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Shoe-sniffing machines?

Does anyone find this a little funny and sad at the same time?  New Shoe-sniffing Machines To Be Tested At LAX Airport.  New technology is great, however it's costly, doesn't always work as intended.  What happened to sniffer dogs at airports?  Are we doing away with them because Muslims are offended by dogs?  Just asking.

Scientists will  soon begin testing a new machine that will sniff shoes for explosives.

The new device that will examine shoes for explosives while they are still attached to passengers’ feet  will be tested at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) by the federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA), said the report.

Two PassPort scanners will be pressed into service at LAX to evaluate if the machines are effective and can be approved for use nationwide, said TSA spokesman Dwayne Baird. (continue reading at Xinhua)

Fido works for dog biscuits:

Around the world in 80 seconds:

580 Christian Students Displaced by Muslim Mob Violence, Islam in Action

The persecution of Christians in Indonesia continues, despite that Muslims continually tell us that Islam is a tolerant religion. Could they be lying?

New Mystery Disease in China, is this the next big outbreak?, ATS

"China reported that approximately 20 days ago, a man suddenly died from an unidentified disease in Wanjiakou Village, Xiaoguan Town, Wendeng City, Shandong Province. His entire body turned dark purple, and he bled from his mouth, nostrils, ears, and eyes just as he died.

Shortly after the man died, 2 other men who been in contact with him, died showing the same symptoms. Villagers who had left the village to work said "3 people died 10 days ago.

Police Prepare Terror Attack Warning For Restaurants and Cinemas - UK, National Terror Alert

Palestinians donate $29,500 to Obama, WND

Gazan brothers' illegal contributions listed in government election filings

Chinese border assault kills 16, BBC

Sixteen Chinese policemen have been killed in an attack on a border post in the restive Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media say.

Report: Iran tests naval weapon with 300 km range, YNET

Revolutionary Guards say they have tested Iranian-built missile that could destroy any vessel in range of 190 miles

Terrorist Underwear?

I could not pass this one up.  From  National Terror Alert.  Suicide Underwear The Undergarment of Choice For Terrorists - India:

Would-be suicide bombers may now be packing more than just the bare necessities in their underwear, and no, it’s not a terrorist fashion statement. Suicide underwear, rather than explosives jackets and suicide belts appear to make it easier for suicide bombers to evade “conservative” body searches.

A study by India’s Sihala Police College forensic lab sources states that recent suicide attacks were carried out by suicide bombers used “explosives-laden” under-garments, briefs in particular, to carry out the attacks.

The study said that the explosives could weigh between five kilograms to seven kilograms, made deadly by adding glass splinters, metal ball bearings and bullets. ( you can write your punch line here )

Law enforcement officers normally search upper body parts sparing the “privates”, the study said, hence assailants are increasingly using the lower body parts to dodge the searches. The study said that forensic experts were trying to devise methods to preempt suicide bombing. The experts have achieved successes in “Post Bombing Investigation,” the sources said, adding that resources are sharpening “Pre-Bombing Investigation” techniques.

This will obviously put to rest the age-old question… Terrorists, boxers or briefs?

Perhaps they got the idea from these briefs, called Security Briefs from Geekiology:

No, not these briefs: 

Certainly not the underwear these KKK-looking terrorists are wearing:

If anyone wants to do some photo-manipulations, crack open your PhotoShop and email them to me.  I'll post them here.

Obama, the Greatest Story Ever Told

Just in case you missed it, the National Black Republican Association sent this via email:

Humorous hype about Senator Barack Obama - well worth the six minutes of inspiration from the "prophet" Gerard. I was blind, but now I see. 

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The text of this video follows. 

The Times  (UK)
July 25, 2008
He ventured forth to bring light to the world
The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers
Gerard Baker
 
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
 
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
 
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: "Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?"
 
In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.
 
And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world.
 
He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media. He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the
 
Taleban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world.
 
