1 Foist?

2 On Becoming an Un-Hyphenated American

Good stuff.  Of course, the people who need to read it most won't...

3 I noted this in one of the newspapers here.The tiny town of Ridgeland, SC (pop 3585) has been given permission to set up an electronic speed trap on I-95.You see they are fortunate in that their town sits right on the passageway of I-95 and they have been given permission to set up automatic cameras for use in nailing people and the sending out bills for tickets.

 

Location Bing Map

Story at The State Newspaper

Just keep this in mind; “Ridgeland Mayor Gary Hodges says safety is his priority.”Hahahaha.

Be warned.The town is located near the GA-SC border.Just another reason to stay off of I-95.

4 Myabe we should start our own hyphen:

Free-American
Capitalist-American
Right-American

I'm opposed to all the hyphenated crap, but sometimes you have to speak the language of the masses surrounding you.

5

Well thanks a whole hell of a lot, Bill!  There goes our whole, "Republican = racist" meme right out the window.

http://tinyurl.com/27hs6t7

Where will we ever find another meme like that, bastard?

HotAir

6 Congress could be fined up to $50 million annually by its own health-care law if low-level aides apply for government subsidies to help pay their health-care costs.

Entertaining but meaningless, since the people who voted for it won't be out a dime of their own money.

7 Libertard Mark Kleiman can't see where the Constitution authorizes the government to clean up the MATHODE*. He's joking, but he's right: where does Obama get off passing the buck to taxpayers? There's an oil spill disaster fund that caps third party damages, but nothing in it, or in any law, takes liability away from BP -- by the way a FOREIGN company. *Most Awesome Terrible Historic Oil Disaster Evuh.

8 angry-american

9 That Ridgeland, SC speed camera isn't bullet-proof. Just a guess.

10
Daily Show writers wrote Obama's comedy material.

11
"Your Papers, please"  =  Nazi

"Your National ID Card, please" =  Progressive


Check.

12 Libertard Mark Kleiman can't see where the Constitution authorizes the government to clean up the MATHODE*.

It's in the Good and Welfare clause.

13 yes we will pay for the clean up and bp will reimburse the gov't and we will never see a dime....just like we are paying for the stimulus and the bank and auto industry bail outs....tell me when we have enough skin in the game........

14 Daily Show writers wrote Obama's comedy material.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 03, 2010 09:32 AM (0fzsA)

They could have done as well with any 10 year old doing it for them.  The Precedent's comic performance sucked.  He was lame, as usual.  Just running old clips of the Idiot-in-Chief making outrageous and insane claims would have been funnier.  "reduce your premiums by 3000%"  Ha ha ha ha ....

15

So Greece gets a bailout equal to 50% of its GDP.

Let that 50 number soak in a bit.

Then try to not run screaming from the room when the words "United Kingdom," "Italy," "Japan," or "United States," or for that matter, "California" happen to appear in print.

Somebody tell that cliff to slow down.  There are children present.

16 #2 Thanks for the article, you dirt-stealing radish, .  Here's its ending:

I shook my head. "No, you don't understand. The reason we came to this country was so she could be an American. She is a good one, too. She has the poise, the confidence, the sense of fair play, the optimism, the drive to succeed, and the tolerance that marks America."

I am disappointed that my own government wants to hyphenate me.
At least my daughter is un-hyphenated. I hope she realizes how lucky she is to be just an American.

Hyphenation = Balkanization.  And it's being done on purpose for a) the race-baiter's short-sighted political gain and b) to get revenge on "The Man". Damn them all.

17 The Mustache's Op-Ed in the WSJ.

Get Ready for a Nuclear Iran.

/Chaos will rise again!

18

BP = Broken Promises

An old one from some litigation in which I was involved.  The biggest bunch of wankers in the oilfield. 

19

Looks like the Tea Party must have crashed the immigration rights protest in California.  It turned to violence....from the AP

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Close to 20 businesses were damaged after what started as a peaceful immigrants' rights march in downtown Santa Cruz turned violent, requiring police to call other agencies for help, authorities said.

