More TSA stuff

Naked Body Scanner Manufacturer's CEO Obama's Guest on Trip to India
Submitted by yogmama on Mon, 11/22/2010 - 11:07
in Daily Paul Liberty Forum
"OSI Systems is the owner of Rapiscan Systems which manufactures the Secure 1000, one of the most commonly used backscatter x-ray machines. And, no it is not the Deepak Chopra you’re thinking of.

OSI Systems Chief Executive Officer Joins US Presidential Visit to India
HAWTHORNE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that Deepak Chopra, Chairman and CEO, was selected to accompany US President, Barack Obama, to Mumbai and attended the US India Business Entrepreneurship meeting, which was held by the US India Business Council (US IBC). The goal of the meeting was to promote further trade between US and India...."

Independent Review of Body Scanners... NOT SAFE

To all my friends and fellow travelers. Here is UCSF's petition letter about the dangers of the supposedly safe Body Scanners at Airports.

I Heart Packaging

After attending a Movember Party, I received a gift certificate for a tie from Hugh Simms. LA tie designer. So it has arrived, and its great, but what puts it over the top was the excellent packaging and a hand written wax sealed note. Nice touch guys.

CIO and check out HughSimms ties.

D

Amphicar and Wolesley for sale

www.danmcdowell.com/Wolesley

www.danmcdowell.com/amphicar

Cars for sale

Garden Treasure

Check out this little bad@$$ that showed up today in the garden. All natural, we never put one in the garden. Funny thing is my buddy Joel and I were talking about buying some last week.

New Kitchen

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Testing with shots from giants stadium.

Back Yard Progress, planter boxes.

Just the latest in backyard upgrades. Ready now for the hops.

Check out Dansmoviereview.com

Lots of new stuff up, if you want to CIO. Interested to hear your thoughts if you've seen any of these movies.

Movie reviews. Doing Work

Just wanted to let you all know I did some work on movies and finally threw up the reviews on DansMovieReview.com. If you are wondering what to get at Block Buster this week, you can see what we thought of like 100 movies here.

http://dansmoviesreview.blogspot.com/

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Meguiars Gold Class Vinyl/Rubber Protectant

I get a lot of questions on what I use to bring the pop back in those side moldings on my semi older vehicles. So I am posting the official review. This will soften the rubber and prolong its life, whether in the doors, or window seals. It takes all plastics and vinyl sidings back to like new quality for a few months before re application.

Here is a picture.

Before and After

Bike Update. Coming along.

Here's the latest. BTW Running!

Bike hacking continues

Day 2 new bike

Day 1 new bike

SO UHHH Here it is. THAILAND 09

Yea, a little late. Yea there are hundred of different pix not included. You gotta hit all the facebooks, chrismcdowell.nets... but i tried to get the highlights here. So click through, i labeled them all....

CLICK ME whole set! Then click SLIDESHOW TOP RIGHT.

Where did my check go.

I was talking to my buddy Tim, wondering where did all the money go we made this year. Well... I found it.


CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration T ax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

That's just the way it is!!!! Well,

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
And our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt...
We had the largest middle class in the world...
And Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

Thanks to PJ for the heads up.

Backyard From Brynnieg.

Dan and I have been working on improving our backyard for a while now and we are slowly making some good changes.

We looked through some of Dan's architectural magazines and created an "inspirations collage"....pics of things we want to include in our backyard renovations.

On Sunday, we went out in search of patio furniture and found a STEAL at target....originally priced at $200 a piece, we got our new patio furniture at $47 each!

Here's some of the improvements so far and a picture of our collage to see how far we've come to achieving our ideas.

We're slowly getting there.

Our Pond Inspiration:



Our Actual Pond


Our Patio Inspiration:


Our Actual Patio

Summer -5 Cabin.

Earthquake tonight couple miles from Livermore

Nice little 10 second rumble tonight. It was 2 miles from Sunol towards Livermore, which is only a couple miles from here. It was pretty fun.

3.7 on the Richter, 5 miles deep. It registers as the red dot on the picture attached.

BITE ME SONY

Read this garbage.


Customer 10/12/2009 09:33 PM
I downloaded a movie Sin Nombre in HD, and we clicked play last night. The download speed was too slow and we were only able to watch 10 minutes last night before it caught up with the download. Tonight as soon as we returned home we turned on the movie, but couldn't finish it before the 24 hour expiration. Could you please refund so we can re download and watch again please
Thanks

Dan
Here is my transaction number

1253781710


Sony's email:

Hello Dan,

We apologize for any inconvenience you are having regarding your PlayStation(R)Network account purchase. There is no way to extend an expired rental period. The following Knowledge Center articles may help resolve your problem:

Article Title: Terms and guidelines for renting videos
Article Link: http://playstation.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/playstation.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1104&p_created=1216164427

Article Title: Requesting a refund
Article Link: http://playstation.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/playstation.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=344&p_created=1193166190

(these links are to articles online telling people basically to eat it)

Regards,
Catrina G.



HERE'S MY REPLY.

Wow really lame.

Last time we use your service. I'll use my XBOX instead, and as a tech representative will spread the word religiously about an extremely poor customer service.

If Sony gets my complaints, I will be sure to mention your name and save this email.

I could be a high revenue customer using your movie service, but it looks like that 5.99 is all you'll ever receive from me. All i want is to finish the last of my 10 minutes in the movie, and seeing how your poor upload speed was the reason for the problem in the first place, I feel extremely warranted.

