A quick survey of priorities:
- In 2001, the American government’s response to a successful series of terrorist attacks was to look outwards to see who to hit for this*.
- In 2009, the American government’s response to an only-because-we-got-lucky unsuccessful terrorist attack was to look inwards to see who to blame for this. (H/T: Nice Deb)
I think that, all things considered, I prefer the first approach.
Moe Lane
*To somewhat purify the Onion’s point.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
They have more experience with the latter.
NightTwister (Diary) Friday, January 1st at 10:37AM EST (link)Not so much with the former.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
Why would the FBI try to cover up that there was a second bomber on Flight 253
Scope (Diary) Friday, January 1st at 10:55AM EST (link)http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_kurt_hask.html
If Mr. Haskell is telling the truth, and I have no reason to believe he isn’t, why is the FBI trying to cover this up? According to Mr. Haskell, other passengers are coming out and coroborating his account.
I believe nothing that comes out of this administration, and/or anyone under their control, which is just about everyone. I put absolutely nothing past Obama, more importantly Emmanuel, Axelrod and the Czars. When Emmanuel said “you never want to let a crisis go to waste” and, we know they tend to manufacture crises, how would you interpret the fact that there was a second bomber that most don’t know about?
My thought would be to make it seem as if this were a lonely, extremist whackadoodle
Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Friday, January 1st at 11:05AM EST (link)not a coordinated attack by Al Qu’ada. One deranged man not the organization bent on destroying the U.S.
Heck, this administration even threw AQ under the bus.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher
second bomber destroys the narrative
vanekl (Diary) Friday, January 1st at 11:12AM EST (link)A second bomber destroys the Obama narrative: nothing to see here, there are no terrorists — just extremists — instead you should be discussing my historic health care reform bill.
The 5 Stages
Denial – “Just fireworks.” “The system worked.”
Anger – “It’s Bush’s fault”
Bargaining – Use civilian court system.
Depression – This will slow BOH’s agenda down if he let’s reality and the nation’s topic of discourse interfere with his narrative. The headlines are supposed to be talking about his great new society.
Acceptance – Order an investigation.
It's true.
DefendUSA (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 7:14AM EST (link)Haskell did indeed say this from the get-go about the second man. And on January 2nd, a Fox news report did confirm that the TSA let him go.
The FBI, the CIA and the TSA are incompetent boobs. The WH is calling this an *incident*!! Not to mention there was nothing *suspicious* about the fact the he was denied a visa, reported by his father…no, nothing to see here.
I wonder what the families in Ft. Hood are thinking…
*starred thought*
To be a leader is to do the uncomfortable thing. Man up, Mr. President.
We're stuck with this joker
conritwng Monday, January 4th at 9:06AM EST (link)It looks like until November this year , we’re stuck with President Pantywaist. If we can FLIP the ENTIRE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and get rid of incumbent senators MAYBE we have a chance to really stop this fool. ONLY if we get good people who love the U.S. Constitution.
I’m either a birther or a moby, and the moderator doesn’t really feel it’s worth his time to determine which; both are insta-bans anyway.
Why we are not told about co-conspirators
fleta Monday, January 4th at 4:49PM EST (link)We were not told by the Clinton administration about Timonthy McVeigh’s contacts with men from the Middle East prior to the Okl. bombing because they didn’t want to “go there”.
Denying that a soldier, Major Hasan had contacts with the same cleric as the Nigerian who attempted to blow up a plane on Christmas day does not make it so. The only solution is to call him traumatized, instead of the terrorist he is…we should not give him an atty. and civil trial. We had ample warning about the Nigerian bomber, but ignored it. My elderly mother in a wheel chair was bodily patted down like you wouldn’t believe….and almost dropped as they moved her from the wheelchair to remove her shoes (she is recovering from a broken hip and rib). The Democrats have shown us that National Security is low on their list, if not non-existent. POWER to control us and bring America down to a country that no longer produces food, manufactures goods, uses it’s own energy, uses common sense, educates our children, and biggest of all change our morals so that we call evil good and good evil is what it’s all about.
Expect More
michigan Friday, January 1st at 11:09AM EST (link)Woefully pathetic, it will be impossible for the administration to “protect” in earnest, something that they instinctively hate and do not believe in. This will continue; the country should be afraid.
