地铁站里经常有人发宣传材料，大部分是教会人士，我一般会接受，因为地铁上坐着无聊嘛。前几天刚看见verizon的一个地铁广告，说的就是这个。一大页纸，写满满的，大意是就因为你坐在地铁里面所以你才在看这个广告，你会看这个广告因为你需要避免跟陌生人目光接触，怎么？到现在你还在看对不对，云云。广告挺逗，我都看完了，没记住他要卖什么东西。说道这个目光接触，今天早晨在地铁车厢里捡到一分免费小报，上面一封读者来信，看的我笑疯掉。原来这封读者来信是针对纽约警察局号召广大地铁乘客提高警惕，留意发现恐怖分子列出来若干条恐怖分子特征，一曰：大汗淋漓，读者说：我就不知道有人在夏天的站台上不出汗的；一曰：不跟人目光接触，读者说：我就不知道有人跟人目光接触的；一曰：握拳，读者说：我自己就不时握拳因为车不来啊！结论是：这几条特征说了大部分纽约市民，还好意思叫做恐怖分子特征！还是今天早晨，在我捡到这份报纸之前，看完了一小篇论文之后，接受了一个粉色T-虚衫，白色咔叽布裤，棕色头发，大约２５０磅重的一个小姑娘发给我的宣传材料，上面印着奇迹救赎，原来一个教堂人士在１９６５年冬天差点儿一氧化碳中毒死在自己的汽车里面，幸亏一个过路女士看见他昏过去，跳过来把他的车门给拉开了。然后他就说，幸而如此，不然我肯定在地狱里面了。我看的那个乐啊，心说怎么这么自觉就把自己下放到地狱里去了？然后此人接着写到：在某年某月，上帝宽恕了我的罪，我能上天堂了。我真是更乐了，忍不住对着纸头问道：你怎么知道的？总而言，挺逗的。
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自觉
话说我吃饭的地方，最近突然来了个台湾老太太坐班。第一天，我还没意识到她是来坐班的。她冲上来说服我们去教堂，某人是个好好先生，我面孔一板，说：我们不去教堂。她见我这样无理，搬出杀手锏：“美国建国200年，就是在建国之初选对了基督教，所以现在才成为这样强大的国家。要不然你我为什么来这里。教会是个大家庭，这是我的亲身体会。”华人应当敬老。为此我低着头眼睛不看对方，硬生生扼住我的喉咙，把三句恶毒的已经在舌头上滚动的话给咽了回去。他们是：
1）老天，又来了个林语堂。
2）那您为啥不去意大利住？
3）中国威胁论可以休矣，中国2000年前居然没有选择基督教，还有什么前途可言。
后来我每次去都能看到她腰板挺直地坐在同一个地方，面前摆着一盘饭菜，目视前方。从来不见她吃，她背对着门坐在最尽头的桌子，目光的前方并没有人，但是屋里有些什么人她一清二楚，非常有成仙的样子。像我们这样又臭又硬的直接就冲着地狱去的，她就不再理会了。听她冲到别人吃饭桌边上讲蛮有意思。比如讲台湾：
台湾现在成为这样文明的一个国家，全都是当年那些传教士的功劳。台湾第一所高等学校是***教会学校，台湾第一个*** 是 ***，总之好长一个单子都是教会做的。她母亲从教会学校毕业，当年有些传教士后来生病了，当地人如何如何，最后如何如何就葬在台湾。多少年前，教会学校组织了话剧，整个话剧都是用英文的！你想想那个时候人就学会了英语！
1）老天，又来了个林语堂。
2）那您为啥不去意大利住？
3）中国威胁论可以休矣，中国2000年前居然没有选择基督教，还有什么前途可言。
后来我每次去都能看到她腰板挺直地坐在同一个地方，面前摆着一盘饭菜，目视前方。从来不见她吃，她背对着门坐在最尽头的桌子，目光的前方并没有人，但是屋里有些什么人她一清二楚，非常有成仙的样子。像我们这样又臭又硬的直接就冲着地狱去的，她就不再理会了。听她冲到别人吃饭桌边上讲蛮有意思。比如讲台湾：
台湾现在成为这样文明的一个国家，全都是当年那些传教士的功劳。台湾第一所高等学校是***教会学校，台湾第一个*** 是 ***，总之好长一个单子都是教会做的。她母亲从教会学校毕业，当年有些传教士后来生病了，当地人如何如何，最后如何如何就葬在台湾。多少年前，教会学校组织了话剧，整个话剧都是用英文的！你想想那个时候人就学会了英语！
云浆未饮结成冰
我们系秘书是个重生基督徒，基本上我不敢跟他讨论灵魂问题。最搞笑是他欢呼中国开始庆祝圣诞节，我说大家们只是欢呼多个假日罢了，他特怜悯的看着我说：哦，我不认为这样。 
no, it was not a suicide attempt, it was a freak accidentJun wrote:Tiff, if a person commits suicide he goes to hell for sure. Hence the person says he was prevented from going to help when he was rescued from his previous attempt. As for how he would know he is now going to heaven... I guess he has faith.
