White candidate physically assaults African-American opponent.

Well that is what the headline would be if the party affiliations were reversed.

Interesting note a Saudi Prince was found guilty of murder and may get life in prison. Of course if he was sent home instead he could face the death penalty for…..being a homosexual. Ah the Religion of Peas is such a wonderous thing.

Just a little back page drama going on as China continues its consolidation of the resources needed to control high tech equipment construction. It will be interesting to watch the U.S. response.

Sigh. I know. And Meg Whitman is Arnie in a dress.

Still, they’re probably the best we’re going to be able to do in California, given that the Dems with their gerrymandering and open door illegal alien policy have pretty much managed to permanently ruin the state for any sort of sane populace - many of whom have already bailed, and others will be doing so shortly.

Fiorina’s primary value is that she won’t be voting for a Democrat as Majority Leader. But yeah, she’ll be a member of the Gang of McDick, subverting conservative goals and values every chance she gets.

More on Alaska Race: Greta on Fox last night, predicted a Murkowski win. Personally, it is too uncomfortably close to predict. Miller has made several missteps and errors. But there is 11 days left–anything can happen.

I suspect she has a bigger dick than Arnold.

Steroids will do that.

Steroids will do that.

Which one is using steroids?

I’m sure most of you heard the story about True the Vote, a volunteer group in Harris County, Texas who decided they would try and monitor the voter registration process and look for signs of fraud. Of which they found plenty. For their troubles they were harassed by election officials and sued by local Communist Democratic Party groups.

If you want to help, True the Vote is a 501c(3) group, and they do accept online donations.

link

We have used them for several years. They are not perfect, but if you use your cell phone as a phone and not as a data port they are good.

The two high end models (well, high end for Straight Talk), can be used as data phones - and while being a little slow, usually work OK. I have read dailypundit on mine now and then, as well as used it for traffic updates and weather when traveling.

A rich, meathead, slaver, Rob Reiner, compares people who want liberty to Hitler.

The higher the phone the better the quality on operation. However, even the Blackberry knock off does not work well in the big box stores and office buildings.

Still, they are much better as a value than the others. If you want a data system, I would say the Apple phone, though I do not have one….or one of the newer androids.

The funniest political ad of the season from David Zucker, director of “Airplane”. It plays on Barbara Boxer’s infamous, “Call me senator” moment.

Yah, that was a funny vid. Thanks, YKW.

My favorite “title-ists” are lawyers who insist on a) being addressed as “Attorney So-and-so” in order to command appropriate respect, and b) assert that their JD/LLD puts them on a par with doctors. Real doctors, I mean, not Doctor of Education “doctors”. Having done the law school thing, I assure you that a law degree is more like a reading-and-writing intensive Master’s degree, maybe a MA in English Lit. It doesn’t even stand in the same county as a PhD in engineering. (I started one of those but came to my senses before getting too far in. Chunk of money, *gobs* of time, and what was I going to do with the degree?)

Aye, Cap’n. But was this the result of a promotion, or was it self-promotion? We scurvy-dog deckhands want to know.

It’s downright sexist that men can find out if they’re really the daddy.

H/T Stuttaford at NRO.

I received a letter from the North Carolina Democratic Party informing me about all the scary things the Republicans plan on doing and letting me know for whom I should vote. Think I should send them a note back thanking them for letting me know whom *not* to vote?

Haverwilde’s unscientific view, based on reading the mood of the electorate here, by an emotional seat of the pants type of logic (is that enough qualifiers if not I can add more):

The undecided voters sappear to be breaking for Miller.

splitting the GOP vote and handing an Alaska Senate seat to the Democrats for 6 years

Martinra, I doubt that was in the calculations at all. It is hard to imagine a worse campaign than the one Miller has had to run. I don’t think even Murkowski would have predicted how far down Miller has slipped. This is all about Lisa. If McAdams wins it will be a strange turn of events, as many of the State Democrats are supporting Murkowski.

Yes, that has been made clear. She is running as a write-in republican. She is already part of the Senate GOP leadership group. She would never give that up, willingly?

The examples of Jeffords, Chafee, and Specter are still seared across my conciousness. You never know what the fallout might be in intra-party scrimmages, or what might happen if the Senate lands 50-50 or 51-49.

Okay I am going to be quite cynical, if the senate is evenly split or very close to it, and if Murkowski is elected, it will be the biggest financial windfall for Alaska since Ted Stevens. [She is a smart politician, and her priorities are very Alaskan. She learned what NOT to do from her father, and learned how to work the system from her mentor, Ted Stevens.]

