July 31, 2005
And I Actually Voted For That Slime
Yeah. Turned 18 just in time. What an idiot I was: I think my brain was in my (tiny) Birkenstocks.
Jimmy Carter is a waste of the oxygen he breathes.
Goldstein comments:
CarterÂ’s just a fringe element of the Democratic party anyway, and besides—who listens to ex-Presidents?ÂÂ
And do you honestly believe terrorists don’t have more important things to do than pay attention to the partisan sniping of grandstanding western politicos? There are nail bombs to make, and buses and subway cars to blow up.
As to whether or not Carter’s comments provide rhetorical cover for the terrorists—of course not! Carter is simply voicing his dissent, and if a former US president can’t openly criticize his government—publicly, overseas, during wartime, and on the basis of a narrative of events that an investigative panel has already concluded simply does not represent the facts on the ground—well, then the terrorists have already won. After all, aiding the enemy in their propaganda war IS the highest form of patriotism, and nothing says “I love my country” more than “I love my country provided it's run by people like me."
Be sure to read his entire entry. He's got links, too, but I'm too disgusted to follow them right now. Maybe later.
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July 23, 2005
He's Baaaaaack!
Jeff of Beautiful Atrocities has come up for air. He'd like us to
raid our lingerie drawers in defense of the Western World.
I hope those Islamofascists wear size small (not petite) string bikinis in black.
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July 17, 2005
Pamela
. . . has some great footage—and a cool story—over at
Trey Jackson's place.
Yes, we treat terrorists who are wounded. That's what we do. I've got to go, though: I'm sending myself to bed without supper because a terrorist had women's panties put on his head once. I'm very upset about the whole thing.
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But do you have any panties you could donate for the cause?
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at July 17, 2005 06:01 PM (StLK2)
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Did you say something, Jeff? Didn't think so!
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 17, 2005 07:06 PM (RGWNz)
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Guess that means you don't wear any. Another thing you have in common with Sully
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Unlike Sully's situation, with me it was was never a raison d'etre to get married . . .
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July 15, 2005
Is Anyone Else
. . . sick to death of the term "militant" as a euphemism for "terrorist"?
I was a militant feminist once, but I didn't set off bombs in . . . football stadiums or fundamentalist churches or . . . really, anywhere.
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July 12, 2005
There Are Dark Moments
. . . when I consider the possibility that the West is every bit as decadent as Bin Laden maintains, and that his forces will kill most of us, enslaving the rest and taking most of the world back to the Middle Ages.
And then I think, "not everyone is a lefty moonbat; they're just louder than everyone else."
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Not on my watch, my dear.
Three generations of sergeants - probably another one to follow when my boy gets bigger in a few years (and maybe the little girl, too).
"Thus is dreamed the dream of soldiers in time eternal; we hope to awaken one day and find a world that needs us not. And thus is found our calling - the striving to render the world into this dream. Until that day we shall stand ready to do what is necessary to foster the dream for ourselves, our neighbors, our children, and even those who oppose us in noble cause. The barbarian shall not pass; we will not allow it."
- SGT Dave, with portions attributed to 1SGT Jim (Dad), and SGT William (Grandpa).
Posted by: SGT Dave at July 12, 2005 01:23 PM (jPvjS)
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See what happened-- I listened to the MSM for a few minutes, and it WARPED MY MIND! How does anyone make a steady diet of that??????
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 01:10 AM (RGWNz)
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They're just louder because they speak through every editorial in every paper across the United States.
Posted by: Mike Marden at July 13, 2005 07:53 PM (9yPEb)
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My thoughts exactly. We've got to face it - a substantial proportion of the population of the West wouldn't know what to do with a fact if it bit them on the foot.
The question is only "How substantial?"
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> There Are Dark Moments
. . . when I consider the possibility that the West is every bit as decadent as Bin Laden maintains, and that his forces will kill most of us, enslaving the rest and taking most of the world back to the Middle Ages.
And then I think, "not everyone is a lefty moonbat; they're just louder than everyone else."
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I would not worry about this. The Arabs are wholly dependent on Moonbats for their support. Granted, there are far more moonbats than there is any intelligent reason to be, but that is a function of excess liberalism in the West.
