Michelle Malkin give us the TSA Joke of the Week:

Q: Which does the TSA consider to be the greatest threat to air security — Al Qaeda or Hamas?

A: Depends

Sadly, that means they miss the Nigerian who had no ID and used somebody else's boarding pass from the day before.  Yes, SERIOUSLY!

Thank God that you don't depend on this bunch of yahoos:

 "More Details Emerge in Wisconsin’s ‘Chokegate.'"

According to one witness, Bradley charged toward Prosser, shaking her clenched fist in his face. Another source says they were “literally nose to nose.” Prosser then put his hands up to push her away. As one source pointed out, if a man wants to push a woman who is facing him, he wouldn’t push her in the chest (unless he wants to face an entirely different criminal charge). Consequently, Prosser put his hands on Bradley’s shoulders to push her away, and in doing so, made contact with her neck.

At that moment, another justice approached Bradley from behind and pulled her away from Prosser, saying, “Stop it, Ann, this isn’t like you.” Bradley then shouted, “I was choked!” Another justice present replied, “You were not choked.” In a statement following the incident, Bradley maintained Prosser “put his hands around my neck in anger in a chokehold.”

On Monday night, Bradley called Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs to talk to him about the incident. On the morning of Wednesday, June 15, Tubbs joined the justices in a closed-door meeting, where he discussed “issues relating to workplace violence.”

During the meeting, Chief Justice Abrahamson actually reenacted the incident on Chief Tubbs... During her demonstration, Abrahamson emphasized that Prosser had exerted “pressure” on Bradley’s throat.

“There was no pressure,” interrupted the justice who had initially broken up the incident between Bradley and Prosser. “That’s only because you broke us apart,” shot back Bradley. This exchange led several meeting attendees to believe Bradley was making up the charge, as they took her rejoinder as an admission that there was no pressure applied to her neck.

Remind you of anybody...?

Joni sent me this.  It's amazing.  It really works!

Try this test and find out what movie is your favorite. This amazing math quiz can likely predict which of 18 movies you would enjoy the most. it really works!
 
    Movie Test:
 
    Pick a number from 1-9.
 
    Multiply by 3.
 
    Add 3.
 
    Multiply by 3 again.
 
    Now add the two digits of your answer together to find your predicted favorite movie in the list of 18 movies below.
 
    Movie List:
 
    1. Gone With The  Wind
 
    2. E.T.
 
    3. Blazing Saddles
 
    4. Star Wars
 
    5. Forrest Gump
 
    6. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
 
    7. Jaws
 
    8. Grease
 
    9. The Obama farewell speech of 2012
            
    10. Casablanca
 
    11. Jurassic Park
 
    12. Shrek
 
    13. Pirates of the Caribbean
 
    14. Titanic
 
    15. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
 
    16. Home Alone
 
    17. Mrs. Doubtfire
 
    18. Toy Story 
  
    Now, aint that something..? 

 We're REALLY looking forward to that opening night!

You don't support the president just unilaterally getting us into a war?  Let examine some liberal programming logic:

CASE {President == Bush}

Hillary calls you a patriot

Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism!

You may NOT question their patriotism!

CASE {President == Obama}

Hillary questions your patriotism

"Whose side are you on?"

CASE {President == Nixon}

The Domino Theory is a LIE!

Jane Fonda transmits anti-war broadcasts to US sailors from North Viet Nam

ELSE

What Democrats Do == GOOD

What Republicans Do == BAD

END CASE

Hey, which side is Hanoi Jane on, vis-a-vis Libya?  Is she a patriot or a traitor on this question?  And who's definition is to be used?

I like Dr. Reynolds' little comment lines.  He notes the crony capitalism of the GM bailout and how 20,000 non-union workers have lost their pensions due to Obama-admin interference (in this post) and then comments:

Meanwhile, reader Ed Stephens emails, “It really is like something out of Atlas Shrugged.” For some people, it’s a cautionary tale. For others, it’s a how-to manual . . . .

Indeed.  We are living Ayn Rand's novel.  Oh, the details are different, but the attitudes are there.

Joni, founder of the San Antonio Tea Party, notified me of this:

Local protest march and boycott planned for July 4th

AN ANTONIO - Local activist organizations, including the Cesar E. Chavez Legacy and Education Foundation, are organizing a protest march on the city's West Side on the 4th of July.
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"A lot of people are mobilizing," said Jaime Martinez, the organizations local founder.

