FITZ!

fitz

Is this proof that this admin is divisive?

He’s right. Building a unified country has never been part of their plan, has it?

Theatre of the Absurb

Fitz

Tryin hard to be the unifacater

I bet the WashPoo is ready to publish their poll about what a great success the speech was. :)

And God knows this Preznit would never use fear for political gain.

unificaterer-in-chief
defecaterer on the constitution

Whoops, EPU’d…

Muzzy,

Cute pics! Here’s mine. Baby pic and an older one. His name is Coz ; )

http://i67.photobucket.com/alb.....1weekA.jpg

http://i67.photobucket.com/alb.....oz4-27.jpg

#10 “It,s just a G** D**N piece of paper.

scared little boy………Jaysus help us.

So this statement is consistent with the principle of do as I say, not as I do…or maybe only Republicans are allowed to use issues for political gain. Does he actually think that in speaking those words he can be taken seriously?

http://www.thoughttheater.com

WORST.PRESIDUNCE.EVER

Bush is like the alcoholic who just want to be sure he makes it to his next binge. “Just get me through this speech, just get me through the next poll. Then, I (or my enablers) will think of something to get me through the next crisis.”

Never underestimate a subliminal appeal to racism.

EPU’d

…and I thought of a slogan:

Vote for a Democrat because we are all in this together!

Issue touches fundamental issues of American identity and character. Sends troops. Doesn’t want a real national discussion. Is a dick.

How did we get here?

Can we ever get back?

it was a riddikuliss speech with silly hand gestures…btw the ring is back and his hands look less swollen… diuretics?

Troops to the MEXICAN border.
Sh*t, he ’s not looking at Iran….next.

He’s looking at Mexico.

Hell, they don’t need no poll…they’re monitoring our brainwaves. (Not mine, though. Tin foil woiks wonders.)

For a good up-close read, though a bit dated by now, is a book by Ted Conover called ‘Coyotes’. He does the particpant/observer thing. And finds picking oranges tough work. Not to mention cars stuffed w/12 people avoiding the authorities.

——–
Somebody mentioned living in Philip K. Dickland. Move this summer based on Through a Scanner Darkly.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006.....y_tra.html
There’s a link to the trailer in .mov format.

Rover is finished. Evidence, this lame excuse for a policy speech. I was never in the crowd that thought Rover was a genius. I just thought he was dark hearted and pathetic, and very lucky. But as Molly Ivans once said, that kind of luck doesn’t last. People are turned off because of the all the negative shit of the past 6 years. Since 1999 Rover has been guiding the way this country reacted to situations, by manipulating the press etc…etc… Look at how he spoke to the press people who asked him questions today, like they were his minions, a bunch of losers. WELL, he is right, but it looks like they MIGHT, be getting tired of his shit. Let’s see.

OK, we’re gonna sent soldiers to the border, but,

[1] it’s not “militarization”

[2] they won’t have police powers

So, it’s SHOCK & AWE lite-lite, with empty ammo clips?

This’ll do wonders for whatever’s left of National Guard morale.

Bush’s attitude was that all immigrants who try to cross the Mexican border are criminals, drug dealers or terrorists. He was definitely talking to his base. Militarizing the border will turn the American southwest into a police state.

in politics, when you go hard negative, the trick is to appear positive. The GOP is using the Preznit and Laura as the “nice faces” for what will be a rough, rough campaign. Gay marriage is going to be a hot topic again so Mary Cheney and Laura get trotted out to be reasonable and sensitive while the RNC will aim very hateful targeted messages to the base voters.

the Preznit will try to seem to be compassionate yet tough while the RNC and GOP Congresscritters will holler about Mexican dope smugglers, gang-bangers and rapists: all taking jobs away from real Americans. And all that Mexican welfare costing tax money!!!

http://tinyurl.com/a6erq

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Here is a suggested question for the WalPo overnight poll: “Do you stand with our President in using military force to prevent terrorists from coming over our southern border?” Or maybe a more simple question: “Do you support President Bush in keeping lawbreakers out of our country?” Hopefully, they’ll have desireable results to feed to the pundits tomorrow morning.

Quick ! The disinfectant!