IF you were going to worry about anything, worry instead about a China with an excess of males and a newly developed industrial might.
Historically, an excess of males has led -- every time -- to an increased militarism... and with a few hundred million excess males, that's a hell of a lot of increased militarism... just when they are breaking out of their century-long rejection of technology use.
Fear not -- but worry for your children. This, not Islamofascism, will be their problem.
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Steyn on Islam
When we get too politically correct, he
suggests, we
undercut support for the moderate Muslims who
must begin to speak up about the evils of jihadism.
You must marginalize the Islamo-fascists. You must shun them.
It is the only way.
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In PC speech it's not islamo-fascists. It's "emotionally enhanced and differently ethicized".
Posted by: Ciggy at July 12, 2005 06:53 AM (0B3lJ)
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I won't go there, but I'm open to "murderous assholes." Will that work for you?
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 12, 2005 11:09 AM (RGWNz)
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Wow that has really worked for Isreal. Keep up the genius commentary.
Posted by: nobody at July 13, 2005 05:15 AM (UVu43)
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It is up to decent Muslims, moderate Muslims if you prefer, who must morginalize their killer brethern. More than that, decent Islam must condemn and bring to justice the killers in their midst. Decent Islam, decent people of all persuasions will more and more come to realize the stupidity of murder in the name of hatred. Hatred itself is ultimately self destructive.
Posted by: Daniel at July 13, 2005 08:27 AM (2hSwl)
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"Nobody"--
the only thing that will "work" for Israel, as far as her neighbors are concerned, is to cease existing. A lot of Arabs simply want all Jews dead, for that matter. And Israel must, in their minds, be wiped completely off the map.
So accommodating these nice murderers won't really work.
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 08:33 AM (RGWNz)
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Gene Byrnes, local libertarian talk show host, discussed the need for Islam to purge herself of this evil. Not one of the Moslems calling in could bring themselves to criticize the London bombing.
If Islam cannot cure this disease of terror, then Quarantine is the only solution.
Posted by: Walter E. Wallis at July 13, 2005 09:35 AM (xX0fS)
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Islam is in need of reform. But we must not take the attitude that moderate Muslims don't exist.
I'll bet if Mr. Byrnes had canvassed Muslims living in London, he would have heard a different take entirely.
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If massive measures need be undertaken, quarantine is too expensive and for all the expense not workable. Instead, all the Muslims should be sent to where they came from. If they want to live under Muslim law in particular than they belong in the Muslim countries.
Posted by: Daniel at July 13, 2005 08:04 PM (nNgvA)
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Not my vision of a true melting pot, but thank you for playing.
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 09:25 PM (RGWNz)
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The melting pot worked in the past; people became Americans in the process. Now there are people, the Muslims in particular who don't melt. They stay alien. Islam forbids assimilation. Islam hates Isreal and hates Jesus, even if not actively preached on any given day. Muslims come to America to take advantage of its promise, it's opportunity like those who have come from all over the world through the centuries. Muslims wish to 'take America' and make it theirs, make it Muslim. That attitude spells conflict for America.
Posted by: Daniel at July 15, 2005 11:32 AM (WgPll)
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If Islam itself forbids assimilation, how do you explain the traditional attitude among Muslims that Jews and Christians have a special kinship with them--that they are also "people of the book"?
I see that you and I disagree on this point: I say the mainstream Muslims are being too quiet, and must make a stand. You say they don't exist (at least in statistically significant numbers).
Time will tell which one of us is right.
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 15, 2005 11:28 PM (RGWNz)
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There are at
least a million Muslims living in the USA. Had they been the Jesus-haters Daniel talks about, I'd be willing to bet on at least a few post-9-11 terrorist attacks in our country. But nothing happened.
Every immigrant group makes America theirs, at least in some little way. This post is 4 months too late, but look at the Irish!
Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf at July 16, 2005 10:34 PM (IZsbU)
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Hi, I just linked myself here. Don't remember how. I think I remember Attila Girl from Beautiful Atrocities comments(?).
