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September 27, 2013

Westgate terrorists used pre-cached weapons
— Purple Avenger

They rented a shop at the mall prior to the attack.

The militants who led the attack on a Kenyan mall hired a shop there in the weeks leading up to the siege, senior security sources have told the BBC.
This gave them access to service lifts at Westgate enabling them to stockpile weapons and ammunition.
Having pre-positioned weapons they were able to re-arm quickly and repel the security forces.

They're not only thinking smaller, they're thinking smarter. This could be a real problem. Undoubtedly this scheme will be replicated in the future and would work with high security office buildings as well as malls.

Imagine the effort involved in searching everything that came into a mall or office building through the service entrances. Boxed store product, cases of bung wrap, cases of bags, cases of floor cleaner/wax etc. Even then, terrorists could easily substitute liquid explosives/incendiaries for any bottled service supplies or bulk food court drinks. The manpower need for that level of security is daunting indeed.

If they were patient enough, they could even build a weapons and explosives cache into a building under construction if they had some guys on the drywall crew. Damn little inspection of construction materials and worker tool boxes and such is done on most commercial projects.

Even supposedly secure sites, like US embassies, are routinely compromised during construction. Remember the embassy we had built in Moscow that was uninhabitable because the Soviets had laced so many bugging devices in during construction that it was impossible to remediate?

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 03:10 PM | Comments (210)
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1 Didn't someone working on the walls at JFK airport find an Uzi or somesuch just recently?

Posted by: Brother Cavil and his Flying Toaster Circus at September 27, 2013 03:12 PM (m9V0o)

2 Wow, in early on this one.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 27, 2013 03:13 PM (pvF2U)

3 There's pretty much no way to stop someone from doing this. What, security is going to inspect every single bag brought in by every single employee?

Stupid interesting times.

Posted by: alexthechick - Really Universe Really? at September 27, 2013 03:13 PM (Gk3SS)

4 Well, I guess we're just going to have to start profiling Muslims.

Posted by: weew at September 27, 2013 03:13 PM (nQz1f)

5 McCain hired Elizabeth O'Bagy. That's how a septic tank works...

Posted by: M. Murcek at September 27, 2013 03:14 PM (GJUgF)

6
Does anyone remember the name of the town that had those cement penis'?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at September 27, 2013 03:15 PM (pJF+c)

7 Well, I guess we're just going to have to start profiling Muslims.

Posted by: weew at September 27, 2013 07:13 PM (nQz1f)

but...profiling is bad! and RAAAAACIST! and hatey...and stuff...

Posted by: typical f'n lib at September 27, 2013 03:15 PM (pvF2U)

8 We're gonna need another several thousand Paul Blarts.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at September 27, 2013 03:15 PM (mvenn)

9 Well, I guess we're just going to have to start profiling Muslims.

Yeah... when you see someone who looks Muslim, keep your eyes low, don't raise your voice over his/hers, step to the side and don't ostentatiously show any religious items you might have. And don't stand in the way.

Shurut Umar, folks.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 03:16 PM (d7tB2)

10 It's coming. I don't think there's any doubt about that. True.Believers.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 03:16 PM (DmNpO)

11 Well. Fuck. No letting Muslims open stores? I'm not sure that there is a workable solution here.

Posted by: Lauren at September 27, 2013 03:16 PM (ELdpj)

12
Hey, I'm still here with a big boner and ready for action.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at September 27, 2013 03:16 PM (pJF+c)

13 ewww...getitoffgetitoffgetitoff!!!!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 27, 2013 03:16 PM (pvF2U)

14 So the terrorist planned this? And NSA /CIA/DIA/DNI didn't know?
Would this then be an intelligence failure? Especially since CIA is involved with and encouraging Kenya to strike at Al Shababababbba in Somalia?

Posted by: Fake all the way down at September 27, 2013 03:17 PM (C6jNU)

15 Yet another reason why I avoid malls like the plague.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at September 27, 2013 03:17 PM (P7ej2)

16
Muslims? Aren't those the ones with diapers and a fanbelt around their heads?

Posted by: Adam Carolla at September 27, 2013 03:18 PM (pJF+c)

17 3 There's pretty much no way to stop someone from doing this. What, security is going to inspect every single bag brought in by every single employee? Stupid interesting times. Posted by: alexthechick - Really Universe Really? at September 27, 2013 07:13 PM (Gk3SS) Solution: Use the TSA as mall cops. Wanna shop at Foot Locker? I'm sorry, I'm going to need you to remove your shoes first. You think I'm joking? They're probably drawing up plans as we speak.

Posted by: rickl at September 27, 2013 03:18 PM (sdi6R)

18 "They're not only thinking smaller, they're thinking smarter."

The great Japanese military blunder at Pearl Harbor was not hitting the spare parts depots, the repair shops, and the POL farms (petroleum, oil and lubricants).

Chester Nimitz later said that if the Japanese had done that, the outcome of the naval war in the Pacific would have been very different.

Likewise with terrorism. Amateurs attack high profile targets like embassies. Professionals go after low profile logistical targets like infrastructure. And what's scary is that as the jihadis become more disciplined and professional, they may well start to go after infrastructure, which is a frighteningly soft underbelly in most countries. Including the United States.

Gordon Liddy wrote a speculative fiction piece a few years ago about an America that had just had its logistic and infrastructural sinews cut by well planned terror attacks just as a long hard winter was about to set in. Transport and power grids in total disarray. NOT a pretty picture.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 27, 2013 03:18 PM (gqT4g)

19 And this is why I love Gitmo. There was no playing around. Now, we give people who are potential terrorists or terrorist enablers too much fucking leeway because they scream bloody murder and the left and the libertariantards can't bend over and spread 'em fast enough. I saw a photo of that muslim march. They all pray in the street and I see that shit in europe now all the time especially in front of cathedrals. It makes me puke.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 27, 2013 03:19 PM (T0Pku)

20 "Stupid interesting times."

Yeah, it's not often that we put entire civilizations on our 'watch list', but we really have no alternative but to put the West on there at this point.

Posted by: The people who created The Darwin Awards at September 27, 2013 03:21 PM (QyBqS)

21 Sometimes, when the costs are too high to bear, people act. Sometimes.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 27, 2013 03:22 PM (qyfb5)

22 Waiting for the Mall of America to be under siege soon. The place has a million vulnerabilities and is ripe for the picking.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at September 27, 2013 03:22 PM (l0lja)

23 Just check the Muz.

Posted by: nip at September 27, 2013 03:23 PM (jI23+)

24 I suspect we're about to find out what it was like to live in London pre-9/11.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 03:24 PM (DmNpO)

25 First comment. Well done. Mac-11 apparently. Looked suppressed or something. Picture so small on phone.

Posted by: Beagle at September 27, 2013 03:24 PM (sOtz/)

26 It's coming. I predict a softer target like a school. If a demented nutter like Lanza could wipe out 20 kids, just imagine what a terrorist team would do. I really wish that what I am saying was wrong, but I don't think that I am.

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at September 27, 2013 03:24 PM (jucos)

27 Waiting for the Mall of America to be under siege soon. The place has a million vulnerabilities and is ripe for the picking.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at September 27, 2013 07:22 PM (l0lja)

No worries, I got it covered.