Malkin
“Same Ole, Same Ole” & “Too Little, Too Late”

not to be confused with Same Ole’!

for those of you with welding bonnets, she’ll be on O’Reilly later

Unka Dick, let’s get them Mexcan terrists so we can fight em there an not in amerca.

I really didn’t understand the point of this address. But then, I don’t understand much of anything Bush says.

Also: I’m really sorry to go OT here, but just in case this hasn’t been mentioned, TO is standing firm and claims to have sources close to Fitzgerald:

How Accurate Was the ‘Rove Indicted’ Story?
http://forum.truthout.org/blog.....131745/161

First of Bolten’s Five Points was like ‘Guns n Badges’ right?

Somebody said the counted 30 plus blinks at the top of the speech. That was the same time he used the word ‘law’ about six or seven times.

My favorite line was: “We are a nation of laws, and we must enforce our laws.” I’m assuming the next phrase — “… as long as we’re talkin’ about you people and not me” — was somehow cut off the teleprompter text.

Hearty congrats to GWB, who just cut his base by 50%.

Well done!!

The downside for republicans of gerrymandering is now becoming clear. They have congressional districts that are packed with wingnuts who won’t be satisfied with anything less than massive deportations, a 2000 mile security fence, and a shoot-to-kill policy at the border.

Bush didn’t help himself with that crowd.

whew– that screen shot. either babs or condi is all leathered up and has got a whip in her hand off camera and is telling him to sit quiet and make a nice speech… maybe both of em. doesn’t he look real afraid of somebody and like he cares about their approval?

and the Preznit didn’t mention mining the border! Whatta sell-out wimp to the one-worlders…

Even with practice, and cue cards he can’t lie worth a damn.

angie -

Yeah, that screen shot is priceless.

Whata dope. Little boy in a grownup’s job.

I still can’t believe I heard those things on Cafferty’s segment, *ilson46201!

How will guardsman back from the war react to being sent to border with no gun,and no plan again?

OfT Jason Leopold, Sockpuppet Extraordinaire
By DHinMI
“I had hoped Jason Leopold would just go away. It’s clear from his own statements in various places that he’s struggled with some substance abuse and mental illness issues. He has my sympathy for this. But he’s now become a bigger story because he’s made such grandiose claims about having deep sources all through the government and somewhere among the investigators or investigated in the Valerie Plame outing. So it’s time to come forward and give you some evidence with which to assess Jason Leopold’s credibility. I’ll refrain from making conclusions, but it’s worth putting out there for people to assess…..”

angie (21), that is so funny. It always amazes me how people with medical training can see what some of us laypersons cannot.

well, for the National Guard, the scorching deserts of the U.S. Southwest are cooler in temperature than Iraq . . .

angie (21)
… diuretics?

dire ethics.

The really frightening, actually, terrifying thought is: this knot-head (Bush) has one finger up his *** and the other one on the nuclear button. How in hell did this dull-normal, nit-wit make it out of kindergarten? (rhetorical interrogative; must have been ’social promotion’)

I keep praying that I’ll wake up and it’s Nov. 2000.

And of course Otto Man (34), “you people” refers to the 99.9% of the nation that aren’t his or daddy’s or Cheney’s friends.

mui– studying chimpy is an unfortunately endless and disturbing exercise in horrid fascination.

heh, punaise!

“Hot and Cold Running Wilson Intelligence”
by emptywheel
“eRiposte wrote a blockbuster post last week that I’ve been meaning to return to. But particularly after reading Dick Cheney’s notes on Wilson’s op-ed, eRiposte’s post merits a lot more attention.
Basically, eRiposte shows that the Intelligence Community changed its interpretation of the value of Joe Wilson’s trip report, finally using it (and the anecdote that former Prime Minister Mayaki had been approached by Iraq’s Baghdad Bob to set up trade relations) as a solid justification for the Niger claim on March 8, 2003….”
emptywheel has a dynamite table in her article. It shows visually how has time passed, the intelligence community accepted Wilson’s
conclusions. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Or Jan. 20, 2001 and I’m watching President Gores inaugural address.

What if the unions stood up and demanded that undocumented workers get a fair wage? I’m a neophyte on these sort of issues, but it seems that would go a ways to breaking this goofy false crisis.

Oklahoma kiddo (47). My personal favorite term for chimpy’s social promotion is “legacy welfare.”

