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link Dozen House women defend Rice over Libya comments – News – Boston.com.

The giveaway that this story is full of round sliced processed meat is when they associate “brilliant” and public servant in the same sentence.  That’s like associating “exotic” with dancer or “delicious” with oatmeal.  This episode will go a long way to confirm this administration’s commitment to increasing employment; but not necessarily in the way you’d expect.  Now that it’s become abundantly clear that UN Ambassador Susan Rice’s extensively broad-casted explanation of the Libyan consulate strike was grossly misleading, she is under fire from all quarters for promoting a completely fake narrative.

Predictably, her supporters have rallied to her defence, characterizing attacks against her as being racist and sexist in tone, a two-fer no-no in this day and age.  To this point, we don’t know if she is gay or is handicapped in some way, because if so, it would be the grand slam of politically incorrect no-no’s.  Ironically, Rice’s supporters characterize the criticism of her job as a “witch hunt”. Tsk Tsk.  If a ‘brilliant’ civil servant like Ms. Rice cannot be held responsible for her position purely because of her sex and race, why not just hire 12 year kids?  In one fell swoop, we can create millions of new jobs as we bring children into the workforce.   The best roles for them would be as officials in positions heavy with responsibility.   That way, when something blows up, they can be immune from criticism….they’re only kids.  Imagine the money saved from not having to train people for appropriate jobs.  Phd’s, MA’s, JD’s?, forget about all of that.  All you need to be is 12 and able to read from script.   Actually, given that no blame can be assigned and you are only passing on instructions, being only a distant cousin in the primate family would suffice.   Hmm, Secretary of State Gonzo, or Defense Secretary Cheetah….

If you extrapolate this logic further, all they really need are hand puppets.  If the spokesman is only the messenger, why pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary and benefits when a hand puppet can be employed for about $25 bucks from the nearest Michael’s store.  Just make sure that it’s blue in color and asexual in appearance.

link » Poll: Nearly One Third Of Americans Would Accept ‘TSA Body Cavity Search’ in Order to Fly Alex Jones Infowars: Theres a war on for your mind!.

If you think the security line-ups at the airports are long now, just wait until they start doing cavity searches.  At the very least, airports should provide lounge chairs and recent magazines to pass the time while passengers wait for their turn at inspection.  There will be a whole new meaning to ‘a crack in security’.  Actually, there is a way to spin this so that travellers will see this as a public service.  I propose that in addition to security screening, they can also provide pap smears and prostate exams, a two-fer experience.  For an extra few bucks and available on the long overseas flights, enemas and cleanses can also be offerred.

When you read of poll results  such as this one, you have to wonder what kind of people think this would be a good idea.   I suspect that the question is so ridiculous that people either answered yes for amusement, or  are the type of people that would pay for this sort of thing for recreational purposes.  Or the poll was taken in San Francisco.  Barring that, I’d tend to be a bit skeptical.  It would be interesting to see how people would respond to a poll asking how they felt about receiving an electric shock or a purple nerple for violating limits on purchases made abroad on their customs declaration forms.  How about a few slaps on the butt for trying to bring on over-sized luggage?  From my experience with flying, I’m more concerned with the possibility of sitting next to someone with lethal B.O. than someone with  a potential butt bomb.

Distressingly, there is an unbelievably large contingent of people who think that any kind of measure to ensure ‘personal safety’ is a good one.  Of even more concern, they are allowed to vote.  If people are willing to submit to essentially a medical procedure in order to sit on an airplane with a few hundred people in the name of security, what about venues that have thousands if not tens of thousands of people?  Imagine the line ups at football games, Elton John concerts, Occupy demonstrations, or even post Christmas sales at Nordstroms?

While this survey’s conclusions were made by a polling of just over 2000 adults, it’s very disturbing that however skewed that sample may be, that there is ANY willingness to submit to cavity searches, just to ride essentially a bus.  You know the old saying, once you submit to a cavity search, you can be made to do anything.  It’s not really that far fetched when you consider that just over 10 years ago, if someone had told you that in order to get on a plane, one had to remove most of their clothing, shoes, belts, be felt up by a complete stranger and or photographed naked, you’d laugh.  I think it’s a good idea to get into the latex glove business.