Posted by: Gekko 45, Mall Ninja Team 6 at September 27, 2013 03:24 PM (pvF2U)

28 With cached supplies, the terrorist "supply line" will be shorter than any responders. That's always a distinct advantage.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 03:24 PM (9MLX+)

It's the cases of bung wrap that get you every time.....

Posted by: hogndude at September 27, 2013 03:25 PM (EZTwi)

30 Stupid interesting times. Posted by: alexthechick - Really Universe Really? at September 27, 2013 07:13 PM (Gk3SS) Fuckin aye. Evening Empress.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 27, 2013 03:25 PM (GEICT)

31 Boxed store product, cases of bung wrap,

Bung wrap. Damn, horny bastards, aren't they.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 27, 2013 03:26 PM (ligos)

32 The problem is Islam. I won't post the obvious solution.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 27, 2013 03:26 PM (DuH+r)

Sock fail. I also got swallowed up by the "tense" monster.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 27, 2013 03:27 PM (jucos)

34 Were any of them topless?

Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 27, 2013 03:27 PM (0axsw)

35 TorqueWrench, try a 1989 book called Final Warning about how cutting the power to NYC would be far more devastating than what AQ did. Or cutting off the water to NYC.

Purp, they rent a shop in a mall. Bring in a construction company that is 100% jihadi to remodel. Semtex behind the drywall with ball bearings anyone?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 27, 2013 03:27 PM (lbpNx)

36 TorqueWrench, try a 1989 book called Final Warning about how cutting the power to NYC would be far more devastating than what AQ did. Or cutting off the water to NYC. *** Hurricane Sandy was a study in the lack of preparation.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 03:29 PM (DmNpO)

37 I won't post the obvious solution.

Ann Coulter had some ideas...

... oh yeah, National Review banned her skinny ass for sharing 'em

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 03:30 PM (d7tB2)

38 I highly recommend a book called The Weapon by Michael Z. Williamson. It tells the story of how black ops teams cause massive casualties in major cities in a future where the UN has become a worldwide government and is at war with their homeworld (which they call "Freehold" informally; this book is a companion to the book Freehold by the same author.)

Despite a complete ban on effective weapons in the hands of ordinary people, the black ops guys manage to put together an effective arsenal and cause all sorts of chaos.

Here's the key point that reminded me of this: the future UN government requires companies to spy on their customers, so they bought a storage rental business. Then they stored all their stuff, and sent reports to the government that showed nothing suspicious.

During the actual attacks, they caused serious mayhem by doing things like putting bombs inside ventilation systems in high-rise buildings, causing chain-reaction car crashes, etc. They shot a few people but that paled compared to the other stuff.

It occurs to me that the fictional future UN government would surely call them "terrorists" and that the word might actually apply. They wanted the people, who didn't care about the war, to start caring. In the end, it did work: the UN recalled all its soldiers to do disaster recovery back at home, as the Earth was sufficiently messed up that they preferred to stop attacking Freehold.

Despite the "terrorist" aspect, you are cheering for these guys; the UN attacked their homeworld, specifically to eradicate their whole way of life, and caused horrific casualties.

http://www.baenebooks.com/p-463-the-weapon.aspx

Posted by: MaleBicyclist at September 27, 2013 03:30 PM (TMG3G)

39 Islam is a religion of peace.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 27, 2013 03:30 PM (BW9iU)

40 Time to renew my Amazon Prime membership.

Posted by: BuckIV at September 27, 2013 03:31 PM (gedHR)

41 What did the Kenyans use for breaching? That looked.... excessive. Did they hit the jihadi ammo dump store?

Posted by: Beagle at September 27, 2013 03:31 PM (sOtz/)

You know, at the company I work at we had an intern who was very publicly a Muslim. That is fine. I'm very publicly Roman Catholic. But, you know, I never trusted the guy. One day he brought in some "candy" his mom sent him from where ever the eff he was from. He opened up the box and offered to everyone to come and eat his moms candy. I didnt. I could never say anything about my worry about it being poisoned to anyone at work. Heck, I would have been out on my a__.

But, you know, when there is some sort of massive shooting at a mall or business like this one. I'm gonna keep myself armed even if its against compnay policy. I can stash it in my work area where no one get get it.

Posted by: newguy at September 27, 2013 03:31 PM (kduZC)

43 You can get Bung Wrap by the Case?

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2013 03:31 PM (qy1Fl)

44 This is nothing new, It's believed they did the same thing at Beslan. The school was undergoing renovations and so they stored weapons below the floor in preparation for a later attack

Posted by: dIb at September 27, 2013 03:31 PM (aRwtY)

45 Cutting off the power in NYC is scarily doable. Their electrical system is fucking primitive. My brother was there in '03. (I visited him a few weeks before the fun n' games... lucky me.)

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 03:31 PM (d7tB2)

46 Islam is a religion of ~~peace~~ pieces.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at September 27, 2013 07:30 PM (BW9iU)

FIFY

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 27, 2013 03:32 PM (pvF2U)

I guess after the first car bombing and mall shooting by terrorists we'll see a dash for CCW permits or even open carry.

Might have saved a few folks in the Kenyan mall.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 27, 2013 03:32 PM (gaOtJ)

48 Bung wrap?

Posted by: Weirddave at September 27, 2013 03:32 PM (jt8G9)

49 Hell, I've been to many major airports where there's an entire mall and food court complex on the other side of the security wall. Who checks the tons of supplies that must cross that barrier every day?

Posted by: TB at September 27, 2013 03:32 PM (8u/5i)

50 If they were patient enough, they could even build a weapons and explosives cache into a building under construction if they had some guys on the drywall crew. Damn little inspection of construction materials and worker tool boxes and such is done on most commercial projects.

Posted by: Purp

LA is still in the middle of a multi-decade project for a fucking subway system. They are starting new lines despite the fact that all of CA is broke.

Gee, I don't think they would ever try to cut costs and select a unknown, unvetted subcontractor out of the middle east or anything...

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 27, 2013 03:33 PM (ligos)

51 What did the Kenyans use for breaching? That looked.... excessive. Did they hit the jihadi ammo dump store? What makes you think that wasn't from jihadi booby-traps?

Posted by: Brother Cavil and his Flying Toaster Circus at September 27, 2013 03:34 PM (m9V0o)

52 Kenya It is illegal in Kenya to own any type of firearm without a valid gun ownership license as spelled out under the Firearms Act (Cap. 114) Laws of Kenya. Anyone who is 12 years or older can apply to privately own a gun. However, such persons must provide in writing to the Chief Licensing Officer (CLO) stating genuine reason(s) for their need to privately own and carry a firearm. It remains at the discretion of the CLO to make a decision to award, deny or revoke a gun ownership license based on the reason(s) given. Anyone seeking to hold a gun license must pass the most stringent of background checks that probes into their past and present criminal, mental health and well as domestic violence records. Failure to pass one of these checks automatically bars one from being permitted to own a firearm. These checks are regularly repeated and must be continually passed for anyone to continue holding the gun license. Failure to pass any of these checks at any stage, means an automatic and immediate revocation of the issued license. Once licensed to own a gun, no permit is required in order to carry around a concealed firearm.

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2013 03:34 PM (8sCoq)

53 Find the villages they came from and drone half the dewllings, then announce to Al-Jazeera that the next time someone gets out of line the whole village goes.

Posted by: Crassus at September 27, 2013 03:34 PM (12Z0z)

54 I'm gonna keep myself armed even if its against compnay policy. I can stash it in my work area where no one get get it.

