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Airport Security Is In The Very Best Of Hands

May 16, 2012 by tooldtowork 1 Comment

N.Y. cold case experts question Newark airport guard who assumed false ID

The arrest of an illegal immigrant — who authorities say worked as a Newark Airport security supervisor under a false identity for 20 years — has renewed police interest in the 1992 unsolved murder of the man whose identity he assumed.

New York City cold case investigators spent more than two hours questioning Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole about the murder following his arrest on Monday for identity theft, authorities said. And they were planning to compare the fingerprints of the Nigerian national and Elizabeth resident to unmatched prints found at the scene of the fatal shooting in a Y.M.C.A. in Queens, a Port Authority official said.

Got that? He worked as a security supervisor at Newark Airport for twenty years using a false identity. Actually a stolen identity from a guy who was later murdered. Twenty years means that he was there before the September 11, 2001 attacks and that he worked there for ten more years after the attacks.

A resume on file with the Port Authority indicates Oyewole was hired at Newark in March 1992 under the name Jerry Thomas.

Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole versus Jerry Thomas? No wonder he stole the ID. Besides four months after his ID was stolen Jerry Thomas didn’t need it any longer because he was dead.

Investigators were still trying to find out Tuesday how Oyewole obtained what appeared to be Thomas’ birth certificate and Social Security card, documents he used to get his job, a state driver license and high school equivalency degree.

Thomas’s story is he bought it from a cab driver who has since been deported.

Oyewole’s attorney, Regina Lynch, could not be reached for comment.

Probably too busy banging her head against a wall. Who could blame her?

Oyewole got a security guard license from the New Jersey State Police by using Thomas’ name and documents. And he was given clearances that also included fingerprint checks by the Customs and Border Patrol and the Transportation Security Administration. The Port Authority, which operates the airport, said it relies on the private security companies it hires to vet its own employees and provide proof of the required background checks.

A spokesman for the Custom and Border Patrol said Monday that fingerprint checks did not turn up any concerns because neither Thomas’s nor Oyewole’s prints were found in criminal databases when background checks were conducted. But an NYPD spokesman on Tuesday said Thomas, who was 41 when he was killed, had a criminal history that included drug possession, burglary, robbery and resisting arrest and that his fingerprints had been taken.

“Duck Dodge, Hide!” These guys would do a better job of vetting people than the NJSP, the various federal agencies, and the private security agency. Even the Farrelly Brothers couldn’t come up with this shit.

Officials and a spokesman for the company Oyewole worked for, FJC Security Services, have said he had an unblemished employee record. He had worked for three other security companies that had Port Authority contracts at the airport before working for FJC.

I’d advise you to follow Attorney Lynch’s lead and STFU. You are not helping yourself here.

Although rare, illegal aliens have been charged federally for using false documents on applications to get private airport security jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General.

How do we know that they are “rare” since it seems to be ridiculously easy to obtain a fake ID and slip past all those highly paid law enforcement agents? For all we know this could be widespread, but not recognized because of those alleged “loopholes”.

In case you are wondering why there is still private security at airports since we have all those highly trained and vigilant TSA employees, the answer is that they guard the place when most of the operations are shut down. Great, so we have who knows who guarding airport facilities during the middle of the night when no one is around. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?

Oh, and he’s Nigerian. That’s not a blanket condemnation of Nigerians but there is some history  to suggest it’s slightly possible.

This makes me feel oh so safe and secure when I fly.

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Is This Treason?

May 15, 2012 by tooldtowork 4 Comments

BOMBSHELL: Al-Qaeda Infiltrator was Working for Brits not CIA, Cover Blown for Election Year Politics

Just a week ago the establishment media was aflutter with news that a CIA double-agent had thwarted a new type of underwear bomb attack targeting U.S. flights in a plot devised by al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula.

But as the week progressed, a developing bombshell story got buried under President Obama’s gay marriage announcement. Not only is the supposed CIA asset not a CIA asset at all, but the entire operation was exposed prematurely and the double-agent’s life was immediately threatened by an intelligence leak that very well may have come out of the White House for political gain.

Read the whole story, and be sure to click on the links.