20
Or re-runs of Obama promising -
Not one dime!

21

19

Looks like the Tea Party must have crashed the immigration rights protest in California.  It turned to violence....from the AP

Bill Maher will know what to do!

22 20
Or re-runs of Obama promising -
Not one dime!

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 03, 2010 09:44 AM (0fzsA)

Well, you gotta admit he was at least telling the truth on that one.  In the immortal words of Taggert (Slim Pickens) from "Blazing Saddles" we're gonna need "a whole sh*tload of dimes!" to pay Obama's new taxes- not just one...

23

So Greece gets a bailout equal to 50% of its GDP.

Let that 50 number soak in a bit.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 03, 2010 09:37 AM (B+qrE)

Then, people can start mulling over the fact that it isn't going to work, either.  Greece prefers to kill itself, which is how they got to this point, in the first place.

But, I really get a kick out of those in the EU  who claim that they didn't know what was happening with Greece.  Now, that is pretty funny.

It will be a good day when that piece of shit Euro finally goes down the tubes.  It was never intended to be anything but a crappy attack on the dollar.  The Euros deserve to be buried in their own currency attack - the pricks. 

24 Thank you, EU!  I bought NGB (National Bank of Greece) last week.  Do I hear a Kaaaa  Ching!!!

25 Lucky me. I get to report for a 4 month tour of jury duty this afternoon. My co-workers assure me that after about 1 minute of questioning, I will be dismissed. We shall see.

26 Damn, I'm in a pissed off mood.  The vodka didn't help.  I feel like joining Alex at the old moloko bar and peet something with knives in it.

27 BTW, Anyone see Osama Bin Ladin? Haven't read one news story on him lately.

28 26 Lucky me. I get to report for a 4 month tour of jury duty this afternoon. My co-workers assure me that after about 1 minute of questioning, I will be dismissed. We shall see.

Posted by: maddogg at May 03, 2010 09:51 AM (OlN4e)

Wear a suit and tie and a flag pin.

29

My co-workers assure me that after about 1 minute of questioning, I will be dismissed.

Or, considering where you spend your internet tubing time, indicted.

30 28 BTW, Anyone see Osama Bin Ladin? Haven't read one news story on him lately.

Posted by: Ludicrous Speed at May 03, 2010 09:52 AM (zqzYV)

Nope.  Still Bush's fault.

31 Anyone wonder why only a small clip of the guy taking off his sweater in NY Shittie ? One would think if they got that video it might show him actually leaving the bomb truck. I call bullshit.

32 Wear a suit and tie and a flag pin.
I was planning to wear my "Don't Tread on Me" Tee with an NRA cap and belt buckle.

33

10 at night here, I didn't start the day off with vodka but I probably should have. 

34 33 Wear a suit and tie and a flag pin.
I was planning to wear my "Don't Tread on Me" Tee with an NRA cap and belt buckle.

Posted by: maddogg at May 03, 2010 09:55 AM (OlN4e)

Even better

35

maddogg:  fed or state jury duty?  must be fed if you're in for 4 mos.

proclaim to everyone that will listen that you believe in the death penalty for shoplifters.  then scream that all your relatives are plaintiff's lawyers (yeah, that one will hurt).  either way, you'll be struck.

 

36 And the Onion brings us another in the continuing series "Signs of the Apocalypse."

37 The NRA gear is a guaranteed 'Get Out of Jury Free" card.

38 26 Lucky me. I get to report for a 4 month tour of jury duty this afternoon. My co-workers assure me that after about 1 minute of questioning, I will be dismissed. We shall see.

Posted by: maddogg at May 03, 2010 09:51 AM (OlN4e)

I don't know how things work in your jurisdiction, but if the system works anything like how it used to in New York you'll have to report to the pool every day but you'll never get picked for a jury because you probably won't be able to hide the fact that you have a functioning brain from the attorney who is trying to stack the jury with idiots.  My advice is to bring a good book!

