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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 07:31 AM
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CNN and Gov't Gabble-degook
I'm not too bright so I can't really figure this out. Perhaps someone here can help me...

So I'm sitting in front of my TV this A.M. in underwear but sans Cheetos, and I'm watching a combo of Very-dim-bulb T.J. Holmes, who may the dumbest man on the Tube, and some "red-headed" hyper-kinetic gal who looks like she's a veteran of the Home Shopping Network. I like redheads, a LOT, but this one is, well, a mite under-talented.

So in a nutshell this is what they've stated this morning:
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1. They are not raising the Color Code Threat Level, which is already as high as it can be without going to "Red Alert -this is no drill, repeat this is no drill" (From the original Star Trek) however, extreme delays can be expected as the Security is going to be taken seriously(!) now, and they'll REALLY BE LOOKING FOR STUFF, instead of just making people throw out sealed cans of baby formula and bottles of Pepsi Cola. You'll still have to throw these out but you best better not screw around or you're going to wind up in the Federal Building somewhere real quickly because:

2. We always plan for the LAST attack. Since that moron shoe-bomber tried to kill all those people on that flight, everyone's shoes, including your great-grandmother's, are scrutinized. If they find that this materiel was secreted in this guy's tie bar, then tie bars will become the focus of everyone's attention for three years. Please note that this crap doesn't happen on El Al flights because they do not fuck around and don't care who's late, who is miffed, or whatever. Now THAT's security, but Americans generally don't want to be so inconvenienced. "OK, you pays your money and you takes your chances", so this stuff shouldn't surprise anyone however, all should recall that

3. The worst attack occurring on American soil happened because the Supreme Court-ordained so-called President was 'vacationing' on his ersatz ranch, formerly known as the Crawford Pig Farm, and refused to take seriously a warning from his own people, or, if you want to look at it this way, deliberately ignored said warning. It took weeks and months for the MSM to get their act together in this respect. Fast-forward 8 years, and hear that while this dreadful attack occurred, President Obama was vacationing in what that elite-snob Cokie Roberts would call an 'exotic' state, Hawaii, which of course, happens to be his Home-fucking-state, but I guarantee you that you will hear the words "terror attack", Obama, and Hawaii Vacation about 2 million times today and for the next 6 weeks, until Americans, when polled, state that Obama was asleep at the switch on vacation. So finally we may assume that

4. The RW talking points will include the "fact" that Obama was as far away from the Capitol as humanly possible, but is still in the U.S., that although he's in contact by 'secure telephone', that's not gonna cut it, and he's closer to Kenya than he is to Washington, and this guy was from Nigeria and may be a long-lost cousin of his. If you can imagine it as pure fantasy, it can happen...and as my dearly departed Daddy used to say, "and WOISE!"

Anyone else confused??
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 07:42 AM
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1. confused? nope. It's all theater to distract us
from the fact that our government is in the process of implementing a police state.
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zeemike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 07:48 AM
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4. you beat me to it n/t
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 07:44 AM
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2. Why Waste The Electrons?
A decade ago I watched CNN 24/7...not any more. It's dumbed down infotainment...with a little news mixed in to keep up appearances. If it's sensational or makes for good video they'll show it, but anything that involves substance or nuance...fuggedaboutdit.

I avoid confusion by avoiding much of the cable news prattle these days...and it's made my life a lot easier. This is especially the case on weekends and moreso holiday weekends where they have the raw recruits...the poor bastards who don't have enough seniority to get the day off.

Yesterday's situation at Detroit will provide plenty of mental masturbation on the cables in the day ahead...fear, fear, fear. Of course they won't discuss how inane most of the TSA enforcement has been or how someone could have slipped past the "screening". Makes one wish for yet another Tiger mistress to step forward...
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 10:02 AM
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6. Just a quibble -- this incident had nothing to do with the TSA.
The passenger was screened in Lagos, Nigeria and would have been subject to screening again in Amsterdam. I did read that he did not undergo secondary screening at AMS. Although I am not a fan of the TSA, they don't get the blame for this slip-up.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 10:10 AM
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9. He Was On A Watch List...
One would hope that the flight manifest would have been turned over to TSA prior to him boarding a plane to the U.S. They sure found Cat Stevens that way and kept him out. Now that probably falls to another government agency. They had an "expert" on C-SPIN this morning and he sounded confused...the difference between a Do Not Fly list and a "Watch" list. Sounds like someone screwed up here. But it also goes to prove that anyone who is hellbent on getting into this country to do harm can and will do so.

Cheers...
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zeemike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 07:47 AM
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3. nope....not confused.
Thy are just painting us a picture and the canvas is the media.
It is all in the image.
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Mika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 09:59 AM
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5. You could have been watching CSPIN WJ, where the loons were out in force.
I relearned that we have a Kenya born fascist communist president, a mole (for "them"), who is destroying America from the inside. ;)







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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 10:02 AM
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7. Wow...Gee, I'm sure sorry I missed that...
On Monday, I have my Freeper Teabag Couple coming in...WooHoo!

Must be the moon...
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 10:02 AM
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8. CLICK* my TV is off.
I do not think I could bear watching more propaganda today. Saw enough bullshit for 8 years with Bush, and had hoped I would not have to see more spin, but, alas, same old spin and horsehockey.

click. off tv. click, on spiced wine and gingerbread.
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