This SUX

This is just funny:

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – City leaders have scrapped plans to do away with the Sioux Gateway Airport’s unflattering three-letter identifier – SUX – and instead have made it the centrepiece of the airport’s new marketing campaign.

The code, used by pilots and airports worldwide and printed on tickets and luggage tags, will be used on T-shirts and caps sporting the airport’s new slogan, “FLY SUX.” It also forms the address of the airport’s redesigned website – www.flysux.com.

Alas, it gets even better:

At one point, the FAA offered the city five alternatives – GWU, GYO, GYT, SGV and GAY – but airport trustees turned them down.

Well then.

Sux to be them.

Dishwashers For Clinton

The Washington Post reports another Clinton-brand “coincidence:” 

Donors whose addresses turn out to be tenements. Dishwashers and waiters who write $1,000 checks. Immigrants who ante up because they have been instructed to by powerful neighborhood associations, or, as one said, “They informed us to go, so I went.” Others who say they never made the contributions listed in their names or who were not eligible to give because they are not legal residents of the United States. This is the disturbingly familiar picture of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign presented last week in a report by the Los Angeles Times about questionable fundraising by the New York senator in New York City’s Chinese community. Out of 150 donors examined, one-third “could not be found using property, telephone or business records,” the Times reported. “Most have not registered to vote, according to public records.”

This appears to be another instance in which a Clinton campaign’s zeal for campaign cash overwhelms its judgment. After the fundraising scandals of President Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign, the dangers of vacuuming cash from a politically inexperienced immigrant community should have been obvious. But Ms. Clinton’s money machine seized on a new source of cash in Chinatown and environs. As the Times reported, a single Chinatown fundraiser in April brought in $380,000. By contrast, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry raised $24,000 from Chinatown in the course of his entire campaign.

This is money laundering at its finest. If you can’t find the contributors, then there is nobody to return to the money to…

Douchebag Acres

CNN reports that the Palace Mobile Home Park in St. Petersburg, Florida, is a “‘paradise’ for sex offenders.” According to this article, the trailer park has gained recognition as a safe-haven for sex crime convicts that are presently on probation and seeking a second chance. There is some amount of resentment from residents, however. Many of them claim that they had no idea that many of their neighbors were pedophiles and rapists. One resident has claimed, “My place is worth nothing now.”

Perhaps the Palace Mobile Home Park needs a catchy new jingle to raise property values…  Here’s one (to the tune of the ‘Green Acres’ theme song (.wav)):

douchebag acres is the place to be
watch the pedophiles all run free
many trailers,
neighbors randy,
if you’re a kid,
don’t accept any candy.

Sandy Berger and the Real Hillary Clinton

As we are drawn ever closer to the 2008 elections, it becomes ever more important to examine the true character of each of the candidates. The true cynic is likely to dismiss any such effort, citing the old axiom that “all politicians are criminals.” What would happen if we were to collectively put our cynicism aside for a moment and examine the true character Hillary Clinton? This is what Ronald A. Cass has done in the Real Clear Politics article titled “Sandy Berger and the Real Hillary Clinton.”

Here, Cass questions the implications of Sandy Berger as Clinton’s nation security advisor. Most are aware that Sandy Berger is not only a former National Security Advisor to former President Bill Clinton, but was also convicted of stealing and destroying classified documents before testifying before the 9/11 Commission. Presumably (or perhaps, most certainly) these documents contained information pertaining to Bill Clinton’s ineptitude or indifference towards events that led up to the 9/11 tragedies. Cass writes:

Many politicians are loyal to their friends. Many Presidents, Republican and Democrat alike, have kept in place people who turn out to be engaged in activity that no one should endorse. And many politicians maintain friendships with associates who have fallen from grace, not condoning their misdeeds, but not abandoning personal ties.

Hillary has done something entirely different. She selected a key adviser she knows has scandalously flouted the law, lied to deflect blame onto others, and subverted the democratic processes that provide accountability for officials’ conduct. She selected someone who has destroyed documents that could be crucial to America’s security to be a trusted councilor on national security matters – documents that could have contained hand-written notes by her husband or information that would have called his judgment into question.

Hillary has had to renounce associates before. She’s had numerous fund-raising scandals involving criminal wrong-doing by people she should have known to be criminals, Norman Hsu being the most recent and notorious. But in all of those instances, she has had the plausible excuse that she didn’t know what they had done wrong.

In Sandy Berger’s case, there is no excuse. Hillary’s inclusion of Sandy Berger in her circle of advisers demonstrates that, notwithstanding her law license, she really doesn’t care about the law. She doesn’t care whether someone violates the law if they’re on her team, if the violation in some way helps the Clintons. Hillary’s indifference to criminal wrong-doing suggests that she sees herself as above the law, breezily ignoring law when it’s an impediment to something she wants.

Cass ends with a statement that we sould all consider very carefully:

Picking Sandy Berger tells us something important about Hillary’s character. We should listen now – while it can do some good.

DHS, TSA Bomb Out

Now this is truly disturbing news:

Security screeners at two of the nation’s busiest airports failed to find fake bombs hidden on undercover agents posing as passengers in more than 60% of tests last year, according to a classified report obtained by USA TODAY.