PS> Apple TV does refunds, good luck on your downward spiral.

Mog Fever

I have it. The Unimog fever. I now know what I need. And it is a Unimog.

This 416 Doka is for sale by me for 10 k. Although I might hold out for one with the 20 speed tranny. This six speed might be a little lame. Wish me luck. PS. Andy, I have no clue why you don't have one.

D

Summer -4 Camping at Butano SP

Got one! A camping day. Thanks Brynn. So there were no campsites available in CALIFORNIA for the 3 weeks prior to this trip, then 2 days before one popped up. As we were speaking to the guy there on the phone he said, sorry all full, while refreshing the website said... NOPE 1 more!

We spent some time in Pescadero which is tiny, population under 2000. We went to a dog friendly beach.... hmmmm, Oh Bean Hollow. I thought it was great. It was warm, although I was the only one who thought so. We tried our new surf rods, to no avail.

Camping was pretty awesome, we ate super well thanks to Brynn. It was like 4 star camp food.
Also we learned that the explosion from beer cans in the fire is epic, except for the 15 minutes of putting out burning embers in the forest.

It wasn't a heavy picture weekend, and like usual Brynn and I don't have any together, but here are a couple.

Like them Indiana Boys on an Indiana night Summer -3

5 days in Madison was totally fun. And super exhausting. Andy out on the first ever danfest.




Shipleys, Don't be Jealous
tractor Show. That's how we do.
Hanging Rock 1
Hanging Rock 2

YUP its Tahoe Bitches Summer -2

Brynn and I had a bad ass tim in tahoe. Chillin with the locals. The McCrew in North Lake. Good times. Got to do a tour of the lake, and a little beach time at Zephyr Cove... Countdown, negative two weeks of good times during the summer. I'd definitely chalk this one up as a win. Don't forget the M's first time around the lake. BTW Tre Stone was a sleepy bad ass.

Summer of Activity in Reverse Order. P 1 -1

Gary Allen Concerto at Konocti, Clear Lake. First, let me say that this could be (although undoubtedly) the last time he plays here. Rumors of the place closing, but for 15 mil... shoot I'd buy it!

Steve, the Dave's and I hit this one up. Good times, super close. Caught a catfish, played 5 hours of tequilla music with big Dave. Damn good Clear Lake weekend...

I'm going to post all the weekends for tracking purposes up in reverse order.

Fifth Gear makes me want to vomit

Seriously. Lets talk about this.

Are they joking. Do people drink that much in the UK to tolerate this garbage.
How many times do i have to see Tiff (who at one time was cool) and Jason,(cool normally) do some dumb race. Buses... WTHell. It started out bad, got worse throughout the season, next episode if they keep up they'll be racing their own deficant and pretending its cool.

Speaking of deficant, the boobs that host. Tim should just end it. It would be more entertaining if he was a cutter. Tom Ford is a lame fatso, I think fatso as a term would make a comeback if it was just related to having to sit through a season 16 episode. Now sometimes he shows potential when he ditches hosting duties, but honestly is 2009 the year of lame.

Johnny. What happened. When you weren't constrained to your little 3 retarded tests, like this season, you were becoming a favorite and a reason to watch, but lately... Dude. I loved the old quirky, bio diesel Johnny. It is clear Tim and Tom are writing his scripts.

VBH. Crap. Where did you go . Have you abandoned a sinking ship, or can you be the captain titanic never had. England needs you, TV needs you, People in the US need you..... STOP, CARS... and maybe even Frodo and Ben Wise Ganjee deserve your intervention. Give her full production duties, let her fire the tards... and save Fifth Gear.

In short, Fifth Gear WAS a slightly less cool version of top Gear... lately, just a reason to delay starting your Top Gear episode... cause sometime when top Gear starts, you wish it would never end, and fifth gear just holds back the pain of hitting start, cause start means you will soon have a stop.... Fifth Gear is akin to a zit... a nasty sore to be popped, so that the normal bronzed muscular skin that shall be known as Top Gear can show itself again next week. Hope this makes its way to Five / BBC, cause we really want another quality show to hold us over between Top Gear episodes.

More Cabo Fun

Old School. Cabo Cribs

Brynn de Mayo

Whole countries came out today to celebrate the birth of BRYNN!!!!!

WOOOOOOOO Happy Birthday Brynn

Patrick Would be Proud.

Latest from the Style website UNCRATE. What's this, a pension for Oliver Peoples glasses.

C'est Bon.

And yes Jud, I have these.

Kelley Park 2009

200% improvement this year at Kelley Park. Last time, 2 malfunctions tried to prevent me from getting there. This year, 0!.
So here are some shote from this year. Tried to get some different shote than usual. Using a 50 mm prime lens

Link to more shots.

Click to go to set

Stop action Graffiti AKA somebody with too much time

CIO


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Show numero Dos

Tim and Dan Radio Show #2.
1 hour this week. We don't come back after the break.

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Stimulus Slight of Hand

Excited about the stimulus? Ohhh, that $13 per paycheck is going to be spent well, perhaps I'll enjoy a few more slurpees per month.
Well, $13 a check will fail to cover the proposed carbon tax in 2011 which will send gas up an estimated $1.30 per gallon.
But thats tertiary to what I want to share with you.
If you are on un employment, you get $25 a paycheck extra. A caller today told El Rushbo her unemployment after taxes is $2000 a month +.
Thats HOPE and Change you can count on.

Brynn's Baja Update

Couldn't say it better, so thought I'd link Brynn

BrynnieG