Former Newark Airport TSA screener says the job does little to keep fliers safe

A LOT of what we do is make-believe. Yep, you got that right. Like most of government, make-believe.

I’ve had to screen small children and explain to their parents I had no choice but to “check” them. I would only place my hands on their arms and bottom half of their legs, and the entire “pat-down” lasted 10 seconds. This goes completely against TSA procedure…

Read more at nypost.com …

Do you think that anybody but those on the airplanes could have made a difference? And banning box cutters did what?

Stupid Is As Stupid Does” NEW HOMELAND SECURITY VIDEO URGES AMERICANS TO RESIST SHOOTERS…WITH SCISSORS

Scissors? Yes scissors, they are the new defense weapons of choice for Homeland security. So why did they order real assault weapons for their “personal defense? Huh, that’s just weird.

NEW HOMELAND SECURITY VIDEO URGES AMERICANS TO RESIST SHOOTERS…WITH SCISSORS. Hilarity ensues!

If Americans were worried that those pushing gun control in Washington, and in the Obama administration, have unrealistic expectations about what is necessary for self defense, then a recently released video by the Department of Homeland Security seems unlikely to placate them.

The video, titled “Options for Consideration,” and released January 25th of this year, details what are meant to be acceptable responses to “active shooter situations” of the type seen at Fort Hood, Virginia Tech, and at the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Curiously, the video omits mention of the Aurora shooting, though it was filmed before Sandy Hook.

DHS’s recommended responses to such shootings, demonstrated in a generic office setting, include the obvious instructions to try to either evacuate the area, or hide someplace the shooter won’t think to look, while also warning innocent bystanders in such situations that it is necessary to follow the instructions of police officers and other law enforcement personnel who appear on the scene.

This particular bit of advice has already attracted some attention. The New York Post reports the pushback:

Richard Feldman, president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association, said he has a better option for consideration than a pair of scissors when confronting an armed mass murderer — a legal firearm.
“That’s why I prefer a gun, and I usually do carry a gun when it is lawful to do so,” said Feldman. “Clearly, you use whatever you can” to fight for your life, he said.
So if scissors are all you’ve got, grab them by all means. (errr …. I prefer to grab my .45 ACP instead)
The video is part of the Obama administration’s ongoing campaign to reduce firearm violence in the wake of the horrific mass murder last month of 20 children and six teachers in Newtown, Conn., said a Homeland Security official.

Given that the video was apparently released to coincide with Obama administration proposals on gun control, the fact that it makes mention of self-defense at all is surprising. However, suggesting that self-defense with scissors and other improvised weapons might be a valid option while neglecting to mention the idea of carrying a firearm for preparedness arguably heightens the omission of the latter.

Here is the new stupid peoples video from DHS:

If you are stupid enough…

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.—- Rahm Emanuel

Germany had a Department of Homeland Security too, they were called The Gestappo.

How About A Waiting Period For Legislating?

One of the ideas for gun control being bandied about in Washington is a waiting period for gun purchases. Glenn Reynolds, writing for the New York Post, wonders if we shouldn’t first apply that idea to legislating:

I’d like to propose a “waiting period” for legislation. No bill should be voted on without hearings, debate and a final text that’s available online for at least a week. (A month would be better. How many bills really couldn’t wait a month?)

And if the bill is advertised as addressing a “tragedy” or named after a dead child, this period should double.

After all, people want waiting periods for guns. Yet, statistically, the percentage of guns involved in crimes is much lower than the percentage of politicians involved in crimes.

Makes sense to me.

Didn’t the founders recognize the problem, and isn’t that why the Senate was created? To cool off the hot heads? bicameral legislation isn’t it. Except when one side decides not to do anything about tyranny encroaching. Or the lawless president doesn’t abide by the laws.

The Resistance Begins: New York Gun Owners Refuse To Register; “Largest Act of Civil Disobedience In State History”

New York to the front…

Mac Slavo:

With emotions running high in the aftermath of the Newtown Sandy Hook shooting, politicians on the State and Federal level have begun introducing legislative actions to curtail access to firearms protected by the Second Amendment. In Missouri, parents may soon be forced to register firearms with their child’s school under threat of criminal penalties. In Massachusetts, another proposal would require storage of semi-automatic rifles at government approved storage depots. And, in the State of New York, congressional representatives have already passed legislation that requires registration of every semi-automatic rifle and reduces maximum magazine capacity to 7 rounds of ammunition, and Governor Cuomo has floated the idea of gun confiscation.

Woman who received ‘threatening’ e-mails from Gen. David Petraeus’ mistress is ID’d

This is beginning to read like a Spy Novel…

TROUBLE: Shamed CIA boss David Petraeus (from left) with Scott Kelley and Kelley’s wife, Jill, with Petraeus’ wife, Holly, in Tampa. Jill alerted the feds to “threatening” e-mails.

Could it be the missing link is our playful Preezy? Because the mice are out playing too.

