Well, Molly of Molly Saves The Day has been after me to do a blog myself for a while, so here we go, and for our inaugural edition: Code Red!
That's right, the terror alert system is at the highest state of readiness and alarm! *AFTER* the recent airline plot was uncovered. Seriously, people, is this "terror warning" system any value at all if it only responds to things in the newspapers? What happens to the billions we spend on intelligence, anyway? Or is this what the Republicans mean about how government should be reactive and not proactive?
Aside from exposing how generally ineffectual our government is (British police handled the crisis) this non-crisis will of course be the central campaign point for almost all of the GOP this year. Already, Homeland Security is trying to claim they had some influence, "pushing" the Brits to go ahead and make arrests. If they had the information to do such a thing, why wasn't the terror warning raised to Red BEFORE the story hit papers? But no reporter will ask such a thing, and instead the news (like CBS news last night) will run scare-monger stories about airplanes and pretty much play into the hands of the Republican re-election campaigns.
The funniest thing here is that since 9/11, Al-Qaeda hasn't actually accomplished anything. This is a terrorist organization so inept they sent a guy out to blow up an airplane who couldn't figure out to light his shoe-bombs on fire in the bathroom. And they're still making America look dumb on a regular basis.
Anyway, I don't expect this blog to always be political, I just saw the terror alert was Red a wee bit late to do anyone any good and figured I'd get in a chuckle at the morons running this country into the ground.
That's right, the terror alert system is at the highest state of readiness and alarm! *AFTER* the recent airline plot was uncovered. Seriously, people, is this "terror warning" system any value at all if it only responds to things in the newspapers? What happens to the billions we spend on intelligence, anyway? Or is this what the Republicans mean about how government should be reactive and not proactive?
Aside from exposing how generally ineffectual our government is (British police handled the crisis) this non-crisis will of course be the central campaign point for almost all of the GOP this year. Already, Homeland Security is trying to claim they had some influence, "pushing" the Brits to go ahead and make arrests. If they had the information to do such a thing, why wasn't the terror warning raised to Red BEFORE the story hit papers? But no reporter will ask such a thing, and instead the news (like CBS news last night) will run scare-monger stories about airplanes and pretty much play into the hands of the Republican re-election campaigns.
The funniest thing here is that since 9/11, Al-Qaeda hasn't actually accomplished anything. This is a terrorist organization so inept they sent a guy out to blow up an airplane who couldn't figure out to light his shoe-bombs on fire in the bathroom. And they're still making America look dumb on a regular basis.
Anyway, I don't expect this blog to always be political, I just saw the terror alert was Red a wee bit late to do anyone any good and figured I'd get in a chuckle at the morons running this country into the ground.
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