In the wake of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253, President Obama, in a news conference from the Pacific White House in Hawaii, on Monday cautioned Americans to avoid “lashing out against folks in puffy underpants.”
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, faces charges of attempting to destroy an airliner by detonating a high explosive sewn into what the FBI described as “boxers or briefs … but clearly not adult incontinence undergarments.”
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1 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 29, 2009 at 1:46 pm
BHO isn't convinced that this even actually happened. Emphasis mine:
It is apparent that BHO is on the wrong side.
My New Year's Resolution:
To pray, at least once a day, that BHO will seek Jesus and find Him.
God Bless America
2 Hawkeye_R // Dec 29, 2009 at 1:56 pm
After the shoe-bomber incident, airport security had us taking off our shoes. Now I guess they'll have us taking off our underwear…
3 Upnorthlurkin // Dec 29, 2009 at 2:30 pm
I'll be repeating Psalm 109….especially verse seven or eight (depending on which book I'm reading…. It's verse seven in my prayer book, verse eight in my Bible.)
I'll continue to pray the damage these miscreants do to our country is reversible.
In total agreement….
God Bless America!!
4 onlineanalyst // Dec 29, 2009 at 2:37 pm
"Standing side by side with the chairman of the Council of Adult Incontinence Relations, Obama noted…" Well done with the acronym, Scott. Like me, you do not "CAIR" to pretend that a personal act of jihad is a civil criminal act but one of using our legal system to defeat our national security from within.
Had Adbulmutallab downed the plane, causing multiple deaths and wreaking much destruction, would his act still be considered a criminal offense? Don't these individual acts of asymmetrical warfare by zealous "irregular" combatants equal the means of kamikazes in WWII? Military justice is the only forum appropriate for these acts of jihadist terrorism.
5 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I'm not so sure. It's much like adding the term "hate crime" to a charge of murder. To my tiny mind all murder is a "hate" crime and, even if not, the penalty for murder seems quite sever enough already…"I think I shall kill you twice" is a funny movie line but not one that really applies
6 onlineanalyst // Dec 29, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Adbulmutallab claims that there are many like him training in Yemen.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/abdulmutallab-yemen...
To the jihadist's mind, the act of inflicting death to the infidel is an act of holy war. It is neither murder nor a "hate crime" to them. It should not be considered as either by us. It is an act of war, and our Western civilization hangs in the balance.
7 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 3:33 pm
It's attempted premeditated murder. The existing laws are surely enough to make him pay dearly. Embellishment is a silly waste of time. I'm pretty sure he's not entirely mentally stable…shall we emulate the Chinese and execute the insane?
8 ChileSerrano // Dec 29, 2009 at 3:51 pm
It's attempted premeditated murder.
No … it's jihad.
I'm pretty sure he's not entirely mentally stable…shall we emulate the Chinese and execute the insane?
Some folks just seem incapable of respecting other people's cultures. For shame, boberin …
9 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 29, 2009 at 3:54 pm
There is no evidence that the man executed in China the other day was "insane." None whatsoever.
10 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Just saying that the British seem a tad miffed at the Chinese for executing and idiot yesterday…so the Brits have summoned the Chinese Ambassador, the Iranians have summoned the British Ambassador…why haven't we summoned any Ambassadors, perhaps the Yemini Ambassador. If enough countries summon enough ambassadors we should have the ills of the world solved today or tomorrow at the latest I'd think…
And, premeditated mass murder or jihad…tomayto…tomahto…either/both carry pretty serious consequences…that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Call it…lets make one up here…a "really stinky" crime…I care not. Try him for the crime and move on
11 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I'm not mad, the Brits are.
12 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Besides Obiwan telling that he'd "look into it" we have this…
Three Congressional Panels To Hold Hearings On Failed Christmas Terror Plot
so as you can plainly see, the "problem" is solved. Go about your business, nothing to see here anymore
13 onlineanalyst // Dec 29, 2009 at 4:24 pm
We obviously disagree re jihad as an act of war. However, those acting on behalf of Islamic jihad do consider themselves at war with us, and their assorted means of warfare are not the moral equivalent of murder, mass or otherwise.
