After all, that is what has happened.

At the time I filed this away as interesting (and thought the “fire” in the skies referred to possible rocket attacks), but it was only after the reports came in from Britain that I began to wonder if someone associated with the Bush administration was “leaking” classified information again.

The quote on Neal Boortz’s radio program sounded awfully like something our intelligence services had intercepted while monitoring some possible terrorist group. And the August 22nd date sounds like part of the terrorist timeline for the planned bombing of trans-Atlantic flights.

Now, I don’t know who this guest was on Boortz’s radio program (from either Monday or Tuesday earlier this week) and my roommate couldn’t remember his name, but I just wonder what this guest knew about this airplane bombing plot and from whom did he get his information?

Because it looks to me like he revealed classified information about an ongoing terrorist investigation, maybe even precipitating the need for the British authorities to act before they were ready.

In other words, apparently this investigation had been going on for about eight months, with the British, United States and Pakistani authorities keeping potential terrorists under surveillance, whlie trying to uncover even more potential terrorists.

This disclosure on Neal Boortz’s program, just days before the British raids, seems too much like something staged by the Republicans for political purposes…while once again actually endangering our efforts in the war on terror.

Outing Valerie Plame. Outing the Khan guy over in Pakistan. Downgrading the counter-terrorism office before 9/11. The pattern of criminal negligence on the part of the Republicans and the Bush administration is staggering.

We definitely need a change in direction in America. The Republicans have failed us time and again. Their politicized, incredibly inept policies have actually jeopardized all the children of our great nation. Republicans have placed their party above our Constitution, above our Bill of Rights, above our nation’s security, both domestic and foreign. It is time for a change…before it’s too late.

There is nothing new about liquid explosives used on airplanes. There is also nothing new about the Bush administration’s continued failure to protect airline passengers. While it is regrettable that terrorist want to kill innocent people and they must be stopped, it is important to note that until this most recent incident, the Bush administration (and the TSA) have allowed liquids aboard flights, thereby placing us all at risk. Do not be fooled: the Republican Party will attempt to gain advantage by politicizing everything they can to avoid responsibility for their continued failures.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14290815/

That’s right, thanks to a change in my work schedule, I’ll no longer be able to spend the first 2 hours of Friday mornings pimping the GN blogroll. From now on, that honor will go to Sundays. You’re welcome, Sundays. It’s your time to shine.

The truly frustrating thing for me is:

I raised almost verbatim these same points to a conservative friend of mine in his journal. another man piped up and “schooled” me on all my misconceptons. He was articulate, wel-reasoned, and absolutely without fact on every one of his rebutals.

We are not at war with fact here, we are at war with faith. Not even a deistic faith, but a faith that a whole panoply of perceptions are correct.

how do you argue against someone’s perceptions?

In my experience, It’s hard to break through the simplistic notions that folks regurgitate from the MSM. Frankly a lot of folks are clueless and others simply don’t care.

I’m talking about the lady who drives her Hummer to CVS and leaves the engine running while he daughter waits on line for perscriptions. Or the person who lets a young child stand in the front seat of a moving car.

Thankfully it only takes 10% of people to change their minds and the rest will follow. I always load up on the best soundbites of the day. “$280 Million a day for a war and you can’r take toothpaste on the plane?” “Is America more or less of a laughing stock since Bush ‘took’ office?

My favorite technique is what I call the “Joke Grenade,” where folks aren’t suppose to “get it” until sometime after they hear it. For example, I got advanced notice of an ad campaign from The Catholic League and wrote “Condomaniacs?” shortly before the ad surfaced. I was singing it three days before the ad came out, and the punchline came when folks saw the ads in the subway cars.

I was smiling quietly to myself for several weeks.

This county’s and the world’s people are about as well off security wise as they were just prior to the start of WWII. And economically, we are about as well off as just before the great depression.

As for this latest airplane bomb scare coming from England? I wouldn’t be surprised in the least that the whole business was put together by Cheney and Rove, for the benefit of Bush and Blair.

The timing is just incredibly coincidental… it seems:

GOP lapdog losing
Israel invades Lebadon for a blatant land grab and to be proxy for US by Syrian border
Blair came over just last week??
IRAQ getting worse every day
Taliban rising in afghanistan
Economy slowing down and congressional elections
9/11 coming up.
Osama (who’s that??) still free….

Tells me its about time for ………. a major distraction. How predictable is it???