At this rate, al Qaeda will soon conduct a reign of terror by blowing up toilets with cherry bombs in airport mensrooms across this great country of ours

…while sitting on the toilet.

What if the 911 hijackers had cut off their wieners with the box knives, in unison, on four different flights? That would have been the HUGEST psychological win for Al Qaeda. We’d have Arabic street signs and be under sharia law by now.

I missed the implications of this up front and I bet you all did too,

translated: I didnt know how to spin this until I opened up my e-mail yesterday and got my copy and paste orders.

At this rate, al Qaeda will soon conduct a reign of terror by blowing up toilets with cherry bombs in airport mensrooms across this great country of ours

…while sitting on the toilet.

…and getting caught when they ask the policeman in the next stall (who’s only there looking for Larry Craig) for a light for the cherry bomb.

Shorter Erik: when all terrorists burn their dicks, only dicks will burn their terrorists. Or something. Win!

jkricket got it right, they are looking for ANY reason to attack Obama.

Even the most inane and specious reason (talking about the CIA dead disrespects them!) are fair game. It’s pathetic.

This really is ridiculous. Al Qaeda always really more of a network of interlocking individuals and small groups, with a core that provided training, logistics, and finance and not a formal organization like Hamas. That network is shattered into dozens of largely independent groups without the resources of the earlier group, but all calling themselves Al Qaeda, as much for the PR effect as anything else. What is left of the core is hiding out in the tribal areas of Pakistan. There is apparently another important node in Yemen, but they lack the resources that the original had.

So let me get this straight. Obama is not supposed to talk publicly about possible intelligence-coordination failures which may have led to the Crotchfire Incident for fear of pissing off the intelligence types? Because their pissed-offedness gets back to Al Queda and they run around congratulating each other, not for a successful, terrorizing fire-ball in the air, but for causing a little tissy-pissy between the President and (some) of his intel folk?

Wow. What a fucking coup.

No, really. HUGE WIN.

Erik Son o’Erik would have defended against this terrorist attack by pissing his own pants in terror, which would magically splash over to the other guy’s pants, and have extinguished the bomb – therefore defeating al Qaeda, Bin Laden, and Notre Dame’s football team all at once. He would then be unanimously be made king of Murika, finally proving to Erik Dad o’Erik that his son wasn’t such a lifelong pansy after all. WIN!

This must be why Ewick Ewickson is one of the top ten conservatives to watch in 2010.

And, in the alternate reality that ErickErickErick wishes for so desperately:
“The foiling of this heinous attack is more proof that electing anyone other than Sarah Palin and John McCain would have been a disaster for this nation. It’s hard to exaggerate the seriousness of this blow to Al Qaeada’s prestige…”

Dude, you totally missed Erickson’s point!

He wasn’t being stupid about 9/11 Part 2, the BVD Files. He was being stupid about the eight (or so) CIA folks blown up in Afghanistan. See, Obama made the huge, HUGE mistake of wishing the CIA guys had not been killed, which to Erick means Obama is totally giving Al Qaeda just what they want. Or something.

Obama could produce the severed head of bin Laden at a news conference and ErickErickErick would insist that he had bin Laden killed to keep him from revealing Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate.

Funny how these brave patriots work so hard to help the scary terrorists to accomplish their mission of fear. You’d think they hate America or are aiding the terrorists or something.

Thank you. I’m reminded of the saying, “If I wasn’t laughing I’d be crying.” I’ve been crying so often lately, mainly because of my medical insurance increase, that getting a good laugh out of what is truly pathetic was good for me.
Mary Julia Klimenko

Remember John and Yoko’s “WAR IS OVER”, where they placed billboards all over the world during the Vietnam war? Yoko is calling on all of YOU, who are sick of these wars in Afganistan., Iraq and soon to be YEMEN, to join her in a RESTART of that very campaign today. Read more and get involved at:

http://www.imaginepeace.com/

We can’t trust the stinking intel agencies anyway. They were the ones who couldn’t find the WMD’s hidden in Iraq…. /s

(((Mary Julia Klimenko)))

Unlike the folks here who are, like, really smart and attacking him for the right reasons!

I’m completely confused. I don’t know whether to be against O because the undie guy got thru security but was thwarted by passengers, or to be for O for the same reason. Help.

All Patriots Shall Now Go Commando!

Did you see my acknowledgement that you outed me? How the f did you remember? It’s been over a decade.

Against him, it’s the “narrative”. whooopdeeefuckingdooo

Yes, I understand the metatheme. But I keep getting lost in the details. /s

There are enough legitimate reasons to be upset with BO, this however, is not one.

Yep! I asked Lurk to nuke it.

I was working for Mellon (real estate appraiser) back then and watched the PNC/BONY/CSFB/CITI/Chase news a LOT. And all of the sudden, it just clicked.

Here’s what I don’t understand, airport screeners have been checking bags forever, why do wieners get waved through?

UNDERWEAR! I’m scared of underwear wearers now. Trembling. Underwear should be illegal.

Got it.

However, there are “some” who think that ya gotta be fer ‘em or agin ‘em. Regardless of the issue.