Captured enemy combatants should be questioned by national security agents of the CIA, the FBI, and the military for whatever intelligence can be gleaned. They should be subject to the justice of military tribunals and either summarily executed or held in indefinite detention until hostilities cease, as per the Geneva Conventions. They are not citizens guaranteed protections of the Constitution. As such, they should not be protected "civil rights" protections of a lawyer as if their act is merely one of a criminal offense.
Try this article on for size: http://marcthiessen.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/my-u...
14 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Hi RAM, welcome back…I see your handiwork afoot even if you aren't posting
15 ChileSerrano // Dec 29, 2009 at 4:54 pm
We proclaim that the terrorists "don't represent Islam." OK, whom do they represent? The Franciscans? We don't get to decide what's Islam and what isn't. Muslims do. And far too many of them approve of violent jihad.
Lying To Ourselves, by Ralph Peters.
16 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 5:20 pm
A small injection of reality if you please…
There are at least 49,315 commercial airline flights per day worldwide and…from today's headlines….
"Yemen says may harbor up to 300 Qaeda suspects "
I'd say the odds are in our favor…just saying…give me the odds, let me decide how terrified to be
17 onlineanalyst // Dec 29, 2009 at 5:20 pm
More grist for the mill: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/artic...
The Muslim jihadists mean war with us, even if the dhimmis among us prefer to call these acts of terrorism "premeditated murder".
18 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 1:22 pm
In a related note the bombers dad is sending me $14 million (USD) that he was having difficulty tranferring to thisd country. The deal will be in the strictest confidence so…please don't mention this to anyone.
19 ChileSerrano // Dec 29, 2009 at 5:41 pm
"I'd say the odds are in our favor …"
Right, bob. So … if our little buddy Abdul had been a little more competent … or if whoever constructred his bomb had been better at it … and 300 people had died over Detroit, that would have hardly been worth worrying about … right? I mean, after all, that would have been a pathetically small number compared to the 9/11 toll … just another pesky annoyance you have to put up with if you choose to fly on airlines, much like having to remove your shoes …
20 ChileSerrano // Dec 29, 2009 at 6:18 pm
“I'd say the odds are in our favor…”
Total Muslim population of the world – between 1.2 and 1.8 billion, depending on the source you consult.
Total Muslim extremist population of the world – ???
“So I guess the question you want to ask yourself is, ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well .. do you ?”
21 mindknumbedkid // Dec 29, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Probably no one feels any "luckier" than the folks who were on flight 253 Christmas Day. I'm not sure I want to go through life hoping I am lucky, or that I have really good odds of not becoming a victim of one lone Jihadist. If we are not going to deal with them in light of the reality that they are at war with us (because we are not one of them) then we will never be able to regain our security. Obama and the Liberals in government are too naive and uncaring to provide for our security.
22 mindknumbedkid // Dec 29, 2009 at 7:18 pm
The passengers on that flight also allegedly feel relieved they were not blown to pieces.
23 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 7:26 pm
18 million commercial flights each year and because there are some wackos out there we should all fly naked.
"They" win
24 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 29, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Some things are, by their very nature, beyond civil jurisdiction. An act of terrorism in the name of an idiotic ideological barbarism piously referred to as jihad is THE transcendent example of such a case.
Act like an ostrich; be deluded; call it what you will—it is war. Seriously, don't be silly; it's unbecoming to us as a nation, it's embarrassing.
We tie our own hands when we even consider such things as "back-lash," what's up with that? And we're supposed to tolerate hate-filled, murderous intolerance!?!
I will not be subjugated. I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. Bottom line. I know it's hard to tell sometimes, but that doesn't make it any less so.
The 3rd Family wishes everyone, everywhere the best year of their lives in 2010.
25 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 7:42 pm
What you may not understand is that I don't disagree all that much with the "war" scenario. I need to hear from someone/anyone how they propose to "win" such a thing…to eliminate threat from our lives.
Happy New Year to you and yours as well!
26 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 29, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. ~~Galatians 6:7.
