December 26, 2009
— Ace The White House really wants you to know that they're on top of terrorism (this time), at least after some richly-deserved me-time with some Hawaiian waffles and pineapple mimosas.
The White House wants the public to know that President Obama, on vacation at a luxurious oceanfront home in Hawaii, has received conference call updates and is keeping close tabs on the situation."President Barack Obama's Christmas Day began with a briefing about a botched attack on an airliner in Detroit," began an Associated Press account published Christmas evening. "Obama's military aide told the president about an incident aboard a plane as it was landing in Detroit just after 9 a.m. here [in Hawaii]. The president phoned his homeland security adviser and the chief of staff to the National Security Council for a briefingÂ…'We believe this was an attempted act of terrorism,' one White House official said on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive situation."
Those details didn't come from nowhere. "Within a few hours of the Delta/Northwest Airlines flight touching down in Detroit, a senior administration official telephoned and e-mailed members of the White House press pool," writes the Atlantic's and CBS's Marc Ambinder, a reliable source of the White House perspective. The administration message: We're on the case. "The apparatus of government is in high gear now," Ambinder reported.
The White House messaging on the Flight 253 affair stands in stark contrast to its handling of the massacre at Ft. Hood, Texas in which Obama, on the day after the killings, cautioned the public against "jumping to conclusions" about the murders of 13 people, and then, a day later, declared that "we cannot fully know" accused killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's motives. Now, the administration is openly using the T-word.
Hah! Commenters noticed (I didn't) the White House's Strange New Respect for the word "terrorism."
Terrorism Never Prospers, For If Prospers, None Dare Call It Terrorism: I forget who it was, but a commenter here pointed out a while ago that successful terrorist attacks -- Ft. Hood -- are not called terrorism; the word is resisted there. Because they don't want to admit terrorism succeeded under their watch.
On the other hand, if a plot is foiled, or, as is the case here, a plot fails chiefly due to luck (plus some quick and courageous passenger action), suddenly they welcome the word "terrorism." Hey, there was this terrorism, and we protected you from it guys! Go team! Yay, us!
New Rules: And of course we can't have common-sense rules about sketchy characters who fit the profile of those who wish to kill us; no, we need a bunch of rules that apply to everyone. Like, now you can't get up and walk about the cabin, and you can't have anything on your lap, not even a laptop or pillow.
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- Detroit? Who would notice terrorism there?
-OT: I never get nothing I want for Christmas. Just sayin'. 'Course, everything I want doesn't exist
Posted by: good midnight fluffy bunny what fluffs at midnight at December 26, 2009 02:19 PM (SMqnS)
But enough about nationalizing American industries and destroying small businesses...we want to know about fighting terrorism.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 26, 2009 02:23 PM (6USny)
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 02:24 PM (kQKEJ)
Posted by: phreshone at December 26, 2009 02:24 PM (1AnxB)
Posted by: MSNBC whores at December 26, 2009 02:25 PM (JL3qV)
So they've realized the "don't jump to conclusions about the jihadis" is a losing method of spin?
Posted by: Dang Straights at December 26, 2009 02:25 PM (YbMPV)
AP just confirmed that in November 2009, Obama's people were informed of this Nigerian muslim bastard's intent to kill Americans.
This Muslim Fanatic, who was turned in by his own family to US authorities, SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE NO FLY LIST. OBAMA'S PEOPLE DROPPED THE BALL. OBAMA'S PEOPLE KNEW IN NOVEMBER 2009 THIS ISLAMIC FANATIC WANTED TO KILL AMERICANS:
DOES OBAMA NEED A SIGNED CONFESSION BEFORE ACTING TO DEFEND AMERICA AGAINST OBVIOUSLY RADICALIZED, INSANE MUSLIMS?
