And this is how you know that your government exists only to transfer taxpayer funds to their pals — witness: an Electronic ID bracelet that also stuns misbehaving passengers.
Someone at Homeland Security is actually thinking about this device that you’d be fitted with when you check in; that will somehow also be coded to your luggage; keep a bunch of data about you; and would be your boarding pass to get on the plane. And did I mention it also acts as your own personal stun gun? So if you somehow upset the flight attendant on the plane by getting up to use the bathroom too many times, you get zapped. Zapped bad, apparently. (The manufacturer has a sales video up. Stunning how many of us are just the enemy.)
You’d surrender this contraption when you disembark, but there is, of course, no mention as to what they’d do with this bracelet now that it has all of your info on it. Perhaps premium flyers will get a chance to keep their bracelets to save time at the airport and to upgrade them to something stylish. But you, dear taxpayer, will be paying (multiple premiums for sure) for this brave new security feature.
An airline industry that allows the implementation of this crazyness deserves to fail.
Extra credit to whoever can name the ST episode (original edition) I’m thinking of.
I have not gotten a firm committment from anyone reagrding the book club meeting on Thursday so I’m going to push it off a week, hoping that the week after the holiday was the cause for low response. So the new date is going to be 6:30, July 17th at The Lobby House in Dover. Who is in?
Before I left on my mini-Fourth of July vacation down the shore, wherein I got sunburnt but thankfully missed the CC/PDD dust-up of which I know little and care about even less; I posted a story about Carney’s first TV ad buy the Salisbury media market, touting his leadership in the Bluewater Wind deal.
Markell is set to respond with a radio and TV ads that describe Markell as the “change we need,” in contrast to John Carney’s slogan “The experience we need. A leader we trust.” I have commented before how I always viewed Markell and Carney as proxies for Obama and Clinton, respectively. And now their campaigns are unfolding exactly in that mold. Carney will campaign on his accomplishments (should that be plural?) and experience as evidence that he is the man to bring about change. And Markell will simply run on change.
Carney notes in his Wind ad that “Change is hard. You can’t just talk about it.” And doesn’t that just sound exactly like Clinton’s “35 years of experience bringing about change” and “It takes a President to bring change.” I think we have learned from this past primary, and from other prior elections, that you cannot mix the memes of “change” and “experience.” For voters, they are mutually exclusive. When they are pissed off at the government, or an Administration, they are not going to listen to a member of that government or administration say he has the experience to bring the change they seek.
Clinton learned that lesson. The elder Bush learned that lesson in 1992. And McCain, also seeking to campaign on the mutuant “Experience to Bring Change” message, will soon learn as well.
As an aside, who do you think Matt Denn wants to run with? Officially, he is neutral, but while most of the official Democratic establishment avoided the opening of Markell’s Wilmington Riverfront campaign office last week, Matt Denn stopped by. Perhaps he thinks, in a change election, it will be easier to run with the real change candidate than one pretending to be a change candidate.
who was your favorite teacher when you were a kid (not college)?
Charlie Copeland and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
Is there statistical evidence that if everyone had a gun there would be less crime? If so, wouldn’t the same evidence point to indicate the same conclusion could be found if no one had a gun?