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pyesetzTwo articles showed up on SlashDot today:
Story 1: US Citizens leaving the country via Detroit or Atlanta will have their fingerprints taken. In the quoted article, there is no statement about what the government will do to US citizens who decline to be fingerprinted, but the two obvious choices are (a) prohibit them from leaving the country or (b) arrest them as presumed illegals, since surely any legitimate citizen would be only too willing to undergo this procedure.
Story 2: Cancer patient held at airport for four hours because he has no fingerprints. The man is taking capecitabine, which causes fingerprint ridges to peel off the fingers. Without fingerprints, he was presumed to be a security risk, although the putative correlation between having fingerprints and being aligned with American Corporatist interests is only poorly demonstrated in the literature.
Story 1: US Citizens leaving the country via Detroit or Atlanta will have their fingerprints taken. In the quoted article, there is no statement about what the government will do to US citizens who decline to be fingerprinted, but the two obvious choices are (a) prohibit them from leaving the country or (b) arrest them as presumed illegals, since surely any legitimate citizen would be only too willing to undergo this procedure.
Story 2: Cancer patient held at airport for four hours because he has no fingerprints. The man is taking capecitabine, which causes fingerprint ridges to peel off the fingers. Without fingerprints, he was presumed to be a security risk, although the putative correlation between having fingerprints and being aligned with American Corporatist interests is only poorly demonstrated in the literature.
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Date: 2009-06-10 06:26 pm (UTC)I had to look that up. My usual "Indian" dish is Rogan Josh, but made with beef cubes instead of lamb. Dogs eat meat! Dogs eat the same thing every day!
Western civilization, laws, and culture are plainly superior to any other.
The main evidence for this is that most other peoples are copying American culture. But in ancient times the thing to copy was Roman civ/laws/culture; yet now, when we look back at their women-as-chattel conquest-is-value culture, all we see is barbarism. Still, it must have been fun for males to live in a culture where penis ornaments hung in the front garden!
Had it been put as 'seeing maggots on a dead bird', say, I'd have rated it much lower.
I once found a bird on my back deck with a broken neck. Don't know how it got there. But it didn't want me to come near it, despite the fact that it could only turn its head halfway and clearly needed medical attention. But it wanted to be left alone so I left it. Later its corpse was covered in ants. After that I used to shovel to move its remains behind the shed, sharing space with the mummified squirrel I shoveled out of the shed.
by the time I was seven or eight I took logical and philosophical exception to the idea that I (and humans in general) wasn't an animal
Yup.
I do feel way, way more comfortable around other hardcore furries than around anyone else, though.
My current status as a breeder makes me feel like a bit of an outlier in such groups.
I'm quite in favour of the way that the Republic and the West operate
Obama is a better emperor than Bush, but he's still an emperor. His main job is to preserve and extend the empire. Do you like the RIAA and the feudalism they're pushing? (A "criminal" is someone who opposes my company's profits.)