son," says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a "courageous" and "very solid" professional.

There have been whispers that Huckabee advocates have dropped phone messages to voters questioning candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith. Huckabee himself made a sly remark that implied that Romney believed Jesus and Satan were brothers.

Questions cut both ways: now questions are popping up about Huckabee's son and Huckabee's involvement in quashing an investigation.

Perhaps the allegations are nothing more than rumors or sly remarks from rival campaigns. Either way, the national press is now paying attention to them.

As we earlier stated in articles, Huckabee is just the latest in a long line of 'media darlings'. When the press ends its fickle love affair, often times the break-up is acrimonious.

Newsday's article on David Huckabee's past troubles may be the latest proof.

by Mondoreb
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Source: A Son's Past Deeds Comes Back to Bite Huckabee



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Late Dr. Uses Bomb Threat to Catch Plane

Doctors are really busy and fight tight schedules, but this is ridiculous.

A novel method of getting to your plane in time, by a doctor from the Volunteer State.

A Tennessee physician who phoned in three bomb threats to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in July in an effort to keep his plane from leaving without him pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony charge of false information and threats.

Kou Wei Chiu, 31, of Nashville, faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced Feb. 22 in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

According to court documents, Chiu admitted calling in three bomb threats July 25 in an effort to hold his Northwest Airlines flight to Memphis at the gate because he was running late.

When the first and second calls from an airport pay phone had no effect, he called in a third threat, indicating there was a bomb on board the flight, according to court documents.

More: Physician pleads guilty to Sea-Tac Bomb Threats

The doctor missed his plane in the end, but it returned to the airport later after the threats were made known.

While the doctor's plan was creative and ground-breaking for the medical profession, it's not likely to be written up in The New England Journal of Medicine.

by Mondoreb
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Luggage: Next Target of Anti-Smoking Forces

RidesAPaleHorse calls it "too much time on my hands", we call it "manna from the mailbox". On a day when we're busy juggling 12 different balls, his pic and this story are a welcome relief.

More from Breitbart: Smoking suitcase found in airport:

A smoking suitcase was spotted Tuesday in the cargo area at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, but did not contain explosives, airport officials said.

A baggage handler was loading bags on a US Airways plane about 10 a.m. when he noticed that one suitcase was hot and set it aside, according to a statement released by Sky Harbor authorities. The fire department was called when the bag began to smoke.

Passengers who were boarding San Antonio-bound Flight 200 were taken off the plane, and the gate area that they used to board was evacuated, said Julie Rodriguez, an airport spokeswoman.

Used to be, there was a time when a smoking suitcase didn't mean having to unload the plane and a full-scale search by the authorities. It might have been just an absent-minded packing job.

[graphics/hat tip: RidesAPaleHorse]

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Remote Control Blow-Up Dolls Confiscated At Airport?

by Mondoreb & Little Baby Ginn

Another "opening" in the War on Terror?
From The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 — Citing “credible specific information” about terror tactics, Transportation Security Administration officers nationwide on Monday stepped up their scrutiny of passengers carrying remote-control toys aboard airplanes.

The move was not motivated by a specific terror plot, said Kip Hawley, the assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security in charge of aviation security. But there is concern both in the United States and internationally that common remote-control toys could be used to detonate a bomb as part of a terror plot.

The aviation authorities decided against banning the devices in carry-on bags. But people carrying remote-control toys — including children — could be subject to a more intense search, in which the passenger is patted down and the baggage is checked by hand, officials said.

Were remote controlled blow-up dolls, vibrators and butt plugs also confiscated? These would be an example of remote controlled "toys". Meanwhile, it was rumored a near riot broke out among airport screeners, fighting amongst themselves to "search" the confiscated dolls.

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