WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. intelligence officials warned Wednesday that the threat of al Qaeda or other terrorist groups attacking the United States was still imminent and likely would be in the form of a car bomb or other low-tech weapon.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/16/intelligence.threats/index.html
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Neehai Zapata
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02-16-2005 12:26
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Kiamat Dusk
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He also said <classified> and <classified>
02-16-2005 14:41
Neehai,
You don't *honestly* expect that the man is going to give all the details in open session do you? -Kiamat Dusk _____________________
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Taco Rubio
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02-16-2005 14:44
no fair showing up when i'm leaving work Kiamat
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David Valentino
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02-16-2005 14:45
You don't honestly think there are any details do you?
1. Bush asks for lots more money. 2. Senate kinda balks. 3. Bush and all his butt-boys suddenly scream upcoming terrorist attacks if money not recieved. Sound at all familiar? _____________________
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Rose Karuna
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02-16-2005 14:57
You don't honestly think there are any details do you? 1. Bush asks for lots more money. 2. Senate kinda balks. 3. Bush and all his butt-boys suddenly scream upcoming terrorist attacks if money not recieved. Sound at all familiar? I was just getting ready to post essentially the same thing. Unfortunately, pulling the terrorist rabbit out of their hat every time they want the Senate or Congress to pass something has made a large portion of the population essentially ignore terrorist threat warnings. At least 48% of the population dosen't believe anything that these people say. Sadly most of the people representing us are such wimps that even though they know what Bush has up his sleave, they won't vote against him when they see the terrorist rabbit because if something actually does happen it will be spun to the extent that they are at fault for not passing his bill or giving him his funds. Rove and his minions are absolute masters at deflecting blame and applying pressure via veiled threat. _____________________
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Neehai Zapata
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02-16-2005 15:02
You don't *honestly* expect that the man is going to give all the details in open session do you? I *honestly* expect as little as humanly possible from that man. JATA - Just Another Terror Alert Same shit as before. This time I don't think we are supposed to buy duct tape. _____________________
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Isis Becquerel
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02-16-2005 15:36
Aesop's Fable
There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, "Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep!" The villagers came running up the hill to help the boy drive the wolf away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf. The boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces. "Don't cry 'wolf', shepherd boy," said the villagers, "when there's no wolf!" They went grumbling back down the hill. Later, the boy sang out again, "Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!" To his naughty delight, he watched the villagers run up the hill to help him drive the wolf away. When the villagers saw no wolf they sternly said, "Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don't cry 'wolf' when there is NO wolf!" But the boy just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more. Later, he saw a REAL wolf prowling about his flock. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, "Wolf! Wolf!" But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn't come. At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn't returned to the village with their sheep. They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping. "There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, "Wolf!" Why didn't you come?" An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village. "We'll help you look for the lost sheep in the morning," he said, putting his arm around the youth, "Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!" _____________________
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Kiamat Dusk
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All aboard the hypocrisy train!!
02-16-2005 15:53
Here we go again...
If the administration says everthing is hunky dorey-you scream cover up and false sense of security. If Bush says we're safer now, then you Second Liberals are the first ones screaming the sky is falling and certain doom is around the corner. But let them say there is a threat and now it's "JATA". Now it's just something they are pulling out of their hats. This is why the Left keeps losing-because you are purely negative. Nothing is good. Nothing is right. Until you can stick to your own rules, the majority will never take you seriously. -Kiamat Dusk _____________________
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pandastrong Fairplay
all bout the BANG POW NOW
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02-16-2005 16:57
Here we go again... If the administration says everthing is hunky dorey-you scream cover up and false sense of security. If Bush says we're safer now, then you Second Liberals are the first ones screaming the sky is falling and certain doom is around the corner. But let them say there is a threat and now it's "JATA". Now it's just something they are pulling out of their hats. This is why the Left keeps losing-because you are purely negative. Nothing is good. Nothing is right. Until you can stick to your own rules, the majority will never take you seriously. -Kiamat Dusk I would honestly take the time to finish reading your posts if you didn't revert to the "Grammar of Douchebags rule #1" Grammar of Douchebags rule #1: 1. By placing the pronoun "you" in front of a group of people, you are implying a purely perjorative means of marginalization, a la douchebag, i.e. "you blacks", "you jews", "you liberals", et cetera. This pronoun turns a perfectly benign group label into a broad and sweeping insult. _____________________
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02-16-2005 17:11
This is why the Left keeps losing-because you are purely negative. Nothing is good. Nothing is right. Until you can stick to your own rules, the majority will never take you seriously. Yea, because "you might still die at any moment and we can't really tell you how or when" is super positive! The Left is not purely negative. That's just a stupid lie used by people like you who lack a real point. _____________________
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Kiamat Dusk
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02-16-2005 17:17
Panda,
If you find the idea of being Liberal as a bad thing-maybe you should look inward and find your inner Conservative. -Kiamat Dusk One of the Knights who say "You!" _____________________
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Malachi Petunia
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02-16-2005 17:30
They say there are two kinds of people in the world: those who think in terms of "us and them", those that don't think in those terms, and those that don't give a damn.
