Most of you are familiar with my disdain for the snarky, embittered, talentless, Maureen Dowd. But this editorial contributes (among its tired tripe) a paragraph that neatly summarizes the US approach to airport security:
"If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?"
Nicely said, what?
We've spent $40B on airport security since 9-11. And since this $40B has been spent in a way that seems to treat everyone on earth as equally likely to commit terrorism, we've essentially spent about $7 per person in 8 years. Until we wise up and realize that profiling IS REQUIRED, we'll continue to have a system designed only tangentially for security, moreso for simply bothering people.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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Perfectly stated. You, CW, not Dowd. Hers was just (uncharacteristically) good.
She's actually starting to turn. It took her a while, but in the last month she's written a couple columns slamming Obama.
We must perform a root analysis to determine why this happened.
1. Why did Napalitano say that the system worked? Answer: She exceeded her Peter Principal when appointed to her present position.
2. Why was an obvious fool (Napalitano), proposed for and appointed to her present position? Answer: The Obama administration and the Democrat majority in Congress.
3. Why did we end up with an unqualified fool as president and a Democrat majority in Congress? Answer: An uninformed electorate lacking the necessary common sense and good judgment required to select a president.
4. Why did we end up with an electorate so terribly lacking in common sense and good judgment? Answer: The purposeful dumbing down of the public school system curricula and the cessation of teaching or encouraging any semblance of critical thinking.
5. Why was the public school purposefully dumbed down and allowed to deteriorate to such a level? Answer: Planned preparatory spadework for the establishment of a liberal/Socialist agenda.
"What's Happened?"
WE FIGURED HIM OUT
WE FIGURED HIM OUT! By Ben Stein
Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?
Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:
The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008.
They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.
They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.
They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.
They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student.
They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.
The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.
Why were we duped, you ask? Because it is in the character and personality of an ego-centered Narcissist to be believed. They accept no contrary opinions. They have a 100% conviction in their own opinion and beliefs. They typically are well spoken and have a certain amount of charisma. They are adept at twisting and spinning any thought into their own mold. He rallied much of the non-Caucasian and youth vote. Why? Because he preached change. This element of voters either feel they needed change, or in the case of the young voters, they didn’t have enough experience to fully understand “change from and to what” but the charisma and rhetoric sold this “load of poles”.
Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country,way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East , way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future. The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.
Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.
The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.
These are perilous times.. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.
Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .
Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu . He writes "Ben Stein's Diary" for every issue of The American Spectator.
I THINK IT IS REMARKABLE THAT THE PRESS CAN FIND EVERY WOMAN WITH WHOM TIGER HAS HAD AN AFFAIR IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, WITH PHOTOS, TEXT MESSAGES, RECORDED PHONE CALLS, ETC. THEY KNOW NOT ONLY THE CAUSE OF THE FAMILY FIGHT, BUT THEY EVEN KNOW IT WAS A WEDGE FROM HIS GOLF BAG THAT SHE USED TO BREAK OUT THE WINDOWS IN THE ESCALADE. NOT ONLY THAT, THEY KNOW WHICH WEDGE!!!
THIS IS THE SAME PRESS (OR IS IT?) THAT CANNOT LOCATE OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE ... OR ANY OF HIS PAPERS WHILE IN COLLEGE.
TRULY REMARKABLE
I believe I can say what Ms. Dowd said using different words but convey the same meaning:
"If we covered ourselves in clue musk, rolled around in a field of horny clues during clue mating season - we still wouldn't have a clue!"
Doc Milnamo
What you say about Dowd is all true but give the woman a break. By all accounts she gives great head and that goes a long way.
And the Ben Stein piece was great, I missed that.
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