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Scott Brown does fairly well at fund raising in a blue state….

Perhaps (just perhaps) the tide is turning, even in Mass.

It may be that there is hope for this country yet.

Breda loses a friend.

Think good thoughts for her.

The day is coming soon for me and my dog.
May I have the courage to take the step when necessary.

Honey.

Explosive???

Chemical Fumes??? From Honey???

Hospitalization of TSA Agents….For honey exposure…RIIGHT….

Methinks they need retraining…

Or better acting lessons.

Or an ass kicking.

I feel safer already knowing the professionals from the TSA are on the job.

And I can’t wait for the new Health Care Workers….

Look, I understand that honey might show up on a scanner looking like an explosive….But from there the theater gets creepy. How is it that they found both TATP and TNT in the initial swab, but not after that? And how is it that these agents were struck ill by honey fumes? (or were they just acting??) I would think that after all this mess that they might could be fired?

Yeah, I didn’t think so either.

as posted by HoosierBoy….

SHOW US THE HEALTH CARE HEARINGS, ASSHOLES!

And, as he states, we should all be saying it. Call yer congresscritters…..Hound them. Make them do what they should be doing….Shame then, tie up their phone lines….

But keep the pressure on.

only like 9 years late

Seems that there is now a fatwa prohibiting attacks against the US and Canada by extremists…..It is no longer a good idea..In fact, anyone with knowledge of such an attack or plans thereof should expose such plans….

Well, it is a step in the right direction, if a little late.

And, in order to make it stick, they had to state that any attack against either country was an attack against the Muslim citizens of our countries…..Not just that the attacks themselves are wrong (apparently as the rest of us are infidels it might not be wrong to attack us?????)

Hey, Imams….It’s wrong to kill people….Not just Muslims, EVERYONE who is not attacking you. Call it wrong. Condemn those who commit such acts…Stand up, move your religion into this century….

Anyway, enough said. It’s at least a start.

So once again the TSA is in the spotlight. Since they are now 8 years old, one might expect that the management of the TSA would have had time to get their shit together in one sock, and be able to keep it there. But apparently once a person becomes a government employee, their IQ and attention span decreases by at least 10%.

The “security breach” at Newark on 1/3/10 shows just how much we have gained in security…..It’s not just that some guy who took the job because the local McDonalds wasn’t hiring that day was not paying attention. It was also because the folks in charge of the cameras had apparently not bothered to make sure that this important piece of technology was operating….

I’m sure that everyone involved, the techs, the officer(s) and especially the management will be beaten and then “thrown roughly to the floor” disciplined and then summarily dismissed.

The fact is that you need very few credentials in order to be hired to be a TSA agent. IIRC, you do not need a H.S. diploma or G.E.D., nor are their any IQ tests. In fact, these are the same people (and their friends and siblings) who were doing your security BEFORE 9-11, only with better benefits and more comfortable (and official looking) uniforms….

So why, after nearly 8 years, can they not do any better?

It is frightening to me that we have examples like this, and that of the Post Office USPS, to inspire confidence in the government operation of our health care apparatus.

The USPS loses more and more money every year, at a higher and higher cost for the same service……The TSA cannot even stay awake long enough to do its job of keeping US air travel safe. More and more stupid regulations implemented, not for additional safety nor in response to a specific threat, but rather to make up for the shortcomings of the TSA personnel.

Remember this when you cannot get care because the Big Government Health Care clerk (transferred from the TSA, and probably cohabitating with a USPS mail sorter) decides you really don’t need that heart operation this week…..

We all know that a job created by a government bureaucracy attracts only the best and brightest folks, with the highest work ethic….

I just can’t wait for Health care…..Really, The TSA makes me feel so safe with it’s “Kabuki Security Theater” ever changing and poorly thought out rules, and I am so inspired by the thought of such behavior in my Health Care masters.

Seems that the Aussie government is getting SERIOUS with the folks who are against the government screwing with a farmer. Crushing of dissent and all that. Watch what happens. I would not put such tactics past our own dearly loved Jack Booted Thugs government officials.

Remember, this is a peaceful protest, planned in support of a farmer whose hunger strike is in protest of a government whose policies have resulted in a situation where his land has been essentially taken away from him with no compensation and no recourse.

The Aussie government is beginning to notice the protesters, judging by their tactics.

Perhaps they are getting scared.

How soon ’til these tactics are used against the Tea Party protesters? How soon until they decide to get serious about squelching protests?

Stay tuned. Seems that when one government does it, the rest soon follow…

Thanks to Bore Patch for the info.

Adding 12+ million illegals (probably more, if they can stay around long enough without jobs) to the DNC voting bloc might not be enough to offset the anger it will engender…..

But I doubt that that will stop the administration from trying.

Should help those midterm elections for the democrat incumbents though….

“If at first an idea isn’t absurd,

There is no hope for it.”

Albert Einstein.

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Damn. I have been drunk before….I have gone way over the edge before….

But I am an amateur when it comes to BAC.

This lady, apparently knows how to do it right….

In a stolen car too.

Remind me not to EVER get into a drinking contest with this lady.