Rasmussen has him hitting 50 today!
Now another leak has made into in the news. US News and World Report has this headline:
Nuclear Monitoring of Muslims Done Without Search Warrants
In search of a terrorist nuclear bomb, the federal government since 9/11 has run a far-reaching, top secret program to monitor radiation levels at over a hundred Muslim sites in the Washington, D.C., area, including mosques, homes, businesses, and warehouses, plus similar sites in at least five other cities, U.S. News has learned.Keep up the leaks, folks, and Bush will be at 100% approval by July!
Okay, shall we take bets on how long it takes for the Saudi funded Religious Police, er CAIR, to protest?
And when are we going to get some pushback from the government against all these leaks that affect national security? This one is especially egregious since now al Qaeda knows which cities we are NOT monitoring.
You said it well 'knuck'. It is heartening to know that folks are out there doing their job. Let CAIR (ht:lgf) bleat all it wants, this is our country, they may or may not end up being a part of it. Damn, that sounds horrible, but I don't care anymore. To hell with them.
ReplyDeleteThis situation is unprecedented in our history.
ReplyDeleteIn the past, when there was a credible threat to our nation, all but the most "radical" (that was usually the descriptor of choice) supported all governmental efforts to prevent an overt attack on our Nation's people, property and economy.
True, there were arguments as to whether a nation (e.g. the Vietcong, North Vietnam, North Korea, Mao's China) or ideology (e.g. Communism)indeed presented a "credible threat" to the Nation.
But if we were overtly attacked as we were on September 11, by people who announced they were "out to get us", the people were never reticent about taking extraordinary steps to protect ourselves.
It is hard to understand why the attitude of a significant portion of our population is so different now.
Okay, betting is closed, I heard CAIR complaining about it on the way home tonight.
ReplyDeletevnjagvet--
ReplyDeleteFortunately, those moonbats only represent about 20% of the electorate, and are driving the rest of the populace steadily rightward.
I am curious whether any of you have ever seen a leftie explain what actual harm to our civil liberties has taken place. I have tried to engage a few on other websites, but they only engage in hypotheticals (slippery slope arguments and the like) -- at best. Often they are reduced to mouthing cliches (Lord Acton), and when challenged they retreated to a violation of Godwin's rule.
Does it require a search warrant to monitor radiation levels? Does this violate anyones right to privacy? I suppose the government could be accused of profiling, but I think Willie Sutton's explanation for that sort of thing still stands. When he was asked why he robbed banks, he replied, "Because that's where the money is."
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ReplyDelete"It is hard to understand why the attitude of a significant portion of our population is so different now. "
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30 years of the biggest loser lefties of the 70's being in complete control of public "education."
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Or as Sowell describes:
The Bottom of the Bottom of the Academic Barrel.
All right, folks, I've got a puzzle for you.
ReplyDeleteCan anyone come up with a plausible scenario in which people in a mosque, a home, or a storefront would be doing anything legal and "ordinary" that would result in emitting high energy neutrons, alphas or gamma rays? About all I can think of is cobalt or polonium "seeds" in radiation treatment.
The following quote from the US News piece was actually very comforting, to see that PC insanity has not totally infected our counter-terrorism effort [emph added]:
ReplyDeleteOfficials also reject any notion that the program specifically has targeted Muslims. "We categorically do not target places of worship or entities solely based on ethnicity or religious affiliation," says one. "Our investigations are intelligence driven and based on a criminal predicate."
sty -- I think that if you said that to a moonbat, their head would explode. They have truly painted themselves into a corner with this one. I hope it gets wide media traction, and that CAIR fights it tooth and nail.
ReplyDeleteOn the topic of leaks, it is becoming ridiculous. Appropriate investigations should be taking place as we speak. But are they?
ReplyDeleteThere was a good discussion re: whistle-blower's, over at RLS's some months back. I agree that there is room for nuanced debate on the subject. But there comes a time...
I think more people are concerned about the number of leaks than they are about some poor terrorist being "watched".
ReplyDeleteGeez, can't you see it, some guy from Pakistan calls some guy in Detroit and starts talking about plans for an attack and the agent hangs up for fear he will be invading the privacy of said terrorist.
Now we are getting search warrants for the air.
This is stupid.
Peter 5:35 AM,
ReplyDeleteYou are correct, we all are equal risks.
But,
Muslims are more likely to detonate a Nuke in their own homes.
Well, Peter, it's not as if the Crown doesn't have it'd own stockpile of glow-jewels!
