September 27, 2006
James Joyner
. . . reproduces the declassified portions of the NIE, and remarks, "we're actually paying people to come up with this?"
Sad, but true.
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Those without political blinkers will recall that the left excoriated and depreciated the intelligence community's credibility when the NIE indicated that Saddam had WMD.
In a fit of political apoplexy they fully endorsed every word of this NIE report, until President Bush released the parts that belied their arguments.
It's axiomatic that the left is weak on defense but the legitimate criticisms of Iraq notwithstanding, they have yet to formally articulate a credible alternative policy. Their political posturing will come at a real cost.
Bring on November.
Posted by: Philip Mella at September 27, 2006 06:50 PM (8HN5p)
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Going with the "we're actually paying people to come up with this?" theme, we did pay RAND to do a study that found a nuclear bomb going off in Long Beach Harbor would be devistating.....well DUH!
Posted by: the Pirate at September 27, 2006 09:09 PM (Rg0+S)
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We paid RAND? How much? Betca I come come up witha 100+ page report with the same conculsion for less!
Posted by: Chuck at September 27, 2006 09:43 PM (GrExI)
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We paid RAND? How much? Betcha I come come up witha 100+ page report with the same conculsion for less!
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September 26, 2006
Iraq As a Terrorist Training Tool
Karl has started an interesting discussion over at
Protein Wisdom.
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Why AQ Is Off the Air
Via
Insty comes this news from
Strategy Page: people are flying less, because procedures for air travel are so arbitrary. But terrorists are only targeting airplanes less because they fear mutiny—the "Flight 93 Syndrome."
I have to admit that I'm a bit tired of airlines taking advantage of 9/11. For example, why not let us transfer air tickets from one person to another after they've been bought? If everyone has ID, how can this possibly be a risk?
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Well, the Feds can't check all the data like they can when you are the registered buyer(well before the flight). And they can't see your credit card info., or know you even have one. And with IDs the way they are....
All in all, it adds a lot more variables into the mix.
Posted by: Darrell at September 26, 2006 08:56 PM (7WIKO)
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I'm talking about my cousin having to buy a ticket for his 17-year-old son when there was no more room on the flight the rest of the family was taking-- and then wanting to swap them so that his son wouldn't have to fly alone. He figured it would make more sense to do that himself.
The airline wouldn't let them do this, citing FAA rules or some such horseshit.
The money issue is moot; my cousin was paying for them all with the same credit card. And the potential swap was weeks before the flights were to leave, so there should still have been time to check everyone against the no fly lists and whatever else they like to do.
Posted by: Attila Girl at September 26, 2006 11:00 PM (LEEsJ)
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I don't understand. Why is the missing ticket for the 17-year old? Can't one of the older adults fly alone? And aren't tickets now all sold with a name attached. If you trade tickets, some other person's name will be on that ticket and the airlines and the gov't won't know who's really on the plane. That used to happen all the time with the secondary market in tickets.
Do you know that we really don't know the names of the real 9/11 hijackers? Airport tapes from the months prior to the attack show multiple people travelling with those identities. Obviously, senior people planned the attack and the suicide operatives executed it. Absent good IDs, with some sort of DNA info., or at least fingerprints and eye scans and facial metrics attached--we can never control security. And the gov't needs instant access to a gov't file showing all the original IDs issued so that they can compare the ID presented to the original to spot forgeries.
Posted by: Darrell at September 27, 2006 09:09 AM (OWmpK)
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Originally, the family was going to fly from the SF area to Florida. The eldest son was unable to go because of another commitment. Tickets were bought; the family would fly together.
Then the school schedule changed, and the eldest son would be able to go. They didn't want him to fly alone, but rather one of the adults. The airline didn't allow the family to change the names on the tickets once they'd been purchased, so the 17-year-old had to fly alone.
It seems to me that the airlines aren't allowing names to be changed as a convenience to them, rather than to serve any real security purpose. It's just silly.