39 Here's one for the moronettes.

I think I can speak for all of us when I say, "If capitalism and 'patriarchal science' are what enable me to avoid sticking milkweed and shredded used clothing up my hoo-ha once a month, God bless them."

40 So on an unseasonably warm day in New York a guy takes off a layer of clothing and he is somehow a bombing suspect.That's pretty lame if you ask me.

41 39 26 Lucky me. I get to report for a 4 month tour of jury duty this afternoon. My co-workers assure me that after about 1 minute of questioning, I will be dismissed. We shall see.

Posted by: maddogg at May 03, 2010 09:51 AM (OlN4e)

I don't know how things work in your jurisdiction, but if the system works anything like how it used to in New York you'll have to report to the pool every day but you'll never get picked for a jury because you probably won't be able to hide the fact that you have a functioning brain from the attorney who is trying to stack the jury with idiots.  My advice is to bring a good book!

Yeah, something like "Atlas Shrugged" with the title in BIG letters

42 This reads like Democrat Created Dustbowl v. Flyover Country

http://tinyurl.com/26zus84

43 41 So on an unseasonably warm day in New York a guy takes off a layer of clothing and he is somehow a bombing suspect.That's pretty lame if you ask me.

Looked pretty darn normal to me. Again, I call BS.

44 33 I was planning to wear my "Don't Tread on Me" Tee with an NRA cap and belt buckle.

Heh, that should work. Some good news in PA's upcoming special election to replace John Murtha.

And Politico reports that a poll by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has its candidate, Mark Critz, holding a two-point lead over Burns ahead of the special election to finish John MurthaÂ’s term. Critz barely edges out Burns in the survey, 43 percent to 41 percent, findings that come on the heels of a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll that had Burns up by 6.

45 41 So on an unseasonably warm day in New York a WHITE guy takes off a layer of clothing and he is somehow a bombing suspect.That's the kind of scapegoating that's SOP for this administration pretty lame if you ask me.

Posted by: Mal at May 03, 2010 10:00 AM (Z+qzA)

FTFY.

46 2 On Becoming an Un-Hyphenated American Good stuff. Of course, the people who need to read it most won't can't...

47 Looked pretty darn normal to me. Again, I call BS.

They sooo want this to be a white guy in his forties.

48 Libertard Mark Kleiman can't see where the Constitution authorizes the government to clean up the MATHODE*.

He's joking, but he's right: where does Obama get off passing the buck to taxpayers? There's an oil spill disaster fund that caps third party damages, but nothing in it, or in any law, takes liability away from BP -- by the way a FOREIGN company.

*Most Awesome Terrible Historic Oil Disaster Evuh.

Posted by: Shooter at May 03, 2010 09:31 AM (zfRju)

Obama's not passing the buck to the taxpayers.  He's loudly, stridently, vengefully proclaiming that BP will pay for it.  Oh, and PS?  The taxpayers are paying for it no matter what.  You think BP isn't going to pass its expenses along to its customers?  Think of it as a tax.  What do corporations do when they get hit with a tax?  That's right, pass it along.

49 Drudge has a (new?) report on the Paki Tali front.

50 More sneaky dem crap:

If this financial-regulation bill is so desperately needed, why did House Democrats lard it up with this power grab at the FTC?  Why does the FTC need any further authority over the Internet, where fraud and abuse regulations apply already?

per drudge link.  And oh yeah, don't call them socialists.

51 They sooo want this to be a white guy in his forties.

Posted by: Mal at May 03, 2010 10:07 AM (Z+qzA)

 

Just like the DC sniper guy Malvo.  Everyone insisted it was a white guy in his 30s or 40s with military training because that fit the "profile".  The fact that Malvo was actually stopped by the cops once and let go to kill again becaus he was black, is the direct result of the B$ politically correct thinking that gets people killed.

52 I think I can speak for all of us when I say, "If capitalism and 'patriarchal science' are what enable me to avoid sticking milkweed and shredded used clothing up my hoo-ha once a month, God bless them."

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 03, 2010 09:59 AM (mR7mk)

Wimmins.  Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.

