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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Helen

. . . 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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