Posted by: Attila Girl at September 27, 2006 12:34 PM (LEEsJ)
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I agree there has to be some flexibility and common sense. What airline was it? United? They're just being pissy or looking for the $100 cancellation fee. I asked the Transportation Security Administration - the federal agency responsible for airport security - what would happen if I showed up at a checkpoint with an ID and ticket that didnÂ’t match. It told me that IÂ’d be subjected to additional screening at the airport checkpoint, but allowed through. The correct last name would definitely be a plus. BTW, a 17-year old can put together any kind of ID to match one of the adult male names because 17-year olds don't usually carry ID. Or anything official, like a driver's license with picture--not every 17-yo drives. Also, you could use the "nickname" ruse if the 17-yo wanted to carry his own ID. My name is Thomas, but my friends/family call me Alex after my Grandpa. The adult then can buy a ticket on an earlier/later flight under his/her correct name.
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September 20, 2006
Bitter Late . . .
I didn't make it over to On Tap for their
9/11 anniversary discussion. I should have. It's a nice, intro-level "why I'm a warmonger" piece.
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September 11, 2006
Remembering 9/11
Thanks, K, for
letting us know. If you hadn't called, I might have gotten right into my car five years ago, oblivious to the destruction until I heard about it on the way to work.
After all, I don't usually do media before I leave the house. At least, I didn't then. Now I generally at least check my mail before I'm out of here, so I at least see the Google News headlines. Still no old media, though.
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You're more than welcome.
About that *no media before leaving the house* thing? I had no idea you were like that, too. Back in my working days, I couldn't understand anyone who could listen to TV first thing in the morning. To me it was unbearable. I felt invaded and brainwashed and unshielded.
It got to where office guys were playing little brinky games with me, since usually I was far more up on news in general than they were. Yet, since I couldn't bear to turn on GMA or the Today Show, etc., they'd know stuff in the AM before I did. I'd only turn on the radio once in the car, and usually for music not news.
It only changed after I quit working. Now I can take small bits of certain things earlier, before my 1 1/2 hour *wake-up* time is over.
That change started before 9/11 - it's why I had GMA on in the first place. The events of that day, though, solidified it in a way I'd never thought possible.
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Was 9/11/01 "The Birth of the Blog"?
Yes. Blogs certainly existed before then, but I think the huge involvement/interest in "citizen journalism" is directly linked to 9/11. No one is content to get his/her information filtered through a large institution any more: we want to make up our own minds.
Glenn has more.
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September 10, 2006
I'm Watching
. . . ABC News. Like, television network news.
They now have the blogger market, which . . . you know, if you have us, you have everything.
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It Was a Tuesday Morning.
I was under the weather, sleeping in the living room that night, and woke up to K's voice on the answering machine talking about the Pentagon and WTC. By the time I turned on the radio in the master bathroom, it had all happened, and both towers were gone.
I went back just looked into Attila the Hub's eyes. He crossed himself; it had been the only time I'd seen him do that when he wasn't praying, or at church.
And so it began.
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Glad you were safe and sound in your bed that day.
Posted by: Greta at September 10, 2006 06:09 PM (Cbtbf)
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I wanted to tell you this last year, but didn't.
So -Thanks.
http://ksquest.blogspot.com/2006/09/remembering-those-911-losses.html
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August 13, 2006
My Thoughts?
Bring on the
fake menstrual blood. And fake vaginal secretions, if you have any on hand.
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I say use the real thing if it gets the bastard to talk.
Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at August 13, 2006 07:32 PM (RiZPJ)
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Fake? Not while Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Tara Reid, Charlotte Church, Madonna, Nicky Hilton, Hilary Duff, Ashlee SImpson, Anna Nicole Smith, Nicole Richie, et.al., live and breath...I apologize to everyone for leaving your favorite Skank off the list: Feel free to add yours.
Posted by: Darrell at August 13, 2006 08:20 PM (RHgPH)
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Oh.... and a big old plate of BBQ's pork ribs at din-din time. With a tall glass of premium beer.
Served by a Hooters chick.