I just stumbled across what looks like an informercial on KTVU titled “Prop 23: A Battle Over California”, which is, unsurprisingly, an anti-Prop 23 piece. It looks like they’re putting on the full-court press, because it’s going to run four more times tomorrow on KTVU, three times in the morning and once in the evening, and four times on KTVU’s sister station KICU (same ownership), very early tomorrow morning beginning at 2 AM.

Somehow, I seriously doubt that a similar piece with an opposing viewpoint is going to be run.

I’m just curious why Bill passed up the instapundit link that speculated on Nancy Pelosi becoming Mayor of San Francisco. Since the “Ayatollah of the Legislature” Willie Brown became mayor of San Francisco, and Jerry Brown became mayor of Oakland, I just figured there was some kind of recycling program for politicians in the bay area.

Every twist and turn by partisans in the Alaska Senate race appears to backfire. The run at adding 100 additional write-in has helped not hurt the Murkowski race. The attempt by leftist TV folks at smearing Miller, has given him a last minute push, and give Palin a soap box to stand on. And through it all the Mc”fatman”Adams slowly moves up in the polls.
I am ready for Tuesday to over!

Sad news from Doug Powers.

Now that Prop 25 passed here in CA, what are the chances that sometime in the near future an initiative will be concocted to change the 2/3 majority requirement for tax increases to a simple majority?

Now that Prop 25 passed here in CA, what are the chances that sometime in the near future an initiative will be concocted to change the 2/3 majority requirement for tax increases to a simple majority?

100%. There is usually such an initiative put forward by the ruling class every election.

That said, 25 was a back-door way of getting around Prop 13. The Dem majority can now pass any sort of budget it wants to pass. So let’s say it passes one with an automatic 20 billion dollar deficit built in. The Cali constitution mandates a balanced budget. So somebody then goes to court, and the court forces the state to raise taxes to cover the shortfall.

Presto - Prop 13 gutted.

Onward Christian soldiers:

‘A recent survey has shown that nearly half (47 percent) consider themselves to be part of the conservative Christian movement. And despite the perception of the movement being comprised of economically-oriented libertarians, the majority held social conservative views. Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of Tea Partiers say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, and only eighteen percent support same-sex marriage.’

Happy Diwali DP.

I’m in Ahmedabad this evening enjoying a city wide fireworks display. It looks like half the population has invested in fireworks. Rather pretty from my hotel perch some 80ft up…

Bummer. Jill Clayburgh has died.

More on Obama in India: I clicked this link on Glenn’s site this morning, and the following caught my eye:

When Indian officials refused to back down, Gibbs intervened, announcing on the steps of the Hyderabad House, the main venue at the Indian equivalent of Camp David, that he would pull Obama out of his bilateral meeting with [Indian Prime Minister Manmohan] Singh unless “the White House 8” were allowed inside.

WTF? The fucking press secretary pulls the President? On behalf of some puffed-up j-school alumni?

If I was Singh, I’d let the reporters in and kick Obama out. No point in giving their puppet a comfy chair, while making the people who apparently run the administration stand by the wall.

I’m amped about the growing movement to name 11/11/11 Nigel “This one goes to eleven” Tufnel Day.

Absolute insanity…

Looks like gun grabber Don Perata lost his bid to become Oakland’s mayor. Unfortunately, the person that did win, Jean Quan, is another Democrat.

Sometimes simple is better but they could have replaced the yellow with white.

Just barely caught the tail end of a piece on a local TV news prog and it seems that Harry Reid is going to bring up the DREAM Act during the lame duck session.

These guys really need to be strung up.

Just quoted you over on the Cannibal:

“Bark, moonbat, bark.”

But I gave you credit.

The only use of that I’m familiar with, and this was confirmed by a quick web search, is logic board designer and similar — electrical engineering.

It’s nemo. It’s snark.

I mean, come on.

Many thanks for the clarification - when I Googled “logic engineer”, I was getting a variety of stuff, none of which seemed a propos.

Sounds like an interesting kind of guy to know and talk with…

I’m an old fart, but I’m still interested in learning new stuff - and the term pushed my curiosity button.

(BTW - Google’s masthead today has a distinctly pirate-ish flavor - but National Talk Like A Pirate Day was September 19, like always - vot gifs?)

