The first layer of actual security that greets travellers at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport is a roadside check. All drivers are stopped and asked two questions: How are you? Where are you coming from?
"Two benign questions. The questions aren't important. The way people act when they answer them is," Sela said.
Officers are looking for nervousness or other signs of "distress" — behavioural profiling. Sela rejects the argument that profiling is discriminatory.
"The word 'profiling' is a political invention by people who don't want to do security," he said. "To us, it doesn't matter if he's black, white, young or old. It's just his behaviour. So what kind of privacy am I really stepping on when I'm doing this?"
You've just proved you did not read the article. The profiling was based on behavior.
As difficult as it might be for you to understand there are a great many Muslims living in Israel. Not all are terrorists, the authorities understand that.
Read the article. You might actually learn something from it.
As for the plastic knife I'll let her deal with you on that.
Oh yeah. That is part of the reason we don't socialize outside of our families and a few friends that much. People have an image of what they expect of us because of a label and don't want us to confuse them by not fitting their stereotype of who they want us to be.
I think love changes. It starts out as extremely eros based and over time that fades and it becomes more agape based. There is usually passion but it is more glowing embers than flames of passion. Though with the right conditions you can get the fires burning hot every so often.
One I did like though was when I was talking to one of my students and his father in the store and Katt came over to drop somethings in the cart and ask me a question.
After she walked away...
"Is she your girl friend?"
"Ahhh, yes."
"She sure is tall!"
"Yes, she certainly is."
Man! You must have to stand on a chair to kiss her!"
Katt loaned me a couple of inches when we wrote our profiles. She's quite a bit taller than me. Before her I only dated people who were within a few inches of my height.
It can be awkward at times and people will make some stupid remarks.
I think it goes in stages. When you're first together something might seem a little strange but cute. After the honeymoon has been over for a while it can annoy the hell out of you but when you get to the point of being settled in with each other it's just part of who they are and you accept it.
One of the first people I had a serious relationship was 23 years older than me.
It was a huge mistake in part because I was 15 when we got together. The other part was they had some serious mental health issues and ended up stalking me after I ended the relationship.
Yes, but the more gullible can feel good that there is the appearance something is being done even if anyone else can see that is is totally ineffective.
These are the same people that will buy a smaller container of a product at a higher price because it has a flashy label on it that says, NEW SIZE!
You need to think about the day to day stuff too if you are in love with someone. Paying bills, learning to live together with minimal conflict and how both of you can be satisfied with the relationship.
I'm sure you would have some people here fighting for the rights of the Federal Government to seize power from the States granted by the 10th Amendment.
Katt's father studied the US Constitution for months before he moved here in the early 1960s. It's one of the things he can talk about for many hours at a time. I have to admit I don't any where near what he and Katt do about it but I try to learn.
It's fairly disgusting to see comments like "your so called Constitutional rights" coming from American citizens. Like the tall one says, "SHEEP"!
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
So what do you think people?
If you are told by the Government that you have to give up some of your Constitutional rights in the name of supposedly being safer to you follow along nicely or yell "HELL NO!" and tell them you have your rights and they will be respected.
This question comes from the reactions people are having to the idea of full body imaging and hands on body inspections at the airports.
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RE: what pleases you most about a partner?
The very small kindnesses like making sure I have a glass of water by the bed at night or finding an "I love you" note in my pocket.