John Edwards “Two Americas”

Get rid of illegals
lower wages for 11,ooo,ooo Americans

Is it my understanding then, that Mexico has just joined the axis of evil?

56, lookin that way to me

56, Canada’s next

What a doofus!
Just look at him…

angie (50), yeah I know, I also get that feeling looking at People magazine in the grocery store lines.

I didn’t see the speech - off at a Boy Scout meeting - but my 13 yr old son is now reporting to me that he spoke for 20 minutes but that it could have been over in 5.

Repetition, Repetition, Repetition. To quote my son, “It was all about the border. He explained his plan. I was kind of disappointed that there weren’t any new Bushisms. It was all about the border. I was kind of surprised that he said that the new border policy would keep out terrorists.

I haven’t heard anything about terrorists or would-be-terrorists being caught at airports or trying to immigrate into America.

After that, it was the repetitiveness. He kept saying the same thing using different words. He went into a story about he and Laura visiting a Marine without US citizenship, who was wounded very badly in Iraq or Afghanistan. He asked if the Marine had any wishes. The Marine answered that he wanted a promotion for the Corporal who saved him, and US citizenship. God Bless America.”

Blank Kludge 6:43 PM -

I’ve always wondered which is better:

shiny side in or out?

My guess is that this speech didn’t help Clusterfuck any- next flim flam opportunity?

The speech was aimed at people too fuckin stupid to see that it was all bullshit.

SHINY SIDE OUT

REFLECTION

Kirk Murphy;

Everybody knows you double layer, silly! One layer each way.

Oklahoma kiddo #47.
I agree. Is there anything worse than having a moron (who talks slowly….carefully….and in monosyballic words….) speak to us as if we’re the idiots????!!!
Oops, my mistake. I just realized he was talking to his base! ; )

These are the quotes I was talking about from Cafferty’s segment:

Joy in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “No to sending the National Guard. Yes to a fence. Yes to landmines. Yes to sending back the illegal immigrants, no to amnesty.”

D. in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. “I was just sitting here thinking about a fence with 10,000 volts running through it and how no one would ever have the guts to do it, let alone suggest it. By the way, land mines? Nice touch.”

(obviously there were more responses from sane people, here’s the response that made me gag)

BLITZER: Very clever viewers. You don’t have those kind of clever viewers, Lou, on your show, do you?

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA.....om.03.html

Punaise 7:07

bush keeps secrets incontinence

Do you see strings? I see strings.

scscomp,58

Canada has the opposite problem — they want to keep Americans out.

Angie,

D. Hoffman Estates, Ill 10,000 volts

Poppy bush’s 10,000 points of light.

scscomp– yeah!

‘Coz’ is greatness.

Reading the quote “We cannot build a unified country by inciting people to anger, or playing on anyone’s fears…” reminds me of the ‘love or fear’ sham cultists in Donnie Darko who, naturally, use the fear they decry to push the kids.

“Canada has the opposite problem — they want to keep Americans out”

I wonder how Americans would feel if the Canadians put up a wall across their border and had armed troops patrolling it to keep Americans desperate for prescription drugs and free health care from trying to enter the country illegally. Wouldn’t we feel it was a slap in the face even if the Canadian prime minister went on television and said “Americans are our friends”?

http://www.informationclearing.....le3995.htm

Video on Carylyle group and why we went to war: for the war profiteers (the Bush Crime Family).

First 1:48 are in Dutch, rest in English.

Don’t jump on me - actually, you can’t ’cause I’m on my way out the door to another (!!) rehearsal.

As bad as the speech was, and it was bad, it was a lot better than any other speech he’s given in a while. I know, it’s the only prime-time speech he’s given in years. But I think it will give him about a three-point boost in the polls for two weeks, unless my guess on the 18th for Rove, Hadley and Cheney wins the FDL contest.

America, feeling a little blue?

SUSA has the Dictatorial Chimpanzee above 50% in 3, that’s THREE states:

Idaho 52%

Utah 51%
Wyoming 50%

-GSD

“We cannot build a unified country by inciting people to anger, or playing on anyone’s fears, or exploiting the issue of immigration for political gain.”

Wow! Only way I can even say that with a straight face is to turn the snark meter on maximum. Even then, it’s seriously difficult.

