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It’s as if this headline is the most egregious example of Palin derangement syndrome.  It’s not.  Over the past 2 years since Bristol’s mother Sarah literally popped onto the national stage, the left have been frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of her.  Entire careers have been boosted merely by casting contemptuous rhetoric at Mrs. Palin;  think Tina Fey.  The hardened left react like Pavlovian creatures whenever her name comes up in any context.  This has now extended even to her daughter Bristol. 

The derangement is truly a neurosis that affects leftists in the most amusing way.  One could be having a seemingly innocent conversation with someone, who from all outward appearances looks normal;  however if the subject of Palin comes up, the eyes grow wider, the voice volume rises and spittle emerges at the mouth corners.  If you want to spruce up a dull party, just mention Sarah Palin.  It”s like putting a menthos in a coke bottle.  Step back and watch the action.  How fun!! Sarah unfortunately inherited this honor from the previous President Bush.  We can all recall the rabid opinions about him during his latter years in office.  Of course in those days, it was Bush derangement syndrome.

The counter to this is the left’s perception of what conservatives think of the current president.  They claim that the right paints him as a socialist,  incompetent, arrogant, out of touch, has scary friends, not articulate without the teleprompter and a smoker.  This is easy to defend because this is all true. 

In the case of George and now Sarah, they are constantly portrayed as being dumb. (how original).  Some may recall the same tactic used against Dan Quayle.   Of course, this is just subterfuge for the underlying contempt of the populace who would support these two and what they stand for.  The dumb portrayal is cemented in the minds of people who don’t even have a stake in the discussion because of the predominant liberal bias of all aspects of the media.  Amusingly, we seldom hear of the adventures of Joe Biden, the presumptive head of the American Gaffe Society.   We never hear about the brilliance of Dem Rep Hank Johnson who famously feared that too many soldiers in Guam would tip the island over.   We don’t get much play over Nancy Pelosi’s reasoning that welfare payments were the best way to stimulate spending.   And of course, His Articulateness is seldom lampooned for the comment about the “military corpses”.

So, back to this guy Steven Cowan who has so much vested in the results of a TV show that he is pushed to shoot the TV with a shotgun because Bristol Palin beat out a presumptively better contestant.  It’s TV!  It’s entertainment! It’s fantasy!  They make this stuff up!  Stevie may want to get out of the house once in while.  He may be watching too much television.  Therein may lie the root of all the animus directed at people who don’t agree with you.  People believe what comes out of the entertainment world.  If it’s not obvious by now, they create and live in a make believe world!  If people are frothing about something as inconsequential as Bristol Palin advancing in a dance contest, imagine how they would feel if they found out gangsta rappers with violent, criminal lifestyles make millions of dollars by selling misogynistic drug  tunes to young kids.  Now that’s worth shooting the radio for.

UPDATE:  http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/11/23/2010-11-23_bristol_palin_receives_death_threats_before_dancing_with_the_stars_finale_abc_in.html

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We’ve been discussing the inanity of this for months and now inanity has given way to insanity.   http://asiftimes.com/2010/01/09/airport-scanners-can-measure-my-penis/   When that was written, the ideas may have seemed ahead of their time to skeptics, but now, we are very close to having this become a reality.  Well, good news for those looking to make lemonade out of lemons.  We have some ideas on how to best survive this fun time in the flying industry. 

John Pistole, the present head of the TSA, and when I say present, I mean for the next 10 days because he has made comments so utterly moronic, that only “firing the Pistole” can save those in government who hired this guy in the first place.  But first, let’s have a look at pragmatically using the present circumstances to the best benefit.  As we all know by now, the process of screening has morphed from merely annoying frisking to outright invasive groping. Teachers in school aren’t even allowed to comfort little kids who are crying, but somehow allowing some stranger to grope you is necessary to prove a liberal, tolerant society.  We must take your freedoms to give everyone freedom.  Hmmm.   Until someone in influence decides that this may not be a good thing, how about killing many birds with one stone? 

If we’re going to have all kinds of bodily groping anyway, why not create medical stations at airports which would then also double as security points?  Most men are guilty of not going for regular physicals including the all important prostate exam.  This could be a life saver for lazy men.  “Turn to the left…cough please…you may feel a slight discomfort..” and it’s done!  In the case of women, they could do cancer screening and pap smears in their own segregated areas.  Naturally, you can’t have the TSA hires do this,  so you’d have to lay off 80% of them.  The positive is that jobs are created at airports for thousands of medical personnel.

Getting back to our hero Mr. Pistole, his take on the security measures being thrust on the public is this: 

“…it is irresponsible for a group to suggest travelers opt out of the very screening that may prevent an attack using non-metallic explosives…” and, “…if they don’t like it, they don’t have to fly…”

If only the underwear bomber had the idea of stuffing his anal cavity instead of just having stuff in his undies, we might all have to assume the position in front of the brave TSA staff today.  If someone had the idea of trying to blow up a football stadium or a  Justin Bieber concert, would people be obligated to be fondled at all those events too?  What if someone tried to take out a shopping center or food store?  If people don’t like it, they don’t have to shop…or  eat?   What if a popular restaurant district was targeted?  Would we need to strip search people who only wanted a big salad?  What if someone decided a residential neighborhood was a good place to blow up some buildings?  Would that entitle a search of every house for explosives?   Geniuses like Pistole are the face of rampant unchecked stupido.  Hopefully it will dawn on him or his ‘superiors’ that the extremists are already laughing over their complete victory of terrorizing the west….we’re doing it to ourselves.

Update:  Even the Taiwanese are making fun of us  http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_461991&v=TBL3ux1o0tM&