The New York Post reports:

It was a married Florida woman who blew the lid off the scandalous affair that led retired Gen. David Petraeus to resign as CIA chief when she told the FBI of allegedly threatening e-mails she’d received from his lover, sources said yesterday.

Jill Kelley, 37, of Tampa — a “social liaison” to the powerful Joint Special Operations Command — reported the jealous messages from Petraeus biographer Paula Broadwell, who is accused of sleeping with the married four-star general, to the FBI, sources said.

People Are Smarter Than Politicians: Gun sales surging in wake of ‘Dark Knight Rises’ shooting

A fascinating fact. Some of my standard guns, those sporting weapons, liberals like to talk about, have been discontinued by most manufacturers. What has taken their place is the dreaded “black guns”, the scary guns that most liberals fear. I went to the gun store, to get a new scope, and was just casually looking around. I asked what happened to all the classic guns? I was told, they don’t sell anymore, everybody wants scary black guns. So the manufacturers have switched to the scary black guns, Huh.

As the shooter in Aurora found, just having one doesn’t make you know how to use it. His shotgun did most of the murders. Yep, dick gun, after the scary gun jammed on him. Probably with the box 100 round magazine jammed.

Yep, duck gun. The very same that the Rodney King Korean shop keepers mounted their roofs, to stop the rioters from burning their shops.

The New York Post reports:

Firearms sales are surging in the wake of the Colorado movie massacre as buyers express fears about both personal safety and anti-gun lawmakers who might use the shooting to seek new weapons restrictions.

In Colorado, the site of Friday’s shooting that killed 12 and injured dozens of others, gun sales jumped in the three days that followed. The state approved background checks for 2,887 people who wanted to purchase a firearm — 25 percent more than the average Friday to Sunday period in 2012 and 43 percent more than the same interval the week prior.

Randy Hodges holds a firearm(duck gun) at the Gun Vault in High Point N.C.

 

Slow Walking Fracking — The New 50 Year Old Oil Drilling Method: An Endless Stall

At least it’s not the dunes-sagebrush lizard, but the left has a substitute bogey-man to stall oil and gas development in the USA. Did you notice, the left is always calling for energy independence while at the same time slow-walking any new oil development.

This is kind of like AG Holder appointing Obama big donor to investigate White House leaks of intelligence information. Now just ask would Bush be able to do this, or would the media just blow up with opposition … this guy is dirty as crap.

This is the logic of blocking oil and gas drilling while at the same time saying “all of the above”, while billions are dumped on raptor killing windmills. Did anybody cathc the silence of the eco-nuts at the large scale death of raptors? Even I am offended at what is happeneing to raptors and the windmills. Have you seen what is going on? Shiouldn’t windmills be banned?

Fracking is the latest bogeyman, but why isn’t the rest of the world worried about fracking? Because it’s been going on for 50 years or more, and there is no problem. Have you thought this through? How does an oil well that drills down thousNDS of feet, affect groudwater? MAkes no sense does it?

Except in liberals heads, which are pretty screwed up to begin with.

Do people remember Pravda? And how the Soviets used to report the news? It was a joke, and everybody knew it, so they didn’t bother. The difference is now most people are just laughing at our Pravda Obama “love machine” lamestream, we have a alternative … we blog among ourselves.

The New York Post reports on Fracking:

Will hydraulic fracturing ever come to New York?

And if it does, will it be sufficiently commonplace to actually boost Upstate’s sadly dilapidated economy?

These are fair questions — given that the Cuomo administration has slowed the approval process for the controversial natural-gas-extraction method to a crawl.

And now comes word, via a careful leak to The New York Times, that Team Cuomo is pushing a plan that would severely limit both the number of drilling permits and their location to just a few counties.

And even that assumes that the process itself is approved by the Department of Environmental Conservation — which is still a mighty big if.

Energy independence and the left. It’s their talking point for doing real stuff.

You want to know what they are doing in North Dakota, it’s private lands, no Federal Permit needed. And the boom is on.

Small government, freedom, it’s the way forward.

The Preacher With The Dirty Mouth

He’s back and better than ever … Does he seriously want to derail Obama for reelection, since he was muzzled the first time around?’ Here he is the orginal “God Damn America” Obama’s preacher for 20  years, here is Rev Wright …

In his on-the-record interview with Klein, Wright claims that an Obama ally offered him $150,000 to keep his mouth shut and stop preaching until after the election, in excerpts published by the New York Post today:

‘Man, the media ate me alive,” Wright told me when we met in his office at Chicago’s Kwame Nkrumah Academy. “After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential election.”

“Who sent the e-mail?” I asked Wright.

“It was from one of Barack’s closest friends.”

“He offered you money?”

“Not directly,” Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.”

“How much money did he offer you?”

“One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said.

According to Wright, Obama met personally with his then-pastor to ask him to do the same, although Obama apparently didn’t offer money for his silence.  Wright’s version of the conversation makes it clear that Obama knew very well what his pastor had preached from the pulpit, and what he was likely to do once attention focused on him:

“And one of the first things Barack said was, ‘I really wish you wouldn’t do any more public speaking until after the November election.’ He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, ‘I wish you wouldn’t speak. It’s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.’

