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Category: Dumbass Bullshit

  • More “Government Transparency”? Sure Looks Like It.

    Remember a month ago or so, when the TSA flatly denied news reports that illegal immigrants were being allowed to board US commercial flights without proper ID? You know, after Border Patrol union officials had disclosed the practice, flatly stated it was occurring, and questioned it?  When TSA said, in a press release to multiple media outlets,

    “These reports are false. A Notice to Appear, issued by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), is not an acceptable form of ID at the TSA checkpoint.”

    Do I really have to tell you what they’re saying today? After all, haven’t we seen this Administration backpedal enough since January 2009 to know what’s coming next?

    Hell, I’m gonna tell you anyway. Here’s a quote from a 7 August 2014 letter from TSA to Rep. Kenny Marchant, R-TX:

    …” If a passenger does not have an acceptable form of identification, then the passenger is allowed to present two other forms of identification. One of the two forms of identification must bear the individual’s name and other identifying information such as photo, address, phone number, social security number, or date of birth. TSA may assess a variety of government issued documents to establish passenger identity. The I-862 form may be used along with another form of identification in this instance. As part of the issuance process for Form I-862, the person undergoes a biographic systems check, and a biometric systems check against both the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System and the Automated Biometric Identification System prior to the issuance of Form I-862. TSA needs to be able to assess a wide range of information proffered by a passenger in order to investigate the passenger’s identity and make sure that watchlist matching has occurred.”

    “If a passenger can only present a Form I-862, TSA will attempt to establish the passenger’s identity through DHS partner Components, such as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). If other DHS Components are able to provide corroborating information (such as that the I-862 was issued to an individual with the name provided) to permit TSA to verify an individual’s identity when taken together with all other information available, the passenger is permitted into the screening checkpoint to undergo screening.

    Yep.  If the claimed name matches and the individual can present no other info, the guy or gal flies.  Gee, you don’t suppose someone could POSSIBLY use someone else’s name or fake such a form, do you?  Especially since the form is allegedly available on the Internet?

    Sheesh.  Ya know, I really wish the current Administration would quit p!ssing on my leg and telling me it’s raining.

    It’s getting old.  And I can tell p!ss from rain.

  • Why So Many “Global Warming Skeptics?

    Well, according to one liberal billionaire – a hedge fund manager – it’s because 99.5% of all Americans are “not super sophisticated”.   Presumably that’s his polite way of saying it’s because we “just don’t know any better”.

    It’ can’t possibly be because recent climate data doesn’t support the thesis; that the theory is completely the opposite of what was accepted climate science 40 years ago; that current climatologists never have and still cannot adequately explain the Medieval Warm period and the “little Ice Age”; that there appears to have quite possibly been widespread    tampering with   “correction” to actual raw data to support a man-made global warming hypothesis; the fact that the results have been overly sensationalized, possibly deliberately (Himalayan glaciers, anyone?); and the fact that for years “global warming” research was a key to getting research dollars? Or maybe that a sizeable minority of actual, you know, scientists think the thesis is currently unproven and may well be false?

    No, none of those could possibly be among the reasons people might doubt that global warming    propaganda    thesis.  It must be because those who doubt the global warming    propaganda    thesis are “not super sophisticated”.

    Yo, fella: last time I checked, someone who was “sophisticated” typically was willing to examine facts and think for themselves. They didn’t usually simply accept and parrot whatever trendy BS, prevailing opinion, or half-baked theory was tossed their way for consumption. Sounds to me like you’re the one simply following the crowd here – “bubba”.

    Now, why don’t you just run along get stick to making money from speculative and often-risky investments. Regarding that, you might actually know what you’re talking about.

    Sheesh.  Liberal hypocrisy never ceases to amaze.

  • [facepalm]

    Sometimes there just aren’t any appropriate words. Provided without comment.

    Maine Man, 19, Poses For New Mug Shot Wearing
    T-Shirt With Photo Of His Old Mug Shot

  • Ebola; That’s not helping

    I guess folks in Monrovia, Liberia were a little upset that Ebola patients were being housed and treated in their neighborhood – so they decided to loot the clinic, for some odd reason. From the Associated Press;

    West Point residents went on a “looting spree,” stealing items from the clinic that were likely infected, said a senior police official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press. The residents took medical equipment and mattresses and sheets that had bloodstains, he said. Ebola is spread through bodily fluids including blood, vomit, feces and sweat.

