You won’t need to worry about THIS CRAP on the plane.
The new methods will shut down the airlines! Where are they going to screen this baggage, at HOME?

First, find some local radicalized jihadist to load up his rolling suitcase with go-boom material and walk into the screening area. Far more than can be taken on the plane.
Push the button and…

BANG!

Since freight (FedEx, UPS and other shippers don’t get heavily screened, shipping neat GO-BOOM items this way will definitely put a damper on the mail, business and travelers who send baggage ahead to avoid the hassles at check-in; plus the baggage on the airlines doesn’t get the attention it should because of time. Ship 15 or 20 packages at one time-you’ll get planes and terminals costing millions of dollars plus countless casualties.

Let us see what Baracky Obozo does with that scenario.

Jamie Gorelick, working with the idiots in Clinton Justice Department, did more to enable these terrorist acts to continue…

Gannon also pushed a story about how Republicans felt a Democratic member of the 9/11 had “personal baggage”–that she had written a memorandum while working for the Clinton Justice Department advocating a wall between the law enforcement and intelligence communities.

On April 29, 2004, Gannon asked White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan asking if the president shared an opinion that “the
work of the 9/11 Commission won’t be complete until and unless Jamie Gorelick testifies before the commission on her role in building the wall between intelligence and law enforcement.” [snip]

Clinton Administration

Bill Clinton and his administration systematically undermined America’s national security by emasculating the U.S. military and the nation’s intelligence agencies [snip]

You wonder why we have the problems we have?
Look no further than the clowns in charge in DC. 

SO₂ not CO₂, the new problem.

Where are the AGW people when you need them? Here is Al Gore’s chance to make a killing on sulphur credits and he’s off sulking somewhere on“Gaia Killer” his landlocked bio-diesel boat.

Philippine volcano on verge of eruption as lava oozes down mountain… but villagers are refusing to leave

A rumbling volcano in the Philippines was on the verge of a major eruption today – but thousands of villagers living on its slopes are refusing to leave their homes.

Already, 40,000 people have fled the no-go zone around Mount Mayon, which oozed crimson lava during eerie scenes captured last night.

But around 3,000 residents, mostly farmers, remain –with some even returning after being evacuated up to three times by authorities. [snip]

Obama and Clinton need to rip off the American taxpayers again for some “AGW sulphur credits and hand them out. That will get them moving!

The budget deficit of the USSA can take the hit, after all Obama will just print more, maybe with his picture on them.

 Lucky she didn’t have any semi-auto assault ashtrays!

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool Monday after a Congolese student, speaking through a translator, asked her what “Mr. Clinton” thought about a Chinese trade deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?” Clinton replied, clearly irked by the thought of being her husband Bill’s spokeswoman.

“My husband is not secretary of state, I am,” she replied. “If you want my opinion I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband.”

Our (In)Delicate Diplomat once more produces an “I ♥ Lucy” episode for the world’s viewing.

Now that the monarchist pageantry of the inauguration is over - blessedly so - the business of confirmations and governing is at hand.  Except for the disgrace of confirming a tax cheat as Treas Sec, and Hillary Clinton’s tin-drum chattering about “robust diplomacy and development” as the engine of American influence, the rest has been mundane.

Obama closed the slick chute to government jobs for lobbyists - sort of.  And by closing Gitmo, he removed one of the left’s infected piercings.  A preemptive, second, oath-of-officing silenced the phony birth certificate hopefuls.  A rhyming black “civil rights figure” racialized  the inauguration (how unexpected ), George Bush was heckled on his way out, and the world is happier - at least during the triumphalist, suspension-of-disbelief that follows any progressive victory, however small.  All crap, it’ll sink out of sight. 

Obama’s victory is bigger than anything that happened, bigger than any phenomena from the inauguration. And its energy isn’t compressed into the firecracker ideas of socialists or Marxists; or in the intoxicated love people have for Obama. Its power lies in Obama’s “pragmatism”.  He calls himself  a “pragmatist”.  Hacks and media strategists of all kinds, some of them Republicans, call Obama a pragmatist.  John McCain, if he hasn’t said it, is certainly about to say it with bi-partisan affection.  Hillary Clinton calls herself a pragmatist too, but with a fraction of Obama’s brain power, poise and cunning, she couldn’t pragmatize a bread recipe.    

