Uh, Hello? TSA, This is For You.

To listen to the “Progressives” and their putative head honcho , George ‘Only Kidding I'm Not Really A Schwartz’ Soros, the great fault is that Obama has failed to properly sell their agenda. From ObamaCare to Arizona to… well… the TSA, they have a point.

I know, I know ... I never thought I would find myself in agreement with them on anything, BUT I have followed The Huffington Post as their front man suggested and find that is the chief complaint registered by the commu, I mean the Progressives. I find myself saying, they have a legitimate complaint and it requires our attention.

Obama has not done a proper job of marketing their concepts and desires under a proper veil of hyperbolic misdirection that Americans have been used to. Granted, his election run-up handlers worked the meaningless, “Change You Can Believe In” brand very effectively going into the 2008 election. The inauguration was a smashing multicultural tear fest born of the joy that we, as Americans, had come so far as to elect a BLACK POTUS. It was, on a gut level, truly AWESOME!

Then came the ruling part. Given overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress there was no longer a need to market the product. The semi-somnolent populace had repudiated the excesses of the Bush II era and wanted change. Power was secured and assured.

Then came the administration's ill considered continuation of the concept of Moral Hazzard, ‘Too Big To Fail’ and the tossing aside of the normal bankruptcy law and process and the displacement of the proper place of bond holders in favor of the unions. It didn’t matter what other lesser, unaffiliated pension plans would suffer, the United Auto Workers were secured and, more accurately, strengthened. 'Taxpayers be damned, just pay a portion of the AFL-CIO bill we owe. We are in power.', was the clear message. Off-putting on it's face but worse was to come.

Next came the ObamaCare legislation. Opposed by well over half to two-thirds (it depends on which poll you favor) of the population and utter disbelief of the promises issued by “The One” regarding the cost savings, the lack of “Death Panels”, the ability to, “keep your doctor”, and the statements of House Speaker Pelosi such as, “We have to pass the bill so that you can see what is in it.”.

Clearly a marketing failure since the outright lies, I mean presentations, were on their face; ridiculous, dismissable and clearly unsustainable. We all know, that in these 'green is all the rage screw the real science.' days, the key selling point is use of the word, “sustainable” it's the pablum for everything adding weight to the presentations for weak, if present at all, minds. Damn poor marketing job there 'O'!

The commu, I mean the Progressives, [damn, I just can't get my vocabulary up to date, can I?] are properly angered that the mid-term elections have been a strong repudiation of their aspirations. Were I them, I would be too! A poor marketing job by the arrogant,elitists! When seeking to undermine a constitutional republic and it's Constitution, it is clearly not the way to go. Silly egoists, naked power grabs must be properly obscured by the raiment of Patriotic sounding marketing lest the King be shown to naked, flabby, weak and despicable. How dare these elitists be so … so ... so nakedly elitist!

Now we come to the autumn of our people's (widely felt) discontent. The TSA has decreed that every single airline passenger be either stripped naked by a scan with dubious levels of radiation despite the established fact that sonar devices used elsewhere are as effective and less intrusive into archives they can’t possibly store, but will nonetheless be readily provided to a federal prosecutor should there be an putatively actionable impropriety, (hat tip to Mr. Chertoff’s profiteering) or fondled by a mass of Federally authorized, just above minimum wage earners ($10.91 an hour? Seriously?), whose morals and proclivities are beyond reproach because the government - which, since they rule and don't have to actually manage a damn thing effectively and typically can’t manage breaking through a wet paper bag - says so, can grope men, women and children – admittedly as young as thirteen but proven younger than that. Remember 13, would you be cool with having your budding breast, or often embarrassing unpredictable genitals be groped? Not to worry. This is in service to the collective I mean society’s security.

Security - more truthfully the illusion of it as it has been propagated since 9/11 - is all about showmanship and has little to do with actual security but everything to do with the stripping away the freedoms we once took for granted. In reality this illusion operates as though we should be convinced that the plotters that demand America’s utter destruction and the death of our citizens aren’t listening and watching while they chuckle and devise new non metallic, body cavity insertable, scan proof devices and celebrate the "death by a thousand cuts" tactic they are employing as we spend billions of dollars on useless preventative measures.