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New York Starts to Inspect Bags on the Subways
By SEWELL CHAN and KAREEM FAHIM
The police last night began random searches of backpacks and packages brought into the New York City subways as officials expressed alarm about the latest bomb incidents in the London transit system.
The searches, which will also include commuter rail lines, are not a response to a specific threat against the city, said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who authorized the searches shortly before he announced them at a morning news conference.
The police have previously inspected bags at major events like parades and demonstrations, and the authorities in Boston conducted random baggage searches on commuter rail lines during the Democratic National Convention last year, but officials here could not recall a precedent for a broad, systematic search of packages in the New York City subways, which provide 4.7 million rides each weekday.
At some of the busiest of the city's 468 stations, riders will be asked to open their bags for a visual check before they go through the turnstiles. Those who refuse will not be permitted to bring the package into the subway but will be able to leave the station without further questioning, officials said.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly promised "a systematized approach" in the searches and said the basis for selecting riders for the checks would not be race, ethnicity or religion. The New York Civil Liberties Union questioned the legality of the searches, however, and Mr. Kelly said department lawyers were researching the constitutional implications.
"Every certain number of people will be checked," Mr. Kelly said. "We'll give some very specific and detailed instructions to our officers as to how to do this in accordance with the law and the Constitution."
Paul J. Browne, a Police Department spokesman, said officers would focus on backpacks and containers that are large enough to carry explosive devices or ordnance. "We have some history of what those look like," he said. "They're bigger than a handbag." Officers are unlikely to search pocketbooks, he said.
Searches began last night at several stations, including 14th Street-Union Square in Manhattan and an undisclosed station along the No. 7 line near Shea Stadium, in Queens. Today, the first full day the searches will be conducted, two of the many stations to be checked are Woodlawn-Jerome Avenue, on the No. 4 line in the Bronx, and Lafayette Avenue on the C line in Brooklyn. Mr. Browne said the search policy would continue indefinitely.
Transit officials in several other cities - Boston, Washington and San Francisco - said they were considering similar measures, although few have actually started randomly checking bags. A spokesman for the Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco said officials were not certain whether they have the legal authority for such searches. "This could be the lawyer's dream case," said the spokesman, Linton Johnson. "There is this balance of civil liberties and protection."
Lisa Farbstein, a spokeswoman for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which carries 1.2 million subway and bus passengers each weekday, said officials in the capital would watch how the effort went in New York. "It could be an option for us," she said, "but we are not there yet in terms of an implementation plan."
After the July 7 explosions in London, transit officials in Atlanta and Salt Lake City notified passengers that they reserved the right to inspect packages and bags, but the number of searches has been very small. In Utah, where a 20-mile rail system carries 45,000 passengers a day, a total of two bags have been inspected.
In Boston, for two weeks before the Democratic convention, subway stations were selected at random and bags were checked before riders entered the system, said John Martino, deputy police chief at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Police ran swabs across the bags and then put the swabs in machines that could detect explosives. "When we did it, we actually had people asking to be screened," Chief Martino said yesterday in a telephone interview. "It makes them more comfortable knowing that it was being done."
William W. Millar, president of the American Public Transportation Association, an industry group, said comprehensive coverage of any major urban transit system would be next to impossible. "If you were going to try to check a very high percentage at every station or on every train, it would be incredibly labor-intensive," he said.
Still, he said, the searches could deter would-be attackers and improve the public's confidence. "The public wants to feel safe, as well as be safe," he said. "So this has a benefit of perception."