Most of us think the pragmatist is non-ideological; that pragmatism is a signal of open-mindedness.  That suits Obama’s purpose, because pragmatism for guys with Obama’s education is a system of thought that comes with a capital “P”.  The word was introduced in 1878 by Charles Sanders Pierce, who proposed that ideas be evaluated in terms of their consequences, and that the consequences constituted the meaning of the idea, or its value.  “Truth”, in other words, is pliable if not meaningless to the pragmatist.  The pragmatist has a goal, sometimes an ideology which will be asserted, and flexibility is strictly about the means, NOT the goal. 

Now I haven’t read Pierce’s work, only summaries.  But you can find developments of the pragmatic system  in William James and, especially the progressive’s progressive, John Dewey.   Dewey eventually posited, in instrumentalism, that the search for abstract truth is pointless.  If you trust Wickipedia, you can begin your search for knowledge here, or follow the trail.  Progressivism is a weed with roots everywhere.   It’s the philosophy of the modernist, the revolutionary, and it energized the great secular tyrannies of the 20th century.

With Obama, liberty of  process is simply a function.  The outcome is what matters to him, and always will.  Was it Mao who said that the color of a cat doesn’t matter as long as it catches mice?   The credo of the pragmatist.  Watch out.

Women, support your position. Write in Hillary’s name.

Don’t be dissed by a lightweight!

(A close friend, American, who lives in England and works in Europe, comes back here for all medical work, including dentistry. He says, “I wouldn’t take a chance in their health care system.”)

Privatisation’ of NHS hospitals faces backlash

Plans to allow private companies to run failing NHS hospitals have prompted a major backlash from doctors, patients’ groups and unions.

Ministers have outlined proposals to monitor hospitals and primary care trusts against a set of standards and if no improvement is seen the whole board of managers will be sacked and a new team brought in from elsewhere in the NHS or from private firms.

But there seemed little interest from private sector companies that are already providing care to NHS patients citing the major risks involved with taking on a failing trust.

Why should any private company take on this mess? The government cannot run the health care; they want some one to assume command so they have a punching bag when it fails.
All this has another name: Hillarycare.

[snip]
Other private hospitals that already treat NHS patients have privately expressed concerns and stated they would not be bidding for the contracts.
[snip]
“There is an immense amount of talent within the NHS - in leadership and management - and this should be nurtured, grown and developed to ensure NHS Trusts do not find themselves in a position of failure in the first place.”
[snip]

Righto, chaps this is why those who can afford to, travel to India or the U.S. for surgical procedures.

We do not have a health care problem here. We have a government caused insurance problem. States will not allow persons to buy basic policies from low cost insurers. Mandated coverage such as acupuncture and aromatherapy to grift special interest businesses add to costs. Community rating and preferred insurers jack up the premiums, a non-smoker pays the same premium as some 3-pack-a-day hacker for the same policy. That makes insurance premiums socially acceptable but out of reach for lower income people.

It’s time for a dictionary lesson for our friends on the left:

• Democracy - noun - A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.
• Democratic - adjective - Pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
• Democratic rules committee - noun - A body of party officials determined to fix the nomination for Barack Obama.

That’s certainly the proper definition after Saturday’s ruling that awarded delegates to Obama from a Michigan primary he didn’t participate in. And didn’t Democrats argue that all the votes had to be counted during the Florida recount? Would they have accepted counting half the hanging chads as a compromise? Not likely, but that’s what their split the baby decision on giving Florida and Michigan delegates half a vote equates to.

Apparently, Republicans aren’t the only ones rigging elections.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino:

Mayor Thomas M. Menino said that Hillary Clinton should not run for vice president on a ticket with Barack Obama because her husband, former president Bill Clinton, could cause problems for the new administration.

“If she got back into the White House, she’d bring along Big Daddy, and he would overshadow the president,” Menino said in an interview.