Posted by: newguy at September 27, 2013 07:31 PM (kduZC)

I can personally say that the rumors that I keep a pistol in my glove box while I'm at work in direct violation of company policy is a damn lie.

(it's in the console, the glove box doesn't lock)

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 27, 2013 03:34 PM (pvF2U)

55 Imagine the effort involved in searching everything that came into a mall or office building through the service entrances. A guy can dream!

Posted by: Millions of prospective TSA agents at September 27, 2013 03:34 PM (FcR7P)

56 53 What did the Kenyans use for breaching? That looked.... excessive. Did they hit the jihadi ammo dump store? What makes you think that wasn't from jihadi booby-traps? Posted by: Brother Cavil and his Flying Toaster Circus at September 27, 2013 07:34 PM (m9V0o) The terrorists self immolated at the end. That may be the result.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 27, 2013 03:34 PM (GEICT)

57 cases of bung wrap Uh, huh huh huh huhuhuhuhuh

Posted by: Butt-Head at September 27, 2013 03:35 PM (bufJH)

When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal? - Cormac McCarthy, "The Road"

Posted by: newguy at September 27, 2013 03:35 PM (kduZC)

59 open carry

Shurut Umar's got a clause about that too, vis-a-vis infidels.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 03:35 PM (d7tB2)

60 Hide weapons in the walls? Drywall crew? WTF are you talking about?

A real problem - yeah - for people in Kenya. WHO CARES. TWELVE, 12, years since 911. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to shoot up a mall. They rented a shop, gee, what evil geniuses. Oh no, everybody be afraid. Not impressed.

What exactly is it that you are leading into? We need to beef up security at the mall? Search every box that goes into a store? Add several more layers of background check to businesses that want to rent a shop? Put more naked scanners in the airport? How about at the mall?

Because some guys had enough forethought to rent a shop at a mall in Kenya, Africa?

A lone terrorist with have a brain could plant easy homemade bombs at high school sports stadiums, mcdonalds, even toss them into daycare playgrounds as they drive by, and wreak all sorts of carnage and never get caught. Never come even close to being caught. Use your brain.

If someone starts messing around in my neighborhood we'll deal with it. Until then, I don't care, leave me alone. If you want to beef up security go join the Democrat party so we can know your true colors. Sick of "conservatives" who talk like big government Democrats.

Posted by: Andrew at September 27, 2013 03:35 PM (VjlMj)

61 North New Jersey and NYC are very lucky no one has tried a mortar truck with a timer in the breakdown lane on the highway leading to NYC. You know the one that drives by this massive transformer cluster the size of a football field.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 27, 2013 03:36 PM (lbpNx)

62 so basically Kenya is 'may issue'

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2013 03:36 PM (8sCoq)

63 Find the villages they came from and drone half the dewllings

London and Minneapolis?

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 03:36 PM (d7tB2)

64 Hey Valerie, Who did you say needed some weapons???

Posted by: Eric The Chinless at September 27, 2013 03:36 PM (Pr6hk)

65 Hell, I've been to many major airports where there's an entire mall and food court complex on the other side of the security wall. Who checks the tons of supplies that must cross that barrier every day?

Posted by: TB at September 27, 2013 07:32 PM (8u/5i)

Never fear citizen, my partners and I are on the job.

Posted by: Gecko45, Mall Ninja Team 6 at September 27, 2013 03:36 PM (pvF2U)

We've talked about this before here, but just look at the number of Muslims now employed at major US airports. Huge numbers at Sea-Tac, working in the gift shops, on the cleaning crews, in the food service areas, baggage handlers, the guys who drive the fuel trucks. Not to mention the solid wall of Middle Eastern taxi drivers.

Diversity has effectively invited the termites right into the infrastructure. The fact that nothing like this mall attack has happened here yet is a freakin miracle in my opinion.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 27, 2013 03:37 PM (RZ8pf)

67 Might have saved a few folks in the Kenyan mall.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 27, 2013 07:32 PM (gaOtJ)
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It did. The Daily Mail UK had an article about a Retired Brit Marine that saved 100 people armed only with a pistol. He made repeated trips into that Mall to get more people out.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 27, 2013 03:37 PM (jucos)

68 Bung wrap = toilet paper

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 03:38 PM (9MLX+)

69 firearms laws around the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2013 03:38 PM (8sCoq)

70 Andrew: I don't think anyone here is recommending beefing up security (which is bullshit). We're more along the lines of taking it to the enemy and/or allowing private citizens to do Stuff Umar Doesn't Like, like being armed and unimpressed with Umar.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 03:38 PM (d7tB2)

A lone terrorist with have a brain could plant easy homemade bombs at high school sports stadiums, mcdonalds, even toss them into daycare playgrounds as they drive by, and wreak all sorts of carnage and never get caught. Never come even close to being caught. Use your brain.

This is an instant classic, right here.

Bravo, Andrew. Bravo.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2013 03:38 PM (qy1Fl)

72 22 Waiting for the Mall of America to be under siege soon. The place has a million vulnerabilities and is ripe for the picking. Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at September 27, 2013 07:22 PM (l0lja) --Brought this up last night. Soft Target by Stephen Hunter.

Posted by: logprof at September 27, 2013 03:39 PM (bufJH)

73 Hurricane Sandy was a study in the ~~lack of preparation~~ moronic government.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 07:29 PM (DmNpO)

Posted by: Nanny Bloomberg at September 27, 2013 03:39 PM (Pr6hk)

74 I believe the Taliban built explosives into a stadium under construction, awaiting the day that someone they wanted gone would be there. And it eventually happened.

Posted by: toby928© at September 27, 2013 03:39 PM (QupBk)

75 precached weapons? who doesnen't have precashed weapons.

Posted by: redenzo at September 27, 2013 03:39 PM (vx61Q)

76 Sick of "conservatives" who talk like big government Democrats.

Posted by: Andrew

Who ordered the concern? C'mon, guys. Which one of you ordered the Extra Large Concern with breadsticks?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 27, 2013 03:40 PM (ligos)

77 That cabin out in the woods of Montana is looking better all the time. I mean, it's not paranoid if they really are out to get you, right?

Posted by: Amichel at September 27, 2013 03:40 PM (6Dx+4)

78 What exactly is it that you are leading into?

Nothing. Nothing at all.

Feel free to keep putting words in my mouth though...and I'll feel free to ban you.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 03:40 PM (9MLX+)

79 Diversity has effectively invited the termites right into the infrastructure. The fact that nothing like this mall attack has happened here yet is a freakin miracle in my opinion.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 27, 2013 07:37 PM (RZ8pf)

Ah, what could possibly go wrong? You're just being paranoid.

Posted by: Gecko45, Mall Ninja Team 6 at September 27, 2013 03:40 PM (pvF2U)

80 The giant multi-story collapse and huge hole in the roof is associated with the giant explosion which Kenyan forces said was a roof breach right away. I am open to possible booby traps, or even ammo dumps as it turns out. That is what I am wondering.