"We are doing this because we love these people," added Gabriel Velasquez with Inner City Advocates.

The march is in protest of Senate Bill 9. The bill would permit, but not necessarily require, law enforcement to ask a person about their citizenship or immigration status. 

. . . 

The protest march will take place on July 4th on 1327 Guadalupe Street  at 11:00 am. Organizers are also planning a statewide boycott, asking people not to purchase anything on the July 4th holiday.

Love America?  Tired of gate-crashing illegals getting the kid-glove treatment?  Put off your purchases on July 2nd & 3rd, and clean out the store on July 4th.

Oh, and if you do Facebook, go join Joni's event group:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106536146106876

Newt Gingrich, Nancy Pelosi's couch mate in pushing global warming Climate Change, has suffered another set-back in his quest for the impossible:  Newt loses his finance team

Go back on your vacation, dude.  When it comes to the presidency, WE DON'T WANT YOU!  We have much better choices.

There is a reason that the power to "declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal," etc., was reserved to Congress and not the President.  European kings had this funny little habit of suddenly marching their soldiers off to war on any prertext that would gain them some small increment of land or power.

We are not supposed to have a king.  Give me no king!

President Obama (or O'Bomb-Ya as some wags put it) has evidently decided he's our king.  Another war is on in Libya.  Obama claims it's not America, it's NATO.  He claims it's not a war.  But Airmen, sailors in Libya receiving “imminent danger pay” despite WH claim of no legal “hostilities”

Obama has told the Congress to piss off concerning the war powers act. 

So, who's in charge?  The ones granted the power in the Constitution or the lawless warmonger in the Whitehouse?  Time to decide.

At a minimum, yank the funding.  Worked in Viet Nam.  Tied Nixon's hands quite effectively.

Or impeach the SOB.  (And suffer under "President Biden."  Shudder!) 

Poop or get off the pot Boehner!

The headline on Drudge caught my eye:  NBC apologizes for cutting “under God” from Pledge of Allegiance before U.S. Open

NBC apologized for cutting the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance in its leadup to coverage to the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club.

(The audio is terrible)

A mistake?  I think not.  They admit it was edited out and say it "was not done to upset anyone."

These buggers are only sorry that they got caught.  I do not believe their "apology," nor that it was a mistake.

When America damns God, how can we ask for His blessing?

Nancy Pelosi, well-connected Democrat from San Fran-sicko did very well last year:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saw her net worth rise 62 percent last year, cementing her status as one of the wealthiest members of Congress.

Pelosi was worth at least $35.2 million in the 2010 calendar year, according to a financial disclosure report released Wednesday. She reported a minimum of $43.4 million in assets and about $8.2 milion in liabilities.

For 2009, Pelosi reported a minimum net worth of $21.7 million.

Remember:  The rich not only need to be taced more, THEY ARE EVIL!  Gee, in some cases that might actually be true.... But not this one.  Oh, no.  There is no way that corruption and taking advantage of her position had anything to do with that.  Not Nancy!

CNN pulled a good one.  Here, let me fix that for you:

Got a letter from Gary Clemente, asking about Rick Perry:

I'm active with the Central Valley Tea Party here in Fresno, CA which services much
of Fresno, Visalia, Tulare and Madera areas. I moved from Rowlett, TX in 2003. I wanted to
hear from the grassroots regarding the talk of Rick Perry running for POTUS. Outside of
Texas, you hear that he's conservative, but is that the real case in Texas? What about his desire
to allow foreign contractors to build that international highway from Mexico to Canada?
What about that business with the mandatory vaccine for high school aged girls?

Just wanted to get a perspective on Perry from ground zero, just as I did from the
New Jersey Tea Party folks who told me that Chris Christie is not very conservative at
all.

As to my background, let all those who know me know that the hard left had better
watch out for me. My father was a Special Agent with the FBI and during the 50s he
conducted security background checks for those that were applying for sensitive
government positions. This was in order to detect whether they were cohorts of the
Communist Party USA and Socialist Workers Party. My father is 88 and he will testify that
those very same individuals he gave the boot to back then are in the deepest reaches of
our government, and not surprisingly, the White House.

Thanks for answering my concerns about Rick Perry. 

OK, I'll bite.  My reply:

On most issues, Gov Perry is an old-style traditional conservative. You've already put your fingers on the big concerns: foreign-owned toll roads and that vaccine fiasco.

He is no libertarian, that's for sure. The proposal to mandate girls be forced to take that unproven, inadequately-tested vaccine shows this.

