November 20, 2008
Sure, This Is Funny.
Not as funny as Scandinavian cartoons that portray the Prophet Muhammad, but
funny.
You know what would be really funny? Dressing as Theo Van Gogh, right after his murder; that would be hilarious!
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As funny as letting cheaters prosper, saving the MSM from the dustbin of history, and letting the Typhoid Marys of policy, like Jamie Gorelick, back at the throttle of power. Great job, voters! Who knows how many seals of Hell you have broken? Maybe they can recap their act at the Inaugural.
Posted by: Darrell at November 20, 2008 11:56 PM (z3JME)
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Be glad in the knowledge that the careers of Michael Moore and Bill Maher are nearing an end.
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You know something we don't?
(And if you do, you better not put it in writing.)
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November 09, 2008
Bali Bombers Now "Carbon Neutral"
Excellent.
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October 19, 2008
I Hate It When the AQ Sites Go Down.
And there's only one of 'em left?
Hm. Maybe it's just for efficiency in keeping eyes on these scumbags.
But if their fundraising and recruitment is suffering . . . that's indeed a horrible thing.
"Western intelligence won't say" why the sites went dark on 9/10 of this year.
Curiouser and curiouser.
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August 28, 2008
"A Firebomb Is a Firebomb Is a Firebomb."
John M. Murtagh:
During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up “a gentleman named William Ayers,” who “was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.” Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama’s answer: “The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.” Obama was indeed only eight in early 1970. I was only nine then, the year Ayers’s Weathermen tried to murder me.
Read the whole thing; via Insty.
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August 06, 2008
Goddamn, I Dig These Genius, Heroic Women
. . . who want to take us back to the Dark Ages, so they can . . .
hide their candles under a burka, I guess. Weren't we just talking about the superior abilities of women vs. men when it comes to pure evil? Perhaps Al Qaeda's real weakness is not just "stifling the enquiring mind," or "expecting a servile womb to breed free men," but rather that self-destructive combination of the two we've seen throughout human history.
BTW, who knew that cognitive dissonance could lead to such a bad case of lead poisoning?
(Furthermore, I've been sounding the alarm on 9mm's for years: there are some very compact .45 ACPs out there. And if it's so essential to have a small gun, just get a .32 or a .480, and empty it into the target. I love the Hi-Power as an artifact [it's definitely on my "if I acquire the funds to collect" list], but if you want compactness with decent stopping ability, get an Officer's Model, and get on with your life.
A nine is neither fish, nor fowl, nor good red herring.
And, no--despite my small hands my next sidearm won't be the Officer's model, but rather a Commander. Those guns are still slightly oversized for me, but never mind the awkwardness of the trigger pull--and that maneuvering around to get at the safety--they still have a bit of weight to them, so I can shoot them as accurately as I can a 1911. Ironically, I do quite well with 1911s, and I realize that's a bit counter-intuitive, since they don't fit my infamously small hands all that well.
When Jan Libourel was still at the helm of Handguns magazine, he'd occasionally decide to test the dimensions of a gun's trigger pull, and invariably the extremes he chose to test the firearm [at least in dry fire, at the office] were me--"little Joy Whittemore of Hunting,"--and my angel / editor / sponsor / best, most worthy adversary in repartee, the late, great David W. Arnold.
If Dave and I could both reach the trigger comfortably, it tended to get stellar reviews.)
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August 01, 2008
"Woman's Virtue Is Man's Greatest Invention."
Of course, we promoted it, too—as part of the Temperence Movement, the activism surrounding marital abstinence that preceded widespread availability of birth control, and the Abolitionist and Woman's Suffrage movements.
But late in the Nineteenth Century / early in the 20th Century the female angle was, like, Hey—we're morally superior to you, so listen to us when we say we don't want to have sex as much as you do. It's not because we don't want to have twenty children and die young. Oh, no—it's because we're a real spiritual gender.
Sure we are. Sure. I gots me a red phone that rings when the Big Guy wants to talk to me. How many of you testostoro-cretins got that?
YesterdayÂ’s huge blasts in Iraq were carried out by four different women and few infidels were involved. These women continued the centuries-old feud between Sunni and ShiÂ’ite Muslims. If anyone still believes that women are more compassionate than men, think about this: According to the International Herald Tribune,
The second (female-launched) attack occurred inside a tent that provided shade and rest for female marchers. The female bomber walked into the tent, sat down and, according to a police official, Abu Ali, read the Koran with the women sitting inside. When she exited the tent, she left a bag behind, and moments later, it exploded.