(Update on the BTW - seems it’s Robert Louis Stevenson’s [Treasure Island] 160th birthday today - now, there’s a slightly obscure event fer ya, matey!)

Alaska Senate race: I was wrong. One more day. 15,450 to count. Miller: 87,500, Murkowski: 74,450 uncontested, 81,023 with contested. At the current rate Murkowski will have 88,260 uncontested tomorrow.

Genes, You may think me naive, but I have a lot of faith in our Lt. Governor. He is a truly honorable man, and he heads the election division. I do not expect a lot of magic votes appearing.
The 88,260 is ‘uncontested,’ there will be another 7000 votes that are contested but are clearly for Murkowski, some of them misspelled, some of them in cursive but correctly spelled, some of them correctly spelled but with her party noted. If the uncontested are ahead of Miller’s votes, it is all over. If not then, off to court everyone goes.

Those are the hidden costs of the regulatory state - advances not approved, techniques not explored, preference for security and stability over entreprenurial risk. The fascist planners can only plan based on what has worked in the past, so they crush innovation automatically. Those who think the FDA and NRC are good and noble don’t realize how much the bureaucratic ass-covering really costs.

I went to engineering school - and it depressed the hell out of me. I switched to computer science instead, because at least that was a field in which one could find work.

Bill,

I agree with your evaluation of the brittle nature of the companies I mentioned. I have tentatively concluded that most large institutions, public, private, profit or not, all have the same problem.

I am aware from reading history that the institutions do shatter and from the wreckage, new and better grows - though not before a longer or shorter time of chaos and negativity.

My concern is that since the Dems and RINOs knew they were going to mostly lose in Nov, they are trying now to smash the working parts of the system before we pass the take off point.

If they can do that, it puts the singularity back 20 to 100 years.

That is what I fear.

We do see flexibility, and while I do not see as much as I think we need, I remember that in 93 I watched Waco on TV wondering where everyone else who thought as I do was.

At the time, they were watching TV thinking what I was thinking.

Now, with the internet as open channel, they and me and we are doing what we can to channel the wave that is coming.

I do not know that it is enough, nor do I think anyone here does.

I am just blowing of despair steam, so I can keep striving to do what I can.

Thanks for allowing a forum for venting.

One final footnote on the Alaska Senate race: The Native Alaskan factor was huge. It is traditionally Democratic, but varies from election to election.
In the Ketchikan community (Murkowski’s hometown) we had write-in=47%, Miller=33%, and McAdams=19%. But the small local Alaskan Native village of Saxman the vote count was: write-in=77%, Miller=8%, McAdams=15%. There is no doubt in my mind that Murkowski was elected because of the Alaska Native community.

Has anyone thought to start checking whether a lot of dead people suddenly found a way to write in for Murkowswki in Alaska? After all, both party’s establishment had reason to cheat in this election in favor of Murkowski.

Sigh.

http://abovethelaw.com/2010/11/lawsuit-of-the-day-parents-sued-by-man-who-killed-their-son/

A fascinating look at 10 centuries of European history, on a 5 minute long video. Border stability is the exception in Europe, not the norm.

That five minute video is the basis for the argument that Europe won’t become the dhimmis of Islam. They could have gone back another ten centuries and gotten the same video, only longer. There’s some logic to the argument that the Europeans couldn’t have been bred into socialist wimps in just 65 years, given that history. OTOH, I’m not sure we should be looking forward to a return to their previous pattern of bloodthirsty violence.

“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Centennia Software.”

In the meantime, here’s another:

Today is National Ammo Day. Don’t forget to buy a few pallets and say happy birthday to KDT.

–
Cthulhu 2010
I like his foreign policy of killing everybody and eating them.
I don’t like his domestic policy of killing everybody and eating them.

A thought occurred to me.

Hypothetically speaking, since the TSA seems to like looking at and/or groping our junk so much, I wonder what would happen if a couple hundred thousand people sent sex toys and/or images of naked people to the TSA via snail-mail.

Just wondering out loud, here.

In the Fall, she has to stay inside the house, though, Cap’n - otherwise, the squirrels try to bury her with the rest of the loose nuts.

Oops, make that a contested convention, not a contested election.

I thought there were three Ks in “progressive Amerikkka”. After all, “progressives” have more in common with Sen. Byrd’s friends than conservatives do.

Sorry, I thought I did put three ks in there. Fixed now.

Who cares; it’s Chicago.

Can you imagine having to work for one of these people? I can, because I have. The guy I worked for was a registered civil engineer who couldn’t attract people to work for his squad because “he doesn’t know anything.”

