Thursday, June 24, 2010

Airliner hijacked by bureaucrats and other incompetent boobs

Headline: AIR NIGHTMARE: Chaos as Newark Flight Diverted


"Hundreds of Newark-bound passengers sat for four hours on a tarmac in a stifling cabin after bad weather diverted their flight from London in Connecticut and union regulations grounded it there.


To make matters worse, passengers said, the plane's generators shut down for the second time, leaving them with no air conditioning and sweltering temperatures that reached 100 degrees."

Well, here we go again. A flight gets grounded on the tarmac for hours and hundreds of passengers are held captive, LITERALLY CAPTIVE by the airlines and they try to blame it on union and federal regulations. This should make people so damn mad they would never set foot on another airliner again and the law suits should be flying before the last pissed off passenger is off the plane.

Not only that but the airlines should be held criminally liable as well. It's a crime to hold someone against his or her will. It's usually called false arrest and unlawful imprisonment. I could be wrong but last time I checked union regulations can't trump a criminal statute!

Will some poor schmuck have to die on one of these flights from hell before the airlines are forced to let people get off these damn planes in a reasonable length of time? Congress stepped up the last time this happened and graciously decreed that 3 hours was long enough to make people suffer needlessly before the airlines must allow them to de-plane. But, of course, as with all of Congress's bluster it failed to even come close to solving the problem. First of all, 3 hours stuck on a plane with no water or restroom and no air conditioning during the blazing heat of the Summer is absolute torture and no person with any sense would sit there and endure that torture willingly. I would be the guy that would just go up to the door and open it and fight anyone who tried to stop me. But that's just me. I would either get off that plane right there or make the captain return to the terminal and let me off. It would be like 'Mutiny on the Bounty'.

Besides being about 2 hours too long, the new rule only applies to domestic flights! So, apparently, international flights can be held out there on the tarmac, regardless of conditions, forever!

The airlines did apologize, so I guess everything is just hunky dory. Oh sure. It's not really their fault their damn plane was defective and the generator wouldn't work. Oh noooo. And it's not their fault then that the plane had to wait for Customs to arrive. Hey, it's a security matter ya know.

The reason this makes me so mad is that none of it needs to happen. It happens because the airlines and the airports and the FAA and the TSA are incapable of using their own discretion, common sense and good judgment and it is clear that nobody seems to really give a damn. They use the excuse of "security" or union rules. The airlines also do it to save a few bucks as well. It costs them money to de-plane 300 people and find them alternate transportation. That's the bottom line. Once you get on that plane, they own your ass and they treat you that way.

These kinds of incidents never used to happen. There was a time, back in the good ol' days, when people could use their God given good sense to make decisions based on the situation at hand. Airlines employees, pilots, whoever was in control, would just get those people off that plane if it meant bringing out the portable boarding stairs and bussing them back to the terminal. Unions be damned! Customs be damned! The only time passengers were ever held captive on the tarmac for hours was when a certain group of Islamic terrorists began hijacking them back in the 70s.

If the Customs agents can't get there within a few minutes, then just get those passengers off the plane, back to the terminal and let them enjoy a Happy Meal while they wait in relative comfort and safety. If the US Customs or TSA doesn't like it, tough shit. What are they going to do, fine the airlines? Wack their peepees? I'd love to see that Congressional hearing on national TV.

Congress will haul just about any citizen or CEO in front of a Star Chamber circus inquisition if it suits their political motivations. So, how about hauling the airlines before a congressional hearing to answer the question of why they chose to hold 300 people against their will on a plane in 100 degree heat with no air conditioning because of some union rule???!

It would also be interesting to see the pompous assed Congress grilling the US Customs officials as to why they can't come up with a more efficient way to handle situations where a plane gets diverted to another airport and is forced to hold passengers on the damn plane for hours until they arrive to check the luggage for whatever it is they check for these days. We know they aren't checking for terrorists because terrorists don't seem to have much trouble getting on board airplanes, even when they're being tailed by the FBI and they're on the no-fly list!

But, as Homeland Insecurity chief Napalitano would surely surmise, the system worked. Yep, the system worked so well in this instance that not one damn person with half the brains God gave a jackass could figure out that 300 passengers were being forced to sit on a plane in 100 degree heat for no good reason.... AGAIN!

