Up Down 23 November 2010
Posted by marisacat in 2010 Mid Terms, 2012 Re Election, DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Total fucking lunatics, WAR!.trackback
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) answer a question together at the Trenton, N.J., train station Monday promoting the “If you see something, say something” campaign. Napolitano says the procedure for airline security screenings isn’t likely to change anytime soon. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Sodden bitches, both of them. (I saw it! I said it!)
Considering that genitalia is so much the subject at the moment, I somehow missed the appearance where whatshisname, the Louisiana snake (Carville?), apparently said that if you took one gonad from Ob, Hillary would still have more.
Poor Ob. Very special and very public pat downs for him….
Snicker.
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And I wonder just who this might be?
Officials at TSA said this morning that they continue to issue guidance to shift leaders about the types of pat-downs that are appropriate for children 12 and under, as well as for passengers who have religious or cultural objections to direct physical contact.
Oh brother, I noticed all three net work morning shows led with Royal Wedding, Bombs over Korea and then, maybe, pat down fou fou.
ABC advised women not to wear ”pencil” or slim cut skirts as the TSA can’t get to “where they need to” and you will be pulled aside and RE DRESSED, either in a shift of some sort or a
TOWEL. For security reasons of course. A little SAVAK in your coffee madam?
So… “if you want to maintain your dignity”, wear pants.
Talk about sexual dominance games.
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I read that the administration is lining up 9/11 family memebers to push the party line on pat downs (touch me! feel me! I am all good with it)…
… and here is why:
Because a big conservative, pro just about anyhing, member of the 9/11 family tribe (and close with a couple of Neo Cons and whoever else) got away from them.
I saw a ad for an Obama ChiaPet last night — I may have to buy a couple just so I can smash the shit out them….
I am so disgusted by this — I wonder what will happen to Debra from here on out…
My mom is traveling tomorrow by plane (visiting friends in CA) — I’m hoping she’ll be ok. This thanksgiving, I am just thankful that my boys are traveling in the car with their dad. I think I would kill someone assaulting my child right in front of me.
I think that they may grow up never having been on a plane, which is a sad thing — I used to love to fly…soon, they will make it prohibitively expensive to drive anywhere as well…
Well, aren’t I just in a cheery fucking mood today?!
*sigh*
…and while I do have empathy for the indignities perpetrated by the TSA in the name of “safety”, a large part of me just looks at all of this and says “well, what the hell did you expect, AmPeep? You said torture was ok, you shrugged at the picture from Abu Graib, you have bleated constantly about “getting tough on ____[insert over-hyped risk-of-the-day here]”, you have ceded nearly every one of your rights in the name of some ephemeral security or another (whether it be economic, class protective, environmental or physical) to idiots in overlord robes who are just waiting for the next new way to beat you down and exploit your very human-ness….
What the fuck did you expect?!
I agree….
exactly right
“Cultural Objections”???
I’ve got your cultural objection right here you fascist fucks!
I want some answers on Sikh turbans. To be very blunt.
What are the questions? 😉
unwrap it. If women will be TOLD to disrobe and wear a shift or a TOWEL for full grope then all bets, all kindnesses to religious idiocy are off. In my book.
Basically I am opposed to all this tolerance for religious garb, frankly. We have no secular public space left. At all. None….
Sarko (and others) is a nut banning the burka (stupid bad move), but I certainly supported the move there back in the 90s for no crosses, no yarmulkes, Stars of David, Pashtun (right group?) sabres or Sikh head garb etc in the SCHOOLS. None of it… a secular space.
The last insult in the hospital was the ecumenical spiritual drop in. Some grandmother rabbi want to be. Yarmulka and all… I think her opening gambit after I told her your corner is not my corner, was did I consdier myself a good person.
I said, I am good to children adn creatures and for the rest, I have resisted commiting murder.
This whole religious and cultural hiccup is an extension of pandering to religion, to exceptionalising religion.
And to the conscience clause laws.
I am sick to fucking death of it.
Right on, lady! RIGHT THE FUCK ON!
I absolutely agree 5013%!
Give me that secular space — I may teach my kids that phrase: “Whoa, back off, I need my secular space!”
They are constantly getting grilled about their non-belief in all all-knowing bearded guy in the sky who is going to send them to hell for not reciting the pledge …. shit, it took my 7 year old about 5 second to discern the complete contradiction in saying that the US was one country indivisible and then 10 seconds later having to say a pledge tot he freaking Texas flag which includes the word God again (him: aren’t we all under the sky?!) and the word indivisible….
Sick to fucking death doesn’t even begin to cover it!
