by William Warren:

When you lance a boil, it’s difficult, painful business and what comes out of it is really ugly.
The same is true of Arab Spring which, in large part, began with what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has handled it extremely poorly and the results so far have been ugly, but to a certain extent, that’s to be expected.
Nations like Egypt, Syria, Libya, and Tunisa are poor, backwards, repressed societies that have little experience with freedom and the only force that has been strong enough to stand …

Why do we allow the TSA to continue to exist? This is a serious question, folks. There isn’t a person alive who can name one terrorist the TSA has caught, not one plot the agency’s automatons have thwarted with their rigid adherence to rules built by brainless bureaucrats. On the other hand, your next airplane trip will be completely free of young, pregnant women with plastic ornamental guns on their purses.

Vanessa Gibbs, 17, claims the Transportation Security Administration stopped her at the security gate because of the design of a gun on her handbag.

Gibbs said she had no problem going through security at Jacksonville International Airport, but rather, when she headed home from Virginia.

“It’s my style, it’s camouflage, it has an old western gun on it,” Gibbs said.

But her preference for the pistol style didn’t sit well with TSA agents at the Norfolk airport.

Gibbs said she was headed back home to Jacksonville from a holiday trip when an agent flagged her purse as a security risk.

“She was like, ‘This is a federal offense because it’s in the shape of a gun,’” Gibbs said. “I’m like, ‘But it’s a design on a purse. How is it a federal offense?’”

After agents figured out the gun was a fake, Gibbs said, TSA told her to check the bag or turn it over.

By the time security wrapped up the inspection, the pregnant teen missed her flight, and Southwest Airlines sent her to Orlando instead, worrying her mother, who was already waiting for her to arrive at JIA.

Did you catch that little “After agents figured out the gun was a fake…” bit? Here’s a picture of the purse, with the hard-to-tell-if-it’s-fake gun firmly affixed to it along with the dastardly would-be terrorist teenager who carried it.

Instapundit called the TSA’s actions “pathetic”. He’s pulling his punches. This is an agency that routinely humiliates us for no better reason than it can, whose agents are locked into “proper procedures” that allow them a tyrannical level of control over anyone who wishes to fly on an airplane. And believe me, if you don’t think those agents who use that power to the hilt aren’t enjoying themselves, then you know nothing at all about human nature. It’s not enough to have power; you have to use it.

You know, like they used it on this frail 85-year old woman when they pulled her aside and strip-searched her without even a shred of evidence that she was dangerous to anything but a bowl of tapioca pudding.

When Zimmerman reached a security checkpoint, she asked if she could forgo the advanced image technology screening equipment, fearing it might interfere with her defibrillator.

She said she normally gets patted down. But this time, she says that two female agents escorted her to a private room and began to remove her clothes.

“I was outraged,” said Zimmerman, a retired receptionist.

As she tried to lift a lightweight walker off her lap, she says, the metal bars banged against her leg and blood trickled from a gash.

“My sock was soaked with blood,” she said. “I was bleeding like a pig.”

She says the TSA agents showed no sympathy, instead pulling down her pants and asking her to raise her arms.

“Why are you doing this?” she said she asked the agents, who did not respond.

What a vilke embarrasment our stooge in the White House is. We expect this from the French – they partied with the Nazis after they marched into France. But this?  It's official, Obama is a scumbag.

He is lethal to liberty and our allies in freedom. Could America sink any lower under this president? Don't answer that.

Drudge headline here: TRASH TALK BEHIND ISRAELI LEADER'S BACK

Report: Sarkozy calls Netanyahu 'liar' YNET news (hat tip Katherine)

Microphones accidently left on after G20 meeting pick up private conversation between US, French presidents. Sarkozy admits he 'can't stand' Israeli premier. Obama: You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day!

French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly told US President Barack Obama that he could not "stand" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that he thinks the Israeli premier "is a liar." According to a Monday report in the French website "Arret sur Images," after facing reporters for a G20 press conference on Thursday, the two presidents retired to a private room, to further discuss the matters of the day.

The conversation apparently began with President Obama criticizing Sarkozy for not having warned him that France would be voting in favor of the Palestinian membership bid in UNESCO despite Washington's strong objection to the move.

 

 

Arret sur Images (Screenshot) 

 

The conversation then drifted to Netanyahu, at which time Sarkozy declared: "I cannot stand him. He is a liar." According to the report, Obama replied: "You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!"

 

The remark was naturally meant to be said in confidence, but the two leaders' microphones were accidently left on, making the would-be private comment embarrassingly public.

Read the rest and weep.