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Feds return to Jim Crow, but with a twist

From the "things that make your head explode" file.....

"PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Voters in Port Chester, 25 miles northeast of New York City, are electing village trustees for the first time since the federal government alleged in 2006 that the existing election system was unfair. Federal Judge Stephen Robinson approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each." (click here for article)

He said, in effect, that a community made up of 50% Hispanics where white candidates always won the elections, somehow violated the Voting Rights Act.

SAY WHAT???!!! Yep, that's right. This white hating Federal Judge, like many Federal Judges, is so brainwashed by the reverse discrimination logic of fairness, that there is nothing too ridiculous or unfair to whites that he won't approve of it.  If it harms whites and favors some other ethnic group, it's just hunky dory with him. And, because he's a Judge, that makes it all legal.

Of course, "Hispanic" is not a race, but since Judge Robinson is legislating from the bench under the guise of "racial equality" in approving this ridiculous bastardization of the voting system, then I guess we can refer to it as racism. We'll just call him a damn racist because there is no other way to describe a manipulation of the voting system to give one race an advantage, however slight, over another. By giving every resident 6 votes, including whites apparently, he reasoned that since Hispanics will naturally vote in a block for Hispanic candidates, they would increase their representation beyond their actual voting numbers to elect more Hispanic candidates to public office.

First of all, why does he believe that just having more Hispanic people in office will somehow be better for society? Is that not racist on its face? What's next, Judge, Hispanic "preferred" restaurants and bathrooms? I know, that's a ways down the slippery slope, but the Jim Crow laws that prevented colored folks from voting in the South did not all happen overnight either.

Why not cut to the chase, Judge, and just approve the ol' Jim Crow poll tax but this time make it harder for non-Hispanics to vote because they make too much money? Just say that if you make more than Hispanics make on average, you only get one vote and they all get 6 votes each. It's no different and much more direct and efficient. It'd be easy to do. Just use the $14 billion 2010 census data.

"The 15th Amendment, ratified on February 3, 1870, provided that the right of U.S. citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The Congress was given the authority to enforce those rights and regulate the voting process. From 1890 to 1908, however, 10 Southern states wrote new constitutions with provisions that included literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses that permitted otherwise disqualified voters whose grandfathers voted (thus allowing some white illiterates to vote), some with the aim and effect of re-imposing racially motivated restrictions on the voting process that disfranchised blacks."

But all the Jim Crow laws are now illegal and there is nothing preventing anyone from voting. Nothing has changed with the voting system to make it unfair since the Voting Rights Act. Every US citizen has the same voting rights as anyone else. If they choose not to exercise those rights for whatever reason except intimidation, like, a couple of Black Panther thugs armed with clubs blocking the entrance to a polling place, it's their choice. It's not racism if they are just too lazy or ill informed to vote. We shouldn't give everyone 6 votes in some lame attempt to make it easier to elect minorities.

 If you think having more of one color of people and less of another color in public office is better for the country, then you need to have your union thugs and ACORN go out and get more of the proper colored folks registered and bussed to the polls on election day. That's how the race pimps have always done it, so why not just continue what works? You don't need to cheat the system or rig elections, not that the race pimps are necessarily above that either, but it's harder and it might embarrass your community activist leaders if you get caught.

But, as always, the racists are never satisfied with equal. They want an edge. So, they now have a scheme to make sure their color gets over represented and they can be sure to win more elections. Welcome to the new, improved Jim Crow era once again.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Our Attention Deficit Disorder Foreign Policy

Is the Afghan "war" really a war and if it is, why has it lasted so long? Did Congress ever get around to actually declaring war this time? I must have missed that news cycle. Maybe Pelosi slipped that into the health care bill too.

