Inconvenienced, no...I was one of "them". And when I lived in San Diego I never went north of Carlsbad, so I didn't have to go through the San Clemente checkpoint. You are right on reaching for the camera, not cool.

There are some different rules regarding searches at the border, but this is obviously a checkpoint not at the border so there are enhanced requirements. Quick article on border searches.

If this guy (or anyone - hint, hint) wants to do some good, go out and collect signatures and get the thing de-funded and/or closed down.

"On Wednesday, Fishbowl DC reported that Michael Clemente, a senior vice president at Fox, had met with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and that the two had "reached what some are calling a 'truce.'" FishbowlDC also reported that Clemente subsequently met with the network's Washington bureau and "encouraged staff to remain 'fair and balanced.'""

From Salon.com

I guess they really did come to an arrangement. I've certainly never seen a Fox reporter going after a political ally like that before. With the exception of Maddow and Olberman I've never seen any american cable news show act so critical of a political figure before.

I live by the sea in england, in the summer there are glorious days of blazing heat, light breeze, and complete solitude in an untapped wealth of beauty. This means that i was able to swim from very young, i know very few people who can't. I feel that this is somehow connected to living by the sea, but it's quite a large target to avoid, so i can't pinpoint why i make this connection.

The seafront is excellent for biking. I'm more of an endurance biker than a mountain biker. When the weather is clement i do 7 miles of biking every day and i maintain a speed as close to 20mph as i can. I used to do 14 but it's no fun to do 2 circuits of 7 miles, and if i go another 7 miles then i have to go through one of the most disgusting tourist towns ever and often have narrowly avoided getting attacked or accidentally knocked off my bike by yobs (former) or pedestrians (latter) who don't realise that they're on a cyclepath. I have been called a psychopath as i was on a cyclepath and the humour was lost on me at the time.

Unfortunately the weather in other seasons is quite poor, living by the sea means it's always windy here and i'm not able to bike so much during those times. I fill that in by swimming 4 times a week but i'm only just starting this. It's so much harder to swim, i only end up doing about 600-700 metres which seems like nothing but is actually quite exhausting over a 30 minute period. But of course i thought that about biking when i first started and i'm pretty handy now. I reckon i could do well in amateur competitions, but i secretly harbour rogue brain cells that tell me i'm not as good as i think.

It's a funny thing about exercise, starting is hard, but once you're really into the mindframe and if you're doing it every day or near enough, then you start to feel bad on days where you don't exercise.

I also enjoy writing which is why i'm prone to bursts of self indulgent attempts at linguistic intricacies! But i never find the time to sit down and properly write. I have ideas and i work on them in my head, but when i sit down to write, i find it so hard. I always want to write every sentence perfectly for a start, and i end up spending an hour working on a paragraph and i'm never happy with it when it's done.

K i've bored myself now

I do 'em ever hundred, so it'll be a while. Now if you'll just step this way you've been selected for a random search. I'm keeping America scared safe, you know.

Hey, is that Sam Clements playing with one of Tesla's cool gadgets?^

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Evening, officer Schmawpaws. The police regalia is very fitting.

When should we expect the fourth installment of your Many Faces?

Check out Colorado's ballot. Apparently it is easy to run for president there.
By the way, expect long lines in CO and OH. The CO ballot is insane, and OH voters will have a ton to vote on. THREE pages.

http://www.co.pueblo.co.us/assets/0/187/191/716/29bae9c8-8df6-486c-9ac6-73693b47e85a.pdf
They have freakin'
"Boston Tea Party" and what looks to be a webpage ad, HeartQuake'08

John McCain / Sarah Palin - Republican
Barack Obama / Joe Biden - Democratic
Chuck Baldwin / Darrell L. Castle - Constitution
Bob Barr / Wayne A. Root - Libertarian
Cynthia McKinney / Rosa A. Clemente - Green
Jonathan E. Allen / Jeffrey D. Stath - HeartQuake ‘08
Gene C. Amondson / Leroy J. Pletten - Prohibition
James Harris / Alyson Kennedy - Socialist Workers
Charles Jay / Dan Sallis Jr. - Boston Tea
Alan Keyes / Brian Rohrbough - America’s Independent
Gloria La Riva / Robert Moses - Socialism and Liberation
Bradford Lyttle / Abraham Bassford - U.S. Pacifist
Frank Edward McEnulty / David Mangan - Unaffiliated
Brian Moore / Stewart A. Alexander - Socialist, USA
Ralph Nader / Matt Gonzalez - Unaffiliated
Thomas Robert Stevens / Alden Link - Objectivist

You know, if money wasn't such a big part of the nuclear industry and planning too small a part people wouldn't have such a problem with it. Building them in places such as, I don't know, on the tail end of the San Andreas fault in San Clemente and oceanside as well just to make things interesting wasn't a bright idea.

The San Andreas, Elsinore and San Jacinto faults all come together in the area and they discovered a new one some years ago due to the fact it triggered a quake, there might be more yet to find and everyone knows it. Good place for a plant.

Some of the critics do go overboard but questioning the big subsidies we give this stuff while we invest so little in alternatives does seem to be a valid issue, and in at least a few cases safety concerns seem valid as well. I hate to see serious issues oversimplified like this, just because there's a fringe that's easy to attack that doesn't mean there aren't real issues somewhere under there.

What if detainees are wrongly held at Guantanamo Bay? directed to Paul Clement, U.S. Solicitor General...

Justice Stephen Breyer - "So, I'm asking you where can you make that argument?"

Paul Clement - "I'm not sure he can make that argument, Mr Breyer"

Justice Stephen Breyer - "Exactly."

So if you are wrongly detained at Guantanamo Bay you could face long term imprisonment without a chance to a fair trail or hearing, branded forever as a enemy combatant.

My personal belief is that a fair hearing is avoided at all costs because a massive shit storm of illegal torture practices would come to the surface, threatening many those in high administration offices who have pushed forward those measures under the dubious need for national security.

Here is the complete translation:(bold text translated from Norwegian)

We are the best in the world* !!, the best in the world*!!! We have beaten england, we have beaten ENGLAND!! England: Birthplace of the giants, Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Atlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana!!! We have beaten all of them , we have beaten all of them!!! Maggie Thatcher. Can you hear me Maggie Thatcher? Your boys took one hell of a beating. Your boys took one hell of a beating."

*I know this is terrible english grammar, but he doesnt really specify if he means the team, all Norwegians or whatever, a better translation would probably be just "We are the best!!" or "We are the Champions" but we didnt really win the world championship or anything, its just that Lillelien thinks "we are The Best" at that moment

*save the pagan classics

"Oranges and lemons", say the bells of St. Clement's
"You owe me five farthings", say the bells of St. Martin's
"When will you pay me?" say the bells of Old Bailey
"When I grow rich", say the bells of Shoreditch
"When will that be?" say the bells of Stepney
"I do not know", says the great bell of Bow
Here comes a candle to light you to bed
And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!
Chip chop chip chop - The last man's dead

but is it 'music'?

wow. . .didn't know there was a raging clement greenberg inside of you, chogs.

The last piece of commentary is hilarious. The sound isn't that clear so here's what he says as Norway beat England..

'Lord Nelson! Lord Beaverbrook! Sir Winston Churchill! Sir Anthony Eden! Clement Attlee! Henry Cooper! Lady Diana! Maggie Thatcher - can you hear me, Maggie Thatcher! Your boys took one hell of a beating! Your boys took one hell of a beating!'