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3,495, actually.
Does John have a black rubix cube pasted on the side of his head? (and other important morning news)
If the 9/11 attacks were intercepted before they occurred, I'm sure the media would have run the same headline. The good guys (cops, detectives, undercover agents) can't win for losing with the head-in-the-sand lefty media.
Gee, raindrop, and if I shat out gold coins I wouldn't have to go to work this morning. The fact is, the anti-terrorist forces in this country have a very poor record of stopping terrorists with an IQ over 75, and a TERRIFIC record at stopping no-hope bumblers who couldn't bomb their underpants without undercover agents to help them push.
Now I suppose these jokers will be tortured for a few years until what little mind they started out with is gone, like Jose Padilla, to the point where they can't be prosecuted, like Jose Padilla. Because that's the New American Way.
Don't worry Fnark, there will eventually be another devestating attack (maybe Seattle?) so you can take sanctimonious pride in saying "if only they had connected the dots."
Oh my, I don't enjoy being obnoxious, but I may be misinterpreting that "can't drive 65" as a nod to Sammy Hagar, and he's obnoxious! Where is the Double Nickles on the Dime reference?
Anyway, barelyforgiven, but as penance get on over to the Tullycraftnation.com - this week is Jonathan Richman week! Couldn't have started any better than with a song about a boy and the pride he has in his piece of shit car.
http://www.tullycraftnation.com/
Speaking of which, I got a ticket for speeding yesterday near SeaTac in a weird stretch from the airport to I-5 that calls for 40mph. In fact it be this ticket, in combination with the driving without insurance, parking and other violations that has boosted my infraction total above the bluebook value of my '90tercel.
Thing is, I really admire the half completed transit starwarsian ramp being built by the airport. (Lost in thought and gaze, I ramped the accelerator up to 50 or so.) I kinda hope it never gets completed - I'm more of a process guy than goal oriented. Yeah, and the detours near my house off of MLK has opened me up to exploring parts of the neighborhood I've never seen. I have no problem with this transit stuff dragging on and on. I mean sorry, I dig construction sites, takes me back to summer work in my 20s, also their bright neon orange was the featured color in my only art show. Was at 2nd Ave Pizza a few years back.
But please, get hip with the music references. The ironic posturing with Sammy Hagar is too lame, even for an intern.
Pardon my typo - Fnar'f'.
Also it was the Trinidad detectives that said it was time to pull their cover. Not Bush's goons.
No, I rather don't think I will.
So why is picking off the low hanging fruit (inept home grown terrorist wannabes) a bad thing?
@10 - Catching inept terrorists wannabes is not a bad thing. But overhyping it to capitalize on public fear and claiming it as proof of public officials' skill and competence - that is a bad thing.
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I'm not posturing for Sammy Hagar. I really do like how it tastes.
Any wannabe terrorist who thinks that bombing an airport named after a president is akin to killing that president again is clearly too stupid to live.
Attention citizens of Oceania! Stay tuned for a Home Sec Newsflash:
Your Preznit has foiled a terrorist plot of terrifying terror by the hordes of Eastasia!
Confessions and executions to follow!
Terror! Terror! Terror!
The Iraq headline is stark & effective:
3,493:
May I suggest, adding a US injured estimate?
3,493 / 26,188:
I realize the injured figure is harder
to substantiate. The above is from a source cited at Wikipedia counting "severly injured".
BTW. While I'm more distressed by
the Iraqi casualties (probably 100 times
US), those who need this reminder will
probably be more concerned about US casualties.
Your source for casualty information is http://icasualties.org/oif/.
3,495 now, 17 already this month. 3,771 for the coalition. US wounded 25,242 (over 600 in April). 111 suicides. There isn't a total for Iraqi deaths, which are based on news reports and thus not very accurate, but the monthly REPORTED numbers are running between 2,000-3,000 a month.
And the numbers are increasing across the board. We've suffered 100 or more deaths in six months, four of them since last October.
For those who say these numbers pale in comparison to Vietnam: give it time, give it time.
raindrop, give it up. your terrorism boogeyman only scares rubes in wyoming who will never encounter terrorism, besides the terror of losing farm subsidies.
It's about diligence, not fear. It's also about that FBI agents, Trinidad officials, are doing their job and are probably as Bush fatigued as we are. Giving them a few kudos doesn’t make us right wing war mongers.
I wonder how many of those 25,242 wounded troops wouldn't have survived those injuries 40 years ago. I'm going to suggest that the sole credit for our low casualty rate goes to medical science.
it also doesnt mean people doing their job they are paid to do are special and deserve kudos.
In other obscure John Ratzenberger, he gets gatted by the Germans in A Bridge Too Far while paddling accross a river. I didn't realizt till my friend yellled, "They just shot Cliff!"
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