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.

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.

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

Proving yet again that government is substantially incompetent, bereft of common sense, and generally a jobs program for those who can’t make it in private industry, the 2010 Census Form uses the word “negro” when asking about race.

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And for the record, yes, I am contract employee for the University of Maryland.  I went there for the leave package.

President Obama is a lying, walking colostomy bag.  Eight times he promised open debate on health care legislation, to be televised by C-SPAN (the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network).  This Chicago-style buffoon can’t get his way, so he’s changed course.  Now he’s nothing more than another leftist monkey throwing crap from a tree.

Maybe the intelligence community can't "connect the dots" because our buffoon of a president has the CIA tracking ice flows instead of camel jockey terrorists?

C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists

I have little regard for the so-called Transportation Security Administration.  I think our entire focus of airline security, focusing on objects rather than people, depending on a single line of defense instead of a defense in depth, and taking a low-bidder approach to staffing our airport security forces is stupid, venal, and politically-driven.  I call the TSA “Thousands Standing Around”.

Now, before I go on my latest harangue about the stupidity of the Federal Government (and one of it agencies), let me say that we cannot possibly hold the TSA responsible for the Gonad Bomber attack on Christmas Day, because the TSA does not operate in foreign countries. 

But I will call them out on their foolish Javert-like witch hunt against two bloggers who received and posted the new TSA security guidelines that were issued in the wake of the Christmas Day attack.  Issuing “administrative subpoenas”, seizing laptops, and threatening blogger’s livelihoods is not the actions of a government serving the governed.  Especially over a document that issues common-sense security directives that any unfortunate airline passenger could figure out in the time it takes them to take off their shoes.

The United States Government – and this goes for all those arrogant overpaid bureaucrats regardless of whether they work for a Republican or Democrat President – has an overinflated opinion of the cleverness of their security procedures for domestic airline flights.  I say this because so far, terrorists have used techniques only a generation removed from a caveman’s club to kill – or nearly kill – over 3,000 people.

Luckily, somewhere in that vast bureaucracy of Thousands Standing Around, some common sense (or dumb luck) seemed to prevail, and Thousands Standing Around has decided to “stand down” on the subpoenas.

Now if a more common sense approach to airline security could prevail, we might not be subjected to silly and ineffective patdowns for passengers who pose no threat to airline security.

The Mayo Clinic is dropping Medicare patients in Arizona because the government "pays too little".

Nice job, Barry.  You hail them for delivery high quality and low cost, and they say "up yours".

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From Toby Harnden’s column in The Daily Telegraph:

There is no more solemn duty for an American commander-in-chief than the marshalling of  “every element of our national power” – the phrase Obama himself used on Monday – to protect the people of the United States. In that key respect, Obama failed on Christmas Day, just as President George W. Bush failed on September 11th (though he succeeded in the seven years after that).

Yes, the buck stops in the Oval Office. Obama may have rather smugly given himself a “B+” for his 2009 performance but he gets an F for the events that led to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarding a Detroit-bound plane in Amsterdam with a PETN bomb sewn into his underpants.  He said today that a “systemic failure has occurred”. Well, he’s in charge of that system.

Make sure you read the whole thing.  This Brit gets the problem even more clearly than our fetid press, who are either still trying to cover for The Pretender, or hiding in shame for their own inability to do their jobs.

As I said in the late fall of 2008, there are two kinds of people in the United States:  those that remember the Jimmy Carter presidency, and those that are about to experience it.

President Barack Obama is a traitor.  Period.  He has, with the flourish of a pen, signed an executive order granting INTERPOL – an organization once flush with Nazis and headed by Reinhard Heydrich (author of the Wansee Protocol, the actual document declaring the “Final Solution”) – rights on American soil that that place it beyond the reach of our own law enforcement agencies and outside the Constituional regulations that protect American citizens.

As Andy McCarthy at NRO has noted:

This international police force (whose U.S. headquarters is in the Justice Department in Washington) will be unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law while it operates in the United States and affects both Americans and American interests outside the United States.

That means a US serviceman could be charged with a war crime, arrested by INTERPOL on US soil, and denied each and every Constitutional protection they fought and bled to defend.  The right to an attorney, protections against unreasonable search and seizure, the right to a speedy trial, a jury by a trial of their peers, etc.  Forget about his Article 32 rights under the UCMJ, too.  All of these are gone.

There are and would be no restraints against what INTERPOL could do.  No judicial intervention or review.  Nothing. Nada. Zip.  Short of a governor or local LEO (law enforcement officer) willing to order his own police into an armed confrontation with INTERPOL agents, there is nothing that would stop INTERPOL from arresting a US citizen and transporting them to places unknown for whatever trial might be in the offing.

Such an act as signing this executive order surrenders US sovereignty is a blatant and horrendous – abominable – violation of his oath of office.

This is why  you shouldn’t elect second-rate political hacks with mob ties and daddy issues.