Mr. Kelly said his department would "reserve the right" to expand the searches to buses and ferries, and he made it clear that many subway riders will be affected. "Ideally, it will be before you go through the turnstile," he said. "You have a right to turn around and leave, but we also reserve the right to do those types of searches if someone is already inside the system."
At the selected stations, as many as one in five or one in ten passengers may be picked for a search, said Mr. Browne. Supervisors will check that the searches are being randomly conducted, he said.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said its own smaller police force would conduct similar searches on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad. At Grand Central Terminal, an announcement was repeated over the loudspeakers last night: "Passengers are advised that their backpacks and other large containers are subject to random search by the police."
Mr. Bloomberg acknowledged that passengers might be inconvenienced. "It's a complex world where, sadly, there are a lot of bad people," he said. "We know that our freedoms are threatening to certain individuals, and there's no reason for us to let our guard down."
The mayor said he spoke with Gov. George E. Pataki and with the secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, shortly after hearing about the attacks in London yesterday, two weeks to the day after four bombings in the transit system there killed 56 and injured 700.
The police will focus on stations with heavy Manhattan-bound traffic in the morning and on stations with commuters leaving Manhattan in the evening. Riders will be asked to open their bags or allow them to be sniffed by trained dogs.
Mr. Browne, the police spokesman, said, "Obviously we're going to use common sense for someone that appears to be an imminent threat." For example, he said, if a passenger with a large package had both fists clenched, police officers would be justified in searching him. Anyone found to be holding illegal drugs or weapons is subject to arrest, he said.
The Transit Bureau of the Police Department has 2,200 officers and 500 supervisors, and even with the hundreds more that have been added for subway patrols, it is unclear how many riders can feasibly be searched. At Times Square, for example, there are 165,876 turnstile clicks on a typical weekday. Some of the system's turnstiles are used by a dozen passengers a minute.
Mr. Browne said such searches had been discussed "from time to time, over the last three years." Mr. Kelly suggested that riders could voluntarily speed the process. "Ideally, people wouldn't carry any backpacks or bulky packages on the transit system," he said.
Some riders expressed cautious support. Hani Judeh, 24, a Palestinian-American medical student who lives in Brooklyn, said he shaved his beard, stopped speaking Arabic publicly and attended mosque less regularly after 9/11.
He said he favored the searches, as long as they did not involve racial profiling. "They should check bags, but they can't discriminate," he said. "You can't tell Indian from Pakistani, you can't tell West Indian from black, you can't tell Arab from Mediterranean."
By SEWELL CHAN and KAREEM FAHIM
The police last night began random searches of backpacks and packages brought into the New York City subways as officials expressed alarm about the latest bomb incidents in the London transit system.
The searches, which will also include commuter rail lines, are not a response to a specific threat against the city, said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who authorized the searches shortly before he announced them at a morning news conference.
The police have previously inspected bags at major events like parades and demonstrations, and the authorities in Boston conducted random baggage searches on commuter rail lines during the Democratic National Convention last year, but officials here could not recall a precedent for a broad, systematic search of packages in the New York City subways, which provide 4.7 million rides each weekday.
At some of the busiest of the city's 468 stations, riders will be asked to open their bags for a visual check before they go through the turnstiles. Those who refuse will not be permitted to bring the package into the subway but will be able to leave the station without further questioning, officials said.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly promised "a systematized approach" in the searches and said the basis for selecting riders for the checks would not be race, ethnicity or religion. The New York Civil Liberties Union questioned the legality of the searches, however, and Mr. Kelly said department lawyers were researching the constitutional implications.
"Every certain number of people will be checked," Mr. Kelly said. "We'll give some very specific and detailed instructions to our officers as to how to do this in accordance with the law and the Constitution."
Paul J. Browne, a Police Department spokesman, said officers would focus on backpacks and containers that are large enough to carry explosive devices or ordnance. "We have some history of what those look like," he said. "They're bigger than a handbag." Officers are unlikely to search pocketbooks, he said.
Searches began last night at several stations, including 14th Street-Union Square in Manhattan and an undisclosed station along the No. 7 line near Shea Stadium, in Queens. Today, the first full day the searches will be conducted, two of the many stations to be checked are Woodlawn-Jerome Avenue, on the No. 4 line in the Bronx, and Lafayette Avenue on the C line in Brooklyn. Mr. Browne said the search policy would continue indefinitely.