I was assigned to him to make sure he got a simple intersection widening project out the door on time. His lack of knowledge and inability to make decisions undercut my efforts at every turn. When the project was finished I wanted out, and was refused, so I retired nearly two years earlier than planned.

There will always be competent people to cover for the “hollow” ones, so civilization won’t collapse on their account. What will cause damage is such people in the White House, answering to one of their own. We’re now seeing how grievous the damage can be.

Until someone spits on them and calls them “Baby Killer” they won’t know what pain is.
Message for TSA FOAD.

Well, sure, but only in the sense that they “missed” the meter readers, burger flippers, and DMV workers. They’re mostly just random people with blue shirts on.

There are no contradictions in reality. If you think you’ve found one, then one of your assumptions is flawed.

Obama a Fanonista, tearing down the USA to equalize us with the rest of the world? His policies don’t make sense if our assumption is that he means to lead the USA to its benefit and prosperity, so which assumption do we discard? That of competence, or that of benevolence?

No. In that case he’d be trying to destroy the country but unintentionally bring about a business boom and expansion of personal liberty the likes of which had never before been seen.

Also, no quarter and we will take no (live) prisoners - though we will accept sincere converts at any time, in any number.

“Play nice”, my pea-pickin’ ass…

I’ve heard of “buns so tight she could pull a brick from a wall”, but having the fine control needed for picking peas is impressive. Hats off to you, JSB!

Who the hell keeps inviting this guy? After a disastrous presidency, the only thing he’s done since is help force the Haitian military to give power back to corrupt Haitian politicians.

Highly-appropriate comment over there by someone signing as Honest Abe:

“CNN’s “Reliable Sources”"

Now there’s an OXYMORON.

“Jimmy Carter”

And there’s the MORON!

Only reason why anyone even references the drivelings of the Pee-Nutty Pinhead anymore has to be the marginal amusement value to be derived - it certainly diminishes any possible probitive value in the overall item.

Only the good die young.

Which means ol’ Jimmuh the Jawjuh Jerkoff will outlive us all, unfortunately…

Close this agency atrocity. Fire these people assholes. Spit Shit (literally) on Janet Napolitano.

FIFY -

And do so not necessarily in that order.

No, but we could tell Castro they want asylum.

I was 8. The only thing it meant to me, at the time, was that for three days I couldn’t watch the Captain, Soupy, Woody or Annette Mickey.

It’s odd, what a few years difference makes. I was 10, and it meant we got out of school early. I went home and my parents were both there in a very somber mood. I went outside to terrorize the animals in the forrest, shoot BB’s at the kids from across the woods, and cause general mayhem in the neigborhood.

I shit myself the day JFK died.

In school, I’d from time to time hear the teachers wax rhapsodic about “Jack” but it was just noise. And as I learned more about his constant miscues I concluded that being killed was the best thing that could have happened to him. This way, he’s the eternal, beloved Boy King.

And I think that looking into “the truth” about the assassination and the aftermath was a big step on my path to disbelieving everything the government says.

I’ll have to take the word of my elders about the watershed event, the cultural change, the bitch-slap of reality. From where I sit, it’s just one of many such events.

Such a “peaceful” and “tolerant” religion…

2012?

Conceivably on the ticket somewhere. Probably Veep, at this point.

Better as U.S. Attorney-General, maybe - imagine what he might do, using that attitude, on illegal-immigration issues.

Or possibly head of Homeland Security - thereby also deservedly shit-canning that asshole Napolitano. That’s a Gubmint twofer.

If we’re talking about 2012, there are a few other names I’d like to see.

Armey

Thompson

track records, endorsements, credentials and everything.

DSmith, I agree. Thompson had his shot at the brass ring and did not conduct himself in a manner that would give me confidence to let him try again.

At this point, I’m ready to give up on the old hands with baggage, and hand off to the kids. I’d vote for Jindal, or Rubio, or Rand Paul or… anybody who hasn’t been corrupted by being in the beltway too long or associated with the RNC. The less of that experience, the better.

I have no idea what it is I’m expected to be seeing–but it’s nonetheless the damnest thing I’ve ever seen, for all that…

I’m guessing that after-hours Monday, a few of the computer models said “sell!”. Two days later, probably those same ones said “buy!” Meanwhile, the humans saw nothing during the day and sat tight?

Someone tried to be edit the recent past? What’s odd is that the daily charts were on the earthlink news pages showing a drop for those two missing days.

