RELAX! 28 December 2009
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, WAR!.trackback
Ottawa, US: A ladybird crawls along the underside of a dogwood blossom
[Elliot J Sutherland/Ottawa Herald/AP]
After all that sturm and drang for 3 days… they have now lifted the one hour stuck-in-your-seat rule. Apparently the airlines went to work immediately to get that reversed.
Our shining leaders! Next: somebody fire Janet Napolitano. Drag her offstage… It would be hard to do worse than she did in three appearances yesterday (“the system worked!”)… and I hear commentary she was just as bad on the morning shows today. Blissfully, I slept thru those mistakes.
Winners, all of them.
I see Janet Nap is now admitting the “system failed”.
More than you know JN.
Carry on!
Heckuva job, Janet!
That was a given wasn’t it?
BTW, I heard that the “stuck in the seat” rule was lifted, a flight attendant scheduled to fly out this afternoon to London called into KGO… read from an official email from her airline, sent early this am… I don’t see it reported in the UK papers and have not made it to the US press yet…
From the last thread:
I remember in the days immediately folllowing 9/11, Peggy Noonan wrote a column for the WSJ in which she talked about seeing suspicious characters taking a video of St Patrick’s Cathedral. Consumed by concern, she followed them around. Eventually they noticed her and put away their camcorder.
Of course, since Noonan is among the dimmest of dim bulbs, she didn’t seem to realize that at any given moment you could throw a piano and hit several tourists taking pictures of the cathedral.
I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry.
that is so precisely it…. the loons have made all of us suspects.
A couple of years ago I landed on a absolutely sublime photo of the cherry blossoms along the elipse… a Park Service photo. But was banned (as would anyone else be) from downloading it… due to “security”.
Ob speaks! The birds fall silent to listen!
Chris Hedges has a new piece up in TruthDig… mostly on a single case, Hashmi who is a US citizen, but the lrger issues as well.. the last two graphs..
FAIL of the day: TMZ runs a photo alleging that it was JFK on a boat with a bunch of nudie women. Finds out it was actually a pic from a 1967 Playboy shoot. Whoops!
Oh gee.. and TMZ has been doing so well.
[snicker]
Meanwhile, back in the Good War: Afghanistan president slams killing of 10 civilians; 8 school children reported among the dead
Whereever we go, we kill children. Simple as that……………
Mr Fish … so perfect.
Mmm mmm good!
This just in….
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091228/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_personal_matter
Hmm. I wonder if Michelle bashed out his windshield with one of his golf clubs….
I wonder if Michelle bashed out his windshield with one of his golf clubs….
That’s racist…or something!
oh but he raced back tot he course and the official story is “a close friend was injured”.
I say: developing story!!
More developing.. via Politico “44″, full text
There’s a good name for Obama’s Hawaii vacation: golf interrupted.
Search for the perfect swing!
In-flight security rules eased
So, what was the point of all of that again?
Through the looking glass: MSNBC criticized for response to terrorism story
MSNBC’s panties weren’t sufficiently on fire.
What a joke …
Rasmussen Reports is not legitimate
by Christian Dem in NC
Bitching about Obama’s polling now, “Christian Dem in NC” posts with such frequency on DK that it’s obvious from mild browsing that he/she/it is a Party spammer. With The kind of pathetic designed handle that might as well be “Fighting Dem in Texas” for all its futility…
Rassmussen’s samples are substantive, running 1500 respondents Likely Voters far more accurate in electroal predictions than All or even ssimply “Registered” voter samplings.
BTW Rasmussen nailed the NJ Governor’s race cold.
Also – This particular whining hack – like the rest of them – lacks the credibility to cite the fact that Rasmussmen was among the first to put Florida and Ohio in play, and the day before the 2008 election, Rasmussen released an advisory indicating that with Democratic leaning states included, Obama had a 313 / 160 Electoral vote advantage over McCain…Not too shabby of late the Obama cherrypickers aside…
It’s a theme… when Sullivan does a graph of recent polling he eliminates Rasmussen, as “an outlier”.
Take the lumps. “Man up!”….
Here’s the missing link to the Leave Obama Alone whine about the polls..
Pssst…honey…
This is a hoot:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091229/ap_on_re_us/us_airline_attack_passenger_confusion
Yes, that’s right, folks – reading is dangerous. Terroristic, even.
What a bunch of bozos.
One person coming in at SFO from wherever, said all entertainment on her fight was cut off… apparently if the individual seat screens were up and running there was a channel where you could access maps, in partiuclar a map of the route the plane was on.
Danger!
What ridiculous BS. Maybe they should take everyone’s watches away so they won’t be able to figure out how close the flight is to landing.
There is no end to it… I caught a security expert on the Lehrer PBS program.. advocating what he called “police searches”, very intrusive pat downs in areas “where people don’t want to be touched”, prior to boarding.
Why bother to go? Really. Get assaulted at home… for free.
The whole thing is so damned silly … the system didn’t not work, the system CAN’T work. There are too many flights, from too many places. It just can’t, and all of the security theater and shredding of civil liberties can’t fix that.
If only we were a fraction as worried about the tens of thousands killed on the nation’s highways every year.
No one is in charge. Bush had a thing he did that really ticked me off… often when he gave speeches.. esp if in the hinterlands… rather than at some military or conservative enclave, he would flip over the pages of the speech, read along, look bored, etc. Get to the end as fast as he could.
Janet the Napster and Obster did just as shitty a job. Because it does not matter, and all the sons of bitches know it.
it’s all just such childish crap
Mr “Hey I called liberals racists last week, stormed off and pouted for a while – just like I did in August when I GBCW’ed too” is ba-ack:
I jsut cannot imagine loving a politician. For one thing, 99.9999 of them are actually quite distasteful looking. Not appetizing at all.
It’s hard to feel all warm & fuzzy while feeling repulsed over body bags at the same time. And guess which is easier?
There was a report in the NYT today, it started wtih a back handed smack at Ob… about how he has “emerged from seclusion in Hawai’i” to comment on the panty bomber.
TWENTY EIGHT pages of comments… and they were brutal. About him and Napolitano.
We are deep in butt-of-the-joke and dismissal country here.
nu………………
http://marisacat.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/oh-it-is-rather-sweet/
US man ‘arrested’ in North Korea
Not to worry, his church is praying for him: