You're quite welcome.
Frankly I find this very ominous. I never thought they'd let it get to that position, unless we were in outright war (on our land!)
I figured they put that "peg the meter" level there for psychological purposes, so that they'd always be able to say look, we're NOT at the worst level, things aren't that bad.
I know that now they're saying they were tracking this situation for months, but I don't buy it. This whole thing reeks of a sudden "oh, $#!+!" moment, that snuck up on 'em FAST, in the middle of the night.
The fact that they woke up the President and the head of Homeland Security in the wee hours of darkness confirms that, IMO. Everyone was scrambling like chickens with their heads cut off. Contradictory dicta were issued, revised, reissued, for a period of several hours. Total chaos in the airports. One nation after another suddenly deciding to cut their flights to the UK. Etc., etc., etc.
I think they managed to nip this thing at the last minute, and came within moments of being caught with their pants down.
And it makes me wonder how many other terrorist "operations" are progressing UNdetected.
I think this, like the Israel/Lebanon war, is intimately tied in with Iran's BIG war plans. It's all a game of misdirection, straight out of The Art of War. Get everyone looking somewhere else, putting out one brushfire after another... and then, *boom*!
I don't expect to be sleeping very well for the next few weeks. That Aug. 22 "threatpoint" strikes me as nothing to summarily dismiss. Just as "der fuhrer" outlined HIS plans in Mein Kampf, THIS fuhrer-wannabe has been utterly transparent in disclosing HIS intentions for us.
And just as the world dismissed the threats a half-century ago, they are likewise dismissing this round of threats.
George Santayana was right. And my cupboard remains filled with rice and beans. (CHEAP "complete protein", lasts forever, takes up little space, and costs next to nothing. As "life insurance" goes, you can't beat it with a stick.)
Also highly recommended: a book titled, "Pulling Through" by Dean Ing. Get it for a buck or so at your favorite online used-book outlet.
>>>>>I know that now they're saying they were tracking this situation for months, but I don't buy it.
I agree with most of your comment, but this.
I do believe they've been tracking it - but also having to keep the information out of the hands of traitors such as the New York Times.
Signs at the airports were posted immediately last night including the liquid ban. Those signs had to be made up in advance.
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I'm terrified, too, and I don't scare easy.
Well said!
I wonder when the fanatical muslims hanging out in the mosques will be ejected from both Britain and the U.S.?
We have to stop fooling around with the pc cr@p.
The news media are all wondering whether this is al qaeda or not. How many weeks has it been since bl and zawahiri's messages? Velveeta do you know? This is their footprint for sure IMHO.