What in God’s name is up with that?  $4 more per month?  Are they really serious?

As with so many other things, I am right about airport security.  You focus on the passenger, not the weapon, to identify dangers to a flight. Of course, in this “new America” brought to us by our Presidential Moron and his band of Keystone Cops led by Janet the Dumbass Napolitano, that dog won’t hunt.  It’s much more important to piss off every single American by treating them all as equally criminal, than to piss off foreigners flying to (or in) this country (which is a privilege, not a right).

But Daniel Pipes highlights a great story about El Al – the safest airline in the galaxy – and how they thwarted a bombing in 1986.

You should read it.

And remember, I am right.

“Great moments... are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we played 'em ten times, they might win nine. But not this game. Not tonight.”  - Herb Brooks’ Locker Room speech from the movie Miracle.

All week on Baltimore sports radio, I have had to listen some of this city’s most profound morons expound on how there is no way that the Baltimore Ravens can possibly beat the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton Manning.  Peyton is the “greatest quarterback of all time”.  Their passing game is too impenetrable.  The Colts are 14-2, the Ravens 9-7. We haven’t beaten the Colts since 2002.

Of course last week, there was  Tom Brady and the Patriots.  We couldn’t beat them either.  They had not lost a home playoff game since 1978—against Earl Campbell’s Houston Oilers.  Tom Brady was the “greatest quarterback in the game”.  Bill Belichik was the greatest coach in the game.  We had never beaten the Patriots.

Uh huh.  The Patriots haven’t been beaten that bad since they played the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl.

People talk about how our offense is too one dimensional.  Guess what?  Indy can’t run the ball.  That means they can’t control the clock.  And does anyone remember the 2000 season?  We won the Super Bowl that year, crushing Jim Fassel’s New York Giants with a “one-dimensional” offense.

People talk about how successful the Colts are with Peyton at the helm.  There is no doubt he is a great quarterback.  But there is also no doubt that they choke in the playoffs.  Especially when they “rest” their players in the final games of the regular season.

Yes, if we play them ten times, they will probably win nine.

But in the playoffs, you only need to win once.

Do you believe in miracles?

O'Guvnah is now expecting a "moderate" tuition increase in the University System of Maryland.  Whoopee.  Four years too late.  But there are other things that O'Guvnah should demand from the University System of Maryland.  Here's my list.

1. Tell University of Maryland, Baltimore President Ramsey to stop the unneeded printing of full color, die-cut heavy stock color annual reports.  Specifically mention Dean Reese's abominable waste of money.  And the four-color glossy newsletters printed on tabloid size paper.  It's a ridiculous waste of money.  Ever hear of email and PDFs?
2. Tell Bob Caret to disconnect his head from his arse and start charging out of state students at Towson University the proper tuition.  His finance staff, by improperly undercharging out-of-state students less than they should, have committed fraud against the Maryland taxpayer.
3. Tell University Of Maryland, Baltimore President Ramsey to stop subsidizing student parking at the Poppleton "BioPark" garage.  They pay less than half what employees pay-- and that is subsidized 50%. So students are paying 25% the "going rate".
4. To offset the increase in tuition, why not force the hand of professors on book selection?  Stop changing text books every semester or every year.  Stop allowing different sections of the same course to use different books.  Make professors who use textbooks THEY write to give their campus a discount (or the book can't be used).
5. Raise the tuition for out-of-state and international students.  Maryland taxpayers pay for these universities and colleges.  We back the bonds issued for capital investment.  We fund the pensions of professors and staff.  There should be a massive and demonstrable difference (I am thinking at least double) between the cost of a Maryland resident and a non-resident to attend a Maryland University or College.
6. Force professors at the undergraduate schools to carry more "required" courses on their teaching schedules, so that undergraduate students don't have to spend five years at college (or extra summer semesters) just to get the required courseload completed, because there are too many students and too few sections of The Zen of Underwater Basketweaving and Political History.
7. Sports programs should be self-sustaining.  You won't have to call Debbie Yow again and tell her not to fire Ralph Friedgen unless the money to pay him off is in her budget.  Note that I said "programs", not "teams".
8. Force university departments to use the same suppliers for things like software, computers, office supplies, water, and so on.  It's amazing how many different vendors serve one building at University of Maryland, Baltimore.
9. Start prosecuting administrators and management staff that engage in fraud and theft from cash accounts and grant funds.  Ask around, and you'll find out what I am talking about.

Millions are wasted outright every year on our campuses, because they are run without the natural benefit of a profit and loss approach.  As an employee of the University System of Maryland, it burns me every time I get a silly printed newsletter that I know cost at least seventy-five cents to a dollar to produce, all to feed the egos of over-indulgent academics looking for a good stroke.

Only for non-HD titles, though. But there are LOTS of those.

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Because she is up to her ass in alligators in the notorious Amirault child sex abuse case that wasn't.  She kept an innocent man in jail.

Read more here.

Sick man with TB -- visibly sick -- and on a "Do Not Board" list flies from Philly to San Fran.  And you want to put the Federal Government in charge of health care?  They can't even read a list.

Read the full details here.

Maybe so.  Looks like Google is getting a little tired of the chickenshit that goes on in the world's largest mafia organization.

You can read the full details here.

No, not really. It's an SNL skit.  But, it's still funny.

Listening to WCBM on my way in to work today, Frank Luber claimed that "sources" on the lower eastern shore had told him that Sarah Foxwell's lower torso has been at least partially burned.  I don't know if it is true, I am NOT reporting this as fact, only that Luber said it around 8:05am I think.

If so, who are the "sources" that Luber is talking about?  Are they the same ones that have fed Sebaceous Puss all his "alleged" information he isn't revealing?

And, why is Luber -- a venerated Baltimore newsman of four decades -- spreading rumor on air?