These patricians are the best the GOP could do after Reagan? And then the best they could was Bob “Tax Collector for the Welfare State” Dole, and then the elder Bush’s stumble-tongued son?

No wonder the GOP is ready for the scrap heap. Instead of building on the Reagan momentum and legacy, they completely squandered it, and now ridicule those who seek to repair the damage they did.

Of course, Bush I and II got their names in the history books, and are received as royalty anywhere they go in the world. They succeeded in spite of themselves, being blessed with stupid, lame, and spiteful political opponents, the post-sixties generation of Democratic politicians.

So I suppose the GOP patrician establishment got what they wanted, and no doubt what they felt they deserved. Too bad they were so clueless and self-centered they couldn’t see what their own actions would lead us to.

Just not enough like-minded people, I think. Just like today, there was a long-tenured GOP establishment, living in a DC bubble, and virtually 100% ignorant of economics. They didn’t understand why Reagan’s policies worked, and had no strong philosophical positions. So as soon as they used Reagan’s success to get some influence, they started the usual ruling class games.

Ronnie put in a few people, but I think most of them left in the 1990s out of disgust. They were such a minority they couldn’t get anything done, so they finally gave up. A lot of them are working at conservative think tanks now.

Bush the Elder was one of the biggest problems in dissipating the Reagan spirit. He never understood or trusted the Reagan people, and made darn sure none of them had any opportunity to steer the GOP during his four years. Instead, he stupidly tried the “reach across the aisle” game, egged on by the media he cluelessly failed to realize had already chosen to side with his opponents. The biggest result: he went back on “read my lips”, which shows right there that he had no real principles to use for his decision making. That allowed a callous, lying, skirt-chasing hick from Arkansas to beat him.

Instead of building on the Reagan momentum and legacy, they completely squandered it, and now ridicule those who seek to repair the damage they did.

Is “squandered” the right word, here? I’ll have to think about that.

Hmmm. Did Monty Brewster squander $30 million?

I think I’d have to say, the Reagan legacy is not being squandered at all. It’s depreciating inventory from a discontinued model that the GOP has chosen to invest toward a new enterprise that promises what the party leadership projects to be a truly impressive rate of return. This return cannot be realized as long as any of that depreciating inventory remains on the books, but party leadership expects that return to materialize quickly once the shelves are empty.

Thank God for the senate hold.
Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill

A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor the Internet will not pass this year thanks to the Oregon Democrat, who announced his opposition during a recent committee hearing. Individual Senators can place holds on pending legislation, in this case meaning proponents of the bill will be forced to reintroduce the measure and will not be able to proceed until the next Congress convenes.

cerdip, the link you provided is the same source for Bill’s post.

genes’ source is different, but if you took a closer look at Bill’s source, you’d see another story that matches genes’ information:

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/senator-web-censorship-bill-a-bunker-busting-cluster-bomb/

The bill passed one committee, but it won’t get past Wyden’s committee for a floor vote. This arcane, multi-committee setup, when it works properly, is capable of giving us the best of all possible worlds: a do-nothing Congress.

If only Congressional resistance to new legislation could be imposed on the rule- and regulation-making bureaucrats in the ever-expanding executive branch…

I’m thinking about making middle aged bloggers a sex symbol for college coeds.

Or, being such an outstanding individual that the Secretary of the Army offers me a warrant.

Actually, I kind of liked the movie - especially since Freeman got all the best lines. Nicholson’s always fun to watch, too. Also, my enjoyment was somewhat tainted by the fact that my late wife and I saw it together, when it first came out - about a year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and not quite two years before she died.

She only got about halfway through her own list - even though she wrote it before we saw the movie. C’est la vie…

My reaction (for what little it’s worth):

# 1 - Too easy - you and Milton would win in a walk - though it’d be fun to watch. Hell, I’d pay to watch Mickey Moore-on get stomped on.

# 2 - Might be kinda fun, but he’d almost certainly hand you your ass in a paper sack.

# 3 - Aside from possibly the intellectual challenge, that’s just weird.

# 4 - Kicky! Gotta fire at least a couple of rounds out of the big tube, though.

# 5 - Outstanding! What a service to humanity - you’d make about ten mil the first week. I’d build you a shrine for that one - add on a feature that would blow up “boom-cars” from 50 feet away, and I’d make it a whole cathedral.