The woman sat down and prayed with them, and then sent them to their deaths.
I remember two films, one by my friend Pierre Rehov, the other by a promising newcomer, Shaun Beyer. Both filmmakers had interviewed Palestinian female terrorists in Israeli jails. None of the terrorists showed any remorse. Many were proud of their murderous or potentially murderous attacks. They all seemed quite religious. One woman had assumed a leadership position; she and her enforcers policed and punished the other women with enormous cruelty.
But by all means, let's continue the charade.
Read the whole thing, please.
And the h/t goes to Insty, who is quite taken with the "Damsels of Death" headline.
Of course, Glenn didn't go to junior high school as a female. As far as I know. So he might not understand female evil the way some of us nerdy girls do. We really really really get it. Holy fuck—do we get it.
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Heh.
Rebekah and Rachel.
Potiphar's wife.
Deborah and Barak.
Jezebel.
Gomer.
Female evil? Yeah, I'd say we understand it
just fine, thank you very much.
/listened to women-talk when there were no other men around
//holy shit! never ever ever wanna do that again!
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I gots me a red phone that rings when the Big Guy wants to talk to me. How many of you testostoro-cretins got that?
Shoot, when the Big Guy wants to talk to me, He shows up on my doorstep. Sometimes we adjourn to the local watering hole and knock back some cold ones. Sometimes I throw some charcoal on the grill - He's really skilled at getting the fire going - then we cook meat, eat it and knock back some more cold ones.
Phone? I don't need no steenkin' phone.
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Boy, how about that spam infestation, huh.
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First, ewww, what's with the weird stuff above?
Second, though I'd like for you to be wrong about this, so I could be a member of the nicer and more moral sex, yeah, you're right. Women are taught to be more nurturing (or passive), but it's not inherent or inevitable, and many women are spectacularly evil or cruel or awful. Just as many men are kind and considerate and nurturing.
Men have defined us as softer, weaker, more moral, and naturally home-bound as a power-play, and just as you say above, we've defined ourselves that way too, as a power play and because, allowed nothing else, we clung to what we had. (Have you read Women and Sisters, btw: describes the ways that female abolitionists used the Angel in the House motif to justify leaving the home and becoming feminists ... and, sometimes, racists.)
What say we all decide to be equal and nice, and not blow anything up anymore? Just a thought....
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What spam?
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ps, I've always said, there is no creature on earth so wantonly cruel, so inventively hurtful, as an adolescent girl.
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July 12, 2008
AQ Is Downsizing . . . um, "Right-Sizing." I Mean, "Adapting to the Market."
Basically, if Iowahawk didn't
exist, we'd have to make him up.
But he does exist; thank God.
You know how I'm voting, right?—
"Burge-Goldstein, 2008: Hard Men for Hard Times."
Jeff and Dave? Sticking it to the Middle East and Central Asia! (That is to say, the parts that need to be stuck!)
I'll be in my bunk until Christmas, at least . . . send lots of pizzas and . . . . um, D batteries, just in case. Maybe an absentee ballot, to be safe.
Via the entire blogosphere, essentially.
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Is there a way to send a confidential email to Little Miss Attila?
Posted by: Contact for Little Miss Attila? at July 12, 2008 12:54 PM (gJRLu)
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Yes.
Hit that "Paypal" button to your left.
There is a spot for a personal messages on the accompanying form. $1/letter, including spaces, is the usual tribute. Double that if the tone is negative: Triple if lurid.
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write to: miss . attila @ gmail . com
Without the spaces, of course!
Or try:
Joy McCann
Copy Write Editorial
2222 Foothill Blvd., E-313
La Canada, CA 91011
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La Canada, CA 91011
You dirty Canuck.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at July 12, 2008 04:02 PM (1hM1d)
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If A the Hub is in the bunk with you, you won't need the D cells.
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Actually, I'm all about the Hitachi Magic Wand.
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Okay... I've seen the pics of that awful torture device you call the 'magic wand'... I'm sorry, really sorry...
/backs away slowly, not taking eyes off irate Hun with 2-inch-head-sized wand
Now, now, let's not get hasty, we can still talk this over, why don't you put that thing away...
No, no, look, I take it all back-AAAARRRGGGHHHH NOT THE TRIPOD IVE ONLY GOT ONE ORIFICE THERE--
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Hmph. And no one thought anything of my brilliant pun?
