Wisdom in these times
The NYT on the TSA controversy:
If terrorists learn that elderly white women from Iowa are exempt from screening, that’s exactly whom they will recruit.
Edward Jay Epstein responded in an email to James Taranto:
assuming elderly white women from Iowa are more technically proficient than the Muslim male shoe bomber and underwear bomber, and are not grounded by a fear of flying, some inducement would have to be offered to persuade elderly white women from Iowa to undertake suicide missions. Unlike the Muslim male candidates offered 40 awaiting virgins in paradise, elderly white women from Iowa presumably are not Muslim and have no need of virgins. Nor is ideology a likely incentive, since al Qaeda makes few provisions for women’s rights, senior citizen discounts, or the extension of Medicare benefits.
It is so very strange that the precise purpose of manhandling the elderly is to avoid offending people who fit the profile of known terrorists. As Taranto quipped: “The government treats Americans like terrorists — and terrorists like Americans.” We continue to be amazed that 4 in 10 Americans continue to support these clowns.
November 26th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Take away the black support and it is what? 3 in 10? And those are mostly leftists. So there aren’t many non-black, non-libs left that do support him.
November 27th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Pretty soon the only person NOT being screened will be the President, so you know whom the terrorists will recruit to destroy our nation? Oh wait — they already have him doing that.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:33 am
Monday morning links…
Via Washington Reb (whence our morning artwork), at The Lost Art of Self-Preservation (for Women), the blogger begins: I wrote only one post last week, and that was deliberate. I had begun to feel as though all of my posts were reactions to thing…