Got this via email today:
The Airport Solution
Here's a solution to all the controversy over full-body scanners
at the airports.
Have a special custom-made booth that you can step into that will
not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you.
It would be a win-win for everyone, and there would be none of this
crap about racial profiling, plus this method would eliminate a long
and expensive trial.
Justice would be quick and swift. Case closed!
This is so simple that it's pure genius. I can see it now: you're
in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly
thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system, "Attention
standby passengers, we now have a seat available on flight number
_____ ".
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
If so and so calls, I’m not home.
If so and so calls, tell him I’m dead.
If John Yenny calls, I’M HERE!
So, it was not unusual for the phone to ring and all three girls run out the front door. From the front yard we would hear my mother say “no, I’m sorry she’s not here.”
On a good day, she would tell you who the call was for. As in: “Theresa, that was for you.”
No matter how good the day, you hardly ever heard who it was that had called. If it was a guy on the other end of the phone, no message was taken, since we girls were not allowed to return the call, anyway.
So all my life, when the phone rang, I have either bolted out the front door or dived for the phone in the ridiculous hope that it was either John Yenny or Ed McMahon.
But now I have reached a point memorable than turning 30, more life-changing than turning 40 and more life ****** than the prospect of turning 50.
When the phone rings I completely ignore it.
I have gotten to the point where I have given up on Ed McMahon and anyone worthwhile leaves a message. Now that I think about it, even those of no worth leave a message. Does the DNC, RNC and the carpet cleaning company REALLY think I listen to those recordings?
The phone is never for either of my teenagers, so there is no need to answer the phone to find out who is in their lives. The teenagers have cell phones and my only involvement with the telephone aspect of their lives is paying the bill. I had the illusion that I would actually study the bills and see who they were calling and vice versa. Doesn’t happen. My perusal of the bills is limited to who stayed within their minutes and who downloaded the AC/DC ringtone.
The phone is occasionally for one of the little guys. I hear them on the phone grunting for several minutes. They hang up.
I ask: Who was it?
They answer: No one.
What did you talk about, I ask.
They answer: Nothing.
Short of getting out a harsh light and rubber *** I’m not sure how much more involved the law allows me, as a parent, to be.
Our Finest Hour [Mark Steyn]
Ever since this health care "debate" got going, I've worried that American conservatives underestimate the ability of Big Government to transform the character of a people. After all, the Euro-weenies weren't always Euro-weenies - else how would they have conquered the entire planet? Readers who think I'm just a mopey downer loser (as not a few do) might prefer this alternative take from Hillsdale's Paul Rahe. While "agreeing with almost every word" of mine, he has an entirely different conclusion:
We are not yet a people apt to acquiesce in dictates handed down by our lords and masters. When Britain and Canada drifted into socialism, there were no tea parties spontaneously formed by ordinary citizens to buck the trend. The British and the Canadians lacked the spirit of resistance – though, to be fair, it lived on in the likes of Margaret Thatcher.
We Americans are made of sterner stuff. During the Cold War, we defended the Free World. In our absence, I am convinced, everyone else would have given way...
In my view, [Barack Obama] and today’s Democratic Party represent the last gasp of the Progressive impulse. The tyrannical ambition hidden at the heart of Progressivism’s quest for what Franklin Delano Roosevelt termed “rational administration” Barack Obama has made manifest; and to all with eyes to see, the danger that we have temporized with for nearly a century is now perfectly visible... What is required in what he calls “this defining moment” is what Abraham Lincoln once called “a new birth of freedom.” The period we just entered could be our finest hour.
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