Any spiritual “drop in” while I was in the hospital would’ve been followed up by a written complaint for harassment. When I objected to a social worker plying her obnoxious trade after the birth of my second son (and I mean about 10 hours after), my verbal complaints got me a visit from the Texas CPS when my son was 9 days old….we live in a not-dying-quickly-enough soul sucking society!
heh. My mood does not seem to have improved any!
love to you, MCat!
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreaking news… Joy in Newsrooms! The search goes on!
And remember this for all time folks… she got more than a TSA groperation. Feel blessed…
More fodder for the lobotomized and perpetually distracted AmPeep.
I have an answer.
The CAT Scanner Sikh Turban SX.
Everybody gets ’em.
(The LX model availababble with moonroof.)
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Or for that matter just outfit the whole country in Pontifical garb. or Nun’s Wear. or livery.
Seriously people should just start walking around in rooster outfits..
I like the guy who showed up nude..
Wasn’t he arrested for his troubles? We are so fucking neurotic about all things body in this country — except, unless it is allowing the TSA to sexually assault us….illegal to be naked and doing nothing to no one, but govt. agents can stick their hands in your pants….
Can we get more fucked? Yeah, I know, I should know better than to ask that question….
I was just reminded that the first time I landed in the UK at Heathrow airport (hmm might have been Gatwick) and used the restrooms… way back in 63 or something…. the TOILET PAPER was stamped
Property of the British Crown.
Hey stamp us all….
I know he was told to dress (snicker) and was at least detained…. probably more…
Boxing Obama in… Rush saying ObRama daughters should be photographed going thru the Airport Checkpoint… prove to us it is all safe and “no problem”.
Gets my vote.
LOL! This shit is making strange bedfellows isn’t it?
I’m in too — screw congresscritters being exempt as well. You gonna tell us how “fine” it all is, then you do it. Repeatedly. On video.
My mom just sent me an email about traveling to Baltimore for Thanksgiving along the lines of ‘We’re in the airport and waiting to board. The pat-downs seemed to be a lot more invasive than when we flew this summer…’ Uh, yeah, have you not watched the news for the last two weeks?
Mum is in a cocoon? Of some sort?
gah
Hold a good thought for me, going to the hospital for tests and blood draw…
back around before close of business day.
Take care all…………….
Good luck!
I’ll be holding my breath ’til I’m sure that they’ve let you back out!
good luck
I’m back…
It was a mess but the best part was a sweet elderly Chinese phlebotomist who gave me tips for helping all the bruises to heal (unfortunately there are a lot and they are bad)… and a tip for collapsing the vein after a draw (hold the cotton ball on the puncture and lift your arm up, seals the entry and collaspes the vein).
Just so gald to be home and triple lock the door…
EXHALE! And 3 cheers for elderly Chinese phlebotomi — it is the plural form, isn’t it?! 8)
Glad you’re home safe!
Glad they didn’t kidnap you sweetie.
Meanwhile my neighbor called to say that Nancy Pelosi is at my corner market “with her security”… whcih appeared to be three people.
So Bob dug up this selection of airport-security cartoons from The New Yorker’s archives. Most of them come after 9/11, a couple are from the hijacking wave of the seventies, and the earliest predates the Second World War.
oh thank yu for that… a few laughs and some good old New Yorker cartoons will help!!
I needed it too
Pandora’s carry on is my favorite!
I liked the one where they say they need to de-claw the cat …
i liked the one that sqeeeeeeeezed people flat….
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think of how many more seats they could sell
stack ’em to the rafters!!
the ”bill wattenburg” mentioned is a kgo host… reeeeeeeelly bad on social and race issues but not bad on better delivery and use rather than abuse on stuff like TSAgropinators
Nader crafts a letter from 43 to 44.
Today’s Catch Phrase: “Then I See His Penis Out!”
and no, it’s not TSA related.
ugh.
NYT invites people to post TSA experience, good bad indifferent.
Pornoscanner CEO flew with Obama to India
Couple of things from Laura Rozen http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/ :
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and from another post:
We’re all freezing our assorted “junk” up here in the heart of GlobalWarmingLand™. Windchill of -38 C today.
And now, the sports.
minus 38. yikes.
Yes. My metal pole-licking habit has been temporarily curtailed.
I couldn’t live up there. It would give me a horribly Bailey’s addiction.
Of course, it looks worse when you report it in C.
ugh
I always experienced that the saying about keeping your head and feet warm really made sense, and I hope you have a wonderfully warm cap and toasty socks, not to mention thermals ….jeesh hon, that’s fuckin cold!
Ah, The Holidays, a time for…
OR How Fucked Are Ya When This IS From TPM?
AND Not to be outdone…
oh my god. juvenalia and pedophilia raises its ugly head. Shocking and unknown!!
Frankly I am more amazed this is the FIRST such sting in Gaithersburg MD.