# 6 - Also quite commendable - although I’d want to use a flaming 38-ounce Louisville Slugger wrapped in razor wire, myself. (Tough to do, too - he’s almost certainly dead already)

# 7 - To hell with talking - just kidnap his sorry ass and ship him there!

# 8 - High potential for “interesting”, I’d say.

# 9 - Add: “…at speed, either highway or closed-course”, and I’m with you. (It’s “Duesenberg”, BTW - small-but-somewhat-important quibble)

#10 - If I get to join in, I’ll buy the bottle - and you two can even fight over the worm, if you like.

I’ve made my own list, some time back - but I’ve already started on it (never know what tomorrow may bring), and it keeps getting longer - when I check an item off, I add another one at the bottom.

Or we could play ping-pong while drinking that tequila. I was one of the ping pong kings of the Pipe Club. Could take everybody else regularly, and even whipped Dudley more than my share of times.

A few. And some Glenmorangies.

Of course, we could have a bottle of 1934 Lafite. I bought some from a portfolio manager who flamed out. Cheap.

Hell, I’d start drinking again to partake in a Glenmorangie with you gents.

Jesus eye-gouging Christ! Are you trying to destroy the internet?

The American Council of Government TSA, uhhh, who are we? Oh yeah, American Federation of Government Employees passes along the following:

Napolitano: [big smile, holds up thumb] *sniff* Our long, lonely quest is finally over, my sweet thumbiekins, my friend, my only friend, my true lifelong friend, with benefits. Finally, a place for us, a place where we belong…. Oh, I could just pinch myself, but would you like to do it? … Why, the same special place you always do, of course…. No, they’re American citizens, they have rights, I can’t make them turn around…. But thumbie, my wonderful lovestub, this is an airport, for flying, flying, free as air, free, broadening horizons, what could be more right, more natural? … No, you’re right, not if Channel 4 is here. Those pervs would probably put it on the internet. You’re so wise, thumbsome, my friend, my only friend, my true lifelong friend, with benefits…

Pistole: OK, people, pay attention, because this is the last time I’m gonna answer this question. It is a vicious canard that GS7 stands for “Groping Shy 7yo.” These things get out on the internet, they go viral, and we have to deny them over and over for months when any idiot should be able to figure out they’re baloney. I’ve had many, many TSA workers that heard this rumor and got taken in, they ask me, hoping I can make their world whole again, they look so worried, so vulnerable, they’re shaking so bad, some of them, that their lip tattoos are just blurs. I hate to do it, I know how much it’s gonna hurt, but I point out to them, as gently as I can, “When you promote to the next grade, the number goes up,” and then I help them stagger back to the glove dispenser and give them a kleenex. These people go through hell, It’s the least I can do. I tell ya, what we’re paying out right now for grief counseling is gonna break the budget, we’re going to have to scale back the gloves from pre-lubed to powdered, all because of some anonymous sicko…

