US Sending Destroyer To Search for Missing Malaysian Flight in Indian Ocean, Russia Sending Over 10,000 Troops to Ukrainian Border, TSA on Pittsburgh Public Transit: P.M. Links

The missing Malaysia Airlines
Flight MH370 may have plunged into the
Indian Ocean, U.S. officials believe, so the Pentagon is
sending the USS Kidd destroyer ship on a search mission to the
area.
Russia is building a front along the Ukrainian border that
includes upwards of 10,000
troops accompanied by artillery and helicopter
units.
An independent commission found “no
compelling medical reason” to prohibit transgender individuals
from joining the U.S. military and suggested that President Obama
could end the current ban without Congressional approval. Maybe
they’re exactly what we need to scare the Russkies all the way back
to Red Square without firing a shot.
“This cannot happen in a free country,” said Sen. Rand
Paul (R-KY), who
slammed the CIA’s spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee,
adding that the agency is “arrogant.”
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is conducting
training exercises on Pittsburgh’s
buses and light rail. As if public transportation needed
anymore gropers. Meanwhile, promotional material from South By
Southwest is to blame for delays at the Austin-Bergstrom
International Airport today, an airport spokesman said, apparently
because the
ink obscures TSA scanners and is setting off alarms.
An Alabama judge stopped two women, who got married in Iowa but
are Alabama residents, from
getting a divorce, because the state doesn’t recognize same-sex
unions in the first place.