ReplyDeleteI do, I DO, I'm up to 1850 now.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding English
ReplyDeleteWell understated irony.
ReplyDelete(*groan*) check your "irony" link, Peter--it wouldn't work a sec ago--
No, really, no ironic reference to irony, the link actually really doesn't work.
Seriously, c'mon, really.
\;-D
peterUK, aka, "doug piranha" : http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/piranha.htm
ReplyDeleteAhh...a mystery wrapped in an enigma....
ReplyDeleteYou know, if that one former naval person had had only a little less command of the language, it could've plausbly meant the permanent end of the free world? Crazy thought--but maybe a true one.
plausibly
ReplyDeletePeter at 5:35 was brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI guess that was irony. :)
BTW, it occurred to me we already know about these trucks that roll around and can detect radiation. I remember a couple years ago I was radioactive for about 24 hours because of a medical test and I was wishing I could get to DC to test the system.
But this leak is dangerous to PEOPLE as well. Those guys doing the testing who may have to step onto property will now have to stop what they're doing or get shotgunned.
And our government better start pushing back on these leaks soon. The earlier drop in Bush's approval rating wasn't for his policies as much as for his lack of fighting spirit here at home.
He not only has to protect us from Islamofascists, he has to protect us from the left loonies too.
Fantastic link, Peter! He really works the Germans over, doesn't he?
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ReplyDeleteKnucklehead,
ReplyDeleteJust try saying
"Merry Christmas"
in the employ of certain Corporations.
You'll see.
Well, the answer I'm getting is, the right is concerned about degrees of right-vs-wrong, while the left is doing the either/or.
ReplyDeleteEither "the government" owns the gray area, or "the people" do.
Geez--air game and ground game indeed.
When it comes to irony, I am
ReplyDeleteThe Master of Gibbons.
Imagine the screaming if we had this again--which I for one wish we DID.
ReplyDeleteDoug, "Don't Rust Anybody Under Thirty" ?
ReplyDeleteThe left can own the Grey Area
ReplyDeleteas long as I can keep my head.
Peter, that referendum would certainly tell which is the 'party of the people' and which isn't.
ReplyDeleteA tourist walks into a curio shop in San Francisco. Looking around at everything, he notices a very lifelike life-sized bronze statue of a rat. It has no price tag, but is so striking that he decides he must have it. So he takes it to the owner and asks, "How much for the bronze rat?"
ReplyDeleteThe owner replies, "$12 for the rat and $100 for the story."
The tourist gives the man $12 and says, "I'll just take the rat, you can keep the story."
As he walks down the street carrying his bronze rat, he notices that a few real rats have crawled out of the alleys and sewers and begun following him down the street. This is disconcerting, and he begins walking faster. But within a couple of blocks, the herd of rats behind him has grown to hundreds, and they begin squealing. He begins to trot toward the Bay, looking around to see that the rats now number in the MILLIONS, and are squealing and coming toward him faster and faster.
Concerned, even scared, he runs to the edge of the Bay, and throws the bronze rat as far out into the water as he can. Amazingly, the millions of rats all jump into the Bay after it, and are all drowned. The man walks back to the curio shop."Ah ha", says the owner, "you have come back for the story?"
"No", says the man, "I came back to see if you have a bronze Democrat."
Which was worse,
ReplyDeleteThe Radiation Leak from Ali's House,
or the Plame Leak?
ht Maggie's Farm, the author, a Dem, is really upset with his party.
ReplyDeleteItalian Catholic Arrested Selling Leeks.
ReplyDeleteBuddy,
ReplyDeleteIf the Democrats disappear and are replaced by a Conservative Party, I'm all for it.
Yet Another Mass Grave Found!
ReplyDeleteThis one filled with Democrats.
Scientists Find Preserved Dodo Bird Bones
"BBC News is reporting that a team of Dutch and Mauritian scientists have found what appears to be a mass dodo bird grave.
buddy:
ReplyDeleteThat is just evil.
I know, Terrye. I'm not proud of my feelings.
ReplyDelete\;-D
They're still Expecting
ReplyDeleteTulip Mania 2.
THE NEW YORK TIMES STRIKES AGAIN
ReplyDeleteBy Michelle Malkin · December 24, 2005 09:59 AM
'Twas the day before Christmas
And all through the Times
Hysteria reigned over
Bush's "impeachable crimes"...
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Michelle has LOTS of links here.
Peter,
ReplyDeleteIsn't that Prime Minister Farakahn?
Sounds like Muhammad' OD'ed on Bismuth.
Heh.
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