27 ChileSerrano // Dec 29, 2009 at 8:14 pm
boberin: On the question of fighting, and winning, wars:
“ … if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
~~ Winston Churchill : in The Gathering Storm (1948)
28 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 8:20 pm
A former detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Saeed al-Shehri from Saudi Arabia, has emerged as a top al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader since U.S. authorities sent him home in November 2007. So, George let the leader go in 2007, sent him to Yemin where he whooped up more or less 300 wackos with nefarious intent…and in response we'll…
Officials say much of the aid is covert and classified, in part to avert a backlash against the Yemeni government, which, on top of al Qaeda, is battling Shi'ite rebels in the North and faces separatist sentiment in the South.
The Pentagon's main publicly disclosed counterterrorism assistance program for Yemen has grown from just $4.6 million in fiscal 2006 to $67 million in fiscal 2009, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.
so We're spending $223,000 per wacko to get rid of them. We seriously ought to ask how much they'd accept to NOT bother us
29 ChileSerrano // Dec 29, 2009 at 4:22 pm
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that’s all.”
~~ Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll") ;
from Through the Looking Glass (1871), Chapter VI
30 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 8:23 pm
And so we should concentrate our efforts where…exactly? And, once there we should do what…exactly? And, once we do that we'll know we are finished, that we've won when…exactly?
These are my serious questions, ones that have no answers except of course that what we are doing is "not enough"…whatever tha means
31 ChileSerrano // Dec 29, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Be of good cheer, bob. We have 80 to 90 more whackos like al-Shehri in Gitmo that Obama is considering sending back to Yemen … after all, we just gotta close that awful place down …
32 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I menat to add that Obiwan will surely release a wacko or 3 as well, George had no lock on that…just unlucky
33 ChileSerrano // Dec 29, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Three ?
We should be so lucky, he only releases three …
The way we're going, we'll have more than that driving cabs in lower Manhattan !
34 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 9:05 pm
See? That's rehabilitation. There no angry cab drivers…right?
35 boberinyetagain // Dec 29, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Drat the luck! Turns out the bomber is a regular kid, rather devout…lonely and depressed, unsure of himself or the meaning of life. He turned to religion for guidance and…if only we had blown him and his family up sooner. Of course his family tried to have him found/arrested, even asked us for help to that end…but killing the lot of them would have been a surer way to go eh?
God weeps, I weep with Him
36 ChileSerrano // Dec 29, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Jeez, bob, that's a touching story, the way you tell it …
Y'know, if you wanted to make the poor kid feel better, bob, if you wanted to make him think that he didn't just totally "screw the pooch", what with having a shot at murdering several hundred people and failing to get even one, you could write him a letter & offer to behead yourself so he wouldn't have to feel that it was a total waste … That might cheer him up … ya think ?
Not that I'm actually suggesting that you should try to do such a thing, mind you …
37 Libby_Gone // Dec 29, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Time for the Truman doctrine!
38 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 29, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Almighty God does not weep. There's no crying going on in Heaven.
Anyway, here's a good starting point for some precision target practice: I'll bet they could pin-point the 1,350 tons of purified uranium ore poised for action. I say make a crater out of it with a half-life of 50,000,000 years. Or, alternatively, go take possession of it, like right now.
39 Libby_Gone // Dec 30, 2009 at 12:20 am
I say we offer 1 ultimatum….
Stop the jihad or,
We nuke Mecca,
Drop swine meat over all the Mideast from our B2's
And prison you all in Igloos so you can't find east…..
40 Libby_Gone // Dec 30, 2009 at 12:34 am
BTW,
Bolt Putin.
If Owanamama gives it up he is trult insane.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/29/ap/worl...
41 Libby_Gone // Dec 30, 2009 at 12:35 am
truly
42 ChileSerrano // Dec 30, 2009 at 2:40 am
Janet, you're doing a heck of a job.
43 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 30, 2009 at 11:35 am
No kidding, ChileSerrano. I thought Reno had set the bar pretty low, but the current Janet……we're talking nanometers.
This is an example of the unexpected consequences associated with elitists who remain clueless to said consequences because there's a nose blocking their view and so they skip along tra-la, oblivious.
And then they forget who is who and what is what.
44 boberinyetagain // Dec 30, 2009 at 2:06 pm
What most/all here fail to recognize/acknowledge is that serendipity was the deciding factor in both their current world views and equally importantly…their religion.