By PAMELA HESS and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writers Pamela Hess And Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writers – 42 mins ago
WASHINGTON – U.S. government officials tell The Associated Press that the Nigerian man charged with trying to destroy a jetliner came to the attention of U.S. intelligence in November when his father went to the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, to express his concerns about his son.
A congressional official said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, popped up in U.S. intelligence reports about four weeks ago as having a connection to both al-Qaida and Yemen.
Posted by: Anti-Harkonnen Freedom Fighter at December 26, 2009 02:26 PM (5r0Tz)
Posted by: twitter.com/lheal at December 26, 2009 02:30 PM (NNLn+)
Posted by: Barbarian at December 26, 2009 02:33 PM (EL+OC)
Posted by: GregInSeattle at December 26, 2009 02:34 PM (B5cM9)
Posted by: MSM at December 26, 2009 02:34 PM (7dmFm)
As an aside, I told a liberal frined of mine (a frequent flier) that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was an excellent candidate for some waterboarding RIGHT NOW. My reason for making the suggestion is the possibility for other scrotum bombers out there...Mr Liberal agreed with me!!! Funny how self preservation trumps socialist philosophy every time.
Posted by: alwyr at December 26, 2009 02:35 PM (8o+Yn)
Posted by: Sally Ann Cavanaugh at December 26, 2009 02:36 PM (3Yi8i)
Posted by: MSM at December 26, 2009 02:37 PM (7dmFm)
Meanwhile, the little people should just STFU and basque in my awesome Toonciness. Just leave the jumping to conclusions and dot connecting to the professionals.
Hau'oli Makahiki Hou America!
Posted by: President Toonces at December 26, 2009 02:37 PM (W+E+o)
Posted by: phreshone at December 26, 2009 02:40 PM (1AnxB)
Posted by: Unclefacts Summoning Meteors, Takin' Names at December 26, 2009 02:41 PM (erIg9)
Dude, seriously ... you need an editor.
Posted by: someguy at December 26, 2009 02:41 PM (VRJIW)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 02:42 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: Baracky 0 at December 26, 2009 02:42 PM (554T5)
SO DON'T BREAK YOUR ARM, PATTING YOURSELF ON THE BACK BARRY.
Posted by: GarandFan at December 26, 2009 02:43 PM (ZQBnQ)
passengers on international flights coming to the United States will apparently have to remain in their seats for the last hour of a flight without any personal items on their laps.
I have no idea how that stops anyone packing explosives in their underpants, but won't anyone packing them in a book just light them 90 minutes before landing?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 26, 2009 02:44 PM (6USny)
The Moron's willingness to call this terrorism and not the Hasan Massacre is more than because this one failed.
Knowledge of Hasan goes way up in the White House. Somebody with his track record would be included in at least a briefing to the Homeland Security czar, and probably Holder and even the Moron. Someday we may learn that Hasan knew the Moron directly.
And besides, this incident can also be pinned on Bush. Lax TSA procedures, you know.
Thank goodness we can rest assured that the Health Care enema will be applied with a lot more skill than our monitoring procedures for flights. Much more important to save money by pulling the plug on a few million grannies than to find an occassional nutter you know. Hey, a few dozen or hundred deaths a year from man-made catastropes is a small price to pay for great public relations with our Muslim betters.
Posted by: proreason at December 26, 2009 02:44 PM (Rllt+)
Posted by: progressoverpeace at December 26, 2009 02:46 PM (A46hP)
1. Obviously this guy was on the wrong flight. Terrorists don't want to attack us now that someone who "doesn't look like all the other guys" (or whatever it was that they claimed during the campaign) is in charge. Clearly a routing error on this dude's part.
2. We have to split our shampoo into little hawker sized bottles to protect against what now?
Posted by: mr.frakypants at December 26, 2009 02:46 PM (pffBj)
Posted by: good midnight fluffy bunny what fluffs at midnight at December 26, 2009 02:47 PM (SMqnS)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 02:47 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: George Orwell at December 26, 2009 02:48 PM (AZGON)
>>STILL WANT TO KNOW HOW HE GOT ON THE FUCKING PLANE IN THE FIRST PLACE!