Re People of the Book: this is a two edged sword in Islam. Christians and Jews are monotheists who possess a previous revelation from Allah --so far so good-- but they have distorted it and been rejected by Allah; hence the need for a Muhammad. This is the nub. When Islam takes over a society --as it did the Christians societies of North Africa, Near East in 7th Centuries, and later parts of Spain and Eastern Europe-- the People of Book are (officially) spared the choice given to polytheists (submission to Allah or death) and are instead allowed to live in a Jim Crow/South African apartheid world as dhimmis, "protected people" (a kind of Muslim pc bullshit). Check out the Sharia prescriptions. The periods of Muslim "tolerance" all followed Muslim military conquest and were the result of Islam's complete ascendancy. After all,when you are in control, you can afford to institutionalize submission and inferiority and call that tolerance. Here endeth the lesson.
Posted by: EssEm at July 17, 2005 10:35 AM (IStcG)
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Is it just me, or is there a slight difference between treating someone as a second-class citizen and cutting his/her head off?
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 17, 2005 11:19 PM (RGWNz)
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Moderate Muslims exist but they are have a similar attitude towards the Islamist powers that non Muslims have; they live in fear. All human beings tend towards decency but the innocent must by necesity be afraid of the powers that run Islam. For instance, Muslim women must be afraid of even looking like they are unfaithful to their husbands because they know they can be killed. If the local imam has his eye on you, than you had better act enthused and raise your arms in rage at the proper cues like 'death to Israel.' If the imam is evil the innocent are in trouble because the imam is very powerful. He can coerce his subjects to do evil.
Islam is in an awkward position. The Arab Islamic nations have enjoyed being on the receiving end of the greatest transfer of wealth in history and yet Arab/Islamic influence and culture on the decline despite their great wealth and their great population. Their money has allowed the Arabs to send their children to the finest schools in the world for many generations now but in science and manufacturing innovations they stand virtually nowhere. By now the Arabs could have built their own car industy and aviation industry and cell phone industry and computer industry, etc. Instead they have squandered their wealth and their minds. The know they look like losers and they have to ask why. Why do the infidels of the West continue to excel?
Rather than seek to lift themselves up, many Arab Muslims would prefer to bring the West down. Typical lazy evil attitude than the sinful can fall into.
Posted by: Daniel at July 18, 2005 10:10 AM (y9h0g)
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To address Attila on the idea of the difference between treated like a second class citizen and being killed:
Certainly their is some difference there but I think one of the major flaws of Islam is that it teaches such discrimination. It teaches that the infidel is as dirty as a pig. The Saudis treated the American Army stationed there to save Saudi Arabia from Sadam in the early 90's as so many pigs penned up. Even the most ignorant pigmy knows instinctively that this is wrong.
Islams flaws mattered less when Islam was hidden in its own corner of the world. Yes, they enslaved many and sold humans on the worlds slave market but now the world has shrunk too much. We here in the Denver area had a situation pop up: A nice Muslim couple had a slave in their house for four years. The light of day is more and more shining onto the flaws of Islam. What was once quaint and quirky is now on the world stage. There to be judged for what it is. Islam is fatally flawed.
Posted by: Daniel at July 18, 2005 10:26 AM (y9h0g)
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Same thinh happened with me onne time. It is very much embarasse to go through this sitiuation onve time i thought to sucide but somebody told me that be someone with hard work to do this with that person.
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The one thing I will concede is that the Islamo-fascists are harder to fight than even the Nazis, and make the Nazis look human--they had a moral code. It was sick and twisted, but at least semi-comprehensible.
Now we have "we love death more than you love life," and an attempt to bring the entire world back to the Middle Ages.
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Hitch.
He's just so good; he manages to
slap Galloway as if he were a sort of irritating mosquito buzzing through the woods in the summer.
And he explains what is at stake in the War on Terror: everything.
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July 11, 2005
Ties Between AQ and Saddam
They were there, but with all the intelligence gaps we've been looking through a glass darkly. And now (almost),
face to face.
Via Goldstein.
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July 10, 2005
Via Everybody
. . . the
video (at Political Teen) of Christopher Hitchens hitting Ron Reagan, Jr., with a rolled-up newspaper.
It was the finest of guilty pleasures; Hitchens is a lefty I love to love.
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July 09, 2005
More Attacks on Britain?
Holy
shit.
