[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] A local elected official in Maryland who achieved instant Internet notoriety after he threatened to sue a newspaper for publishing his name now says he won't sue after all. Brilliant move.
Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter said in a written statement Wednesday he was wrong when he told a Frederick News-Post reporter in a Facebook post: "Use my name again unauthorized and you'll be paying for an attorney." Try it and you'll be paying damages, court costs, parking fees, and your rain tax (yes, we have one in Maryland) will double.
Delauter says the threat reflected his frustration about feeling misrepresented or misinterpreted by local news coverage. But he says the First Amendment is alive and well in Frederick County. He just didn't want it to be.
Delauter's threat generated a sarcastic editorial response from the newspaper and an avalanche of mocking messages on social media Tuesday. Plus today's tip o' the Rantburg hat.
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Now bandaged and minus his co-pay,
Our battered Quixote sez, "Okay,
No more tilting at mills
When a little ink spills.
Just call me Don Kirby Delauter.
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I think he has increased his visibility sufficiently to run for state-wide office. He needs to work on his incoherence and feigned outrage to make it to the show. A blue-chip prospect would have just turned up the volume of his rant rather than appogize. He still has a chance to work on his game. That's what the minors are for. He should hit the film room and study Boxer's body of work. That's an impressive career drawing to a close.
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There are a number of political folks that make you wonder if the voters can read or not. This fellow is one of those types.
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] Sen. Chuck Schumer Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. on Wednesday called for daily federal screening of airport and airline workers for weapons following last month's arrests of five men accused of smuggling guns through the New York and Atlanta airports.
The New York Democrat, joined in Washington by Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, said he's asking the Transportation Security Administration to immediately require all U.S. airports to screen staff when they start work.
"In this day and age of terrorism, rampant drug dealing and gun smuggling, we just can't be too careful," Schumer said.
Currently, pilots and flight crews, as well as passengers, pass through the TSA metal detectors. But Schumer said many employees who work in the secure sections of airports are exempt.
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes the TSA, said later Wednesday that Secretary Jeh Johnson shares those concerns and will go to the Atlanta airport Thursday to meet with TSA and airport stakeholders. The trip is intended "to help assess potential vulnerabilities related to site security at airports nationwide behind the sterile area," spokeswoman Marsha Catron said.
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But Schumer said many employees who work in the secure sections of airports are exempt.
And in Atlanta, which is the focus of the discussion [due to recent gun smuggling], many of these "exempt" persons are cut from a very specific bolt of cloth. We must be very careful about employment screening, background checks, and hiring restrictions, else we'll have no employees at all. The impacts on Affirmative Action could be devastating.
[CNSNEWS] In a stupid statement made in the Oval Office this afternoon, President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... said the type of attack that turbans carried out today at a satirical publication's Gay Paree office can happen anywhere in the world. But they specifically happened in Paris, in the offices of Charlie Hebdo.
In listing potential locales for such attacks, however, the president mentioned the threat to "Americans living in Europe and in the Middle East and other parts of the world" but did not specifically mention the United States. Even more specifically, they were carried out by the usual murderous Moslems. Nobody even paused to wonder if they were rampaging Buddhists or vicious Rosicrucians.
"I think it's going to be important for us to make sure that we recognize these kinds of attacks can happen anywhere in the world," Obama said. "And one of the things I'll be discussing with Secretary [of State John] Kerry today is to make sure that we remain vigilant not just with respect to Americans living in Gay Paree, but Americans living in Europe and in the Middle East and other parts of the world, and making sure that we stay vigilant in trying to protect them, and to hunt down and bring the perpetrators of this specific act to justice, and to roll up the networks that help to advance these kinds of plots." Then he paused to wipe his chin.
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next 2 years can't go fast enough. Resign jerk.
But they don't do they. They take place in specific places, for specific reasons, and are conducted by a particular kind of people, referred by most as yes, Islamic terrorists. Of course the Champ our resident Mohammadan apologist cannot bring himself to utter the words 'Islamic terrorist.'
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Barack Hussein sat on a crescent:
"I stand fast with France, and vote present!
My Mohammedan cheek
Has received but a tweak
And it wasn't entirely unpleasant.
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When a small isolated event
Sticks its bloody nose into your tent,
Muslim's deem it a sin
Not to welcome it in
And be moved by your foe's discontent.
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"These Kind of Attacks Can Happen Anywhere in the World" that Muslims are permitted to be present.
Simple solution - eliminate all Muslims.
"But - there are 1.6 billion Muslims - you can't get rid of them all."
Sure you can - you just have to get started. Admittedly, it will take a long time. But - the time will pass anyway. 'Might as well have a Muslim-free world at the end.
There ois a nother solution: Have most Muslims abdnon Islam in horror and spit at Mosques. B ut for that, first thing would be _us_ stopping saying Islam is a religion of peace. We hmust say Islam is evil.
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There is the threat factor. One can say don't give up protection money to the Mafia and have everyone agree in theory while continuing to pay because they know the Mafia will mess them up if they stop.
The bad guys need to be in fear so the folks feel safe. Then options are open. Bad guys living in the West, despite constantly bracing for a backlash against Muslims, have absolutely no fear.
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When he said these attacks can happen anywhere in the world, he didn't mean it as a statement of caution. He meant it to be a warning to infidels everywhere. He might as well have been waiving a dull machete above his head while saying it.
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Rat bastard Obama encourages this shit. He'd rather punish people for exercising their rights to free speech and press than face the fact that the terrorists are muzzies. Hey, we don't want to offend our killers, our colonizers, our new oppressors. And you can just forget about that Constitution.
Just like when he acts like people who resist arrest should be allowed to walk away from their crimes if the police are unable to subdue them without inflicting the slightest injury. After all, if they wanna knock over a convenience store or sell cigarettes or heroin or meth to kids it's just because they were deprived. Nevermind if the cops get hurt or killed because we all know the cops are racists.
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To John QCs point; I don't think the Waffler in Chief needs to go off TOTUS to say stupid stuff; he just has to wake up in the morning for that to happen......
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Due to wafting wisps of dagga, some of his think'n spells is clearer than others. Clearer spells interrupted by gold swings and balsak sratching. He simply can't be blamed, but neither can he be trusted. If he moved in next door, you'd list your house immediately. It's a strange conundrum it is.
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A high drifter rode into Lago:
"Good burghers, please leggo my Eggo!
As we paint the town red,
I shall loaf and be fed,
Then retire and puff fat Don Diegos."
Barbara Boxer announces that she won't run for reelection in 2016. I'm certain someone equally as vapid will be elected in her stead.
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Prelutsky is probably headed 'straight to hell'....but a priceless assessment from the Los Angeles Times:
"Frankly, I don't know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we're Number One. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on 'Macbeth.' The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words."
Columnist Burt Prelutsky, Los Angeles Times Web link
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..well, good. Maybe one of those Silicon Oligarchs can waste some of his/her own money to buy the seat rather than pull the strings from behind the curtain. Show the OWS minions how deep they've sold their souls to just another one percenter.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] A local elected official in Maryland who achieved instant Internet notoriety after he threatened to sue a newspaper for publishing his name now says he won't sue after all.
[CNSNEWS] In a 