And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the
 
Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.
 
From there he went forth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the great ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen Month Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it.
 
And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child's very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.
 
And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares.
 
From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered through the gate seated on an ass. The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered "Hosanna" and waved great palm fronds and strewed them at his feet.
 
In Jerusalem and in surrounding Palestine, the Child spake to the Hebrews and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the lion lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their long enmity and lived for ever after in peace.
 
As word spread throughout the land about the Child's wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.
 
And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child's journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.
 
The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for.
 
And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again.
 
Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.
 
And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.
 
Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped onto the shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel, vast multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at length.
 
But when he had finished speaking his disciples told him the crowd was hungry, for they had had nothing to eat all the hours they had waited for him. 
 
And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they had was five loaves and a couple of frankfurters. So he took the bread and the frankfurters and blessed them and told his disciples to feed the multitudes. And when all had eaten their fill, the scraps filled twelve baskets.
 
Thence he travelled west to Mount Sarkozy. Even the beauteous Princess Carla of the tribe of the Bruni was struck by awe and she was great in love with the Child, but he was tempted not.
 
On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the ancient land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the once great prophet Blair and his successor, Gordon the Leper, and his successor, David the Golden One.
 
And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: "Yes, We Can."

For more Information about the National Black Republican Association

Stop Him Now (hee hee)

From Townhall.com:

If, like many Americans, you are alarmed at the thought of a Barack Obama’s leadership potential and are committed to Stop-Him-Now, we invite you to join the newly created “Obama’s Enemies List.”

In true Nixonian style, Sen. Barack Obama’s paranoid website links a list of political enemies that are allegedly conducting a covert internet campaign against him. The information on the site is not only inaccurate, it does the very thing it is claiming to stop, a smear campaign. Obama may be thinking he is JFK but he is acting like Dick Nixon, completely paranoid. To Obama, engaging in open and legitimate debate qualifies as a smear and off limits.

So in the time honored tradition of taking a pejorative and adopting it with pride, Stop-Him-Now is inviting all Americans to join the “Obama’s Enemies list.”

After joining, individuals will receive a certificate confirming their membership and Stop-Him-Now.com will submit their names to the Obama campaign.

Sen. Obama may think he is shaming individuals by placing them on this list but we view it as a badge of honor. We invite you to do the same.

Conservatively yours,

Richard H. Collins

Comic, Movies, Politics,...

Comics are everywhere these days, the movies, in publications like The New Yorker, and now Barack Obama and John McCain have their own comics.   From Wired:

Punisher: War Zone

Irish he-man Ray Stevenson replaces Thomas Jane to play vengeful but virtuous vigilante Frank Castle in this sequel. His target? The demonic Jigsaw (Dominic West of TV's The Wire).
Secret weapon: German director Lexi Alexander, formerly an actress who toured with the Mortal Kombat traveling show, proved her rock'em-sock'em mettle by making the soccer movie, Hooligans.
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Studio: Lionsgate
Release: December 5, 2008

Image courtesy Lionsgate

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The Spirit

Samuel Jackson (as The Octopus) and Scarlett Johansson (pictured, as Silken Floss) appear in this adaptation of Will Eisner's classic noir-meets-supernatural graphic novel, with Gabriel Macht starring as the title character. But the real star is graphic novelist-turned-filmmaker Frank Miller (300, Sin City). Miller had the good sense to bring Eva Mendes on board to play the Spirit's sultry ex-flame, Sand Saref.
Secret weapon: Cinematographer Bill Pope knows how to frame action scenes, having previously shot Spider-Man 3 and the Matrix sequels.
Publisher: DC Comics
Distributor: Lionsgate
Release: Dec. 25, 2008

Image courtesy DC Comics  (Don't miss any of this article, continue reading at Wired)

From Wake Up America: John McCain, Barack Obama Star in Biographical Comic Books

IDW Publishing will be publishing two comic books, 28 pages each, showing the biography of both presumptive presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama.

