Wonder why the, ahem, security bureaucracy failed to stop the PantyBomber from boarding the jet? Despite his own father’s advance warning?
Other than for the usual reasons of its own ineptitude. Well, No Good Boyo has the explanation. Imagine you are an FBI agent on the receiving end of this: "Hello, I am a senior Nigerian banker. I have important information for you…"
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Tagged Nigerian banking scam, Nigerian scam, No Good Boyo, PantyBomber, Simply Jews, Snoopy the Goon
Another super bird photo from Snoopy the Goon on his recent Arizona trip. The fellow is good!
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Nobody with any knowledge of Texas politics is taking Democrat Farouk Shami’s run for governor seriously. For one thing his incumbent opponent, Republican Rick Perry, is too popular. For another, well, when was the last time Texas had an Arab-American Muslim governor? Exactly never.
On the other hand, Shami has ten million dollars of his own money to invest in his campaign. Consequently he’s getting a lot of media, free and otherwise. They all quote him saying he’s from Palestine, wherever that is. It’s not the Texas Palestine. Apparently he’s from the West Bank, though no one is sure because he doesn’t call it that.
He tells the American Task Force for Palestine, which seems to think he’s a Muslim though some Texans think he’s a Quaker, that he’s for peace and love and equality in the Middle East. Debbie Schlussel thinks he’s a clandestine Jihadi in an anti-Semitic package. She cites as partial evidence this column he wrote two years ago for the Houston Chronicle in which he implies that the nasty Israelis are forcing the poor Palestinians to ration water "while Jewish settlers cultivate lush lawns and fill their swimming pools." That’s libel enough for me to be glad that Shami’s chance of election is exactly nil.
UPDATE: The daily’s Ken Herman did a job on Shami: "The downtrodden minority/victim role is particularly unattractive on a guy who lives in a 24,585-square-foot-home like Shami does."
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Tagged Debbie Schlussel, Farouk Shami, Houston Chronicle, Israel, Jewish settlers, Jihad & Hair Products, Palestine, Texas, Texas governor, West Bank
More of Snoopy-the-goon’s photographic work fromhis recent trip to Arizona.
The case of Army Master Sergeant and milblogger C.J. Grisham doesn’t surprise me. He’s in a public dispute with his child’s public school in Huntsville, AL, and his command has failed to back him. They were already irritated at his public criticism of Barry’s presidential fitness and needling of the Democrat Party.
The Army is a top-down organization and active-duty milbloggers like Grisham walk a fine line between free speech and insubordination. Tits on a boar, I say. If the Army wanted soldiers to have blogs, they’d be issued them. But other milbloggers disagree and they have gone silent through Friday to protest Grisham’s situation, which is extensively explained here. Whatever they say in public, I’m sure that’s what the Army would prefer active-duty milbloggers do: Go silent. Permanently.
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Mainly, it’s the price. But there’s also the problem of reading them on Shabbat. No loop-holes. Whereas there’s no problem there with books. Donald Sensing’s analysis here is timely for me, considering my own previous consideration. I’ve just about decided to ask for a new digital camera, instead. I’ve been borrowing Mrs. Charm’s ever since I managed to destroy my old one.
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
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I have eliminated the TypePad commenting system and gone back to free comments without vetting or other hassles. TypePad was already rejecting some friends of the house. Then it started rejecting me by requiring different passwords on different days. I finally got fed up with it.
I only started using it to eliminate all the comment spam I was receiving. We’ll see if the spam becomes a problem again. I expect some will come back. Hope not too much. If I have to go back to vetting, however, it sure won’t be with TypePad. It is a worthless piece of junk.
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