Expect More
michigan Friday, January 1st at 11:09AM EST (link)Woefully pathetic, it will be impossible for the administration to “protect” in earnest, something that they instinctively hate and do not believe in. This will continue; the country should be afraid.
Press briefing photo
bkeyser Friday, January 1st at 11:24AM EST (link)This photo just released, depicts the new CYA Strategy to be employed by the WH in dealing with recently-failed Man-Caused-Disasters.
So, will anyone who concludes that the story of the "Sharp Dressed Man" is plausible, be called "Sharpies"??
USNJIMRET (Diary) Friday, January 1st at 11:24AM EST (link)I’ll say this much.
If this is a concocted story, and fabricated “Conspiracy Theory”, then the attorney missed his calling, and should write novels.
Don't throw Janet under the bus,
johnt Friday, January 1st at 11:26AM EST (link)she will jam the undercarriage. Besides, she’s good for laughs.
I shouldn’t pick on the poor slob, she symbolizes the entire administration, if you can call this circus of fools and blunderers an administration.
Actually it’s modern liberalism in a nutshell.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
Anyone notice
Wayne (Diary) Friday, January 1st at 11:53AM EST (link)that Federal Judge Ricardo Urbina dismissed the charges against the Blackwater 5, accused of manslaughter for a shoot-out in a public square in Iraq. The judge, bless him, described the government’s (Eric Holder) actions as “all too often contradictory, unbelievable and lacking in credibility.” He also said that prosecutors “repeatedly disregarded the warnings of experienced, senior prosecutors assigned to the case,” Seems like the judge was at least saying that Holder’s boys were inexperienced, in over their heads, and plain just violating established case law by using statements that were given under a grant of immunity.
And these are the guys who think their case against KSM is a “slam dunk”? Or that they’ll have no problems with the Panty Bomber? Lord, help us.
“Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal, and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain’t s–t”. Maj. Gen. John F. Kelly, USMC, Deputy CG, First MEF
I noticed, and it was a relief.
johnt Friday, January 1st at 1:05PM EST (link)I’m sure Holder would prefer to jail some Republicans but you have to take your fun where you find it.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
Time to reach across the aisle and put Tom Tancredo in charge of DHS
David123 (Diary) Friday, January 1st at 11:49AM EST (link)and give him all the authority he needs to crack down on terrorists, illegal aliens, and incompetents.
David123
agreed but,
edwlstr Monday, January 4th at 11:26AM EST (link)wouldn’t that be political suicide considering that the key personnel of this administration are “incompetents”.
ISLAM ...THE WORLDWIDE CULT
reelman (Diary) Friday, January 1st at 1:25PM EST (link)What human puppets…they treat woman like cattle and kill their kids, bomb & behead…its a cult…I took that “religion” in grad school as part of Medieval History…before PC-ism..violence is no big deal to them…
until the Quran is edited and a few paragraphs are removed…the ignorant borg will continue the mass murder…imagine any real church where the priest or preacher spews hate week after week…
sadly, we have spineless dupes (aka democrats) that deny reality…there will be at least 1 successful attack this year because their talk never matches their actions…and its actions like policy-procedure changes that profile moslems age 18-40…we are screwed…
I never fly or take trains or lived in a top 15 big city….the whole deal is now owned by the Obama-ites…
“Ignore what is said, watch what is done”
The problem is congress…is congress…
Secular Socialism is never the answer…
“This is where we hold them, this is where we fight”
The “reelman” in central Louisiana
Don't do that again, reelman.
Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, January 1st at 4:09PM EST (link)Not subject to negotiation.
The Kim Kardashian of blogging.
Check out my blog at http://moelane.com/.
http://moelane.com/filthy-lucre-filthy-lucre/
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My (combined) wish list.
BHO is not an American, he doesn't like us.
mosander Monday, January 4th at 7:36AM EST (link)Or he would not have spent $20 million to import and house Palestinians who hate us all
And he would dismantle the 75 muslim training camps within the US.
He wouldn’t have 40 communist czars in the White House.
He thinks we need to be a third world country so he is siphoning (stealing billions of dollars off our economy), wrecking the health care system.
The FDA this week declared mercury safe but pryidoxamine (B6) a new drug and must remove it from private sale.
I think he is hoping to kill off the Christians and Jews on the planet.
Just doing Moe's job...
HappyBunny Monday, January 4th at 7:49AM EST (link)Gee I wish I had that stick thingy. Then “I” could make it happen for you.