53 Wow, listening to the jugeared fuck on the Saturday night MSM joke-fest that Laura Ingraham is playing clips from, did he really make a "joke" about people being able to appeal the ruling of death panels? In what alternative universe is that supposed to be funny?

54 Did anyone read the "Armchair General" terrorist assessment? Seem to think that Hezbollah was the next big threat.

Hezbollah has a government support branch in Venezuela?

Also, that the new threats will be like the Mumbai (Bombay) incident. Low-tech and low training attacks. Seems to correlate with what happened in Times Square.

55 Also, about that white guy who changed his shirt and became the bombing suspect...

Listening to the local Fox news AM station this morning, the narrative about they NYC carbomber is this: the guy "furtively ducks into an alley to change his shirt." If you watch the vid... the "suspect" pauses on the sidewalk and changes his shirt, between the camera and the vehicle, while other regular NYC people walk by on that sidewalk, then continues on his way. Not an alley, and not furtive, and not in any way suspicious.

That guy is just a dude who changed his shirt in front of the camera. That's all.

Odds are, the camera actually caught a swarthy bearded man with a smoking turban and crazy eyes - running from the scene like he was being pursued by 72 love-starved, and well-endowed camels.

56 Obama Gives Commencement Address to 27 Year-Olds at Local Happy Hour
tinyurl.com/2d5tyzs

57 Obie -- or whoever at Stewart's shop actually wrote it -- did get it right with Steele as a.k.a. Notorious GOP. Some have said the idea there was to make the brother in the actual White "Heasy" (last year's zinger) look like an idiot by some metaphorical analogy or something. I say making pratfalls and slapstick look like the height of cool took it way too far.

58 Great news if the trend continues.

With a federal plan nowhere near complete, political leaders from Utah, Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Maryland are pushing for aggressive state laws to help curb illegal immigration, CBS News reports.

May the federal plan remain incomplete, if amnesty is put anywhere into it. 

59 I avoided the news this weekend.

How did the 'immigration' marches go?


Has Bammy blamed the oil spill on BP yet (acted stupidly)?

60 The poor guy in the video is probably shitting his pants right now.

61 How did the 'immigration' marches go?

They were "mostly peaceful" according to the MFM.

62 That Ridgeland, SC speed camera isn't bullet-proof. Just a guess.

That is what some of the other local commenters said as well. I suspect that it will not last long.

63 #65  They were "mostly peaceful" according to the MFM.

Except for those isolated incidences in Santa Cruz were several businesses were damaged.

64

I'm beginning to wonder if those Greek columns Obama used during his campaign were actually a ominous portent of this administration's current economic policies.  Coincidence?  I think not.

65 Jack Cashill is always worth reading, too.

66 So on an unseasonably warm day in New York a guy takes off a layer of clothing and he is somehow a bombing suspect.That's pretty lame if you ask me.

Posted by: Mal at May 03, 2010 10:00 AM (Z+qzA)

Even lamer is the idea that a lone guy stole an SUV from one part of the city, stored it, stole a license from somewhere else, built a bomb, put it all together, drove down to Times Square and dropped it off, all by his lonesome.  It could happen, but the chances are pretty remote.

I continue to be amazed that no better footage seems available ... on Times Square ... on Saturday night ... sure ...

67 The immigration anarchy marches didn't turn out as many as expected. I think the passion is fizzling. Especially with the exquisite timing of the deputy getting shot by illegals on the border. Also, the oil spill in the Gulf has pulled the attention away from this issue.

68 Ya know, we got about 20 million out of work people and you'd think that might be more than enough help to throw at an oil spill in the gulf.

Having lived in New Orleans, I have spent this a.m. looking for BP help wanted ads without success. Fascinating. Perhaps they are hiring cheap day labor from Mexico. That makes sense.

69 per drudge link.  And oh yeah, don't call them socialists.

OK, I found it. LOL, the courts just busted their ass for over-reach so they are trying to sneak it in the back door. This is a pure pay-off to lobbyists trying to force internet providers to carry their bandwidth hogging products.