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May 29, 2008
Rachel Ray's Checkered Past.
Sorry, boys and girls. I know I'm supposed to see a
keffiyeh here. But I don't.
Of course, I haven't talked to the Dunkin's Donuts stylist yet, so I could be off on this. But Ray's scarf just doesn't look like an Arafat special to me: the "Palestinian scarf" always looked to me like an old-fashioned American checkered tablecloth, except with black instead of red (insert Rolling Stones joke here).
The fact is, I'm not really high on any intentional use of a keffiyeh design in any outreach aimed at a mainstream American audience, but to proclaim any use of back and white as an approving reference to terrorism is plainly ridiculous: that amounts to a center-right sort of political correctness. Suddenly, the toys we get for infants are naughty advocacy on behalf of murderers. Art deco color schemes are a tip of the hat to bombers. It gets very silly very quickly.
I'm going to have to side with Linda Lowen on "scarfgate," to some degree. Particularly if the scarf at issue sports a paisley design, rather than checks, like my terrorist-loving chess set.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought we were on the side of freedom of speech, and it was the Islamic radicals / fundamentalists / terrorists / extremists who advocated either censorship—or at least a sort of walking-on-eggshells approach to expression.
So. That's that.
Oh, yeah: I've been wondering about something. Is Virginia Woolf's Lighthouse really a penis? I used to bristle at the suggestion; now I'm not so sure. The book certainly has to do with the conflict between authorship as a writer, and "authorship" as a parent. Last I knew, the penis was implicated in human reproduction . . . though of course that could change once we perfect cloning.
Isn't that what men are afraid of?
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All I know is, my students told me in no uncertain terms that the lighthouse that Miss Lucy hovers over, shuddering mysteriously, in her Dracula-bite-induced erotic dream, is NOT a phallic symbol.
It's just a lighthouse; get over it.
And the huge stake her fiance pounds into her, looking "like Thor," while she spurts blood and trembles and his friends stand around admiringly: totally not symbolic.
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Now I'm all turned on . . .
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Let's see, political correctness dictates that we support the Left's support of the Palestinians--including their terror wings. Political correctness dictates that we don't use the terms terrorist and jihadist. What could be more 'anti' than to dismiss this for what it really is.
The Left has been pushing kaffiyehs since the Iraq invasion, why bother with trifles given the Palestinians aren't involved except as traveling jihadists. Big in Europe--appearances in fashion weeks in London, Paris, and Milan. Appearances in trendy stores in the US, disappearing when the protests start. Rebirth as "peace scarfs" and other nonsense. Fatah, the PLO, and Hamas are synonomous with peace. With every protest, the perpetual adolescents who are smarter than everyone in the room play their games and modify the designs to slip them past the yearbook and school newspaper faculty monitors. I wasn't flipping anyone the bird! Honest! I was only scratching my nose!
Swastikas, brown shirts, Che t-shirts, kaffiyeh--all have a history, none have any political meaning. Move along! Right!
Rachel Ray can do what she pleases. Dunkin Donuts can do whatever they want. People can let DD know that they will stop patronizing their stores if they don't make it clear that they do not support terrorists or those that do. The American way.
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"There are indications that the kaffiyeh style, now competing with running shoes as hot dress-down items in New York City and Washington, is spreading ever westward. When Herman Ruether, interim director of the Chicago-based Palestine Human Rights Campaign, heard that the kaffiyeh was becoming fashionable, he said, "I started talking to people at random." The results of Ruether's informal poll: only three out of ten people cited politics as their reason for wearing the scarf. He adds, however, that during the most & recent episodes of violence in Israeli-occupied areas, his office received a large number of calls from Americans sympathetic to the Palestinian cause inquiring where kaffiyehs could be bought.
Long a staple of the Middle East tourist trade and a basic component of wardrobes in the Levant, the kaffiyeh came to the U.S. via Europe, where, in all its checkered permutations (black, blue, green, red or purple on white), it is almost as ubiquitous among the young as fatigue jackets. Yasser Arafat has worn a kaffiyeh, usually with army duds, for 20 years now, and the scarf became a garment of choice among the political protesters and antimissile advocates of the '70s and early '80s. Fashion, of course, mutes political reverberation. With time the kaffiyeh became politically neutral and lost some of its freshness. But the current televised spectacle of kaffiyeh-wearing rebels playing hob with the Israeli army gives the scarves an odd, often ironic resonance when they are worn in the West. Visual continuity suggests a political solidarity that usually comes as a big surprise to the Western wearer. "It's just an accessory," says Kenneth Kaiser, a Boston retail- clothing-store manager. "The ethnic type of look is in right now." "The idea that it's political is ridiculous," says New York City Artist Steven Charny. Comments Mordechai Levy, head of the Jewish Defense Organization in New York City: "Now there are so many, they are just like any other scarf."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967046,00.html By Jay Cocks. Seriously.