I hope this is just British hysteria, a la all those bogus Jack the Ripper letters in the 19th century. I'm going to assume some joker just sent a prank warning.
But it's very worrisome.
UPDATE: It looks like most of the suspicious packages have been dealt with, and it was just the "centre" of the city that had to be evacuated. So there have been confused tourists heading back to their hotels much too early—not a bad tradeoff for public safety.
I'd still like to hear what happened to that last suspicious item.
Authorities are stressing that this isn't connected with events in London, but I'm not sure they wouldn't say that anyway.
UPDATE: Looks like everyone is safe and sound, but some people did have to sleep outside. That last package was determined to be harmless.
The authorities defend the incident by saying their intelligence was "specific," and "credible."
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July 08, 2005
Girlcott!
That's my new idea for supporting Britain. It's shallow, it's fun, and it involves spending money. What could be better?
For the next four weeks I intend to buy as many British products as possible. Especially Tanqueray Ten gin and Twinings Earl Grey tea. I'll replace my Ketel One vodka with Three Olives, and load up on mustard, chutney, marmalade, and lemon curd.
(For a crime writer, Colman's mustard is a two-fer: Dorothy L. Sayers headed up one of Colman's most successful advertising campaigns before she quit advertising altogether to devote herself to writing mysteries.)
Maybe next winter I'll even buy a bottle of Bushmills, though I tend to prefer Jameson, because it's Irish Irish. (And I don't drink whiskey during the summer, because that's a yucky thing to do: summer calls for gin or vodka drinks. Just like I would never wear high heels with shorts, because that's too slutty even for me.)
Gluttonous lushes of the world, unite and support the British in whatever way you can.
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Excellent idea. God save the Queen - at least until her mule-eared boy passes out of the line to the throne.
Posted by: Walter E. Wallis at July 08, 2005 03:03 PM (xX0fS)
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..."Gluttonous lushes of the world, unite"... now that is a battle cry I can groove with..
Posted by: Eric at July 09, 2005 11:28 AM (YlwMq)
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As an American expat living in the UK, I fully support this action! However, you're really missing the boat with the gin and the Earl Grey. The real peak of gastronomic excellence here is -- and I kid you not --- potato chips flavored with lamb and mint. The locals like to eat them while simultaneously riding their bikes, smoking a cigarette and talking on their cell phones.
Posted by: Prof. Purkinje at July 09, 2005 11:59 AM (vVSja)
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Sounds yummy.
BTW, how many hands does the average Brit have?
xxoo,
AG
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 09, 2005 05:13 PM (RGWNz)
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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=8262
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=8252
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-07/09solomon.cfm
Posted by: a at July 13, 2005 09:55 AM (H60lE)
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Oh, Dear Mr. Fisk. "If we're nicer, they'll go away."
After all, the 9/11 attack on New York and Washington were provoked by . . . by nothing, really. The U.S. had sent some troops into Saudi Arabia to save Muslims from a so-called secular leader in Iraq with whom the Left claims AQ had no ties.
Or perhaps he's simply suggesting that if the rest of the West isolates the U.S., we will be the targets of future attacks and not them.
Won't work, Buddy. "Infidels are infidels." And Paris could well be next, Chirac's collaborationist actions notwithstanding.
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 01:11 PM (RGWNz)
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Great idea
What are some good English beers out there?
Other than Bass (which is mighty tasty)
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I like Theakston's bitter, but I'm strange. Prof. P?
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 14, 2005 09:54 AM (RGWNz)
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Don't forget about things Scottish: whiskey; woolens;as well as Welsh; choirs and aging rockers?
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15936523%5E1702,00.html
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Years from Now
will it be confusing to schoolchildren that on 7/4 they are supposed to celebrate our liberation from the wicked English, and on 7/7 they are supposed to feel bad that some people living in England were killed?
"The ones we killed in the 1770s were bad Englishmen. The ones that got killed in 2005 were good Englishmen. The ones that burned the first White House in 1812 were very bad Englishmen indeed. The ones that oppressed the Irish . . . can you guess? I'll bet you know the answer to that one, right?"