Screeners at Los Angeles International Airport missed about 75% of simulated explosives and bomb parts that Transportation Security Administration testers hid under their clothes or in carry-on bags at checkpoints, the TSA report shows.

At Chicago O’Hare International Airport, screeners missed about 60% of hidden bomb materials that were packed in everyday carry-ons — including toiletry kits, briefcases and CD players. San Francisco International Airport screeners, who work for a private company instead of the TSA, missed about 20% of the bombs, the report shows. The TSA ran about 70 tests at Los Angeles, 75 at Chicago and 145 at San Francisco.

Clearly, this news makes us want to fly.

“That’s a huge cause for concern,” said Clark Kent Ervin, the Homeland Security Department’s former inspector general. Screeners’ inability to find bombs could encourage terrorists to try to bring them on airplanes, Ervin said, and points to the need for more screener training and more powerful checkpoint scanning machines.

Huge cause for concern? That’s the understatement of the year. What the hell are you guys doing over there? Get your act together — we need tougher pre-requisites for those seeking screener jobs. We need an evenly applied approach to security at EVERY airport.

This is not simply a news story. This should be (yet another) wake up call for those agencies that are here to preserve and protect the security of this nation. Simply put: this is a problem, fix it.

Source: USAToday.com – Most fake bombs missed by screeners

Anncoulter.com Hacked

It appears that Ann Coulter’s website (www.anncoulter.com) has fallen victim to an outside attack. Readers following this URL are greeted with this “Open Letter to Readers:”

Dear Readers,

I’ve been participating in a charade for nearly eleven years, now. Quite frankly, I’m sick of it. You have all been a part of a sick joke that I began considering shortly after first getting on the air. At first, it was quite interesting to see how people would react when I would use twisted logic and poorly masked bigotry.

But eleven years is a long time to be living a fake life, and I can no longer tolerate this falsity. Even someone as fake as I tires out eventually.

Here’s the truth, I don’t care what people believe. Jews don’t need to be “made perfect” as I so arrogantly proclaimed to Editor & Publisher not a half week ago. I don’t even care if people are Muslim. Granted, I don’t know much about the religion or the people, but they are people. This is something that we cannot forget, they are in an abhorrent situation. These people are in need of education. Perhaps if we did not participate in causing them misery, they would not hate us so.

In fact, does it really matter whether we are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist, or even Pagan? We are one nation. One. We should not let petty differences separate us, we are all American, and should act in that manner.

And with that, my precious viewers, I bid you adieu. My career as a media figurehead is over.

Signed,

Ann Coulter

P.S. – Oh, and Bill O’Reilly is also just acting.

Haha, did it again. Oh, those silly web admins…they just embarrass themselves.
(Admins, check for an e-mail address in the CMS. Find it. I know you will.)

A subsequent E-mail to the site offers an email address with the invitation:

“E-mail me about your security issues and we can talk.”

We’ve captured screenshots of the pages. Click the thumbnails for the full images.

…In The Line Of Dootie

Scranton, PA resident Dawn Herb was arrested after allegedly cursing at her overflowing toilet, within earshot of an off-duty police officer. According to this Scranton Times-Union article:

“The toilet was overflowing and leaking down into the kitchen, and I was yelling (for my daughter) to get the mop . . . A guy is yelling, ‘shut the f— up, and I yelled back, ‘Mind your own business.’”

[Herb's] next-door neighbor, Patrick Gilman, a city police officer who was off-duty at the time, apparently had enough of Ms. Herb’s foul mouth, and asked her to keep it down, police said. When Ms. Herb didn’t stop, he called the police.

Moments later, an officer arrived at the scene, whereupon Ms. Herb was charged with disorderly conduct. 

Officer Patrick Gilman exemplifies what appears to be a new and disturbing trend among police officers: an increase in insensitivity. One would expect their affable neighborhood police officer to lend a helping hand – on or off duty. At the very least, Gilman could have been sympathetic to the cause by turning a deaf ear to this situation. Rather, Gilman has contributed to this discouraging, and laughable trend of “pansy” officers. 

In addition to becoming one of our esteemed douchebags, Officer Gilman has joined the ranks of Officer Wendell Adams, who arrested a McDonald’s employee over an over-salted burger, and Sgt. Andrea Eichhorn, who is suing a family over minor injuries sustained while rescuing a baby.

Farrakhan Returns, Promotes Separatism

Breaking nearly eight months of silence, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan returned to the stage, encouraging black Americans to “separate from mainstream culture to establish and support their own community.” Clearly we’ve come a long way since 1920, when Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) founder Marcus Garvey advocated the same thing.

Farrakhan continues:

“We have to come out of the thinking of a slave and come into the thinking and acting of free men and women. We cannot depend on others for what the horrible condition of our people demands now that we do for ourselves.”

This begs the question: What exactly is the thinking of a slave, and where exactly does said mentality exist within modern society? 

“I want to talk to my gang-banging family. You make it very difficult for me. In the ’60′s we knew who the enemy was. But in 2007 you are the enemy. How can I do what is right by you while I watch you do wrong by one another?”

