Is it time for another "gate"? How about "Failure-gate"?

"WASHINGTON (AP) - The no-fly list failed to keep the Times Square suspect off the plane."

So, after 9 years and several failed attempts, and God only knows how much money spent, our national security agencies, airlines employees, ATA and Dept of Justice genius's are still unable to come up with a simple, efficient and user friendly computer data base system, that can be accessed and updated any easier than this blog page. Speaking of gates, where's Bill on this? Hey, Mr. Microsoft, how 'bout you put the geeks to work on this problem for a while. I bet you could make a few more $billion off the Federal Government while solving this apparent mystery of data base wizardry.

How hard can it possibly be to simply allow airline ticket agents issuing boarding passes for any plane allowed to fly in US air space, to log into a central data base, like NCIC, National Crime Information Center, and download the names for a quick check to see if any of them are on the no-fly list?  Or how about, instead of spending their time standing there watching people struggle with that piece of crap self check-in throwback to the Atari for tots terminal, the ticket agents just go back to doing it the old fashioned way of doing it themselves and as they enter the damn name, it automatically gets compared to the NCIC, no-fly list, that can be instantly updated nationwide with the flick of a middle finger on a keyboard in some remote, top secret national security clearing house of Homeland Security information. By the way, the technology existed to do it back in the 70's, if I'm not mistaken.

But, something tells me that political correctness has reared its ugly head once again and that is why we can't just simply input these names to a data base like NCIC.... even for EMERGENCIES!!!  How much ya wanna bet that some damn ACLU lawyer at the DOJ has decided that if you put those names of certain protected class people willy nilly on the list, they might get offended and OH MY GOD we can't have any of that, now can we?  It's just so much more important that we don't offend anyone of any certain, unnamed religion or ethnicity than to actually do ANYTHING remotely sufficient to protect the public at large from being blown into little pieces all over the sky, or even downtown Manhattan.

That bastion of  legendary cover-ups, the 9/11 Commission, has been credited on several resent occasions as having inspired the "connect the dots doctrine" of national security failure excuses. That one accomplishment should be its epitaph because it has been used so many times by the current regime of n'er-do-wells and bungling buffoons as to make the "connect the dots" doctrine a legendary piece of political spin far superior to anything the Clintons devised to evaporate the stain on that infamous blue dress. But I digress....

Since the original sin of Watergate, we've had Monica-gate, File-gate, Travel-gate, Trooper-gate, Tail-gate, Memo-gate, and who could forget Nipple-gate?... and if that weren't enough gates, we now have "no-fly-gate". Or, maybe it will be tagged, "connect the dots-gate", or simply "failure-gate".

I think more appropriately we should just now refer to this whole bungling buffoonery, foisted upon the American people by the Leftist movement, as "Obama-gate". The whole Socialist Democrat, smarmy liberal progressive inspired disaster is culminating in  the worst  "gate" to ever be plastered upon the tabloid pages of popularized political pulp.

But, for now, let's just call it "failure-gate".