The idea of a Mexico-to-Canada road doesn't bother me. But Gov Perry views toll roads as the way to "get traffic moving" (his words to some of us at our July 4, 2009 rally). That he's willing to use eminent domain to grab the land and then give a sweet-heart deal to a foreign company is just awful. See Texans United for Reform and Freedom (TURF) for everything toll road; Terri Hall does yeoman's work!

In the end, Gov Perry, warts and all, would make a much, much better president than the Marxist knot-head currently "serving" in that office. Is he my first choice? No. Would I actively support him as the nominee? Hell Yes!

Like everyone else but me and you, he's a mixed bag. You and I are perfect on every issue, right? Well, I am anyway.... <grin>

What say the rest of my fellow Texans?

Much as I dislike Waxman, he's right to be looking into this:

Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. They sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time.

This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those Benjamins. But despite years of audits and investigations, U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion in cash — enough to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year, among many other things.

For the first time, federal auditors are suggesting that some or all of the cash may have been stolen, not just mislaid in an accounting error. Stuart Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, an office created by Congress, said the missing $6.6 billion may be "the largest theft of funds in national history."

Just what the F%#$! do you expect when you try to "Nation Build" inside a kleptocracy?  Duh!

Screw this "stick around and rebuild our enemy" crap.  Next time we're attacked (and there will always be a next time), just smash the buggers and leave.  Let them choose their leadership more wisely next time.

Baldilocks makes some interesting points in Sarah Palin Pwns The Media--Again (KingShamus).  She's one of many comparing the media's colonoscopy of Palin with thier lack of interest in Obama's background.  Here's where I think Baldilocks stands out:

Chances are that the media has found every possible trouble spot Sarah Palin might have in her background. Barring something completely out of the blue, there are no scandals lurking in Palin's history. If there was, you can be sure the MSM would've reported it by now.

You can argue against Palin on stylistic grounds. You might think her snowbillyisms and folksy demeanor won't translate into a winning formula in a national election. You can even question some of her policy emphases.

The one big advantage Sarah Palin has over everyone else in the 2012 presidential field is that there will be no surprises. Every rock has been turned over. If she runs for the White House, you can be sure the media will keep digging into her past. You can also be sure that Palin will beat them more often than not. In a race that is certainly going to be a media-driven death march against whoever the GOP nominates, being a proven MSM slayer is no small thing.

By the way, if you're not familiar with Baldilocks you should be.  Spend some time on her page.

Heard of this, yeah that's one thing, but to ACTUALLY SEE IT is another (via Moonbattery):

Windmills kill birds.  Big, beautiful Golden Eagles.  This bird was very lucky; there was somebody there to rescue it.  How many birds whacked by this array get rescued?

(image from WebEcoist.com)

Until I saw that video, I still supported windmills.  No longer.  They cost too much, both in dollars and in wildlife.  They LOSE money (See the report at Watts Up With That).  Plus, they are a net negative on the "saving the planet" front.

When it comes to political sex scandals, Zombie hit the nail on the head with Why the Hypocrisy Defense is political suicide for liberalism.   Herein I steal his money-shot picture:

(Yes, I'm shameless!)

He ends a very cogent analysis with this:

Within the parameters of this “Hypocrisy Defense”…Which do you think the general public prefers: An ideology that at least tries to champion a moral code, but whose adherents sometimes fail to live up to it; or an ideology that by its own definition is inherently immoral and whose adherents don’t even have a moral code to violate?

The liberals are taking a HUGE gamble that a majority of Americans will throw in their lot with the party of immorality. But I have the feeling they’ve lost that bet — not just in Weinergate, but at a deep structural level in society for a long time to come.

Zombie is right, but only if word gets out.  Spread the word!

Here's serial pervert Rep. Anthony Weiner not so long ago acting like a better-than-thou asshat on the issue of inheritance (fast-forward to 8:50):

Next, ignore HOW he says that and pay attention to WHAT he says.  He believes that inheritance is not a right.  What you can leave to your children (70%?  50%?  Less?) is up to the government to decide.

Scary.  It is a near-complete repudiation of the one of the primary bases of Western culture:  Private Property.

As bad as that knot-headed liar is, what Megan McArdle proposes in The Atlantic is worse.  Much worse!

Why Do We Allow Inheritance At All?

By Megan McArdle

Jun 6 2011, 12:57 PM ET

. . . 