I hope my kids grow up fast enough that I can bring some nuance into the discussion. I'm especially looking forward to explaining "blowback" as it relates to international diplomacy. The discussion of the Hitler-Stalin pact will be fun. My daughter will learn to block out the sound of my voice, just as I blocked out my own mother's voice as she discussed mathematical principles.
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If you cannot spell out for your children that Britain can be right on some issues and wrong another day and another issue, than perhaps you're lazy.
It is tempting indeed to cop out and just teach simple platitudes, for instance: Ford is good and Chevy sucks.
Life is more far more interesting than that and you have the responsibility to analyze issues thoroughly for your children.
Posted by: Daniel at July 13, 2005 08:17 AM (2hSwl)
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Oh, I will. I'm just engaged in a little light-hearted self-mockery. You must realize that I don't yet have a child, so this a little bit abstract to me at the moment. Sorry my jokes are falling short!
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2005 08:52 AM (RGWNz)
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I'm sorry I didn't catch your drift...I tend to be way to serious.
Posted by: Daniel at July 13, 2005 08:24 PM (nNgvA)
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Do you live in New York?
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More on 7/7
Malkin's tracking
the investigation. Naturally, she includes tart observations about dangerous individuals who were allowed to remain in London despite their terrorist ties.
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The Plots That Get Thwarted
I've heard radically different estimates of how many terrorist plots get foiled every year. It's almost impossible to measure such a thing, and if you did you'd have trouble breaking it down by target country.
Lair has a problem with the "we are all Londoners" meme that so many of us indulged in yesterday (including me). After all, he points out, that means we in the West have to switch nationalities every time there's a successful attack. Sure, it's silly (though I'm sentimental that way).
What we all are, he asserts, is infidels. Correct. And "infidel," by the way, encompasses a lot of Muslims: at least two of the train stations selected were near neighborhoods inhabited predominantly by Muslims.
Measuring how many of these plots are thwarted gets snarled up if you try to figure out which "infidels" they are aimed at. After all, AQ and its allies are perfectly willing to substitute one Western target for another.
The point is, the cells are being rolled up continually, on every continent. California Mafia has an update on the cell in Lodi. It sounds like a joke, until you think of how close Lodi is to Sacramento, and how central it is to the U.S.'s most populated state. Shipping, agriculture, the state government: all were within reach.
Comparing the horror of London yesterday with what these motherfuckers "accomplished" in Madrid leaves one underwhelmed—and almost makes me understand those Brits in the pubs yesterday afternoon, yawning bravely and asking if that was all the terrorists had before ordering another warm beer.
It was a failure. The terrorists brought a knife to a gun fight. We know that their ability to pull these things off depends upon their resources: they will always go for the biggest target, the greatest symbolism, and the highest body count. It was a tiny bloodbath, not even in the same league with 3/11 in Madrid.
Even 9/11 was a failure, measured against its goals: AQ meant to bomb the Capitol building, but failed. Its supposedly brilliant planners hoped that the WTC towers would fall over, and on top of other buildings in the financial district. Most analysts agree that the White House was the initial target of the plane that hit the Pentagon: the hijackers hadn't realized how hard it is to see the White House from the air.
The 9/11 attack was supposed to kill tens or hundreds of thousands, not several thousand. And the U.S. government was supposed to be decapitated, with both the Capitol building and the White House in ruins.
These guys are far from defeated, but they grow weaker every year. It will take many more years, but we are winning.
We are.
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Spot on! 9/11 was 3000-some. 3/11 was 300-some. And now it looks like 7/7 might be 30-some (though I have seen 52).
That looks like a logarithmic decay curve to me.
"motherfuckers"
Wow!
Wow!
I didn't even know that was an LMA word...(big grin)
Posted by: Desert Cat at July 08, 2005 03:19 PM (n/TmV)
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We have to remember that these guys don't hold back. Each year, they hit us with everything they have, when the plan isn't spoiled by various intel/law enforcement agencies.
That's the silver lining.
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July 07, 2005
Exclusive! Blair is a Jooo! And He Bombed the Tube!
Via
Goldstein, the
Stratfor brief everyone's talking about. This details a rumor within the intelligence community to the effect that Blair's government knew in advance about the subway bombings. This is being spun furiously by moonbats and Buchananites alike.