Gathersburg a notorious hang out for Federal teat suckers. And DoD contract holders, etc…. You just know it is rife with all manner of illicit hanky and panky.
Man of the cloth. But not good to children I see.
The thing that bothers me is the whole inefficiency of it all.
I mean , with a little redistricting after 2010, shouldn’t every American be entitled to live in a district where you can seek political relief by reporting your average hitman hiring pedophile priest to your Congressional Office run by folks who you can trust to be MERELY pedophilic?
At least on the constituency services side.
You know.
Their day in day out hiring of hitmen aside..
yes the hitman hire is a new level. I am very concerned, even as a non parent! Obviously the political parties are losing their touch with keeping the religious constituencies to a bare, and thus “acceptable”, minimum in their proclivities.
We need ReForm! Now! We’ve proven we can live with clerical pedophiles. But we must stop this hiring of hitmen!
ReForm NOW! Sign the petition!! Let your voice be heard! Vote, send money NOW!
We’ve proven we can live with clerical pedophiles.
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Exactly! We demand More™ and Better!™
HA!
You can smell the fear coming off the Dems.
“Congressman Rothman considers this alleged criminal act to be shocking, appalling and indefensible,”
Yeh, row that boat ashore.
Good luck, Steve, backin that bus over your Chief of Staff when your mug , your name and the word Child Molester are plastered on the side of it.
We are in such good hands. Rothman.
I dunno which is funnier…this
OR THIS on his Wiki Page, which I laugh imagining it as an idea of Bowers or that dumbshit fanboy Adam Lambert “clammyc”..
Too many laughs in this little piece of Wiki Pwog puffery:
😆 The 104th most powerful Democrat!
Which makes him less powerful than a fart off a Ken doll.
Now with pedophile staffer in tow!
Lead that Progressive Vanguard!
Over and over the political ranks are shown to be loaded with shady sorts, of all stripes… and the fundraisers, hangers on, aides, money men, bag men, etc., all nearly or fully gangsters.
And we get so whupset that the Afghanis and others are “tribal”.
Busy boys in DC. Yeah right, I was supposed to vote for a Black Born Again and get all whupset over Palin’s conservative whacky whatever.
Suuuuure.
I am so fucking sick of this government. Not a very elegant observation but utterly suitable.
As I recall the judge in the case had some tart comments for a system that would fire Major Witt, more than the single passing observation from the bench the article includes.
New game: “Unearned Entitlements”.
😆 I think under this formulation, I, Marisacat, who worked my entire life from 17 and in fact had a job as early as legally possible with parental signature, think it was 14.5 years old, is a welfare queen.
Or a Welfare Thin Cat, is perhaps more accurate.
In contrast, I would say the likes of Rubin, Summers, Geithner and ObRama are UNEARNED SKIN FILLER.
What about this, the government had my money (payrolll deductions) for between 40 years… and the last date I worked, May 2000.
Read more: LINK
👿 🙄 I will say one thing of my recent incarceration…. I found out today at the hospital that my discharge (ie., follow-up care assignments and so forth) was totally fucked up, at the hospital end…… HOWEVER early this am I got a call from a Legal Services company contracted to Pacific Medical Center, already chasing their money.
I told them I was a nearly dead turnip.
Entitled? Much?
One reason I say, “lurid” and “corrupt” (Josh’s description of ‘how dare Huckabee call’ for the Ob wimmens to be subjected to regular citizen flying treatment) is nothing new for pols, pretzels and pretzel families.
Josh Marshall is in a hot lather.
I say send the girls off to winter camp in Israel. They’ll be safe. US Jews in the settler community can be made special deputies of the SS and guard the precious girls with big big big guns… Obby loves to talk about how he would never want his girls in Sderot under the almost non-existant Pal missiles.
Send them off. The Israelis will have willing Arab staffers to rake the beaches for Mother Michelle.
OK then, send Mother Michelle thru. Full pat down.
The TSA hand run under the waist band….
She can lift her shirt on demand, as I was once forced to do returning thru customs in 1996. In a public room (I had been diverted from the mainline, the only person diverted) in front of equal opportunity fat slobs, one white, one asian, one black. As they fingered their way thru my luggage…
I am so fuckng done.
I rest my case.. as they say. 🙄 snicker :: snort 👿
I will say that worthwhile “picture” books for children cost a good deal more than 8.99 having bought many many many for the children of friends..
This means I can pick one up in the remainder bin in January for $1. Good deal!
I am guessing 50c or “best offer”.
I wonder if the writer of “Momma voted for Obama”, has written that sequel: “Momma’s getting an enhanced pat down.”
And Momma got laid off at a Vet related non-profit after standing up and speaking out. (related or not, that is the reality)
I hear she nd her hsuband are seeking a loan modification for their home. GOOD LUCK, it barely worked.
Nu
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