Am I the only one who sees this whole picture as incredibly suspicious?
" UPS says cargo from Yemen suspended immediately."
" WRAPUP 8-Explosives in US-bound parcels from Yemen-Obama"
OK. UAE and Saudi Arabia, both BIG-time supporters of terrorist activities will, on occassion, nab a pawn to sacrifice to the public and in doing so the western press will make sure that the public is duly alarmed, forewarned and, yes FOOLED in order for the west to maintain its ties to terroristic regimes.
Now, I'm not a bomb-maker and I'm no sleuth by any measure of sleuthiness, but if I were to someday lose my conscience and try to blow airplanes out of the sky, I THINK I would at least attempt to do a fairly decent job of hiding the evidence and making the explosives work, unlike the morons like the shoe bomber, the underwear bomber and now the "printer cartridge" bomber(s). I mean, look at the picture below. Now, does this look like something even the dumbest bomb-maker in the world would assemble and send on its way into the wild blue yonder?
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You've got guts, Bob. Good on ya!!!
^R^+++
Mission - yep, shock doctrine at work. Who's worried about living on the streets when planes are falling out of the sky. Kansas will always smell though :-)
Steph - ya eh eh :-)
sky - nothing seems to be computing these days, does it. Shoot me, blow me up, torture me. Just don't put me in a straight jacket (or a crooked one for that matter).
Lowell - thank you
Thanks all, for visiting. I enjoy the company.
If you're nerdy enough to get the reference, you need a break from World of Warcraft.
...And if you're watching mainstream media again just because they say there's a terrorist threat, well, DUH!
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trilogy - I don't know, maybe I've been reading too much.
Hell. I can't make up my mind. Learn Spanish or Chinese.
You’re right. The “printer cartridge” bomb threat is almost too over-the-top.
The problem is that these people have cried wolf so often that when (if) the real thing comes along some day we’re all going to just ignore it and head to the mall.
I could have taken anything on a plane, as long as they recognize it from a photo it's safe. If someone wanted to blow something up, we would have known it by the giant KABOOM!
Doc - yep, I just thing they're beginning to get a little careless and lazy with their PR machine efforts. Hitler and Goebbels are probably rolling over in their graves, not from misery, but in laughter.
Bleue - bureaucrats, being the mindless robots that they are, are a sad example of how government takes your brain away and replaces it with KY jelly. It's infuriating when one encounters the stupidity - hence, old ladies are singled out as possible terrorists, the instructions to show the public that they aren't profiling being followed to the letter.
Hawley - good point. Kind of like being a ciminal; neither are known for their IQs for the most part
I once wrote a blog suggesting that we might be well advised to design a form of citizens capitalism that we could replace our present messed up form of capitalism with, and a half dozen people advised me that since responding to it they had been under investigation by the alphabet soup crowd.......