Really, Matt? This is what you think ought to be upsetting wingnuts this morning?
Yes, the Customs and Border Protection office of the Department of Homeland Security is seeking "bagpipe and drum supplies" and has posted a routine invitation for bids -- and Drudge has made this his lead story.
Look, I don't know why, in multi-ethnic America, we still routinely play bagpipes at law enforcement funerals, as if policing in this country were still an overwhelmingly Irish profession. Nevertheless, it's what we do. It's not some frivolous, money-wasting idea Janet Napolitano dreamed up because she's a big liberal who loves government spending. Here's a picture of the Border Patrol Bagpipers Band playing at a memorial ceremony for customs, immigration, and border patrol agents killed in the line of duty, an event that took place in 2003, during the administration of that tireless budget disciplinarian George W. Bush:
Bagpipes played in 2003 at the Minnesota funeral of immigration agent Steven Nordmann (doesn't sound like an Irish name to me) who helped arrest 9/11 plotter and so-called "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui. Here are bagpipes playing at the 2001 funeral of a border patrol agent in Laredo, Texas. And so on.
If Napolitano had dared to eliminate the pipers, or even cut back on their use, or is somehow there weren't instruments and players for the funeral of a border agent (probably killed by an evil Messkin!), Drudge and the wingnut media would be all over her for that. So you can't win with these bastards.
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OY!
No, you can't win.
And can you imagine if, instead of bagpipes playing "Amazing Grace (nothing is more truly mournful sounding than that)," she wanted to hire a Mariachi Band, instead?
We'd have a bagpipe shortage, because of all of the funerals for the Conservatives whose heads exploded.
Well, they gotta find something every minute to keep the rubes restless, and the suckers sending in cash to fight the evils of Liberalism.
Today, it's bagpipes.
Tomorrow?
I don't know...
Maybe they'll find that, because he's tired of it, instead of brewing lager in the White House brewing facility, Obama switches to stout!
An EXTRA-DARK STOUT!!!
MAN THE WURLITZER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those pipes should be sounding for the death of social security as well.
Nothing's going to happen to Social Security. There'll be no grand bargain. Republicans will never accept even a tiny additional tax increase on the wealthy. Any who do will get teabag primary opponents, who'll beat them.
"Oh where and oh where, has my Highland laddie gone?"----I grew up where the bagpipers practiced weekly and marched around the block. I still love bagpipe music.
(But I never heard "Amazing Grace" before Jimmy Carter was president, when the TV said it was America's favorite hymn.)
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