    “All between the houses you could see people fleeing with items looted from the patients,” the official said, adding that he now feared “the whole of West Point will be infected.”

    Some of the looted items were visibly stained with blood, vomit and excrement, said Richard Kieh, who lives in the area.

    The incident creates a new challenge for Liberian health officials who were already struggling to contain the outbreak.

    And, oh, yeah, the patients that they were treating, they fled the scene, so they’re wandering around with a deadly, highly infectious disease in a major African metropolis.

    Ebola has killed 1,145 people in West Africa, including 413 in Liberia, according to the World Health Organization.

    So that should help.

  • Just When You Think You’ve “Seen It All” . . .

    . . . something happens to make you realize you haven’t.  Lit this bit of manifest idiocy from LA:

    Los Angeles weighs cash incentive
    in bid to boost voter turnout

    Yeah, you read that correctly.  LA is actually thinking of offering some form of cash incentive to get people to vote.  The proposal envisions some form of lottery system to dispense cash to at least some who voted.

    Maybe it’s just me.  But if someone has to be paid to get up off their dead a** and vote, I’m not really sure I want to see them voting at all. I also wonder how this is going to square with the various laws against offering cash/other things of value for votes.

    You haven’t heard the best part yet, though. The proposal comes from the LA Ethics Commission.

    I sh!t you not.

  • Beauty? Perhaps. Chutzpah? Yep. Brains? Um, Maybe Not So Much.

    A young woman in Riverside, CA, told her employer she’d injured her foot while working. The injury was allegedly bad enough she repeatedly told doctors she “could not wear any type of shoe for a period of time and could not move it [her foot] in any direction.”

    Her doctor provided an orthopedic shoe and crutches. She was ordered not to work. Because the injury was sustained at work, she was eligible for workman’s compensation benefits. She must have hurt her foot pretty badly, too – she was out of work for weeks.

    There was only one problem. While not working because of her “injuries” and drawing said workman’s compensation benefits, the young lady participated in multiple beauty contests.

    A video of one of those events even made it onto YouTube.  That particular beauty contest was only a few days after her initial claim of injuring her foot.

    Oops.

    It seems that one of the things she did while participating in those beauty contest was walk – in high heels, with no apparent discomfort or difficulty. Which was precisely what she claimed she could not do, and which was also what she claimed prevented her from working.

    Shawna Lynn Palmer, 22, is now facing three felony charges and the possibility of 1 year in jail, 3 years of probation, and paying $24k in restitution.

    I guess it takes all kinds.

  • From the Same State that Brought You “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince” . . .

    A town in Minnesota has a new mayor. The town of Cormorant, to be precise.

    Their new mayor is a bit, well, different.  He goes by only one name. That name? “Duke”.

    No, it’s not really odd for him to have only one name.. The new mayor is a dog.

    Literally.

    I’m not joking.

    Hey, first the “good voters” of Minnesota elected Jesse Ventura as governor. Then they elected Al “Felons’ Choice” Franken to the US Senate. So why wouldn’t they elect a damn dog to public office?

    I couldn’t find out if Duke’s coat is considered “yellow”, or if he ran as a Democrat.  But both of those being true would indeed be apropos – then he’d truly be a “yellow-dog Democrat.”  (smile)

  • Massachusetts cop notices phony cop

    Massachusetts cop notices phony cop

    Decepticon Cop

    Pinto Nag sends us a link to the Quincy, Massachusetts Patriot Ledger which reports that Braintree Deputy Police Chief Wayne Foster pulled over a Maserati sports car that had been painted as a police car. Deputy Foster knew that he no police in the area used the Italian automobile;

    Foster said the car “was made to look like a police cruiser,” with the body painted black and white, a police-style shield on the doors, and decals for 911, K-9 and speed enforcement. He said the only thing the car didn’t have was police-style blue lights on the top.

    The driver told Foster that he was helping police because drivers would slow when they saw him in traffic. And there was a big tell for more literate drivers;

    [T]he Maserati’s police-style shield decorations said “Decepticons punish and enslave,” rather than the usual police motto “protect and serve.”

    So, the fellow with more money than brains is being charged with impersonating a police officer.