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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:20 PM
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If the country is on red alert or orange then wouldn't it make sense to...
check packages and baggage at the malls , theaters, entertainment venues, hospitals,trains, buses and other places where large groups of people gather. If terrorists are really in this country they have many places to commit terrorist acts. I have been looking at places that are vulnerable every since 911 and I have not seen bush do anything because he can't and he isn't protecting anyone but himself and his family.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:24 PM
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1. you're absolutely right. the possible targets are limitless
why they use planes to instill fear all the time is beyond my ability to understand.
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QuestionAll... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:39 PM
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13. that's the BFEE (and friends) agenda - the possible targets are limitless.
as what it was meant to be.

'Fear', a new cologne soon to be marketed, and bought.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:25 PM
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2. The country is on Yellow, air travel is on orange and some is on red
Edited on Fri Aug-11-06 02:27 PM by RGBolen
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* Threat Level Raised to Code Red or Severe for flights originating in the United Kingdom bound for the United States.
* Threat Level Raised to Code Orange or High for all commercial aviation operating in or destined for the United States.


http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:27 PM
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4. The country is yella ...like their president
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:28 PM
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5. yella?

huh?
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:33 PM
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10. yellow get it ...
your president is YELLA= scared
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:48 PM
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14. ok
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:27 PM
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3. I'll even take this a step further...
IMO, this is a complete exercise in CONTROL. Why can't someone bring a chapstick on a plane yet only 10% of our check-in luggage across the country is scanned for bombing materials? That means all of these long lines and "security" checks really mean NOTHING, eh? Who cares if I have a lipstick tube with me if the belly of my plane is FULL OF EXPLOSIVES? Think about it.

One more thing to add: Joe says he's tough on terror. Yes? Then why is only 10% of our baggage being scanned while he sits as a RANKING MEMBER of the Homeland Security Comm.? Liar.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:29 PM
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6. DING DING FOOJ YOU WIN
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:30 PM
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8. WE need to scream this from our rooftops, IMO.
Edited on Fri Aug-11-06 02:31 PM by fooj
Yes?

I wouldn't be surprised if Parliament isn't ready to throw a vote of NO CONFIDENCE Blair's way. Just another plausible reason...
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:00 PM
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15. THAT... would be SWEET!!!
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:32 PM
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9. I also forgot about the ports..
and when I am out and about I look at the possiblities,so we know that the terrorists are looking at them too. I have thought of others and they wonder why some wouldn't believe the bushit, especially when blair is his poodle. Part of what they have said may have been true but a lot has been embellished and is being used to boost up bush's support with his base.
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:35 PM
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12. Don't forget...these "leaders" have crossed the last line with many.
I'm not trying to be a cynic. I'm just looking at it from THEIR POV. Who wins with this type of "control"? Eh?
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:05 PM
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17. You know Dubai Ports World DID buy them (23 in the US) &
will control them for at least another year. Don't you?
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:07 PM
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18. probably more than one year..
they are always lying and the details come out later
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:40 PM
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21. I said one year...they're 4 months into the 6 mos. they have to
"identify buyers", and they have finally started to circulate the prospectus. So that's sure not on schedule.
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-12-06 02:59 PM
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23. They are bushitting...
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:29 PM
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7. Might make sense for El Pretzeldente to cancel his vacation.
Edited on Fri Aug-11-06 02:29 PM by impeachdubya
But he won't.
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:40 PM
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20. He's fundraising ...
its an off and on vacation because, he is afraid that if the repubs lose his ass will be grass.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 02:35 PM
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11. Does this mean that DHS is now defending...
...all of those 100,000+ 'high-risk' national monuments and such that came out on that list last month?

Will the Catalepsyville Toejam Festival have National Guard protection? Will my supplies of pork and apples be uninterrupted? What about Amish Popcorn? I can't sleep until I know the Amish Popcorn is safe.
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:01 PM
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16. LMAO! Kut-- Amish Popcorn!! : - )
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Sinti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:38 PM
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19. Wouldn't it make sense to at least do a random check of cargo?
Cargo planes are not screened at all, as of yet... just saying.
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-11-06 03:42 PM
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22. Thats why he and his administration are full of shit...
if the so called terrorists that are in this country were really trying they have more than enough ways to cause problems.
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