Wars are supposed to be declared by Congress but for some reason that rigorous formality designed to keep us from getting bogged down in endless foreign entanglements has been replaced by something else, the Attention Deficit Doctrine. To avoid the nasty reality of fighting a real war, we just never declare war and that way, when we lose interest in killing and dying and spending money, we just go onto somethig else. Nothing ever really gets decided or accomplished, except for the poltical careers of the Presidents in charge at the time.
Arguably the worst and last "real war" America fought was World War II. We were fighting the Axis powers on three fronts; Japan, Italy and Germany, all of which had the most advanced military machines in history at that time. They had strong industrial and economic bases and resources. Japan controlled most of the Pacific and Asia and Germany and Italy controlled all of Europe, half of Russia, North Africa and the Mediterranean and parts of the Middle East and were closing in on the United Kingdom.

It took America a mere 4 and a half years to defeat all three Axis countries, destroy their ability and will to fight, bring them to the peace table and bring peace and prosperity to the World..... for awhile. It had a definite beginning and a definite end. Congress declared war on them and they on us. Once we destroyed them, they signed a peace treaty. It was over.

Compare that scenario to Afghanistan. We have been engaged militarily in Afghanistan since 2001 , a 3rd world country with no organized army, no air force or navy, no industry, no infrastructure and a barely organized government of our own creation. We went there after 9/11 to remove the Taliban and kill or capture Osama bin Laden. 8.5 years later we have not accomplished either objective. We have the most advanced military the world has ever seen and our technological advantage is vastly superior to anything the enemy can muster, and yet we cannot even achieve our limited objectives, let alone defeat this pathetic 3rd World country.

Everyone calls the Afghan adventure a war and yet by comparison to real wars, it barely classifies as a decent police action, except in terms of the money spent to conduct it. Our own government is paralyzed by political correctness to the point they can’t even name the real enemy or use the term terrorist. They’ve quit referring to the “war” on terrorism, which is what got us there in the first place. Yet, they continue to fund the un-war in Afghanistan as if it were just something they are obligated to do but can’t say exactly why. Forget about the fact that it is becoming a worse quagmire than Vietnam, with no achievable goal and no visible end in sight, we simply can no longer afford to continue it! We are $13 trillion in debt with no way to repay it, EVER! We sure as hell can't afford to be throwing more borrowed money at a so-called war with nothing or very little left to gain even if we could ever figure out a way to honorably extract ourselves.

The grim reality is that the minute we leave that wasteland, if we ever do, it will immediately fall back into the hands of the war lords and Taliban or whatever group of tyrannical misfits and murderers that controlled it before we arrived. So what if it did? Even if we could somehow, someday completely destroy every last vestige of terrorist scumbag making ability in that hell hole, and turn it into a thriving clone of America with a McDonalds on every corner, there are about a hundred other places around the World just dying to take it’s place as the center of terrorism. That is the undeniable reality that is facing us and yet is totally missing from the discussion.

Afghanistan, however, is not the only un-war we have been engaged in for a protracted period of time, upon which we have spent huge amounts of national treasure and lives and which turned out badly or not at all. Vietnam comes to mind, as does Korea and Iraq but the list is quite long.

Congress never declared war on North Korea. That un-war was fought to a stalemate and continues to this day, locked in a stare down across the 38th parallel where it all began in 1950. The Korean "conflict" or "police action" as it was called for lack of a formal declaration of war, actually grew out of the end of the 2nd World War when Korea was divided by the United Nations between North and South Korea. The North, supported by Communist China, invaded the South and the fight was on. Our involvement with the United Nations and our presumed position as the World's policeman sucked us into that deadly, unwinnable tar baby. We are still there today, manning the 38th parallel, waiting for North Korea, still supported by Communist China and now equipped with nuclear capabilities, to come pouring back across it, just like they did in 1950.

Congress never declared war in Vietnam. The Nixon administration at least negotiated a signed so-called peace agreement that was more like a cease fire so we could cut and run. Of course, the agreement was immediately violated by the Communists because they hadn‘t been beaten, so the un-war was not ended by the un-treaty. The US Congress was controlled by the Democrats in 1973 and they refused to fund the war they had started. In essence, the Democrats gave up and allowed that "un-war" to be un-lost. They were more interested in bringing down the Nixon presidency at the time and the country was more interested in smoking pot and free love. We didn't lose the war. We just lost interest in it, thus establishing the Attention Deficit Doctrine.... Foreign Policy by ADD.

