Thought this was funny

Works when you walk through the TSA scanner. : )






http://www.coolshityoucanbuy.com/2011/01/4th-amendment-t-shirt.html

Thank you...

:rofl:

I will be sure to drop an F-Bomb for you when we meet!

:hi:

Wow, I didn't know she knew that word.

That's great!

like several others, is no longer applicable. It is now just an historical artifact. We used to have a right against unreasonable search and seizure. Warrants used to be necessary. Now there are just loopholes and wavers and ways around these so called rights.

Even more grotesque, even just claiming that you have rights is probable cause to believe that you might be a terrorist, and once they have that probable cause they can do anything they want, so it's a vicious circle. Claim you have rights and it immediately equals probable cause which immediately takes away any so called rights you might have thought you had.

So what do you do? Don't claim that you have any rights, and don't expect to have any rights, and maybe they'll let you have them? That makes them privileges, not rights. And we all know that only the privileged few get privileges. Are you rich enough and do you have the right connections to have those privileges that people used to think were everyone's rights?

People who were very poor or in a very persecuted minority group always knew historically that there are no such things as real rights. But everyone else just wrote it off as "injustice" and "inequality" and didn't think too much about the details. But if the middle class is truly dying and corporations are really getting rights thanks to the supreme court then we might all be finding out how true that our rights aren't real either. It wasn't just historical. It's now. Us. Even if you never thought you were poor enough or belonged to a group that was persecuted enough. Things have changed. You are now.

I'm not a minority, I'm not older, I'm in good enough shape and can hold a job down. Even so, somehow I ended up at the bottom almost from the start, and the view from here is quite surreal as compared to the mythos we're fed from almost day 1.

The middle class no longer exists as most people think of it. If you're a well-paid professional making 80k+ you're probably middle class now, and the people who think they are middle class are working class to even working poor...but then again, some poll said that most people consider themselves in the top 10%, so go figure perception vs. reality.

Reality has a nasty bite to it though. It can only be ignored for so long...

So most people will happily choose to live within their illusions for the rest of their lives if those illusions are comfortable and make them happy. If the truth isn't happy or comfortable it is often very easy to ignore or rationalize away, and the media is very willing to help us with ready distractions and outright lies.

I think that is a big part of what the corporate media sees as their job: keeping us happily distracted. That is why I think so many people can be so informed and knowledgeable about sports scores, stats, players and team history, or the lives and habits of celebrities, but at the same time claim that politics and policy are too complicated and difficult to understand, and therefore best left to "eggheads" in Washington to deal with without interference from all of. Sports and celebrity culture are safe distractions the media can feed us 24/7 to keep people away from dangerous subjects.

Most people will argue and insist that they are too dumb to understand politics, but then amaze you with how smart they are in at least one other area. That isn't a coincidence. That is cultural conditioning.

So, you are right, reality does have a nasty bite, but most people won't be willing to see that until it is too late, and won't be willing to believe that they could have or should have been able to do anything about it. :(

I would have to have something like this.

but they were all sold out. He was sweating a business trip to Houston and he would have loved this.