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Stripped-Down Grannies, Curly Bulbs, and What’s Next? Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:10 AM PST Mark Steyn wrote about the same TSA stories I noted over the weekend and his conclusion, well, I couldn’t have written better. One reason we're the Brokest Nation In History is because the great moronic security bureaucracy of the United States devotes untold resources to criminalizing the law-abiding – as I often have cause to reflect when being finger-printed and eyeball-scanned every time I fly back to the US from abroad. In my case, that's because I'm a legal immigrant and making you feel like a punk who's held up the liquor store is part of the price the bozo bureaucracy exacts for a Green Card. But why US citizens born and bred put up with this nonsense is another matter. US airport "security" serves no serious purpose except to accustom free-born peoples to behaving like a compliant bovine herd. America is now a land where 85-year old grannies are strip-searched without probable cause. You're extremely naive if you think that, once government acquires a taste for that, it will remain confined to the airport. And so it has not. In less than a month, on January 1, your government is going to take some of your light bulbs away from you. First, you won’t be able to buy 100-watt incandescent bulbs, then go the 75-watt models. By January of 2014, Washington will take away even 40-watt bulbs. You’ll have to settle for compact fluorescent bulbs or terribly expensive LED bulbs. Mind you, consumers do not want these light bulbs. We did not ask to be shoved into buying them. We do not want the normal incandescent bulbs to go away. Many of us will be hoarding them. But Congress, in its massive heaps of stupidity, has decided it knows what is best for us. So, starting next year, you lose another piece of our freedom — admittedly a small one — and the government intrudes just a little bit more into your daily affairs. Are you tired of being pushed around by your government yet? All the little indignities starting to become a bit too much? No? Just wait. They will, and by then you might not have the power to take your life back. Today, it’s a TSA scanner and a couple government goons who strip grannie to her skivvies. Next year it’s something else. The year after that, well, let’s hope that the election in 2012 changes a couple things beyond who our President is. Let’s hope we scale Big Daddy Government back to something that serves us instead of the other way around.

Another Reason the Candidates Should Shun the “Donald Trump” Debate: Eason Jordan Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:15 AM PST I still have not figured out why the Republican Party allows its candidates to attend “debates” wherein openly biased members of the MSM spend two hours firing loaded questions at them or trying to goad them into gutting each other over silly nonsense. Still, we’ve had 14 debates and save for one (the Heritage/AEI debate), each of them has done little more than plump up the opposition research folders for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Now, it seems, some of the candidates are going to walk into a debate that couldn’t be more clearly marked as a trap if it had a big neon sign hanging over it with flashing arrows and air horns. For this debate, hosted by the conservative news outlet Newsmax and televised by the ION cable network, we will get famed attention whore Donald Trump as our moderator and former CNN news exec Eason Jordan as Executive Producer. You remember Eason Jordan, don’t you? No? Well, let Michelle Malkin remind you. Former CNN head Eason Jordan is the disgraced journalist who admitted in a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece titled "The News We Kept to Ourselves" that he deliberately and intentionally whitewashed Saddam Hussein's atrocities and regurgitated Hussein propaganda for a decade in exchange for access. Let me underscore that: In 2003, after the U.S.-led Coalition invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein, Jordan confessed that CNN had deliberately reported Baathist propaganda during the Saddam era because it was more urgent to keep their Baghdad bureaus than to tell the truth about that brutal regime. Former CNN head Eason Jordan is the disgraced journalist who suggested our U.S. troops were wantonly targeting journalists for murder at the 2005 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Here's a refresher on the scandal and a reminder that, as reported on this blog, none other than Democrat Rep. Barney Frank, liberal political commentator David Gergen, and former Democrat Sen. Chris Dodd all confirmed/condemned the slander. He resigned from CNN in February 2005 as a result of the blowback. I spent a lot of time on Easongate in 2005. It was a scandal that should have rocked the world of major media, the sort of story that would have dominated the headlines if Jordan has been the head of Fox News. Instead, most news services ignored it. Those that did report on the story did so as a “he said/he said” issue else they castigated the blogger who originally reported Jordan’s slander. In the end, Jordan resigned, and we got the very best look at how the MSM protects its own no matter what heinous things they may say or do. And now the GOP is going to let Jordan produce on of its debate. In what world does that make a lick of sense? Newsmax ought to know better, and if it doesn’t drop Jordan from the production, we ought to shame it then shun it. That goes for the candidates as well. I know that a couple of the candidates, Newt Gingrich for one, have already agreed to do the debate. They should pull out of it and name Jordan as a prime reason for doing so. I would be very disappointed in Gingrich if he stayed in once he learned that Jordan was involved.  The man is not fit to work on any respectable news event, as a reporter, a producer, or even a janitor. He cozens tyrants and hates our soldiers. Is that too strong? Too bad. That is his history and he’s given us no reason to believe he’s changed one whit. I’m tired of the right’s insistence that we treat the MSM like they have our best interest at heart. They don’t. They are four square on the side of the progressives who have nearly destroyed our economy and we owe them no deference at all. We conservatives made Eason Jordan an example once. It’s time we did it again.

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