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Pelosi and Co. are going to fall apart like a cheap suit as they reduce themselves to children raiding the proverbial cookie jar!

America spoke but the Democrats heard what they wanted to hear. The imposion of the democratic party will be interesting to observe.

The problem will be that so many people still get their information from the "mainstream" media...which will spin efforts by the Right to keep the Leftys in check as vindictiveness.

Of course when the Leftys did it, it was OK...

Between Conyers and Pelosi, this is exactly the same kind of muddled thinking that allowed 9/11 to happen in the first place. Inevitably, just like "The-Wall-Builder" Gorelick before them, these two will eventually sit in judgement of their own culpability, and naturally will absolve themselves of responsibility.

Throw Murtha into the mix and you hit the Trifecta of idiocy.

It's all very interesting, and I cannot blame Israel for feeling deserted. It's as if all reasoning is being sucked out the window and replaced with "Appeasing savages" It's filled the air like a thick souped fog; so thick it's caused blindness.

What is looming in the background and also erecting to haunt our future is how so many leaders and influencial voices have been taken out and or are leaving their positions. It's as if the chess board is getting wiped clean and new pieces are taking shape. New game? No...just a shift of strategy on good vs evil.

God bless Israel and the western world! I think it's getting to the time to start fighting the enemy with psychological warfare and take off all the political corret gloves. Perhaps it's time to warn them that if any other attack happens that mecca and other places that they hold sacred will be targeted. Let them know that we hold the value of life over that of any building.

"All hail the sober realism of the New Direction! The only way the half vast editorial staff could possibly feel any safer is if we were a Jew."

Very funny, Cassandra. I'm the cartoon character with a cloud over his head this morning. These idiots really would destroy us to display a lunatic ideology.

"Throw Murtha into the mix and you hit the Trifecta of idiocy."

Throw Murtha under the bus! I'm still laughing about the "Trifecta", Daveg.

It will be interesting to watch the fall of the Democrats. I will predict now that their brief coup will be a dismal failure. They inherited two years of what? Not enough time to do any agenda pushing. It isn't always bad to be an underdog.This will invigorate the Republicans and maybe now they will listen to their constituents. I am already counting three days and the Democrats haven't done shit....

It is our job the rest of America [Conservatives of different political ilks] to remind them every single day about how they promised to accomplish things...

I don't know about you guys but I plan on having a blast...

Political DYsfunctionalists the lot of em...

I have never in my life felt

*Part Two*

better..... because now they will be seen for what they really are..... [Insert various descriptive phrasing here].

"wants to criminalize scrutiny of Muslims"

Nothing like a good lie in the morning. With my coffee.

They're off to a tremendous start!

Remember the "Culture of Corruption" they were harping on, right up until William "I'm Two-Thirds Clinton" Jefferson emerged as the Keystone Cop of corrupt politicos? Cold cash, indeed! Well, here we are on the cusp of seeing Rep. John "ABSCAM" Murtha elevated to the position of Majority Leader. Could there be any better example of the inherent cynicism of their previous squawking about corruption? It appears that actual corruption wasn't their issue, rather it seems that their problem was that they weren't getting enough snouts in the trough.

And who do we have leading the Senate side? Sen. Harry "Squeaky Clean" Reid, a man with an alacrity for astute and inordinately profitable land investments rivaled only by his esteemed collegue Hillary Clinton's astonishing and surprising adroitness in cattle futures.

Sadly, they will be sheltered by a complicit media, and blogs, Rush, and Hugh aren't going to be enough to unmask this travesty to the general voting public, most of whom couldn't care anyway as long as the entitlement checks keep rolling in.

I'm still laughing about the "Trifecta", Daveg.

Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week. Tip the veal and try your waitress. Good night, everybody!

I'm not going to argue with you actus. And it's not a lie - what they seek to do is force law enforcement to remove religion and ethnic origin as one of many screening criteria, with penalties for non-compliance which is absolutely ludicrous. You only need to review what happened with TSA in the wake of 9/11 to see exactly what happens when you do this kind of thing.

But you are not interested in reality. And neither is John Conyers or Nancy Pelosi.

"And it's not a lie - what they seek to do is force law enforcement to remove religion and ethnic origin as one of many screening criteria"

Thats different than criminalizing scruty of muslims. For example: you can still search muslims. Muslims don't get a pass.

Don't be disingenuous. The practical effect of that law is to raise a defense and a cause of action against the US government for going about the business of trying to keep us safe, and it doesn't matter in the end whether there is merit to those claims or not - the government still has to spend money defending against them so they make rules saying "don't search anyone who is obviously a Muslim".

And then you get stupidity like having my husband, an officer in the United
States Marine Corps traveling under orders, practically strip searched every SINGLE time we travel because they know he will NOT object though that is AGAINST THE RULES. Meanwhile I breeze right through security.