Posted by: Beagle at September 27, 2013 03:40 PM (sOtz/)

81 eh...off mall ninja sock...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 27, 2013 03:42 PM (pvF2U)

82 Soft Targets by Dean Ing. 1979 Ace Science Fiction.

"You have seen on television the torn bodies of the Colorado incident, every wound a mouth for Fat'ah. You will see more in days to come, until you convince your government that every delay in granting the demands of Fat'ah will be paid for in blood."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 27, 2013 03:42 PM (lbpNx)

83 It is illegal in Kenya to own any type of firearm without a valid gun ownership license as spelled out under the Firearms Act (Cap. 114) Laws of Kenya. Anyone who is 12 years or older can apply to privately own a gun. However, such persons must provide in writing to the Chief Licensing Officer...
Hey, I was going to say that!!!

Posted by: soledad o'brien's earpiece at September 27, 2013 03:42 PM (zrRMc)

I am the Great Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole!

Posted by: Cornholio at September 27, 2013 03:43 PM (0axsw)

85 Easy solution: don't allow Muslims or anyone who has ties to Muslims to rent spaces. I'm only half joking at this point...

Posted by: A-Hole at September 27, 2013 03:43 PM (SWqZL)

86 Damnit, where is the terra-forming, faster-than-light spacecraft propulsion and civilization-sized spacecraft building capability I was promised in all that 1970s Science Fiction I used to read?!?!?!?

Can't just kill 1.2 billion lunatic muslims (though the thought does keep a lot of people warm at night), so it would be nice to have the option of just shipping all of them to a brand spankin' new planet to occupy, sufficiently far away that we don't need to worry about fighting them for another 1400 years, as we have for the last 1400. It isn't like the fuckers could possibly come back here on spacecraft they built themselves.

The only way there will ever be peace on this Earth is if the bitter adherents of the Devil's Religion are permanently and completely separated from the rest of the population. Sorry, it is just true. The history of the last 14 centuries proves it, as does this latest attack in Africa.

Posted by: Sharkman at September 27, 2013 03:43 PM (8+xjO)

why yes, yes I am paranoid. But as I have been reassured numerous times on this blog, it isn't paranoia if they really are out to get you...

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 27, 2013 03:44 PM (RZ8pf)

88 So here I am in skating rink hell again. Boy brought a friend who is a girl (but not his girlfriend, according to him). She's a bit strange, she's new to town and her mom wants her to get out a little more. So here she sits, three tables away from me, not skating...probably will complain that she was bored when she gets back home.

Boy, of course, is off doing his thing and leaving her to sit all by herself. What a great guy that kid is...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 27, 2013 03:44 PM (pvF2U)

89 Hey Barry, it's time to play 'cache the weapon'

Posted by: Reggie Love at September 27, 2013 03:44 PM (Pr6hk)

90 Easy solution: don't allow Muslims or anyone who has ties to Muslims to rent spaces. I'm only half joking at this point...

Posted by: A-Hole

Yeah, a real terrorist would never lie, right?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 27, 2013 03:45 PM (ligos)

91 oh boys, cache your weapons here!!1!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at September 27, 2013 03:45 PM (Pr6hk)

92 The Airport in Minneapolis is staffed almost exclusively by Somalis. Maybe 80% or more... other than the airline counters. I don't think the politicians in Minnesota really thought this whole "Lets bring all of these Somalis over here" thing real thoroughly.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 27, 2013 03:46 PM (jucos)

93 it isn't paranoia if they really are out to get you...

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 27, 2013 07:44 PM (RZ8pf)

Troof!

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 27, 2013 03:46 PM (pvF2U)

94 GGE, talk with the boy. Female-friend needs to feel like a guest.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 03:46 PM (d7tB2)

95 And this why nearly every State is choosing for massive, total 24/7 surveillance of everything and everyone. Sure, the suck at it. But every failure will just be used as an argument for even more surveillance. Here's the future. You know how the credit card companies monitor every transaction in real-term looking for anomalies and they call you if, say, your card buys $5k of bung wrap in Vegas and you live in Tampa? Just think of that -- but applied to everything. Car movements, phone calls, web usage, utility bills, etc, etc. Anything and everything that's possible to measure about people. Measure and track everyone to find the anomalies that reveal the .01% who are bad guys.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 27, 2013 03:46 PM (ZPrif)

"That cabin out in the woods of Montana is looking better all the time. I mean, it's not paranoid if they really are out to get you, right?"Amichel at September 27, 2013 07:40 PM (6Dx+4)

Right.

Â“Paranoia is just having the right information,Â” William S. Burroughs

Posted by: newguy at September 27, 2013 03:46 PM (kduZC)

97 "Soft Targets by Dean Ing."

Ing was brilliantly prescient in a lot of his Eighties novelwriting.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 27, 2013 03:47 PM (gqT4g)

98 Smaller? Yes Smarter? No.

A coordinated attack of this type takes planning, supply and coordination. That might have a high probability of success in Kenya (where, by the way they ignored INTEL on the planning), but is much lower probability here given the op risk factors. I don't care what the tabloid say.

A "lone wolf" shootout has the highest success factor given the unknowns and low profile risk factors- which is why it is worried about. Oh and the best defense against that attack? Armed citizens in the vicinity who can disrupt or stop the attackers.

Posted by: Marcus at September 27, 2013 03:47 PM (xXyjO)

99 My secondary fear is that if there is another terrorist attack similar to kenya or beslan and we catch any terrorists we will coddle them. The russians killed all but one in Beslan which I assume was so they could torture him for info. But here, they are given 3 hots and a cot, groupies, and not even sentenced to death.

Posted by: MSM at September 27, 2013 03:47 PM (T0Pku)

100 "Yeah, a real terrorist would never lie, right?" Cough *profile* cough

Posted by: Lauren at September 27, 2013 03:47 PM (ELdpj)

101 Sitemeter?

Posted by: Cornholio at September 27, 2013 03:47 PM (0axsw)

102 While I appreciate the analysis Purp, I think you have too many "Good Ideas" in here. One of those things I've tried to avoid being trained in explosive theory. When I looked at the Boston bombing, bomb designs I had a "Well that's interesting, but if they had....their bomb would have been much worse" then I realized, they might not have figured that out yet, and talking about "Good Ideas" for terrorists in a public forum wasn't doing anyone any favors.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at September 27, 2013 03:48 PM (0q2P7)

103 GGE, talk with the boy. Female-friend needs to feel like a guest.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 07:46 PM (d7tB2)

Done did it. He sat with her a while and then went off again. Apparently she's not interested in socializing. Like I said...she's a bit strange...

Boy seems to have his crazy magnet built in. This concerns me.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 27, 2013 03:49 PM (pvF2U)

104 I'm not saying I'm happy about that future. I'm not. I'm saying that is gonna be the future, though.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 27, 2013 03:49 PM (ZPrif)

105 but is much lower probability here given the op risk factors.

What risk factors? American public and business is essentially oblivious.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 03:49 PM (9MLX+)

106 Hey don't worry guys. As soon as the black jesus solves the Iran problem, he will tackle this also. Allah Snackbar!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2013 03:51 PM (UbDLm)

107 >I mean, it's not paranoid if they really are out to get you, right?<

No, it's not paranoia if you are being vigilant.

The most dangerous piece of tripe this Administration floats is the war is somehow over. That disarms the average Joe and makes people think in different terms. Suddenly a backpack on the ground at the Boston Marathon, left unattended, is simply a harmless backpack- not a bomb or threat.

This war won't be over until every last one of these miscreants and their mothers are dead. And that won't be for a long time and I am not about to surrender my freedom for them or anyone else.