Posted by: Darrell at May 29, 2008 09:29 PM (gMH4S)
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But black and white checks are so universal: old linoleum floors. Those retro houndstooth slacks I can neither wear nor get rid of (okay--not a true check, but certainly closer thereto than a paisley scarf).
And I get the capitalism and freedom-of-choice thing. But I can't see this as being like a Che T-shirt. Heck: I have a Che-style T-shirt (though it happens to bear Mark Steyn's image rather than Che's).
This is like getting mad about the temples with swastikas on 'em that were built
before the Third Reich: surely it is possible to overreact.
Or are we having the same argument we had about the Flight 93 Memorial? I just don't want to be looking for terrorist symbolism behind every tree, when I'd rather we were looking for the actual terrorists.
I mean, I have an army shirt that I like to wear as a jacket. I wore it that way when I was a lefty, and I wore it that way as a righty. I never meant it as a symbol of anything; I just liked it. Like I liked the way my Levi's looked, without any particular thought of the history of denim--nor any particular allusion to the Gold Rush.
I also own a pair of camo pants I got at the Army-Navy store. No statement about the military is intended--pro or con.
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You know by the look in their eyes. And the smirk.
When I sent you the original photos of the crash site showing no crescents in the topography, you never responded. Nothing but rectangles, as one would guess from developed farm/mining land. That architect is another perpetual adolescent/smartest guy in the room that I would have fired when I saw his included tributes to the terrorists. Any person who thinks there's only one way to fill a blank page wouldn't be working for me anyway. Volkswagen engineers included. They ran an add a few years ago showing that their engineers couldn't find a single thing to change when it came time for a new model. "Have your desk cleaned out in fifteen minutes and report to the reception desk for your last paycheck. Thanks!" Maybe we could find ONE unemployed architect/designer in the US?
I see your point, but the only reason they aren't in every store now is that we've been vigilant. We let the newspapers get away with including opinions outside of the op-ed pages. We've let every TV show/movie slam Bush/Republicans every episode. We've let the Left create the concept of political correctness, which is shorthand for permitting anything the Left esposes/banning every thing it opposes. Where is it going to end? Besides turning the world into a hell dimension, that is.
Solution? They do what they want/we do what we want. It's an Absolut world, after all. . .
Posted by: Darrell at May 30, 2008 12:02 AM (gMH4S)
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Sorry about the Flight 93 thing: I was actually going to ask you for a topo map of the area, because it had been my impression that the "roundness" of the site was a hollow in the land itself, which wouldn't necessarily have shown up.
I see where you're coming from too (hey, man . . .). My problem, however, is when we get tired of walking on eggshells and hand the opposition a fresh new set of eggshells to walk on. So we're all navigating land mines on issues of symbolism, intentionalism, and the like. Apologizing. Pulling ads. Talking around evil, but not confronting it directly.
Also--I don't like it when I sense a sort of whiny, vicim-ey tone in people who are supposed to be my allies. I'm not saying that you get that way, but there's a faint whiff of it out there in the Rightosphere, and it's no more attractive there than it is anywhere else.
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The land dictated little because it had already been developed. A look through Murdoch's hard drives, files, and ISP would show that he researched Mihrabs and sundials and prayer wheel gardens, and would end the speculation once and for all. I suspect that he thought that flyover Joes and Marys Sixpacks would never spot the 'clever' symbolism he had hidden, and imagine his inner joy at knowing that the unwashed masses were paying for their own funerals and honoring the agents of their own destruction. His only mistake was not being able to resist naming it the "Crescent of Embrace." Even the teacher could figure out 'beaver shot' or 'pretty pussies' and all the variations, even if you could get them to call out 'Mike Hunt' when they passed around the attendance sheets when substituting for absent regulars. "Mike Hunt? Mike Hunt? Has anyone seen Mike Hunt?"
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I've got it right here. Oh . . . wait.
Never mind.