That’s pretty serious stuff if it’s true. It should be immediately investigated and if someone did in fact leak this information, they should be prosecuted and spend a long time in prison. Remember a few years ago when the Democrats accused someone in the White House of “outing” Valerie Plame? Wall to wall coverage, FBI investigations, and in the end it turned out no one in the White House outed anyone, Valerie Plame wasn’t a covert agent, and the only conviction was of VP Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff for lying to the FBI. Only no one was quite sure what he lied about since he wasn’t the source of the leak.

In this case, not only was a covert agent exposed, but he wasn’t even a covert US controlled agent. He was an asset belonging to the British and was working for them and the Saudi Secret Police. I can’t imagine that this will improve relations with one of our key allies, not one bit. I also would bet that other nations will think twice, or maybe more than twice, before they share secret information with the US.

The President should order his Attorney General to start an immediate investigation. Better yet, he should appoint a Special Counsel to do that.

I’m not holding my breath, though. Hypoxia is not good for you.

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As The Old Saying Goes…

May 10, 2012 by tooldtowork 3 Comments

He who represents himself in court has an idiot for a lawyer and a fool for a client

Or in this case, herself.

Honda gets $9,867 hybrid mpg judgement overturned

LOS ANGELES –  A judge overturned a nearly  $10,000 small-claims judgment against American Honda Motor Co. that was won by a  car owner who said the automaker misrepresented the gas mileage of her hybrid  Civic, according to a ruling released Wednesday.

I’d guess that at least in Honda’s mind, it wasn’t the amount, it was the idea of encouraging people to sue in lieu of accepting the rather paltry class action settlement. Probably a sound strategy.

Peters, a lawyer, previously urged Honda owners to take the small-claims route  as she did, and her initial success led some 1,700 other hybrid owners to follow  suit.

I wonder how many of those 1,700 are now likely to sue Peters?

This could go on for years.

Read the whole article, it’s pretty interesting. The judge refuted every one of Peters’ Points (try saying that three times fast) with not only logic and law, but common sense.

 

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Help With Apps

May 1, 2012 by tooldtowork 6 Comments

I’ve had the new phone for about a week now, and like it. I’ve put some apps on, but not a lot. I’m still getting used to the email and web browsing aps and will add some more as time goes on. I’ll probably resist the urge to turn it into, as a friend of mine calls his wife’s phone, “An Angry Birds machine that you can make phone calls on if you want.”

One thing I’ve noticed is the persistence, perniciously so, of some apps, especially ones that have come with the phone. For example, my phone has Facebook on it. I don’t use it, have taken it off the screen, but it’s still running and using power and memory. Probably not a lot of either, but if they’re going to load the phone up with crap I don’t want, then they should just give them out for free. I also have a Blockbuster Video app that I can uninstall updates to, but not the core app. I’m sure that there are others, but those are the two I’ve found so far.

So, is there way to dig down deep into the OS and get rid of these virus like apps? I know that there is such a thing as “rooting” a phone and I should do some research on Al Gore’s Internet and see what that’s all about, but hopefully one of my readers can help me out with that one.

The only downside to this phone is that it eats through the charge on the battery quickly. Which the sales guy told me was a problem with Android based phones. Hopefully by getting rid of some apps I don’t use and don’t want, I’ll be able to improve that a bit.

 

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Where Is M.O.N.T.E.?

April 25, 2012 by tooldtowork 3 Comments

If you watch The Big Bang Theory,  you probably know what M.O.N.T.E. is. If you don’t here is a helpful link to introduce it. Funny stuff, at least to me.

This is even funnier, because it’s real, not TV.

10 Angry Robots You Shouldn’t Let Inside Your Home

From the article it seems that the real Robogames predates the Southern California Wobot Fighting League Wound Wobin Invitational, but either way it’s pretty funny. At least to me.

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Apps, I need Apps!

April 24, 2012 by tooldtowork 24 Comments

I just bought a new Android based phone. It’s a lot different than my Crackberry, that’s for sure. I need some aps put on it, though. I already installed a flashlight ap, and I’m going to put on Lemon to track receipts, but I need more. EMS related, not EMS related, serious aps, fun aps, all kinds of aps.

Send me suggestions, please.