Obama: No, it’s — some sort of security thing, the Secret Service insists I wear it, absolutely insists, for my protection, and to help the image of America abroad. What they told me was, if some sick Second-Amendment fetishist shot at my left thigh from about One O’Clock, this galvanized pipe would protect my upper funeral artery. Why certainly, General, inspect away, but I’ll need it back once we’re ready to go. My pleasure…. Hey, that guy was a dead ringer for that TSA General guy. Aguilar, right? Anyhoo, most places you might get shot, it’s serious ‘n all, but you at least have time to get to a doctor. The upper funeral artery, though, man, that’s one of the Five Great Wounds, you can bleed to death in less than a minute, and even if you have a doctor right there he can’t stop it, which is why, of course, it’s called the funeral artery, and of course the President of the United States is far too important for a funeral mishap. You know you’re probably right, I think I remember that from college, there’s an equally vulnerable funerrrrrr, just a minute, damn soda spills, f, e, m, o, r, a, l, fi mow rall, right, femoral artery, yeah, in the right leg, too, and galvanized pipe is still way cheap even after the last two years, but somehow that might harm the image of America abroad, according to my advisors. Well, obviously I’m not a doctor, I’m just a, sorry, just a minute, h, u, m, b, l, e, h-u-m-b-l-ee, hum-bly, humble! a humble Community Organishhhh… …….. here we are, a humble State Leg- errr, that’s not right, scroll, scroll, scroll, a humble Senn-n-n-navabitch! *thwap* … scroll, scroll *thwap* …….. *sigh* *click!* ….. ……… . ………. Uhhh …… ………… So, uhhhhh, where do you guys live? … Oh, yeah, right, silly me, Lindbergh, yeah, of course you all live in San Diego. I travel so much ….. ……….. ……. …….. … Hey, I’m very sorry, but there’s a sudden international emergency in, uhhhh, in, ahhh, innnnNamibia, yeah, I think, and I must return to the People’s business. To be perfectly honest, Namibia teeters on the brink unless they get some screen cleaner. Right now, though, if anyone knows where the guy went with my pipe, could you ask — What’s on the raaaaaa*cough* *cough* my apologies, sir, what’s on this, errr, cloth? … Can I see? … Hmmm. Hey, what the… No fffffffffffffff……………kin’ way… Well, give it a try, ♪ it’s not my dime ♪ so it cain’t ♪ be a crime ♪ … ah, the classics … …….. … they’re so … ……… .. …………………….. … classical … ………… …. *click* … Ah, much better! Must have been a strange accident, I mean, who’s gonna mix video head cleaner with incense, but hey, if it works, it works. Learn somethin’ new every day. An inventive spirit like that, no wonder Lindbergh Field is such a great travel hub, and such friendly staff! You guys make me proud, so proud… Here you go, sir, and please accept the gratitude of the United States of America. Our centuries-old traditions are once again secure, thanks to fine patriotic citizens like — oh, there you are, General. Sorry, I’m in a rush, emergency in Naruto, and the Secret Service won’t let me out in public unless I’m protected, so can I have my pipe back now…. Damn, I almost didn’t recognize it… How’d you get it so shiny? … What’d you use? Really? Who knew? Saliva, eh? What else? Well, next time I come through this airport let’s have lunch and get better acquainted, and then you can tell me. Whatever it is, though, all I can say is, damn! That don’t-touch-my-junk guy was definitely fucking with the wrong marine! *gripsNgrins* Thanks again, General! Errr, that stuff’s not going to stain, is it? OK, great! I should warn you, though, if that crease relaxes so much as one tenth of one degree, you’d better hope the Secret Service finds you before Michelle does, hehehehehehehehehehe*snort* annnnnnnd, there we go, America’s image abroad is once more secure. Sorry, gotta go, emergency in Gaddadavida and all, so I’ll close with a few words. And here they are: E pluribus unum, hope and change, abracadabra, and tweak!

Mr. Boenher: [We apologize, but the President’s speech took so much space that we had to delete the article for Mr. Boenher. In recompense, we mention today’s hot news item, a viral email with attached photo originating somewhere within the membership of the American Federation of Government Employees, which has been brought to our attention by a loyal and patriotic TSA employee. The photo is apparently a computer-generated schematic of a naked genderless “average human,” represented without clothes, a blank oval for the face, and no primary or secondary sexual characteristics, and the following attached text: “ya gadda b kiddin me!!!!! gotcha arigant ass!!!!!! u cn run bt u cnt hide u remf!!!!! old war wound mb nifoc boi????!!!!!!! gess sum bonyers r innys LOLZZ!!!!!!11grand oorah booyah!!!!!” The TSA wishes to reassure the American People, Congress, and Representative John Boenher (R-OH) that images generated by its body scanners are not identifiable as to the persons entering the scanners. We have since received an email from Mrs. Debbie Boenher in which she “begs to differ.” In a subsequent email exchange, we pointed out that her opinion had no supporting evidence whatsoever, and she answered, “Precisely, case closed.”]

Pelosi: In a sudden move today, the American Federation of Government Employees announced a surprise nation-wide strike, bringing all air traffic to a halt. While contrary rumors abound, sources within the union confirm the cause to be

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Uh-oh. It looks like Clayton is fixin’ to jump to The Onion.

It started out as just a quick response to John Bono, pointing out that what he thought of as an obvious deterrence was unlikely to deter any of the persons on his list, though for different reasons. Then it turned into, “How far gone do they already have to be, merely to be able to think that what they’re doing is right?” And then I got to Obama, and he started talking, and he talked, and then he talked, and then for a little variety he talked some more, and I just couldn’t get the guy to shut up…

It was doomed from the start anyway. While it’s not exactly impossible that Nancy Pelosi might get felt up by a TSA agent, I couldn’t figure out how Terri Schiavo was going to fill out an SF-171.

I wonder, though: How do they compare to their intellectual equals, the J-school fools?

Cheaters and liars, leading in school and the press.

Slightly off topic, but do you know what institutions of higher learning had the highest rate of books not being returned….