Posted by: Darleen at August 13, 2006 11:27 PM (cXz8w)
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I think the jihadi would enjoy the Hooters outfit, though feel obligated to try to waste her, given an opportunity. For, you know--inciting his lust. (Like men need their lust incited at all . . .)
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Like men need their lust incited at all . . .
That's how you
eviillll women have been influencing men since the dawn of time.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at August 14, 2006 05:24 AM (1hM1d)
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So that's how Eve got Adam to eat the forbidden fruit.
Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at August 14, 2006 04:40 PM (RiZPJ)
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The old "push the shoulderblades together" gambit . . .
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August 11, 2006
Today
. . . we are all
moonbats.
I'm sorry, but there is, to me, all the difference in the world between a meditative "think piece" and an actual analysis of security concerns. Helen's post was about her subjective responses; it was not a set of policy prescriptions.
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I couldn't agree more. I was finally intrigued enough to go see what you're talking about. What a bunch of disgusting bullshit.
I despise Malkin and always have. I don't go there to read - tried a couple of times, because I'm always curious. But she always seemed obviously full of shit to me. Having set this BS off without, apparently, even reading Helen's post in the first place looks completely in character to me. She never was interested in truth or rational consideration of various points. Quite the opposite. She's always been all about spewing, and about ideology, instead. And embodied in her ideology is this self-righteous stance that it's not only okay, but *GOOD,* to do all she can to *shut up* people who disagree with her.
I have no respect for that mindset and never will.
What confuses me is the number of otherwise rational people who are either surprised by this turn of events, or think it represents some change in Malkin's behavior.
I had no idea so many people bought into it.
I really find that pathetic. I guess I thought they were just going over there to laugh at her or something.
Now I'm afraid this means people actually *buy* that idiot Coulter, too.
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They are both clever women, but they both are masters of superficial analysis--Malkin from a sort of "Pep Squad" perspective, and Coulter as a comic of dubious merit.
They preach to the choir, but do little or nothing to advance real debate. One can glean facts from the work of both women (they do plenty of homework), but one must filter out the continual spinning as one does it.
I would still like to read Malkin's tome on immigration, mostly because the premise is so outrageous that I'm deathly curious about how she defends it.
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Also: I do have a soft spot in my heart for Malkin. She sends me plenty of traffic, and there's no earthly reason for her to have me on her blogroll, since I've publicly disagreed with her plenty of times on her signature issue (immigration). It's pity, or integrity--or perhaps a bit of both.
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I read Helen's post. The only problem I had with it was that she was asking why security wasn't better, and complaining that she didn't like the very things needed to make it better. Which I told her in a e-mail.
Haven't read Malkin, but 'moonbat' seems way over the top for what Helen said.
Posted by: leelu at August 13, 2006 10:32 AM (8RqnW)
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I know everyone's going to get mad at me, but I think it comes from being an American living in the U.K.--the American side of her wants maximum liberty, and the British side leans more toward feeling that the authorities ought to make people perfectly safe.
They are conflicting impulses. But, again--it was a piece about subjective responses. It made no pretense to objectivity whatsoever. That isn't (usually) my style of blogging when it comes to issues of such gravity, but one needs to judge it on its own terms.
Posted by: Attila Girl at August 13, 2006 01:04 PM (10HYf)
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Let me have my book on a plane. If I can't air travel is worthless to me. Planes are uncomfortable enough as they are, no book means I'll be bored to death. They might as well drug me after I board then use the smelling salts after we land. That's how horrible air travel could become.
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August 10, 2006
Protein Wisdom Connects the Dots
. . . between the UK-plane plot and a right-wing conspiracy to sour
Lamont's win in Connecticut:
It wonÂ’t work. NEDRENALINE IS IMPERVIOUS TO THE VICISSITUDES OF THE REAL WORLD! Hell, Islamofascists could blow a hole in Darien the size of a Super Target and all that would do is prove that the only way to defeat terrorism is to refuse to egg it on by looking it directly in the eye or making any sudden movements.