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Wasn’t There A Movie About This?

April 13, 2012 by tooldtowork Leave a Comment

North Korea: Satellite fails to enter orbit

(CBS/AP) North Korea’s much-anticipated rocket launch ended quickly in failure early Friday, splintering into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff.

North Korea acknowledged in an announcement broadcast on state TV that a satellite launched hours earlier from the west coast failed to enter into orbit. The U.S. and South Korea also declared the launch a failure.

Failure to Launch

Joking aside, they won’t stop at this failure. Just as they are still trying to detonate a successful nuclear weapon, they’ll keep on trying until they succeed. It doesn’t matter how many of their own citizens starve to death while they spend millions if not billions of dollars in their quest to be like the big boys.

Dangerous people playing a dangerous man and we have a feckless President in DC.

Sorry if I offend any of my legion of readers with political maunderings.

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Maybe She Wants A Rematch

April 2, 2012 by tooldtowork 1 Comment

Argentine president dismisses ‘absurd’ UK claim to Falklands

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s president, used the 30th anniversary of her country’s invasion of the Falkland Islands to rubbish Britain’s claims to the south Atlantic territory, saying: “It is absurd to pretend dominion more than 14,000km across the sea.”

“It is an injustice in the 21st century that there are still colonial enclaves,” Ms Fernández said in a sobre speech in Ushuaia, the capital of the province of Tierra del Fuego to which Argentina says the islands it calls the Malvinas rightfully belong.

Note that this is the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War. Which Britain won. Maybe Ms de Kirchner figures with Britain tied up in Afghanistan and the US having a feckless President that won’t back up a long time ally, it will work out better.

Britain doesn’t have near the military it had back when it ruled much of the word. Or even as much military as it did 30 years ago. However, it’s military has been pretty active over the past 10 or so years and it is full of combat experienced soldiers, sailors, and airmen. I don’t know that I’d want to put Argentina’s military up against them.

Hopefully this will be resolved peacefully, or Ms de Kirchner will reconsider her intemperate words. That last thing the world needs right now is yet another armed conflict.

 

 

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Red Light Cameras

March 24, 2012 by tooldtowork 4 Comments

Not only increase accidents, they are fraught with the possibility of fraud.

Now comes this,

Pasco judge challenges constitutionality of red light cameras

“If they are going to prove I was driving the car, it’s their duty under the law to prove the identity of the driver,” said Filippone, 45, who maintains his 2002 Nissan Altima crossed the intersection a split second before the light turned red on April 15. “It unjustly shifts burden to me and makes me shoulder the burden of having to prove their case.”

Pasco County Judge Anne Wansboro agreed. On Feb. 17, she dismissed the charge, saying in her order that the law “impermissibly shifts the burden of proof to the Defendant and therefore does not afford due process, and is unconstitutional to the extent due process is not provided.”

In some states motorists have to pay “court costs” to contest a traffic citation and those costs can exceed the cost of the ticket itself. Of course, even at that the surcharges on your insurance might make it worthwhile to fight.

Despite the bleating of politicians it’s not about safety or even “for the children”, it’s about revenue pure and simple.

My question is this. How do we know that the company that provides these cameras isn’t just photoshopping the lights to make it look like people are running the red lights? There is no first hand review of the photos by a police officer, so we have absolutely no proof that these are real violations.

Plus, how do you rebut or cross examine a picture?

Just more examples that some public officials think of their citizens not as people to whom they are responsible, but sources of revenue.

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Light On The Blogging

March 16, 2012 by tooldtowork 2 Comments

It’s been a busy week. Two funerals, two classes, a dead washing machine, and a new firearm. All of which I could blog about if I had time. Except I don’t as I’m getting ready for a road trip down south which will have me out of town from tomorrow morning until sometime Tuesday. Trouble shooting and then buying the new washer took most of my afternoon, other than the time buying the firearm. One was more fun than the other, and cheaper as well. I’ve written and scheduled a post about that for Sunday. If I have any Internet access on my trip, I’ll try to get some other posts up, but it’s not likely.

There’s a Country Music post scheduled for Wednesday too.

An EMS grumble is in the works, but not ready and probably won’t be until after I get back.

 

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