Religious Seminaries, at least that was true during the era when I was working in one in Berkeley.

Thanks, Haverwilde. Now I’m going to have that tune stuck in my head for a few days.

“Now I’m going to have that tune stuck in my head for a few days.”

I know the feeling. Last month, I not only had a tune stuck in my head for a week, but a mental image of the guy singing it. When you have a mental image of Maurice Chevalier in a straw hat, singing “thank heavunnnn, for leetul guuuurls…”, well, it’s downright distracting.

Just so long as its not “I love you, you love me…”.

a mental image of Maurice Chevalier in a straw hat, singing “thank heavunnnn, for leetul guuuurls…”,

Straw hat?

When you have a mental image of Maurice Chevalier in a straw hat, singing “thank heavunnnn, for leetul guuuurls…”, well, it’s downright distracting.

Would you prefer Janet Napolitano in rubber gloves?

See you next week. If you survive.

Let’s see pics of everybody’s Ammo Day hauls.

Mine here and here.

Or post links in comments at my place.

Would be a lot cheaper to buy drugs. I’ll have to settle for making some, instead of buying some.

Ha. Ammo, of course.

Really stiff punishment there, Charley. After all, you only did this kind of stuff foe 40 damn years. If you had started younger you could have done it for 60 years and then your punishment would have been terrible to behold-you would have lost your hall pass, maybe.

Ah, well, what can you really expect? After all, Rangel’s simply been carrying on in the tradition set by this guy, “…the first person of African-American descent elected to Congress from New York.” Rangel’s running a poor second place as to corruption, too - Powell was not merely censured; he was removed from his Congressional seat - and by Democrats, no less, his own political party. He (Powell) then contrived to be elected to fill the vacancy his ejection created - and was finally seated in the next Congress, though with no seniority and loss of committee chairmanship.

Electing - and re-electing - corrupt Congrosscritters therefore has a long and dishonorable tradition for certain Noo Yawkers…”Keep the faith, baby!”

Bill, I think the McConnell he’s talking about is a Rhode Island trial lawyer and Dem donor, not the Kentucky senator. Though primarying the senator anyway sounds good.

I sha’n’t be flying again unless the system is torn down and replaced with something that works.

That should be about five minutes after the Heat Death of the Universe.

Next up: These folks have declared November 24 (the day before the Thanksgiving holiday, arguably the busiest air-travel day of the year) as National Opt-Out Day, apparently to confront and jam the fucktards of Testicle Squeezing Asswipes to the greatest extent possible.

If traveling by air that day, just say The Magic Words: “I opt out!” - what you say or do then, during the obscene shake-down that follows, is up to you; proceed - or not - at your own discretion…

JS, unfortunately TSA reminded us that even if the airport goes private, TSA dictates their required procedures. So all this means is do you prefer being groped by private pervs or Gubmint pervs.

The public outcry over this stuff would be a lot louder if people realized that there isn’t much difference between your regular TSA screener and the guy who hands you your food at the drive-through.

Actually, no, that’s not quite fair to the drive through-guy. He usually has to do math, work quickly and accurately, and is accountable to management for customer complaints.

It is pretty much inevitable that we’re going to see more high-profile incidents if they don’t scrap these procedures. Screeners will (again, as it has happened already) be caught saving backscatter images or taking cell-phone pictures of them. Passengers will be groped in (even more) inappropriate manners. Screeners will probably injure some passengers with recent injuries/surgeries or infirmities. There is bound to be an incident where screeners are caught re-using gloves.

And lastly, wait until we get a riot or near-riot because someone questions the TSA exempting a hijab-clad female from some or all of these procedures.

The military leaders, at least down at the mid level, understand the principle of going after the terrorists’ backers. I don’t remember the term the Army uses, but the idea is to go after the financiers and the indoctrinators and the bosses. If a terrorist team manages to plant a roadside bomb, you’ve already half lost that “skirmish”. If you shoot them on the way to planting it, you’ve quarter-lost. The way to win is to arrest kill dead the guys raising and sending the money. The imam non-denomination shithead of any stripe, who preaches that killing an American is a sure route to heaven, gets bumped up in priority.

But of course the political masters won’t allow any method that works.

Enough with the jizya!

You forget, when it comes to Obamao, it’s spelled “jiz-breath”.

It appears that the TSA is well on their way to checking off the list of predictions I made above. Even I didn’t expect them to jump into it with so much gusto.

I imagine this stuff is really going to pick up in the next couple of days, for obvious reasons.