Uhmmm… President Ken would end that doubt in a heartbeat. How? By turning back all non-US citizens on flights from airports that didn’t comply. Who wants to ignore what I want now?
Oh… and I wouldn’t run a crazy debt and leaders of terrorist sponsoring countries would be dead by my first week in office.
Write in Ken Nelson in 2012!
Uhmmm… I’d like to see your bags sir.
So now, 8 years after 9/11, we finally start searching everybody from bad countries?
The State Department lists four countries as those that sponsor terror: Cuba, Sudan, Syria and Iran. The other 10 countries of interest are Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen, the government official said.
What about the UK, with its too large and too extreme Muslim population? France too.
Basically, we need to interview / search everybody coming here that fits the profile – Muslim. And we need to stop Muslim immigration NOW so that a local Muslim population doesn’t grow here and hide and provide terrorists.
A threat to a bloated ineffective bureaucracy has his laptops seized by TSA special agents:
Meanwhile an actual threat to America enters with ease:
I suppose when Al-Qaeda threatens the TSA directly they might get vigorous about, you know, checking them out.
If it weren’t so dangerously stupid the contrast would be funny. But we spend trillions, lose freedoms, and still have terrorists walking into our country with no problem.
Heads need to roll. Starting at the top.
"We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable."
Barack Obama, 10:10AM
Fore!
Barack Obama, 10:40AM
Turns out one will be evicted (foreclosed on) this season, and others will have to clean their own homes:
My wife watches the show, but I can’t stand it. Some of the ladies are pretty but they offset it by acting very petty and stupid frequently. At least that is what I know from walking by when its on. Perhaps my samples don’t show a true picture – like climate data.
Another year goes by and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame leaves the awesome Canadian power trio “Rush” off the list of inductees.
Ridiculous! And… WOW! … the insult grows as I peruse who they picked:
Besides ABBA, the Rock Hall’s internationally flavored Class of 2010 includes the proto-punk Stooges from Ann Arbor, Mich., Jamaican reggae star Jimmy Cliff and a pair of British exports, the pop-rocking Hollies and prog-rocking Genesis.
I agree with the Hollies, because they were early and important. But the others… are you kidding me? Genesis before Rush? The Stooges before Rush? Abba, a group that had a few hits in the 70’s, before Rush?
Let’s look at sales:
Over the course of their career, Rush has come to release 24 gold records and 14 platinum records (3 of which have gone multiplatinum),[87] placing them within the top 4 for the most consecutive gold albums by a rock band.[88] Rush ranks 78th in U.S. album sales according to the RIAA with sales of 25 million units.[88] Total worldwide sales approximate 40 million units.
Abba – I enjoyed their music. And I even visited one of their members houses when I was in Sweden once. I don’t dispute them eventually getting in, but not ahead of Rush.
A New Jersey school district forced a teacher to forfeit 4 months salary in New Jersey for making a 4 minute personal phone call.
I understand the premise behind not wanting them to take phone calls, but this seems rather extreme.
As pleasing as it is to see insane “zero tolerance” rules aimed at grownups instead of kids, it is still equally insane.
I could see, maybe, docking pay for the DAY of the call. But 4 months? Ridiculous.
This highlights why I’d never work for a large, uncaring, bureaucracy.
And also why I don’t want such a beast guiding my healthcare.
Dope
“It’s very clear that the stimulus has had some effect,” the former Republican presidential nominee said. “And I’ll be glad to give him credit for that,” McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, said Sunday on the CNN program “State of the Union.”
Yeah, I know, he was tortured for umpteen years. That doesn’t preclude him from being a MORON. Maybe next time the Republicans will actually nominate a someone who likes them?
H/T Ace
Chosen only as an example of a possibly poor life decision
Twenty-seven year old Trina Thompson finished college in April. She spent $70K on tuition to Monroe College and received an “Information Technology” degree.
Alas, here it is August already and she hasn’t yet gotten a job yet.
So she did what any American would do… She sent out more resumes, worked her personal network, did pro bono IT work to gain contacts, broadened her definition of an acceptable job and took a non-IT job to help pay the bills while the hunt continued.
Ooops… that actually described my job hunt as I faced graduating from college with a Computer Science degree into the face of the recession that used to be the “worst since the depression” before this one claimed the title.
Trina took another course unfortunately of the non-college kind… she sued:
The information-technology student blames Monroe’s Office of Career Advancement for not providing her with the leads and career advice it promised.
I don’t know what her legal agreement with the college is. But I doubt strongly the amount of effort they put into her job hunt is specified even broadly. I doubt a contract exists between her and the school at all – nothing to sue about IMHO.
Looking broadly at her life decisions.. I’d say she looks pretty unemployable.
First off, she is 27 and just finishing college. I’ll tolerate that in someone serving in the military, but other than that it screams “aimless”.
Second, she paid $70K in tuition to a school I’ve never heard of to get a degree that is squishy. What exactly is “Information Technology”. Computer Science or Mathematics, I understand and respect. But “IT”, why pay $70K for something people pick up in books and continuing education classes? The combination reeks of poor analytical thinking.
Finally, things didn’t go her way and she sued. Gosh, who doesn’t want a litigious employee?
So good luck Trina. You are going to need it.
Michelle Obama wore $540 sneakers to dish out food at a D.C. food bank.
How about $15 dollar treads from Payless and $525 donated to the food bank?
You know, instead of donating my tax dollars?
