TimesPicayuneStatesItem cutting printing to 3 days a week.
Detroit to shut off half of its streetlights.
Having seen Robocop, I’m not surprised about Detroit, but TPSI going down kinds stings. McKenzies, Schwegmann’s, Katz&Besthoff – you will live forever in my memories.
The Very Poor? Sir, I care not for the Very Poor, for they have safety nets sufficient unto their kind – and if they break, do we not fix them?
Behold our works and take pride! Are the vomitoria not brimming, that the Very Poor can in their turn sup on the bounty of our Great Nation?
-Mitt Romney, 2012
Well, Mr./Mrs. Conservative American, Romney seems destined to win the Republican Primary process. Many of us are unhappy with this result, and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth on all quarters.
Let’s take a breath and calm down – what has Romney won? What have the other candidates lost? Nothing other than the right to lose to Barack Obama in an election that will make history.
What to do now?
Well, is anything actually any different? At the outset of the primary process it was apparent that whoever was selected from the process would require a very strong house and senate to keep him in line.
If that means cheerleading a neo-Reagan to victory, great. If that means working to attain a Veto-proof Congress that stands against the “progressive” onslaught of a second Obama term, so be it.
That Veto-proof Congress needs to be the Next Big Thing in Tea-Party-ite circles. But it must not be the only Next Thing.
The Republican party is in a shambles, torn by divisions between the Theocrats, the Big Govt soft-socialists, and the still-actualizing Tea Party Conservative Revivalist movement.
The person who planted the fake bomb on the plane bound for Germany from Namibia has been caught. Who was it? The head of security at the Namibi’s Winhoek airport.
Once again the biggest problem with airport security lies with the people in charge of security.
Color me shocked. Or not.
TSA is shaking in their jackboots over the Thanksgiving “Opt-Out Day” protest campaign.
2010/11/20 San Diego Airport:
Sam Wolanyk stripped down to calvin Kleins and got arrested.
Ronald Powell, director of communications, also stated that there was another arrest of a woman who was allegedly illegally filming the x-ray, and TSA screening process with a video camera. The young woman’s camera was confiscated and she was given a citation and released from Harbor Police custody.
2010/11/20 Detroit Metropolitan Airport
After going through the screener, bladder cancer was told he needed an “enhanced patdown.” The patient tried to inform TSA screeners of his urostomy equipment, they didn’t want to hear it. TSA needlessly ruptured the seal, which left the patient humiliated and soaked in his own urine. TSA “officers” unfazed and unapologetic.
Victor Davis Hansen comments on the Oil Problem here. As usual, he nails it, and as usual it is too good to excerpt.
Speaking in parliament on Monday, Gilles de Kerchove, a former Belgian justice minister, also called for tougher border controls to combat terror.
The former law professor also reassured EU member states that his role was to support, not replace, their efforts in tackling terrorism.
This has been going on for 2pla months now.
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