Jerk.
If you're gonna successfully moby, you have to try to be a little more subtle. (nt)
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 8:13AM EST (link)“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
I imagine.
edwlstr Monday, January 4th at 12:15PM EST (link)I imagine it in a suburb of Chicago. I imagine it in Trinity Church of Christ. I imagine our president being in attendance. I imagine his excuse after 20 years of being there, “I really didn’t hear him say those things”. After I got done imagining all of this, I felt kinda sick.
Father of Northwest bomber integral to rise of sharia, wahabbism
izoneguy (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 1:55PM EST (link)H/T Pamela Geller & http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/
LEADER OF SHARIA MOVEMENT IN NIGERIA
http://www.modernghana.com/news/257117/1/nigerian-muslim-jihadist-and-al-qaida-ties-started.html
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror – and he knows it
izoneguy (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 2:14PM EST (link)Barack Obama is vulnerable on terror – and he knows it
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6924404/Barack-Obama-is-vulnerable-on-terror—and-he-knows-it.html
See Above comment about Abdulmutallab’s father.
Classic mis-direction. We should be investigating the father.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should have been escorted off the plane by the military and placed into a military jail. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should have been waterboarded and asked about his father’s involvement. Now Obama has cut the balls off of our intelligence agencies and it will be the American Public paying the price.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
"Knicker bomber" OMG!!! How funny! (nt)
Karina (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 5:05AM EST (link)Ultimate muslim bummer...
mdyou (Diary) Saturday, January 2nd at 7:43PM EST (link)…no virgins, no dick. Really lonely.
This is not appropriate.
Moe Lane (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 7:25AM EST (link)On two levels. Do not repeat.
The Kim Kardashian of blogging.
Check out my blog at http://moelane.com/.
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My (combined) wish list.
UK paper says CIA not happy with Obama
bk (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 5:32AM EST (link)Ref: Daily Mail article
An unnamed official is quoted saying they forwarded enough info that someone in Washington could have connected the dots, and that having Obama blast them one day and then praise them the next (after the massacre) doesn’t cut it.
We saw under Bush that the CIA could do some pretty damaging leaks. Obama and Panetta had some earlier run-ins, so it will be interesting to see where this leads. Obama seems to have burned a lot of bridges here – tossing the CIA under the bus can do no good.
the CIA
kyle8 (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 6:33AM EST (link)are nothing but a bunch of self serving, incompetent, career bureaucrats. It should be dissolved, some of it’s functions could go to the NSA and some to military intelligence.
I cannot remember the last time they were effective or got anything right.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
security
sarge324 Monday, January 4th at 7:04AM EST (link)obama and his administration are putting the people in harms way.we have these enemies who hate us.they think if we dont step on their toes they wont be a problem.ever war the americans fought we fought to win.and make no mistake this is a war.obama is painting a target on our backs.people stay mad and vote the unscrupulous people out of office.
You are SO right
whimsley (Diary) Monday, January 4th at 8:59AM EST (link)I am afraid that Obama and his cronies will never realize that the terorists are out to destroy us. Or worse, perhaps our leaders DO know it and have treasonously decided to make things easier for the terrorists.
Terrorist attacks are an unfortunate fact of life in today’s world. They will never just go away. They cannot be rehabilitated. They should never be afforded civilian rights. This is a WAR and we must be ever vigilant, employ a very strong offensive against them, enhance our defenses, and deal with them as the war criminals they are.
American lives are at risk but that does not seem to concern the potus. I am sure the terrorist organizations love Obama. As long as he keeps his head in the sand, he can insure that the White House will not be a target.
When the time comes to vote, vote for candidates with integrity and backbone.
where are your accusers?
edwlstr Monday, January 4th at 11:10AM EST (link)Mr. Haskell would do well to do one thing immediately: HIDE. There are two ways for this vile, corrupt, socialist regime to avoid answering that question. The one that fits their M.O. best is to “dissappear” their antagonists. So, Mr. Haskell you might want to embrace a relationship with the Christian God through HIs Son, if you have not already done so, before too much more time gets by you. Franklin Graham is a man you could call to initiate that relationship. I believe that before the election of 2012, there will be a declaration of martial law because of some serious “crisis” and self-government, as we know it, will dissapear from the earth. I do not trust this administration any farther than I can throw Rahm Emanuel by his eyelashes.