It was prob'ly a direct result of Al-Q reading up on our screening procedures when TSA posted those accidently
Posted by: good midnight fluffy bunny what fluffs at midnight at December 26, 2009 02:49 PM (SMqnS)
Posted by: nevergiveup at December 26, 2009 02:51 PM (ekqTc)
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 02:52 PM (kQKEJ)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 02:54 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 26, 2009 02:54 PM (Poe30)
Posted by: winston at December 26, 2009 02:54 PM (C7sIK)
Posted by: wherestherum at December 26, 2009 02:54 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: phreshone at December 26, 2009 02:54 PM (1AnxB)
Posted by: My enthusiasm hurts at December 26, 2009 02:55 PM (LD+ZJ)
>>You do kinda know the quality of the people who man TSA?
Oh, yeah. One's the GF of a friend of my brothers. Met her. Total leftard freak. Into bondage and Wicca.
Uh. Is that a problem?
Posted by: good midnight fluffy bunny what fluffs at midnight at December 26, 2009 02:57 PM (SMqnS)
Posted by: awkward davies at December 26, 2009 02:58 PM (wb68R)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 02:58 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: Abdul Sans Junk Abdulmutallab at December 26, 2009 06:32 PM (ZgvjV)
Yes, it's true - this man has no dick.
Posted by: Dr. Peter Venkman at December 26, 2009 03:01 PM (tm15w)
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 03:04 PM (kQKEJ)
Posted by: George Orwell at December 26, 2009 03:07 PM (AZGON)
Find me a way to revoke AoS' charter, you live next door. Put erg on it, he's a sneaky little shit like you.
Posted by: Dean Wermer at December 26, 2009 03:10 PM (YbMPV)
Posted by: Dr Mabuse at December 26, 2009 03:10 PM (AVYqB)
Posted by: BD at December 26, 2009 03:11 PM (zzd8k)
Posted by: progressoverpeace at December 26, 2009 03:12 PM (A46hP)
Perhaps we should remind the Muslims that without the proper, functioning equipment, those 72 virgins are not going to be one bit happy.
Posted by: Miss Marple at December 26, 2009 03:14 PM (4DwVn)
Posted by: kansas at December 26, 2009 03:15 PM (i0WE5)
Why yes, yes you did hear that right. The front of the building looked like the damn Bank of England.
Six. Million. Dollar. Apartment.
Posted by: Miss Marple at December 26, 2009 03:15 PM (4DwVn)
Note that when it's an African perpetrator, it's "terrorism", unsuccessful or not.
Note that Obama's aides didn't come to him for three hours. On 9-11, Bush's aides whispered in his ear that a plane hit the WTC. At the time, most people thought it was an accident. By the time the second plane hit, Bush was on the move and in charge.
Think about this: He may have had to ground airplanes, close airports, maybe even shoot down airliners and even when they had the information, they didn't bother the president.
So who is in charge? More importantly, who do his aides think is in charge?
Michael Moore made a movie and the lefty blogs had a field day about Bush not going !!!111!!!eleventy!!! after the first plane hit, let alone the second. Obama not only does not make a speech ("so as not to raise the temperature and cause a panic") or even a timely personal statement (as he hasn't done with any of these crimes: 4 cops in WA, Ft. Hood, the soldier killed in Arkansas, etc. but he just continues golfing.
It's his second Hawaiian vacation in less than a year even though he no longer has family there and rarely visited while it was on his own dime. Does he spend any time with his kids? I guess Christmas doesn't mean much to him (you'd think Michelle would have some residual sentimentality from her youth) but you'd think he'd focus on the kids if he's going to leave Washington.