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pandastrong Fairplay
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02-16-2005 18:04
Panda, If you find the idea of being Liberal as a bad thing-maybe you should look inward and find your inner Conservative. -Kiamat Dusk One of the Knights who say "You!" Is that the GOP's way of saying, "I know you are but what am I?" _____________________
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pandastrong Fairplay
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02-16-2005 18:06
They say there are two kinds of people in the world: those who think in terms of "us and them", those that don't think in those terms, and those that don't give a damn. If you think the panoply of human dispositions can be neatly placed into two categories, then you are one of them. I <3 Malachi's posts (except the ones where him and Cris go nuts at each other) _____________________
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Taco Rubio
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02-16-2005 18:16
"Grammar of Douchebags rule #1" panda, let's go gay and marry me. _____________________
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pandastrong Fairplay
all bout the BANG POW NOW
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02-16-2005 18:17
panda, let's go gay and marry me. Done and Doner! _____________________
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pandastrong Fairplay
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02-16-2005 18:20
But only if Kiamat can be a bride's maid!
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Rose Karuna
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02-16-2005 18:50
panda, let's go gay and marry me. Just so you know - he's slept both Darko and Paris, the little forum slut. _____________________
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Isis Becquerel
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02-17-2005 07:37
Those who are for our color coded system should take a gander at what the phsychologists have to say about the ramifications of the "cry terrorist" methodology of todays US gov-co.
http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20030724-000001.html Here is a snip (my favorite part): Like a car alarm that sounds not when a vehicle is broken into, but instead, whenever it passes through a bad neighborhood, the nation's early-warning system has effectively rendered Americans paralyzed behind the wheel, unable--or unwilling--to step on the gas. Contemporary clinical data--and my own extended research in this area--prove time and again that to be optimally effective, safety alarms must include four basic components: (1) a credible, trustworthy source communicating the alarm; (2) a disclosure of the specific and anticipated event that has elicited the warning; (3) an effort to reassure those being alerted about the value of unified efforts; and finally, (4) a clearly defined set of actions that citizens can take in order to escape a calamity. And yet, since September 11, each of these basic principles has been systematically violated in the design and delivery of terrorist alarms issued by the government. In the first six warnings after the 2001 attacks, different communicators--from Attorney General John Ashcroft to Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge--appeared before the press, alleging that they possessed "reliable" information from "credible" sources that an attack was "imminent." In most cases, the perpetrators were described as anonymous terrorists; their attack would take place sometime in the immediate future; and their target was any number of unnamed locations in the U.S. (or anywhere else in the world, for that matter). As if this fuzzy description of impending doom wasn't sufficiently stultifying, officials then stopped short of offering any specific action that citizens might take in response to the supposed terrorist attacks, other than to remain on alert and to keep their eyes open. Eventually, these widely disseminated, narrowly defined warnings created greater levels of fear, which over time morphed into general anxiety. _____________________
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02-17-2005 07:45
Panda, If you find the idea of being Liberal as a bad thing-maybe you should look inward and find your inner Conservative. -Kiamat Dusk One of the Knights who say "You!" This has nothing to do with Pub or Dem. This has to do with our federal government using a pavlovian control mechanism to keep the villagers in line. The Gov-co knows that everytime they flash orange or red in front of the faces of the American people the majority will submit to whatever the gov-co requests. Why you insist on making this a partisan issue when your own administration is far from being true to the republican platform is beyond me. This is a public safety issue which will have an effect on all of us not just one political party. Gov-co: "We need more money" Villagers: "No" Gov-co: "Level orange terrorist threat from unknown source" Villagers: "Ohh No!!" Gov-co: "We need more money" Villagers: "Okay" _____________________
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
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Lecktor Hannibal
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02-17-2005 07:47
Gov-co: "We need more money" Villagers: "No" Gov-co: "Level orange terrorist threat from unknown source" Villagers: "Ohh No!!" Gov-co: "We need more money" Villagers: "Okay" Pretty much right on. Sadly enough, I work on a military installation and the threat color (how ridiculous) code level hasn't risen yet . Things that make you go hmmm. _____________________
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Isis Becquerel
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02-17-2005 08:33
Leck....I sorta figured as much. A freind of mine works for the nuclear power plant and said pretty much the same. No elevation there either.
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David Valentino
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02-17-2005 10:13
But..but..terrorists would have attacked if a Democrat was elected president. Terrorists will attack if Bush doesn't get all the money he asks for, every time he asks for it.
Plus..according to the administration, we are much safer now, thanks to Bush, but we are in much more danger now, thanks to the war in Iraq. Yup, they really said this. They say that because of the war in Iraq, terrists are now better trained, have more support and have more contacts, so are more of a threat to the United States, while in the same breath, they say that the war in Iraq has made us much safer from terrorism. Moral of the Story: We are in grave danger! We need lots of money to defend from this threat. But we have done a great job of making the United States safer from terrorism. _____________________
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Chase Rutherford
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02-17-2005 15:05
You don't honestly think there are any details do you? 1. Bush asks for lots more money. 2. Senate kinda balks. 3. Bush and all his butt-boys suddenly scream upcoming terrorist attacks if money not recieved. Sound at all familiar? |