Archive for the 'Terrorism' Category

“I think if we’d abolished the IRS back when I first advocated it, he wouldn’t have a target for his airplane.”–United States House Representative Steve King (R-IA) quoted in Think Progress, 2/22/2010.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Do you think Steve favored collecting these
during his younger days?

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Here is the story.
Images: (Rage For Men) lh4.ggpht.com via menspulpmags.com; (Mars Attacks Card) via runningwithscissors.com; (Man’s Life & Men Today) via normansaunders,com (steve in) #1 i.ytimg.com via dipity,com; #3 nvia outragedpatriots.com; #4 Jeff Malet @ maletphoto.com;

I wonder what he’d look like viewed through beer goggles.

Friday, January 15th, 2010

New Osama Bin Laden PICTURES: FBI’s Digitally-Enhanced Images Of How He May Look
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TodayHuffington Post/AP First Posted: 01-15-10 11:32 AM   |   Updated: 01-15-10 12:23 PM
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Osama Bin Laden may look drastically different today than he did just a few years ago, and the FBI has released new pictures showing what he may look like today.The digitally-enhanced images […]

Denver Terrorism Suspect Admits Al Qaeda Ties–Huffington Post headline

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Huffington Post
Denver Terror Cell: FBI Questioning Najibullah Zazi For Third Time; No Charges Yet
Posted: 09-18-09 01:07 PM | Updated: 09-19-09 05:02 PM
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The Massive Ordnance Penetrator Will Be the Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb Ever–Popular Science headline

Friday, August 7th, 2009

And the Pentagon hopes to deploy it next year
By Dan Smith Posted 08.03.2009 at 2:42 pm
Popular Science
The Pentagon is trying to speed up the deployment of an ultra-large bunker-busting bomb, which would constitute the largest non-nuclear bomb the U.S. has ever used. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is a 30,000-pound bomb that would dive […]

For the first time in the same room…

Monday, October 6th, 2008

May I present the Merciless Brothers–
Ming and G. Gordon…

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MEDIA MATTERS for AMERICA
October 4, 2008

On October 4, The New York Times published a 2,140-word front-page article about Sen. Barack Obama’s association with former Weather Underground member William Ayers — at least the 18th Times article this year mentioning that association. But the Times has yet to […]

W sells war as if it were PermaStone.

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

August 30, 2008
New York Times
Bush Seeks to Affirm a Continuing War on Terror
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON — Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush’s defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still […]

“You don’t go to the Olympics just to say, I am going to go. Especially because of who I am…”I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That’s almost demeaning to me. It is not almost—it is.”–Mark Spitz on not being invited to the Beijing Olympics.

Monday, August 11th, 2008

If no one else will honor Mark, we shall!

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Spitz, once the star, upset over Beijing snub
by Polly Hui Aug 11, 2:23 am EDT
HONG KONG (AFP) - US swim legend Mark Spitz won’t be on hand in Beijing if Michael Phelps breaks his record of seven gold medals at a single Olympics—because, he says, no […]

Where is Congress?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

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via Barnes & Noble
The Outlaw Presidency
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, July 14, 2008; 12:47 PM
Another major book chronicling the descent into lawlessness of the Bush presidency is out this week. This one is by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, and it’s called “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror […]

NYPD Unveils $1M Boat To Protect City From Seaborne Attacks–Yahoo headline, 7/4/08

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

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THE NY JULES DASSIN PROWLER-CLASS; PC-18
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“NAKED CITY”

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Images: (harbor) Steven J. Weber, USN via wikimedia.org (police car model) firstgearmodels.com; (16-inch guns & superstructure) picou.org; (wake) ih6.ggpht.com via picasweb.com (explosions) J. David Rogers via web.mst.edu;

TSA To Change Body Piercing Procedures–AP headline

Monday, March 31st, 2008

 Does this mean a wheelchair bound elderly woman
will no longer be able to get tattoos at the small of her back?
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TSA to change body piercing procedures
Mon Mar 31, 9:36 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - The Transportation Security Administration said it will change they way its officers search passengers with body piercings after a Texas woman […]