Comments on: SubwayBombingCowardsRUs

By: Robin Munn

Robin Munn — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:25:01 +0000

The post is a few days old by now, but it may be worth updating it one more time: this particular threat has turned out to be a hoax. See http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/11/nyc.scare/index.html?section=cnn_us and http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/29318.htm for details (NY Post requires registration, try http://bugmenot.com/ for a username and password). The informant who was the source of the intel has admitted that he made this one up, and the three suspects who were arrested have since passed a polygraph test and been released.

By: jan brauner

jan brauner — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:36:26 +0000

OK, now we have a situation in NYC where the analysts said there wasn’t a credible threat….Naturally, NY authoritees had to take precautions because of imminent danger to the population….Does any of this sound familiar? Now that nothing happened, and no perps have been discovered, and no WMDs, are we now going to accuse the mayor of…LYING? I’m having fun with this scenario…

By: Kate yost

Kate yost — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 02:57:52 +0000

Seems to me that if Sunday was the target date ( odd target date)the authorities should have not sounded the alarm on Fri ( stepped up security, yes). They could have waited until sat pm to warn everyone while working to roll up the cell. Now the murdering scum are further underground (if they existed at all)

By: Tom Bosee

Tom Bosee — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 15:27:25 +0000

Right Brain, the whole time I lived in NYC, I was a registered Democrat, voted in their primaries for candidates that would mess them up in the general election, then I voted Republican! When they say there are five Dems to one Republican in New York City, factor in voters like me. Nobody sees what we do when we close that curtain! God bless America!

By: Right Brain

Right Brain — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:39:22 +0000

What these articles are leaving out is that we have an election in New York City in about three weeks. The front runner Republican Mayor Bloomberg, has a twelve point lead on the selected Democrat, Fernando Ferrer. If Mayor Bloomberg is re-elected, which is most likely, it will be the fourth time in a row that New York City, a town with an 82% Democratic registration, has elected a Republican to run our government. This feature of NYC, still the most liberal party town in America, drives the Democrats to distraction. After-all, if you can’t make it here….you ain’t gonna make it anywhere.

(Right Brain lives in the Village)

By: jan brauner

jan brauner — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:52:31 +0000

Speaking of terror, do you guys find the media’s silence about our home grown suicide bomber at OU rather extraordinary?

By: Mike O

Mike O — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:11:53 +0000

When court nominations are in the air, we often hear the phrase litmus test. Perhaps this one could be called LaShawn’s Litmus Test.
“Are they still searching little old ladies and skipping young men of Middle Eastern descent because it would be racist to search them?”
When the answer to the second part of the question is “no” and to first part “only if they are wearing lumpy burkas”, we will know that sanity has trumped political correctness.

By: Democracy Project

Democracy Project — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 22:01:47 +0000

To Profile or Not to Profile? Too Bad It’s Not In Question!

Normally, cynicism for the sake of being cynical is irritating to me, but you just have to love it when La Shawn Barber’s fed up. My good buddy La Shawn wrote for my now-defunct Right Report for over two years…

By: Mean Dean

Mean Dean — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:40:44 +0000

“Throw it against a wall and see if it sticks.”

La Shawn, having lived in NYC for 10 years (in a past life), I can state emphatically that anything you throw against the subway walls will stick!

By: Uncle Sam's Cabin

Uncle Sam's Cabin — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:45:43 +0000

NYC subway threat blogging

So the saga unfolds. Penn Station was closed for a while because of suspicious packages which turned out to be a soda bottle a bag of trash.

By: RedBeard

RedBeard — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:27:36 +0000

When the bomb goes off we still don’t want to go to red alert, because that might be deemed aggressive and insensitive to the terrorists’ delicate feelings. We should just take it, while asking CAIR and Ward Churchill to help us understand why the poor downtrodden enemy is mad at us.

By: Renee

Renee — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:06:35 +0000

Samantha,
We are a “reactionary” country (have been for the past few decades…

to go to “red alert” would take an actual bomb going off (we don’t believe in proaction..e are to PC and don’t want to hurt feelings)

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:04:01 +0000

I do wonder what it will take to go to red alert though. (Cue Star Trek red alert klaxon!)

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:02:25 +0000

My sister and I talked about this yesterday as it unfolded. I don’t know that I take it any more seriously than any other rumor that the news outlets fall all over themselves to report before they actually know what they are reporting. We’re at war and frankly, I’m surprised that this hasn’t happened before now. Anyway, I’m doing my Church Lady “well isn’t that special” face while we watch the “it’s a credible threat, no it isn’t, it is, isn’t, is, isn’t” dance. My sister’s pissed that her commute may be messed up though.

By: Sara Horn

Sara Horn — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:53:06 +0000

Larry, you’re absolutely right. That’s why it’s so important that religious protections are included in the Iraqi constitution, which I don’t know will happen or not. There are over one million, maybe closer to 2 million Christians in Iraq. The Iraqi pastor I interviewed back in 2003 said that most Iraqis live together peacefully – Muslim, Christian and other sects. They respect each other. It’s those who lean toward extreme tendencies that make trouble for the rest of them.