The problem? There are two versions of this rumor: in the first, UK authorities told the Israelis about the terrorist attacks minutes before they actually occurred, and in the second version, the Israelis tipped the British off a few days earlier.
Obviously, it's unlikely that both are true, and extraordinarily unlikely that UK security knew anything actionable before this happened. (Sure there might have been one of those memos like the one Condi Rice got grilled about by the 9/11 Commission, which essentially said, "Bin Ladin would like to strike here in the States somewhere, sometime. You betcha.")
This sounds a lot like a combo plate: a little bit of "Blair knew!" with some "the Jooos did it!" on the side.
We're missing the Masons and the Trilateral Commission, but they'll pop up sooner or later.
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Masons, Illuminati, reptilian beings from the lower 4th dimension, it'll all come out sooner or later.
The conspiracy revolves around parmesan cheese. The aliens love a good stravecchio.
Posted by: Ciggy at July 08, 2005 05:30 AM (Sy2Fl)
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Parmesan Cheese? how DARE they! Some fools will hijack ANYTHING as long as it's exceptionally fine - way too fine for them to comprehend its real value!!!
Pigs! pearls before swine!!!
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Tony Blair
Political Teen has the
video of his statement. He's clearly fighting to control his emotions; you can tell by the cadence of his speech. Other than that, he keeps the stiff upper lip.
Sully is so shaken up that he hasn't posted about gay marriage all day. Go to his site, though: there's wonderful stuff on the British reaction, and that strange stoicism that put a lot of Britons into pubs today, assiduously following sports. The sportscasters didn't mention the bombing, and the games weren't called off: it's just the quiet British way of telling the terrorists to get fucked.
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London Calling
From a Protein Wisdom commenter comes this
map of the explosion sites.
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Hitch:
If, as one must suspect, these bombs are only the first, then Britain will start to undergo the same tensions—between a retreat to insularity and clannishness of the sort recently seen in France and Holland, and the self-segregation of the Muslim minority in both those countries—that will start to infect other European countries as well. It is ludicrous to try and reduce this to Iraq. Europe is steadily becoming a part of the civil war that is roiling the Islamic world, and it will require all our cultural ingenuity to ensure that the criminals who shattered London's peace at rush hour this morning are not the ones who dictate the pace and rhythm of events from now on.
Always nice to hear from one of the few remaining intellectually honest leftists in the world.
After the Rodney King verdict there were riots in Los Angeles. My boyfriend—now my husband—called me and told me to stay put that night. I did, and I watched television all evening to stay on top of what was going on. (That was before the internet was widely available, at least in its present form.)
The next day I figured out how to take the freeway around the center of the city. I swung by work to collect my papers and headed to Glendale, where Attila the fiance lived. It wasn't clear how long the riots were going to last, so I went to Vons that afternoon to stock up on food. Although Glendale wasn't too close to the center of the city, we were going to stay inside until we saw actual law and order in L.A.
It was a scary time: a few homeowners in the Bohemian part of Venice had resisted the cultural pressure to not own guns. A few of these people took up posts on their roofs to keep the mostly black hoodlums from invading their homes.
In Koreatown, closer to the center of events, grocery store owner used bags of rice as sandbags to create perimeters around their businesses. These people had military-issue rifles, and each store had at least two men guarding it.
At Vons I got enough staples to last a few days. The line was very long; I could tell it would take around 45 minutes to get out of there. (And I'm an American: five minutes is a long time to wait for the checker in the grocery store.) In the meantime I talked to a black woman about what a terrible situation we were in. No one mentioned race, because it was understood then that the problem was hoodlums versus civilized people.
And so it is with muslims: the vast majority are decent, but those who are must be willing to condemn those who want to bring Western Civilization down.
There is no room for waffling, here. AQ wants to take us back to the 12th century.
And I'm not going.
You might want to take this moment to choose sides.
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I hope I'm being clear.
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Quite eloquent.
Posted by: jody at July 07, 2005 08:14 PM (uWBw8)
Posted by: Heather at July 07, 2005 08:18 PM (nafy6)
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100% true. fuck them all the cunts
Posted by: MARVEL at July 21, 2005 08:43 AM (qeRgj)
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