Comments on: The Menace http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:03:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Saint Brigid http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-802655 Saint Brigid Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:32:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-802655 <p>“Thanks to the IRA, the British have the best counter-terrorism police in the western world.”</p> <p>Hahahahahahahaha!</p> <p>Okay. You all know, right, that an MI5 agent ran the Omagh branch of the IRA for, what, like 15 years?</p> “Thanks to the IRA, the British have the best counter-terrorism police in the western world.”

Hahahahahahahaha!

Okay. You all know, right, that an MI5 agent ran the Omagh branch of the IRA for, what, like 15 years?

]]> By: tim harris http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-802413 tim harris Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:56:57 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-802413 <p>Thatcher chose confrontation in Ulster, for the usual reasons that sound so noble and heroic to fools. I have no time for Blair at all now (I am English, though I live in Japan), but he has genuinely achieved something in Ulster by avoiding the temptation for ‘heroic’ confrontations - he speaks in terms of confrontation where Islamic terrorists are concerned because out of vanity, I suspect, he cannot bring himself to admit that he has been disastrously wrong and prefers inconsistency and hypocrisy.</p> Thatcher chose confrontation in Ulster, for the usual reasons that sound so noble and heroic to fools. I have no time for Blair at all now (I am English, though I live in Japan), but he has genuinely achieved something in Ulster by avoiding the temptation for ‘heroic’ confrontations – he speaks in terms of confrontation where Islamic terrorists are concerned because out of vanity, I suspect, he cannot bring himself to admit that he has been disastrously wrong and prefers inconsistency and hypocrisy.

]]> By: PHB http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-802126 PHB Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:16:57 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-802126 <p>What is most galling here is that Rudy Giuliani helped the IRA to raise funds in the US for years.</p> <p>Rudy didn’t help the IRA directly of course, instead he attended fundraisers for NORAID which as any fool knows was an IRA front.</p> <p>Nor was Rudy averse to talking to terrorists if there was votes in it for him. Rudy even gave Gerry Adams a humanitarian award while Adams was still planting bombs in shopping malls. Look up Crystal Apple and Gerry Adams on Google.</p> What is most galling here is that Rudy Giuliani helped the IRA to raise funds in the US for years.

Rudy didn’t help the IRA directly of course, instead he attended fundraisers for NORAID which as any fool knows was an IRA front.

Nor was Rudy averse to talking to terrorists if there was votes in it for him. Rudy even gave Gerry Adams a humanitarian award while Adams was still planting bombs in shopping malls. Look up Crystal Apple and Gerry Adams on Google.

]]> By: Tanbark http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-802064 Tanbark Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:47:44 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-802064 <p>Excuse me? it GETS “Orwellian”!!!???</p> <p>Can someone tell these fuckwads that it’s BEEN Orwellian, since bush and the petrohundts cranked up their bullshit-and-snakeoil factory, going on 5 years ago? </p> <p>Trying to put us on a perpetual war footing is precisely what Orwell depicted the government doing, in “1984″. </p> <p>Are they worried about “doublethink”?</p> <p>Well just glom onto this: When the attacks on our troops increase, and their casualties increase (as they have in the past three months) that means the insurgents are losing and getting desperate.</p> <p> The corollary of which, of course, is that if the attacks go down, that means “the bad guys” are winning.</p> <p> If they stop completely, that means they’ve won. And george bush lost; and can we impeach him THEN, for “losing”???</p> <p> I think Orwell talked about “newspeak” in “1984″, but if he was alive today, I think he would have listened to bush as he yesterday tried to wrap his own personal clusterfuck, in the sacred shroud of Washington crossing the Delaware, when he said that “Mayhem-and-Carnage-R-us, Inc.”, is a sister corporation of the american war for independence, and then he would have written about “shitspeak”.</p> Excuse me? it GETS “Orwellian”!!!???

Can someone tell these fuckwads that it’s BEEN Orwellian, since bush and the petrohundts cranked up their bullshit-and-snakeoil factory, going on 5 years ago?

Trying to put us on a perpetual war footing is precisely what Orwell depicted the government doing, in “1984″.

Are they worried about “doublethink”?

Well just glom onto this: When the attacks on our troops increase, and their casualties increase (as they have in the past three months) that means the insurgents are losing and getting desperate.