Posted by: Marcus at September 27, 2013 03:51 PM (xXyjO)

108 Purp, I think you have too many "Good Ideas" in here.

I held back all the sneaky shit (like 95% of everything I could imagine). I just used the obvious stuff even an imbecile would think of given 10 seconds.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 03:52 PM (9MLX+)

109 I would comment that attacks of this nature are coming to America; but then I would be repeating myself and boring the the messiah, NSA, DHS, and the rest of the whores and thieves circling the district of criminals in a widening gyre. A rough beast slouches.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 27, 2013 03:52 PM (hpgw1)

110 TorqueWrench yes he was. Especially when wrote about how religious fanatics that should kill each other on sight, instead banded together to fight a common enemy.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 27, 2013 03:52 PM (lbpNx)

111 The Airport in Minneapolis is staffed almost exclusively by Somalis. Maybe 80% or more... other than the airline counters. I don't think the politicians in Minnesota really thought this whole "Lets bring all of these Somalis over here" thing real I doubt they went out of their way to object, but it wasn't up to MN politicians. We can thank the feds for shipping them here.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 03:52 PM (X9Mnx)

112 Al Queda is on the run....... To a mall or school near you

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at September 27, 2013 03:53 PM (jucos)

113 Prior thread

No one in Washington, DC, is every permitted to fail.

This does not extend to Landover MD

Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2013 03:53 PM (DL2i+)

114 Black Hawk Down II: Minnesota Bung Wrap

Posted by: Beagle at September 27, 2013 03:53 PM (sOtz/)

115 So Iran hacked the navy? Anybody who follows Raymond Pritchett, ‏@Galrahn, on twitter saw him call that long before the Navy admitted it. Not sure what he saw. He's an IT guy and he said the Navy was doing exactly what you do after you've had a massive breach.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 27, 2013 03:54 PM (ZPrif)

116
The only solution seems to be bomb mecca.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 27, 2013 03:54 PM (sj9LN)

117 Raymond Pritchett ‏@Galrahn also has good contacts in the Navy. So maybe somebody tipped him off.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 27, 2013 03:54 PM (ZPrif)

118 I come here to bring your people TP!

Posted by: The Almighty Bungholio at September 27, 2013 03:54 PM (bufJH)

119 We can thank the Lutherans for asking the Feds to ship them there. Lutheran and Catholic charities fought to be at the front of the receiving line for the Somali scum.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 27, 2013 03:55 PM (ZPrif)

120 Not a solution, but if it saves one child...

Posted by: Beagle at September 27, 2013 03:56 PM (sOtz/)

121 >>>I held back all the sneaky shit

Well I might have ix nayed the Ryewal Day.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at September 27, 2013 03:57 PM (0q2P7)

122 Bombing Mecca is like poking a hole in a hornet nest. You'll squish a few wasps. The others will all swarm at your eyeballs.

I mean, Vespasian and Titus burned down Jerusalem and took hundreds of thousands of rebels into slavery. The Jews are still with us. For the purposes of "leaving descendents" I'm one of them.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 03:58 PM (d7tB2)

123 Who ordered the concern? C'mon, guys. Which one of you ordered the Extra Large Concern with breadsticks?
I think that's the Papa John McCain's GOP Thursday Night Game of the Week special.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 27, 2013 03:58 PM (zrRMc)

124 pg 127 Soft Targets

TWO SHOT CHARLIE AND CRETINOV

CHARLIE
Comrade leader, I say we must kidnap everyone who calls us a fool!

CRETINOV
Nyet; where would we keep five billion people?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 27, 2013 03:58 PM (lbpNx)

125 Interesting times.

Posted by: traye at September 27, 2013 03:58 PM (Zshy0)

126 OT: The "This week in news" guy on my iheartradio station says that the 1929 stock market crash was this week. Was started by two guys and the gold standard???? Blaming gold basically for the crash. Was I asleep during that part of the jazz age/depression era history, and thus missed this as the SOLE reason for the crash, or is the announcer smoking crack?

Posted by: LizLem, disgusted with one of her senators but loving the other at September 27, 2013 03:59 PM (8wqqE)

127 123 The only solution seems to be bomb mecca.

Don't forget medina,qom, and riyadh.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 27, 2013 04:00 PM (hpgw1)

128 So is it possible that if we called a total halt to Muslim immigration, student visas, etc, that we would make operations like this much less likely, and save children's lives? It does not seem that farfetched, and is it really too high a price to pay?

Posted by: Splunge at September 27, 2013 04:00 PM (bKA83)

129

Purp,

This is impossible! Most malls are GUN FREE ZONES. That will stop the terrorists!

You are obviously a paid shill of the gun lobby. Next you will say we have "rights" to defend ourselves without the police.

Posted by: every gun grabber out there at September 27, 2013 04:01 PM (D+lxs)

130 yep, ban all muslim immigration. If it saves the life of just one child ...

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 27, 2013 04:01 PM (ZPrif)

131 >This does not extend to Landover MD Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2013 07:53 PM (DL2i+) Redskins reference?

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2013 04:02 PM (8sCoq)

132 Do not make my bunghole angry.

Posted by: The Great Cornholio at September 27, 2013 04:02 PM (bufJH)

133
Yes I was half tongue in cheek on mecca, but really getting rid of the magic rock would be a nice jab at the heart of that evil organization.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 27, 2013 04:02 PM (sj9LN)

134 Tune in quick!! Bill Or'Reilly is going to tell us who the "good" guys are and who the "bad" guys are. /

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 04:02 PM (DmNpO)

135 133 or is the announcer smoking crack?

I'm gonna guess crack rectal suppositories.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 27, 2013 04:03 PM (hpgw1)

136 If Putin wanted Alaska back, would Obama even put up a fight?

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 27, 2013 04:03 PM (ZshNr)

137 Bill Or'Reilly is going to tell us who the "good" guys are and who the "bad" guys are. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 08:02 PM (DmNpO) Hey, he's watching out for you! *finger point* Insufferable prick.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at September 27, 2013 04:03 PM (GEICT)

138 102 Measure and track everyone to find the anomalies that reveal the .01% who are bad guys. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 27, 2013 07:46 PM (ZPrif) As opposed to, say, profiling Muslims. I've said it before and I'll say it again, anti-discrimination laws have not only destroyed our liberty, they will end up killing us all. Anti-discrimination laws put an end to Jim Crow, which was good and right. Government has no business discriminating for or against groups of citizens. We're all supposed to be equal before the law. (Don't even get me started on affirmative action laws.) But there is absolutely nothing wrong with private discrimination, and it should be completely legal. Business owners should have the right to choose whether or not to refuse service, based on any criteria they want.

Posted by: rickl at September 27, 2013 04:03 PM (sdi6R)

139 Does anyone have a link to the livechat thing with people calling the Obamacare hotline?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 27, 2013 04:04 PM (oFCZn)

140 Actually Islam stole the black rock. Spoils of conquest and all that when Mecca fell to the caravan raiders the Prophet called his holy warriors. The black rock was already in Mecca being worshiped by the followers of another god.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 27, 2013 04:04 PM (lbpNx)

141 BOR couldn't find his ass grabbing with both hands

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 04:04 PM (9MLX+)

142 144 Insufferable prick.

Often, yes. But watching him rip into someone who has earned it is a pleasure.