I find my overall sensibilities place me on a more Libertarian than either liberal or conservative footing. So being a huge fan of individual liberty and a realist in that certainly we cannot, or at least should not, surrender complete freedom I suggest the following:

1. Every single passenger arrive at the airport four hours before their flight (bring a picnic lunch) and present themselves for TSA review.
2. That each checkpoint be manned by only stunningly attractive individuals. Keep the obviously unattractive on standby for the odd taste.
3. Allow each passenger the option of which TSA operative can grope them without sexual discrimination. Hetero males would certainly not object to a firm ‘Freedom Pat’ from a hottie female and their wives could – perhaps in retaliation – select the buff, stunning male hard body that their husbands aren’t in the realm of ,"'Fair Play’ you friggin’ jerk!" Or perhaps the males would select a harsh male (against their natural choice) to prove their fidelity (and avoid the unfortunate harsh aftermath of their indiscretion) either way it takes the mind off the intrusive invasion of one’s ultimate privacy itself.
4. Rather than the TSA assigning males to grab young boy’s private parts, mother’s could select a female out of an affinity for materialism and their awareness of the obvious statistic that most pedophiles are male.

You can readily see where ridiculous subjugation of the masses is easily accomplished by the application of the propaganda of behavioral modification in the place of brute force.

Now when Al Quaeda comes up with it’s low cost, loser employed anus bomb we can be ready. Body cavity searches? See above for the sure fire marketing approach. Sonograms? Same as above but add the bonus benefit of a free sonogram available to that doctor you got to keep and we will have kept the terrorists from winning!

If only The Obamessiah had Hillary's balls to regally sell it!

From Inside The Global Warming Debate - A Man Of Integrity

Sent: Friday, 08 October 2010 17:19 Hal Lewis

From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society

6 October 2010

Dear Curt:

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).

Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:

1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of important issues, and indeed the Constitution cites that as its principal purpose. No more. Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate

2. The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer “explanatory” screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake.

3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.

4. So a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind—simply to bring the subject into the open.

5. To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment. You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was of course no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council.

6. As of now you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition.

APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?

I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.

I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.

Hal
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Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President's Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)

I may be just a Homer Simpson as Cass Sunstein posited, but this Homer has a few observations to make. Since voter fraud is going on in many states, aided and abetted by the Obama/Holder DOJ, are the citizens of that state not being defrauded by an illegal dissolution of their vote’s value? As inconvenient as it may be shouldn't we be able to seek peaceful redress through that other inconvenience a.k.a. the Judicial branch?

If so, can we not sue for enforcement of validating a voter’s citizenship? I’d be happy to provide my bona fides such as my birth certificate and my passport and to demand that the registrars demand that of me. I don't think in this post modern world we would object to the same requirement as was common when I got my driver's permit.

I can understand that in decades past this wasn’t done due to the sketchiness of records and abuses practiced against blacks. All well & good. But we are well past thinking of the old century at this stage of the game. I’d even be willing to accept setting a birth year like 1930 as the entry point for proof of citizenship.

Let’s get back on course and ensure the validity of our elections, stop creating incentives like amnesty and control immigration to levels we know we can absorb without impoverishing the people who are already citizens.

You know, it's funny how when we’re exporting jobs we’re schooled on how it’s a global economy but when it comes to illegals coming here and taking jobs we’re being schooled how they vitalize the economy. If that were looked at as a single presentation we would conclude a global economy would not necessitate the need for illegal construction workers at the Colin Powell household since unemployed people already here with at least the same skill set would be more than happy for the work.

With a real unemployment rate of over 21% [not the published 9.8% and definitely not counting the underemployed] and an "official" black unemployment rate of almost 17% which is probably more like 39.5 or higher - isn't is curious that Obama, who enjoys overwhelming support of the black community, is selling them cheap for illegal votes?

I seem to remember something in the oath of office about, preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States. Or has that gone out of fashion lately?

The Cordoba House Cultural Center

Were I to take the Cordoba Initiative's statements at face value, as so many have, I would believe that they are seeking to establish a cultural center in Lower Manhattan which just so happens also has a prayer space. According to their website they are about, "Providing expert knowledge of Islamic Law and other technical subjects for use in the public square." They go on to say that the results of this engagement of the thought process has resulted in, "Raising the bar of Islamic governance in Muslim-majority countries." Nice ambiguous Obama type language. What bar will they be raising?

I take it the community center won't be hosting Sadie Hawkins or Gay Muslim Men dances. But what exactly will they be offering the community? Perhaps some courses in Sharia Law:

Beheading 101 - One Stroke or Two? Skills development seminar.
Stoning 115 - Right Sizing Your Stone Selection to make it last.
Beating Females 267 - Within an inch of their life or go for it? What Would Mohammad Do?
Nose and Ear Bobbing 397 - Keeping your young wives, daughter or sisters in line all the time.
Dancing and Makeup 001 - (For pre-pubescent boys only.) This course explores the essentials of keeping the customers satisfied.
Trans-Generational Marriage 000 - For pre-pubescent girls only. Learn how to keep your 50+ new husband from beating and disfiguring you ... too much.
Neurological Severing 499 - The definitive advanced course in fine tuning that Sharia Standard.

