Madness Beckons

Someone sent me this article from the The Kelowna Daily Courier, Toronto, Canada.

A pendant in the shape of an antique Colt 45 revolver almost landed Marnina Norys in the hoosegow on Monday.
The 39-year-old Toronto resident was caught by alert Kelowna Airport security wearing the 1.75-inch sterling silver pendant on a chain around her neck.

They said it was a replica and such things are banned.

One guard told her to put it in her carry on. Another guard insisted that she needed to put it in her checked luggage. She wound up having to check her carry-on because her other bags had been processed.

Remember when someone had to intervene in order to get a MacBook Air past US airport security.
Obviously common sense is not part of either job description.

I leave you with a these thoughts:
““You‘d think they‘d have better things to do than harass a middle-aged woman over a quirky piece of jewellery,” said Norys, adding the pen she took through security could have done more damage than her necklace.

“Sounds like a Kids in the Hall sketch,” said Margaret Resin, Norys‘ mother. “Were they afraid you were going to attack some Lilliputians?”

Here’s the short version.
There’s a town in California named Weed. There’s a brewer in the town of weed who put caps on his bottles that read “try legal weed.” This was intended as a way of drawing attention to the product and as a bit of a joke.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau says those three little words allude to marijuana use.

Dillmann’s label faux pas, Art Resnick (ATF spokesweenie and all around bureaucratic buffoon) said, was twofold: “We consider it to be a drug reference, and find it to be false and misleading to the consumer in terms of what may or may not be the properties contained within that product,” Resnick said.

Read the entire article here.

Drug reference?? —You can buy the good shit in a six pack up that way?
May not be the properties contained within that product?? —-Anybody who is so far gone that they think beer contains marijuana is too F***ed up to read the label anyway.

Dunkin Donuts has pulled a commercial featuring pitchwoman Rachael Ray wearing a scarf because Michelle Malkin and other conservative observers thought the scarf looked too much like a Keffiyeh, what Malkin describes as “the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad.”

Is it just me or have the self appointed policemen of the net finally won?

Check the Wikipedia for pictures of what a traditional Keffiyeh looks like.

This woman is wearing a Keffiyeh. Notice the short tassels.

This is what Rachel Ray looked like. Notice the long raggity tassels and paisley design.

While I understand while Dunkin Donuts might want to avoid controversy, in this instance they’ve shown they have balls big enough to come in a thimble.

Meanwhile:
Malkin praised the decision in her column, writing:

“It’s refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists. Too many of them bend over backward in the direction of anti-American political correctness….

Fashion statements may seem insignificant, but when they lead to the mainstreaming of violence — unintentionally or not — they matter. Ignorance is no longer an excuse. In post-9/11 America, vigilance must never go out of style.”

“Fashion statements may seem insignificant, but when they lead to the mainstreaming of violence?!?”

That ranks right up there with saying because someone owns a pair of huaraches they are illegals.