Carbon dioxide being absorbed by the oceans is having a puzzling effect on fish - their ears get bigger.
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"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," (Tasmania attorney general) Lara Giddings told the hearing (on poppy crop security).
"Then they crash," she added. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."
The TSA agents surely would have gotten away with violating the Bierfeldt's Constitutional rights had Bierfeldt not recorded the half-hour interrogation on his cell phone.
"I do not believe I should give up my constitutional rights each time I choose to travel by plane. I was doing nothing illegal or suspicious, yet I was treated like a potential criminal and harassed for no reason," said Bierfeldt. "Most Americans would be surprised to learn that TSA considers simply carrying cash to be a basis for detention and questioning. I hope the court makes clear that my detention by TSA agents was unconstitutional and stops TSA from engaging in these unlawful searches and arrests. I do not want another innocent American to have to endure what I went through.""Mr. Bierfeldt's experience represents a troubling pattern of TSA attempting to transform its valid but limited search authority into a license to invade people's privacy in a manner that would never be accepted outside the airport context," said Larry Schwartztol, a staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project. "Just as the Constitution prevents the police on the street from conducting freewheeling searches in the hopes of uncovering wrongdoing, it protects travelers from the kind of treatment Mr. Bierfeldt suffered."
TSA officials have the authority to conduct safety-related searches for weapons and explosives. According to the ACLU's lawsuit, TSA agents are using heightened security measures after 9/11 as an excuse to exceed their search authority and engage in unlawful searches that violate the privacy rights of passengers. The lawsuit also charges that unconstitutional searches and detention by TSA agents have become the norm.
The tools at Faux News do it again. you know things are going really badly for the repugicans these days when even their own noise machinists can't come up with any new ideas...Jim Yeager posted this over on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and thought Carolina Naturally readers would appreciate it as well.
In a blatant act of defiance, a group of Mullahs took to the streets of Tehran, to protest election results that returned incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.
In Iran, Mullahs rule supreme. They are the country's conservative clerics; the guardians of the Islamic revolution and its ideologies. They're loyal only to god and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
A doctor who claims he tried to save Iranian martyr Neda Soltan says she was shot by a pro-government milita gunman.
A mother who drank 13 beers before a psychological evaluation failed to recover custody of her three young children despite claiming she wasn't drunk because she "can drink like a fish."
The woman wanted to get the children back from her husband's stepmother.
A French Guiana court has jailed four church members for up to 12 years for the exorcism of an epileptic teenager who was found dead attached to a cross.
A monkey urinated on Zambian President Rupiah Banda during a press conference outside his office in the capital Lusaka.
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Given away by strange, crop circle-like formations seen from the air, a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex discovered in southern England has taken archaeologists by surprise.
A thousand years older than nearby Stonehenge, the site includes the remains of wooden temples and two massive, 6,000-year-old tombs that are among "Britain's first architecture," according to archaeologist Helen Wickstead, leader of the Damerham Archaeology Project.