Hawaiian Mom With Breast Pump 'Humiliated' by TSA

ABC News

A mother in Hawaii was "humiliated" when she felt she needed to pump breast milk in the open area of an airport bathroom in order for a TSA agent to permit her to get through security with her breast pumping equipment.

"I'm in a dress, in heels and I find myself in front of a sink and mirrors with travelers coming in and out of the bathroom," Amy Strand told ABCNews.com. "I'm standing at the sink with my breast hanging out, pumping. I wanted to cry. I was humiliated."...[Full Article]

Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited

C/Net

Hawaii's legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit.

Its House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing this morning on a new bill (PDF) requiring the creation of virtual dossiers on state residents. The measure, H.B. 2288, says "Internet destination history information" and "subscriber's information" such as name and address must be saved for two years.

H.B. 2288, which was introduced Friday, says the dossiers must include a list of Internet Protocol addresses and domain names visited. Democratic Rep. John Mizuno of Oahu is the lead sponsor; Mizuno also introduced H.B. 2287, a computer crime bill, at the same time last week...[Full Article]

Hawaii senator questions Obama's true birth father
'There is information, for reasons known only to him, he doesn't want released'

World Net Daily

The lone Republican in the Hawaii State Senate told a radio interviewer today he believes "the real issue" stopping Barack Obama from releasing his long-form birth certificate is something the president has to hide, perhaps even the name of his actual birth father.

Hawaii State Sen. Sam Slom further told the host of "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on WABC 770 AM in New York City that so long as Obama refuses to be transparent about his past, questions about the president's birth remain "a legitimate issue."

"My particular point of view – and why I haven't identified myself as a 'birther,' per se – is that [Obama] probably was born [in Hawaii] and that the real issue is not the birth certificate, but what's on the birth certificate," Slom told Klein.

Asked what that could be, Slom said, "It could have to do with what his name is on the birth certificate, who is actually listed as his father, the citizenship of the father."

He continued, "My belief is that there is a birth certificate, he was born here, but that there is information that for reasons known only to him he doesn't want released. If it were just the birth certificate, that would be one thing, but it's his school records, it's employment records. … Why would anybody, let alone the president of the United States, spend millions of dollars in legal fees to keep that hidden?"

"As long as that goes on," he concluded, "I think it's a legitimate issue."...[Full Article]

From WND.com: More info about Barry Soetoro's Birth Certificate (or lack thereof) and Eligibility (he is a usurper)

BORN IN THE USA?
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'No evidence' of problems with Hawaii health chief
Explanation sought for governor's removal of department director
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BORN IN THE USA?
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Hawaii controversy over birth certificate guardian
Senator challenges governor on firing of state's health department director
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Hawaii to keep Obama 'birth certificate' secret
Democrats kill plan to sell access for $100

World Net Daily

The Hawaii state legislature has abandoned plans to develop and sell for $100 a newly created document carrying the official seal of the state designed to convince an increasingly skeptical American public that Barack Obama actually was born in Hawaii.

There is no indication the Hawaii state legislature made any effort to locate Obama's long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate in the vault archives of the Hawaii Department of Health as part of its work.

But the bill, HB1116, died in the House Health Committee without a hearing, after the legislature missed a Friday deadline for the plan to advance to the House Finance Committee, a required step before the bill could move forward...

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Obama Birth Certificate Update: 01/20/2011

Hawaii governor can't find Obama birth certificate
Suggests controversy could hurt president's re-election chances

World Net Daily

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie suggested in an interview published today that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health.

Abercrombie told the Honolulu Star Advertiser he was searching within the Hawaii Department of Health to find definitive vital records that would prove Obama was born in Hawaii, because the continuing eligibility controversy could hurt the president's chances of re-election in 2012.

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Hawaii governor claims record of Obama's birth 'exists in archives' but can't produce the vital document

Mail Online / Daily Mail

Pressure was mounting on Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie today amid increasing confusion over whether President Obama was born there.

Abercrombie said on Tuesday that an investigation had unearthed papers proving Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.

He told Honolulu's Star-Advertiser: 'It actually exists in the archives, written down,' he said.

But it became apparent that what had been discovered was an unspecified listing or notation of Obama's birth that someone had made in the state archives and not a birth certificate.

And in the same interview Abercrombie suggested that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health.

He said efforts were still being made to track down definitive vital records that would prove Obama was born in Hawaii...

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Picture this, airplane passengers get scanned

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - It's one more tool to prevent a terrorist attack. Full body scanners are now at the Honolulu airport. The Transportation Security Administration rolled out the new device, officially called Advanced Imaging Technology, on Friday as a way to stay one step ahead of security threats.

Since 9/11, getting off the ground hasn't been easy. "Make sure you take out all items - cellphones, keys, coins," says a TSA security officer directing passenger traffic at the checkpoint and towards the new body scanners.

With body imaging, employees can detect metal and non-metallic items - anything from cellphones to liquids, powders, and plastics to explosives. No passenger pat downs necessary. TSA spokesman Nico Melendez says, "They don't want to be touched, and we understand that. That's why we pursued technology like this - so we can get away from having to touch passengers needlessly."

The process works like this: passengers take their shoes off, enter into a tall, cylinder-shaped enclosure, and stand on yellow foot markings, shoulder-width apart. They put their hands over their head, bent at the elbows, for five to seven seconds - as the machine scans the body. In a private room nearby, a TSA screening officer views the black and white body images on a computer screen - looking for anything suspicious...

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New Hawaii Law Shuns Obama Birth Document Requests

HONOLULU – It's now law in Hawaii that the state government can ignore repetitive requests for President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

Republican Gov. Linda Lingle signed into law Wednesday a bill allowing state government agencies not to respond to follow-up requests for information if they determine that the subsequent request is duplicative or substantially similar to a previous request...

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