Apparently, some people don't know that it's the "motion in the ocean" that counts.

If this guy was embarrassed before . . .

TSA Worker Assaults Colleague For Joking About His Genitals During Body Scanner Training


The smallest things can cause the biggest problems.

Rolando Negrin, a TSA employee at Miami International Airport, was arrested for aggravated battery after he attacked a colleague, in response to coworkers poking fun at the size of his penis during a body-scanning machine training session. According to a local NBC report, sources say Negrin became embarrassed and angry by a supervisor's jokes as he walked through the machine.

A police report obtained by NBC states that Negrin later attacked a colleague with a police baton in a parking lot, and told the victim to kneel down and say "sorry." After being arrested, Negrin told police that coworkers often made fun of him.

Full body scanners have raised privacy concerns since they were first introduced in airports. Of course, as a result of all this, Negrin has only succeeded in drawing nationwide attention to his, ahem, situation.

New Statewide Tea Party Association Formed

On Saturday, May 1, 2010, a new Constitution was ratified at the first ever state convention of The Mississippi Tea Party. This makes Mississippi one of very few states, if not the only state, to successfully form a statewide tea party association.


On April 30 and May 1st, approximately 35 delegates representing tea party groups across the state met in Flowood, MS. to review, amend and ratify the draft Constitution that had been circulating for several months. The convention was held to transform The Mississippi Tea Party (MSTP) into a statewide association which could provide a single, unified voice for the participating grass roots organizations throughout the state. The MSTP will be a louder voice, both to the general public and elected officials, advocating a return to the three core principles that they believe made this country great: constitutionally limited government, free markets, and fiscal responsibility.

Nine tea party groups from across the state participated in this historic event. Only a few local tea party groups could not attend and it is hoped that they, as well as new groups that continue to form, will become a part of the new, statewide MSTP at some future date. The charter chapters include: 912Project Hattiesburg, Central Mississippi Tea Party, Leflore/Carroll Tea Party, Madison County Tea Party, Meridian Tea Party, Southwest Mississippi Tea Party, Starkville Tea Party, Vicksburg Tea Party and We the People Congress of Pearl River County.

The current board and officers of The Mississippi Tea Party will continue in place until the State Coalition reconvenes to elect a new board and officers by the end of May.

Supervisor Banks get's a little testy!

Supervisor Karl Banks got a little testy at the recent Madison County Board of Supervisors meeting over allegations made that his family is personally profitting from his votes. Jackson Jambalya lists several votes here that call into questions the ethics of Banks votes.  Banks did not address many of the specific allegations saying, "It's not like I'm getting major income from it."

The Madison County Herald coverage of the meeting:

Timetable for parkway work OK'd by board


Calhoun Station Parkway will start growing to the north and south this year.

The Madison County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved a timetable for seeking, accepting and awarding bids for commencing construction by July on two sections of the road, about 5 miles total in length. The estimated cost for building three lanes south to Gluckstadt Road is $3 million and the estimate for extending those three lanes north from Sowell Road to Mississippi 22 is $8 million.

District 4 Supervisor Karl Banks wanted it on the county's record that any votes he has made on the Calhoun Station project over the years have nothing to do with family-owned property nearby.

"I've been accused of voting my own personal interests," Banks said. "I've been accused of voting on things going through my property."

Banks said he owns 9.56 percent of the total 66 acres, referred to as the Miller-Banks estate, on a map. "It's not like I'm getting major income from it," he said.

The property is now shared by Banks, his brother and several cousins and is considered pasture land. "This property was my grandfather's farm. He farmed it back in the '40s," Banks said."

The land, which is split into two parcels by I-55 sits about four-tenths of a mile from what would be county right-of-way on the northern construction path, county engineer Rudy Warnock said.

Warnock said the tentative schedule for construction calls for awarding the bid for the southern section that begins at Church Road on June 21 and awarding the bid for the northern section on July 5. Construction would begin no later than July 12 for the southern end and by July 16 for the longer, northern construction.

"We'll move as expeditiously as we can" for moving ahead with construction, Warnock told the supervisors.

Construction on the southern end is expected to be complete by May 2011 and on the other section by December 2011.