Today's threat level brought to you by the color...

Yesterday while I was lying in the burn ward getting my crotch bandages changed, I had a chance to catch the air disaster movie marathon on TCM. The lineup included "Zero Hour," "The High and the Mighty," "Skyjacked," and "Airport '75." For all their campy fun and unintentional laughs, those corny old films really serve as a grim reminder how the whole in-flight terror experience has gone completely downhill since the jet set golden years of the 50's, 60's and 70's.

What happened to all those pretty stewardesses and polite, well dressed infidels, screaming as the plane plummeted to the ground? Time was, a suicide mission to explode an international jumbo jet was an event full of glamor and excitement; but now it seems to be a endless series of delays, hassles, pushy jerks and third-degree testicular chemical burns. And don't even get me started on the crappy airline food.

More of Umar's random thoughts on Holiday air travel here.




And this from Hitch'

It was reported over the weekend that in the aftermath of the Detroit fiasco, no official decision was made about whether to raise the designated "threat level" from orange. Orange! Could this possibly be because it would be panicky and ridiculous to change it to red and really, really absurd to lower it to yellow? But isn't it just as preposterous (and revealing), immediately after a known Muslim extremist has waltzed through every flimsy barrier, to leave it just where it was the day before?

Questions left begging (UPDATED)

(UPDATE #1):Just when we are falling all over ourselves with praise for the guy, he goes and pulls something like this.

We apparently have a statement from the White House regarding the religiously-motivated assassination of Private William Long. It reads as follows:

“I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe. I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son.”

Thank god the wait is over... there are a couple of problems with this situation, however.

First, we have yet to see the above statement at the White House.gov web site under “statements and releases” where the statement regarding the murder of Dr. George Tiller resides.

Secondly, is the language. Tiller’s murder left the President “shocked and outraged” but Long’s merely “saddened”. And Tiller’s death is rightly called a “murder” by the President, yet Long’s death is placed in the “loss” category…. like freaking baseball standings.

Semantics, you say? “Words have meaning”, or so we have been told.

Solving the banking crisis, getting the economy back on its feet and navigating the country’s way through a hostile climate abroad is tough, difficult, complex stuff. This ain’t.

This is about as simple as you can get and yet the guy still manages to completely botch it.

This one is in the category of the "worst idea ever" although that particular "worst idea ever" is still #1. "A" for effort, though, sir.



There is an old adage about being in a house of ill repute with currency adorned with the busts of dead U.S. Presidents overflowing one’s pockets and yet that person still not being able to fulfill the terms of the commonly-understood house contract that would apply perfectly to our President.

(here endeth this sorry, sad-sack update)




We know this is going to sound like gotcha politics, though it is not meant to be. Could the fact that President Obama has not expressed his shock and outrage of the murder of Private William Long at the hands of an Islamic extremist have anything to do with the fact that he’s attempting to make nice with the Islamic world in the Middle East right now?

We reiterate what we said before – murder is wrong - so how is it then that one religiously-motivated assassination warrants an immediate response from the White House yet another religiously-motivated assassination does not?

For a man who did his best to downplay any connections to Islam during the campaign (a subject which we refuse to address) and who tried to bolster his credibility with the military, this omission is, at best, tone deaf and at worst, a disgustingly shameless planned negligence

Sir, may we remind you that you had no official connection to George Tiller yet you are William Long’s Commander-in-Chief. It is incumbent upon you to respond accordingly.

We'll be standing by.

Islamo-kiddies say the darndest things

If its not poverty that is the leading cause of jihad then maybe it’s the children’s programs.

MEMRITV has more here

...as if a big fluffy pink bunny was not an affront enough to Allah.

The Iranian Economic Stimulus Plan unveiled

Employing some the same back-handed logic to which some fringe Greenie groups allude with regard to the environment and population sustainability, Brother Mahmoud thinks what’s wrong with the economy is, well…. you. Here’s BroMoud holding forth on his Big Idea in a speech Wednesday in the city of Hamedan as reported by the Mehr News Agency:

"If we want to build the country, maintain our dignity and solve economic problems, we need the culture of martyrdom."

He described martyrdom, dying or being killed for one's religious beliefs, as "a quick and shortcut way to reach the summit of salvation."

Cudos to the Islamicist think-tank that came up with this idea for its actually quite brilliant. They combine the twin elements of waging jihad AND reducing the unemployment roles. And the benefits of this plan are even more dramatic if you can umm… employ into this stimulus plan the sick, mentally retarded, gays and females… you know, the unproductive and unclean members of your 8th century-grounded society. Everybody wins!

H/T: Gateway Pundit