"[...] but fear itself"

From: Msnowe's Blog

"[…] raised and coddled as future terrorists. And then one day, twenty... thirty years down the road, they can be sent in to help destroy our way of life." — Louie Gohmert (R-TX), 2010

“The TSA successfully prevented an alleged terrorist from boarding a JetBlue flight out of Florida on Tuesday [May 8, 2012]. Initial reports describe the suspect as having curly brown hair, around 33 inches in height and really into drinking milk from a bottle.
     The 18-month old daughter of two New Jersey-born Americans of Middle Eastern descent was reportedly the reason for sending Transportation Security Administration agents onto an about-to-depart plane in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida this week. The parents of the girl, who wish to remain anonymous, say the entire incident is absurd.
     Riyanna’s mother tells Fort Lauderdale’s WPBF 25 News that she was approached by an airline employee late Tuesday while onboard a JetBlue plane readying for departure. According to her, she was informed that TSA agents were waiting to speak with the family back inside the terminal.
     'And I said, "For what?”' Riyanna’s mother tells the network. 'And he said, "Well, it’s not you or your husband. Your daughter was flagged as no fly.”'"
— Before It’s News
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“Israeli forces stormed a Jerusalem home this week and ordered the arrest of their terror suspect: Hamza Zeidani, a child who is only two-years-old.
     The Occupation forces entered the family home with a warrant for Hamza’s arrest and when they saw that he was a toddler, decided they would sieze his uncle, Mohammad Zeidani instead. […]
     An October 2013 Unicef report, found that during interrogation by Israeli Security Forces, Palestinian children had been 'threatened with death, physical violence, solitary confinement and sexual assault, against themselves or a family member' in efforts to gain confessions for alleged offenses, most commonly for throwing stones.
     This is the reality of life for Palestinian families across the West Bank and Gaza, as footage and witness testimony reveals in the documentary Stone Cold Justice. When Israeli forces are not conducting the mass kidnap, arrest, and torture of Palestinian children – they are simply killing them on the spot.”
— Kerry-Anne, Addicting Info
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“Owners of a spiritual shop are being subjected to tirades of abuse because they share their name with the extreme jihadi group ISIS .
     Derek Morgan and Lisa Warburton, who opened the Isis Centre, in central Stockport, Greater Manchester, three years ago, have been abused and accused of supporting the group, which has been dubbed the new al-Qaeda. […]
     In 2011 the pair thought calling the business Isis, after the Egyptian goddess of magic and healing, would be harmless but this year the name has taken on a more sinister connotation.”
— Chris Gee, Mirror
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left behind

From: Abandonalia

"So, being Catholic and all, I don’t expect to be Raptured tomorrow. Instead, I’m staking out Fundamentalist houses so, in case they do get raptured, I can loot their stuff.
     And maybe rescue some of their poor children who got left behind because they just weren’t faithful enough. ;-)"
— Dean Esmay, Dean's World
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"Ever wonder what happens to the loose change that harried travelers leave behind at airport checkpoints?
     One lawmaker has his sights on the unclaimed money, which added up to $376,480.39 in the 2010 fiscal year.
     At Los Angeles International Airport alone, $19,110.83 was left at checkpoints, according to a Transportation Security Administration spokesman. That’s in addition to $500 in poker chips left behind at LAX a few years ago and later converted by TSA to cash.
     Congress allows TSA to use the unclaimed money to help fund its operations."
— Los Angeles Times
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"Each year, millions of suitcases don't arrive where they should. And that count seems to be rising. According to the Air Transport Users Council, more than 40 million bags were misplaced by airlines in 2007, compared with 30 million bags just two years earlier.
     Most lost suitcases find their way to their proper destination within 24 hours. But of the bags lost in 2007, more than one million — or one bag per 2,000 passengers — were never recovered, the council said.
     Some of these lost bags sit at airports for months waiting to be claimed, before their contents are finally sold, donated or dumped. What happens to travellers' new cameras and dirty underwear depends on which airline carried the suitcase, and where in the world the plane landed.
     Bags abandoned at Heathrow Airport are auctioned off at Greasby's in southern London. In the United States, thousands of unclaimed suitcases are unpacked each year and their contents sold at the 40,000-square-foot Unclaimed Baggage Centre in Scottsboro, Ala."
— CBC
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"[...] Gold, silver, jewelry, collectible currency and high-end wristwatches are among the dozens of items pulled from abandoned safe deposit boxes that the state is going to start auctioning off if the rightful owners don't come forward to claim them. [...]
     All of the contents have gone unclaimed for a period of at least nine years and the state is legally permitted to liquidate these items at auction, although it tries to find the rightful owners first.
This is the seventh time that the Commonwealth has used eBay to liquidate its unclaimed tangible property holdings. Before that, the treasury held a live auction for such items, a process that was far less profitable because of its limited reach to potential bidders.
     Last year’s eBay auction raised nearly $480,000 for the state’s General Fund through the sale of 2,418 separate bid lots, nearly three times the amount of money generated from comparable live auctions of the past, the treasurer's office said."
— WCVB TV Boston
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"I have been preoccupied with trying to imagine what must be going through christians' [sic] minds as they contemplate this momentous occasion (for them). Which brings me to the subject of clothes. What do you wear for The Rapture, or to a Rapture Party, for that matter? Are you clothed when Raptured or -- heaven forbid! -- might you leave all your clothes behind and be Raptured in the nude? If so, this leaves room for some weighty erm ... challenges ... and for some mighty entertaining pranks, some of which also provide a great way to get rid of all those clothes lurking in your drawers and closets that you no longer wear.
     But maybe christians will be Raptured whilst clothed? If that's the case, then I am sure they are confronted with a different dilemma: what to wear for this most auspicious of all the days in their lifetimes? Will christians wear their 'Sunday Best?' What exactly is their 'Sunday Best?' Perhaps their wedding clothes? Or ... dare I suggest this? ... Funeral clothes?"
— GIRLSCIENTIST, Guardian
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