Posted by
William D. Dannenmaier on Saturday, November 27, 2010 7:10:32 PM
I have an important question, at least one for which I’d like an answer. If a Muslim man blows himself and a bunch of innocent people up I understand that he receives a hundred virgins to occupy him in heaven. If a Muslim woman commits jihad, does she receive a hundred virgin men?
The groping of passengers by airport personnel has aroused a lot of controversy, at least on talk shows and Drudge. Especially worrisome to some parents has been the groping, in one situation of a three year old child and in another of a six year old. Some genius suggested giving the child a piece of candy to calm them. Parents spend hours teaching young children not to accept candy from strangers, now Napolitano’s storm troopers will teach them it is all right to permit strangers to fondle them in exchange for candy. Any more bright ideas coming out of Obamaland?
This entire “gate rape” (to use Limbaugh’s term) makes three absurd assumptions. First, that all of the airport fondlers will be identical in their treatment of their captives. Second that all rapees will be treated equally and, third, that all people are equally likely to be terrorists. Anyone who has ever entered more than one store to shop knows that not all salespeople treat customers the same. Some are friendly, some are hostile, some are helpful and some are disinterested. Do they think these thousands of airport pat-downers will be the same in their treatment of people? Idiocy! The second point equals the first in stupidity. A Congresswoman from Missouri says she sees no problem with this procedure. Why should she? Members of Congress are exempted. And third, the media people who say they don’t see any major problem. Do they think that they won’t be recognized? Not likely, in fact many of our stars would be insulted if they weren’t recognized. Does anyone really believe that people like Katy Couric will receive the same treatment as some enlisted soldier’s wife trying to shepherd a couple toddlers. I don’t.
Actually, I’ve thought of a solution to the entire airport grope problem. First, let the passengers select the individual that is to grope them. Second, having viewed pictures of the over weight middle aged thugs (female as well as male) who do the groping at present, hire new gropers. There are many slender, attractive, young aspiring actors and actresses who are unemployed. Hire them! Then a gropee can look over the candidates and select one of his or her choice. I can see some elderly male, perhaps such as myself, saying, “I’ll take that young female groper with the long blonde (brunette, red head) hair. Who would complain? Air travel would increase.
I have been re-reading H. Allen Smith’s books recently. For those who have never heard of him, Mr. Smith was a reporter who collected interesting, usually humorous, stories over the years and published them in a series of books. In “The World, The Flesh, and H. Allen Smith,” he tells of how his father was in town one day and a man was there from St. Louis selling pills for 25 cents each that would protect people from the poison gases being given off my Haley’s Comet, which was approaching the earth at that time. He said the man was selling them as fast as he could dig them out of the barrel containing them. He claimed that taking one pill would save your life. For some reason, reading that section made me think of Al Gore. Of course the modern age has improved things. Instead of a pitchman on a horse drawn wagon in the town square we have the internet and mass communication. He only made hundreds of dollars. Mr. Gore appears to have made millions and received a Nobel Prize. And the profiting continues with the green movement as millions of tax dollars are poured into projects presented as preventing a non-existent, humanity caused, global warming by profiteering prophets.