Well, I've got to go now. I want to be off the street before the call to prayer comes blasting through the WTC site ... for the 5th time today.

Cui Bono?

Townhall.com

There is nothing amazing about the flood of illegal Mexican immigration. For Mexico, the Mexican-American War did not end with their signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848) nor with their signing of the Protocol of Querétaro (May 26, 1948). To bastardize von Caluswicz, 'it is the continuation of war by other means.'

THE MEXICANS: The interests of the majority of Mexican people here illegally are apparent as are the interests of the more nefarious. The first group is well represented by humanists, one worlders and the rest ... the second by conspiracy theorists, NORML and the rest of that contingent.

What is being studiously ignored is the Mexican government's policy of active encouragement of emigration to the extent they are in a panic that the status quo might change. The benefit to the Mexican government is at least two-fold. First, the least desirable, unemployable bottom layer of their society goes away. It is no longer their problem to feed, clothe, house or provide medical care to the rabble that might otherwise be aroused against the corrupt governments that permeate Mexico's political infrastructure.

The other benefit is the Billions of American dollars that flow in from the emigrants to families back home (est. $10 Billion in 2003); the drug cartels income from the export of controlled substances (est. $39 Billion USDOJ) and of course the U.S. Government's Billions spent or given to Mexico for the "drug war". For Mexico it's a win-win situation all around.

THE EMPLOYERS: Again, nothing new here on the part of the employers themselves. Lower costs equal fatter bottom line. What is a new, and curious, wrinkle is how unions such as SEIU and the AFL-CIO have taken on the role of advocate for the very people who are diluting their member’s wages and work opportunities. You have to ask, "who's paying who for what?"

THE AMERICAN POLITICIANS: As noted above their motivation is also pure greed. They sell amnesties from the law as the Catholic Church did with indulgences before Martin Luther.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: Opposed by the illegal immigrants, passed over by the employers and ignored by the corrupt politicians – the people need to wake up and stay in to game more than part of an election cycle to counter the abuse they are suffering and demand either a restoration of their freedoms and protections from the government and the dilution of those rights caused by the reformation that has been underway in America or, as Jefferson pointed out, dissolve the bands and start the formation of a new republic.

RIGHTS & responsibilities

I'm not holding my breath, but I'd love to see the old marriage of "Rights & Responsibilities" get back together in the social contract. There was a wonderful coupling if ever there was one.

The marital trouble started back in the 1960's when Rights social esteem rose dramatically while Responsibilities was pushed to the background staying at home taking care of the chores that maintain the American family. It was under the Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) administration that many historical wrongs that existed in the order of things were being addressed. While great, deserving strides were made - the overall approach elevated Rights but set the stage for the divorce by not also emphasizing personal and corporate responsibility.

Certainly the liberation radicals were having a field day. As radicals do, they took their cause to an unsustainable extreme. The government, stuck into a morass of it's own creation by dalliance and micro mismanaging of the military in Viet Nam, failed to effectively manage the domestic issues of that day.

Continuing into the Richard Milhouse Nixon (RMN) administration the liberation movement expanded to include the feminists, the homosexuals, and any other group that now defined itself by their perceived disenfranchisement. Still faced with the Viet Nam involvement (to call it a war is a misnomer less for the lack of a formal declaration of war and more because it was never fought as an all out war - more a large police action) the Nixon administration sought to secure the south and turn the fighting over to the South Vietnamese.

While seeking a second term Nixon's people at the RNC were caught running an espionage operation against the DNC which culminated with the Watergate Impeachment Hearings and Nixon stepping down amid his Vice President, Spiro Agnew having been indicted after investigation on of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy. The fact that his hand picked successor, Gerald Ford, granted him a full pardon one month after taking office as POTUS was the last nail in the coffin of confidence in any public official by a large cross section of the population.

This was the final act that that placed personal responsibility in a coma and set RIGHTS on the unmitigated drunken bacchanal that has led to the current sense of victimization and unlimited entitlement. Presidents and politicians, with a rare exception of sorts in Ronald Reagan and a few others, have acted as enablers making excuses and providing the money to keep this self destructive bender from ending in the inevitable consequences and the necessary intervention.

We now find ourselves in a recession, the economic consequence of too much exuberance and without the resources to continue as we have the past 45 or so years. But the intervention has yet to take place. The enablers that have set aside personal and corporate responsibility are still in denial regarding their role in causing it's ongoing comatose state.

There is a reckoning coming. The party will end and very few in authority want to tell the partiers it's gotten late and it's time to call it a day. The current demonstrations demanding even more RIGHTS from the enablers in education, health care, job creation, unemployment coverage will only grow more frequent and - in all likelihood - more violent once the inevitable day dawns.