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Psephos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-27-09 10:43 PM
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50. When in trouble, change the subject.
You were mocking this in your first post.

Suddenly, it's not a laughing matter to you, but instead, a war conspiracy.

Obama's worst nightmare is a successful airliner detonation. His very worst. If it's shown to be due to the same kind of epic security fail we just saw with this bomber, it will be the end of Democrats in the White House for decades, and a powerful diminution of Democrat power in Congress as well. Napolitano is lost at sea. She is shockingly unfit for her job, so more epic fails hardly seem out of the question.

Meanwhile, it's obvious to any informed observer that the US has no spare capacity, money, or political capital to engage in any new war.

I see little sense of proportionality and much conspiracy-think in your latest comments. I am content to accept that we have irreconcilable opinions.
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  -Investigators: Northwest Bomb Plot Planned by al Qaeda in Yemen NewLIfeArea  Dec-26-09 08:47 PM   #0 
  - Will somebody give you your pizza already?  BeyondGeography   Dec-26-09 08:52 PM   #1 
  - Sewed into his underwear, eh? Which apparently burned, damaging  mbperrin   Dec-26-09 08:55 PM   #2 
  - We'd have been further ahead to buy a fire extinguisher.  EFerrari   Dec-26-09 09:01 PM   #5 
  - Now that's a practical suggestion.  aquart   Dec-26-09 10:32 PM   #21 
  - Not near long enough for my preference..  pipoman   Dec-27-09 07:17 AM   #32 
  - Here's a vid of 3 ounces of C-4 exploding - same amount as was brought on the plane  Psephos   Dec-27-09 01:38 AM   #30 
  - 80 grams of PETN, one of the most powerful high explosives known  Psephos   Dec-27-09 12:35 AM   #27 
  - Thanks for adding the info and links in your two posts!  D-Lee   Dec-27-09 07:57 AM   #33 
  - I've read up, thanks. Also looked a bit at the circumstances of this  mbperrin   Dec-27-09 03:57 PM   #45 
     - When in trouble, change the subject.  Psephos   Dec-27-09 10:43 PM   #50 
        - There was never a danger of an explosion. All went as desired.  mbperrin   Dec-28-09 09:41 AM   #53 
  - You might not be so freaking cavalier if  Cha   Dec-27-09 02:46 PM   #43 
     - No, but he didn't, did he?  mbperrin   Dec-27-09 03:59 PM   #46 
        - Nobody jumps on fucking lieberman's bandwagon around here.  Cha   Dec-27-09 05:06 PM   #47 
        - He's all over the news today using this incident as a reason to  mbperrin   Dec-27-09 06:28 PM   #49 
        - This isn't about Liebermouth, it's about security failure at agency level.  Psephos   Dec-27-09 10:50 PM   #51 
  - can anyone hear the war drums beating?  cory777   Dec-26-09 08:59 PM   #3 
  - welcome to DU--so far, I haven't believed a word of the official stories  niyad   Dec-26-09 09:51 PM   #15 
  - Is the PNAC back?  Rosa Luxemburg   Dec-26-09 11:02 PM   #25 
  - No I don't hear war drums beating  groundloop   Dec-27-09 09:09 AM   #36 
  - that's ok,  cory777   Dec-28-09 09:32 AM   #52 
  - So is this a preview of which country is the next one for us to free?  DonkeyHoTay   Dec-27-09 10:45 AM   #39 
  - No, but then I'm not stuck in the bush cheney nightmare..  Cha   Dec-27-09 02:44 PM   #42 
  - Ok...I just have to ask..was it boxers or briefs ...or thongs?  HipChick   Dec-26-09 09:01 PM   #4 
  - Is that as in  dipsydoodle   Dec-27-09 03:14 AM   #31 
  - Again, I gotta say, why didn't he (and the tennis shoe flambe guy) go to the  gateley   Dec-26-09 09:03 PM   #6 
  - I can see the latest security measures now...  Harry Monroe   Dec-26-09 09:35 PM   #7 
  - Thanks to an alert Dutchman, a major Christmas tragedy may have been averted.  Bobbieo   Dec-26-09 09:50 PM   #14 
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     - You give him The Darwin Award but don't see the humor?  aquart   Dec-26-09 10:34 PM   #22 
  - Oh bullshit.  bemildred   Dec-26-09 09:38 PM   #8 
  - Yep! n/t  truth2power   Dec-26-09 09:55 PM   #18 
  - Terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab rigged underwear with explosives to bring down Flight 253  brooklynite   Dec-26-09 09:49 PM   #9 
  - Boxers or briefs?  BeyondGeography   Dec-26-09 09:49 PM   #10 
  - thank goodness I wasn't the only one with mind in the gutter. . . .  niyad   Dec-26-09 09:49 PM   #13 
  - Depends! n/t  drdtroit   Dec-27-09 12:44 AM   #28 
  - I"M sorry-- I know this is a serious subject, but the headline made me laugh. my first thought was-  niyad   Dec-26-09 09:49 PM   #11 
  - Al Qaeda has single handedly started a movement where men will be felt up by  applegrove   Dec-26-09 09:49 PM   #12 
     - do you think the guys will mind (I mean, except for the al-qaeda types) if the tsa's doing the  niyad   Dec-26-09 09:53 PM   #16 
     - And once again the terrorists win.  aquart   Dec-26-09 10:35 PM   #23 
  - AQ in Yemen?  Igel   Dec-26-09 09:55 PM   #17 
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  - "Sniffer" devices are the answer  customerserviceguy   Dec-26-09 11:02 PM   #24 
  - I thought we were fighting them in Iraq... uh... Afghanistan... uh... Pakistan.  tinrobot   Dec-26-09 11:10 PM   #26 
  - That's Exactly What I Thought. I guess we are confused.  sandyj999   Dec-27-09 08:10 AM   #34 
  - I guess who didn't know..assholes are anywhere.  Cha   Dec-27-09 02:48 PM   #44 
  - Father of Detroit would-be bomber warned US  Guilded Lilly   Dec-27-09 12:48 AM   #29 
  - "DID NOT HAVE ANY SPECEFIC INFORMATION"  groundloop   Dec-27-09 09:23 AM   #37 
     - I am questioning  Guilded Lilly   Dec-27-09 02:39 PM   #41 
  - I see the conspiracy nuts are out in this thread.  Odin2005   Dec-27-09 09:04 AM   #35 
  - That's A Given. n/t  sandyj999   Dec-27-09 10:38 AM   #38 
  - If the pantie bomber roasted his weenie how's he gonna do the virgin thing in the afterlife?  davsand   Dec-27-09 11:59 AM   #40 
  - Phase One: Explode Underpants. Phase Two: ? Phase Three: The end of America!  Ian David   Dec-27-09 05:19 PM   #48 
 

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