Did I just wake up in an Orwell novel?

It’s going to be very difficult for me to avoid profanity in this post. This just makes me spitting mad. You’ve been warned.

Just when I thought nothing could be as stupid and evil as the nitwit, unionized, jackbooted thugs at the TSA along comes a little Himmler at DHS to prove me wrong. Not satisfied with the expensive, useless kabuki theatre laughingly called “airport security”, here’s a plan to treat every single passenger as a criminal.

See if you can watch this video without throwing a wrench through your screen.

This is just so mind-numbingly stupid I can’t believe it. It would kill air travel. Would you allow some goon to attach one of these to your arm? To your kid’s arm?

Pardon my French, but what a bunch of fucktards. Revolutions have been fought over less. It’s time to disband the DHS and the TSA and start over.

Like with profiling and armed pilots.

Update:

Michelle Malkin has a sort-of denial from the DHS. Note, especially, that last line in the post. So maybe more of my fire-spitting vitriol should be directed at the company which makes the bracelet and produced that video than at DHS, but I still say it, and that gargantuan waste of money called the TSA, should be disbanded.

I’m officially impressed

Recently a coworker told me about Sandy, aka iwantsandy.com. It’s a nifty (and free!) email-based personal assistant. You sign up, get an email address to send to, and you can send her notes like

Remember that I lent the Killer Klowns from Outer Space DVD to mom

or

Remind me on Monday to take out the garbage

and she’ll send you reminders and remember stuff for you. Slick, right? Today another coworker told me about Jott. It’s a free (while it’s in beta) service that takes voice messages from you and turns them into email messages and reminders. Well, Sandy is one of the web sites you can Jott directly, so I’m all wired. It’s really easy to set up.

I just gave Jott the acid test. Using the speakerphone at home (just to make it harder, I sent it the speech recognition acid test. And here’s what it sent back:

Sent with my voice via Jott:
It’s hard to wreck a nice beach.

Wow.

Britain Death Watch

This sort of nonsense has been going on for years in Britain. But here’s yet another example of the police siding with the hoodlums instead of the victims.

For more than two years, Sydney Davis’s house has been under siege from youths throwing stones.

After two hours of bombardment in the latest attack and no sign of the police, the 65-year-old retired builder decided enough was enough.

As a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, he grabbed a plank of wood from the garden and ran towards the gang to scare them away.

The police arrived just in time – to arrest Mr Davis for possession of an offensive weapon.

The stone-throwers are referred to as just “youths”. Makes me suspicious. What sort of youths are known to attack people in Wiltshire? (Three guesses.)

Update:

Jonah Goldberg on that whirring sound.

As the Messiah moves toward “the center”

the Maverick is moving to the right.

This is encouraging. More of this and McCain may actually start to sound like a Republican.

But I’m not holding my breath.

Pigs Fly at the Pulitzer Prize?

Michael Ramirez actually won. Who was asleep at the wheel at the Pulitzers?

If you think you understand Quantum Mechanics

then maybe you understand Barak Obama.

Perhaps that explains the cracks appearing in his base.

I think Bo Snerdley gets it.

Update:

Watch out for that posse.

Baba Wawa

Mowon.

Still doubt that Iran is at war with us?

Word from the inside should erase all doubt.

It is not an exaggeration to claim that the radicals belonging to the secretive society called “Hojjatieh,” who are devoted to the 12th Imam, have taken control of all vital positions in Iran. Ayatollah Janati, the head of the Guardian Council in charge of interpreting the constitution, supervising elections, and approving of candidates running for public office, has been very vocal about his opposition to the West: “We are anti-American and we are America’s enemy,” and “Non-Muslims are animals roaming the planet.” They believe that the 12th Imam supports their agenda of obtaining nuclear weapons and destroying Israel in order to start the chaos necessary for the final destruction of what they see as American imperialism and Israeli Zionism.

These apocalyptic believers in the “12th Imam” are the dangerous lunatic fringe of a dangerous, lunatic religion. They are in charge of Iran. And they are pursuing nukes.

To kill you.

If you thought California legislators couldn’t get stupider

well, you’d be wrong. As usual.

Nancy Pelosi’s Terrorist Diplomacy

Was she conducting her own foreign policy in opposition to the United States?

I don’t know the answers to these questions, but one would think that at least one reporter would be willing to ask Pelosi why her name pops up in the communications of South American terrorists. As their ally.

I’m not holding my breath.

Kicking and Screaming

Who saw this coming?

Oh, right.