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May 06, 2008
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Nice Deb.
I'm glad that the issue is getting coverage, since it behooves us to know what we're buying when we purchase something like this. It's a bit too late once it's been built.
But personally, I don't care if the memorial looks vaguely like a filled-in crescent, which in turn appears somewhat Islamic, if that's what one is looking for. After all, the field is bowl-shaped, and circles are kind of a big deal in the history of civilization. (We would have had a much harder time inventing the wheel without 'em.)
What matters, once the Flight 93 memorial has been built, is whether the net effect of visiting this landmark is to be (1) inspired by the sacrifices made by Todd Beamer and the rest, and (2) grateful to them that the Capitol Building is still standing, and (3) inspired to follow the example of the Flight 92 heroes when the terrorist extremism hits the fan.
I care about that a lot more than I care about somehow magically transforming a round land formation into a rectangular one.
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It would probably help your case if Paul Murdoch (the architect) hadn't made statements indicating that he was doing everything the critics said he was, don't you think?
And my second point is: 2011? WTF!!!
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April 15, 2008
Mr. President . . .
please stop
helping. Please.
Gay Patriot East (Original Gay Patriot, or OGP) is proposing that Carter be officially censured.
I dunno: that's like giving the man attention; it'll only encourage him. Next thing you know, all the other former Presidents will be misbehaving, and we'll have to send them to that Camp for Defiant Former Presidents for counseling and maybe a cross-country trek.
Related, from Ace's News Sidebar:
Breaking: State Department Employs Reverse Psychology on Hamas, Issuing White Paper Entitled "It Would Suck So, So Bad If Hamas Kidnapped Jimmy Carter, I Mean Garsh, We Just Don't Know What the Hell We'd Do."
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March 28, 2008
Newsflash: Genies Don't Gently Back Into That Good Bottle.
Nope; I haven't seen
FITNA yet. That has to do with being temporarily homeless: until I get a headset for the Mac, it seems rude to watch videos of
any kind here at Camp Lefty.
And when I go home at night I'm only really interested in two things: 1) how many household tasks can I accomplish before I bed, and 2) once I'm in bed, how soon can I be unconscious?
If you were looking for the vid, it's here, via Ace, who editorializes, in his inimitable style: "Fuck you." (Apparently, he's back on the "F-word" again, which means he's probably back on cigarettes.)
But, really. It's all about me, no?—
I should clean my car out and find a quiet place to park it; I caught up with sleep last night and I'm all Ritalined-up right now, but I know I'm going to want to sleep in that thing at some point before we go into escrow.
I've been told that we may be in escrow by this time next week. And because I'm the bull terrier in the family, I have to decide how far we should compromise on price before the written offers start to roll in on Monday afternoon.
The way I play this next week will determine the way A the H and I live for the next 2-5 years. Ick.
And I haven't showered since Tuesday. I haven't washed my hair since last Saturday. I haven't worn makeup in two weeks. I look, in short, like hell.
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March 27, 2008
Congratulations!
Not only are you safe from the danger posed by keyring-sized pocket knives and tweezers; you're now also safe from
body jewelry!
Hooray! Thank you, TSA! I say, let the terrorists grow their eyebrows out! That'll teach 'em.
UPDATE: Gloria Allred is involved, now. Insty says the expression on her face is "scary," but IIRC that's her normal expression: she favors the severe schoolmarmish look.
I'm glad that the woman who was picked on by silly people at the TSA is pursuing this. And I'm glad she has a staunch defender in Gloria—though sometimes, to be perfectly honest, Gloria unwittingly reminds me what the things are that I don't like about feminism. And about many attorneys (sorry, Glenn et al.).
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Just another stick for the raving libertarian fire in me.
I don't know, just guessing here, but I suspect the legislation that established the TSA probably is loaded with protections barring lawsuits against the TSA or its employees.
Posted by: Desert Cat at March 28, 2008 05:59 AM (DIr0W)
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It's not policy. You give some people a little authority and they abuse it. Give the Left any authority and you'll curse the day you were born.
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But the tweezers thing is policy. So, not only is the policy crazy, but the implementation gets even crazier than policy suggests it should.
I mean, I've never been asked to take off the jewelry on my earlobes. Totally unnecessary. I was once asked by a security screener at an event what the metal item was in my pocket. "I don't need to see it," he told me. "I just need to know what it is." (It was a lipstick tube.)