Posted by: Splunge at September 27, 2013 04:04 PM (bKA83)

143 Bombing Mecca is like poking a hole in a hornet nest. You'll squish a few wasps. The others will all swarm at your eyeballs. Of course that goes both ways. Al Shabab tries that shit here and even a President as feckless as Obama would have little choice but to go weapons hot.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 04:05 PM (X9Mnx)

144 Can't just kill 1.2 billion lunatic muslims

Apparently the dicking around for decades re. Iranian nukes and then they blow each other up in a Shia vs. Sunni goatpocalypse plan is going strong.

Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2013 04:05 PM (DL2i+)

145 The 1929 stock market crash was caused by Colonel Sanders and gained him acceptance into the Pentavirate.

Posted by: Stuart Mackenzie at September 27, 2013 04:05 PM (9UbEM)

146 The black rock was already in Mecca being worshiped by the followers of another god.

They seem to be scarce these days...just saying.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 04:06 PM (9MLX+)

147 Elizabeth OÂ’Bagy, the Syria analyst who was fired after it emerged that she had misrepresented her academic credentials, has found new employment with Sen. John McCain ??? Dear G-D the old senile fool is running an insane asylum out of his Senate Office. Go home old fool, go home

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2013 04:07 PM (UbDLm)

148
Steal the Black Rock!!!

Posted by: Steal the Black Rock dot com at September 27, 2013 04:07 PM (sj9LN)

149 >Can't just kill 1.2 billion lunatic muslims how do we know until we try?

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2013 04:07 PM (8sCoq)

150 Of course, if the media waged a war against Islam the way they have against Christianity, that would help a lot. We need to convince muslims that Islam stupid, evil, and false. Hard, but not impossible. Hundreds of millions of Christians in Europe and the US have left the faith in last couple generations.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 27, 2013 04:07 PM (ZPrif)

151 There is a pleasing symmetry and aesthetic beauty to glass parking lots. The ME has plenty of opportunities for a real estate entrepreneur and a good BMW salesmoron-ette.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 27, 2013 04:07 PM (hpgw1)

152 We should be thankful that most terrorists bent on attacking us are fiddling with putting bombs in people and not doing something more along the lines of this. Westgate-style attacks in the US would do far more damage - physically, emotionally, and economically - than any sort of attack using a person with a bomb inside of them.

Posted by: MacGruber at September 27, 2013 04:07 PM (zZSmI)

153 Posted by: angel with a sword at September 27, 2013 08:03 PM (hpgw1) Sounds about right. iHeartRadio offers up info for the LIVs in between commericals and shows: top TV streams of week, upcoming movies, and news bites (obviously skewered) to make the LIV feel a little smarter. The sad thing is this drivel is on my CONSERVATIVE talk radio channel, sigh. I have heard for three straight weeks now how the main guy on Sons of Anarchy is gonna be on 50 Shades, OMG you guys!! Ears, bleeding.

Posted by: LizLem, disgusted with one of her senators but loving the other at September 27, 2013 04:08 PM (8wqqE)

154

I think O'Bagy must have been a spook for someone, prolly still is.

Fucked we are

Posted by: thunderb at September 27, 2013 04:08 PM (zOTsN)

155 >Al Shabab tries that shit here and even a President as feckless as Obama would have little choice but to go weapons hot. Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 08:05 PM (X9Mnx) you sure about that? I'm not.

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2013 04:08 PM (8sCoq)

156

Posted by: Sharkman at September 27, 2013 07:43 PM (8+xjO)

Sharkman,

Once again Baen Book authors are ahead of you. Read the world building of Tom Kratman in his "A Desert Called Peace."

The UN and progressives ship all the undesirables (including people like us) off to New Terra.

Posted by: every gun grabber out there at September 27, 2013 04:08 PM (D+lxs)

157 156 how do we know until we try?

That is the spirit that made America great.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 27, 2013 04:08 PM (hpgw1)

158 Do the muslims ever acknowledge that the shrine they all worship looks exactly like a clitoris?

Posted by: MSM at September 27, 2013 04:09 PM (T0Pku)

159 >Steal the Black Rock!!! Posted by: Steal the Black Rock dot com at September 27, 2013 08:07 PM (sj9LN) get that guy from "National Treasure"

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2013 04:09 PM (8sCoq)

160 so. any of these assholes his extended family.

Posted by: thunderb at September 27, 2013 04:09 PM (zOTsN)

161 161 I think O'Bagy must have been a spook for someone, prolly still is.

If you're writing PR for the Syrian rebels, you're not exactly undercover. I think she is exactly what she appears to be.

Posted by: Splunge at September 27, 2013 04:09 PM (bKA83)

162 If you aren't watching it, you might like it... Masterchef Junior premiered tonight. It's been on less than 10 minutes. Those are kids! Preparing fresh seafood!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 04:09 PM (DmNpO)

163 Oh goodie....O'Reilly has Peter King on.....

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 27, 2013 04:10 PM (bCEmE)

164 Posted by: Stuart Mackenzie at September 27, 2013 08:05 PM (9UbEM) Look at the size of that cranium...has its own weather system!

Posted by: LizLem, disgusted with one of her senators but loving the other at September 27, 2013 04:10 PM (8wqqE)

165 Al Shabab tries that shit here

I'd find some domestic malcontents and run a false flag on them and get them to do it.

There's plenty that could be goaded into it. ELF! comes to mind. They've already got experience attacking decadent Gaia raping businesses. A mall is like a temple of wasteful Gaia raping worship, right?

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 04:10 PM (9MLX+)

166 Redskins reference?

RG 0 && III

Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2013 04:11 PM (DL2i+)

167 get that guy from "National Treasure" Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2013 08:09 PM (8sCoq) Hire me, I stole the moon after all!!!

Posted by: Gru at September 27, 2013 04:11 PM (8wqqE)

168 169 Those are kids!

Preparing fresh seafood!

Hmmm.

Child chef: I made sushi! (wipes nose on palm)

Posted by: Splunge at September 27, 2013 04:11 PM (bKA83)

169 150 Of course that goes both ways. Al Shabab tries that shit here and even a President as feckless as Obama would have little choice but to go weapons hot.

No, he would use it as a perfect storm to declare marshal law and send DHS ninja goons in armored vehicles to disarm you.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 27, 2013 04:12 PM (hpgw1)

170

yes hollowpoint

cause we are all badass against the Chechens since Boston

and Al Qaeda since 911 and Benghazi, except when we are trying to be their air force and give them weapons

sure

Posted by: thunderb at September 27, 2013 04:12 PM (zOTsN)

171

Noodle above.

Posted by: Steal the Black Rock dot com at September 27, 2013 04:12 PM (sj9LN)

172 150 Of course that goes both ways. Al Shabab tries that shit here and even a President as feckless as Obama would have little choice but to go weapons hot. Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 08:05 PM (X9Mnx) Yeah, right. Obama would go "weapons hot" against enraged Americans who decided to take the law into their own hands.

Posted by: rickl at September 27, 2013 04:12 PM (sdi6R)

173 >>> Or cutting off the water to NYC.<<<
.

What an interesting idea.

.

Posted by: chemican engineer from pokistan at September 27, 2013 04:12 PM (c8xU9)

174

I think O'Bagy must have been a spook for someone, prolly still is.

Fucked we are

Posted by: thunderb at September 27, 2013 08:08 PM (zOTsN)

Useless Idiot or Fellow Traveler would do the same.

But think of all the possibilities of that sweet, sweet Saudi cash. They already provide nice retirement gigs to friendly State Department people. Maybe they are branching out to the young before they start their careers?