Posted by: AmishDude at December 26, 2009 03:16 PM (Pj1aD)
Posted by: George Orwell at December 26, 2009 03:16 PM (AZGON)
62 Fox is reporting that the Nigerian man-caused disaster attempter lived in a $6 million London apt with some of his family ... Did I hear that right?
You right wingers always think the worst. It was a paltry 2.6 million.
Posted by: kansas at December 26, 2009 03:17 PM (i0WE5)
kansas, Fox reported $6 million. If you saw the front of that building (doorman included) $6 million seems accurate, especially with the dollar falling.
Posted by: Miss Marple at December 26, 2009 03:20 PM (4DwVn)
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 03:20 PM (kQKEJ)
Posted by: Typical DUmmy from DU at December 26, 2009 03:20 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Sparky at December 26, 2009 03:21 PM (mXY2a)
White guy + hit a black Muslim guy = federal hate crime.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 26, 2009 03:21 PM (6USny)
>>Six. Million. Dollar. Apartment.
Pfft. That's like chump change. At most around $500 in phantasmobucks
Posted by: good midnight fluffy bunny what fluffs at midnight at December 26, 2009 03:25 PM (SMqnS)
It's serious, we may have to amputate.
Cha-Ching!
Posted by: tonsil and foot stealing surgeon at December 26, 2009 03:25 PM (PD1tk)
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 26, 2009 03:27 PM (pncJj)
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 03:28 PM (kQKEJ)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 26, 2009 03:29 PM (6USny)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 03:32 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 26, 2009 03:34 PM (pncJj)
Why do you cons love the bankers so much? Are you all simple minded?
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 03:35 PM (kQKEJ)
Either get a fuckin' job or start growing your own like the rest of us . I don't mind sharing my shit occasionally but this daily " help a brotha' out shit " has got to stop.
Posted by: awkward davies at December 26, 2009 03:35 PM (wb68R)
So I'm here catching up on President Pisspants's response to this story and some drooling troll is talking about banking and the Caymans??
Way to keep it topical, sparkplug!
Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 26, 2009 03:38 PM (rrOsh)
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 26, 2009 03:40 PM (pncJj)
"Can we exchange RG for a real, name-brand troll? "
Sounds like a challenge to me. A guessing game. I'll guess - Recyled Gerbil (recently extruded from Gere's butt, and pureed in a blender.
Posted by: MDr VB1.0 CS1ST at December 26, 2009 03:40 PM (ucq49)
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 03:40 PM (kQKEJ)
Posted by: Laptop battery at December 26, 2009 03:41 PM (Gsep6)
Did the banker father try to blow his twig and berries off on a plane, sparky??
If you want to look at financial terrorism, try your hero: Soros
Dumbfuckery.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 26, 2009 03:44 PM (rrOsh)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 26, 2009 03:45 PM (Poe30)
So...we kill the bankers, then the lawyers?
His own Dad dimed the prick, barry goes golfing, and you want to nuke Nigeria and the Caymans? Riiiigghht.
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 26, 2009 03:45 PM (pncJj)
So, because his father is a banker (who also alerted the FBI over a month ago) we are supposed to bomb the Cayman Islands?
Do you somehow think that this terrorist is connected to Chase and Citibank? Please explain your thinking, because right now it makes no sense to me.
Posted by: Miss Marple at December 26, 2009 03:46 PM (4DwVn)
If a name-brand troll is out of our budget, how about one that isn't just a ten-year-old playing on the computer in the hotel lobby while his mommy services clients upstairs?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 26, 2009 03:46 PM (6USny)
We knew that yesterday , shitbird .
Christ , but you're thick .
Posted by: awkward davies at December 26, 2009 03:47 PM (wb68R)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 03:48 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: MDr VB1.0 CS1ST at December 26, 2009 03:48 PM (ucq49)
Posted by: Laptop battery at December 26, 2009 03:48 PM (Gsep6)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 26, 2009 03:48 PM (Poe30)
Did your mommy tell you that you can't play with your PlayStation for the rest of the night and that's why you're bothering the adults now?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 26, 2009 03:49 PM (yBZKE)
Will they next demand that passengers sit quietly with their hands folded on their laps for the entire flight while the flight attendants pace slowly up and down the aisle with a ruler?