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While I was out West recently, there were various pamphlets with advice as to what to do if confronted by an aggressive wild animal. The advice included things like "don't run," "don't let your children run," and "make yourself look as large as possible by standing upright and putting a child on your shoulders."
In other words, think what a liberal would do, and do the exact opposite.
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Helen
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laments the new flying restrictions in the U.K.
I can totally see barring liquids and electronics; I'm still not so sure where the prohibition on books came from. (Sure, they are easy to hollow out, but it's just as easy to check that this wasn't done.)
It's sad. It really is.
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Literacy is the most dangeroud weapon there is. Thus the book ban.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins at August 10, 2006 03:32 PM (7vm/F)
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Why do you ban books on the plane?
Well, because in the immediate timeframe of something like this you ban everything that is not essential. Yes, books may not be a high threat item (although, I could very easily hide stuff in the bindings of a hardback) but do you really have time to sit down and list all the different things that really are high threats and then train and ensure compliance with said policy?
Not a chance.
So you ban everything now, and work out the fine details later.
Posted by: Masked Menace at August 11, 2006 11:25 AM (Aft+N)
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Maybe it's a trick to catch Islamic Terrorists.
Banned items are confiscated and thrown in trash bins,no?
The Koran is a book.
Koran goes in trash, zealot goes nuts and gets caught.
Posted by: Bob B. at August 11, 2006 05:06 PM (FvPE1)
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Cute, Bob.
Posted by: Attila Girl at August 11, 2006 05:09 PM (10HYf)
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I'm not sure you really want to know, and I hate to give anyone ideas, but the pages of a book could be soaked in any number of chemicals and left to dry. They could be used as incendiary devices, smoke producers, feedstock for more complicated binary or trinary chemical concoctions(when rewetted). Pages can also be glued together, hiding double-edged razor blades or utility knife blades:ceramic knife blades if you are nervous about x-ray machines. The handle can be something else you bring aboard-like a cane handle. Hard book covers can be hollowed and used to conceal a number of things; piano wire for a garrotte, ricin powder, explosive sheets, gel explosives or incendiaries, etc.
Canes and crutches could be rifles or shotguns if one had access to a machine shop. Done well, few could detect them. They can also be dispersal devices for that ricin powder, combined with, say, an oxygen tank--if the airlines really let people bring their own aboard these days. Have the airlines sealed all those entry points to mechanicals hidden beneath the floor of the cabin? In these days of fly-by-wire, a determined terrorist could bring a plane down from there without even accessing the flight deck.
It goes without saying that knowledge works both ways. Passengers will attack terrorists now. Terrorists know this. I'm sure their tactics have now evolved to the point of killing all the passengers when they get the chance. You have to act immediately if you see something happening. Carry Bic pens with you at all times--the old style "stick pen" with the polycarbonate shaft and "dyomite"(tungsten carbide) ball tip. Learn where the carotid artery is, and practice on a heavy vinyl (naugohide) bag from a dollar store(fill it with sand). The key is not hesitating -when the time comes--and not stopping until the threat is neutralized. That means dead. Practice stomping your foot with all your weight on a padded surface, with an emphasis on your heel. That action will be applied to a neck lying face-up on a hard surface. The neck should be behind your heel. These are not the times for timid responses. Or delays. Assess the situation to make sure it is really happening(someone being killed is a good clue), then act. Be vigilent. Be ready to act. Act. If you don't want to place yourself in this situation, don't travel. But, if you do, you have to do whatever you can to keep the innocent alive. Fights for life are not part of everyday life anymore(thankfully). Start thinking about what you have to do and get training and practice-now.
Posted by: Darrell at August 12, 2006 10:02 AM (3GqRD)
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I guess this means I have to go back to jujitsu class . . .? Or at least dust off my copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook.
What I really don't want to do--but should consider--is wearing high-heeled shoes. Awful to wear through an airport, but a fabulous weapon.
