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My prayers go out to Rush, his family, and all of you lost souls. Here's for a more prayerful 2010. Glory Be.

Cuz, like, when you're an executive and you quit your job, you deserve 2.8 million. You earned it. Forcing down all those expensed manhattans. Having to squeeze into that tiny corporate jet. Never enough time at home to enjoy that 20,000 square foot compound on the cape. It's only right. Far Right.

How do you expect her to feed her kids on half a million a year...plus several million in bonus/stock?

Love da Carhartts, but my peeps don't wear hoodies; can't generate the required angst.

I'm pissed off. But a few elk steaks sent my way and I'd be right as rain.

Camel makes an excellent burger. True story.

The 2003 debate, in a nutshell: Let's roll. Why? Because you're a faggot.

You're itchin' to be shouted down again, aren't you?

Suuuurrrreee wish I could reheat yesterday's coffee ovah heah.

It's a good thing modern cameras have a 'grainy' setting. But was the photographer sincere?

The ebola virus is similarly sincere. Not a mean bone it its tiny body. Sincerity is great, but when you wield power and your sincerely held beliefs have a destructive, cruel result, its best for society to treat you for what you are; a threat to be eliminated.

He's not bloodthirsty. He's wealthy Jewish cock thirsty.

That's all fine, as long as they're spear-killed afterwards.

Enterprising Yemenis are busy building Burger Kings as we speak....

It's the Guarani way of offering someone a big, tall cup of STFU.

I think a few spears might accessorize Palin's bun/librarian glasses ensemble, as well.

The Guarani; the Amazonian tribe described in Joe Kane's book 'Savages', have a helpful way to deal with people like Lieberman. It involves spears.

No wonder FW loves him.

LULZ!

That's the vision: Dome the entire country, and take out the Bad Guys with a push of a button...inside or outside The Dome. No muss, no fuss. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. You gotta love the term Homeland Security, too. What a wholesome mix of Der Faderland, Mom's apple pie, paranoid xenophobia, New Speak, and the comfort of a soft, fuzzy widdle blankie; perfect for that half of our population with the mentality of a spoiled 6 year old. I wonder how much the Bush Administration paid that lucky PR firm to come up with it? I forgot the mini domed security enclaves for asset strippers within the maxi dome. Da-Double-Dy Domeland, chock full Dubyas, Double Dees, and Domestics. Right out of a Robert Heinlein novella...had he been psychopathic.

That's the vision: Dome the entire country, and take out the Bad Guys with a push of a button...inside or outside The Dome. No muss, no fuss. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. You gotta love the term Homeland Security, too. What a wholesome mix of Der Faderland, Mom's apple pie, paranoid xenophobia, New Speak, and the comfort of a soft, fuzzy widdle blankie; perfect for that half of our population with the mentality of a spoiled 6 year old. I wonder how much the Bush Administration paid that lucky PR firm to come up with it?

We would have been far, far better off to simply say 'fuck you, we're going to continue to be a free and open nation' and take a few more hits, rather than becoming a paranoid, bankrupt police state full of paranoid pussies manipulated by cynical asset strippers and chest puffing posers. We would also have done better to not over simplify and dehumanize 'The Bad Guys' , and take a look at a pretty rotten foreign policy track record. Such philosophies are simply not in an asset stripper's playbook, however. The Right Wing is a movement based on cruelty and bullying, so it's only natural that their response was to outdo the atrocities of the enemy, rather than take the high ground, as any principled society should always do, but most importantly during times of threat and crisis.

Those wacky Nigerians....

Hindsight is great. I wonder how many emails, phone calls, letters Homeland Security/FBI/CIA/US embassies get per day saying, "I/someone I know/this guy on a streetcorner, etc am going to blow up a plane/kill the president/release sarin gas in the mall, etc" Bullshit. We had well-sourced, substantiated, and actionable info in 9/11, Ft. Hood, and this case. His father is a high-placed banker within Nigeria, not some random nut job. It's not at all a matter of hindsight - it's the same pattern of dropping the ball between field offices and Washington, between unconnected security systems, between individuals who lack the authority or interest to connect-the-dots. From an Israeli perspective its incompetence plain an simple. From a systems perspective it's a matter of the inability of complex human-machine workflows to provide the necessary coverage. Most credible analyses of 911 would agree here. The Bush administration had direct, specific warnings about Al Qaeda and basically took a do nothing approach. Bush himself was doing a whole lot of brush cutting prior to 911, as I recall. Regarding 911, it's true that several of the hijackers were under close FBI surveillance, but the dysfunction and lack of prioritized focus in that agency prevented it from acting. Rather than addressing the specific inadequacies in each security agency, an overall of our post 911 security apparatus produced the WMD debacle, a vastly bloated and unwieldy bureaucracy, a deep attack on our civil liberties and a host of human rights atrocities. Good response.

Hindsight is great. I wonder how many emails, phone calls, letters Homeland Security/FBI/CIA/US embassies get per day saying, "I/someone I know/this guy on a streetcorner, etc am going to blow up a plane/kill the president/release sarin gas in the mall, etc" HS has greatly exacerbated this 'crisis of abundance' by absorbing everybody down the the local dog catcher. One example is Suspicious Activity Reporting, the latest fad being both pushed from the top down by HS and bottom up by local yocals who've watched one too many Bruce Willis flicks. LAPD list of Suspicious Activities to watch for include photography and note taking. Good luck with all that 'useful intel' guys! Hermetically sealing a country of 350 million is a costly fantasy. We've been bullies for a while, but after 911 we decided to become the world's biggest asshole, so now we've got to watch our back to the tune of a trillion or more dollars a year we can no longer a afford. In the process, we're burning down our basic, middle class values and lifestyle in exchange for the appearance of security. Yeah, I'd say we have a national security problem, but it has nothing to do with little brown guys in caves. It's an internal problem. We have a political party in this country that has, for decades, openly advocated destroying every single system, from education to health care, that provides real security for our middle class. If we really want to take out some Bad Guys and eliminate the greatest threat to true national security this country has ever seen, the RNC would be a great first stop.