It is demonstrably unfair as well as against the rules and it happens all the time. But he doesn't make a stink because he is not trying to cause trouble - he understands that they are just trying to keep us safe and we have to put up with idiotic stuff from jerks who think their individual feelings are more important than saving lives.

What a concept.

And they do get a pass - the stats have shown that with the rule changes the TSA actively avoids confrontations and lets people go rather than generate complaints that might result in litigation. So you are wrong.

As someone who travels from time to time (even overseas! Imagine!), I encounter travel security of different strains all the time.

At Charles De Gaulle (an airport outside of Paris France), we recently stood in line for quite a while as all our carry-on luggage was inspected. An Arabic women in full chador was also boarding the flight. Her veil was not removed to check her ID vs. her face, and all her garments were not "tap" searched(patted down) as I was was and most of the rest of the normally clothed people (men and women). This happened ten feet in front of me, so I was not confused.
The TSA in the US is also full of petty tyrants at the gates who sometimes enjoy inflicting their petty powers over normal citizens, choosing some of the strangest "random" individuals to be searched (such as Cass's husband). So Conyers and Dingell of Michigan (which has a large Arabic sub-popoulation, poor things) will no doubt move to "stop" any of that nasty "profiling" (like I wish that was going on!) in the name of all that is good and decent and Politically Correct. But we still won't be able to crack jokes in the security line at Reagan National (there is a sign there that prohibits that-TRUE!).
I just hope this doesn't end up getting a plane load of people killed in the near future.

I'm betting that foreign intel services will stop sharing quite so generously with ours. They'll (rightly) conclude that -- with the likes of Alcee Hastings in charge -- we can't be trusted to keep a secret.

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That's already happening.

With all the classified information being published in the NYT, anyone in the intel community would have to be nuts to:

1. expect ANYTHING shared with US intelligence to be kept in confidence

2. express a candid opinion on ANY report to higher-ups, which is one of the many very good reasons even things which don't, on the surface, seem to "need" to be classified, sometimes are. It's the only way people feel safe about saying what they really think without fear of repercussions, much less seeing it on the front pages of a national newspaper. Now everyone is walking on eggshells - you'd have to be f**king insane to tell your bosses what you really think on a report with your name on it in the current environment.

Thanks a lot, NY Times.

you'd have to be f**king insane to tell your bosses what you really think on a report with your name on it...

LOL, it's just like the "anonymous" employee satisfaction reports we do each year. Yes, it's a very large company, but the small size of my biz unit and my unique position within it make it pretty easy to determine my input. My boss must think I just love it here!

I think I will try the veil thing if that is the case.

Cassandra Vblatskanova is right again.

Check out the Professym. I snorted crumbs.

On exhibit E, may I respectfully suggest that you insert the word `some' repeatedly [as a rule of thumb, wherever it would be grammatically correct so to do]. I hope very few British academics are doing what is described here (I would hope for none, but I make a point of never wishing for the impossible); I am sure it is a smallish minority. Mainly, I would suspect, the same rabid minority who got the Anti-Israel decision passed by the Lecturer's union in the first place.

Mayhap the same or worse is happening in the USA.

I would add that the very fact that they're "British" publications means they're not very important; important journals are always "international", whoever the editor in chief is (I know, I am one and my publishers would scream if the journal I edited was described as anything other than "international").

I say this, not to excuse, or to minimise, but in the interests of reality. Anti-semitism is a world-wide problem and I'm getting tired of hearing Britain described as a sink of it (or as Rhymes with Right recently said, a "cess-pit of anti-semitism").

Shalom and Greetings from Israel -

What's doubly depressing is that this is happening just as Israel is finally shaking off the last of its Oslo-era delusions.

Since Arafart died and the Palestinian-administered areas have descended into chaos, there's been a steady trickle of editorial-page breast-beating by disillusioned lefties. The explosive failures in Gaza and Lebanon - two places from which we retreated at our loony left's urging to "give peace a chance" - have only accelerated that, and forcefully stripped the blinders from many eyes.

We are in for a big-time crisis of confidence that will result in a rightward shift similar to what happened after the left bungled the Yom Kippur war.

Which makes it very sad that the US is tipping back into what-me-worry, la-la loonyness just at this time.

"so they make rules saying "don't search anyone who is obviously a Muslim"."

But thats not the rule.

"And they do get a pass - the stats have shown that with the rule changes the TSA actively avoids confrontations and lets people go rather than generate complaints that might result in litigation."

Which stats?

"But he doesn't make a stink because he is not trying to cause trouble - he understands that they are just trying to keep us safe and we have to put up with idiotic stuff from jerks who think their individual feelings are more important than saving lives."

It looks like we'd actually be safer if you did complain, and got them to stop searching people who shouldn't be searched.