The corollary of which, of course, is that if the attacks go down, that means “the bad guys” are winning.

If they stop completely, that means they’ve won. And george bush lost; and can we impeach him THEN, for “losing”???

I think Orwell talked about “newspeak” in “1984″, but if he was alive today, I think he would have listened to bush as he yesterday tried to wrap his own personal clusterfuck, in the sacred shroud of Washington crossing the Delaware, when he said that “Mayhem-and-Carnage-R-us, Inc.”, is a sister corporation of the american war for independence, and then he would have written about “shitspeak”.

]]> By: prostratedragon http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-802036 prostratedragon Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:35:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-802036 <p><i>Where’s Slim Pickens when we need him?</i></p> <p>Oh my, yes! And where is Peter Bull to terrify us with the words “doomsday shroud?” (Maybe that young fella who played Pickens’s navigator can pinch hit.)</p> <p>If Kubrick had tried to use some of the screeds of our day in his movies, he’d have been slammed for too-crude exaggeration.</p> Where’s Slim Pickens when we need him?

Oh my, yes! And where is Peter Bull to terrify us with the words “doomsday shroud?” (Maybe that young fella who played Pickens’s navigator can pinch hit.)

If Kubrick had tried to use some of the screeds of our day in his movies, he’d have been slammed for too-crude exaggeration.

]]> By: Loo Hoo. http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-801984 Loo Hoo. Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:19:00 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-801984 <p>New Thread:</p> <p><a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/late-nite-fdl-news-flash-they-dont-hate-us-for-our-freedom/#more-10142">http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....more-10142</a></p> <p>Didn’t know it either!</p> New Thread:

http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..more-10142

Didn’t know it either!

]]> By: ccmask http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-801948 ccmask Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:05:26 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-801948 <p>Here’s that <a href="http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:l7CfFQr_rMEJ:www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/06/tampa.crash/index.html florida kid crashes plane&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us">story</a> from 1-2002:<br /> TAMPA, Florida (CNN) — A note written by the 15-year-old boy who crashed a Cessna into a Tampa office building indicated he supported Osama bin Laden and that the act was deliberate, authorities say. </p> <p>“We have heard, in talking with some people, that he often mentioned being of Arab descent and we’re following up on that,” Holder said. “I believe his father was part Arab, I’m not exactly sure, but we are checking that out.” Holder said he believed the teenager had no contact with his father.</p> Here’s that story from 1-2002:
TAMPA, Florida (CNN) — A note written by the 15-year-old boy who crashed a Cessna into a Tampa office building indicated he supported Osama bin Laden and that the act was deliberate, authorities say.

“We have heard, in talking with some people, that he often mentioned being of Arab descent and we’re following up on that,” Holder said. “I believe his father was part Arab, I’m not exactly sure, but we are checking that out.” Holder said he believed the teenager had no contact with his father.

]]> By: Loo Hoo. http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-801945 Loo Hoo. Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:05:08 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-801945 <p><a href="#comment-801803"><em>Laura Doty @ 4</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Apropos hate-mongerers, take a look at <a href="http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/iraq/2007/07/a-thing-we-shar.html">this</a> for a spot of healing. </p> <p>Shows just how shameful the Malkins/Coulters/Steyns et al are.</p></blockquote> <p>Laura, thanks for that.</p> Laura Doty @ 4

Apropos hate-mongerers, take a look at this for a spot of healing.

Shows just how shameful the Malkins/Coulters/Steyns et al are.

Laura, thanks for that.

]]> By: ccmask http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-801936 ccmask Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:01:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-801936 <p>What ever happened to that kid who crashed a plane into a Florida building after 9/11? Wasn’t that some kind of mind control thingee?</p> What ever happened to that kid who crashed a plane into a Florida building after 9/11? Wasn’t that some kind of mind control thingee?

]]> By: Laura Doty http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-801929 Laura Doty Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:56:51 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/05/the-menace/#comment-801929 <p><a href="#comment-801926"><em>GSD @ 54</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>My God. Nanobot suicide bombers. Who will make the teeny, tiny vests?</p> <p>-GSD</p></blockquote> <p>teeny tiny brained peoples.</p> GSD @ 54

My God. Nanobot suicide bombers. Who will make the teeny, tiny vests?

-GSD

teeny tiny brained peoples.

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