Or, How to be sure to get a hernia groping when flying:

New underwear for the sophisticated traveller.

Now, if they just had one that says “Don’t tread on me”.

Seems that the RNC has a new leader.

Mr.Steele: good riddance. Thank you for your service. We won’t be lamenting your departure.

Mr. Priebus: Remember how the RNC lost so many donors. We want conservatives, not Democrat Lite. Support conservative candidates who support conservative ideals. Remove support from RINOs. You’ll get more votes and a hell of a lot more money if you do so. RINOs will lead you to more people departing from the Republican Party. Conservative candidates will more than likely win. 

Remember: We didn’t vote Republicans in, we voted liberals and Democrats OUT. We want CONSERVATIVE candidates. Less government, less spending, more freedom. It isn’t that hard to understand. If you have questions, email me and I will explain further.

Seriously, this is your chance. Please, don’t blow it.

A question:

We have seen absolutely ZERO footage of the mobs looting in the flooded areas in Australia. No reports of gangs of people looting stores for  big screen TVs, DVD players, shoes etc.

It would seem that everyone is doing what they can to help each other out.

And this from folks whose ancestors were inmates in what was once a prison colony…..

Yet it happens here in the US all the time. Looting, theft. etc. Any time there is any disaster…even a major power outage. Looting happens at the slightest suggestion of civil unrest, or anytime the po-po might be occupied elsewhere.

It could be that there is simply no coverage of the looting, but I doubt that. I think that there is no (or very little) looting.

If so, then I have to ask, what is up with the folks in the US?

I really don’t want to go there, ….where the obvious answer is.

Seems that AZ has enacted emergency legislation to prevent anyone from protesting at a funeral.

I seriously am of two minds about this:

On the one hand, eventually someone is going to take offense enough of these asswipes and either beat them to death, or do a physics experiment on projectile deformation and deceleration using them as a subject. Eventually Darwin will find them and deal with them accordingly. They have no shame, no taste, and no class.

On the other hand, this is a serious affront to the First Amendment.

Slippery slope and all that. Me? I’d make sure that the police were occupied elsewhere. Who knows what might happen???  I do, however think that this is a bad idea.

HT: AMCGLTD

If the colors were reversed?

The outcry would be loud, shrill, and unceasing…..

and, no doubt, there would be calls for additional legislation to prevent this. And reparations….

Where is Jesse Jackson on this? I mean, race based hate crimes…..

I mean, white is a color too, right?

Why the Left Projects.

What more can you say?

It’s either that or they are lying.

If this is true:

Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff’s Office was informed, his deputies assured the victims that he was being well managed by the mental health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Amy Loughner is a Natural Resource specialist for the Pima County Parks and Recreation.

Read the whole thing.

If true, then he and his department are culpable in these deaths. And it is folks like them that make the NICS check worthless.

Will the MSM bother to investigate?
OK, stop laughing….This is not funny.

Y’ see….I had a Ipod. The “Classic” model….. I liked it…then a few years ago, I got an Ipod Touch for Christmas…I liked that even better. I liked the apps, I liked the Wi-Fi. I liked a lot of the features.

So when my phone began to die, I naturally wanted an IPhone. I even waited, because there was no way in hell that I was going to sign up again with ATT for another 2 years (one experience with them was MORE than enough, thank you). I liked my current carrier, Verizon….I eagerly searched every rumor on the net to find out when your current contract exclusive with ATT expired….I waited for 6 months, hanging on every rumor that even hinted that Verizon was going to get the IPhone…..When I read that you had signed up again with ATT for another year of exclusivity, I stopped waiting.

I researched for alternatives….I needed another phone, and since I couldn’t get an IPhone on the carrier of my choice (Verizon), I looked at their offerings. I found Android. And It Was Good.

7 months ago, I purchased a DroidX…I liked it. It does everything I wanted my IPhone to do. It even syncs up to my ITunes library really nicely.  2 mouse clicks more, and I have all my music.  What do I need an IPhone for?

You ass. You could have had me become a real IPhone fanboi. Yet you teased, and hinted too long. I grew tired of waiting. I grew tired of the hints and the delays. I grew tired of feeling like the guy on a date with the c–ktease girl. I asked another girl to dance…..

Now Google Android phones are in the market. Once again, much like Apple computers were years ago, you will be relegated to a niche market. You let the world discover another option. Android will beat you. Your once world-class IPhone is now just another choice out of many. You could have been king of the world, yet you chose to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. You will sell many IPhones. No doubt the customers of ATT are salivating for the chance to jump to another carrier. Many of them will buy a Verizon-enabled IPhone. But the (millions?) rest of us have tasted the Android system. And we no longer want an IPhone. You pissed away a chance to dominate. I hope that ATT gave you lotsof cash to forgo all the money that you could have made from folks like me. I bet they didn’t pay you enough. The rest of us will buy Android. And you will lose more market share.

You are a fool. And you have lost. You just don’t know it yet. The downfall of the IPhone will become an example in Marketing 101 on How To Fail.   In 5 years or so, you will follow Blackberry and RIM into oblivion in the phone market.

You didn’t have to.  But you will.

First of all: I think that the shooting in Tucson is a tragedy. No matter who did it, no matter what the reasons, no matter what the  political affiliations of ANY of the parties, at no point can I see any reason or set of circumstances where this is in any way justified. 

My condolences go out to the victims and to the families of the victims, both the survivors and the others who were not lucky enough to survive.

I’d point out that the perpetrator (alleged) of the incident was apprehended not by police, but by bystanders. By people who chose not to run, or to hide, or to crouch down and hope that they were missed, but rather chose to DO SOMETHING, and in doing so, put themselves into harms way to stop this.

While I think it is a tragedy that the Tucson shooter did what he did, one thing stands out in the press reporting of the incident:

He doesn’t fit any of their preconceived notions. None. They tried to link him to the right, and that wouldn’t fit or fly…..No links to Palin, Bush, the NRA, GOA, Rush Limbaugh, or anything else that fit their preconceived notions of who would be the type of person who would do such a thing. None of them. Despite their questioning of every classmate, of every neighbor, of every person who might have served coffee to this individual, they cannot find anything that points Right…nothing….Yet they keep trying. The spin machine is chugging merrily along, yet can’t seem to get any traction. One would almost think that there was a playbook for such incidents. I find that thought sad and disturbing…….but sadly not impossible. The sad fact is that he was a leftist (if anything)…He was a flag burner, whose favorite books were “Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto…His classmates describe him as “extremely liberal”….. Yet they blame the Right for this….I would hope that the Left would decry his actions as strongly as the Right does….

The reality is that few of the people who the MSM’s  first thought to blame are likely to perpetrate such an atrocity. Few Right leaning people are likely to be so violent. Period. While our side of the fence has it’s share of truly psychotic individuals, even those individuals are less inclined to do violence in such a manner than many left leaning folks. If those of us on the Right were half as violent as the left leaning MSM thought, and made us out to be, then such incidents would be greater in scope and significantly more prevalent.

And were they to choose to do so, they are likely to do an even greater amount of slaughter. But it seems that the left has the more violent, sociopathic individuals (and more of them). Why? Is it the lack of accountability in their social morality? Is it a cultural thing, where such violent protest is acceptable and accepted? Is it an admiration of the anarchists that they so revere? Or is it something else? How, in any worldview is such slaughter ever acceptable?

And what does it say about those people with an agenda that they would be so quick to blame their opponents and to use such a tragedy in an attempt to further their own goals even before the blood has been cleaned up? I find that sick.

I hope they fry his ass, slowly. And if, as alleged, he has an accomplice, I hope they catch him or her as well, and fry them too.

You know it did.