Figure out the connection and Floyd will send you a cookie
Insofar as it was able to alert everyone – INSTANTLY! – about how badly it had failed, that’s how it worked. That seems to sum up the views of DHS Secretary Janet “Don’t Call Me Reno” Napolitano. Yesterday, she famously said that “the system worked” after the near Christmas Day disaster on the Northwest Airlines flight about to land at Detroit Metro.
Apparently anyone who criticized that little gem took her remarks “out of context”. What she meant, she explained today – and you’ll note that she does indeed say this in the first interview – was that the part of the system that alerts other airline captains that they might be in danger, as well as the part of the system that is designed to respond to disaster – oh and the part of the system that tries to figure out ways to correct the system after the system is demonstrated to be screwed up – well, THAT’S what worked!
Because, you know, that’s what the Department of Homeland Security is all about. Waiting for a catastrophe and then responding like the robot in Lost in Space. DANGER! DANGER! MISUNDERSTOOD PEOPLE WHO HATE AMERICA WITH UNDERSTANDABLE JUSTIFICATION ARE IN THE AREA! DANGER! DANGER! All that preventing terrorism (or whatever the Obama administration is calling lunatics trying to blow up airliners these days) is so George W. Bush.
So rest easy America. Janet Napolitano is on the job, tirelessly working to stop terrorists in their tracks cover her ass.
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Low hanging fruit and since I like my own cookies… are you saying that Janet Napolitano is __________ __ ____ __________?
I won’t spoil the contest any more than that.
Oh, have a cookie anyway.
So I give my cursor a slight nudge over the photo and greeted with – NO CHEATING. Spoiled again.
I think what Ms. Napolitano is saying – DHS is officially a man-made disaster.
She is… Asleep At the Wheel.
Unlike Ms. Napolitano, I value preparedness.
No wonder my folks would prefer I fly into Toledo instead of Detroit Metro.
P.S. Janet and Mr. President, I realize it wouldn’t be greasing the Illinois home base, but maybe granting the Michigan prison “Gitmo North” status after all would save some transportation $$$.
Oh,you guys are so naive…this is just part of the Zionist conspiracy to frame innocent Muslims!
Wasn’t she busy waiting for right wing militias to attack America? It’s almost like she misjudged the country’s true enemy!
She’s got the real enemy in her sites – tea parties and right-wing types are a threat to election. If any terrorist showed up on a state department G-5, he wouldn’t have a C-4 suppository, but diplomatic immunity and a cell phone with Hugo Chavez’s number.
At gym and chuckling. People looking at me in bewildered curiosity. Awesome post.
obviously they were distracted investigating all Christians, administration critics and military veterans. Phew! Glad they managed to stop an attack from that direction. The system works!
She’s still trying to figure out where Mexico is.
Don’t need to worry about Mexico…the terrorists come in from Canada…damn Canucks.
The system did work ! After all the bad stuff happened, the Police were called and sent out word that it happened.
Just as planned.
That plus the fail-safe of free people defending themselves that gov’t DEPENDS upon.
Good thing the passenger is a Nederlander so he will be unavailable to arrest on assault, battery and unlawful detainment charges after Atty. Gen’l “Dick” Holder gets on the case.
I’m sure there is some enterprising attorney – with eyes on a Justice Department job – scoping to see if he had his rights violated in any way.
obviously his rights were violated…that Dutch guy had no right to jump him when he was simply lighting a Muslim votive candle, prior to praying for a safe landing.
? Chestnuts roasting in some underwear… ?
Hey, it’s not like Thundercrotch did any damage.
That won’t keep DHS from doin’ all types of stuff with all types of
unintended consequences.The system did work; it’s just not the system that Napolitano is talking about.
Seriously, there is lot’s more to this story than meets the eye, the questionable accuracy of initial reports notwithstanding. A lot of it has to do with bungling, but probably not in the way you’re thinking.
This story may be a little window into what I’m talking about. It reminds me about reports of how US authorities expedited passports for the 9/11 hijackers.
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab doesn’t have your typical terrorist profile, rather he was mixing it up with some hoity-toity and government types for a while. He was probably an America-hater, but about half the world is too.
This joker is saying flames were licking up over his head, but <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/images/Blotter/abc_a_PETN_underwear_091228_main.jpg" thisis what his drawers looked like?
Who was the guy locked in the bathroom? Just a little queasiness; nothing to see here, keep moving.
Really now, don’t you think that Ray McGovern has it right when he asks for what Presidents Trumman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy asked for? Split the CIA in two, with one side for unvarnished intelligence gathering, and the other for covert military operations. The cluster**** that we have now produces this kind of crap. Before you talk about the system working or not working, at least know what the system looks like.
But, of course, these are initial reports. Once the <a href="http://www.freedomofthepress.net/journalismandtheciathemightywurlitzer.htm" Mighty Wurlitzer is fired up, we can rest in harmony with the received reality. Just don’t have coffee or toast before your next flight; because when your system works, the chemical bombs left in your pants might get you in the news.
?? Chestnuts roasting in some underwear… ??
Hey, it’s not like Thundercrotch did any damage.
That won’t keep DHS from doin’ all types of stuff with all types of
unintended consequences.The system did work; it’s just not the system that Napolitano is talking about.
Seriously, there is lot’s more to this story than meets the eye, the questionable accuracy of initial reports notwithstanding. A lot of it has to do with bungling, but probably not in the way you’re thinking.
This story may be a little window into what I’m talking about. It reminds me about reports of how US authorities expedited passports for the 9/11 hijackers.
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab doesn’t have your typical terrorist profile, rather he was mixing it up with some hoity-toity and government types for a while. He was probably an America-hater, but about half the world is too.
This joker is saying flames were licking up over his head, but this is what his drawers looked like?
Who was the guy locked in the bathroom? Just a little queasiness; nothing to see here, keep moving.
Really now, don’t you think that Ray McGovern has it right when he asks for what Presidents Trumman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy asked for? Split the CIA in two, with one side for unvarnished intelligence gathering, and the other for covert military operations. The cluster**** that we have now produces this kind of crap. Before you talk about the system working or not working, at least know what the system looks like.
But, of course, these are initial reports. Once the Mighty Wurlitzer is fired up, we can rest in harmony with the received reality. Just don’t have coffee or toast before your next flight; because when your system works, the chemical bombs left in your pants might get you in the news.
Stopping Sponge Bob Plastique-Pants could have received a major headstart if our embassy workers in Nigeria actually, well, worked. Then we could have gone all ACME and dropped the Mighty Wurlitzer on top of him as he tried to board the plane, maybe send him off a cliff on roller skates.
Okay……………
The system, according to the left, Obama, and Janet “Do Nothing” worked perfectly. They bury their heads in the sand, pretend there is no problem, and hope someone else will take care of it for them.