Hits and Misses of the Week
Posted by Frank Byrne at 10/19/2007 3:13 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
MISS
Rep. Stark stated: "You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement." Courtesy Neal Boortz
All I can say is wow. I can, and have had, the lowest of opinions of many politicos over the years but I have never, or could ever, think so poorly of someone as to accuse them of having "soldiers heads blown off for amusement." To some on the left, and even in Congress, regrettably, this passes for debate.
HIT
Charles Krauthammer comments;
Is the Armenian resolution her way of unconsciously sabotaging the U.S. war effort, after she had failed to stop it by more direct means? I leave that question to psychiatry. Instead, I fall back on Krauthammer's razor (with apologies to Occam): In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. Hat Tip - Powerline
I'm not so sure I agree, but only in that it gives them, Pelosi and her Nancy Boys, the benefit of the doubt about whether this nonsense about Turkish genocide on Armenians 90 plus years ago was a deliberate attempt to create ill foreign policy will to tarnish and offset all the good news coming out of Iraq.
HIT, THEN MISSED,
"Save Second Base" t-shirts, a clever slogan to shed light on breast cancer prevention as dreamed up by a couple of high school school girls seemed like a natural hit. The miss? the Principal banned them. No sense of humor in Maine.
MIss
And sort of a follow up to my comments below on governemnt competence, a definite oxymoron if there ever was one...
HOMELAND SECURITY, STILL A JOKE: "A Mexican national infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis crossed the U.S. border 76 times and took multiple domestic flights in the last year, according to Customs and Border Protection interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times. The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency was warned by health officials on April 16 that the frequent traveler was infected, but it took the Homeland Security officials more than six weeks to issue a May 31 alert to warn its own border inspectors, according to Homeland Security sources who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. Homeland Security took one more week to tell its own Transportation Security Agency."
Courtesy Instapundit
and this
Several hundred pages of “sensitive” government documents were strewn about outside the Rayburn House Office Building on Independence Avenue Monday evening, slipping under taxis and fluttering in the exhaust of commuter buses.
The papers appeared to be part of a report detailing the government’s response to a “dirty bomb” attack. Each page was labeled at the top and bottom: “For official use only. This is sensitive government information and distribution is restricted.”
[A]ccording to a classified report obtained by USA TODAY, . . . [s]creeners at Los Angeles International Airport missed about 75% of simulated explosives and bomb parts that Transportation Security Administration testers hid under their clothes or in carry-on bags at checkpoints, the TSA report shows.
At Chicago O'Hare International Airport, screeners missed about 60% of hidden bomb materials that were packed in everyday carry-ons — including toiletry kits, briefcases and CD players.
San Francisco International Airport screeners, who work for a private company instead of the TSA, missed about 20% of the bombs, the report shows. . . . The recent TSA report says San Francisco screeners face constant covert tests and are "more suspicious."
and some people would trust their health care to government? I rest my case, and open an invitation to anyone that can give me an example of government competence, any, anywhere.
At Chicago O'Hare International Airport, screeners missed about 60% of hidden bomb materials that were packed in everyday carry-ons — including toiletry kits, briefcases and CD players.
San Francisco International Airport screeners, who work for a private company instead of the TSA, missed about 20% of the bombs, the report shows. . . . The recent TSA report says San Francisco screeners face constant covert tests and are "more suspicious."
and some people would trust their health care to government? I rest my case, and open an invitation to anyone that can give me an example of government competence, any, anywhere.
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