HouseofMike

I have been told that if I vote for someone that doesn’t have a D or an R after their name on the ballot that I am just throwing my vote away. My response to them is the opposite but still quite the same. If you are voting for someone just because they have a D or an R after their name on the ballot, then you are equally throwing your vote away.

Check out the Libertarian party playform, check out the Libertarian candidate for President, Bob Barr.

Some say voting for a 3rd party candidate for any reason is dumb because they can’t win. Well, voting for someone just because they can win doesn’t hold too much logic either.

AIRPORT guards stopped a man boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.
Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.
He thought the boss would “see sense” — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST. Aussie-born Brad said: “My mate set off the alarms and was searched.
“But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’.” ..continue..

And the reasons why I don’t fly continue to pile up.

Seriously….

There are reasons why I try avoiding to fly. This comes out and now you cant pay me to fly, ever. Have people gone insane? Its a god damn virtual strip search.
Anyone remember this?

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Terrorists carry lipstick and sports drinks? The world has gone freakin insane.

Greenacres man says he was arrested due to his disabilities

By Missy Diaz

South Florida Sun-Sentinel
11:51 PM EDT, April 30, 2008

Peter Ballance has long suffered neurological problems, including Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism, and speech and memory disorders.

To help him recall conversations, work on his stuttering and put social interactions in perspective, the 63-year-old Greenacres resident does something unconventional. He tape-records his conversations so he can play them back later.

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Ballance says city employees, both police and code enforcement inspectors, have refused to speak to him when he uses his audio recorder. He also says the city has refused him police protection because of it, citing a 2006 incident in which someone was driving around his neighborhood threatening children. Police who responded spoke to other neighbors but refused to speak to Ballance, the suit states.

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In 2005, Greenacres police began issuing a parking ticket to Ballance for parking his Honda Accord in a grassy area across the street from his home, something he said he and his neighbors had done for years. He did so, he said, because he needed to get the car out of the driveway while he changed the oil on his Ford station wagon.

About a month before the incident no-parking signs were erected. One of the officers, who recognized Ballance from a previous interaction days earlier, instructed Ballance to turn off his recording device. He refused and an altercation ensued in which the officers tackled Ballance to the ground and handcuffed him, drawing blood on his wrists.

Ok so the guy was in the wrong parking on public property in the grass to change his oil. Still doesn’t give the cops the right to demand him to turn off his recording device. They are public servants on public property doing their job. While on duty, in public, interacting with citizens, they should be recorded.