On this weeks TWSS, Jenn and Lori welcome special guests Ashley Sewell and Jenny Erikson to talk about the new show ” The Top 7.” Also Caleb Howe stops by and talks about next weeks Red State Gathering in South Carolina, Truck Nuts and how Amanda Marcotte and Joe Biden are braid dead. Throw in some dirty Dunkin Donuts talk and you have your weekly fix of TWSS for the week ending August 5th, 2011

Needless to say, I have been fielding calls from an agenda-driven media hellbent on destroying the freedom-loving voices on the right with the acts of a lone psychopath. NBC Nightly News is calling (that's a first). And Robert Spencer is besieged with media requests. NY Times, "Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S."

Instead of mourning the 91 victims of this horrible tragedy, the media is wielding it like a club to bludgeon the voices of freedom.

Are celebrities responsible for their stalkers? Were the Beatles responsible for Charles Manson? Or Jodie Foster responsible for the shooting of Ronald Reagan? Of course not.

But the sharia-compliant media is naked in their blood libel to tie this murderer to everyone of us who fight for human rights, the rule of law, the dignity of the human person, free speech, the free conscience, and equality of rights for all. Why doesn't the media ever call out Islamic imams who really do incite to violence for their real calls to kill? (Qaradawi, who called for all Jews to be killed, Nasrallah of Hizballah, who said that it was good that the Jews were in Israel so they would be spared the trouble of hunting them down elsewhere, etc.).

This is a full frontal assault against us in the war of ideas, the information battle-space. Work your networks, email lists, blogs, FB and twitter pages. Call out this naked aggression on the forces of good. Push back against this libelous deception.

David Horowitz in today's Frontpage: The Character Assassination of Robert Spencer

The New York Times today has a wretched editorial masquerading as a news story on Robert Spencer and his alleged complicity in the Oslo massacres because his ideas are cited by the lunatic responsible. Joseph McCarthy could not have done it better. The Times next will blame Noam Chomsky for the crimes of Osama bin Laden and Al Gore for the crimes of the Unabomber since the ideas of both were cited by the lunatics. Chomsky is not only cited by the Islamic terrorists, he openly supports them — yet the Times would be the first to express shock and outrage at mere suggestion of Chomsky’s complicity in the crimes of al-Qaeda, Hizbollah and Hamas.

Robert Spencer has never supported a terrorist act. His crime in the eyes of the left is to have told the truth about Islamic fanatics beginning with the Islamic prophet who called for the extermination of the Jews and said in his farewell speech that he was called to fight until all men say that there is no God but allah. (see Bruce Thornton’s article today’s Frontpage).

The attack on Robert Spencer a man of great courage and decency is just one phase in the war against all those who speak out against Islamic terror and Islamic imperialism. The Times attack is but the latest and most repulsive salvo in this war.

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The shooter links to LGF (before he went psycho). The above is the original. From here.

More Screenshots here from Mark Humphries (as well as links to myriad other websites etc.)

In CJ's world, this makes him culpable, does it not? Over ninety people are dead in this horror and many wounded, and this psychopath is using this to incite hatred against me and those of us who are fighting for freedom and Western values. Shame on him for using these deaths to carry out his selfish personal vendetta.

No one is explaining what his anti-Muslim views (if he really had them) have to do with his attacks. Maybe the shooter was like Johnson and turned.

The shooter once posted ONE link to Atlas. ONE link. And the little green shew posts that he was my fan and made that the center of the story — not what the rest of the world did, mourning dead children.

SIOA and SIOE declare our sympathy for the victims and relatives of the victims of the heinous mass murders in Norway. We denounce the attacker and reiterate our dedication to the defense of free societies and human rights for all people, and our opposition to all vigilantism and violence.

Photo: A view of the damaged building of the Norwegian prime minister's office

Full coverage here.

The mass murderer who mowed down teenagers at the Utoya youth camp in one of multiple attacks in Norway today was seen in Oslo prior to his attack at the youth camp. After the Oslo blast he went to Utoya, dressed as a policeman, and in order to gain entry to the the youth camp, said he was on security detail in light of the Oslo bombings. Got that? He got through security and opened fire on the children.

It takes an evil of unimaginable depravity and barbarity to conceive and execute such carnage.

Witnesses on the island told Norwegian television that the man identified himself as a police officer when he entered the camp. “He said it was a routine check in connection with the terror attack in Oslo,” one witness told VG Nett, the Web site of a national newspaper.

Bjorn Jarle Roberg-Larsen, a Labour Party member who had telephone contact with teenagers on the island, said: “Kids have started to swim in a panic, and Utoya is far from the mainland. Others are hiding. Those I spoke with don’t want to talk more. They’re scared to death.” NY Times

Norway bombing, mass shooting leave at least 16 dead LA Times

Oh, and if I hear another television or radio reporter refer to muahmmad as "the Prophet Muhammad," I think I am going to puke. He's not your prophet, assclowns.