Lets see.
Political gain. Check.
Playing on anyone’s fears. Check.
Exploiting the issue. Check.

Black is white.
Up is down.
Good is bad.
We’re winning in Iraq.
I never outed a NOC CIA Agent.
We know where the WMD’s are.
Iran is [holds two fingers barely apart] this far from Nuks.
I’m not worried about the elections.
Ha!

sscomp 64/65-

’schiz a great pleasure to meet you both

Blank Klude/sscomp -

thank you both (all three?)…now I know why my foil hat leaks around the full moon….

ET– thank you for your kind words the other nite. I caught up on a lot of missed threads today and want to thank you most sincerely. ;)

You’re a pretty amazing person and I have great admiration for what you do.

angie, I remember people in Santa Fe who wanted Chicano people to “go back where they came from.”
Yes, the people who’d only been living there since the 1500s should go back, leaving the newcomers all that nice land.
I don’t think so.

Jason’s standing by his Rove indictment story.

Way to go Jason: keep up the good work.

I bet tomorrow’s the day.

http://www.opednews.com/articl.....update.htm

It’s funny, as in ‘odd’…this ‘president’ is going to create cognitive dissonance in the ‘base’ with this formal Oval Office speeck/appearance, I think. We’ve (as a nation)and they’ve (as a ‘base’) gotten used to the Pres cutting brush down on the Crawford ranch, or riding that bike, or just a couple weeks ago w/Brian Williams on the Gulf Coast, sleeves rolled up, the umpteen town hall charades, comments ‘off-the-cuff’. Even in press conferences, he’s a loose cannon…I wonder if the ’serious, self-contained, teacher/father’ formalized behing the desk is an image that sells anymore for this ‘product’. I don’t think even the base will buy this particular version anymore.

Thoughts?

O/T
hey guys - is there a way to save an entire haloscan thread and paste it somewhere for future reference ?

GSD

Not to be a stickler. But SUSA has Bush above 50% in 2 states. And at 50% in a third.

Remember, he was (s)elected the first time by a fraction of a percentage point. These things may matter someday.

Margot– what if all of the original inhabitants of this land kicked all the rest of us out? Now wouldn’t that be something, indeed.

GSD 78 -

Wow - Bush above 50 in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming?

One extended family could sink Shrub’s numbers ;)

Kinda fitting for the “pro-family” Repugs, come to think of it…

Was reading the last thread just now. This from Montag in the comments:

“Until we start asking ourselves why the people of the most economically and militarily powerful nation in the world are so afraid, of practically everything, we’ll never get to the point of asking ourselves, with candor and honesty, why it is that we allow the government to usurp our rights in the name of protecting us.”

Truely — this is the issue we all need to address in our daily conversations with friends and coworkers and in our demonstrations and letters to Congress-people. What are Americans so terribly afraid of? Why do we need to be so afraid? I know 9/11 was a horrific blow to us, but it must be more than that.

Angie,87

would bushites have to leave with us?

cbl 85

Open an account with the NSA….they got it

I don’t know but a Marine named Guadalupe, I think is a female and according to Bush is a male, now I have my doubts if she or he even exists?

Whatever, one more lie or not, who cares anyway !

Who the hell is Mark Krikorian (at the Corner). Someone who has hacked an admin account?

tom-chicago:
No offense to you or oped news but today I was struck by the postmodern feeling that Jason Leopold (and for that matter Joseph Wilson)were figments of my imagination–that they existed only in my own mind. Please convince me I’m mistaken.

larry, 91
YEAH!!!

After Bush, “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose … (Kris Kristofferson).

angie -

“shh”..it’s manifest destiny, not genocide…

can i have more Kool-Aid?

I do not object to sending some troops down to the border. My concern with the border isn’t the Mexicans; it’s al queda. Al queda wants to hit us again, and they’re very clever. The borders represent the easiest way for those guys to get inside the US.
Bush’s failures (aming the hundreds) is that he should of beefed up the borders in the weeks after 9-11. And if he hadn’t have gone off on his fools errand in Iraq we’d have the resources right now to tighten up the borders.
But sending some troops down there is ok with me. I have no problem with it.
Ghostman

Today I saw a very faded bumper sticker that said:

Return Integrity to the Whitehouse
Vote Republican

I wasn’t sure if I should laugh or cry.