Of course the Dems don't mind at all because not only are they being paid off by the lobbyists, but another federal agency gains more power. Fascism to the max in DC.

The more power they get the more bribes they can finagle from the lobbies.

But the Republicans are owned by big business, right.

70 Even lamer is the idea that a lone guy stole an SUV from one part of the city, stored it, stole a license from somewhere else, built a bomb, put it all together, drove down to Times Square and dropped it off, all by his lonesome.  It could happen, but the chances are pretty remote.

Not to mention changing clothes right in front of 60+ pounds of fizzling explosives he allegedly just lit. Makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

71 On becoming Un-Hyphenated: Isn't it wierd that my ethnicity, American, only comes under the government's 'Other: ' category.

72 Reason # 1 to think it wasn't a white guy in his 40's who built and placed the bomb: The goddam thing didn't explode.

73 74

Dude are you kidding me? Building a bomb in a stolen SUV isn't exactly building the 8th wonder of the world. Easily done. Just ask Tim McVeigh. Former rocket scientist.

74

Did you ever wonder what happened to all the oil from all of the ships that torpedoed and sunk during WWII?

Caribbean 180 ships
East coast (Atlantic coast of U.S.) 175 ships
Gulf of Mexico 46 ships
West coast (Pacific coast of U.S.) 27 ships

75 The Hyphen - By John Wayne

76 I note that NYC is calling for more "security funds" from the feds based on this fizzle.

They have already got much much more in the way of funds than anyone else. Let's not forget that these kinds of federal dollars are easily converted.

Sure they will show where they spent the federal dollars on police, fire, etc. What they will not show is where they cut their own funds to those same programs and funneled them elsewhere.

I say it is time to cut off ALL federal funds to big cities. ALL of these payouts are unconstitutional.  

77 Dude are you kidding me? Building a bomb in a stolen SUV isn't exactly building the 8th wonder of the world. Easily done. Just ask Tim McVeigh. Former rocket scientist.
Building a bomb isn't difficult. Coming up with the components is much harder without connections. You can build them, but it takes time and know how, and involves not some small personal risk.

78

Well, looks like once again, my job hunt mojo is diabolically bad (was supposed to have interview with BP; was also supposed to have interview with local agency to teach ESL...).

 

I just want to give up -- there is a point where you just don't care anymore.  I think I've reached that point.  Don't want to read the news anymore; fresh out of outrage; can't stand either political party -- fuck it.

79 Any new news about the bomb in Pittsburgh?

80 After many days of oil belching into the Gulf, the WON has arrived and proclaimed it the fault of BP.  I feel much better, and the press all had orgasms.

81 Agree. The fact that it fizzled and the suspect didn't even use the right type of fertilizer points to a one man idiot show. Ted K he is not.

82

MFM: It's a racist, teabagging white guy!!!! And when we find out it really isn't we'll drop the story and pretend like it never happened.

83 Dude are you kidding me? Building a bomb in a stolen SUV isn't exactly building the 8th wonder of the world. Easily done. Just ask Tim McVeigh. Former rocket scientist.

Posted by: Lunatic Fringe at May 03, 2010 10:40 AM (uFdnM)

Of course an individual COULD do it, but the chances are very remote that one person carried out all of the tasks necessary to get that bomb to the target location.  Every point of the process puts the guy at risk of getting caught, either in the separate acts or by neighbors seeing all sorts of weird things going on.

But, if you think it is reasonable to assume that one guy was running around the city, collecting the stolen car and plates, building the bomb, ... all by his lonesome, then good for you.  That would not be a reasonable first assessment, though.

And, McVeigh wasn't in a crowded city and did have help, so I don't know what point you were trying to make with that.

84 Oh BTW, not that anybody is keeping count, but this weekend's VBIED attack in New York is the SECOND terrorist attack to take place on US soil in the fifteen months since the Blessed Reign of the Anointed One began.

Two attacks in fifteen months.  After the war began on 9/11 that "idiot cowboy" Bush had how many in eight years?  Oh yeah, NONE!

