7-07-07, keep your eyes open
And watch your six o’clock. Situational awareness is a good quality in these modern times.
I will be glad when Saturday is over. The affinity Al-Qaeda has for prime numbers and the chatter national defense agencies have spoken about give pause to tomorrow.
I hope there will be top flight security for this event.
July 6th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Talk about pantshitting. Ah, Farragut, that Interstate-side town they forgot to bomb.
July 6th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Oh, yeah. I forgot, while 11 is a prime number, 9 is not.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Ehh, #9, you posted a link to a news story from 2004. Paragraph two starts talking about Attorney General John Ashcroft.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
That is the wrong link. No doubt.
The new link is a correction. I lost the link I wanted. Thanks for the heads up.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Curious
ButterflyMetulj, will you be going to the big save the planet concert in New York?July 6th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
I am not Curious Jorge. Nice try. And no I won’t be going to the save the planet concert. I have been working on some saving open spaces in East Knox County projects. Effort where mouth is. Too bad I can’t say the same about you.
July 6th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I have been working on some saving open spaces in East Knox County projects. Effort where mouth is. Too bad I can’t say the same about you.
Good for you Metulj. I am sure it is a worthy project.
July 6th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Now, THIS is an event worth fighting for.
July 6th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
If they attacked a Global Changening event, maybe leftists would start agreeing they’re a threat?
Look on the bright side, people.
July 6th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
So you’re saying I should carry an extra magazine?
July 6th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
No problem, I plan to be at condition orange all day.
July 6th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
It’s RAH’s hundredth birthday, and there’ll be a celebration of it in Kansas City. I reckon those folks can take care of themselves, though.
July 6th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
The jihadis should be vastly more worried about what we’re going to do to them.
July 6th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
As Drill Sarg. Landis use to say “Stay alert,Stay alive.”
July 6th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
If the terrorists didn’t hit us during Hurricane Katrina when the entire federal govt took a big ole shit on itself and couldn’t open a paper bag, I really doubt they have much cooking for tomorrow.
You’re more likely to get hit by lightning on the golf course. Is terrorism at the global level a problem? Yup. Is it something that means you need to seriously alter your lifestyle here in middle America? Nope.
July 6th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
No, but it’s also effective preparation for dealing with a mess of other things. Run of the mill murder, car accidents, theft, suicide by stupidity, et all, which are statistically if not always epidemiologically likely to happen to someone and/or near someone.
July 6th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Good point; the upshot of all the handwringing and nonsensical hyperventilating about the threat of AQ blowing something up at the West Nowheresborough Mall is that a prepared, armed, and aware populace is the law abiding citizen’s best friend.
July 6th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
And, you know, it prevents the political and economic upheavies that could occur from even a small successful terrorist attack — the effects are large even if the body count is not.
It’s hard to find situations where being a sheep is preferable to paying attention, no matter the reason for paying attention.
July 7th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
“If they attacked a Global Changening event, maybe leftists would start agreeing they’re a threat?”
The libbies would say Bush was behind it like they’ve been saying about 9/11.
July 8th, 2007 at 12:09 am
The libbies would say Bush was behind it like they’ve been saying about 9/11.
Libbies in France also.
July 8th, 2007 at 7:48 am
Sun came up. Birds peeping. Squirrels frolicking. Children laughing. #9 still doesn’t know that 9 isn’t a prime number.
July 8th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Sun came up. Birds peeping. Squirrels frolicking. Children laughing.
And Al Gore saved the planet too. All in all a good day. I thought the Pink Floyd set was pretty good.
After he wins the Nobel Prize he can be President.
Meanwhile the idiocy begins. How about another gas tax? That will help the planet.
Just another excuse to do what liberal radicals must do. But will the mouth-breathers fall for it?
July 8th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I will admit that I am a radical. I am not a liberal, though.
July 8th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Ahh, but the Muslims don’t use our calendar, so it’s not 7-7-07 to them. In fact, their calendar isn’t 365.25 days long for a year, so the anniversary of 9-11-01 changes each year. This year, it’s tomorrow, so watch out then.
I didn’t capture it, but I did read a good web site about the Hijri calendar and how you can trace a LOT of terrorist attacks to anniversaries to important events using their calendar, not ours. For them to use our calendar would be to admit that there is even a little validity to our system, which would be very much against their principles and beliefs.
Mostly, they like to use anniversaries of days when bad things happened to them, not when they did bad things to others. It’s a retribution thing. So, I’d look at things like Hijri based anniversaries of Saddam’s hanging and other events that would have ticked them off. It gets to be a big list with lots of fiddling to find out the new dates and such, though.
July 8th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Gungeek: That’s the most well-informed post this blog has ever seen.
July 8th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Mostly, they like to use anniversaries of days when bad things happened to them, not when they did bad things to others. It’s a retribution thing.
Interesting. If you can dig up that link I’d like to read it, though I’d like to point out that with Islam bein 1400 years old there’s a prety good chance that something bad has happened on any given date in history. Look at it this way: If only one bad thing happened in each of thost 1400 years, and they were evenly distributed, they’d have the calendar covered 4 times over.