Time to think the unthinkable

MSNBC ^ | 1/20/2005 | Tom Curry

[kona coffee]

WASHINGTON - On this snow-draped Inauguration Day in Washington, a few people on Capitol Hill were thinking about the worst: a catastrophic attack that could kill or incapacitate most members of Congress, the president, the vice president and the cabinet.

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The unseen presence at this first inauguration since Sept. 11, 2001, is al-Qaida, whose terrorists showed three years ago how capable they were of killing thousands of Americans in one place at one time.

At 9:30 on inauguration morning, in his office in the Longworth Building, a short walk from where the president would soon take his oath, Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., said, “It is very clear that al-Qaida wishes to do only things that are destabilizing to the United States. More modest terrorists would have blown up an apartment building in the last three years. But al-Qaida is not dead and they don’t think small. They think in terms of the power of the United States and how do you symbolically destroy, physically destroy, that power.”

[jellybean]

Sonnet to Banana Nose

Buzz off, Banana Nose; Relieve mine eyes
Of hateful soreness, purge mine ears of corn;
Less dear than army ants in apple pies
Art thou, old prune-face, with thy chestnuts worn,
Dropt from thy peeling lips like lousy fruit;
Like honeybees upon the perfum'd rose
They suck, and like the double-breasted suit
Are out of date; therefore, Banana Nose,
Go fly a kite, thy welcome's overstayed;
And stem the produce of thy waspish wits:
Thy logick, like thy locks, is disarrayed;
Thy cheer, like thy complexion, is the pits.
Be off, I say; go bug somebody new,
Scram, beat it, get thee hence, and nuts to you.

[Laura Earl]

CG & I are going on 1 year...we are newlyweds!

[AirForceMom]

Happy anniversary!! I wish you both many, many happy years together.

[Conspiracy Guy]

: (

[REDWOOD99]

Looks like the "over" wins today.

[Rightly Biased]

I guess someone had to be on troll watch? Sorry I was on the live Thread it was fun.

[MeekOneGOP]

There were plenty of the Trolls today, too. :^O

A number of threads I couldn't get to fast enough, they were ZOTTED, threads pulled.

[Rightly Biased]

Thats probably best anyway we really don't need thier trash on JimRobs fine forum. :^)

[MeekOneGOP]

Thats probably best anyway we really don't need thier trash on JimRobs fine forum. :^)

Yep. That's right.

And on that note, I think I'm ready to get horizontal for a few hours.

Apologies for any comments today I missed or didn't reply to.

What a busy day.

G'night, ya'll. :^)

[dr_pat]

Wasn't trying to initiate a flame-war.



I already keep a skeptical eye on the MSM - and I'll keep an eye on you, too.