I feel so much safer.....   NOT!

85
They sooo want this to be a white guy in his forties.

Like I've been saying, plenty of honkey muslims from the Balkans and Chechnya.   Also working for the DNC. 

Let's see if this 'investigation' ever goes anywhere.  If not we'll know is was the RoP.

86 I feel your pain-Jane. I gave up. I am one of those off the board types that don't get counted. 100's of resumes', 2 maybe 3 interviews. One shitty job that I was woefully overqualified for - it paid the same salary I made 30 years ago throwing freight in college.

87
I understand that the oil spill in the Gulf is an environmental disaster but is it to much to ask that the media (and the President) mention that 11 men were killed when the rig exploded.

88

Composite sketch of Times Square suspect.

http://tinyurl.com/yazrrg9

 

 

 

89 but is it to much to ask that the media (and the President) mention that 11 men were killed when the rig exploded.

It is odd the MFM wasn't all cameras-in-the-anguished-faces-of-the-widows-and-mothers-for-days like they are everytime there's a coal mine disaster.  Not that I condone such callous disrespect...it's just weird.

90 91
I understand that the oil spill in the Gulf is an environmental disaster but is it to much to ask that the media (and the President) mention that 11 men were killed when the rig exploded.

Posted by: Mal at May 03, 2010 10:55 AM (Z+qzA)

I agree with you on this, but unfortunately in the view of the MFM the real story is the cute, fuzzy, animals who were victimized by the evil Gaia raping oil workers who got what they deserved.

I think I'm gonna hurl after typing that....

91 But, if you think it is reasonable to assume that one guy was running around the city, collecting the stolen car and plates, building the bomb, ... all by his lonesome, then good for you.  That would not be a reasonable first assessment, though.

Wow. First of all, I happen to know a little bit about bomb making and disposal-having done a few of them in my time. Trying to turn this into some giant conspiracy is my point. We don't hardly have any facts and already Al Q is taking credit and peeps are declaring conspiracies. What we know so far is easily accomplished. The components were shit. They'll catch this dude. Guaranteed. He left way too much evidence- because he is an idiot.

92 I agree with you on this, but unfortunately in the view of the MFM the real story is the cute, fuzzy, animals who were victimized by the evil Gaia raping oil workers who got what they deserved.

Like the worlds most famous oil soaked bird.

93 Ok. Explain Ted K. Was that also a big conspiracy?

94

88, beg to differ. Anthrax powder and DC sniper happened on Bush's watch.

All just skirmishes in one of two wars brought to our door.

 

 

 

The second is the war with progressivism.

95

The poor guy in the video is probably shitting his pants right now.

I don't doubt. Had something similar happen to me years ago. Come home from work, reading the LA times, and on the back of the business section is a full page ad showing about a dozen photos of people in the process of robbing banks. WANTED FOR BANK ROBBERY was the title.

And one of those people was me.

Well, it wasn't, but the person was a dead ringer for me. Same face, hair length, everything. Hell, if I had sent that photo to my mom she would have claimed it was me. Scared the crap out of me. Talk about being paranoid for the next few weeks, and even more so when I visited my own bank.

Luckily, nothing happened. But still...

96 72 Ya know, we got about 20 million out of work people and you'd think that might be more than enough help to throw at an oil spill in the gulf.

Having lived in New Orleans, I have spent this a.m. looking for BP help wanted ads without success. Fascinating. Perhaps they are hiring cheap day labor from Mexico. That makes sense.

Or maybe they need some actual properly trained engineers and cleaning this up isn't something Joe Blow off the street can do in his spare time?

97 Yea I suppose blowing oil off rocks requires a masters degree. I stand corrected Tom.

98 #91 Do you think they really give a crap about the 11 people that died? Just like the dead miners, Obama knew he had to make an appearence at the memorial and he made it into a political event just like he does everything. To him these people are redneck idiots at the bottom of the food chain. Look into his eyes and you see dark pools of emptiness.