Posted by: Attila Girl at August 12, 2006 09:20 PM (10HYf)
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But ask your instructor to put together a short program of deadly maneuvers for use in a closed space. He(She)can set chairs up in a hallway to demonstrate.They usually don't teach the deadliest of moves because they don't want you using them in everyday circumstances. Here, you don't want to spend more than 15 seconds or so on any one individual.
Stiletto heels are great for teaching two-letter English words to students("No"). I'd prefer to see you flying in flat-soled boots, preferably with a steel tool and bottom plate. I know that makes it hard to remove them for inspection, but "speed laces" make it a little better. It affords additional protection in the case of a crash/fire/emergency exit. I'd like to see you in a heavy leather jacket, too, one designed to handle "road surfing" in motorcycle accidents. The pants that go with the jackets are good too, but heavy denim jeans will do as well. It wouldn't hurt if the jacket's sleeves were along enough for you to conceal your hands and fingers when disarming someone with a knife/razor. It makes a big difference in a fight. That's why gangs used jackets like this even if they didn't own motorcycles. Wear an oversized heavy t-shirt, one where you can pull it up over your mouth and nose for smoke/poison gases. Order that bottled water and have some available to wet your shirt.
Posted by: Darrell at August 13, 2006 02:30 PM (tsGz/)
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Maybe it's time to just make everyone fly naked.
That would stop the female version of the jihad in their burkha'd tracks.
Now, about the male version: refuse them tickets on any airplane anywhere. You're an Arab? Take a boat or drive. Profiling? Tough.
I wonder how comfortable that idiot Mineta would be on a plane filled with nothing but Muslim men.
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Cassandra
. . . thinks it over, and decides the blame lies with
Bush and Blair. She makes a persuasive case.
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Trans-Atlantic Terror
No makeup is fine. One always looks like shit while flying, right? But no books = cruel and unusual punishment. And no bottled water sucks big-time.
Have the jihadis gone to therapy to unravel their odd obsession with airplanes? Sounds like some sort of childhood trauma.
A friend of mine just returned from London on one of the supposedly targeted flights.
Kill the Islamo-fascists. Wipe 'em out. Now.
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No water means I'll be hitting that call button now. Never used it before, but that thin dry air really parches the throat.
Posted by: Desert Cat at August 10, 2006 11:58 AM (B2X7i)
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It's a mystery to me exactly when America and the world became ravenously thirsty. Growing up, I don't remember people running around with bottles of water. They used a water fountain if they were thirsty. Since when did the world develop an continuous thirst requiring bottles of water that cost more than gasoline? Makes no sense.
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July 29, 2006
Reynolds on the MSM Spinning the Seattle Shooting
With Tim McVeigh they were happy to generalize guilt, all the way from the NRA to Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. Here, the "climate of opinion" in subcultures producing terrorists seems to get less attention, or to be processed in more of a "why do they hate us?" fashion. I wonder why?
It's certainly a mystery. More here.
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One side of the MSM media's brain is out to lunch. Has to be. A perfect example is today's NY Times article on the shooting, which waits until the FOURTH paragraph to mention that the idiot shooter was Muslim. And then only in a quote by the police.
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The spin works the other way as well. Some just want to focus on the fact that the guy was a muslim.
There are one billion muslims in the world, in United states alone the statistics say that 25% of the population has some diognosable disorder. Six percent have serious disorders. The stats on suicide is also alarming, about one percent of all deaths are suicide, and we are not even counting attempted suicide and prevented suicides. So now take one percent of 1,000,000,000 people that comes out to 10,000,000 muslims that will commit suicides just based on simple statistics. Now if six percent of the population has serious disorders we are dealing with 60 million muslims who are very crazy people. Some of which are ready to die for no reason. Some do not even are able to make up a reason. Now add into the mix factors like loss of family members, loss of job, alcohol and drug problems, war, shock and awe. These factors will make it murder-suicide. Clearly we are not seeing the numbers of crazed muslims who should be committing acts of violence upon themselves and others.
By the way the one percent figure is per year and it is usually more than one percent.