Inheritance not only hands people valuable income in return for something we don't really want to further reward--being born lucky--but also, in doing so, it entrenches the least attractive feature of our economy: the fact that people who are born to affluent parents are much more likely to themselves be affluent than children born to the less well-heeled.  Lack of economic mobility is generally regarded as a bad thing that we should combat.  

Yet so many of our institutions, from the geographic organization of our schools, to the financial distribution of our inheritances, reinforce it.  Some of those things are not going away (we should not, and will not, order affluent people to move into poor school districts, or shut down research universities for conferring unfair advantages on the mostly affluent students who have the ability to gain admission).  But what are the social benefits that inheritance conveys to offset its drawbacks?  I think they have to be pretty large to justify letting dead people order us to perpetuate the economic status quo.

So I can make a moral case for a 100% estate tax.  Which is, in some sense, what Kevin Drum is doing when he advocates "letting the dead pay for Medicare".  He would make Medicare a senior creditor on estates; the government would get first crack at all the assets until the bill for all the Medicare services consumed has been repaid, or the estate runs out of money.

In most cases, the government would take everything.  And it's a superficially attractive policy--the idea that you're entitled to free health care from the government, and to leave your children a tidy inheritance, seems faintly ludicrous to me, for all that many Americans embrace it.

She then discusses various arguments against it, but ends:

It's quite possible that a 100% estate tax--or some near equivalent such as Kevin proposes--would be entirely fine.  But I'm not sure I understand all the roles that inheritance is playing in our economy, and our lives--which means that I'm fairly sure I don't know what the effects will be.  So I'm hesitant to impose such a tax, even though on principle I think it's a fine idea.

This should scare you.  The "business and economics editor" for a major magazine doesn't really get private property.  It's OK to take the bread from your childrens' mouths.  Your family is not allowed to improve themselves--each generation must start on their own. 

Of course, we know where this leads--If it's OK to take it at your death, it's also OK to take it before your death.  It's not really yours.  It'll end up in the hands of The State, and that's OK by her.

We used to be a Free People.  Putzes like these two don't even get what they're missing.  God help us all.

Question:  Is there anyone more contemptible than Representative Weiner?

Answer:  CHRIS MATTHEWS!

This man is so vile.  He says of Weiner's wife:  "Well, maybe she's partly responsible if she knew about it?"

This woman is a victim.  Thankfully, she had the brains to avoid being one of those poor women who stand next to their man when he hits the microphone with such crap.  Good on her! 

Matthews?  He's just lower than whale poop!

Making fun of liberals...especially self-righteous blow-hards.  What fun!

Wee Willy Weiner's Wiener whacked.

Big, bad Brietbart busts brazen braggart with bulging boxers.

Puzzled press, presuming purity, prepare possible pretext for parliamentarian.

Sycophant scribes shocked by statesman's salacious submission.

Liberals lambasted!

Powerline asks the question:  Should We Mock Liberals?

We have been having fun at Anthony Weiner's expense like just about everyone else. Fun is, of course, valuable in itself. But Glenn Reynolds reminds us that mockery serves a deeper purpose:

 I think there's an important point in the comic value: The people who think they're smart enough, and morally superior enough, to run everyone else's lives are risible. They're not smart enough to run their own lives competently, and they're actually, overall, morally inferior....

The first commenter, Mike, makes this observation: 

The problem with conservatives is that they haven't mocked enough... and that's why so many independents and conservatives are looking for a confrontational presidential candidate this time. The "Republican Gentleman" stuff hasn't worked so well.

Indeed!  So, let's begin again, shall we?  (Giggle....)

Not to mention the new DNC Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz (via IOwnTheWorld):

Is it's "fair" to pick on women with weight problems?  Only when they act like the fat gym teacher from your worst school time memories.   Meanwhile, President Obama shows how to put these two "in their place..."  President Obama wolfs down TWO chili dogs and fries... the day after his wife unveils new dietary guide:

For once, I can heartily say we should all follow Our Fearless President's Shining Example!

Heard of Ann Barnhardt?  She takes no prisoners.  Some may find her "too strident," but it's hard to argue that she's wrong.

First, on Mitt Romney:

Next, a two-part oldie but a goodie (Ann Barnhardt rebuts Lindsey Graham's remarks on 4/3/2011 regarding the First Amendment):

and part II, where she burns a bacon-bookmarked Koran:

My thanks to Joni Schmidt for reminding me of Ann Barnhardt in an email she sent today.  As Joni said in the email: "I’d vote for her in a New York minute!"