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By Mitch Berg

New undershirts, ready for TSA scanning:

Count me in.

This entry was posted by by Mitch Berg on Friday, December 3rd, 2010 at 6:21 am and is filed under Liberty. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

31 Responses to “Heh”

  1. Dog Gone Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 8:14 am

    I understood unreasonable search and seizur to be when the authorities forced it on you without alternative to opt out. You can choose not to fly. The scans and pat downs are an appropriate response to the terrorism conspiracies both domestic and foreign, much like road block checks of innocent people are appropriate by authorities looking for criminal fugitives.

    The T-shirt is cute; I think the underwear with the metallic fig leaf in the appropriate location is more entertaining.

    Off-topic, but every source I have checked so far says your name-withheld-story about those 103 blank-except-for-Dayton ballots is not even remotely true.

    Guess it is a good thing for the author that you are protecting his or her identity, given that it is another voter fraud hoax circulating on and by the Right. You apparently don’t want that person held accountable for their inaccuracies. That would undermine the validity of that hoax, and all the other variations on it, wouldn’t it?

    So, I am waiting with anticipation your follow up to any of these stories. I might have missed it for example, but I don’t recall seeing anything from you about ANY of these being false or any attempts by you to debunk them.

    It’s sad really that you on the Right don’t require more accuracy – from Fox, from talking heads like Rush or Hugh Hewitt, from the right wing blogosphere, from politicians like Bachmann…….

  2. Mitch Berg Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 8:16 am

    I understood unreasonable search and seizur to be when the authorities forced it on you without alternative to opt out

    What are you talking about?

    The Fourth Amendment means the government cant’ search you or your property without a warrant issued for cause.

  3. Mitch Berg Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 8:16 am

    Off-topic, but every source I have checked so far says your name-withheld-story about those 103 blank-except-for-Dayton ballots is not even remotely true

    Name those sources.

    Now.

  4. LearnedFoot Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 8:50 am

    Ha that shirt is cute.

    On an unrelated topic, I like pizza. Pizza is delicious and a heartwarming comfort food on a cold cold day. I have heard that there are some people that don’t like pizza, but sources tell me that they don’t exist. My sources are confirmed by factcheck.org, a link to which I will provide since it confirms my assertion in the prior sentence.

    http://factcheck.org/archives/search-results/?cx=006313184908531579811%3Ahm8n5-dxba0&cof=FORID%3A10%3BNB%3A1&ie=UTF-8&q=pizza+haters#223

  5. Kermit Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 8:56 am

    You can choose not to fly.
    While technically true, if you are in line at the airport and decide you want to leave before undergoing screening, you are subject to an $11,000 fine. So tell me again about how “reasonable” this is.

  6. nate Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 9:28 am

    The 103 challenged ballots came from a precinct near Dinkytown. It was reported in the Pioneer Press on December 1.

  7. Mitch Berg Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 9:39 am

    Obviously, the Pioneer Press is lying too.

  8. swiftee Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 9:43 am

    DG, do something useful for your fellow man, won’t you dear; STFU and go iron some shirts.

  9. Ben Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 9:51 am

    Apparently DG didn’t hear Big Sis’s desire to put these scanners at Amtrak and Greyhound stations, oh and I have a source.
    http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/janet-napolitano-body-scanners-on-trains-boats-and-metro/
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/25/body-scanners-headed-trains-ships-mass-transit/

    These t-shirts are genius. I want a few, and I’d also like to be able to flip off the screener too.

  10. Terry Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 9:57 am

    You can choose not to fly.
    Minorities can choose not to drive. “Racial profiling” controversy ended! Just like that!
    In Hawaii there is no regular passenger to the mainland or the other islands. If you need to go from the Big Island or Maui to Oahu for any reason, you are flying and subject to TSA search.
    If you’re on the mainland you might have to go cross country to visit a dying relative. No problem, drive.
    All those peace activists and the innocents who were mistakenly put on the no-fly list? The don’t have to fly. Complaint rejected.

  11. Kermit Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Plus, these same “security” measures are coming to a mass transit mode near you. I can’t wait to see the TSA setting up shop by the local bus stop.

  12. Ben Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 10:13 am

    Kermit your claims are baseless because you have no sources, I have sources šŸ˜‰

  13. swiftee Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 10:20 am

    Ben, you have no basis upon which to FACTCHECK Kermit until you have *multi-sourced*. Get it together, fer chrssakes, will ya?

  14. Ben Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 10:23 am

    ok swiftee sorry, I will give myself 50 lashings for getting it wrong.

  15. swiftee Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 10:29 am

    DG, you are not to iron Ben’s shirts until he provides multi-sourced facts proving he lashed himself 50 times.

  16. bosshoss429 Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 10:35 am

    Ben;

    To hell with the T shirts! Man up and get the boxers! šŸ˜‰

  17. swiftee Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 10:45 am

    To hell with the boxers; man up and get the tattoo!

