See those maniacs at right? The ones a-hootin' and a-hollerin' about how, if they had their own country, the blacks and gays and A-rabs wouldn't be able to take their women and bars and money, respectively? Ironically, those clowns calling for a Southern nation in America seem to have a lot more in common with the North than they think. The far North, that is. And you know we wouldn't be talking about the crazies in Alaska right now if it had nothing to do with witchy ding-dong Sarah Palin.
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The biggest sign so far that September 11th may have been an inside job will not be heard on PBS. Though two FBI counterterrorism agents have come forward with information about pre-9/11 rivalries between the CIA and FBI that may have lead to withholding information and lying to investigators after the incident, their bosses over at the Bureau have nixed the idea of the duo appearing on a PBS special to tell their story.
Because it's untrue? Nope:
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Welp, things have gotten reprehensible much faster than we ever could have imagined.
McCain supporters are now screaming out "terrorist" when their candidate asks the rhetorical question "Who is the real Barack Obama?" And this happened at a McCain-Palin rally in Florida yesterday:
John McCain accidentally incited a mob yesterday when he spoke before a crowd and asked, "Who is the real Barack Obama?"And of course, some yahoo had to yell out "Terrorist!"
To be fair, McCain looks properly mortified by the comment, or at the very least he's wearing that expression saying, "I'm not sure what they just said but by the way Rick Davis shaking his head back there and mouthing the word 'no' it probably wasn't good."
And as the blogs have pointed out, the problem here isn't that McCain voters are two clicks away from a lynch mob (well, that is a problem, actually) but that the GOP ticket, with their new smear campaign is trafficking in this tres subtle "Obama is not like us" shtick, though they once promised America a clean campaign. Less than a month away from elections, and the gloves have really come off.
Back in July, the Justice Department was "considering" a guideline allowing the FBI to launch criminal investigations against people without any basis for suspicion. The powers that be considered and somehow decided that this guideline is in keeping with what America is all about. The government now has even more license to profile innocents bases on their races, ethnicities, and religious beliefs.
Looks like Barack Obama isn't the only one with a history of "terrorist fist jabs."
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Earlier: Was Barack Obama’s “Fist Bump” Actually a Hi-Five With Osama Bin Laden?
"Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography," writes security scribe Bruce Schneier. "Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We've been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. Clearly any terrorist is going to first photograph his target, so vigilance is required."
But what if it's all been for naught? What if prohibiting photos at airports and train stations actually did exactly nothing to stop terrorism? CONTINUED »
It's not that Dunkin' Donuts actually thinks living endorsement Rachael Ray is supporting terrorism by wearing this black-and-white scarf in one of its ads. But the attacks from the right-y blogs, including Michelle Malkin's, has the company deciding that it's easier to pull the ad all together than defend itself against criticism that Ray is actually wearing a keffiyeh, or, as Malkin describes it, "the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad." [BG] Ray, who used to hoc Urban Outfitters scarfs on her website before the DD ad, joins celebrities like Ricky Martin who dared to wear the accessory without realizing it's as controversial as a KKK hood. Or that some people believe it to be.
Cranky former Democrat Joe Lieberman last week called on YouTube to remove videos from what he called Islamic terrorist organizations. If they can keep The Daily Show clips off the site, why not calls for the end of the Western world?
YouTube has at last publicly answered the politico's request, and it reads something like this: Go away.
Funny, coming from a company owned by Google, which has no problem turning in its users when international authorities come calling. CONTINUED »
After being held for six years at Guantanamo Bay, Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj has been released. Without charges. He was apprehended in 2001 by Pakistani officers while traveling near the Afghan border, accused of making videos for Osama bin Laden. But as the U.S. government puts it, he's not being released so much as he's being transferred to the Sudanese. [Reuters]
THE DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS A CLIENT Nielsen's flawed data isn't just being used to allocate billions of ad revenue dollars, but to keep tabs on terror threats. "If prescriptions for drugs used to treat infectious diseases begin to spike in a market, the Nielsen data can track how it spreads and whether it is taking on epidemic proportions or migrating in a way that might reveal a biological attack." [MP]
The confidential blueprints for the new Freedom Tower at Ground Zero were found by a homeless guy in a trash can. That's also where Al Qaeda was planning to plant a bomb had it got its hands on 'em. [NYP]
Did you hear? Scary British runway walker Naomi Campbell "took a meeting" with Venezuelan prez Hugo Chavez. And in case that's not weird enough already, now Palestinian terrorists are calling Campbell "courageous" and interpreting the Amazonian phone-thrower's precedent setting actions to mean the tides of America's political landscape are officially changing for the better.
Abu Nasser, chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades terror group in the Old City of Nablus in the West Bank, said: "The visit presents a slap in the face to Bush and his government and his policy. The fact that she respects Chavez, and his ideals, can bring more people to follow this step."
At least, in theory.
Finally! The trailer for I Am Legend (the movie that disrupted our sleep schedule and had everyone in Manhattan mistakenly convinced that our city was once again the victim of a violent terrorist attack) is available. We'd watch it ourselves, but we're busy working still being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Earlier: Will Smith To Scare The Crap Out Of Everyone Who Forgot To Pick Up Today’s Paper
Did you hear? ABC New is reporting that 6-8 vials of a "dangerous nerve gas" (phosgene) were discovered at the U.N. building early this morning.
And despite Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" that terrorist attacks were imminent this summer, it appears al-Qaeda's not to blame.
In fact, officials think it was probably just a bunch of silly U.N. officials who wanted to keep cannisters of "a poisonous, colorless gas with a suffocating odor like newly mown hay" as kitschy remembrances of the 1987 Iraq war.
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