I also don't want to put too fine a point on this, but ANY WOMAN who has breasts of any heft whatsoever has to wear an underwire bra. Once the TSA has decided it can hassle people for body jewelry, it's well within its rights to make me take my bra off, which is just silly.
From then, it's requiring those with pacemakers and artificial knees to rip
them out. We cannot take the attitude that "all my piercings are in conventional places, so this isn't a problem." It's a
big problem.
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Tweezers can be machined to use as screwdrivers; same with small pocket knives. If you have a separate plastic handle made for it, you'll have the torque of a full-size version. Why? To assemble/disassemble something you're not supposed to. With a handle, those little tweezers/knives can be made into formidable weapons.
Not all underwire bras use metals. Plus they sell "frequent flier" bras that avoid the use of any metal, even for the clasps/hooks/closures. Then there's always something like the Bra-llelujah(Spanx). Seems like they need mechanical engineers in the bra-biz, with a knowledge of Aramid fibers and such. When faced with a problem like airport security or global warming, "engineer" types like you and me look for workarounds, not taxes or grumbling.
This is as good a time as any to show you some amazing new materials/uses coming up.
http://www.flixxy.com/smart-materials-demo.htm
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February 09, 2008
Who Penned This?
I came across a partial printout from September or October of 9/11, from a column addressed to the 9/11 attackers: "You have no idea what you have started, here. But you are about to find out."
Anyone have time to track down who wrote it? I had this on the door to my office at Condé Nast in late 2001 and early 2002, but I'm having trouble remembering who it was who actually wrote it.
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February 01, 2008
Yeah. I Know I Haven't Said Anything About the Bombings Today.
It
does seem like AQ and their affiliates are getting a bit
desperate.
Glenn talks about the silver lining in this darkest of clouds, and remarks that "good suicide-bombers are hard to find, and retention is even tougher."
They should unionize!
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January 30, 2008
Kenneth Blackwell on FISA
The case for
re-authorizing.
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Mr. Blackwell complimented me, recently, on an ensemble
I was wearing; so though I don't agree with his positions, for the sake of peace amongst my fellow fashionistas, I must stand by him.
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November 06, 2007
I'm . . .
speechless.
Go. Now.
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I remember reading about Ferdinand as a child, but I had never heard of the other book. That was amazing to read! and made me long for an America whose children and grownups were as patriotic today as they were then.
Posted by: Anne at November 06, 2007 07:47 AM (R/ik3)
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Well...I got a little different impression there.
Posted by: Desert Cat at November 06, 2007 07:59 PM (DIr0W)
Posted by: Attila Girl at November 06, 2007 08:14 PM (aywD+)
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I came across the Munro Leaf book on IowaHawk. One of my right-wing extremist freinds sent it to me and, what do you know, I see a comment from little miss attila.What a small world! I hope you're doing well.
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The book appears to have gone AWOL now.
But yes, the book. I especially liked the parts about "keeping your mouth shut", "obeying the authorities", and "giving more money to the government". Good conservative patriotic values all.
Children and "grownups" alike, indeed.
Posted by: Desert Cat at November 08, 2007 09:55 AM (B2X7i)
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not awol...just the dad gummed internet filtering software at my place of employ...
Posted by: Desert Cat at November 08, 2007 09:57 AM (B2X7i)
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Hi, Daphne!
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Desert Cat:
It was a different world during that war: you've got a point, but I've read a lot of children's literature from that time in which creative expression was actually tied to the buying of war bond (*The Four-Story Mistake* comes to mind in particular).
I guess the "mouth shut" and "obey authorities" stuff didn't bother me much because it was a book directed at children. Keep in mind that I was raised by hippies, and the whole "question authority" mindset doesn't really work in a child-rearing context--even my most BoHo friends with kids seem to recognize that now.
The "question authority" approach to child-rearing very often ends up turning parents into hypocrites, more than anything else. At least, that's been my experience.
All that said, I do think a lot of people would find the WoT more palatable if there were some kind of sacrifice the common person--child and "grownup" alike--could make that would make him/her feel like part of the war effort.
And I don't think there's any danger of IowaHawk turning us all into mindless conformists anytime soon.
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September 30, 2007
Iowahawk!
He's running another tribute to the Academy, right over
here.
Questioner
Hi, I'm Josh Markin of the ESU Progressive Student Alliance, and I'd just like to say that as a campus activist for peace and justice, that I am totally down with how you have stood up against the fascist neo-Jew GPA thugs at A E Pi, and their plans for busting every grade curve on this campus.
