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TSA troubles

roomthreeseventeen — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 08:41:24 -0800

Delta Airlines and other airline workers' unions have asked the TSA to reconsider their recent announcement to loosen security restrictions on airlines, effective April 25, that would allow passengers to carry small pocket knives, among other items. Meanwhile, in Newark,, on February 25th, an undercover investigator with a fake bomb went through a metal detector and a pat down at Liberty Airport without the device being detected. The exact makeup of the mock IED was not available, but even devices small enough to be stashed in a passenger’s pants could blow a hole through a plane’s fuselage.

RT @CoryBooker: "We have a shared responsibility that kids go to school nutritionally ready 2 learn"

Rory Marinich — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:59:35 -0800

Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, NJ, will spend a week or longer living on food stamps, in response to a Twitter user who told him that, quote, "nutrition is not a responsibility of the government." Recently, Booker invited victims of Hurricane Sandy to his house. Past Booker awesomeness includes saving his neighbor from a burning house, and personally shoveling out residents trapped in their homes by a 2010 blizzard. Governor Chris Christie is jealous.

The Redemption of Michael K. Williams

the man of twists and turns — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 23:38:24 -0800

The Redemption of Michael K. Williams

Newark!

vrakatar — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:12:09 -0800

Cory Booker does not approve this message. A SLYT parody of that overplayed pop throwaway New York song popular right now.

Brick City

(Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:56:47 -0800

The entire five-part television documentary series Brick City is currently available through Netflix streaming. The four and a half-hour Sundance Channel documentary chronicles the summer and fall of 2008 in the city of Newark, New Jersey. Among the people the series profiles are Cory Booker, mayor of Newark and subject of the great documentary Street Fight; Garry McCarthy, the white, Bronx-born police director whose innovative measures have reduced the murder rate in the city; Ras Baraka, a charismatic poet and activist who is also the principal of Newark Central High school; Jayda Jacques, former Blood gang member who now mentors young women in Newark; Jiwe Morris, author of the book War of the Bloods in My Veins: A Street Soldier's March Toward Redemption; and many other interesting Newark residents like the Street Doctor and Ali Muslim. The series has often been referred to as a sort of real-life version of The Wire, and has been well-received by critics

When Men Wear Nail Polish, the Terrorists Win

digaman — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:45:41 -0800

"I'm not a politician, I'm an artist. Depravity is part of the job description," says self-styled dandy, former drug addict, and controversial British author Sebastian Horsely, who was denied entrance to the US by customs officials at Newark Airport on the grounds of "moral turpitude," a wide net that encompasses everything from fornication to being a "nuisance." Shades of Oscar Wilde.