So, an obvious question: If this guard duty is so onerous and denigrating to female personnel, why are they being assigned to it?

How else can they justify the bloated budgets for all the security agencies? Got to feed The Beast. This requires a shit-load of ‘suspects’ demanding attention and all sorts of hardware from guns to grenades and every conceivable gadget that manufacturers can crank out. It’s the fucking Motherload, I’m telling you. Want to make a fortune quickly (aside from running a crooked bank)? Go into the security business. It’s a friggin’ can’t lose industry.

Well, for crying out loud, you don’t expect the cops to never use all the fun little toys that DHS pays for now, do you? The new slogan for law enforcement seems to have morphed from ‘To Protect and Serve’ to ‘To Oppress and Enslave’.

Sad truth is, law enforcement as a whole has adopted the ‘Us vs Them’ when it comes to citizens instead of real criminals.

Our local CBS affiliate has a ‘Good Question’ segment where viewers write in with a question for which the reporter tries to find an intelligent answer. One such question was, “What is the difference between an act being classified as an act of terror or just a criminal act?”
The answer pretty much spoke to intent and a political motivation. I would class the Bushco regime’s use of terror-mongering as an act of political terrorism in itself. Why? Look at the intent and the result. Keep the populace worked up into a frightened state to achieve a political end. The political end was twofold. One, leading the nation into two largely pointless wars and, two; curtailing civil liberties while expanding unchecked executive power.
It worked brilliantly with the tacit or even active support of the MSM.

I sure hope some stupid Nervous Nellies lost their collective asses on the fall. More likely a bunch cashed in. Dipshits.

Fuck him, his parents, his kids, and every shareholder in every company he has any dealings with or board he sits on.

This has nothing to do with a genuine concern over public safety. Pure and simple, it’s a mob mentality where they want to set aside judicial procedures and exact some sort of brutal revenge. If they could, they’d water-board or inflict any other kind of ‘enhanced interrogation’, not in a quest for information, but to punish and inflict pain.
If this is a nation of laws and justice, then prove it by going strictly by the book. The justice system tried and convicted McVeigh and numerous mass murderers like Gacy and Bundy. Both of those animals killed more people than the Boston bombing. Is this different because it is labeled as a terrorist attack? Gacy, Bundy, and Dahmer killed dozens and their rights were observed and respected. They were also convicted in civilian court.

Obama, the best Republican the GOP never elected.

That the ACA is an unmitigated cluster-fuck is due to Maxie Boy. Own it, dickhead.

‘Most experts’, yes those who were bought and paid for by the health insurance industry.
What an absolutely tone-deaf, dumb-fuck statement. And these are the types of idiots advising on policy that affects tens of millions.
Yes, there was a lack of accountability and lapses in checks and balances, but not in the social safety net areas. It was in foreign policy and war-making were the problem lay. What a tool.

” . . . Obama has become the Democrat Republicans always wanted to run against.” –0–

Or maybe he has finally fully revealed himself for the pseudo-Democrat he has always been. Perhaps people are at long last seeing him for the duplicitous political hack he truly is. Just one of The Boys.

Why, thank you. The ’64 Tremolux was a sweetie. It was a black-face, piggy-back, with twin 10″ speakers in an enclosed cabinet. Two channels and 4 inputs. Nice tremolo channel. I had it until the early 70s when I foolishly sold it to a neighbor after I had a diving accident that ended my playing days. I could find a good vintage one — for about $2500.

Fuck ‘em all and the horses they rode in on.

I recall seeing that movie when I was a youngster. It scared the Bejezizz out of me. Mitchum was electrifying. The scene showing Shelley Winters tied up in the car underwater still give me the chills.

What I liked about his reviews is that they were simple, to the point, and plain spoken. My BS Meter gets pegged whenever I hear some commentator launch into a gobbledygook, foggy dissertation on a particular piece, whether it is about a movie, a painting, a sculpture, or a play. If they have to launch some esoteric argument in florid terms to convince me why a particular work is ‘art’, my eyes glaze over and I tune out. That never happened with Roger or Gene.