“And what did you say?” I asked. “I said, ‘I don’t see it that way. And anyway, how am I supposed to support my family?’ And he said, ‘Well, I wish you wouldn’t speak in public. The press is gonna eat you alive.’

“Barack said, ‘I’m sorry you don’t see it the way I do. Do you know what your problem is?’ And I said, ‘No, what’s my problem?’ And he said, ‘You have to tell the truth.’ I said, ‘That’s a good problem to have. That’s a good problem for all preachers to have. That’s why I could never be a politician.’

Sounds as though Obama knew full well what the “truth” was going to be once Wright started talking to the media, at least according to Wright’s version of events.  Wright doesn’t have much to lose by telling the story now, but it should be noted in fairness that he might have a lot to gain.  If the media takes more interest in Wright this time around, he’s going to be a pretty hot property for the next five months.

Does anybody know what Black Liberation Theology is? No it does not mean how Obama and the media lied to America, but you are close.

Opinion: OBAMA’S MEDICARE SLUSH FUND MASKS OBAMACARE BEFORE ELECTION…

Call it President Obama’s Committee for the Re-Election of the President — a political slush fund at the Health and Human Services Department.

Only this isn’t some little fund from shadowy private sources; this is taxpayer money, redirected to help Obama win another term. A massive amount of it, too — $8.3 billion. Yes, that’s billion, with a B.

According to the New York Posts Here is how it works:

The most oppressive aspects of the ObamaCare law don’t kick in until after the 2012 election, when the president will no longer be answerable to voters. More “flexibility,” he recently explained to the Russians.

But certain voters would surely notice one highly painful part of the law before then — namely, the way it guts the popular Medicare Advantage program.

For years, 12 million seniors have relied on these policies, a more market-oriented alternative to traditional Medicare, without the aggravating gaps in coverage.

But as part of its hundreds of billions in Medicare cuts, the Obama one-size-fits-all plan slashes reimbursement rates for Medicare Advantage starting next year — herding many seniors back into the government-run program.

Under federal “open-enrollment” guidelines, seniors must pick their Medicare coverage program for next year by the end of this year — which means they should be finding out before Election Day.

Nothing is more politically volatile than monkeying with the health insurance of seniors, who aren’t too keen on confusing upheavals in their health care and are the most diligent voters in the land. This could make the Tea Party look like a tea party.

Making matters even more politically dangerous for Obama is that open enrollment begins Oct. 15, less than three weeks before voters go to the polls.

It’s hard to imagine a bigger electoral disaster for a president than seniors in crucial states like Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio discovering that he’s taken away their beloved Medicare Advantage just weeks before an election.

This political ticking time bomb could become the biggest “October Surprise” in US political history.

Read the full story at The New York Post

Apple is currently in talks with content providers

This week is Apple week … Allegedly the iPad 3 is the star. But the Apple TV is in a supporting role.

It seems TV subscription services are all the craze these days, with several companies looking to follow in Netflix’s footsteps. Now, it looks like Apple is pushing ahead with plans to start its own service by the end of 2012.

According to the New York Post, Apple is looking to offer television channels as apps across its various devices, such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Among these devices will also be the Apple TV set-top box and possibly an Apple TV set.

Apple is reportedly in talks with content providers already. However, in typical Apple fashion, it wants to control price and content, but a media executive was quoted saying that the company “wants everything for nothing.”

That’s not the only issue Apple is having. The tech giant apparently tried to persuade cable companies to use its hardware for their set-top boxes, where Apple can create the interface and collaborate with cable companies to manage bandwidth through TV and broadband. However, the cable companies weren’t having it.

Despite these troubles, Apple is moving forward with its TV subscription service and continues talking with content providers. There are no specific details available at this time, and many questions are up in the air, such as whether Apple will bundle multiple app channels together to create its own cable TV package or just offer them individually to customers.

Instead, cable executives pretty much shut the door, preferring to keep Apple at a safe distance from the lucrative $150 billion pay-TV business.

At the same time, the cable guys are jumping into the streaming video business. Cable giant Comcast just launched its own streaming content service, Streampix, while Time Warner Cable isn’t far behind.

Of course, Apple isn’t alone in hoping to break the hold of traditional pay-TV distributors. Both Sony Corp. and EchoStar’s Dish have been pursuing deals for Web-based TV packages.

Apple hasn’t given up, however, and is said to be pursuing deals with telecom companies such as Verizon and AT&T. It hopes to get traction with a single player in hopes of pulling the rest of them along.

While Apple is also rumored to be working on its own actual TV set, sources believe its first priority is to bring a TV service to the market.

Apple is expected to unveil an updated Apple TV device on March 7, after sending out an invitation that reads, “We have something you really have to see. And touch.”

Apple wants to introduce its new service by Christmas 2012.