We’re still in Iraq and while I believe it was a necessary venture and a huge success at first, we can’t seem to find that peace table, sign the treaty and get the hell out yet. Why? Because it too was not a real war. Congress never declared war so it can’t declare an end to it. How do you say the war is over if you never declared it started, against whom and for what reason? We just went there, congress funded it and gave it their tacit approval, our boys died, we hung the bad guy but now we’re stuck in this endless tar baby limbo of indecisive political mumbo jumbo called “nation building“. We can’t leave and we can’t stay. We can’t win but we can’t lose. If we have a legitimate reason to keep our forces there, and I believe an argument can be made for that, let’s use that strategic position to launch an invasion of the Islamic terrorist World and get it over with. Let’s get it on and win this war with Islam, once and for all. Otherwise, let’s just withdraw into our shell and wait for them to invade us. Sooner or later it’s going to happen. At least then we will be justified in declaring real all out war against a real enemy. We either fight to win or we will all die. It’s as simple as that.

The lesson to all of this is that if we are going to engage in military action of any kind, we need to have a formal declaration of war. We need a real enemy that we can name, demonize, destroy and then come home. Otherwise, stay the hell out of it.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Sieg heil Helen, your swastika is showing

The not-so lovely or loveable, Bush-bashing White House correspondent Helen Thomas, never known before as a Jew hater, has finally jumped the shark and let it all hang out. Yep, she's out of the closet like a Nazi at a KKK rally. She may not be the Beast of Buchenwald, but she just might be the Beast of the White House Press Corps,... or was. She has now officially retired. It’s about time. She was 89.

In a May 27 exchange with Rabbi David Nesenoff, which was captured on video and posted on the website http://www.rabbilive.com/, Thomas said Israelis should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home to Germany and Poland. "

The only difference between her anti-Semitic jaw dropping whopper and the career ending tirade of standup comic Michael Richards is that Helen is no comedian. She can’t claim it was a joke. Some things you just can’t un-say. As Kramer would say, “It’s....out there”.

Nope, there’s no puttin’ this toothpaste back in the tube, Helen. Apologize all you want to, you old jew hater. It’s you, Farrakhan and Ol’ Uncle Adolf all the way now baby. You may as well move to Hollywood and become a gossip columnist. You’ll fit right in. All those far Left lunes feel the same way you do about the Jews and Israel.

Frankly, I’ve been sick of that liberal Democrat loving windbag for decades and it’s simply karma that she should now have to do the perp walk of shame right out of there and into journalistic obscurity where she belongs. Old journalists, like old soldiers should retire and fade away.... before their senility starts to show and they end up saying something stupid.

Monday, June 7, 2010

World Don’t Tread On US

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BREAKING NEWS: The World Health Organization (WHO) gets it wrong, again.

Well DUH. Who would have guessed that one? Another World organization, comprised of so-called experts, unaccountable to the people over whom they exercise considerable power to regulate, is once again exposed for the incompetent, negligent and corrupt alarmists they really are. The WHO is now being accused far and wide for exaggerating the Swine Flu scare, commonly referred to as H1N1, which, far from being a world wide deadly PANDEMIC as they claimed, turned out to be about as bad as the common cold. But, besides just being a bunch of self-serving panic mongering bureaucrats, they were being advised by “experts” with ties to the drug companies that just so happened to end up being the direct beneficiaries of the panic induced “THE SKY IS FALLING” media-gasm mania. It turns out they made a killing even if the Swine Flu pandemic didn’t. And, as usual, we the tax payers got stuck with the bill. Surprise!
First we had the Global Warming media-gasm mania scam, and all that it entailed from the fraudulent “hockey stick” climate data to the cover-up and finally to the exposure of the true agenda to extort billions from developed countries as penitence for using too much of the Earth’s precious resources. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), of which the Kyoto Protocol is a part, is a major player and purveyor of the total farce that is man-made global warming. Surprise!

