One of the Kung Fu Monkeys dusts off a post from circa the last foiled terrorist plot and man is it pure evergreen gold (not an oxymoron, because I said so). A taste:
“Wait, Arent You Scared?”
Errr, no. And if you are, you frankly should be a little goddam embarrassed.No false bravado and it’s not that I don’t take terrorism seriously. I do, which I why I voted for the guy who believed in securing our ports and fighting terrorism with criminal investigation methods — which is, if we may remind everybody, how this particular plot was busted.
I am just not going to wet my pants every time some guys get arrested in a terror plot. I will do my best to stay informed. I will support the necessary law enforcement agencies. I will take whatever reasonable precautions seem, um, reasonable. But I will not be terrorized. I assume that the terror-ists would like me to be terror-ized, as that is what is says on their nametag, rather than, say, wanting me to surrender to ennui or negative body image, and they’re just coming the long way around.
Osama Bin Laden got everything on his Christmas list after 9/11 — US out of Saudi Arabia; the greatest military in the world over-extended, pinned down and distracted; the greatest proponent of democracy suddenly alienated from its allies; a US culture verily eager to destroy freedoms that little scumfuck could never even dream to touch himself — I would like to deny him the last little check on the clipboard, i.e. constant terror. I panic, they win. To coin a phrase, Osama Bin Laden can suck my insouciance.
I am absolutely buffaloed by the people who insist I man up and take it in the teeth for the great Clash of Civilizations — “Come ON, people, this is the EPIC LAST WAR!! You just don’t have the stones to face that fact head-on!” — who at the whiff of an actual terror plot will, with no apparent sense of irony, transform and run around shrieking, eyes rolling and Hello Kitty panties flashing like Japanese schoolgirls who have just realized that the call is coming from inside the house!
Read the rest. It will restore a shred of the sanity that’s been sapped away by the relentless suck of teh stupid humming along like an assembly line widget for the past 8 years or so.
December 28, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I’m posting this everywhere in hopes of starting a new meme:
Greater Wingnuttia should adopt a new flag: a pair of soiled underpants.
December 28, 2009 at 11:21 pm
It’s a variation on the old “wave the bloody shirt” meme. Since 9/11/01, they’ve been waving the shitty underwear….
December 28, 2009 at 5:27 pm
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December 28, 2009 at 6:50 pm
It’s an odd stance that wingnuttia has adopted. They honestly believe that the only way to prove you’re brave is to be terrified all the time.
On the other hand, these shit-for-brains people also believe that slashing taxes increases tax revenues, that preventing people from getting health insurance increases their access to healthcare, and that their leaders must be brilliant because nothing they say makes even a slight lick of sense.
December 29, 2009 at 10:25 am
They’ve transcended mere cognitive dissonance and risen to the much higher level of cognitive irrelevance. Quite an achievement for those of such modest brainpower IMO, and quite an appropriate description as well.
December 28, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Welcome to the future; it’s just starting now.
December 29, 2009 at 12:49 pm
1. You don’t fight terrorism via criminal investigation. When did that ever work? Not last Friday, and not ever. That wasn’t prevented via criminal investigation. It is insane to think you can fight this by investigating after the fact. Which one of you people have every been to the middle east, talked to Muslims and Arabs there, understand their mentality (even the moderates)? Well, I have and I spent 25 years defending your right to be stupid.
2. The comment about a decrease in tax rates result in an increase in tax revenues is a fact. It’s a fact. Look at the last major tax cuts: JFK, Reagan, Clinton, Bush. All eventually increased tax revenue. I am so sick and tired of reading the same lies over and over. Like tax cuts for the rich. I am not rich and I got a tax cut, at least until next year. Quit drinking the cool aid, look up the figures, crunch them yourself and get some education.
3. By the way, courage (or bravery) is controlled fear. When you’re dealing with people who only understand violence, putting them on trial is a victory to them.
I just don’t understand this mentality.
December 29, 2009 at 1:21 pm
You don’t fight terrorism via criminal investigation. When did that ever work?
Um, the Virginia 5 recently arrested in Pakistan. these clowns. The Brooklyn Bridge torchers. Zac Moussaoui. Jose Padilla. Ahmed Ressam (LAX plotter). The Buffalo crew. The Florida crew. etc., etc.
Other than the fact that law enforcement/intel does actually work quite often, what is the alternative approach that you believe “works”?
Evidence?
Quit drinking the cool aid, look up the figures, crunch them yourself and get some education
Dude, it’s Kool Aid. Don’t front.
The comment about a decrease in tax rates result in an increase in tax revenues is a fact. It’s a fact. Look at the last major tax cuts: JFK, Reagan, Clinton, Bush. All eventually increased tax revenue.
No, they didn’t. Reagan had to raise taxes seven times after his initial cut just to get revenue close to the status quo ante. Clinton raised taxes and cut taxes, and had a booming economy to generate revenue. Bush left office with a gaping deficit and the tax cuts were the main culprit.
The only true example is JFK to some extent, but then, the marginal rate at the top was 90%. Otherwise, Laffer has been thoroughly and repeatedly discredited. His theory only held when marginal rates were that high.
By the way, courage (or bravery) is controlled fear. When you’re dealing with people who only understand violence, putting them on trial is a victory to them.
Ah, how do you know what “these people” understand and not? You are an expert, eh? Psychiatrist? Sociologist? Anthropologist? All of the above?
And, for the record, putting terrorists on trial is a major defeat for them. They wanted to be martyrs, not prisoners. As prisoners, they fall off the jihadi radar into oblivion. No virgins, no glory, nada but a lifetime to contemplate their wasted lives.
Which one of you people have every been to the middle east, talked to Muslims and Arabs there, understand their mentality (even the moderates)? Well, I have and I spent 25 years defending your right to be stupid.
I have.
And I have more than one Muslim friend from the actual Middle East. Fancy that. They, however, don’t understand violence at all. They understand everything but violence.
Oh conundrums!
December 29, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Well, I have and I spent 25 years defending your right to be stupid.
Well yeah, but the rest of us have spent a good deal more than 25 years funding you and yours right to be militant to the rest of the world. Hasn’t worked out too well for anyone, has it? Stupid us.
December 30, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I was with this guy up until ‘the greatest proponent of democracy’, its saddening that even the non-wingnut americans have fallen for this ‘USA supports democracy’ propaganda. the US has been one of the leading suppressors of international democracy since 1945, rivalled only by the USSR in the scope and brutality of said suppression.
Thats not necessarily a criticism of American foreign policy, I’m not saying the US is evil or that any other country in their position wouldn’t have done the same thing. There may well have been valid reasons to install and support right wing dictators around the world during the cold war, and maybe millions of civilian deaths were necessary to secure American hegemony, but to say that the US is ‘the greatest proponent of democracy’ is simply a masturbatory fantasy.