tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post7435046051827831889..comments2024-03-28T17:41:34.315-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : Sixteen Years OnComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-37674116816805586552017-09-12T14:29:18.095-04:002017-09-12T14:29:18.095-04:00Stewart: I was wondering what would come in to fil...Stewart: I was wondering what would come in to fill the power vacuum being created by the squashing of ISIS. Interesting read.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-14727920072248971422017-09-11T20:02:12.278-04:002017-09-11T20:02:12.278-04:00And hey, boys and girls, guess what? Bin Laden...And hey, boys and girls, guess what? Bin Laden's son is stepping up to the plate and he's pissed. This from West Point:<br />https://ctc.usma.edu/posts/hamza-bin-ladin-from-steadfast-son-to-al-qaidas-leader-in-waiting<br /><br />That's America, winning friends and influencing people the world over.<br />Stewart Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06830186006689502072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-68790485625342616702017-09-11T17:45:46.069-04:002017-09-11T17:45:46.069-04:00The Towering Inferno didn't collapse.The <i>Towering Inferno</i> didn't collapse.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11342911380840320087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-9167667121962051052017-09-11T15:46:51.955-04:002017-09-11T15:46:51.955-04:00And we're still using the AUMF they passed to ... And we're still using the AUMF they passed to justify the wars we fight, even ones that don't have a damn thing to do with the attack. Something like 37 military operations in 14 countries.<br /> Barbara Lee has been trying to repeal that AUMF since it passed, and this year she managed to get it into an appropriations bill in committee, only to have Ryan strip it out without a vote.<br /> 9-11 has, among other things, been turned into an ATM for defense contractors who tend to be the ones who get rich off of our over-reaction to it.<br /> Then there's this:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXToviObdoA<br /><br /> "We think we can make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free. I'll tell you something: When you make yourself less free, all that happens afterward is that you are less free, you are not safer."<br /><br /> -Doug in Oakland dinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-65562351332497199122017-09-11T15:39:37.074-04:002017-09-11T15:39:37.074-04:00The Running Man, 1982, ends with the protagonist f...<i>The Running Man</i>, 1982, ends with the protagonist flying a DC-10 into a skyscraper to kill his antagonist.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-48467215138066430332017-09-11T15:33:12.477-04:002017-09-11T15:33:12.477-04:00Debt of Honor", yes.
I think the surprise was...<i>Debt of Honor"</i>, yes.<br />I think the surprise was not expecting suicide hijackings coupled with our banning of 4" <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i> toy flintlock pistols but not box cutters.3383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-6978892802769752302017-09-11T15:11:53.110-04:002017-09-11T15:11:53.110-04:00I remember, days afterword, pundits saying nobody ...I remember, days afterword, pundits saying nobody could have imagined that scenario. I was screaming at the TV Tom Clancy had written a book about using a jet as a guided missile to take out the government. With 'curveball' and all the other failures from our national 'leadership', Operation Iraqi Liberation was a great success for those who sold it - the rest of the country was just there to pay the bill.Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09680604981092904582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-57743055761421122032017-09-11T13:47:24.976-04:002017-09-11T13:47:24.976-04:00The biggest, most destructive, and most dangerous ...The biggest, most destructive, and most dangerous vehicle they took control of and crashed into America was the Congress.Nangleatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-29043317027726089172017-09-11T12:44:37.410-04:002017-09-11T12:44:37.410-04:00To never forget. To never forget. Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11342911380840320087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-31050109049346829532017-09-11T12:21:24.558-04:002017-09-11T12:21:24.558-04:00"Don't need a tattoo"... explain, if..."Don't need a tattoo"... explain, if you please.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-35284929864977566792017-09-11T10:27:34.867-04:002017-09-11T10:27:34.867-04:00A brilliant asymmetrical victory by Bin Laden who ...A brilliant asymmetrical victory by Bin Laden who read the GOP perfectly. Who we made into a martyr by the grandstanding Seals, every one of which wrote a best-selling tell-all book and a screenplay in the standard Sarah Palin, grifter GOP, American Sniper mode. It's the American way, 'Navy Seals-Secretely Blow off the Heads of our Nation's Enemies and Then Blab and Get Rich.' Our many, many teams of paid assassins belive secrecy is outmoded when fortunes can be made.Tod Germanicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036673218365709139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-4737697874082373092017-09-11T10:23:40.908-04:002017-09-11T10:23:40.908-04:00Sucks aeh? Don't need a tattoo.Sucks aeh? Don't need a tattoo.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11342911380840320087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-39299631594694965992017-09-11T09:40:59.303-04:002017-09-11T09:40:59.303-04:00I cannot argue with any of this. I cannot argue with any of this. B https://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.com