This statement deserves some analysis. First of all, here is a black leader referencing black Americans as his ”gang-banging family.” This is insulting, and indeed a step in the wrong direction, considering that the NAACP, the NABJ, and the mainstream media all tell us that we still haven’t gotten over “nappy headed ho.” One can only imagine what public outcry would result if a white American had made the very same statement.

“But in 2007 you are the enemy. How can I do what is right by you while I watch you do wrong by one another?”

It seems that Farrakhan has borrowed the handbook written by “progressive” liberals, in which blacks are treated as an “endangered species” and must be protected (see Thomas Lifson, Liberals Demean Blacks Again). Again, remarkably racist – and a step in the wrong direction.

“You make it very difficult for me.” 

Correction, Louis: You make it very difficult for you. A litany of racially charged separatist remarks, coupled with a history of personal hypocrisy are to blame for any difficulties that you may experience. How dare you consider yourself a leader of anything or anyone? If anything, the true leaders of modern society are the self-made blacks that you have chosen to criticize:

“High-profile examples of success like Oprah Winfrey, Sen. Barack Obama, Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice give blacks a false impression of success.”

One can only surmize that each of these individuals would disagree. In fairness, a friend has offered a different interpretation of that statement (hat tip to S.T.): Perhaps Farrakhan is citing that Oprah Winfrey, Colin Powell, and Condoleeza Rice are trite examples of black success in America. At a risk of sounding trite myself, what about this laundry list of black leaders, Mr. Farrakhan? Would they agree with your statement as well?

“A life of ease sometimes makes you forget the struggle. It’s becoming a plantation again, but you can’t fight that because you want to keep your little job.”

“It’s time for you scared-to-death Negroes to bite the dust. Our people must be free. This peaceful coexistence with the murder of our people has to stop.”

This is neither a challenge, nor a call-to-arms. This is racially charged rhetoric. If nothing more, Farrakhan is using terms like “scared-to-death Negroes,” “plantations,” and “little job” to justify his existence. The reality is that Farrakhan has limited viability in modern society, and references such as these only serve to further destroy his credibility.  

Lastly, Farrakhan remarks, ” We should let the world know that we’re tired.” Well, Mr. Farrahkan, I’m tired too. Put a cork in it.

Attention Imus Critics: Get Over It

It’s another day, and lo, we have another batch of Imuspew(tm) to deal with. This time, the “critics” are up-in-arms over the return of Don Imus.  Larry McShane of the Associated Press asks this thought-provoking, earth-shattering question:

“A six-month vacation, a multimillion-dollar contract settlement and the prospect of a new, nationally syndicated gig. Does that qualify as penance for acid-tongued Don Imus, fired last spring amid a national furor sparked by his racist on-air remark?”

The answer is: WHO CARES? This question is similar in calibre to something like “Does Geraldo Rivera look better in brown?” Certainly, the latter question yields the same answer.

Since we’re forced to read all of these critical remarks aimed at Imus, let’s take a moment to look at the critics themselves.

“To put him back on the air now makes light of his serious and offensive racial remarks that are still ringing in the ears of people all over this country,” said Barbara Ciara, president of the National Association of Black Journalists.

National Association of Black Journalists. We’ve already established that this group is replacing “popular opinion” with a Hillary Clinton-specific agenda. In case you missed our analysis last week, read it here.

The Rev. Herbert Daughtry, a veteran New York civil rights activist, echoes those organizations’ concerns.

“It seems he has benefited from his hiatus,” the Brooklyn preacher said. “I’m not really sure there is any real, real repentance, and therefore you kind of hold judgment until you see what happens.”

Sorry pal, you already passed judgment. “It seems he has benefited from his hiatus” expresses the implication that he hasn’t “paid his due,” or does not deserve the new contract. Nonetheless, this is expected verbiage from a known Al Sharpton lapdog / co-conspirator:

 Next we have Kim Grandy, the President of the National Organization of Women (NOW) with another intellectual point to ponder: “Didn’t they [ radio executives ] learn anything?” She went on to say that “the specter of Imus coming back to the radio was like ‘a bad dream.’” 

If anything, radio executives learned that ratings suffered, and top-dollar advertisers prefer nationally syndicated radio endeavors that boast a large body of listeners.

Don Imus will return to radio… and somewhere in the distance, a nappy headed ho puts down a basketball and sheds a solitary tear. Get over it.

There Goes The Neighborhood

Excerpt from original NorthJersey.com article:

Osama bin Laden may be hiding in the impenetrable mountains near the Afghanistan border, but FBI counterterror officials say they have identified several of his associates in a far more accessible spot — northern New Jersey.

The FBI’s elite Joint Terrorism Task Force in Newark says it is not only monitoring a number of North Jersey residents with ties to al-Qaida, but that agents have quietly “disrupted” their activities and even deported a few.

These glimpses into North Jersey’s war on terrorism, from a series of interviews with task force leaders, come on the heels of revelations last summer that Bin Laden’s terror network had regained strength. But that rebuilding was thought to have taken place overseas.

This is the first time since the 9/11 attacks that FBI counterterror officials have revealed an al-Qaida presence in North Jersey.

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