Congratulations to Missouri for having the lowest Bush approval rating of any redstate.

A whopping 29%.

NY and RI tie with the best bottom of the barrel rating in at 23%.

-GSD

Well, around here the jokes are already starting. Though my neck of the woods has not been Bush country for a long time.
“But, does he have an exit strategy?”
“The best part is that they don’t need training, they won’t be doing anything.”
“Should be popular, good RR on the way back home, it’s cool -compared to Iraq.”
“Can the undocumented’s enlist?”
No one takes it seriously. A real policy DOA.

Quick comment before hitting the sack {4:30am comes pretty quick here on the southeast coast}. IIRC wasn’t there a story a few weeks ago about drug dealers aided by the Mexican Army in a fire fight on our side of the border. The Army was protecting the drug dealers as they brought drugs over the border and ran into some of the Minutemen.

What happens when the National Guard has too face the Mexican Army protecting drug dealers as they smuggle drugs into our country. We could have an International Crisis over this as Mexico may assume any fire fight as an Act of War against Mexico.

Bush is totally insane and needs another war to bring the sheep under control. The Congress better do something real soon to stop him or our country is doomed.

Fuzzhead @ 89 -

A week ago I had a conversation with a Chinese national. That person said thst they aboslutely loved the freedom here. But also expressed (bravely) that we seem like (act like?) a pampered child. Absolutely agreed. And tried to explain how odd it is for this place to live in fear.

Kirk Murphy…That tri state area will be known as the Romney Belt soon.

-GSD

As an answer to my own questions at # 89, I think Rove, Rumsfeld and company are exploiting the uncertainty that many Americans are feeling as a result of historic demographic and economic changes. I think we need to explicitly charge the Bush administration with this fearmongering.

98 is me…don’t know why it only came out as “G”
Ghostman

Exit strategy=stage LEFT

G #98: might be a good point. But BushCo wouldn’t support an increase in border patrol over last several years -opposed an increase of about 10,000. So, was that decision wrong, or not? If there is an emergency now because of manpower shortage, we know where to look -right back at BushCo. So now Bush wants credit for a stopgap of 6,000, who are not even trained to do the job? And it is national guard, are they not primarily for state emergencies? Or is outright highjacking of other peoples’ money effort and time, and exposing them to unwanted risks for no good reason for ineffective half assed effort standard operating procedure for them now.
They are going to try to milk this fat old dog for a little War-Preznit Political Cap’tal?
Yeah, right.
Don’t mean to tee off on you, but I think you are looking for some kind of silver lining, or rationale that does not exist.

scscomp– We take none of them with us– I am thinking Alcatraz a fitting place for the whole cabal with a front row cell for Jack Abramoff. Native Americans once took the rock and faced off the ‘Great White Father’.

seems fitting. (sorry to the wildlife there)

http://www.nps.gov/alcatraz/

I lived in Hoffman Estates once. i left as soon as I could.

angie #109: Alcatraz would be great. A reall money maker. Help with the deficit. All the ex-guards and inmates who do the tours and speical appearances are getting real old. Need a live exhibit. Don’t know how we will work that in with the Hague, though.

Leslie 110– why, what was it like??

Jon Stewart just said Bush is now tapping mexicans phones.
And also that the show would cover the speech tomorrow night - if he hasn’t been deported by then.

cbl 7:44 PM

I’ve saved haloscan threads this way - it is probably rather kludgy.

Open Haloscan thread
Select all text (under “edit”)
Copy all text ( ” “)

Paste in -

whatever text application you fancy - I use an old email program that still kicks up its little photonic heels….

_______________________________________
test hardware software:

Firefox 1.5
Mac X 10.4.5
iMac G5

(note the same technique works on the generic networked windows HP in a place I frequent…)

G, 98: “The borders represent the easiest way for those guys to get inside the US.”

Borders to the south, borders to the east, borders to the north, borders to the west. Al Qaeda has no shortage of ways to get into this country. If we seal the southern border, there are three left. Shall we build a wall around the whole country, line it with soldiers? That still leaves the sky. Remember 9/11?

The nature of terrorism is such that there are no borders that can keep them out. A true jihadist does not fear dying, in fact, cherishes the idea. There is no border patrol that can keep out determined terrorists.