Which is why I feign confusion. Hard to figure out which meme one needs to defend against: O should be defended or attacked according to his actions, or O ought to be defended cause he is “our” guy, or attacked, “just because,”

SOME

Right, ’cause you never know when it will slip through the cracks.

It never stops.

COPENHAGEN – An ax-wielding Somali man with suspected al-Qaida links was charged Saturday with two counts of attempted murder after breaking into the home of a Danish artist whose Prophet Muhammad cartoon outraged the Muslim world three years ago.The supect was shot twice by police responding to the scene.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100102/ap_on_re_eu/eu_denmark_cartoonist

No reason to delete it. I yam who I yam. Don’t thing you were at any of the Mellon meetings I did. Nothing I remember with REstate.

Put it in quotes just for u.

Hell yes. If he’s got Jim DeMint on his team, you know he’s going places.

We got shortarm inspections in the Army to check for the clap. Issue raincoats at the airports.

I love it

I’m awaiting with bated breath the declaration of our grand master strategists that we have won against the terrorists, and never mind the singed wiener. Alas, I should know better.

Slavoj Zizek on a part of our predicament 11min.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZniZSv19kJw&feature=player_embedded#

(((Raven)))

I hear you.

The frustrations I have with POTUS is about policy and what he talked about on the campaign trail. I am an issues based voter. It’s also one of the reasons I like FDL so much. It’s not about a particular individual, or personality. If we don’t wrestle our country back from corporate we are all screwed.

Holy Frijole’s Batman, Al Quida’s set my balls on fire!

*gah* This image is forever branded on my brain…

…a guy who flame-broiled his dick while the no smoking sign was on.

Brain Bleach… Stat…! ;-)

Neither matters. You just need to shit your pants.

Raven,
Hugs are my poor substitute cause I am a poetry and lyrics moron. Hope you accept the spirit in which hugs are offered.

I saw it and want more info!!!

I’m happy as a hog rootin in manure!

Especially if one is wearing a thong (butt floss).

Ding. The reality should be: attack corps and all who defend them. That makes the meme pretty clear.

And BTW, should labor and/or voters get “too much” power, I’ll switch sides. It’s not about one side is right and the other wrong, it’s about what is going on now & how to get out of it.

And double BTW, I don’t expect I’ll have the luxury of switching sides in my remaining lifetime.

Lurk already nuked it – best mod EVAH!

Anyhoo, it’s up to you to leave breadcrumbs/identity and stuff. I was just giddy for a moment, and shouldn’t have done that. Sorry. :)

Poor guy needed an an armored hot-dog.

I always get confused and end up wearing them backwards…

I worked as a Wall St. economist a decade ago, lastly for Credit Suisse First Boston. Kelly saw me as a talking head on TV and put two and two together.

Was he one of the fat kids? Skinny kids? Kids that climb on rocks? :)

Hi RF!

That make me laugh out rat…. To funny.

Hi Kelly.

BREAKING: DHS releases audio of would-be underwear bomber

Can you find that clip?

I certainly hope you don’t out me. oh wait…

MaryMc for Senate!

MeMc for Senate!

scary.

Looks like we have an open Senate seat in Illinois this year. Think Ron would be up for repatriating to Streator?

No way. He left streator when he was 18. Plus I would divorce him if he did. (Is this divorce thing getting old yet?)

Rarely is there an idea this good.

Just looked but apparently summer 92 is too early to be online. Sorry.

Don’t blame either one of you. Current temp here on the other side of the state is 1 degree (heading down), windchill -9.

Well, Kelly must have a great memory.

Ron was playing with the idea of moving back but we went for a visit one winter recently. Nixed that idea but good.

That’s why I left 25 years ago. . .

Balmy 15, windchill -1 here. The windchill is always apparent when it knocks on my motion sensor outside lights, as now.

You got that right!

Spring and Fall are pretty good, I’d gladly trade the other two.

It’s 50 here and supposed to freeze tonight. I’m already freezing my ass off. Is it summer yet? At least time for pitchers/catchers to show up at camp?

We’re supposedly headed to -4, windchill -17 tonight. Good times.

I remember, sort of. . .used to drive over to Keokuk in the spring to fish on the big river.

raising a huge red flag right now

isn’t what we pay our intelligence community to do. We pay them to raise a huge red flag beforehand.

Oh, why am I trying to apply logic to these people? How do you do it, Tbogg?

Nice thing about single digits, the next time it reaches the 20s it will seem downright balmy.

Where are you again in Illinois?

Bob taught ya how to rapture yet?

He’s in Champaign-Nirvana, my home town!

Last time I was at Keokuk they were having some sort of Dachshund festival. Every hundred yards there was a sign with an outline of a weiner-dog. Very strange…

Did you camp at Wildcat Springs in Hamilton? Ever go on the Addie Mae?

Looks like Raven has it covered but here’s more info than you probably want.

Well, I didn’t see that Charlie Rose show.

But it did click for me as I remembered (the one part of your name) you were one of the people arguing about interest rates and the whole “soft landing” thing.

From ’97 – ’2000 I was gobbling up all the articles that had anything to do with rates as I was in the mortgage biz.

eCAHN was on the “Quit being stupid” side. Go figure. Heh.