Gromulak
Moje vznášadlo je plné úhorov Gromulak! Pun jegulja loma-là n!
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These words please Gromulak! Continue your tribute, Hu-Man!
And so much for those who go to a maximum security prison and attempt to reason with the other inmates. Nice thought; sloppy execution. Um—so to speak.
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September 12, 2007
And You Thought the Rightosphere Was Provincial!
Ace-the-Lush
linked my entry of the other day, expounding on the "Osama La la la la la" theme, and added:
They [the whackjob lefties and the Islamofascists] are not united in ultimate goals, but do share a belief that the current regime must be destroyed or at least greatly diminished by one way or another before the New Utopia can come. They don't quite agree on that New Utopia, of course, and whether or not gays should be praised for their specialness and courage or stoned to death for their perverse blasphemy, but they do know who stands in the way of either of those glorious outcomes, and to that extent, they have a shared enemy.
Which brings to mind, of course, the Beautiful Atrocities line, directed at other friends-of-Dorothy's, about how if the Islamofascists win, "you will be giving head—and not in the good way."
UPDATE: Fine. "Provincial" may not quite be the right word for it. But I really dig linking to someone's link to me. Remember Martin Gardner's commentary on the Red King's dream in The Annotated Alice? It was, he said (IIRC) like "a hall of mirrors," what with the Red King dreaming about Alice, who was in turn dreaming about him.
So we're either provincial, or mathematically interesting.
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"They don't quite agree on that New Utopia, of course, and whether or not gays should be praised for their specialness and courage or stoned to death for their perverse blasphemy, but they do know who stands in the way of either of those glorious outcomes..."
So in other words, the American Right is moderate on gay rights.
Posted by: John at September 13, 2007 12:03 PM (fhClB)
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Moderation in all things.
Posted by: Darrell at September 13, 2007 08:00 PM (Ai1Rx)
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If there's one thing the "American Right" isn't unified on, it's gay rights.
It's no secret that I don't generally see eye-to-eye with those who throw the phrase "gay agenda" around--much as I love that phrase, because there isn't one gay agenda, but rather a nearly infinte number: the pink calendar book adorned with rhinestones, and the plain lavendar one with sensible black trim, and the executive-style brown one carried by hale-and-hearty athletic guys whom you might never think were gay until you met their partners, and the cool one made from recycle tires.
This is one of those things Ann Coulter got right: "gays want the same thing the rest of us do: lower taxes."
But Ace's point--and you know this, John--is that, as Mark Steyn once put it, combatting Islamofascism "
should be the left's issue."
There's some irony that a lot of the true liberals in society today are right-of-center on a handful of key issues.
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Yeah, combatting something as openly fascistic as militant Islam should be a high-priority item for the left, but the left has been preoccupied with gaining power for about as long as you and I have been alive (I'm 42). If not longer.
The Republicans have been unified by moral issues--it's how the GOP got started--but they get fragmented too easily, and too easily spooked by the MSM.
Posted by: John at September 14, 2007 06:23 PM (HhdY3)
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The Left formed an alliance with militant Islam. LGF used to have the pre- and post-9/11 links--mutual letters of cooperation on their respective foreign websites. Islam got the power of a sympathetic press and "grassroots" protesting. The Left got, what else, money. It was funny because there was mutual sniping in those very first letters.
The Left sees militant Islam as the cannon fodder for their world domination schemes. They point out that the old Soviet plan with secular State schools did a good job of keeping them at bay when the Soviets had a free hand. The Left believes it will make any problems go away in the darkness of uncovered news stories. It's nice to control the Press.
The militants, by the way, remember what happened. They see the Left as their useful idiots.
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The Left formed an alliance with militant Islam. LGF used to have the pre- and post-9/11 links--mutual letters of cooperation on their respective foreign websites. Islam got the power of a sympathetic press and "grassroots" protesting. The Left got, what else, Arab money. It was funny because there was mutual sniping in those very first letters.
The Left sees militant Islam as the cannon fodder for their world domination schemes. They point out that the old Soviet plan with secular State schools did a good job of keeping them at bay when the Soviets had a free hand. The Left believes it will make any problems go away in the darkness of uncovered news stories. It's nice to control the Press.
The militants, by the way, remember what happened. They see the Left as their useful idiots.
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There was a temporary comment suspension and when it ended, both appeared. Sorry. You can delete one, if you please.
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