While admittedly the new patdown searches are outrageous and while we ALL know that behavioral profiling is a much more effective way to figure out who the terrorists are, there might be a point to recall that the TSA people who have been trained to do the patdowns are probably just doing their jobs.
Ron Paul has introduced a bill to file charges against TSA agents for assault, which is probably pretty stupid, considering they're doing the job the Obama administration has taught them to do and many TSA agents are retired military anyway.
I've met some REALLY rude TSA agents, but the majority have been cooperative and pleasant, except for the one who grumpily waved me away from the metal detector when I pulled out keys from my pocket which I had forgotten to remove, thus revealing to everyone around that the dang metal detector wasn't even on.
We see the same “kick the bureaucrat” thing in immigration — whether it’s overwhelmed Border Patrol agents or inspectors, or visa officers and USCIS adjudicators told to ignore fraud, it’s the hapless schmo carrying out the ridiculous policies of his superiors who gets blamed. The fish rots from the head down, and that’s where our ire, and our policy changes, have to be focused.
The people who are running the TSA and Homeland Security have proven themselves to be arrogant and unresponsive. John Pistole on O'Reilly last night is just like all the rest of them. Lying to himself and to us.
Don’t touch my junk is the anthem of the modern man, the Tea Party patriot, the late-life libertarian, the midterm-election voter. Don’t touch my junk, Obamacare — get out of my doctor’s examining room; I’m wearing a paper-thin gown slit down the back. Don’t touch my junk, Google — Street View is cool, but get off my street. Don’t touch my junk, you airport-security goon — my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I’m a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?
Still, some criticize that Drudge is the one who's ginning up the opposition to this by posting every link to every incident possible. Interesting, probably true but irrelevant?
Let's just go naked to the airport from now on. Start the rumor for next Wednesday.
I'm personally not flying til Christmas, but y'all can get this movement started and the whole mess should be worked out by then.
More evidence is emerging that whispers from the White House are revealing that Obama is in over his head, unhappy, freaking over his "enemies," incapable of handling criticism and, well, you get the picture.
Apparently Joe Biden's thesis that The One Who Will Turn Back the Tides is just too brilliant for Planet Bimbo isn't sitting so well with the whisperers, who just may resent being sent to the back seat (heh) for at least the next two years.
Scarborough, Hannity and the mysterious Ulsterman. Very interesting that Ulsterman predicted Gibbs would be out of the door next and yesterday that is exactly what was being reported on talk radio.
Ulsterman is also reporting the big scandal is probably not going to happen with this White House because someone cut a deal in there to keep Pelosi as leader, and she has the goods on them. Eh, who knows.
More voter irregularities, including complaints from Alaska. My take: if Joe is just doing this to drag out the process, he should give it up. If there really were irregularities, he needs to keep it up and root to the bottom of the mess. This is over at NRO:
“Our campaign has sworn affidavits identifying unsecured ballot boxes, other precincts where numerous ballots appear to be in the same handwriting, others where there is 100 percent voter turnout and still other precincts where the ballots were sent to the Division of Elections presorted by U.S. Senate candidate,” said Miller spokesman Randy DeSoto in a statement. “These and other irregularities give our campaign pause. Alaskans must be able to trust the results of its elections.”
Speaking of voting irregularities (propose and pass a voter integrity law, House of Rep!), take a look at what is going on over in New York. Geez, why is it that all these accusations always go back to dems? ALWAYS. Professor Jacobsen has the tale of the missing and reappearing trunks:
Traditionally Republican, the State Senate moved over to the Democrats in 2008, giving Democrats complete control of both houses of the state legislature and the Governor's office for the first time since the New Deal.
In the 2010 mid-terms, however, Republicans made a comeback, and are on the verge of taking back the State Senate. This will have important implications for redistricting.
There are a small number of contested races, however. One of those races is in Buffalo, NY, in which the Republican is leading.
During the recount process, Democrats did not just find new ballots, they found two new voting machines:
On to the whole Bristol Palin "controversy." Never watched the show. Probably have to vote on Monday, though, due to all the nastiness surround Bristol, who has admitted all along that she really doesn't know how to dance. How could a middle aged man get so mad at the result that he'd shoot his tv? I'm sorry. Did you say moron? And wouldja think of Governor Palin's response that she'd buy him a new tv? Heh.
But this morning there's a report that some new moron sent her a letter with white powder in it. Do these people not have lives? Do they not understand that the voting is NOT locked down for these contests and that's considered part of the fun of the show? Just like American Idol last year when the flamboyant was rejected for the serene?
There's been lots of moaning and complaining about her getting this far due to tea party support. Even WJR's Warren Pierce was outraged this morning when he mentioned Hillbuzz, who's been pumping up support for Bristol the whole season, but the whole tea party bias/prejudice works both ways. Those who vote for Bristol because they are tea party sympathizers have to compete with those who are hateful anti-tea party despisers.
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