"He who has never felt, momentarily, what madness is has but a mouthful of brains." --Herman Melville
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Why Grandma Has to Take Her Shoes Off at the Airport: People in this country are more terrified of being accused of racial profiling than they are of real terrorism. Don't believe it? Watch this video.
Spy on your neighbor! Recognize the signs of terrorism! Watch for signs of:
An American white guy with binoculars
An American white guy with a notepad
An American white guy with a cell phone
An American white guy on a horse farm
An American white guy in a gray van
An American white guy with gold coins.
Do not report: brown-skinned men wearing a kuffiya. That would be politically incorrect, and to depict such in a movie on terrorism would be racial profiling or just plain racist. It would show the white man's obvious terror and loathing of dark-skinned people.
Instead,carefully examined at the airport will be my 84-year-old white, white-haired mother; her purse will be carefully searched and she will be made to remove her Dr. Scholls. They're looking for an 84-year-old white female shoe bomber? Does this make sense? I guessit must, to those who are more terrified of being accused of racism or racial profiling than they are of actual terrorism.
And by the way, John Elway, what is your problem? Surely you don't need the money. If this is your idea of community service, then you would be better off to stick to issues you know something about. Maybe one hit in the head too many--just sayin'.
Tip of the tinfoil hat to my Colorado native BFF (wow, are those rare as hen's teeth, or what, now that Colorado has been almost totally Californicated.).
The last time I was politically active was in the spring of 1970 when I was arrested with 300 other people in Washington Park, Denver, Colorado, for protesting the Kent State shootings. I've been forced out of "retirement" because of the narcissistic lunatic who has his sites set on making over our country into something I don't recognize.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke.
Oh, and P.S. I've been proud of my country for my entire life, adult and otherwise, and I wasn't even handed someone else's seat at Princeton or Harvard.
P.P.S. Unlike Thomas L. Friedman, "brilliant [just ask him], award-winning" NYT's columnist, who believes the internet is "an open sewer," I myself am completely over-the-moon about the internet and its creative possibilities.
Flag of my grandfathers and fathers, uncles, brothers, and sons who fought for this country so that we can all speak our minds, so that no one in this country will be told to "sit down and shut up." And don't give me grief: I know this is the flag of the "mothers" as well. The mothers in my family stayed home and watched and waited and worked and buried their dead when they needed to. God Bless them all.
Gadsden Flag
Flag of my Denton and Campbell Revolutionary War-fighting ancestors. They never sat down, and they never shut up, and they would be ashamed of me if I stood by and watched Obama use his socialist agenda to trample the Constitution.
Frisian Flag
Flag of my Roorda and Hoekstra Dutch ancestors from the Province of Friesland, the Netherlands. My great-uncle and his wife, and other people in his community, received the Certificate of Honor from Israel for risking their lives during the Holocaust period to save persecuted Jews. Tell them to sit down and shut up? I don't think so.
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