  18. Ben Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 11:05 am

    bosshoss man up and get the bra and panties! And as much as I like the 4th amendment I don’t think I will put it across my chest. Nothing is stopping you from doing it though swiftee.

  19. Ben Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 11:05 am

    I feel like I’m back on anti-strib

  20. Mitch Berg Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 11:11 am

    I feel like I’m back on anti-strib

    Don’t be blasphemin’.

  21. Ben Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 11:16 am

    careful Mitch, if it wasn’t for them I never would have found you šŸ˜‰

  22. K-Rod Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 11:24 am

    You’re welcome. 8)

  23. Kermit Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    I feel like Iā€™m back on anti-strib
    Nah, your comment would have been deleted and your IP address blocked.
    In the immortal words of Dean Wormer “No fun of any kind!”

  24. bubbasan Says:
    December 3rd, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    OK, speaking as one who understands a touch about microwaves and such, notice that this is done on a standard X ray and not the backscatter kind. It is not guaranteed that this ink will work the same way, though I’d bet it’s legible on the Rapist-Scan.

    Also, I am guessing that if you wore some such thing, you would be signing up for a pat-down.

    Finally, the 4th Amendment does not require warrants for every search; it merely requires probable cause. In this case, of course, it is lacking.

  25. Dog Gone Says:
    December 4th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    Looking at recount stories in the Pioneer Press for December 1, this was what I found.
    http://www.twincities.com/ci_16746388?nclick_check=1

    There is NO mention of the 103 ballots, or Dinkytown, anywhere in the article. I didn’t read down to check crap claimed in comments.

    So if you have a link that supports that claim, something I missed, please provide it.

    Mitch, I began checking with Flash’ mom and sister who were Dayton ballot recounters, since Flash had mentioned a member of his family being on the Strib front page photo over on his blog. Then I inquired of the DFL people who originally approached me to be one of the recounters if there was any challenge matching that description, and asked them to check with the people who were there, at the Henneping recount.

    No one had any such information remotely suggesting something like that. But crazy factually inaccurate stories being circulated by the right wing blogosphre are apparently common.

    I was assured that my information was correct – any such ballots would be challenged, and it would certainly turn up in ALL the media, not just the press.

  26. Troy Says:
    December 4th, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    I like pizza too!

  27. Ben Says:
    December 4th, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    Has deegee ever not threadjacked?

    i is a kollage stoodent

  28. Dog Gone Says:
    December 4th, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    Here is the only mention I could find, which involved 103 ballots and dinkytown – and did not in any other respect match up with the details claimed by Mitch’s anonymous friend. They appear to have been among the thousand plus other frivolous ballot challenges, not what was presented as a legitimate bunch of challenges. Emmer now appears to be willing to abandon those frivolous ballot challenges – which would appear to include the 103.

    “Smith says the number of ballot challenges by the Emmer campaign has been accelerating and she’s hoping they slow down. The Emmer campaign challenged 103 ballots in a precinct in the Dinkytown neighborhood in Minneapolis. In another precinct, Emmer’s campaign challenged 45 ballots, even though the ballots are clear votes for Dayton, she said. ”

    Here is the link to that story. It was NPR, not the PiPress

    http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/11/30/mn-governors-recount-tom-emmer-mark-dayton/

    Now, I’ve provided MY sources; let’s have the name of the person making this claim about the 103 ballots, and lets just push this inquiry a little further to get accurate details, shall we?

  29. Mitch Berg Says:
    December 4th, 2010 at 5:10 pm

    Sorry, “DG”, I told my source I’d keep him anonymous until further notice.

    But yet again, you display your curious, arguably troublesome tendency to regard any “source” that agrees, even tangentially, with you as dispositive.

    More to come.

  30. Johnny Roosh Says:
    December 4th, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    I had pizza for dinner tonight.

    And salad.

    Actually the salad was first.

    Then the pizza.

    But not too long after the salad.

    Lest it get cold.

    Not that cold pizza is bad. I like cold pizza too.

    But that’s usually the day after you cook it.

    And for breakfast.

    But this was dinner.

    Hot pizza for dinner. Cold pizza for breakfast.

    And salad. Mostly for the nutrition.

    Not that pizza isn’t nutritious.

    It is. But salad is moreso.

    But I like pizza better.

    It was frozen pizza by the way.

    But only until I cooked it in the oven.

    When I mentioned cold pizza before I didn’t mean frozen.

    I meant formerly frozen pizza, cooked, partially eaten, the leftovers stored properly in the refrigerator.

    Then eaten the next day.

    I never get cold pizza here any more.

    Teenagers.

  31. Kermit Says:
    December 4th, 2010 at 10:08 pm

    I’m partial to Bellatoria, but Palermo is good too.

    Thin crust.

    Get the sausage and add some peperoni.

    A little extra cheese.

    Hormel makes good peperoni.

    I’ve fact checked it.

    And I’m not the least bit crabby about it.

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