99

As for the speed camreas. The folk in the UK have shown us how to deal with them.

http://tinyurl.com/26z9jph

No one likes speed cameras other than the statists

http://tinyurl.com/yc9k4ul

 

100 Big story on Fox for L.A. residents having to stand in line for government services and courts being cut back.  All a lot of whining going on about budget cuts.

I love the way they do this shit. Anytime the public refuses to allow more tax hikes the assholes cut essential services and leave all the socialist BS in place.  They NEVER cut the socialist BS.

The normal BS that the local governments do is raise taxes during downturns when their revenue decreases then raise spending when the economy picks up.

Voters MUST reverse that pardygm buit it will never happen as long as people who don't pay for all that socialism get to vote.

101 20% of Greek trade is in the underground economy.

Good luck getting paid on that debt IMF and ECB.

102

>>>Wow. First of all, I happen to know a little bit about bomb making and disposal-having done a few of them in my time. Trying to turn this into some giant conspiracy is my point.

But it involved more than just building the bomb, which was my point.  Saying that it is highly likely that more than a single person carried this out is not quite "turning it into some giant conspiracy".

>>>We don't hardly have any facts and already Al Q is taking credit

Al Quaeda didn't claim anything.  It was the Taliban that made the claim.  But I don't see the relevance, anyway.

>>>and peeps are declaring conspiracies. What we know so far is easily accomplished. The components were shit. They'll catch this dude. Guaranteed. He left way too much evidence- because he is an idiot.

Posted by: Lunatic Fringe at May 03, 2010 11:00 AM (uFdnM)

All the terrorist cells we've run into, so far, were full of idiots - and that includes the 9/11 cells that should have been caught more than a few times.  So what?  There are a few too many moving parts in this bombing to assume that it was a lone bomber.  And the bigger an idiot the guy is, the more unlikely it is that he carried it all out by himself.

103

Vic, you should have heard the wailing and gnashing of teeth when Jefferson County, AL shut down two of it's satellite court houses.

Wall-to-wall local TV coverage of the poor, poor folks standing in line downtown to get car tags.

104 Having lived in New Orleans, I have spent this a.m. looking for BP help wanted ads without success

There is a lady on my wife's bridge club whose daughter runs an outfit that specializes in cleaning those cute little animals after a spill.

She nets 90K a year for part time work cleaning animals. Look for private contractors who do this. 

105

90  Oh man, you have no idea -- these were not ideal jobs (although the ESL one could have been fun from a chaos creating standpoint), and it seems like the hand of fate is saying to me: "oh hell no sucka; you are going down the toilet no matter what!  now let go of the lip!"

I still might get the job with BP...but I'm not holding my breathe after this spill.  Christ on a stick...

106 I suppose one guy actually could steal a vehicle and plates and attempt to build a bomb from things he has around his house.

When you think about the contents of the bomb that I have heard reported, it does seem to be pretty lame. A couple of gasoline cans and propane bottles. a plastic alarm clock. Some fertilizer in a metal box, which I suppose he figured would mix with the gasoline to make a fertilizer bomb (but don't you mix it with diesel fuel? I dunno). Some wires and some fireworks. I also heard gunpowder, but that could have been the fireworks.

It sounds like an enthusiastic amature or a hastily instructed dupe. The amature scenario reminds me of the guy who stole a plane and flew it into that IRS building several weeks ago that they tried to tie to the tea partiers. A copycat terrorist. Who, before 9/11, would think that flying a plane into a building would be taken as anything other than a freak accident? Sure, we have had a few examples of carbombs being used, the 93 WTC attack and of course McVeigh in OK, but you don't really hear much about those anymore unless you are listening to a Clinton speech. You do hear about plenty of carbombs in Iraq though.

I am not saying it is a lone guy, I am just saying it's possible. Pakistani taliban claimed credit with a pre-recorded video so I am going to assume the ROP has at least some involvement until I see proof otherwise. They tried to pass off Abdulmutallab(the panty bomber) as some sort of lone wolf for weeks as well, remember? And lets not forget Major-we may never now why he did it-Hassan's mass shooting. He was also a lone wolf accordng to the MSM but they dropped that story like a hot potato long ago.