And now we have the latest in a long history of panic mongering, alarmist, false predictions by the United Nations WHO, from the largely overblown SARS bird flu panic to the Mad Cow scare that led to the slaughter of fully a third of all the cows in Britain - 3.7 million animals, but a mere 136 human deaths suspected of some kind of association with Mad Cow....but they can’t be certain. The moral of the story; don't eat cow brains or let the government know you have livestock. At the first sign of a problem they'll come out to your farm and kill every living creature you own and probably you too if you try to stop them.
Even the World Trade Organization (WTO) is more than a bit scary and for the same reasons as the WHO and UNFCC. The WTO grew out of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), established after World War II in the wake of other new multilateral institutions dedicated to international economic cooperation - notably the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an international institution for trade, named the International Trade Organization (ITO). Behind this cabal was the much celebrated, (by the Left), economist John Maynard Keynes, for whom Keynesian economics is named and upon which the collapsing Euro-socialist fiasco is based. The US is a member of the IMF and is now being required as a member to help bail out the failed European Union. I think we got screwed on that deal. Surprise!

The ITO was to be a United Nations specialized agency and would address not only trade barriers but other issues indirectly related to trade, including employment, investment, restrictive business practices, and commodity agreements. But the ITO treaty was not approved by the United States and in the absence of an international organization for trade, the GATT would, over the years, "transform itself" into a de facto international organization. Can you say, "through the back door"? Surprise!

Frankly, any organization with “World” or "International" or "Global" in it's name is beginning to make me very uneasy. We enjoy certain inalienable rights in this Country, none of which are safe if our government is in bed with a bunch of crooked bureaucrats from other countries, making treaties and agreements behind closed doors. We can’t even trust our own elected officials behind closed doors. Who knows what impact those agreements and treaties might ultimately have on us and our rights, our economy, affecting our way of life and our prosperity?

Those in the know like to say, "If you aren't at the table you are on the menu." Well, we have been the entrée of the menu at the UN since it began and we own the damn building and pay most of the costs of running it. We have never gotten our money's worth, EVER! It is time to cut them loose, kick them out and extricate ourselves from all these "World" organizations before they get around to consuming US the entrée once and for all.

Friday, June 4, 2010

The Circus Bear President

Do you ever read the comments section of articles you find on the Internet? I do. Sometimes I find one that just boils it all down so succinctly and with such clarity that I am moved to repeat that comment, as I did here. There really is no better way to express it. “How many soldiers have died in the rain?"
The image of the President, any President, is only that which the public is allowed to perceive. He is shuffled here and there by his "advisers", handled like a leashed bear in a traveling circus. He is told what to say and how to say it; his speeches carefully written and messaged to have the maximum impact and influence on the voters; his movements carefully planned and choreographed. At the least sign of danger, physically or politically, he is swept away, surrounded and shielded.

This current circus bear President, this community activist product of the school of Chicago mob politics and affirmative action achievement, is the perfect example of the worst that can be offered by the circus bear performance that has become our Presidency.  On our Nation’s most solemn occasion, or one that should be considered our most solemn occasion, the day when we Americans pause to remember and honor those who have given their lives to defend our freedom, the President is looked upon to lead that reflection, to set the example. He is, after all, the nation’s Commander In Chief and he is, therefore, the proper one to lead that remembrance of our fallen heroes. What better way than for the President to place a wreath upon the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? It has been a long honored tradition and a fitting one that on Memorial Day, the President as Commander In Chief, the man who has the ultimate power to order men into combat and death, lays a wreath upon the most recognized symbol of that ultimate sacrifice. The Tomb of the Unknowns is such an honored place that it has been guarded continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by an elite unit called the Tomb Guards, since July 2, 1937. Inclement weather does not cause the watch to cease. Nothing does.

But this year on Memorial Day, our current circus bear President was somewhere else. His handlers apparently decided some other cemetery would be a nice place to make a speech. They chose a symbolically political named location for that speech, Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. Considering Lincoln was responsible for half a million fallen soldiers, it is a fitting name for a National Cemetery, and considering the current brew haha over the racially charged issue of illegal immigration, what better place for the first half black circus bear to give a speech on Memorial Day than a cemetery named after the man who freed the slaves? It is also close to Chicago. How convenient for the circus bear and his handlers who would all be close to their favorite city, and all their friends, mob associates and as yet unindicted co-conspirators.

I don’t know if the Abraham Lincoln cemetery is guarded 24/7 by a select military unit, rain or shine like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers. I rather doubt it. It doesn’t matter to the media, however and that’s what really matters to Obama and particularly to his handlers. So there he was, all ready and eager to read those teleprompters and grace us, and mostly the media, with his special brand of activist wisdom once more....well, ready until it started to rain.