I am surprised at how few muslims actually make it to the news since about sixty million of them commit suicide, and some take others with them in the process. I think that the media is doing a terrible job of covering this serious problem in our community (the earth)
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May be it is because these suicide attempts are a huge bid for attention and the media just does not want to cave into their desires for attention. My request to the media is to please report all the millions of suicides. We especially would like to hear about the seriously mentally ill that commit murder suicide, once these numbers are exposed the mental community will start to treat this problem and maybe we will find a cure. As it stands the media and its silence is preventing the cure for this terrible disease and we are stigmatizing a religion when in actuality this is a human problem.
Posted by: azzerism at July 30, 2006 09:59 PM (Uagor)
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Azzerism, what would you say about people who:
1) aggrandize suicide, and tell young people that if they take others with them they will bring glory to their families;
2) promise sensual/sexual delights in the next life to those who commit murder/suicides here, provided they kill enough innocents; and/or
3) give money to the families of young people who kill themselves while killing Jews, Christians, Americans, and other "infidels"?
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I would say you are describing the US Army. Or for that matter any Army.
Lets see 2500 dead soldiers, who bring glory to their families? (you mean pain hurt and sadness? lets not forget the damage to thse sons or daughter who will grow up without a father or mother) One out of hundred, will die, If you are going into a ride and they tell you one out of hundred do not come back is that suicidal? 10 out of hundred injured, where is the glory? Well we have a parade in their honor and when they go to the bar the girls will throw themselves at them. and sit on their wheelchairs on the dance floor.
I know the US army does not talk about sensual pleasures in the next life, Because they do not believe in the next life. But they sure want to make joining the Army sexy, the appeal of the macho male and the uniform, the thrill of the kill and the risk of losing ones life for glory and freedom and higher ideals, that get my blood going and I would join if they would let me join. Have you seen some of the recruiting commercials?
Now everybody knows that the US army pays very handsomely, people have gone to Iraq, came back and bought new cars with the bonus. The only difference is they have to kill innocent civillians and perhaps some so-called terrorists. Who knows who they have to kill, they just know that the job is to take some people out. And yes lets not forget the inticement of a free education. Hey its a one in hundred gamble that I would take if my life was going nowhere fast. Its better than Las Vegas!!
Now Attila what do you say about the suicidal mission your sons and daughters are being sent to, based on a false ideology. Based on an admitted mistake by the commander in chief. Would you send your educated son or daughter to die? To murder innocent people? Or to catch some crooked terrorists who are hiding among civilians.
Then I would say to you Attila that you have described yourself very clearly in that question that you pose to me. You see I would not send my daughter to a suicide mission, she will be playing tennis, and getting an education.
I would never intice her with sensual delights, I am hoping she grows up in pakistan and avoids all the teenage sex. And finds a mate when she is ready to be in a committed relationship. Furthurmore, my daughter or son will grow to respect and preserve life. No they will never carry a gun or point one in anyone elses direction. That initself is suicidal, cause the target sometimes fires back!
Also I will teach my kids that after life is a metaphor, designed to teach some un-evolved humans the path to righteousness.
And those people who actually believe in the next life are pretty flakey, something like Shirley Maclain (who by the way I adore and has been my teenage crush all my life)
Now if you are trying to suggest that there are actually desperate people who give up their lives for a lot less than what the US Army has to offer, I would seriously question their sanity. And send the US army recruits to learn the registaration techniques, hey we could cut our defense budget to 1/10 the cost if we could find soldiers willing to die for 1/10th the price.
Maybe The US army should hire Shirley and we could have some after life stuff going on here.
Hey lets hire some Muzzies and get them on our side. Oh I said that too fast come to think of it that is exactly what we are trying to do in Iraq and Afghanistan, hiring the locals, inticing them with more money then the terrorists. Now if we could just get them to blow themselves up, the terrorists would be cooked in no time, I say we promise them 82 virgins.