British Nanny State Hits Bottom, Digs

Not content with merely losing the war and its culture, Great (sic) Britain is doing its best to make sure it never recovers.

Update:

If racist babies aren’t bad enough, how about detention for refusing to pray to Allah?

Treason at the New York Times

I know. Yawn.

Ghosts of Myanmar

Michael Yon has a gut-wrenching dispatch from the devastation in Myanmar. Denied a Visa by the corrupt military junta, he smuggled in a camera and some gear with an American code-named “Charlie”. Charlie’s quick lesson on the photo gear paid off well. There are some absolutely haunting and, yes, graphic images in this post.

If you don’t live in Burma or a place like it, this will make you grateful for what you have.

How can we lose the war?

Even the car thieves are on our side.

Bud Day

Mudville Gazette has more on Bud Day than CNN (does anybody actually watch that anymore) wants you to know.

You’ll want to know who Bud Day is. Even if you’ve already heard of him.

Update:

Even though Day appeared in one Swifty ad CNN is (drumroll) wrong to call him a Swifty.

Play Ball!

The general election season has officially started, and Obama tosses out the first lie!

But now, there is a heaven-sent opportunity for McCain to strike. In his effort to move to the center, Obama has distorted his own record, meager though it may be, and is taking credit for a program he strongly opposed. McCain should immediately run an ad in all of the states in which his opponent is advertising setting forth the facts and explaining Obama’s distortion.

…

[I]f McCain calls him on his distortion, he can do grave damage to Obama on three fronts: credibility, centrism, and experience. By catching Obama in a lie, he can undermine the effectiveness of any subsequent ads the Democrat runs. By showing that he opposed welfare reform, McCain can do much to force Obama back to the left and cast doubt on his efforts to move to the middle. And by emphasizing Obama’s limited experience, he can strike at a soft spot — made softer by Hillary’s attacks in the primary.

The move is right there for McCain. Now lets see how good his campaign really is.

Ha! Had your hopes up until that line, didn’tcha?

Victory in Iraq

“Yay!” says the media.

Riiiiight.

Remember that nuclear program Saddam didn’t have?

It’s finally over.

Google Finally Recognizes Independence Day

It’s practically time to take the pig out of the hangar.

Compare it, though, with the image up today at my favorite search engine, Ask.com.

Which is this?

Hope, or Change?

Bye, Bozo

Larry Harmon is gone.

Time To Play “Name That Party!”

The LA Times reports on Laura Richardson’s habit of stiffing taxpayers with her driving habits. But her party affiliation is somehow missing from the article.

Must be an oversight.

Shame on Disney

I don’t know what they’re thinking here. Truth is, they probably aren’t thinking, but feeling.

Walt Disney World believes it is exempt from a new state law that allows Florida residents to keep firearms in their vehicles while at work, according to an internal memo obtained by a newspaper.
Under the bill, which took effect Tuesday, businesses cannot prohibit employees or customers from keeping a legally owned gun locked inside their cars, as long as the owner has a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

However, the bill states that property owned or leased by an employer who has a permit required by federal law to manufacture, use, store or move explosives would still be off limits. Disney has a permit for its fireworks shows.

The loophole was lobbied for by a group of lawyers that represented groups and businesses that included Disney, The Orlando Sentinel reports.

Bad News for Wind Power

In Europe, at least, it is frought with problems, such as midwinter calm cold snaps. And using too much gas. And sometimes producing less than zero power.

You read that right.

Hitch gets waterboarded

I’ve got to hand it to him. This is real journalistic commitment. He writes about it here. Is it torture? He makes a good case that it is. Is it effective? Just watch.

Drowning is one of my deepest fears. Just reading about this was difficult. Yet, I must confess, I’m glad it was used on the four guys we used it on.

Right out of a spy thriller

Looks like the Columbians FARCed the terrorists up real good. Just one more reason for the Democrats to support free trade with Columbia. Right?

Update:

Those clever Columbians even finally found a good use for those murderer-glorifying tee shirts.

Looking at helicopter’s crew, some wearing Che Guevara shirts, Betancourt reasoned they weren’t aid workers, as she’d expected — but rebels. This was just another indignity — the helicopter “had no flag, no insignia.” Angry and upset, she refused a coat they offered as they told her she was going to a colder climate.

What about burqas?

I wonder.

Don’t think only Lefties are revisionist morons

They come from all sides of the political spectrum.

OK. That’s it.

It’s one thing when your religion motivates you to fly airplanes into buildings, saw the heads off of strangers, or strap explosives to your children. But when it won’t even let you like cute puppies, something is wrong.