A very scary story popped up in the past couple of days out of San Diego. A local TV guy was interviewing an assistant port director at the Port of San Diego about general security topics. It looked like a puff piece they gave to one of the rookies to fill time on slow news days.
In the course of the interview, they showed the radiation detectors that are fairly common fixtures around ports and rail terminals. One thing leads to another and this exchange happened:
“So, specifically, you’re looking for the dirty bomb? You’re looking for the nuclear device?” asked [reporter] Blacher.
“Correct. Weapons of mass effect,” [Assistant Port Director] Hallor said.
“You ever found one?” asked Blacher.
“Not at this location,” Hallor said.
“But they have found them?” asked Blacher.
“Yes,” said Hallor.
“You never found one in San Diego though?” Blacher asked.
“I would say at the port of San Diego we have not,” Hallor said.
“Have you found one in San Diego?” Blacher asked.
At this point the PIO interrupted the conversation and things got a little tense. Here’s the video:
Two things strike me.
Now, why is this not getting more airplay than it has gotten (i.e., not very much)? This is the kind of story that needs to be told. It’s also the kind that could make a name for an enterprising reporter willing to dig a little bit.
Finally, can we all agree that securing the border is an existential imperative and not some racist plot against a bunch of brown people?
#130 Katfish,
Actually they usually have only around 8 wks of consolodated time and that is Mid June to mid August. Not much time to do much of anything. let alone make significant $$$ in anything legal.
Texpat #131, Gatewaypundit has continuing tales of the Wisconsin Democrat Senators’ runaway scrape. You just can’t make this up.
Gatewaypundit has continuing stories on the Wisconsin Democrat Senators runaway scrape.
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I’m not wearing any pants. I took them off so that I could report that my panties (not my ex-wife’s) are blue with white stripes. They’re jockeys, if your curious about that sort of thing. Seriously folks, the point of the exercise was that the specific perceptions and life experiences of a New York subway commuter would enable them to… Read more »
That’s some funny stuff 😉 And that’s exactly what I thought. I guess you’re not an intellectual unless, among other esoteric things, you’ve been to NYC.
But back to those warts…freeze them puppies off!
I found the whole “exercise” a waste of time myself, hence my “logical” answer of some goofy number I pulled out of my as- — I mean, rear. Asking a bunch of conservative Texans a question regarding NY subways is akin to asking “What color is my underwear?” No one will know, no one will care, and no one really… Read more »
#161 You’re half right yet again.
#159
Wow, I guess that Bob has outwitted me with his fiendishly clever psychological trap in the guise of a riddle. I am chastised and will mend my ways forthwith.
Not.
#158 – mh – Send all your money in to Washington and they will give you the answer (in fact, they will tell you whatever you want to hear if you will tell them what that is).
#152 M42, several folks seemed to enjoy participating in the < 2hr quiz and offered up some very logical answers guesses to the trick question, just as I did when it was first presented to me. That's a very strong indication that they put their thinking caps on. That you managed to find in that trivial, jovial, exercise yet another… Read more »
EG — I don’t understand what’s going on but I am still scared to death. Is there any hope for me?
How are you other Hamsters liking Obammy’s new spokes-boy Jay Carney? He has an ok voice but I swear he looks like a 23-year-old mail room clerk.
If you aren’t scared to death, you just don’t understand what’s going on.
#152 mharper, You just don’t understand,…the correct answers is “because Ice Cream doesn’t have bones” 😉
Adee #102 yesterday;
Thanks.
bob #103 yesterday; I never told my own religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another’s creed. Nobody’s perfect. Not even Jefferson. Still, I don’t know what religion I scrutinized, then again, you’re really not up to speed on religiosity. Never have been. At least not according to anything you’ve… Read more »
#141 Bob never hurts to exercise the brain. I get tired of flogging you all the time, but your quiz was on the same level as “H, P, A, X, what comes next?” and then the surprise answer is something like “L, and those are the names I gave to the 5 warts on my left foot.” IOW, what brain… Read more »
Happy Birfday, Super Dave, and many more to come.
#147 – Well said Brother Dave, well said.
There’s a nice looking full moon tonight.
#144 ST
All these years I’ve been pining away for you, babydoll.
