This has to be one of the best articles I’ve read on the subject of the total ineffectiveness of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at airport security. Whether you want to believe it or not, they haven’t helped security one bit. However, they’ve certainly made a once proud nation of jet-setters into an efficient police state.
I’ve been trying to come up with some kind of assessment of this mess in my head, but the news seems to change with the wind and there is so much information to process on it, that I still feel like I’m floundering around without direction. Perhaps an apt metaphor might be, that I feel like a sea bird in an oil spill.
The situation is certainly worse than what is being stated and eyewitness reports from those not associated with BP are saying as much. BP proves time and again that they are lying sacks of horse manure, with no integrity of any measurable kind.
Still, with the deluge of data, I can’t seem to come up with a distinct and succinct way to verbalize my assessment of it all. I guess I’m suffering writer’s block.
Thankfully, Washington’s Blog has managed to write an article on the subject, rife with links to all the data, to save me from my current stupefied verbal impotence. It manages beautifully to summarize the situation and all that is wrong with it.
Showing his colors, Rep. Rob Etheridge (D-NC) physically assaulted a student on the street in Washington, D.C. So far, charges have not been brought up against him, but the video plainly shows that he committed a criminal assault.
At the very minimum the House should apply some sort of disciplinary action for Rep. Etheridge’s violation of the House ethics rules. Chances are instead, that he’ll get some kind of medal.
Addendum: I didn’t notice it at first, but take a close look at the time right after Rep. Etheridge grabs the young man’s wrist. He attempts to spray him in the face with mace or pepper spray. You can see the can in his hand as he finally moves away.
I just came across this very well written piece in The Weekly Standard on the current Climategate scandal. Seven F. Hayward does a fabulous job of summation on the scandal itself, as well as the current impact on climate science and the looming implications the growing mess creates.
Lars Vilks is no stranger to controversy involving Islamic imagery. His images portraying the prophet Muhammad as a “roundabout dog” earned everything from international condemnation (read as Islamic nations whining like little girls) to the Islamic State of Iraq (a terrorist organization) issuing a $150,000 reward for his assassination. (One of Vilks’ original drawings is shown at left. If there was any doubt that religion is insanity, realize that this image alone is motivation for the faithful to kill!)
Mr. Vilks was giving a lecture at Uppsala University in Sweden, when images in his lecture display set off the Islamic nut cases in the audience to attack him. He was head-butted in the chest and punched in the face, but did not suffer serious injury.
I have to applaud the Swedish police in this incident, for showing a remarkable level of restraint when dealing with these delusional, violent nuts. Even the one individual who had to be taken to the floor, was not abused in the process. Once he was down and immobile, there were no further actions taken against him. I wish our police could hold the same level of professionalism, but that breed of officer seems few and far between in the US these days.
I also feel that this video shows that at least a portion of the Islamic faithful simply cannot be reasoned with and when even slightly offended, they behave worse than animals in thrashing out at the ones they feel have “attacked their dignity”.
I have news for these people, you have no dignity. You are hollow and worthless and your actions demonstrate it.
Blasphemy is insanity at its worst. The very thought that a god or even a prophet cannot stand up for himself, but that he requires his followers to commit violent acts to defend his honor, is the epitome of delusional thinking. If such a god or saint does exist, he doesn’t need you to defend him.
Just to keep the record clear, there are Christians and Jews who will behave the same way, “protecting” their faith. This isn’t just a Muslim expression. The Muslims simply have the lion’s share of public violent lunacy, as the advent of science has tamed the monster that the Christian movement once was in the west and Jewish lunacy has mutated into Zionist lunacy, with Israel promoting their ire in military focus against Islamic nations, rather than mob violence to scattered events.
However, no matter how you look at it, the equation is pretty obvious: Middle Eastern religions are religions of violence. Read the Koran. Read the Bible. The gods portrayed there are selfish, petty, tyrannical, murderous monsters – and they command, right within the pages of their holy books, that their followers behave the same way.
Religion is insanity and it is very difficult to negotiate or reason with the insane.
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