That must be the first time I have ever agreed with Menino.

The end is near for Mrs. Clinton. Her Indiana win wasn’t the seismic shift needed to convince super delegates that they should abandon Barack Obama. It’s just a matter of time before her campaign succumbs to a lack of time and money.

Liberals must be ecstatic at Obama’s ascendancy. They have the nation’s most liberal senator one step away from the presidency. Conservatives can only shake their heads as the Republican Party nominates a quasi-liberal. Maybe McCain can battle Obama for the independents, but will conservatives support him? I certainly don’t see or feel much conservative energy or enthusiasm for McCain or the Republican Party. There’s not much about either a conservative can get excited about.

The big “guns” write:

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s mailing attacking Sen. Barack Obama’s record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on the face of the mailing is reversed, making it a nonexistent left-handed model of the Mauser 66 rifle. [snip]

The Mauser 66, released in 1966 and no longer manufactured, is a high-end hunting rifle that found military use as a sniper rifle. In Clinton’s mailing, it’s pictured with a double-set trigger, a customization that’s popular in Europe but “almost unheard of in the United States,” Forgett said.

“It’s a $2,200 German import — it’s hardly typical of what the average workingman in Indiana uses,” he said.

The left is really “on target.”

Interesting to see the imagery warped to fit the ad. The image of the rifle shown was flipped to balance the composition befitting a Leftist.

Bolt action rifles are manufactured to accommodate southpaw shootists. Scopes however are not. Note the windage adjustment on the scope at the very top of the picture. That is always on the right side of the scope.

Hillary’s people are knowledgeable about guns? Only to recognize one to grab it themselves.

Paul wasn’t struck this hard

The light of conversion, brighter than that seen by Paul, altered Hillary’s belief in church going and guns. The stump Gospel according to Hillary now proclaims “how positive and ‘fundamentally optimistic’” we are.
Shorn of her elitism like a prostitute’s hair, Hillary castigated Obama’s remarks about bumpkins. Her new view posits that bumpkins are good people, stupid but good.

“I disagree with Senator Obama’s assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about immigration or trade simply out of frustration,” she said.
She described herself as a pro-gun churchgoer, recalling that her father taught her how to shoot a gun when she was a young girl and said that her faith “is the faith of my parents and my grandparents.”

This alleged conversion took place before the corkscrew landing in Bosnia but after she tried to join the Marines.
God works in mysterious ways. From the Obamessiah to Clinton’s vision, religion is returning to American politics.

Can I get an Amen!

From under rocks and the backs of dank caves comes this crowd, like the living dead, all moaning:

Don’t settle for chump change: vote socialist!

Don’t be seduced by the hype. You can proudly resist the manipulations of the fat cats by voting for a bonafide socialist candidate. This beats voting for the lesser of two evils or “none of the above,” because you choose a real alternative. [snip]

The candidates of socialist parties call for ending the war now, full reproductive rights for women, pensions and healthcare for all, rights for peoples of color and immigrants and shifting the economic burden to the rich. [snip]

The only intricacy with this scenario is getting the rich to go along.
The amputation of the opulence from prior owners produces this quandary, who holds the appropriated hoard for the people? How does beneficent leaders solve this problem? Perhaps they become the rich.
Talk about permanent revolution; the peasants can perpetually rise up to remove the assets from the rich.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), running Gloria La Riva, is advancing some especially worthy demands, including a $15 minimum wage and an end to police brutality. If only PSL, which leads the anti-war group ANSWER, collaborated with others in the movements!

What, where are the free condoms, rubber tire sandals or shovels? How does $15/hour gibe with reducing the holdings of the despised rich? I suspect this needs more thought.
Does the end of police brutality cover those holding opposing views?

The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) in California also has an anti-capitalist program, although not all of its candidates do. PFP will choose this time’s candidates in August.
Casting a vote for a candidate who is truly independent from the system will let you brag that you took a step fixing this murderous system we live under. Vote socialist in 2008!

Would not living under such a murderous system as ours, cause all the oppressed socialists to flee to a haven such as Cuba or Venezuela? We have no barriers to emigration. There they can live in idyllic life of shared poverty and ownership of a shovel.

