In what must be one of the most confusing and asinine attempts at “Homeland Security,” the Bushinator has made it illegal to own and build certain types of model rockets. What he has really done is make engines of a certain size illegal because terrorists may use them for bombs.

So, get this straight, an industry, which is dominated by Estes Rockets is going to crushed under the weight of bureaucracy so some asshat with too much time and hate on his hands has to go buy fertilizer instead of cutting open and combining 4,000 model rocket engines. My point is that there are lots of other ways to make bombs instead of model rockets.

Of course, if there intent was to stop terrorists from using the rockets as payload delivery mechanisms, then I guess that’s even a sillier story. I have built several of these rockets over the years. There ability to carry a payload ranges somewhere in the range of what an ant can carry to a very small camera. To fear attack by model rockets is absolutely ridiculous. It’s like thinking that someone would unleash a ton of rats to disable the Capitol Building. Sure, it might happen, but who has the time or money to prepare a defense against it.

This is just another example of the ATF and Bushy’s Battalion of Homeland Defenders wanting to pry into the lives of everyday citizens. Heaven forbid that a child or an adult might have some healthy hobby that requires creativity, patience and attention to detail. Instead, let’s encourage everyone to hide out in their homes and play video games until they become some modern-day Gollums.

I say that we start a campaign. Let’s send as many model rocket engines to the White House as we can possibly get. Then let’s get Bushy to try and build a model rocket without help from one of his handlers. Odds are, he gets the coke shakes before the fins dry.