The Urban Grind

It happened to Sam Wolanyk, a gun rights activist from San Diego.

Via Gateway Pundit

In what can only be described as TSA handlers gone wild, the San Diego Harbor Police arrested an area resident for refusal to complete the screening/security process yesterday. This is the same airport that created the TSA security catch phrase “don’t touch my junk.” John Kliner of San Diego started the airport screening firestorm last week as Americans head into the busiest travel week of the year in the United States.

This time the defendant, Sam Wolanyk says he was asked to pass through the 3-D x-ray machine. When Wolanyk refused, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel told him he would have to be patted down before he could pass through and board his airplane.

Wolanyk said he knew what was coming and took off his pants and shirt, leaving him in Calvin Klein bike undergarments.

“It was obvious that my underwear left nothing to the imagination,” he explained. “But that wasn’t enough for the TSA supervisor who was called to the scene and asked me to put my clothes on so I could be properly patted down.”

It was clear to Wolanyk that TSA only wanted him to submit to a pat-down and if they were interested in ensuring the safety of all passengers they would have rifled through his clothes, carryon baggage and acknowledged that he was not carrying any illegal paraphernalia on his person.

Once Harbor Police arrested Wolanyk, he was handcuffed and paraded through two separate airport terminals in his underwear to the Harbor Police office located inside a different terminal at the airport than Wolanyk had originally gone through during his TSA security process.

Another woman was arrested for filming the TSA screening process.

Now I for one, would like to know where the Republicans who took over the House stand on this. How come there’s no news of them going after Obama and the TSA for the harassment of lawful American citizens? If Republicans had any backbone they would have been hammering away at the Obama regime over this. Personally, I think Obama is trying to get his revenge for the shellacking his party received November 2. What do you all think?

As is the case with all politicians, you need to pay more attention to where their money is coming from, as opposed to their bull-shit speeches. So despite Mayor Mike Bloomberg blathering on about religious freedom and the Constitution, we only need to follow the money to see why he’s so adamantly pushing for the Ground Zero Mosque. (Hat tip: Newsreal Blog)

JEDDAH, 4 February 2007 — Financial experts, bankers and analysts have attended a seminar conducted by Bloomberg, the world’s leading financial information network, on Equity Focus Day in Jeddah. The seminar, at the Jeddah Hilton yesterday, focused on fundamentals on Middle East stocks and all other Bloomberg features concerning the Middle East markets.

“The Middle East is the fastest growing market for Bloomberg in terms of terminal sales,” Ralf Haslbeck, Bloomberg equity project manager for Europe and Middle East, said while describing various features of Bloomberg services. “This is the first time we have had Equity Focus Day here and I hope in future we will have more such seminars in the region,” he said.

Bloomberg will be conducting similar seminars in Riyadh, Manama, Kuwait, Dubai and in Abu Dhabi this week. Haslbeck said over 600 people had signed up so far. He added “Our major clients are banks, portfolio managers, insurance companies, asset managers, corporates and brokerage firms.”

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Alex Johnson, Bloomberg sales manager for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, told Arab News, “There was 36 percent sales growth in Saudi Arabia last year and we are looking for 50 percent growth this year.” Johnson spoke about Bloomberg’s real time monitoring system – called Launchpad. He said “Launchpad allows Bloomberg users to monitor equities in real time worldwide, provides real time news, charting and other analytic information.”

Bloomberg, which has GCC headquarters in Dubai, has two offices in Saudi Arabia – Riyadh and Jeddah.

Johnson said “Bloomberg is keen to speak to those who are managing family money as well as banking and financial institutions,” adding, “There is big potential for Bloomberg products as there is a big gap for professional investment tools such as Bloomberg.”

Via Free Republic

Serving in Congress is an honor, NOT a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned
citizen legislators who served their term, then went HOME and back to work.

The Gangsters in Washington made contracts to enrich themselves without
our permission. It’s time to fix it with the … Congressional Reform Act of 2010.

1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
2. No Tenure / No Pension:
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
6. Congress looses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people.
8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.

Via Ace of Spades

No Juan! The Republicans lost because you wouldn’t go after Obama on the really important stuff, like him being a crypto Muslim Marxist with friends in disgusting places! And because you wanted to run an “honorable” campaign, we now have an affirmative action, America hating appeaser coming to the White House.

