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Hey,we got three years to lighten his ass up. 2007 tailgate, ain't nobody doing much sleeping. Disclaimer: Dear DIA and FBI, This thread is only in jest. I am simply playing around with cursory knowledge gained from the internet and several scholastic tomes from the public library. I would never consider engaging in an act that would compromise my judgement or cognitive reasoning. Think they bought it?

What's "freebasing"? Is that one of those nasty druggie terms? I thought that a good pharmacist could give me a timely antihistimine for the cold or allergies I'd probably get travelling to the Buffalo area having been away for so long. Perhaps some really good vitamins too. That said, how much good coke IS hid in the back room?

Party with the pharmacist?.............. Count ME in.

No stevestojan. BTW, I might be living in Alexandria, but I call Savannah home.

Nah, I figured you'd get blasted and forget I said it.

I'm one of the last 212 Braves fans. I'm still having a hard time with Tommy Glavin going there. I'm pretty sure that there are deals within deals there.

I'll drive.

Maybe if the Pats charter pilot takes a wrong turn and lands in Tibet. Seriously, I did watch part of one Arizona pre-season game and their first unit didn't look bad. I think I posted something to the effect that the Bills might not want to consider that a gimme.

I ran over everything.

I was a Mustang freak growing up. Had a 65, 66, 67, 69 and a 70. The 70 was the best. Special addition Mach 1 with 351C, toploader trans, shaker hood scoop, louvered rear window. That thing would fly. Literally. Close runner up is the M551 Sheridan and the HIMAG armored test bed vehicle. HIMAG was the fastest thing ever to run on tracks. You want excitement? Try something on tracks that weighs about 45 tons and goes 70 MPH.

Eh, nothing new. I've been using two potted begonias for earphones for years.

Forged/Not forged?

Well, I keep saying I'm going to give this place up, but I keep coming back in some misguided idea that folks might start to understand. What a dummy I is.

Never mind.

Cause and effect, Mickey. You know I can't detail, but suffice to say that many of the same venues used by the drug smugglers and the alien smugglers are already intertwined with the terrorists. This is a double edged sword for them. They have alliances with some nefarious characters, but these are well know nefarious characters and sytems to us. Whatever they intend to do, it's going to have to eclipse 9/11, or it loses much of it's perceived psychological effect. Also, whatever they are going to do takes time to set up. I was going to outline a possible scenario, but pulled it because I'm not going to get into some stupid argument with people who have no idea what they are talking about. If you go back and look at my posts in the Bush is a Uniter thread, I tried to bring across two points applicable here. One, they did not expect the response they got from the 9/11 attacks. In essence, for all it's damage in so many ways it backfired. The second-is who knows? Just my opinion, and it's only mine-they have got what they want to do figured out, but are having a difficult time gauging the outcome. The logical move to me would be a series of virtually simultaneous more "conventional" attacks across a broader area-from sea to shining sea be it may, to give the sense that no one anywhere is safe. Where I'm lost is whether they try this pre or post election, as that is probably the trigger point. I can come up with strong arguments for each. Either way, I don't think AQ and their buddies are capable of a sustained campaign in the US. They blew it on 9/11 similarly to the way Japan blew it at Pearl Harbor. Admiral Isokuru Yamamoto, the brilliant and also pragmatic architect of the attack said "I'm afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant". AQ has not studied their history well enough. They got their initial victory, won a battle-but that will cost them the war. I'd be stunned if we were lucky enough not to get whacked again. They have to maintain some type of credibility. People might die, horribly-and I can only imagine the media and this board as a microcosm if/when it happens. You said it so well yourself. This country is not on a "War Footing". It doesn't fit into our psyche. It did in 1942, doesn't play now. I'm in no way advocating building bomb shelters and running for the hills-but there needs to be at least a subtle mental adjustment that quite frankly, you are not going to see out of America "UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO THEM" and then, also quite frankly, a good 40% of those will get so wrapped up in how they weren't "protected" by whoever was in charge that they will lose vision on any clue as to why it happened. I've been, I won't say bashed, but essentially called a fear mongerer and in some cases a coward for saying what I say. I'll say it anyway. I'm not trying to fear monger, and if you think I'm a coward-face me and call me that. Mickey, this is way to complicated for this place. If it helps at all, Big Brother is doing a better job than it looks. It's not so much that it's Secret Squirrel, as it's too complicated to explain to what LA Bills calls the "Hot Pockets". It's not saying people are stupid (although T-Bone is out there somewhere) If they actually fuggin cared about the issues, they could learn-but they won't. That's been my frustration. Sad. Hey Mick, you think you worry about it? I do it for a living. End of Sermon.

You've been in my basement?

They have the Lions ahead of the Bills w/o Rogers?

Who will be carrying the rest of the six pack of Zimas.

Wow. There's just so much here at so many levels...I've overloaded. Gotta go think about this.

Mickey, I had written a much longer response and decided not to. I could outline a scenario. It wouldn't help. When I refer to assets, I'm referring to human assets-operatives and planners. The materials are easy to obtain. Operational personnel are not. And you're right, we can sometimes be our own worst enemy. And, we are in more danger than it appears, but we are also safer than it appears. As little sense as that makes, it's the reality.

Did I mention the dunking booth was over the chicken fryer?

Aw, come on. We were thinking of setting up a dunking booth.

How much outright abuse do you think you can stand?

And, we are horribly, horribly vulnerable in many ways. This is a nation of soft targets. It could happen, but I imagine a different approach here. It is not as easy to emplace and employ assets here as it is in Iraq. You may get one "spectacular" attack or series of attacks as a one shot deal-but a concentrated campaign in the US is more difficult than it appears. Not going to be much in the way of suicide attacks, as I've mentioned assets are too hard to get in place. Once they pull the trigger and do something, they are much more vulnerable and easier to find. There is a trail to trace. Suicide operators don't need to worry about it. Planning type operators do. This limits their operability and options. They'd almost have to recruit from within the US, and that mode just doesn't fit the US mentality, no matter how radical one is. Don't know if that helps or not, but no we aren't "safe" and it will be a long, long time before we are. If you think about it, we never were. And no, it's not as bad as it appears.

That's sick.