Posted by: azzerism at August 04, 2006 01:07 AM (Uagor)
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By the way, there is no word in my native language for "Irony" so I hope you will be forgiving at my feeble attempts at humour, satire etc, some of those concepts are alien to me because English is my second language, and at times it is difficult for me to articulate my thoughts clearly. I find myself thinking in a different language and then translating.
So do not take me too seriously now, I still want to be part of the Conservative Ideals. And could you please call off Darrell (the attack dog) cause I am scared he is going to rip to pieces everything I write by facts and figures and links from the internet.
Cheers,
Az
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July 11, 2006
Commuter Train Attack
PJ Media has a
roundup, of course.
I wonder if the folks at The New York Times will get any sleep tonight. They shouldn't.
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I'm sure they'll sleep like babies or small kittens tonight...
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at July 11, 2006 11:50 AM (1hM1d)
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They would not lose any sleep, even if a direct link were identified between this attack and their security breaches...because they live in a
closed system. (also
here for more Koestler thoughts on denizens of closed systems)
Posted by: david foster at July 11, 2006 02:00 PM (/Z304)
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Is It Possible
. . . that the terrorists
haven't been reading Dale Carnegie lately?
India will be the next country to lead the world, after our influence fades. And they will understand the threat posed by terrorism; I'm sure of that.
And, yup, I do think it's the Islamofascists this time: look at the calendar. Happy fucking 7/11.
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What's with the 11 obsession? Was that Muhammad's favorite number?
Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at July 13, 2006 06:04 PM (RiZPJ)
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They just got stuck there, and keep going back to it--like a skipping record.
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 13, 2006 10:04 PM (4IuF2)
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June 25, 2006
That Tiresome SWIFT Story.
Hackbarth
takes the ACLU to task over its rather predictable—and unsupported—spin on the
NY Times' shocking revelations that
Western governments (including ours!) are trying to starve Al Qaeda of funds.
As Sean points out, the only thing shocking about it is the fact that the folks at the Gray Lady thought our enemies should know the details about how this is done.
Next thing you know, Big Brother is going to be asking us how much money we make, and where we get it. Oh, wait . . .
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May 14, 2006
Mark Steyn Lays It on the Line
. . . in an essay entitled "To Connect the Dots, You Have To See the Dots."
Suppose you're a savvy mid-level guy in Washington, you've just noticed a pattern, you think there might be something in it. But it requires enormous will to talk your bosses into agreeing to investigate further, and everyone up the chain is thinking, gee, if this gets out, will Pat Leahy haul me before the Senate and kill my promotion prospects? There was a lot of that before 9/11, and thousands died.
Please read the whole thing.
Via Insty.
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First of all what does the murder of Ahmed Shah Massud have to do with 9/11, second of all how did the author establish that these murders were in fact commited by Algerians who were also members of Al-queda. And then the conclusion is even more hilarious; a justification of tracking phone records.
Attila: Can you please find some people who have some insight or is the plan to blindly push an agenda.
Posted by: azmat hussain at May 15, 2006 11:56 PM (GtDum)
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I think the timing of Massud's assassination is pretty clear. The idea was to take out the strongest resistance leader in Afghanistan before the 9/11 assault on the U.S. in a plan to draw us into a war AQ felt we were guaranteed to lose.
If you have an alternate theory, I'd love to hear it, but you'll recall that at the time AQ and the Taliban were nearly joined at the hip . . . It's hard to envision a scenario under which the two attacks weren't coordinated.
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Yes I do, think about it, AQ uses suicide bombs, and easy woulod be to get an afghani. The journalists who have come from outside with the sophistication of concealing a bomb in a camera can only be from a big organisation like CIA, KGB or Mossad. Not the signature of AQ. Also Taliban were already incharge and were grateful to Massood for helping them get in power. Now who would interested in invading afghanistan and getting rid of a strong resistence fighter and a leader? You connect the dots. That is why the web is full of this story of the Afghan hero, is it the Afghanis who are writing this story, look at each site and it is from the west.
Cheers
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February 24, 2006
Now These People
are the ones who need the fucking
Prozac.
Or a little lead poisoning; one of the two.
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