Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/03/2009 5:29:47 PM PST by BenLurkin
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that al-Qaida followers are inside the U.S. and pose the threat of terrorist attacks on Americans.
“The fact is that home-based terrorism is here,” she said in an address to the American-Israel Friendship League in New York on Wednesday night.
“And like extremism abroad, it is now part of the threat picture that we must confront."
“Individuals sympathetic to al-Qaida and its affiliates, as well as those inspired by their ideology, are present in the U.S., and would like to attack the homeland or plot overseas attacks against our interests abroad.”
Napolitano said a series of recent arrests in the U.S. should “remove any remaining comfort that some might have had from the notion that if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won’t have to fight them here.”
That was seen as a rebuttal to the “notion” expressed by George Bush while in the White House, The Washington Post observed.
Napolitano’s remarks came after President Obama said in his Tuesday night speech that extremists have been “sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit more acts of terror.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
They are but I didn't vote for them and I wish the president would stop giving them posts in the government.
Napolitano says US border more secure
Napolitano is the first homeland security secretary to drop the term "terror" and "vulnerability" from remarks prepared for delivery to the House Homeland Security Committee, according to a copy obtained by The Associated Press.
....Didn't she also tell us not to use the word "terrorism" anymore?....
Napolitano avoids using word 'Terrorism'
The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.
Snip: "I've been saying for a long time that in your next Sept. 11 hit, you're gonna find out how many of them came across this border right here," says Gary McBride, a rancher who lives 35 miles north of Douglas. "I feel like I'm living in a big ol' train station, and here comes one train, and here comes another, and here comes another, and they just never stop, people from every country you could name. Nothing has changed since Sept. 11. If anything, it's worse. It's a goddamn three-ring circus down here."
For Ben Anderson, finding prayer rugs and other such items means nothing.
"The illegals with prayer rugs pay $1,500-$2,000 to get across," he says. "These aren't the terrorists. The terrorists, al-Qaeda and others, pay between $30,000 and $50,000, and you'll never know they were here. It's very hard to catch someone of that caliber.
"Your first hint will be some big explosion, then the lights will go on in people's heads. Aha, they came up through here. Cochise country is the Arab-terrorist corridor."
Anderson spent 30 years in the Army, retiring as a colonel. In Vietnam, he commanded two rifle companies with the American division, winning numerous medals, including two purple hearts and two silver stars. He has three master's degrees, has worked in Egypt and at the Pentagon, and has taught at West Point. Anderson publishes an online political newsletter called the Anderson Report. He bases his certainty that al-Qaeda is infiltrating Arizona on anonymous sources in Washington and elsewhere around the world.
"It's nothing we can lay out in black and white for several reasons," Anderson says. "It's very hard to document, because the sources don't want to lose their jobs. And they will. But it's been going on a long time. Tucson is a staging area, and people have been trying to make believe it isn't happening. Nobody is going to give you confirmation. The U.S. government sure won't. But I know it's happening."
Grim glossary of the narco world
Snips:
Encajuelado: Based on the word for "trunk," a body dumped in the trunk of a car.
Narcomensaje: A scrawled drug message, often rambling or peppered with misspellings.
Plaza: Not the quaint public square you see in nearly every Mexican town, but rather any defined drug marketplace, such as a smuggling point.
Tiendita: Any place where drugs are sold in small quantities on the street -- a house, apartment building or even a little store.
Halcones: To guard strongholds, trafficking groups rely on a network of street-level informants
Cuerno de chivo: "Goat horn," nickname for the AK-47 assault rifle, a favorite of cartel gunmen.
Alone, narco can refer to a trafficker or the entire illegal drug trade
Narco-policias are cops on the take.
Narcojuniors, the well-heeled children of traffickers accused of helping run the criminal enterprises.
Clever bastards...
Would it be racist to notice that, ever since O’loser was voted in, we now have Al Queda in the country. Didn’t have them when W was in office.
Why don’t they just check O’losers cell phone records, they’d probably get some good leads on where they are hanging out.
Napolitano's turnaround on calling terrorists "terrorists", combined with this highly-charged, highly-politicized rhetoric from a national security official who ought to know better (and ought to be focused on keeping the country safe instead of on bashing the prior administration), leads me to the unavoidable conclusion that they have suddenly realized that their confused "be kind to terrorists and their sponsors and maybe they'll leave us alone" policies have already failed.
It appears that they are desperately laying the groundwork so that they can blame Bush when, not if, America suffers a massive attack during their watch...
Clearly they know that the unmistakable message when that happens (and I sincerely hope that it doesn't) is that the Bush administration kept the country safe after 9/11, and the Obama administration blew it...
Next” Janet Napolitano discovers that the Sun shines. Stay tuned for more of “Janet Napolitanos Pearls of Wisdom’’.
Oh yeah, the jihadis are scared now. “Brothers, the infidel b!tch is on to us! We must flee, hurry or she will smite us all!’’. Honest to God I think if you looked in one of this womans ears you’d seed daylight out the other side.
“And like extremism abroad, it is now part of the threat picture that we must confront.”
I like this Fed Speak - “threat pictures”.
Sounds like we know they’re here, and therefore probably who and where they and their supporteres are as well, which means they could be easily rounded up. The “threat picture” I’d like to see, therefore, is a few dozen of these yahoos hung in the wind by our government from overpasses near Dearborn. Heads on spikes in the winter snows on the nightly news and various Executive Branch web sites might provide adequate “threat pictures” as well.
YAWN....I just woke up, has anything happened recently????is the election over, how did we do???
LOL! Are you serious!?! We lost. Theres this black guy in The White House who is a real live Commie and he’s got a wife who looks like Patrick Ewing in a dress. Nah, you haven’t missed a thing. :-)
It's a lie. It's not true. We have our armed forces and of our allies in Afghanistan, fighting the al-Qaeda to keep them there and have been doing so for the past eight years.
As a matter of fact, we and our allies will be sending an additional 40,000 troops to finally destroy the al-Qaeda and end their threat to our country. (/sc)
Only a briefer would use this terminology.
so, actually, this phrase proves that Napolitano was awake when she was being briefed.
Sounds like Obama has issued the memo to his cabinet:
“HELP!!! My poll numbers are tanking. And the Nov. 2010 elections are
just around the corner. I know this will go against your own natures...
but you all have to start ACTING like Americans. Otherwise, we’re
gonna’ be crying like it’s 1994 all over again.”
Zazi was born in Pakistan but grew up in Queens. He went oerseas and recently came back to the states.
Well, Napolitano, maybe you should check the White House guest lists next time there's a party, eh? Birds of a feather and all that.
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