I guess one good thing I can say about this week is that it’s moving quickly. It’s already time for an open thread! Tell us your deepest feelings, we’ll keep it just between us.
Nick Ayers, the executive director of the Republican Governors Association, tweeted a series of jokes this morning about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel trying to get certain Democratic governors to retire.
Rahm: “Gov Paterson you should accept the ambassadorship to New Zealand. Its beautiful there. Have you not seen it?…oh, right, sorry.”
New York Gov. David Paterson is legally blind.
Update: Ayers is now apologizing.
Now, he tweets:
Paterson tweet too far. A poor attempt at poking fun of White House. Deleting now. Apologies.
Ya think? At least it was a less lame apology than I’m sorry if some people were offended…
Ummm….as far as security tests go I guess it worked? The Slovaks proved that they are imbeciles.
Slovak officials on Wednesday blamed ”a silly and unprofessional mistake” for a failed airport security test that led to a man unwittingly carrying hidden explosives in his bag aboard a flight to Dublin.
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Security experts said the episode illustrated the inadequacy of security screening of checked-in luggage — the very point the Slovak authorities had sought to test when they placed real bomb components in nine passengers’ bags Saturday.
”The aim of the training was to keep sniffer dogs in shape and on alert in a real environment,” the ministry said.
Eight items were detected. But one bag had two bomb components in it. The sniffer dog found one but the police officer in charge failed to remove the second, which was not detected by the dog, because he was busy, the ministry said.
That allowed 90 grams (3 ounces) of RDX plastic explosive to travel undetected through security at Poprad-Tatry Airport in central Slovakia onto a Danube Wings aircraft. The Slovak carrier launched services to Dublin last month.
What about those poor passengers who had bombs detected in their bags? What about the poor passenger in Dublin who was unwittingly carrying around plastic explosives?