This doesn’t show a great track record of Progressive largess. True to form however, they talked about it so that’s what matters.
Take note that the Clinton’s filed an extension; this allows for “corrections” to the tale if she wins the nomination. If not, no more forms see the light of day! I wonder if the underwear deduction is there?

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton released tax data Friday showing they earned $109 million over the last eight years, an ascent into the uppermost tier of American taxpayers…[snip]

The idea that charity begins at home seems to be the Clinton motto.

During that time, the Clintons paid $33.8 million in federal taxes and claimed deductions for $10.2 million in charitable contributions. The contributions went to a family foundation run by the Clintons that has given away only about half of the money they put into it, and most of that was last year, after Mrs. Clinton declared her candidacy. [snip

“Now don’t get me wrong, I have absolutely nothing against rich people,” she said. “As a matter of fact, my husband, much to my surprise and his, has made a lot of money since he left the White House, by doing what he loves doing most — talking to people. But we didn’t ask for George Bush’s tax cuts. We didn’t want them, and we didn’t need them.”

But they made sure they took the deductions. Much akin to Warren Buffet belief Americans should pay more taxes. He didn’t write any extra checks either.
Like most Liberals, when it comes to action, the only part moving is the mouth.

I don’t think any of the idiots in DC understand what’s coming. Take P.J. O’Rourke’s advice. “Never let the people with money and the people with guns, be the same people!”

No matter who’s elected president,
the debt party’s over

Talk about Enron type accounting, our federal books are well done, closer to charred. Here’s some of the hidden bills:

• Supplemental financing bills, outside the budget
• No veterans health-care estimates included
• No equipment replacement costs to restore our military
• Nothing about increases in state and homeland security

The real price is $3 trillion; and growing like Topsy, add to the outlay these goodies.

• Interest on the ever-increasing $9.3 trillion federal debt
• Damage to our credibility from a weak dollar
• Out-of-control inflation in energy

Let us add some more items such as bailouts for mortgage writers and lenders, putting the taxpayers on the hook by nationalizing the banking system and all the unfunded entitlement programs that congress won’t cut. The worst are:

Welfare for Wall Street
J.P. Morgan Chase buys Bear Stern’s equity. Taxpayers get the junk debt totaling billions of dollars. With fresh money it’s the samo-samo speculation Monte game. Why not, they’re playing with your money.

A Third World Financial Industry, Nationalized Banking
The sports on Wall Street played fast and loose, inflating bad debt values and embroidering profits. The Fed’s allowing them to gloss over losses to prevent alarm; talk about hiding a sunrise.

Under and unfunded Social and Entitlement Programs, the Untouchables
Medicare and Social Security entitlements soar to $50 trillion to $65 trillion within a generation. Entitlements will consume the entire budget in a generation. Note how concerned Congress is about this!

Pork and the Lobbying Machine, DC’s biggest busiess
35,000 lobbyists will loiter right after the 2009-2012 first term of the next president, screaming for government largess. The Democrats need them. McCain pledges to veto earmarks, look at his campaign staff, the altruistic ones that are working for “gratis.” All sorts of special interest lobbyists “donating” their time.

Bush’s Free Market Policies
“We’re on top of it,” Bush stated in his New York Economics Club speech in March. Probably like Spitzer got on top.

Roads, Bridges, Water, Sewer: The Appian Way is in better shape
Right! Taxes and more taxes on fuel and real cutbacks in services.

Consumer Savings?
They don’t exist. Big TV’s to luxury vacations, welcome to Hedonist Central where there is no waiting.

Recession Reality
We’ve been dancing to a low 1% Fed rate; the tune was bubble up and flip for loot.
Who’s that knocking at the door? It is the meltdown fiddler; he stopped playing and will have his pay.
All those who pooh-poohed Gramp’s hardship tales will get to live them. Call it a repeating verbal history. Yup, you’ll repeat it.
For all the rad-chic ’60’s anti-capitalists, it couldn’t happen at a better time. Kiss your retirement good-bye!