Did I tell Ya’ that I’m blessed? Today would be my Birfday and I went to the mail box and got out 4 cards, one from Daughter, one from Part Time Daughter, one from Son-in-Law and one from Lil’ Sister. The Boy gave me his yesterday. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, most people will not have… Read more »
#131 Texpat, This is hysterical. Good for the Rockford Tea Party. Later updates indicated they tracked the Dem’s bus, some speculation it crossed back into Wisconsin. Later info indicated it was every Dem for himself, so maybe they abandoned the bus? A Madison TV station had a phone interview with one of the Dem Senators. Many times spouse and I… Read more »
Dang it. Foiled again. Rats. /ducks head in shame
Texpat has the hots for me? Who knew? /ducks and hauls butt
No brain strain involved with this one.
We used to get bonus tapes of WAPE’s “Greaseman” bits along with legitimate spots in the same shipping box. (This was the ’70s, no internet…)
This is one of his old bits brought to life with new video.
#140 Fish42
All I can say is, I thought “streets” — but gave it no further thought until Bob had to reveal the answer.
#138 I think you missed the point of the “quiz.” But I do hope you and others enjoyed/benefited from the mental calisthenics as much as I did when I first ran across it. It never hurts to exercise the brain.
#138 – IMHO those “th”s could have also possibly been suffixes of fractions…………still misleading either way n’est ce pas?
#135 – IMHO this begs the question:
“Did the young man perhumps see ‘her’ wrestle prior and maybe just MAYBE become concerned about gettin whupped by a girl?”
#107 Bob
When you hinted with “th”s, it sounded like streets. Heck, some of them, maybe even all of them, exist right here in Houston. Whoopdedoo.
WB, I don’t think you’ve made a valid argument in support of current gambling restrictions. You’ve presented a couple of maybes, and a patriotic platitude. We, as citizens of this great nation, elect people to represent us in government. …And then stood silent (or in vocal support) as the politicians were bought off by the special interests that benefit from… Read more »
I believe in co-ed wrestling with Wonder Woman.
High school wrestler in Iowa forfeits a wrestling match because he doesn’t think coed wrestling is right.
I happen to agree with him.
#132
down, boy.
#128 WB, can you explain to me how you derive the authority to tell somebody else they can’t gamble in their own home, at a private club, or online? (I don’t think you can.) Sure. We, as citizens of this great nation, elect people to represent us in government. Those representatives passed legislation that made it illegal to conduct gambling… Read more »
#117 – hummina Hummina HUMMINA!!!!!!!!!
Adee Rules ! This is hilarious. Rockford, Illinois Tea Partiers found the fugitive Dems from Wisconsin hiding in a local Best Western and chased them out after they tipped the local news media. Breaking at Gateway Pundit: The Wisconsin senate democrats fled the state today rather than vote on a budget repair bill. If you are in the Rockford area… Read more »
#55 – One omitted item jumped out at me…………………..(unless I perused too rapidly and missed it)
approx 90 days per year when a teacher might kick back OR have the opportunity to make other additional wages….
#128 WB, can you explain to me how you derive the authority to tell somebody else they can’t gamble in their own home, at a private club, or online? (I don’t think you can.)
btw, As you might imagine, one of the most influential lobbying groups that promote prohibition of private games and online gambling are Casino interests.
If you want to go gambling, go to a casino where it’s legal. What about that doesn’t make sense?
That’s like saying a Ferrari is a bicycle with a few more bells and whistles.
#121 Hamathoritairan, cose, but still no cigar. We need to legalize drugs and gambling. That will solve all our budget woes… The authoritarians (D&R) that support costly and counter productive government prohibition of those activities at gun point need to pony up rational reasons to continue to do so, or admit that they can’t and they just get their kinky… Read more »
Hence my “with more bells and whistles”.
#122 hammy
Cheney was much better than a mere hailstorm cannon. He invented the Sooper-Dooper Hurricane Creation and Guidance System.
We could legalize bank robbery and out a tax on the stolen money AND on the insurance payments to the banks.
See–
I’m starting to think like a Libertarian Democrat.
Silly meteorologists. Cheney invented one of these, with more bells and whistles, 12 years ago.
We need to legalize drugs and gambling. That will solve all our budget woes … just like lottery solved all our education funding woes.
To be fair to Lowrents, if there is a devastating man made or natual disaster between now and the end of August that requires unexpected spending by the State, its possible that we could run a deficit in excess of the current guess. But that’s how it works with a State that has a mandated balanced budget. You balance it… Read more »
At best it was sloppy journalism. Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer asked Ron Paul to respond to the chorus of boos that greeted news the insurgent small-government Texas congressman had won the Conservative Political Action Conference’s presidential straw poll for the second year in a row. There was just one problem with Hemmer’s question: The vocal chorus of boos didn’t… Read more »