Transit officials in several other cities - Boston, Washington and San Francisco - said they were considering similar measures, although few have actually started randomly checking bags. A spokesman for the Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco said officials were not certain whether they have the legal authority for such searches. "This could be the lawyer's dream case," said the spokesman, Linton Johnson. "There is this balance of civil liberties and protection."
Lisa Farbstein, a spokeswoman for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which carries 1.2 million subway and bus passengers each weekday, said officials in the capital would watch how the effort went in New York. "It could be an option for us," she said, "but we are not there yet in terms of an implementation plan."
After the July 7 explosions in London, transit officials in Atlanta and Salt Lake City notified passengers that they reserved the right to inspect packages and bags, but the number of searches has been very small. In Utah, where a 20-mile rail system carries 45,000 passengers a day, a total of two bags have been inspected.
In Boston, for two weeks before the Democratic convention, subway stations were selected at random and bags were checked before riders entered the system, said John Martino, deputy police chief at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Police ran swabs across the bags and then put the swabs in machines that could detect explosives. "When we did it, we actually had people asking to be screened," Chief Martino said yesterday in a telephone interview. "It makes them more comfortable knowing that it was being done."
William W. Millar, president of the American Public Transportation Association, an industry group, said comprehensive coverage of any major urban transit system would be next to impossible. "If you were going to try to check a very high percentage at every station or on every train, it would be incredibly labor-intensive," he said.
Still, he said, the searches could deter would-be attackers and improve the public's confidence. "The public wants to feel safe, as well as be safe," he said. "So this has a benefit of perception."
Mr. Kelly said his department would "reserve the right" to expand the searches to buses and ferries, and he made it clear that many subway riders will be affected. "Ideally, it will be before you go through the turnstile," he said. "You have a right to turn around and leave, but we also reserve the right to do those types of searches if someone is already inside the system."
At the selected stations, as many as one in five or one in ten passengers may be picked for a search, said Mr. Browne. Supervisors will check that the searches are being randomly conducted, he said.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said its own smaller police force would conduct similar searches on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad. At Grand Central Terminal, an announcement was repeated over the loudspeakers last night: "Passengers are advised that their backpacks and other large containers are subject to random search by the police."
Mr. Bloomberg acknowledged that passengers might be inconvenienced. "It's a complex world where, sadly, there are a lot of bad people," he said. "We know that our freedoms are threatening to certain individuals, and there's no reason for us to let our guard down."
The mayor said he spoke with Gov. George E. Pataki and with the secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, shortly after hearing about the attacks in London yesterday, two weeks to the day after four bombings in the transit system there killed 56 and injured 700.
The police will focus on stations with heavy Manhattan-bound traffic in the morning and on stations with commuters leaving Manhattan in the evening. Riders will be asked to open their bags or allow them to be sniffed by trained dogs.
Mr. Browne, the police spokesman, said, "Obviously we're going to use common sense for someone that appears to be an imminent threat." For example, he said, if a passenger with a large package had both fists clenched, police officers would be justified in searching him. Anyone found to be holding illegal drugs or weapons is subject to arrest, he said.
The Transit Bureau of the Police Department has 2,200 officers and 500 supervisors, and even with the hundreds more that have been added for subway patrols, it is unclear how many riders can feasibly be searched. At Times Square, for example, there are 165,876 turnstile clicks on a typical weekday. Some of the system's turnstiles are used by a dozen passengers a minute.
Mr. Browne said such searches had been discussed "from time to time, over the last three years." Mr. Kelly suggested that riders could voluntarily speed the process. "Ideally, people wouldn't carry any backpacks or bulky packages on the transit system," he said.
Some riders expressed cautious support. Hani Judeh, 24, a Palestinian-American medical student who lives in Brooklyn, said he shaved his beard, stopped speaking Arabic publicly and attended mosque less regularly after 9/11.
He said he favored the searches, as long as they did not involve racial profiling. "They should check bags, but they can't discriminate," he said. "You can't tell Indian from Pakistani, you can't tell West Indian from black, you can't tell Arab from Mediterranean."
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