Just saw this on FB and had to share: “heard the FAA nailed down new airline security measures: ban passengers.”

This is no “My Pet Goat,” or sharing birthday cake with John McCain while New Orleans flooded. But it’s close enough that it’s making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up… and I like this President.

Uncanny, the resemblences! Thousands dead v a guy with exploding pants! Neck prickles all around!

I’m shocked - SHOCKED, I tell you - that your President isn’t responding to a terrorist attack by promoting terror among the populace. Hasn’t he read the script?

Far better to do that than do some quiet ass-kicking to find out why the guy wasn’t on the no-fly list.

why the guy wasn’t on the no-fly list.

To be fair, he had a fly right up until the attempt.

LOL.

*STRANGE AIR COMMAND* TRAVEL ADVISORY:

AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE, ALL PASSENGERS ARE URGED TO VISUALLY INSPECT THE INSIDE THIGHS OF THE PERSON IN THE SEAT NEXT TO YOU.

REPORT ALL SUSPICIOUS LAP-AREA POWDERS OR LIQUIDS TO THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT. EMAIL DOCUMENTARY CELL-PHONE SNAPS TO MY “BURNING THIGHS OF TERROR” FACEBOOK PAGE.

THANKS IN ADVANCE, CITIZEN.

Apologies for that. I just figure since everyone on earth is rushing to use this event for political or commercial gain, I might as well get in on the action.

But seriously…The Terror List confusion is the main embarrassment here. As for the chemicals, there’s no way to prevent them from getting onboard as long as street clothes, baggage and unattended bathroom breaks are permitted on commercial flights. Until commercial air travel is subject to the same protocols and precautions as a Guantanamo prisoner transfer, shit like this is going to happen.

As a tech writer, I winced reflexively when I read this:   

“We’ve known for a long time that this is possible,” said Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism czar and ABC News consultant, “and that we really have to replace our scanning devices with more modern systems.”

I won’t tell you why I winced, for the same reason Mr. Clarke never mentioned until now that he’s known all along that this was possible.

Oh, and no—there’s really no point in having the President return from Hawaii, unless he plans to order a shutdown of all commercial flights until we can check everyone’s inseam and declare war on Nigeria. He’s already ordered a review of all airport security procedures, which is as much as anyone can do, publicly, at the moment.

All attempts to make political hay out of this are smoke and hyperventilation.

GOP Rep Peter Hoekstra isn’t using this incident for political gain, nosiree:

Asked by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace if it is fair to blame the Obama administration for the attacks, the Michigan Republican replied ““Yeah, I think it really is.”

Hoekstra said that increased domestic threats have made themselves more evidence this year, with this attack and the Fort Hood shootings, but said that the Obama administration is trying to “downplay” the threat.

“The Obama administration came in and said we’re not going to use the word terrorism anymore, we’re going to call it man made disasters, trying to, I think, downplay the threat from terrorism,” he said.

Good gyad, what a lying sack of shit.

What’s weird is there’s only 2 people in the entire country who aren’t on the no fly list.  It appears this guy was one of them.

Would it be doable to have special teams of bacon-tossers show up at their court dates and toss away?

OK own up - who’s sockpuppeting over there?

Brit, it’s the salad-bar approach to anti-terrorism:

But just to suggest something feasible, how about throwing bacon bits at Nidal Hassan or the Nigerian guy who tried to blow up the plane?

Hillbuzz is officially the new Little Green Footballs.

Pig’s blood and pork fat for all!

It’s a wealth of ingenuity over there:

jsbz Says:

December 26, 2009 at 12:31 pm
someone needs to taint the site at ground zero with pigs blood before it can be built.

And respectful, too!

Poor robert c. seems to be the only voice of sanity testicularly challenged Muslin-loving wimp over there:

No. I just don’t think that their retaliation by blowing up St. Peter’s, Lourdes, Fatima, Notre Dame, Canterbury Cathedral, the Western Wall or one of the Great Synagogue’s, the Lotus Temple, The Ise Jingu, Tirumala Tirupati Devastanam, Jokhang Temple, the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Holy Trinity Lavra, Mahabodhi Temple, Mother Church of Christian Science, the Salt Lake Temple or dozens more sacred sites, all vunerable, all part of the collective heritage. No. I don’t think that is a really good idea at all.

Jim Hlavac Says:

December 27, 2009 at 1:29 am
It would perhaps be more effective to simply ban travel by civilized means by any muslim whatsoever. Any name perceived as muslim — any passport from a muslim country — even multiple entry stamps from muslim countries — and that’s it — banned from airlines, trains, taxis, driver’s licenses, ferries, ships, buses — what have you — a total transportation ban.
Let them travel by camel. Let them live in the 12th century….
But really, the peaceful way to go is to shun and ostracize.
As for those here — throw them out — who cares any more. They cannot be trusted. Indeed, they loudly proclaim they are not to be trusted.
Simple, quick, cleansing.

Cleansing, indeed.

And of course, yellow crescent patches to be worn by male Muslims, coinciding with the destruction of the mosques.

Hillbuzz is officially the new Little Green Footballs.

Technically they’re the new old LGF.

* every time Muslims attack an embassy, an airliner, a hotel, or any other Western target, a prominent mosque somewhere will be demolished.

Y’know why this is such a great plan? The reason is twofold: Because radical Islamists give a shit about mosques, and they hate it when the West lashes out blindly.

Yessiree Bob, the last thing Jihadis want is for us to engage in collective retaliation, especially if it has a clash-of-civilizations vibe with a heavy religious angle.

Sarcasm and Hillbuzz: the lowest forms of their respective categories.