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Today is, of course, the 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Unfortunately, the anniversary has turned into a country song (probably because of the number of country songs about it). It’s turned into nothing but a day of mourning. Today SHOULD be a day to remember how, in the aftermath of the attacks, Americans came together as one and prepared to kick some ass to destroy the Islamist fascist troglodytes and send them to their virgins. Now, 12 years later, we find that, rather than the mantra being “Don’t Mess With the USA,” we have dropped from our position as the top geopolitical superpower on the planet. The Russians just brokered a deal with Syria to call the Obama administration’s bluff on attacking the Syrian regime over their alleged use of chemical weapons, and the President used the eve of the anniversary to give a speech making the case for continuing to consider action in Syria, even though it would be an “unbelievably small” action which would be equal to making Assad eat his Cheerios with a fork, and which the United States has no interest in. In fact, we would be entering on the same side as the people who attacked us 12 years ago…for the second time in the last few years. Meanwhile, the Russians will continue to send Assad’s regime weapons. A superpower doesn’t behave the way that the Obama administration is behaving.
Do some Senators support action in Syria because of the money that they have received from defense contractors?
Today is also the first anniversary of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead. The State Department refuses to let the survivors testify before Congress, probably because the Benghazi consulate may have been being used to funnel weapons to the Syrian rebels against a UN resolution that the Obama administration helped to pass.
The planned “Million Muslim March” that happened today turned out to be more like the “Couple Dozen Muslim March.” Meanwhile, the “2 Million Bikers” rally (also a little generous with their numbers) was denied a permit to drive through DC.
Speaking of the Religion of Pieces, in Egypt Coptic Christians are being told to either convert to Islam or pay a tax, while in Syria the rebels (you know, the guys that we’re supposed to be supporting) are telling Christians to either convert or be beheaded. Just remember, this is how Islam has ALWAYS been spread—through force.
The new Apple iPhones have been announced, and some have privacy concerns about the new fingerprint login. This was my initial reaction to the new iPhone, and it hasn’t changed much from there.
With the new iPhone 5S and its fingerprint login, some (including Apple’s competitor Google) are saying that passwords are dead.
Google could face wiretapping charges after their Street View Cars were caught taking information from peoples’ unsecured wireless networks as they drove by.
The feds didn’t like the political activities of one individual, so they waited for him to leave the country and then seized his laptop when he returned. There is no expectation of privacy and no Fourth Amendment at the border.
The NSA has been spying on innocent Americans’ phone records for years, and lied to the FISA court that was supposed to be overseeing the spy program in doing so for three years between May 2006 and January 2009. They even almost got shut down in 2009 by a judge who was supposed to be overseeing the program. There’s really no reason to trust them anymore, due partly to incompetence and partly to the fact that any safeguards that did exist while the NSA was running rampant were loosened by Obama.
The NSA isn’t alone in collecting your data; the so-called Consumer Financial “Protection” Bureau may be snooping into financial records without permission.
Big companies are asking for amnesty so that they can have new workers…to replace the ones that they’ve laid off.
More Americans than ever are on food stamps, but the USDA can only point to a 0.4% drop in the number of “food insecure” (what a BS term) households to justify continuing to spend $80 billion per year on the program.
Al Gore lied, polar bears died: Global warming has stopped, and now global cooling is taking over. I think it’s time for me to move to the tropics.
Who could have imagined that people who have to fight to keep their jobs would actually be better at their jobs than people who have a guarantee? This is yet another reason to scrap teacher tenure.
Anthony Weiner went down in flames last night, getting only 4.9% of the vote and being harassed by reporters and former sexting partner turned porn star Sydney Leathers. Hopefully we won’t have Weiner to kick around anymore.
The State of Pennsylvania took a newborn baby away from his mother for the first 75 days of his life because of a poppy seed salad dressing.
Do you think you own your property? Silly subjects, you’re only kidding yourselves. The State really owns your property; you just lease it from them for an annual “tax” payment.
Two fathers, two perverts targeting their daughters. Compare the legal system’s reaction in Texas to that in a blue state.
Should you bring your parents to a job interview? For many millennials, they might as well; they live with their parents, so mom may have to drive them to the interview anyway.
In Arkansas we have another school district setting a dress code for teachers, another teacher’s union upset by it. What the hell is wrong with these unions? Shouldn’t teachers, as “professionals,” know how to dress for work?
In the world of Richard Dawkins, religion is evil but “mild pedophilia” is just fine by him.
Wrestling has been reinstated to the Olympics, and one Japanese college professor wants to add Hide and Seek to the Olympic program. At least it’s no worse than ribbon dancing or synchronized swimming.
Well played, Jimmy Kimmel. Well played.
Toys R Us is going to stop labeling toys as being specifically for boys and girls because it’s considered sexist. Give me a break. There are toys that are normal for boys, others that are normal for girls. This gender bending is getting insane.
Apparently Norway has more money than it knows what to do with.
Moral of the story: 18 beers is just too many.
Coca-Cola is going to launch the world’s first hot fizzy drink. I’ve had hot Dr. Pepper before, but this sounds really cool.
Check out this husband’s post-surgery reaction to seeing his wife while still under anesthesia. I’ll just say that he’s impressed.
A Chinese man convinced a woman that her vagina was haunted and that the only way to get rid of the ghosts was to have sex with him. How dumb are Chinese women to fall for this?
How do you have 27 children? “Sex.”
This Week’s Sign of the Decline of Western Civilization: Even the Army is being wussified by the safety-conscious idiocy.
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