It’s funny ’cause it’s true. In a “laugh so you don’t cry” kind of way, of course.
(The answer to the title questions is, of course, “no”.)
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From the category archives:
Osama bin Laden
Inspired by Andrew Sullivan’s amusing open letter to Osama about coloring his beard, I worked up this quick photochop with the Gimp.
I would have started messing with the text on the box art, but dammit – I said this was quick.
Update – Andrew changed the photo on his entry to use this one (and linked back to us). Tres cool.
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Update: Jerid has all the bases covered on this one. The excuse that he doesn’t know what signs everyone has is obliterated when we realize Mitt acknowledged a photo of the sign and gives Jerid his autograph on the back of it! Hey Mitt. Here’s your sign! Haven’t used this one in a long while, but it is appropriate: DAMN SON! You got punked.
Back from vacation and have a week’s worth of work crunch to devour, but couldn’t possibly miss this one. Another moment that would not have happened if visionary leaders on the left had not funded one of the best projects to come out of the lefty blogosphere – The New Hampshire Project.
Jerid asks Mitt Romney why he would support comparisons of Osama bin Laden to Senator Barack Obama. He recently had a photo taken with a supporter that seemed to lump Osama with both Barack and Hillary. His excuse boiled down to basically he can’t be held responsible for signs people have or T-shirts they have on. Problem with that logic is he held the damned sign up and smiled. Is that not an endorsement of it? You decide.
So Jerid asks the questions. Mitt coulda said he didn’t support that particular sign and thinks it a horrible thing to write. He did not. He coulda said he doesn’t believe in disparaging other candidates in such cheap and despicable ways. He did not.
What did he say?
“Lighten up”.
Yes. Over 3,000 dead. The mastermind behind the plot is still out there even though “dead or alive” Bush is still in office. But all Mitt can come up with is lighten up kid?
All caught on tape by Jerid:
Sidebar to Joe Hallett. Another example of bloggers making news my friend. That stream is starting to flow in the opposite direction buddy!
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Another shocker: only a tiny fraction of cases filed by DHS are terror-related.
Despite repeated claims by high officials of the Bush Administration that fighting terrorism has been the central mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since it began operating, the data show that in the last three years a claim of terrorism was made against only 12 (0.0015%) out of 814,073 individuals against whom the DHS has filed charges in the immigration courts.
Government rhetoric is about how the threat of terrorism requires vigilance in monitoring our borders. In fact, that canard is often thrown about by anti-immigration wingnuts.
Yes, preventing terrorists from entering the US is a noble goal. But it’s hardly the primary reason for DHS’s existence, and overstating the threat of terrorism is not healthy for a democracy (exhibit 1: George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection, and the continued erosion of civil rights for American citizens). Perhaps the most interesting thing about the report is not the disparity between the number of terrorism charges brought and the government rhetoric, but the fact that there is little discernible difference between pre- and post-9/11 numbers when it comes to terrorism and homeland security charges.
In other words, the rhetoric is meant to scare the citizenry. There is no other reasonable explanation.
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What’s wrong with this picture:
WHITE HOUSE (AP) – Trying to defend his war strategy, President Bush has declassified intelligence asserting that Osama bin Laden ordered a top lieutenant in early 2005 to form a terrorist cell that would conduct attacks outside Iraq, and that the U.S. should be the top target.
Renew the “why haven’t we caught or killed Osama?” question in the news cycle? Fine by me! Who is giving advice these days? The thinking is that this will prove the case for staying in Iraq because if we leave it will be a haven for terrorist activity.
EARTH TO ADMINISTRATION: It already IS a haven for terrorist activity and you made it that way! You also haven’t been able to do anything about those who perpetrated 9/11. Boogie man Osama being used again to scare us into thinking everything is fine and we should just carry on buying $3.50 gas and “participating in the economy” as a show of patriotism – sound familiar? It’s an old line.
It’s a nice Catch-22 situation this failed administration has us in. Let’s not forget who got us there. You don’t untie a knot by pulling harder…
Update: Looks like ohdave agrees.
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