I am certain that he was not afraid. He did after all survive the political combat of Chicago politics which surely took guts and courage. He also survived that awful childhood being raised by a devout communist mother and flaky absentee black African father. I am certain, if it were up to him, he would have braved the storm and given that speech and never missed a word of it. He’s one hell-of-a speech giver, ya know. I’m not so certain, however,  that he’d be able to survive Army boot camp, let alone one day in actual combat, but we’ll never know because he didn’t choose to serve in that capacity. He chose Harvard Law School and community activism instead.

But the rains came and the thunder roared and lightning flashed. It must have been awful. Teleprompters don’t work so well in the rain and without them, neither does a circus bear President. So, in the interest of protecting the audience, fearing a lightning strike on some sinner thereabouts, the show was moved to a safer, drier venue.... a hanger. Now that’s appropriate. But, first he tried climbing on a bus full of bussed-in spectators but was heckled off the bus, so it was on to plan B. That’s what I call leadership. Or, should we say handlership?

It’s probably just as well Obama wasn’t at Arlington National Cemetery that day. If the good Lord had decided to go after him with a lightning bolt there at the Tomb of the Unknowns and he ran off like a scared little girl, leaving the Tomb Guards there all alone in the storm as they are everyday, 24/7, rain or shine.... think how bad that would have looked to the Nation. I know what one person would have asked, “how many soldiers have died in the rain?”

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Pelosi morfs into Mother Teresa as Algore gets frisky

Is it just me or is there something disturbingly wrong with this image....Nancy Pelosi trying to act like Mother Teresa? Is it a sign of desperation with her chances of reelection like that of a snowball in Hell, or did she wake up one morning lying on the floor of the House men's bathroom naked with her gavel shoved up her ass and suddenly found God?

I keep getting this ugly image of her being awakened in the middle of the night by the ghost of Christmas past and her life of debauchery, lying, and politicized baby killing passing before her bulging, botoxed eyes, full of crocodile tears. But for Pelosi, there will not be a happy ending with her bearing gifts and Christmas cheer like Scrooge who was a freaking saint compared to what Pelosi, the slithering, flatulent bag of a lying shrew has accomplished in her political career. Her voting record on the human rights of the unborn will be enough to keep her in Purgatory until Dr. Mengela enters through the Pearly Gates.

"Pelosi Says She Has a Duty to Pursue Policies in Keeping With The Values of Jesus, 'The Word Made Flesh'". She should know about flesh,.... she's been putting on a lot of it lately mostly in the form of wrinkles on that turkey neck of hers.

Of course, being a Catholic baby killer, all she has to do is go to confession and, like her best buddy Teddy "rescue swimmer" Kennedy, she'll be absolved of all guilt for any crimes. 

Before her favorite word was The Word of God, her favorite word was power, which she has pursued with a passion and which she has exercised with a gusto unlike anything the World has seen since Rome was crucifying Christians. Her favorite thing has been the gavel and her favorite pastime has been spending the taxpayer's money and conjuring up fantastic yarns about how wonderful socialism will be when America is just another 3rd World shit hole like her home district of San Fransucko. That's why she was willing to "pole vault" over the will of the The People to cram socialized health care down their collective throats.... for their own good, of course. Maybe God told her to do it.

Maybe God told her to get those botox injections too. Maybe God will tell her to hook up with Algore, now that he's all free and single. Oh, what a repulsive powerhouse of inconvenient myths that pair would make eh?

Yeah, apparently, the struggling global warming poet alarmist Algore and his "Mad Hatter" wife Tipper have decided to split the fortune and the sheets. Poor Algore.... first his global warming scam went bust and now his marriage...tisk tisk. It's all just so....inconvenient.  Maybe Al's poetry just wasn't enough to warm things up around the ol' homestead.  I can imagine what his next poem will be like.....

One thin September soon
A love story disappears
Divorce lawyers smile.

Settlements rise as
Tempers flare in acid mansions
Empire assets dissolve.

The butler cries
The hour of bruising has arrived
Here are your bags.