Posted by: rd at September 27, 2013 04:13 PM (D+lxs)

175 176 No, he would use it as a perfect storm to declare marshal law and send DHS ninja goons in armored vehicles to disarm you.

Or worse: Mandatory Sensitivity Training.

Posted by: Splunge at September 27, 2013 04:13 PM (bKA83)

176 Goatpocalypse. That's funny right there.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at September 27, 2013 04:13 PM (pvF2U)

177 Ok kids, pop quiz: you're POTUS. In an orgy of murder, a bunch of al-Kaboom terrorists just killed 500 people at a shopping center at the height of Xmas shopping season. Local police and FBI HRT eventually gained the upper hand and secured the mall. The American people scream for vengeance. What do you do?

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2013 04:13 PM (8sCoq)

178 To make the nekulturny of the American Empire feel the pain and goad them into over-reacting, what happened in Kenya must occur in the tony and rich suburbs that surround Washington DC.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 27, 2013 04:14 PM (lbpNx)

179 The Airport in Minneapolis is staffed almost exclusively by Somalis. Maybe 80% or more... other than the airline counters. I don't think the politicians in Minnesota really thought this whole "Lets bring all of these Somalis over here" thing real I doubt they went out of their way to object, but it wasn't up to MN politicians. We can thank the feds for shipping them here. *************** And they're still bringing them in by the planeloads. Not just Somali Muslims, but also Iraqi and Afghani and Pakistani Muslims. This is on top of all the Bosnian and Chechnyan Muslims they brought in back in the 90's. Because who makes better Americans than foreign Muslims who despise everything we stand for? Who don't believe in separation of church and state, don't believe in freedom of religion, don't believe in free speech, don't believe in the legal equality of men and women (or homsexuals), don't believe in free markets, etc. -- and those are the so-called "good" Muslims (i.e., they ones who aren't actively training to murder us in terrorist training camps). Celebrate diversity! Especially when it despises you and everything you stand for, and even when it wants to torture, rape, maim, and kill you and your children!

Posted by: Trivial Pursuer at September 27, 2013 04:14 PM (/sohm)

180 Nude pubic thread

Posted by: toby928© at September 27, 2013 04:15 PM (QupBk)

181 I'm not saying this is a bad idea, it's actually (for our DOJ) a good one. However, hasn't the party line been armed anything in schools was bad? http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/150k-approved-officers-newtown-schools-20399998

Posted by: Ragamuffin at September 27, 2013 04:15 PM (fzFF6)

182 you sure about that? I'm not. Mostly sure, assuming he cares about seeing another Democrat being elected anytime soon. Besides, it's not like he personally makes the hard decisions.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 04:15 PM (X9Mnx)

183 184 you're POTUS. In an orgy of murder, a bunch of al-Kaboom terrorists just killed 500 people at a shopping center at the height of Xmas shopping season. Local police and FBI HRT eventually gained the upper hand and secured the mall.

The American people scream for vengeance.

What do you do?

Call the Mossad for advice, to see if my initial plan to shoot everyone who even likes any of those people in the head is sound.

Posted by: Splunge at September 27, 2013 04:15 PM (bKA83)

184 "Dear G-D the old senile fool is running an insane asylum out of his Senate Office. Go home old fool, go home"

AZ isn't "home" for McQueeg any longer. It hasn't been for some time.

He's now one of those pure creatures of the Beltway, the only place that people like him truly feel comfortable and happy. He's a cave fish. He can't exist anyplace other than that rare, specialized environment.

Shit, if he retired to Arizona, who would rub his tummy and pat his head and tell him over and over, "Who's a maverick? Who's our little maverick boy? You are! That's right, you!"

He needs that psychic fix the way a crack whore needs a fresh rock. The media in D.C. give it to him. He'll never voluntarily leave. The only way he's leaving is in a casket, or after having been primaried.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 27, 2013 04:16 PM (gqT4g)

185 Goatpocalypse

I comment on the toes of giants here at AOSHQ, and still have no ampersands.

Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2013 04:17 PM (DL2i+)

186 If they were patient enough, they could even build a weapons and explosives cache into a building under construction if they had some guys on the drywall crew. Damn little inspection of construction materials and worker tool boxes and such is done on most commercial projects. Beslan.

Posted by: NukemHill at September 27, 2013 04:17 PM (8tR08)

187 Tom Kratman had the Tranzi's hung in Watch on the Rhine.

Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2013 04:19 PM (DL2i+)

188 184 - if the terrorists are from a foreign land, we turn said foreign land into a destination for all sorts of bombs and missiles. If the terrorists are home-grown, it's a person-by-person manhunt and indefinite detention of every man, woman, and child connected to that terrorist. Finally, start deporting every deportable person from the offending nation or of that offending nationality. And cut off any visas from anyone from that nation for at least five years.

So if they are Pakistani, Peshawar is gone. No Pakistani is getting a U.S. visa. All illegal Pakistanis in the U.S. are booted and any family/friends of the Pakistani terrorists are in jail indefinitely until they are proven innocent or work with the USG to find the rest of the cell.

Posted by: MacGruber at September 27, 2013 04:20 PM (zZSmI)

189 Hey don't worry guys. As soon as the black jesus solves the Iran problem, he will tackle this also. Allah Snackbar! Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2013 07:51 PM

Choom Boy's already on it, dudes. He's having a Productive Rap with the new, Warm and Fuzzy leader of the I-ranians. Apparently, he thinks they can work out a deal on nukes, since the new Big Cheese over there has been given the seal of approval by Brian Williams, Ann "Weepy" Curry and the NBC News Team.

Ol' Mad Mahmoud was a terrorist and liar. Teh New Guy is a terrorist and liar but he smile real nice.

And President Historic FirstÂ© bought the guy's act. He is either a total fool or a contemptible traitor. Actually, I think he's both.

Posted by: MrScribbler at September 27, 2013 04:20 PM (kaGpp)

190 182 Or worse: Mandatory Sensitivity Training.

I solemnly vow to put a 180 grain semi-jacketed soft point 357 into the forehead of anyone that knocks on my door to take me away to MST. Might as well die standing your ground.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 27, 2013 04:21 PM (hpgw1)

191 yes hollowpoint cause we are all badass against the Chechens since Boston If there's convincing evidence that "the Chechens" were behind it as opposed to a couple of Chechen- American Muslims, I've not seen it. We know were Al Shabab lives, and they know it.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 04:22 PM (X9Mnx)

192 Does that make it count as an inside job. Not that the government knew but that someone in the mall knew and should also be charged.

They had the torture equipment at the ready as well as the arms, almost to the level of being a mobile torture chamber they wheeled to the hostages. As per wiki Kenya has the death penalty but they have not used it since 87' They may have to start the paper work to have it even if it take years.

Posted by: Trevor (@TJexcite) at September 27, 2013 04:24 PM (a7NX9)

193 I solemnly vow to put a 180 grain semi-jacketed soft point 357 into the forehead of anyone that knocks on my door to take me away to MST. Might as well die standing your ground.

No, it'll be at your workplace. And you'll look at your mortgage and at your wife and kids, and you'll meekly go to the mandatory sensitivity training, and you'll accept you'll never ever get promoted again.