Damn, I guess they really really don't want my money. Okay, airlines, if you want to make it completely totally horrible to fly with kids, go ahead. You were already 95% of the way there!
Posted by: Mama AJ at December 26, 2009 03:50 PM (Be4xl)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 03:51 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at December 26, 2009 03:52 PM (6USny)
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 03:52 PM (kQKEJ)
Posted by: wherestherum at December 26, 2009 03:54 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 26, 2009 03:54 PM (pncJj)
Posted by: wherestherum at December 26, 2009 03:55 PM (gofDd)
passengers on international flights coming to the United States will apparently have to remain in their seats for the last hour of a flight without any personal items on their laps.
Gotta make sure the B+nary stuff gets mixed up early, so it's good and dry in time for the show to begin............
Posted by: Stillwater at December 26, 2009 03:56 PM (qUdDE)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 03:56 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 26, 2009 03:57 PM (pncJj)
By the way, Greta will have a 2-hour special on this terrorist attack at 9PM.
Posted by: Miss Marple at December 26, 2009 03:57 PM (4DwVn)
Posted by: TheGhostWhoWalks at December 26, 2009 03:58 PM (EhEjd)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 04:00 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 04:02 PM (7dmFm)
Yes Miss Maple, sweet sugar, Faux News is the real terrorist. Run fer the hills, run fer the hills.
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 04:03 PM (kQKEJ)
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 26, 2009 04:10 PM (pncJj)
ooooh, Maple, you're my kind of honey, if you have real money. I would like more pics, just to be sure. I remember King Henry the VIII, with Anne of Cleaves, and I don't want to go through that... So please more pics, if you don't mind.
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 04:14 PM (kQKEJ)
Fired Up!
Ready To Go!
And could you clean my clubs tonight. That course was really wet today.
Oh, and it'll be blueberry waffles for breakfast tomorrow.
Posted by: President Toonces at December 26, 2009 04:16 PM (W+E+o)
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 04:20 PM (kQKEJ)
Saudi Arabia. The world needs the oil, not the toxic people walking around on top of it
Posted by: Shannow at December 26, 2009 04:23 PM (LJcef)
Baby steps, people, BABY STEPS!
Posted by: syn at December 26, 2009 04:23 PM (IlCz1)
Posted by: chemjeff at December 26, 2009 04:27 PM (Gk/wA)
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 04:30 PM (kQKEJ)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 04:36 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 04:39 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: RG at December 26, 2009 04:41 PM (kQKEJ)
I don't think so, but I do expect a breakdown. Something huge. Shouting, etc.
I'd love President Biden. He's an incompetent imbecile, but he's not an ambitious one.
He will spend his ex-presidency in exile. They won't call it that, but that's what it will be.
Posted by: AmishDude at December 26, 2009 04:45 PM (Pj1aD)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 04:45 PM (7dmFm)
If al Qaeda were clever, they would have recruited 5 or 10 men willing to lose their kibbles and bits to test the exploding underwear, before sending some guy out there with a defective crotch rocket.
Anyway, a rare non-posthumous Darwin Award for Abdul Mutilated.
Posted by: Ed Mahmoud abu al Kahouls Martyrs Brigade at December 26, 2009 04:53 PM (swShS)
It's especially weird, considering that Abdul was an engineering student. Must not have been doing very well in class.
Posted by: chemjeff at December 26, 2009 04:57 PM (Gk/wA)
New Rules: And of course we can't have common-sense rules about sketchy characters who fit the profile of those who wish to kill us; no, we need a bunch of rules that apply to everyone.