Had you/me/others here been born in a Muslim country many would be quite devout (and predicatable peaceful), some would angry (as you are now) and some would even join the jihad (several examples come to mind here)…
AND, you'd be 100% certain that your veiws were correct (just as you are now), certain that they represented to only "true" path to God.
I know this one will get me 10-12 "thumbs downs" and that's ok…if one person stops to think about it, even for a second…their head will start to throb…because it's true….100% true
And…you know it, deep down you know it to be so…
45 CallMeShelly // Dec 31, 2009 at 3:30 am
Gee, I never get an e-mail anymore stating Scott has posted something new. So here is my much belated Merry Christmas. I am back on the mend again. I can't remember if I told anybody about my ordeal or not, but let me just say this was one Christmas I would not want to repeat.
But we are looking at 2010 not scanning the rear view mirror. I ahem, have not resorted to grown-up pull ups yet, but my MS may soon dictate Grannie Pampers or Homely Huggies. At such time will I be deemed a potential terrorist.
What about a senior who has just had a Blazing Saddle moment? Need I say more? Nope. Good b,y and Happy New Years
46 Libby_Gone // Dec 31, 2009 at 3:33 am
May God be with Uncle Rush, I pray it's not serious.
47 ChileSerrano // Dec 31, 2009 at 5:02 am
Libby_Gone: My sentiments exactly. <a href="http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091230/BREAKING01/91230032/Rush+Limbaugh+taken+to+Honolulu+hospital">Here is the report from the Honolulu Advertiser.
I haven't checked the Huffington Post yet, but no doubt thousands are already posting their wishes for a speedy recovery. Hope the servers can handle the traffic …
48 ChileSerrano // Dec 31, 2009 at 5:12 am
Having some problems with hyperlinks. Let' see if this one works …
Link
49 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 31, 2009 at 1:12 pm
If you haven't seen the "Person of the Decade" episode of Trifecta, you've just got to see it.
You've just got to.
50 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 31, 2009 at 1:12 pm
If you haven't seen the "Person of the Decade" episode of Trifecta, you've just got to see it.
You've just got to.
51 JamesonLewis3rd // Dec 31, 2009 at 1:25 pm
In the spirit of Full Disclosure, I would like to close out the year with this:
In response to numerous queries, I hereby affirm that that is my left eye but my skin is not purple.
52 boberinyetagain // Dec 31, 2009 at 1:52 pm
I surely hope you feel better and that 2010 is in at least some ways better than any other year you've ever had! Happy New Year Ms!
53 boberinyetagain // Dec 31, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Happy New Year gang. Be safe/be happy/be well!!
54 onlineanalyst // Dec 31, 2009 at 4:30 pm
What an upper! I couldn't agree with the Trifecta team more.
55 ChileSerrano // Dec 31, 2009 at 4:59 pm
JL3: That's good to know.
Because the only good Purple is the Deep Purple . . .
56 boberinyetagain // Dec 31, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Smoke on the water perhaps?
57 ScrappleFace // Dec 31, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Shelly,
During the strategic geographical move of the ScrappleFace Enterprise Institute global headquarters, some operations have been suspended, such as the sending of email alerts. We regret the inconvenience. May the Lord Jesus bless you in 2010.
Sincerely,
The Vast Editorial Staff at ScrappleFace
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59 Libby_Gone // Dec 31, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Thank goodness the Three Stooges are on AMC tonight,
There is hope for politics in America.
Happy New Year!!!!!
60 onlineanalyst // Jan 1, 2010 at 12:23 am
Connect the dots, Mr. President., and get your head out of the sand. Impeach Eric Holder. Fire Janet Napolitano. Send Abdulmutallab and Hassan to Gitmo and try them in a military tirbunal, and keep KSM there for the same treatment.
Stop undermining the efforts of our intelligence services. Stop the PC ROE's that are jeopardizing and killing our armed services in the warfront.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703...
Have a happy new year, everyone.
61 ChileSerrano // Jan 1, 2010 at 12:43 am
Hang in there, gang.
In a few hours, 2009 will be "in the can." Is there any possible way that 2010 could be worse ?
(Don't answer that …)
62 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 1, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Happy New Year to Everybody Everywhere. May God Bless You All.