107 109 90K....I can clean cute, little, furry critters...

108 99

88, beg to differ. Anthrax powder and DC sniper happened on Bush's watch.

All just skirmishes in one of two wars brought to our door.

The second is the war with progressivism.

Posted by: Scott J. at May 03, 2010 11:04 AM (NY7mQ)

As I recall the FBI finally tracked the anthrax back to a disgruntled scientist at Ft. Deitrich who was not a jihadist.  Similarly, despite the name, the motive for John Mohammed and Lee Malvo was not jihad.

So while those two event were certainly serious crimes I do not think they were acts of war.

That said I admit that it has yet to be proven that the Times Square attack was jihad related, but given similarities to attacks in Europe I think it's just a matter of time before that link is established.

109 There's an oil spill disaster fund that caps third party damages, but nothing in it, or in any law, takes liability away from BP -- by the way a FOREIGN company.

Posted by: Shooter

It's not really a 'foreign' company. It's a multi-national. Number one stock holder? JP Morgan Chase.

110 Wall-to-wall local TV coverage of the poor, poor folks standing in line downtown to get car tags.

We used to have that ALL the time until people started raising hell. They revised all the laws to allow a lot of this stuff to be done via the internet, phone, and mail.

Amazingly, the lines went away and they didn't have to hire more people.

111 Well, this is going to be simple progress. They are gonna catch this idiot and we'll see. And I won't even say, told you so.

112

Well, it wasn't, but the person was a dead ringer for me. Same face, hair length, everything. Hell, if I had sent that photo to my mom she would have claimed it was me. Scared the crap out of me. Talk about being paranoid for the next few weeks, and even more so when I visited my own bank.

Luckily, nothing happened. But still...

Posted by: HH at May 03, 2010 11:04 AM (6oDXl)

*Ring* *Ring*

Wife: *answers phone* Hello. Yes, hold just one minute. *sets down phone*

"HH, you're wanted on the phone. It's the FBI."

 

113
despite the name, the motive for John Mohammed and Lee Malvo was not jihad

What?

114 I agree Vic. The problem is government. They never see themselves as the problem, the fucking idiots think they are the solution.

115 And I won't even say, told you so.

Posted by: Lunatic Fringe at May 03, 2010 11:17 AM (uFdnM)

Neither will I

116

Poor Barack. He's got so much on his plate, it's a wonder he doesn't hunker down in a bunker.

Mine disaster, Az immigrant law he opposes, Gulf spill- dead people, oily ducks, fishing industry job losses, flooding in Tenn kills 19, car bomber in NYC, enemy Tea-Party movement, and that's just the U.S. what else did I miss?

117 Glenn Beck. Rush. And that cute little staffer he was banging.

118 122 that is, if he was indeed doing her instead of...

119

"HH, you're wanted on the phone. It's the FBI."

heh...

Actually, not only for me, but my nephew lives in the DC area. Remember when they were looking for a white guy driving a white van during the sniper shootings?

Guess who? I don't know if he still has the white van, but be did then. Transporting lighting equipment to film shoots.

Man, I'm sure that was worse than my prediciment.

So yeah, I can certainly empathise with persons in that kind of situation.

120

U.K. being invaded by parakeets and giant freaking wasps 2X normal size.

And they have tsetse flies down there the size of eagles.  In the evening, I would stand in front  of my hut and watch in horror as these giant flies would pick children off the ground and carry them away.

Oh, it was an incredible sight.  Peasants screaming...chasing these flies down the road, waving brooms.  You can imagine the pathetic quality of this. Waving these crudely fashioned brooms at these enormous flies...as they carried their children off to almost certain death.

121 Ahhh, parakeets are cute. We have a infestation flock* of yellow chevroned parakeets around here** and they don't cause any problems***. * around 100 in the super-flock. **Hollywood, CA ***Because, if they get out of line, we'll deport**** them! ****yes, I'm living in an alternate universe. why do you ask?

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