Fuck me. We can't be mean to muslim men flying alone and sweating like they are having a malaria relapse. But we can make flying completely sucky for the rest of us. Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck.
Posted by: Joe at December 26, 2009 05:08 PM (0Gde6)
Posted by: Dr Mabuse at December 26, 2009 05:11 PM (AVYqB)
Not only did Mutallab's father identify him as a potential terrorist as recently as November, but the man required a special intervention in Amsterdam to board the flight WITHOUT A PASSPORT!
This according to another passenger as reported on Mlive.com
Posted by: Robert at December 26, 2009 05:21 PM (cd6Ip)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 05:26 PM (7dmFm)
1st. Since 9-11 with the cockpit doors being locked, there is no way the hot stewies can go in and bang/blow the pilots.
2nd. Now that you can't have anything in your lap during the flight, how are we supposed to have the bangin/blowin in 1st class?
Ace, just go ahead and cancel the Vegas meetup, cause if I can't rub one out on a plane, I just ain't gonna fly anymore.
Posted by: MrCaniac at December 26, 2009 05:27 PM (Vol3D)
Wow, ya gotta love the guy who punched hajis' junk to put out the fire.
Memo to all forces: no more fat lips. But junk punching to detect bombs is hereby SOP.
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 26, 2009 05:35 PM (8BlhU)
Posted by: . at December 26, 2009 05:36 PM (Hjtu0)
Posted by: gus at December 26, 2009 05:43 PM (MaqIC)
Posted by: eman at December 26, 2009 05:54 PM (7dmFm)
Posted by: gus at December 26, 2009 06:07 PM (MaqIC)
Now that's the kind of phrase-coining that keeps me coming back here, that and my lack of life skills, but mostly the skills thing.
Posted by: toby928 at December 26, 2009 06:08 PM (PD1tk)
Posted by: hutch1200 at December 26, 2009 06:08 PM (8BlhU)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 26, 2009 06:10 PM (uMhBD)
Posted by: gus at December 26, 2009 06:11 PM (MaqIC)
Yep there it is. Greta is interview a passenger from the flight. He heard a BAMM and then smelled the unmistakable scent of burning Muslim dick.
Pork with a Drakar must smell. He thought the dinner cart had overturned.
Posted by: gus at December 26, 2009 06:13 PM (MaqIC)
Posted by: My enthusiasm hurts at December 26, 2009 06:43 PM (LD+ZJ)
Anyone have the suspicion that the allies we have left are laughing at us?
As a former El Al security official has said, "The United States does not have a security system, it has a system for bothering people."
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 26, 2009 06:47 PM (jV9DU)
If I don't get these front teeth fixed, pretty soon you'll all be calling me Prez Whistler.
An' that would be racist so don't ya dare do it.
Posted by: Comrade Chairman MaObama at December 26, 2009 06:50 PM (o6Yv2)
I think Greta just said that Newsweek is reporting that the manifest was approved by the United States before taking off. In other words we took a lookie see at the names and didn't bother checking it against the No Fly List. Great.
I'll be waiting for the news conference by de fearless leader anytime now, to calm the masses.
Posted by: Jaimo at December 26, 2009 06:53 PM (Di6LK)
Posted by: My enthusiasm hurts at December 26, 2009 07:04 PM (LD+ZJ)
Posted by: gmsc at December 26, 2009 07:05 PM (AMrHH)
If a large-scale "successful" terrorist attack does occur on 0bama's watch, the administration and the media won't be able to pretend that it wasn't real terrorism. No, they'll be forced to switch to Plan B.
What they will do is immediately work to create the meme that 0bama is some sort of hyper-warrior against terrorism. 0bama won't actually invade any countries or push for regime change anywhere. Frankly, he won't actually do much of anything.
But he will talk (i.e., read from a teleprompter over commandeered airwaves) about his "efforts" to "defeat" the "enemies of progress" endlessly, and the media will praise him for fighting terrorism in a manner that is "smart" and "nuanced," unlike the mentally disabled, war-mongering cowboy Bushitler.
