Attempted "man-made disaster" or terrorism?

(to be a purist, this was actually penned on May 4th, 2010)...

The majority of the talking heads as well as the left-wing politicians sooooooooooo wanted this to have been an act of "domestic terrorism" that they could somehow link to the "Tea Party" movement and, by association, those eeeeevil Republicans and somehow staunch the bloodletting that the Democrats are sure to experience this coming November.

Even that bloviating ass, Keith Olbermann, could hardly contain his glee, gloating just last night that authorities were seeking "...a white man, in his 40s."

Oops.

Turns out that the guy is 30 years old... and from Pakistan. He'd been granted a student visa in December of 1998, and recently became a naturalized (April, 2009) American citizen who returned just this past February from a trip to his native land, after having spent five months there, and who now has admitted to receiving bombmaking training in Waziristan, the lawless tribal region where the Pakistani Taliban operates with near impunity.


NBC's Contessa Brewer, in a phone interview with liberal radio-talker Stephanie Miller today, lamented the fact that the person arrested for the fizzled Times Square terror attack was a Pakistani-American. She complained, "I get frustrated...There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country."

She defensively mentioned members of a Michigan militia group arrested in March and asserted that they were "from far different backgrounds than what this guy is coming from." In the audio, when she referred to the Michigan militia folks that called themselves "Hutaree," it sounded like she called them "Atari."

Continuing to play armchair psychiatrist, she went on, "Were there failed family ties? Did he have a strong community network here in the United States? Did he feel isolated?" She opined that these types of terrorists are "guys who are, I don't know, isolated in some ways from their families."

Good Lord...


Mayor Nanny -- er, Bloomberg, of New York proved again that there are more horses' asses than there are horses; that having a lot of money doesn't necessarily mean you have a lot of brains. Speaking of money (nice segue, eh? ), here's the money quote:

"If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything."

Bloomberg is that most dangerous variety of idiot -- the idiot who believes himself to be the smartest person in the room.

And, when President Obama weighed in, there must have been a typo in his teleprompter. He said, "...once gain an attempted attack has been [awkward pause] failed."

Probably whoever wrote those words for him meant "foiled," eh? Reminds me of the thrice-spoken "navy corpse-man" in that speech a couple of months ago. Once could be an error but... three times???

Later in today's prepared remarks, desperate to portray the government as being in control of the situation, Obama added that the authorities "may have saved hundreds of lives."

While the feds and local law enforcement apparently did an excellent job of identifying, locating, and apprehending the suspect after his bomb fizzled, they did nothing to "fail" it, nor did they "save" any lives. Luckily for all involved, the radical Islamic Pakistani-turned-naturalized-American-citizen was an inept dope. Reminiscent of that idiot that lit his genitals on fire last Christmas in the skies over Detroit. I wonder how THAT'S workin' out for him... Probably gonna disappoint those 72 virgins he's been promised when he leaves this earthly plane...

Undeterred by facts, liberal Boston talking head Mike Barnicle spoke of the attack as "having been thwarted" by the authorities.

And now, thanks to a new book by a liberal columnist, it is revealed our thin-skinned name-caller-in chief has now lowered himself to the level that he lectures the rest of us on -- referring to members of the Tea Party by the loathsome term, "teabaggers." In Jonathan Alter’s new book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans against the stimulus bills "set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans."

The only thing more common these days than a liberal screeching about racism or Nazism is Obama spouting platitudes about civility without ever calling his side -- or himself -- onto the carpet. Now... that’s a nice gig if you can get it.

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