The two biographical comic books will go on sale October 1, 2008 in comic book stores around the nation and will be available at nationwide, and will be available at presidentialcomics.com.  [snip]

(Illustration- J. Scott Campbell/IDW Publishing)

(Illustration- J. Scott Campbell/IDW Publishing)

Go to Wake Up America to read the article and information  about the above covers.

Now Vanity Fair has come up with a McCain cover, which in my opinion is no rival at all for the New Yorker cover  of Obama.

  Vanity Fair ... posted a cartoon on its website featuring John McCain holding a walker with one hand and giving the fist bump to a pill-popping (well pill-holding) Cindy McCain. The Constitution burns in the fireplace of the Oval Office while a painting of George W. Bush hangs on the wall.

The New Yorker cartoon , in case you missed it:

In some serious news, read:  Transcript: McCain's Rejected NY Times Op-Ed: Wear it Like a Badge of Honor, at Maggie's Notebook.

Time for some fun

From Jib Jab, via Neal Boortz

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The Obama Iraq Documentary, Whatever Politics Demands

Your music selection, Merle Haggard - I'm A White Boy

Right on!

From Stop the ACLU:

From ABC News
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/new-ironic-new.html

Political Punch
Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper

Obama Camp Hammers New ‘Ironic’ New Yorker Cover Depicting Conspiracists’ Nightmare of Real Obamas  (read all about it at Stop the ACLU)

I'm wondering what E. D. Hill of Fox News thinks?

Sewage Treatment Plant To Be Named After George W. Bush

In San Francisco, California they are considering naming a sewage treatment plant after President George W. Bush.    (Herald Tribune hat tip hubby)  That's OK because there are those who believe that history will say that George W. Bush was misunderestimated.

SAN FRANCISCO: Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital, and a state, too. But President George W. Bush may soon be the sole president to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to from the bathroom.

From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water-treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

The plan - hatched, naturally, in a bar - would place a vote on the November ballot to provide "an appropriate honor for a truly unique president."

Supporters say that they have plenty of signatures to qualify the initiative and that the renaming would fit in a long and proud American tradition of poking political figures in the eye.

 

From The Telegraph  "History will say that we misunderestimated George W Bush"

If the West wins the modern counterpart of that struggle, the War Against Terror, historians will look back in amazement at the present unpopularity of George W Bush, and marvel at it quite as much as we now marvel at the 67 per cent disapproval rates for Truman throughout 1952.

Presidents are seldom remembered for more than one or two things; the rest slip away into a haze of historical amnesia. With Kennedy it was the Bay of Pigs and his own assassination, with Johnson the Great Society and Vietnam, with Nixon it was opening up China and the Watergate scandal, and so on.

George W Bush will be remembered for his responses to 9/11 in Afghanistan and Iraq, but since neither of those conflicts has yet ended in victory or defeat, it is far too early categorically to assume - as left-wingers, anti-war campaigners and almost all media commentators already do - that his historical reputation will be permanently down in the doldrums next to poor old Warren Harding's.

I suspect that historians of the future will instead see Bush's decision to insist upon a "surge" of reinforcements being sent into Iraq, combined with a complete change of anti-insurgency tactics as configured by General Petraeus, as the moment when the conflict was turned around there, in the West's favour.

Other reading:

James Dobson Terrified by President Obama, NewsMax

Al-Qaeda's Central Leadership, AINA

George Takei PSA, just for a few laughs

We all need to laugh. The following video, via Neal Boortz, hat tip hubby:

George Takei PSA

Just for fun

IRAN CELEBRATING THEIR NUCLEAR ACHIEVEMENTS

This video is in Persian but ludicrous enough to be amusing without language. Also has inserts of real Mullah administrators. Video from FardaRoshanAst at YouTube, hat tip Anti-Mullah

Bwahahahaha