Checking Him Twice
Source: NBC News. Hope your holiday travels go better than Santa's have.
Homeland Insecurity
Official Homeland Security Advice: Run & Hide
Well, gosh, this is helpful. Via the Disinformation blog, here's an instructional video produced by the Mayor's Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security in Houston, described as a "Department of Homeland Security Grant Funded Project of the Regional Catastrophic Planning Initiative"…
Threatening Snowglobe Administration Lifts Some Restrictions
Good news! As Bruce Carton reports, the TSA has decided to modify its existing snow-globe policy to make it easier for the traveling public to transport its snow globes this holiday season. Since at least 2009, as I mentioned here,…
Jet Skier Who “Breached” JFK Security Pleads Guilty to Trespassing
Daniel Casillo, the stranded jet skier who walked through the über-high-tech security system at JFK Airport without being detected, has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor trespassing charges but is also suing the Port Authority for alleged mistreatment. The Port Authority is…
No-Fly List Screwup Strands Navy Officer’s Husband on Pacific Island
Okay, the Pacific island in question was Hawaii, and there are worse places to be stranded, but still. The AP reports that Wade Hicks Jr. was traveling from Mississippi to visit his wife, a U.S. Navy lieutenant deployed in Japan,…
Government to Argue That Detention for Carrying Arabic Flashcards Was Justified
This is an update on a story I mentioned in 2010 ("TSA Detains Possible Terrorist Armed With Flashcards"), and today's update shows that the government has, if possible, lost IQ points and concern for civil rights over the last two…
GOOD IDEA: Test Police Response Time by Walking Around With an RPG
This person was not intended to look like, as one 911 caller put it, a guy "wearing a dress with a torpedo on his shoulder," but even people who did finish high school had some concerns when they saw him…
Yaskout Yaskout Col. Sanders
That the world is chock full of dumbasses of every creed is proven not only by the few who made the ridiculous and offensive Innocence of Muhammad video but also by the many who seem to blame every single American and/or Christian…
“One Oddity of the Current Legal Situation”
One oddity of the current legal situation remains that the U.S. government needs some kind of court-approved warrant to intentionally eavesdrop on the telephone or e-mail of a U.S. citizen suspected of involvement with al Qaeda, like Anwar al-Awlaki. However,…
UPDATE: US Air Bomb Hoax Proves Even Stupider Than Imagined
Yesterday I pointed out that there was lots of stupidity all around in connection with the fake bomb threat in Philadelphia, but as several readers have just pointed out to me, it turns out I probably underestimated the stupidity level….