Seven Hour Cruise Ship Security Check? Yes We Can!

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But when a group of 2,000 elderly British cruise ship passengers docked at Los Angeles for a short stop-off during a five-star cruise around America it was, in the words of one of them, more like arriving at Guantanamo Bay.... 

Although they had already been given advance clearance for multiple entries to the country during their trip, all 2,000 passengers were made to go through full security checks in a process which took seven hours to complete.

The fingerprints of both hands were taken as well as retina scans and a detailed check of the passport as well as questioning as to their background.

Passengers claim that the extra checks were carried out in “revenge” for what had been a minor spat over allegedly overzealous security.

They complain that they were “herded like animals” and made to stand for hours in temperatures up to 80F with no food or water or access to lavatories.

Some are said to have passed out in the heat while others were left confused and bewildered.

When one lady asked in desperation whether she could use a bathroom, one immigration official is said to have replied: “Do it over the side, we won’t mind.”

Precisely because US Immigration officials have the authority to act the way they did, the original passengers should not have "acted out".  Just keep your thoughts to yourself. Meanwhile, California's illegal immigrants, you know, the ones that don't bother to stand in line for seven hours, get most-favored-alien treatment.

I thought the Obama era was going to be all hopey-changy. What went wrong?

h/t Drudge.

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Michael Savage Voted Off The Island

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Conservative US talk show guy Michael Savage has been banned from the UK. Again. It's like getting voted off the island twice. Except he was never on the island, and there was no vote.

Savage's exclusion was clearly political --  the UK needed a white guy to balance all the radical Muslims on the banned list. Must. Not. Discriminate.

Funny thing, Savage had never indicated he even wanted to go to the UK. Kind of like a girl putting out a preemptive will-not-date-you list of boys that have expressed no interest in dating her.

For the record, I like Michael Savage.

And PC Britain is bonkers, so this action is not unexpected.

h/t Drudge.

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Miller Time or Mecca Time: Islam at Oxford College Chapel

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The service was preceded by the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer traditionally carried out by a man, which was read out by an 11-year-old girl from Marston.

The Rev Dr Andrew Teal, of Pembroke College, said he had been trying to get a Muslim Imam to deliver a service at the chapel for many years and he believed it was a first.

He said: “We wanted to do something which brought together Christianity and Islam, but not to create a third thing.

“I think what we are doing today is very unusual, certainly it’s the first time I have heard of it being done at the college.

“The two faiths are actually very close."

Except for the parts about Muslims denying Christ died on the cross (no atonement), rose from the dead (no victory over death), insisting that Christ is in no way the divine Son of the Father (no incarnation and no Trinity) and the reversion from the wonderful news of God-given salvation by grace to salvation by personal merit based on works -- other than that, they are really close.

The Reverend no doubt wanted to do something significant. He has. But not in the way he thinks. For a Christian minister to invite a Muslim imam to preach is to deny Christ.

Muslim calls to prayer and preaching at an historic Oxford College Chapel. If Christians can't even keep their places of worship sacrosanct, what chance does society at large have to stop the intrusion of Islamic culture on the West?

I ask you, is it Miller time or Mecca time?