I haven't been to the 'mandatory sensitivity training', but I've been to the annual 'harassment training' that they give to everyone, and you know what? I took it like a Spartan ten-year-old, just like everyone else in my office did.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 04:27 PM (d7tB2)

194 Like Minneapolis, the Columbus Airport (Port Columbus) has a lot of Somalis on the staff, driving shuttle buses, and the like. Prior to 9/11, they also ran security. And they did for a little while afterward. As individuals, they seem like nice enough guys, but they really bother me. A nice liberal teacher lady that lives down the street notices. She has done English teaching to foreign born kids. She was teaching a class of kids from Ghana, and she said they were sweet and nice and eager to learn, because their parents had made a commitment to become Americans. She was then teaching a class of Somalis, and they pretty much told her that as a white Christian, she was going to Hell. She said they expect to go back to Somalia some day. I think they think they are going to take over some day. I would hasten that day that the go back, if it were up to me.

Posted by: Severe Conservative riding Orca at September 27, 2013 04:28 PM (v6hyJ)

195 Hollowpoint: If there's convincing evidence that "the Chechens" were behind it as opposed to a couple of Chechen- American Muslims, I've not seen it. We know were Al Shabab lives, and they know it.

And yet, here we are, seriously lined up behind supporting the allies of the "couple of Chechen-American Muslims" in Syria, despite the Russians' repeated warnings that we don't.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 27, 2013 04:32 PM (d7tB2)

196 >>>>88 You know that bottle of Bombay Sapphire I was going to kill the other day? I didn't. *pours for you* *guzzles* Many thanks, Highness. >>>Oh man. Gin. Back in college, my buddy and I used to drink Tanqueray and Mtn Dew. Not surprised. At all. But at least your tastes have matured since then.

Posted by: DC in Towson at September 27, 2013 04:43 PM (eQJwb)

197 200 No, it'll be at your workplace. And you'll look at your mortgage and at your wife and kids, and you'll meekly go to the mandatory sensitivity training, and you'll accept you'll never ever get promoted again.

You are assuming I work (I only work in my gardens), that I have a mortgage (that was payed off in 1983), my wife doesn't work and packs a 380 ACP whenever she steps out of the house, and my children are long gone and are prepared for SHTF. I carry a S&W 65 with a 3 inch barrel 24/365 unless I'm asleep in which case its on my bed stand and there is a Winchester Defender 12 gauge propped up in the corner within easy reach. And, you will never approach my country home unannounced because one of the mutts will give the alarm.

I am vigilant 24/365 until I am unable and that is not now. So no, I will not go meekly. I've lived a good life and I will not assume that I can protect my children and grandchildren from the chambers by going meekly. You decide how you live your life, I decided long ago how I live mine. BTW, you may not find it healthy to knock on my door unannounced.

Posted by: angel with a sword at September 27, 2013 04:46 PM (hpgw1)

198 They're not only thinking smaller, they're thinking smarter...

Several years ago I got a chance to discuss the "Honey Pot Theory"* with an SF guy with several tours downrange already.

His resposne was, "Look, They're religious fanatics, not stupid.... they send their guy in for some live fire training and then send them somewhere to execute their mission."

*the "Honey Pot Theory" was where the claim was we were fighting them overthere to draw in the fanatics and kill them.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2013 05:23 PM (80R0X)

199 but that someone in the mall knew and should also be charged.

I'm unconvinced someone at the mall had to know. If you rent a shop, you're gonna spend several weeks with it boarded up while "remodeling" and fitting it out for the grand opening.

Mall staff isn't much interested in what's going on behind that plywood, other than are you going to be opening on time and helping to drive customer traffic.

That "remodeling" does however give you access to mall structural, mechanical, and electrical plans, which could prove quite useful.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 05:54 PM (9MLX+)

200 The ONLY hope I have for this not happening in America is the Second Amendment. Did you see the huge help that one guy was with a handgun in Kenya? Well, actually, now it's two guys: one was British Special Forces and the other was a Muslim (he was helping the good guys, guess he's one of those rare "moderates"), but all they had was one handgun each and they saved many people. In America, there's lots more armed. Plus, one armed American ALREADY stopped a mall massacre back in December in Oregon, iirc. I think that's why it hasn't happened here yet; but schools, theatres, and Starbucks are gun-free zones so...

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at September 27, 2013 06:12 PM (KL49F)

201 "We've talked about this before here, but just look at the number of Muslims now employed at major US airports. Huge numbers at Sea-Tac, working in the gift shops, on the cleaning crews, in the food service areas, baggage handlers, the guys who drive the fuel trucks. Not to mention the solid wall of Middle Eastern taxi drivers.

Diversity has effectively invited the termites right into the infrastructure. The fact that nothing like this mall attack has happened here yet is a freakin miracle in my opinion.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 27, 2013 07:37 PM (RZ8pf)"

C.S. Lewis had the Calormenes (who were based on Muslims) infiltrate Narnia in "The Last Battle" in a similar way; I used to be amazed by how prescient he was!

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at September 27, 2013 06:19 PM (KL49F)

202

"If they were patient enough, they could even build a weapons and explosives cache into a building under construction if they had some guys on the drywall crew."

Beslan was an alternate target of opportunity, so wasn't prepared, but a new stadium in Grozniy was pre-loaded with explosives during construction, right under the reviewing stand. The Chechens decapitated the pro-Moscow quisling regime during the opening formalities. At the time, I considered it good news.

www.jamesoberg.com

Posted by: jim oberg at September 27, 2013 06:46 PM (x1cuw)

203 Find the villages they came from and drone half the dewllings, then announce to Al-Jazeera that the next time someone gets out of line the whole village goes.

Posted by: Crassus at September 27, 2013 07:34 PM (12Z0z)

Exactly. Only I'd napalm the entire village. Twice. You have to lay such a big hurt on their people that the idea seeps into their heads that maybe it wasn't worth it.

Posted by: Acme Goalpost Movers, Inc. at September 27, 2013 06:58 PM (60Q+L)

204 That "remodeling" does however give you access to mall structural, mechanical, and electrical plans, which could prove quite useful.

It should not.

The local building dept might though.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2013 07:43 PM (80R0X)

205 Find the villages they came from and drone half the dewllings,...

Negatory.

Find the endorsing mullahs and target them as the militant leadership they are, before they win their first battle... and if when eveyone in THEIR home village +10 mile radius takes a hit I would be more than happy to pen them, each and every survivor, a letter of condolences that their little johnny jihad they offered best wishes to his dreams on his graduation, well, congratulations, you earned it.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2013 07:53 PM (80R0X)

206 Many store remodels are "gut it completely down" deals. New electrical, new plumbing, etc. You'd need the building plans to know where to hook back in and how to avoid compromising other buried conduit and piping.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 07:53 PM (9MLX+)

207 "hand dig only"...

Not really applicable when the lease is only to the deck above, slab below, and GWB demising walls around... and here is your power feed, potable water (sorry, make your own hot water), and 4" sanitary connect.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2013 08:04 PM (80R0X)

208 Ahh, ef it, just give'em the plans for the whole place. Let'em figure it out.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2013 08:10 PM (80R0X)

209 Or we could all do the sensible thing and ban the camel fuckers from the country....but we don't have time for rational thought

Posted by: Melodicmetal at September 28, 2013 01:26 PM (ficNf)

210 OMG! Terrorists are taking lessons from Die Hard! Now we're really screwed!

Posted by: Scot at September 29, 2013 07:22 AM (CcNNr)

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