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Nuclear Unicorn

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31. What does that even mean?

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 03:05 PM

Jun 2012

I don't live in fear of having my house burn down but I like having fire departments. Unlike fires terrorists take years to materialize and if they can be stopped I'm all for it. If they can be stopped before they reach their targets, good. If they can be arrested in their safehouses, better. If the people living overseas formulating plots, funding them, recruiting them and training them get zotted -- well...

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Americans Are as Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture as by Terrorism [View all] morningfog Jun 2012 OP

I suspect my bedroom dresser is out to get me LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #1

In related news: House Republicans pass bill declaring "War on Furniture". ( n/t ) Make7 Jun 2012 #2

Then why is Obama blowing them to smithereens? n/t B2G Jun 2012 #3

Whatever the MIC wants, the MIC gets, no matter who is pretending to be in office. Huey P. Long Jun 2012 #4

The MIC claims that it is responsible for the low numbers of Americans killed. Without their libinnyandia Jun 2012 #6

Snoopy warned us about this a long time ago. Wilms Jun 2012 #5

Thanks to the efforts of President Obama. dkf Jun 2012 #7

A largely imaginary threat built up on lies and propaganda to feed the MIC. Huey P. Long Jun 2012 #10

Enemy's on the run...fight 'em over there.... morningfog Jun 2012 #27

So what is the statistical threshold before attempting to stop violent mass-murderers? Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2012 #8

No one's saying that we shouldn't attempt to stop them. EOTE Jun 2012 #12

Mass murderers like the Pentagon and CIA? Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2012 #16

Let's treat it like any other crime. morningfog Jun 2012 #17

Our police can't go to Yemen and Pakistan so why even pretend? Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2012 #19

The wars are the result of not doing the police work on US soil Posteritatis Jun 2012 #25

You just made my point. morningfog Jun 2012 #26

Yeah the TSA is soooo awesome Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2012 #29

I'm not at all afraid. Are you? morningfog Jun 2012 #30

What does that even mean? Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2012 #31

We don't need decades of war to prevent morningfog Jun 2012 #33

They hate us because Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2012 #34

For many of the dead you have the causation backwards. For many of the dead, morningfog Jun 2012 #39

Some day BIG Furniture and their lobby will get what's coming to them Johonny Jun 2012 #35

We spend trillions on stopping terrorists which have killed maybe 4000 US citizens, johnd83 Jun 2012 #9

Brilliant, even! SammyWinstonJack Jun 2012 #11

Furniture hates us for our freedom Johonny Jun 2012 #13

Yep n/t clang1 Jun 2012 #14

Furniture is cheaper than fighting bogeymen in lost wars. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2012 #15

Oops DLnyc Jun 2012 #18

So many killed by falling pianos it's ridiculous longship Jun 2012 #20

I said it before and I'll say it again- the terrorism threat meme is bullshit. Gregorian Jun 2012 #21

+1000 marmar Jun 2012 #22

I'm keeping a close eye on my coffee table Spirochete Jun 2012 #23

Some rights must be sacrificed in the struggle against Al Sofa. Comrade Grumpy Jun 2012 #24

Then clearly the terrorists have won. ithinkmyliverhurts Jun 2012 #28

Sweden must turn over the heads of Ikea or else face preemptive invasion 4th law of robotics Jun 2012 #32

They will need the proper tools... pinboy3niner Jun 2012 #36

"... seventeen were private U.S. citizens, or .001 percent" whatchamacallit Jun 2012 #37

And the moderate furniture has refused to "refudiate" the radicalized furniture CrawlingChaos Jun 2012 #38