If you think I'm wrong in this prediction, please let me know what you disagree with.
Posted by: RJ at December 26, 2009 07:17 PM (ADbI4)
Oh yes, the next thing the low-watt TSA has allegedly planned is a follow-up on that one-hour rule:
No getting out of your seat one hour before domestic flight landings either, so:
Just ask yourself, folks: other than for what has just transpired , and maybe cutting some slack about fears of a multi-plane plot over the holidays...
...just what the EFF reason is there for the new one-hour international rule?
An hour from landing in SFO or LAX, you're over the Pacific. Coming into Boston, Atlanta or JFK, you're over the Atlantic. The last 30 minutes are already "in your seats" time.
If the rule were applied to domestic flights:
* hop on the shuttle, and sit down & shaddap for the duration. Two hours on the tarmac? Shaddap!! Head for the toilets after takeoff? You'll be beaten to the floor!
* hour-and-ten minute flight? After takeoff you got ten minutes, pal, to get ahead a few squirts. After that just use the barf bag as your urinal and hand it to the FA.
* Laptop? BWAAAAhahahahaha!!!!
* Netbook? What you hidin,' shorty?
* Blanket? BWAAAAhahahahaha!!!
* Pillow? You want lube with that?
Fly the Friendly Skies!!!
Real Islamist terrorists smart enough to avoid the one-hour rule, internationally and domestically?
You are now free to move about the cabin.
Posted by: effinayright at December 26, 2009 07:41 PM (U/h2z)
Posted by: TSA hates grandmas at December 26, 2009 07:43 PM (d7Px0)
Posted by: Steve L. at December 27, 2009 04:28 AM (mIIVr)
To All:
please visit the TSA web site and file a polite complaint about the one hour rule. Send one to each of your Congress Critters as well. This sillyness has to be stopped.
https://contact.tsa.dhs.gov/DynaForm.aspx?FormID=10
Posted by: chuck in st paul at December 27, 2009 06:05 AM (adr25)
I have not taken a commercial flight since 1994, and I never will. In the past, I have driven 1300 miles, instead of taking a plane.
I would fly, if I knew how. (Based on an old joke)
Posted by: Pelayo at December 27, 2009 06:35 AM (8NGHm)
From the NY Times:
"Mr. Abdulmutallab was issued a regular visitor’s visa by the United States Embassy in London in June 2008, the administration official said. There was no “derogatory information available” on him at the time he applied, and he was granted a two-year visa, which is still valid, the official said. He had traveled to the United States once before, to Houston in August 2008".
IT IS BUSH'S FAULT, AS ALWAYS!
Posted by: Kemp at December 27, 2009 06:51 AM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: Jay at December 27, 2009 07:09 AM (8qvaJ)
Family members said the father had become uncomfortable and concerned about his son's fanatical religious views in recent months. They said, as a result, he reported his son's activities to the U.S. Embassy and Nigerian security agencies SIX MONTHS AGO."
Jane Napolitano, this one's on you. And since you were appointed to your position by the president, the buck stops with ORhama!
Posted by: fedupinflorida at December 27, 2009 07:17 AM (783bT)
Those 72 virgins could use the lube.
Posted by: MarkD at December 27, 2009 07:40 AM (nur8S)
MarkD
"Added bonus, we could show our compassion, smearing his burns with bacon fat."
That's good!
Posted by: Kemp at December 27, 2009 07:51 AM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: JEA at December 27, 2009 08:22 AM (uBDLY)
This is a flat out ridiculous statement. One determined person can defeat the most stringent security.
Which is why you defeat them overseas through overt and covert military action. Fortress America is a dumb idea.
So to criticize the President, regardless of who they are, is idiotic.
Unless it's Bush, of course. Because we all know he was pond scum.
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Can you show some compassion? A man just had his dick blown off.
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