Guess that whole Mayan thing was made up.
Terror
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Sep 12
Warmachines: Shout it from the rooftops.
It’s not enough to be a ninja-assassin, politically:
Obama just doesn’t understand his job as war chief of this big crazy tribe. A war chief doesn’t have to win; only a wonk’s view of the world would see things that way. A war chief has to look like a war chief and talk like one. And yell a lot. Obama just can’t manage that, and when he tries, he makes us feel stupid. He embarrasses us, trying to sing along to a tune you know he thinks is just dumb.
It’s a shame in a way, because his war wonks did a pretty good job actually running the wars. I like to think of them grumbling about it now, a bunch of youngish dressy-casual technocrats drowning their sorrows in frappucinos at some suburban DC Starbucks, counting off their so-what accomplishments: “We got out of Iraq … not one American killed there this year; we took down Qaddafi without one single American casualty; we killed bin Laden right in front of the Pakistani Army and got away with it; what does a C-in-C have to do to get a little respect around here?”
The answer is: He has to look convincing when he holds our enemy’s head up on a stick and shows it to the crowd, all drippy and drawing flies. That’s what we want, and Obama, with all that creepy self-control, is the last guy you’d pick for that job.
You must also display heads on pikes.
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Sep 12
Shorter 9/11 was NOT an inside job.
There were plenty of signs that we would be hit in an attack like 9/11 during 2001 but the Bushies couldn’t see it because they were too determined to find a reason to go after Saddam Hussein.
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Sep 12
9/11 Related Posts from the Archives
What were we talking about all summer? Sharks.
What should we teach the children?
How 9/11 changed us online. Also social networking and crises.
What Hunter S. Thompson said.
9/11 was a failure of imagination?
Domestic Spying, here.
Remember how we collectively shit ourselves after 9/11?
How about our constant (and accelerated) erosion of privacy?
Don’t you think the narrative of Flight 93 is a little too perfect?
Pat Tillman, his brother, and a bank job?
Lastly, a Grand Unifying Conspiracy Theory.
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Sep 11
The Man in the Red Bandana
From ESPN, a video: Ten years later: remembering a man who led people to safety after terrorists struck the World Trade Center on September 11th – a former Boston College lacrosse player whose trademark was a red bandanna.