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Pocket knives to be allowed on planes?

Posted on March 6, 2013 | Comments Off on Pocket knives to be allowed on planes?

So says the LA Times, a newspaper long notorious for inaccuracy and bias. They say TSA will allow blades under 2.6 inches. Figures. Couldn’t be an even two or two-and-a-half inches. Nah, got to make it hard to measure. Typical government operation.

Well one of my pocket knives (I usually carry one or the other for whatever I might need a tool for) has a two-inch blade, the other has 2.5. Right. I can see those hamburger-flippers measuring blades and confiscating the knives they say don’t make the, uh, cut.

More federal circus security with a new basis for argument and possible arrest. Jerks. I might risk losing the smaller, cheaper one. But definitely not the other, a gift from the NRA for renewing my membership. Best to just leave them at home. Even better not to fly at all.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE: Delta pilots and Stewardi are opposed. They say it will slow down the security checks. It will that. Government fixes never are.

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Asteroid message: Colonize Space Or Die

Posted on February 26, 2013 | Comments Off on Asteroid message: Colonize Space Or Die

“Asteroids,” tweeted astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, “are nature’s way of asking: ‘How’s that space program coming along?'”

We could start with the moon. That’s easy pickins’, comparatively. And a much smaller target.

Via Instapundit and his latest column at USA Today.

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The Democrat economy starts to bite

Posted on February 20, 2013 | Comments Off on The Democrat economy starts to bite

Where have all of Wal-Mart’s customers gone?

“If Walmart sales don’t recover in the next few months, we may be in for a bumpy ride.”

Wouldn’t surprise me a bit.

Via Megan McArdle

UPDATE:  The “mysterious” rise in gasoline prices isn’t helping. Those racist oil companies must be trying to make King Putz look bad. They should pass a law or sumthin’.

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The feds don’t trust their own palace guard

Posted on February 11, 2013 | Comments Off on The feds don’t trust their own palace guard

Little ruckus here over discovery that Marines marching in King Putz’s inaugural parade had their rifles disabled so they couldn’t be fired. Apparently, according to a commenter here, the move isn’t unique to Obutthead. Lots of other presidents have done it, too.

I do recall sitting in an armory in full kit at Nixon’s inaugural in 1969. Our rifles were not disabled but we weren’t marching. Our squadron of the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment was detailed in case there was a riot. There’d been quite a few the previous year after the assassination of Dr. King. We’d been thoroughly trained in riot control and would only have used live ammo as a very last resort. A menacing display of fixed bayonets was first, tear gas was second. But we had copper-jacketed 7.62 mm. And, like the Marines in January, we also carried M-14s.

Nothing happened in 1969 and we all went back to the barracks at Fort Meade and turned in our weapons at the troop armory. The troopies wandered off to Fiddler’s Green to pig out on beer. I went to the O club for a round, then back to the BOQ and went to bed. It had been a long, boring day.

Via Instapundit.

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Katrina-on-the-Hudson

Posted on November 13, 2012 | Comments Off on Katrina-on-the-Hudson

I must say I have missed hearing about the likes of dictator-lovin’ Sean Penn paddling into Staten Island in a canoe. Guess all those (mainly) white people freezing and starving in the dark isn’t a big enough concern for the manchild of Hollyweird.

It’s probably also the lack of guaranteed Democrat media hysterical coverage, which Istapundit puts the best possible face on:

“That, I suspect, is because Sandy happened in an area that reporters know. Media folks found it easy to believe stories about New Orleans that they wouldn’t believe about their own area. New Orleans is full of black people and southerners, two groups underrepresented in the national media. Manhattan, on the other hand, is familiar turf. Count on the press to give its own milieu a fairer shake.”

Well, fairer in some ways. They do seem to have “forgotten” this time to blame FEMA’s usual stupidity on the president who appointed its director. But of course. This president is a Democrat. And half-black to boot. Two media no-nos in one.

UPDATE:  A roundup of the Democrat FEMA’s screwups with Sandy.

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Fat Candy pimps for Obama

Posted on October 16, 2012 | Comments Off on Fat Candy pimps for Obama

Now there’s a surprise. CNN’s poster woman for journalistic obesity acted as a hand puppet for Barry, says Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse:

“CANDY CROWLEY INSERTED HERSELF INTO THE DEBATE, OUTRAGEOUSLY, to break up Romney’s most dramatic moment, when Romney was questioning what Obama said the day after the attack in Benghazi. Obama had said he’d called the attack an “act of terror” and Romney was staring him down about it.

“Crowley broke up the showdown, saying ‘He did in fact call it an act of terror,’ which took the wind out of Romney’s sails. We were advised to check the transcript, but the dramatic moment was lost. The transcript shows Romney was right, and Crowley and Obama were wrong.”

Gee, you don’t say. You mean presidents actually lie in “debates,” abetted by their journalistic shills? Oh my, what is the Republic coming to? The end, I fear. Now that most of our news media has the objectivity and credibility of the old Pravda and Izvestia.

“At one point, I thought Crowley might get out her Obama pom-poms and do a little cheer: ‘Give me an ‘O’!'” —Elizabeth Price Foley at Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Well, Fat Candy didn’t go that far, but Queen Michelle broke the rules to lead the clapping for Candy’s Libya interruption, or maybe it was for that and the 27 other interruptions. The queen is determined to keep her million-dollar taxpayer vacations.

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Unexpectedly!

Posted on October 5, 2012 | Comments Off on Unexpectedly!

Would be amusing if it were not indicative of how deep in Barry’s bag most of the news media is that any new, unpleasant news about our failing economy almost always gets the modifer “unexpectedly.”

Instapundit has been pointing out this trend in news reporting for several years now. If you haven’t noticed it, be sure to look for it. If Barry (g-d forbid) wins re-election you’ll be seeing a lot more of it, I’m sure.

And if Romney wins? Heh. “Unexpectedly” probably will become “expected.”

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