Gonna try again when the weather warms up.

pax ya’ll

Funny. Just told Ron. He laughed.

The only way aQ ‘wins’ is wen turds like Erikson, et al declare their victory.
Red State is effectively partnered with aQ on this operation.
Repeat often.

Never camped there, last time was a cookout to celebrate a friend’s birthday.

down the road

Raven is originally from Champaign, which is a suburb of Urbana. :-)

So here’s a cute kid story. My son was 11 when I was on Charlie Rose in 1992. It was broadcast live, so I paid my babysitter to stay until I got back home from the studio. The segment was double the 20 minutes, and during the break a functionary came to tell me that my son had called and wanted to remind me what a wonderful program is was for grandpa to be on Social Security & Medicare. It was the last progressive thing my wingnut son ever said.

Oh that’s sure to work. *g*

Charlie Rose can have that effect on people.

Do you guys remember a band in the sixties called The Wild Herd? I may have asked already. Question for the Illinois/Wisconsin/Minnesota types.

More concerned about frostbite.

I was advising folks not to be stoopid. Who coulda anticipated.

Not me.

Heh. Never occurred to me to blame my son’s political problems on Charlie Rose. Simply brilliant.

Gotta go for a bit. Mebbe back later for LLN – cheers!

It’s still inside him somewhere!

On any particular part of the anatomy?

On a more serious note, do you know why birds feet are never cold, no matter what the ambient temp?

The Wylde Heard

Note the drummer’s name. Scroll down to the poster. Ron is the dood in the very back.

Wishing it were so.

Criticised and called out only when he fails to face his promises, and does boneheaded things like showing up 72 hours too late in a polo shirt after sending Brownie Napolitano to us. Napolitano a totally unqualified political hack was cringe making in her robotic zombie denial mode.Upon return to recant we were further convinced of her inability to sound credible under any circumstances.

But one thing has become obvious. Obama is a puppet of his Chicago/Wall St masters and has sold out on any power he might have had. He is weak and inexperienced, but I am still finding it hard to understand the emptiness.

Yes, also shrinkage.

They have good circulation in their feet but I have no idea why they don’t freeze solid in winter. Both the birds I’ve owned sleep on one foot with the other pulled up into their feathers. Not sure if they trade occasionally to warm the other one.

Regarding Charlie Rose, narcolepsy is the usual result.

I was down through there on a poker run last year. Pretty along the river still but I think the fishing has gone downhill.

On the right side?

So here’s my understanding of birds’ feet. Blood vessels going in tap transfer heat to vessels going out. Also vessels narrow, so that much less body heat is lost thru those blood vessels.

Anyhoo, I always get a chill when I see birdies cavorting in the snow, even though they thumb their beaks at me.

Yes. In the back.

I’ve seen them jump in icy water to bathe. They are tough little critters.

Tiny dinosaurs.

Ron still keep in touch with the other guys?

I think of that sometimes watching Bob do his T-Rex strut. :-)

Yes. He hasn’t seen any of them in a long time. He has a friend in Marin County who used to play with them occasionally.

Got a Buffalo ice breaker email with an amazing photoshopped image but don’t know how to get it in link form.

You can hear them here. Click on the Listen To samples button and go to number 16.

They have an allmusic.com entry, almost no content, though.

Also sound samples at the allmusic link.

Napolitano a totally unqualified political hack

Actually, she’s a former US attorney. More qualified than Brownie. At least as qualified as Chertoff.

What is the image?

I must admit to being moderately shocked that Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention’s “Burnt Weeny Sandwich” has not been brought up. One of the great, well, wonderful liberals of our time and an album from 1970 with a title so obvious. Heck, one of the first ten albums I bought in my youth. Oh, the humanity.

Sayin’ W. P. L. J. – White Port and Lemon Juice

REIGN OF TERROR, by GB Shaw

(ahem)

The reign over the plains, happens mainly in the planes.

Great album but not exactly a household name, even at the time.

But in a truly just universe Frank would be the current President.

How many perfectly good pairs of Dockers will be ruined before you people admit this was a terrorist attack?

At the very least he’d still be alive, along with Hunter and Molly and all the other iconoclasts we desperately need.

“9/11 Part 2, the BVD Files”

Burnt Vas Defrens

“wonderful liberals of our time”

Frank was more of a libertarian than a liberal. He definitely was a progressive and in many ways he could be conservative.

Lordy, I miss him.

How did you… shhhh! Tra la la la la…

LOL

Is all the undergarment soiling being done in response to this undergarment roasting too much? Call me crazy, but this plan wasn’t quite the rocket science the expert analysts all seem to think it was.

Also, I’m offended at the gratuitous use of the word “weiner.”

involving a guy who flame-broiled his dick while the no smoking sign was on.

Not as though he would have had much use for it where he is going for the rest of his days-to a SuperMax.

Desperate living…it isn’t very pretty

what should be disturbing to all is Obama’s totally bush-like
response to the crotchbomber; he’s using the very same
rhetoric/propaganda.

LOL! brilliant!

oh man… this means the old prayer must be re-written ‘dicks to ashes, let the 72 virgins go’.