63 onlineanalyst // Jan 1, 2010 at 8:52 pm
The ObaMao WH continues to demonstrate its misplaced priorities: http://www.floppingaces.net/2010/01/01/obama-admi...
64 ChileSerrano // Jan 1, 2010 at 10:30 pm
ola: Didn't you get the memo? The war on terror is over !
Anyway, Barack and the boys are too busy attacking the real enemies …
… Bush, Cheney, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush, Sean, etc. …
65 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 2, 2010 at 12:33 am
How's this for some perspective?
66 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 2, 2010 at 10:40 am
I find it somewhat annoying that BHO would refer to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a "suspect" in the terror attack aboard Northwest Flight 253.
I mean, what tipped him [BHO] off? The guy's flaming crotch?
67 onlineanalyst // Jan 2, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Are you sure that ObaMao didn't refer to the CrotchBomber as an "alleged" suspect?
BTW Did you know that the ObaMao vacationers closed down a mall theater so that they could have a private viewing of "Avatar"? Don't they have private screening rooms at the WH? Couldn't the family wait until the ManChild returned to DC for duty, or are instant gratification and privilege the hallmark of the Precedent? It's historical how much he indulges in perks to stroke his own ego and inconvenience others, to say nothing about how he negatively impacts businesses in the vicinity of his whims because of the necessity of security concerns.
68 ChileSerrano // Jan 2, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Speaking of "alleged suspects" …
Somali charged over attack on Danish cartoonist
A Somali man has been charged with trying to kill a Danish artist whose drawing of the Prophet Mohammed sparked riots around the world.
The suspect, who was shot by police outside cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's home in the city of Aarhus on Friday, was carried into court on a stretcher.
Police say he broke into the house armed with an axe and a knife.
The suspect, who denies the charge, was remanded in custody. Police say he has links with Somali Islamist militants.
But let's not jump to conclusions. Perhaps the "suspect" was using the axe and knife as eating utensils.
Or personal grooming appliances …
69 ChileSerrano // Jan 2, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Speaking of "alleged suspects" …
Somali charged over attack on Danish cartoonist
A Somali man has been charged with trying to kill a Danish artist whose drawing of the Prophet Mohammed sparked riots around the world.
The suspect, who was shot by police outside cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's home in the city of Aarhus on Friday, was carried into court on a stretcher.
Police say he broke into the house armed with an axe and a knife.
The suspect, who denies the charge, was remanded in custody. Police say he has links with Somali Islamist militants.
But let's not jump to conclusions. Perhaps the "suspect" was using the axe and knife as eating utensils.
Or personal grooming appliances …
70 ChileSerrano // Jan 2, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Terrorism.
The hate that dare not speak its name.
71 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 3, 2010 at 1:38 pm
You are correct.
72 onlineanalyst // Jan 3, 2010 at 6:02 pm
What we have in the ObaMao administration is a failure of incompetence: http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/31/the-poli...
73 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 4, 2010 at 12:10 am
Optimism is called for, in my opinion. Think Psalm 23.
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. ~~Hebrews 11:1
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. ~~Romans 5:1-4 [all bolds mine]
74 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 4, 2010 at 12:26 am
Meanwhile, I thought BHO was against torture:
"The directive also increases the use of enhanced screening technologies and mandates threat-based and random screening for passengers on U.S. bound international flights." [bold mine]
What else could "threat-based" be but code for the infamous Comfy Chair!?! It is an insidious scheme, indeed.
75 onlineanalyst // Jan 4, 2010 at 2:47 am
Would it be apt to say that I experienced an Epiphany today?
76 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 4, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Today, in 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. This will be her last year in that position.
77 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 4, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Yes, it would be.
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him." ~~Matthew 2:1-2
78 onlineanalyst // Jan 4, 2010 at 4:34 pm
Powerful video: America Rising…and look at the source.
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/01/03/america-rising-vid...
79 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 4, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Meanwhile, hordes of conservatives are sipping tea and trading clichés and displaying only the politically correct form of political correctness as BHO directs the USA's falling on its own sword.
80 onlineanalyst // Jan 7, 2010 at 1:36 am
We might have a fighting chance if we call it what it is: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/06/j...
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