John McCain has scolded the GOP for attacking Obama on Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Here’s what McCain had to say on ABC’s This Week:

McCain replied: “I think that the Obama campaign should and will give all information necessary. You know, in all due respect to the Republican National Committee and anybody — right now, I think we should try to be working constructively together, not only on an issue such as this, but on the economy stimulus package, reforms that are necessary. And so, I don’t know all the details of the relationship between President-elect Obama’s campaign or his people and the governor of Illinois, but I have some confidence that all the information will come out. It always does, it seems to me.”

In other news, McCain openly declined to support Sarah Palin as the 2012 canidate for President.

Asked on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” whether he would back Palin if she decided to run for president in 2012, McCain said that he “can’t say something like that.” He noted that the GOP has “some great other governors” who will also play a “greater leadership role” in the party.

What a spineless worm!

Looks like Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss has been re-elected.

At least that’s some good news for the Republicans. Now the Democrats won’t have a filibuster proof 60 vote marjority.

The idiot RINO in question is Rep. Joe Knollenberg from Michigan. Here’s a video of him saying that the money for the bailouts of the auto industry doesn’t belong to taxpayers. Where does he think that money comes from? The tooth fairy? And if this bailout gets approved, all that money will be used for is the worker and retiree benefits, thanks to the unions. Here’s an old post from Barking-Moonbat which shows how the UAW transformed General Motors from a profit making business to a giant welfare tit for its workers and retirees.

# Union retirees from GM get to keep their medical benefits, free of charge, until they die

# GM reported its largest loss in history last quarter .. $1.1 Billion

# The cost of providing this health care to union workers adds $1,100 to $1,500 to the cost of each car.

# GM spends more per car for health care than it does for steel for that car.

# GM spends more per car for health care than it does for advertising for that car.

# The United Auto Workers (UAW) union refuses to budge off of its sweet deal.

I don’t want my tax dollars to prop up a giant welfare operation. Anway, here’s the video:

It seems that this Jackass, who calls himself a Republican, has no intention of winning this election. It’s pretty pathetic when he’s booed by his supporters for calling Obama a “decent person.”

A man in the audience stood up and told McCain he’s “scared” of an Obama presidency and who he’d select for the Supreme Court.

“I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States,” McCain said as the crowd booed and shouted “Come on, John!”

“If I didn’t think I’d be a heck of a lot better, I wouldn’t be running for president of the united states.”

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A woman at the town hall asks softly: “I’ve heard that Sen. Obama is an
Arab.”

McCain quickly cuts the woman off.

“No, maam. He’s a decent family man and citizen,” McCain says. “He’s
not. Thank you.”

Furthermore, McCain is refusing to go after Obama on his 20 year connection to Jeremiah Wright, who is also a fanatical Muslim.

Looks like Jackass is doing his best to ensure that we have an anti-American, marxist, Muslim as our next President.

This RINO Obama fellator is now saying that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be Vice President.

“She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials,” Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. “You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”

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“I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States,” Hagel said.

When this microbe is not working to destroy America’s sovereignty (for example the Hagel Martinez amnesty bill), he goes around as Obama’s sidekick.

In July, Hagel traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Though he didn’t expect to be asked, Hagel had said he would have considered serving as Obama’s running mate.

So why doesn’t he just become a Democrat?

Now he’s saying he would be open to increasing payroll taxes to pay for Social Security.

Mr. McCain’s shift has come in stages, catching some Republicans by surprise. Speaking with reporters on his campaign bus on July 9, he cited a need to shore up Social Security. “I cannot tell you what I would do, except to put everything on the table,” he said.

He went a step farther Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” in response to a question about payroll tax increases.

“There is nothing that’s off the table. I have my positions, and I’ll articulate them. But nothing’s off the table,” Mr. McCain said. “I don’t want tax increases. But that doesn’t mean that anything is off the table.”

This senile old geezer, who really belongs in a nursing home, is doing his best to lose the election. At this rate, he won’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing Obama. Up until now, McCain has been sticking with the typically stupid, spineless Republican technique of accusing rivals of raising taxes. And even that he’s been doing half-heartedly. So I would like to know how else he’ll go after Obama. McCain certainly won’t hammer the point that Obama is a closet Muslim and terrorist sympathizer who hates America, along with his evil wife.