Things that make you go hmmmm.

Has Great Britain Gone Over To The Dark Side?

I know I'm a bit late with the video below, however if you haven't seen it yet, I'd **WARN** you not to actually watch it unless you enjoy seeing little kids get blown to bits. And actually, I was waiting for the banning of the smell of frying bacon part. But I'd like everyone to guess and take the poll--What did Great Britain Ban? Answer in the comment section. I'll give you a hint. It wasn't the video that shows the little kids getting blown to bits.

Adventures in Air Travel Security

So my nieces (age 9 and age 11) took their first flight this past July 4th weekend and I have to say that my brain is rumbling with threat of explosion over the experience. First of all they were minors flying for their first time and the processing of such minors to ride the plane was so thorough and rigorous that they missed their first flight, causing a very convenient extra $200 fee. Second, my sister (their mother) and I could not meet them as they disembarked from the plane due to post-9/11 security procedures and were forced to stand on the other side of a yellow piece of tape while said nieces were put into a holding pen, er... I mean a room to wait for their "escort" to take them from the gate where their plane landed to the other side of the yellow tape where their mother and aunt waited.

Our family understands the threat that terrorists represent to air travel so we were okay, until 45 minutes into our wait for the nieces to be "escorted" from their holding pen, er.. I mean room where they were waiting for an airport employee to walk them from the gate to the yellow tape. We also both suddenly realized that every janitor we'd seen upon entering the airport was fully Islamically burka clad. I'm not talking a nice head scarf. All FOUR janitors that we came across were full-on burka clad but for their face. And not one had been speaking english. So let's recap.... An AMERICAN mother can not cross a yellow piece of tape to walk to the gate to pick up her two little minors who are flying for the first time alone, but the airport can hire a bunch of burka clad janitors who clean and have access to the entire airport facility. What am I missing here? Someone please reason this out for me....

WT*?

I agree with Hack Wilson. Something doesn't smell right...kind of like oil. I'm not really into scheduling for four star generals with command over all of the free world's middle eastern hot spots, so who am I to question a little Rolling Stone interview time. However, military commanders don't just say what they really think and they don't just sit down and talk to magazines like the Rolling Stone.

I think General McChrystal fell on the sword to send the American people a message. That message might not be clear right now, but as Hack clearly points out, "A man like General Stanley McChrystal doesn't criticize his superiors in random interviews just for the hell of it."

CONSPIRACY ALERT

I first heard this on Quinn and Rose this morning out of 96.1 in Lexington, Kentucky, but I'm also seeing it on Pat Dollard's site and Rush mentioned it and also Atlas Shrugs. In mid-September, some one or entitiy began emptying America's banks right before the election. According to Pat's site,

"On Thursday Sept 15, 2008 at roughly 11 AM The Federal Reserve noticed a
tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the USA to the tune of $550
Billion dollars in a matter of an hour or two. Money was being removed electronically."

What's funny is that one caller on the Quinn and Rose show said that she noticed a withdraw of $100,000 in September from their money market account and the name listed on the withdraw was the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. Hmmm. So, they ie. The Federal Reserve "noticed" money coming out, but it's THEIR NAME ON THE WITHDRAW!! Here's some more,

"Had they not closed down the accounts they estimated that by 2 PM that
afternoon. Within 3 hours. $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawn and the entire economy of the United States would have collapsed, and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed."

So where's that money? Who took it out? Where is it now? Another interesting point. I find it interesting the the pin that pricked this postulous sore was a letter written by Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrate from New York in June of 2008.

Main Stream Media:

"The U.S. Senator who leads the Senate subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve and economic policy has written letters to federal bank regulators questioning the condition of IndyMac Bancorp Inc. of Pasadena, news services
reported Friday. Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, sent the
letters to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Housing Finance Board and the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. The letters reportedly said Schumer is concerned IndyMac "may have serious problems with its current loan holdings, and could face a failure if prescriptive measures are not taken quickly." Schumer, who serves on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and is chairman of its Economic Policy Subcommittee, cited concerns that the bank's condition is a risk to taxpayers and borrowers. Moody's Investors Service Inc. on Tuesday downgraded IndyMac.
Calls to IndyMac's media relations department were routed to an automated message saying the bank (NYSE: IMB) is in its second-quarter quiet period, which started June 25, and will not make comments about its performance until its quarterly earnings announcement. No scheduled date for that announcement was immediately available. The $32 billion bank was a major alt-A lender, making loans to people who are just below the level of prime borrowers but with credit better than those who could only land subprime loans."

"The public disclosure of the letter from Chuck Schumer, who serves on both the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, resulted in an eleven day run on Indymac that resulted in the withdraw of more than $1.3 billion dollars.John Reich, the director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, blamed the Indymac bank failure on the comments made in Senator Chuck Schumer's letter. "

Nutmeg Belle's Interpretive Pose in Reaction to News that Al Frankenstein-Franken "Wins" In Minnesota

OBAMA BIDEN...OSAMA BIN LADEN

Unsettling? Coincidence? Alliteration gone horribly wrong?