108, wesgpc: “g” is me…anyways, I fully agree that Bush should’ve funded the Border Patrol many years ago. I’m not at all defending Bush’s overall performance as President, I think it’s abysmal.
And yes, the “R” team will try to milk this one…but I think Durbin made some good counterpoints. Bush is just too late getting to this problem…sorta like Katrina.
Ghostman

wesgpc– we get them tried at the Hague, but I do not think it fair to allow them to befoul the air over there longer than necessary, you know? We’ll ship em back here to serve out their sentences. New Rule– we take accountability for our messes and sins.

from Dave Neiwert http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2.....gency.html

Why, if post-9/11 border security is such a suddenly serious concern, aren't we sending the Guard to the Canadian border -- it is, after all our longest and most porous border, and its many open spots do not entail dangerous and potentially lethal desert crossings. Perhaps more to the point, the one terrorist who did try to sneak into the USA with explosives as part of a plot to attack a major metropolitan area was caught on the Canadian border.

cbl @85: “O/T hey guys - is there a way to save an entire haloscan thread and paste it somewhere for future reference? “

The easiest way: go to edit, click select all, then click copy, then paste and save to MSWord or any word processsing program.

Bush Pauses While Rove Adjusts Hand
anagrams to:
Push abuses. Unjovial, shrewd deaths.

See Tucker tonight? I’m listening to it and, wow, they think immigration is Swiftboat-gay-marriage. Rove is gone. Not even he would launch down this.

ot…but I got to share a chuckle my 15 year old daughter just sent me…. forgive me.

…. to be read to the jingle…

“santa claus is coming to town”

They know to whom you’re talking
They know who calls you too
They claim you shouldn’t worry
Cause your’e evil if you doooo….

Soooooo…..You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I’m telling you why

Decider Bush is spying around

He knows when you are sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
So what’s the fuss and muss about
We’re terrorists… for goodness sake!

Soooooo…..You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I’m telling you why

Decider Bush is spying around

He claims that’s its all legal
He claims we’re in a fight
He tags our emails night and day
Then snaps our pics from space all day

Sooooo….. we better watch out
We better not cry
We better not pout
I’m telling you why

115, orangejumpsuit: oh, I think we need to beef up the Canadian border as well. And really tighten up on container inspections on the coasts. Terrorists would then find it very hard to infiltrate.
Ghostman

50 year member of Local # 9 I.U.O.E.has this to say to (TRYGGTH # 53 ) You are barking up the wrong tree if you think any body in the afl-cio gives a damm big bussiness cut their (b—-) out with Taft Hartly many years ago so we were left with eunuch leaders M or F take your choice

I saw a huge hand lettered sign in a car:

IMPEACH NOW: It’s not about Blowjobs anymore

Is it just me or is Bush getting that deer in the headlights look again?

I know this might get epu’d - but i’ll take my chances it hasn’t been thought up yet: “It is also an urgent requirement of our national security.”

does that phrase take on added legal importance if the governers refuse to send in troops?

but, but, but most Canadians are not brown! Where’s the fear factor, then? (even though they have a healthy mixed and varied population; shhh, most redstaters don’t know that)

Angie,

But Canada does have alotta “FRENCH”

axlegrease, not sure what you are doing lumping Joe Wilson in with Leopold?
I linked to what I think is a very fine evaluation of Leopold’s recent “work” at 7:03. IMO, Leopold steals uses what he reads at FDL, tnh… without attribution. I think the great plameologists are what he means by “multiple anonymous sources.” The possibility that Fitzgerald had sealed indictments against Rove has been out there for some time. Jason’s sources are “anonymous,” because he chooses not to name them. IMO in addition to the attention, Jason wants to brag that he was first to break the news of Rove’s indictment. He’s definitely the first to attribute Rove’s indictment to unnamed sources. Nobody else has those sources and they won’t “leak” to anyone except Jason. IMO that’s because they don’t exist.
If you’ll read emptywheel’s latest, she gives well-deserved props to eriposte, Joe Wilson’s conclusions gained credibility with the intelligence communities despite Dead Eye’s best efforts.

Ghostman, Al Qaeda is the new military/industrial complexes boogeyman. We have more to fear from the terror within than from “foreign jihadists”.