Archive for: November, 2010

Profiling Outlawed, Racial and Otherwise

by Brett Roberts Be careful what you say if you’re the victim of a crime.  You could very well be fined or face jail time if you profile your mugger in a protected category, such as the tall, or ginger, muscular, or those who wear hoodies. Janet Napolitano has introduced a new standard for protecting all [...]

Napolitano: Changing Perceptions Of TSA Patdowns

  by John Roberts As the naked body scanners and invasive patdowns of air travel patrons become more common, so do the complaints. New security measures adopted by the TSA and endorsed by homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano have people protesting that it violates their right against unreasonable search. Airlines worldwide are also concerned with extra [...]

Terrorists avoiding airports for fear of radiation from body scanners. Citizens willing to die for safety’s sake.

The TSA claims that 1,000 body scanners planned for airports by the end of 2011 have “no known health risks.”  What that means is, if a percentage of the, shall we say a billion or so people, that go through these radiation scanners each year die of cancer then we can be confident that the experts [...]

French President Sarkozy doesn’t want to play with Obama’s play money anymore.

President Obama has been printing the dollar like he plans on using it to wallpaper the Earth.  Some claim that he has completely misunderstood what “going green” means.  Not being able to print dollars themselves, the rest of the world doesn’t seem to be nearly as excited about the devaluation of the world’s reserve currency, [...]

San Fran Now Taking On Fortune Cookies

By John Roberts Fresh off of a win over toys in McDonald’s Happy Meals, the San Francisco legislature has a new enemy in its sights, fortune cookies. Legislator Pam Cushman explains their stance. “Intelligent individuals understand that the so-called “fortune” received in a fortune cookie does not always come true. Most people in our city don’t realize [...]

Ambassador Stages Coup At UN, Issues Long List of Non-Binding Resolutions

I’m sure this scares somebody, somewhere….

Prosperity 101. To drop unemployment by 2%, just put 3.5 million people on welfare.

Unemployment is at 9.6%.  If we had the normal historical percentage of people either working or looking for a job, then unemployment would be at 11.6%.  We currently have the lowest labor force participation since 1984.  That means the lowest percentage of the population who have to work.  We also have the highest percentage of [...]

President to spend up to $2 BILLION dollars on trip to India. Says, “I REALLY want to see the Festival of Lights.”

This Presidential trip entourage includes at least 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, the Marine One helicopter, two jets, a 40 car convoy, 800 rooms at the Taj Mahal, Air Force One, several private jets carrying top American Corporate leaders, and 3000 people including security, government officials and journalists.  Ahead of his trip, 13 heavy-lift aircraft, three [...]

“Help my Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” That’s right, 3D holograms are now a reality.

Scientists at the University of Arizona say their “holographic three-dimensional telepresence” is a world’s first.  They say they use lasers (of course), and something about a polymer (whatever that is), and some digitally encoded, errr… there’s some holographic pixels, and… what you do is you optically interfere with… the patterns, or something… anyway, it’s freaking [...]

3 gay marriage judges get the boot in Iowa. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Fueled by their decision to legalize gay marriage, the people of Iowa gave three Iowa Supreme Court justices the boot.  This removal marks the first time an Iowa Supreme Court justice has not been retained since 1962.  The justices were heard saying, “Iowans are just bigoted, racist, moron, idiot, homophobe, uneducated, @#^!!** freaks.  Why can’t [...]

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