Threat level upgraded to "vague but scary"

[sabotabby]

Oh noes, spoilers!

Seriously, what's the point of issuing vague reports (Al Qaeda wants nuclear weapons? I bet they want a pony, too) other than to make people needlessly frightened? Oh, right. That's the whole point of terrorism.

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[my-valentine.livejournal.com]

hagrid daterapes hermione

[thebigbadbutch.livejournal.com]

How did he get her on a date in the first place?

[sabotabby]

Polyjuice potion.

[my-valentine.livejournal.com]

We all know smart geeky girls are the kinkiest, I don't think he needed to slip her a roofie to began with, she'd probely love taking him.

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have guessed Hermoine was a size queen.

[peterbilt-47.livejournal.com]

Oh, for fuck's sake. They're getting pretty lazy in their efforts to keep the public scared, if I do say so myself. Christ, 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a how-to manual.

[sabotabby]

Especially with the new Army uniforms. SRSLY WTF?

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

eh? what's that?

[sabotabby]

Velcro went out in the 80s.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

It's all apart of the grand stratagy to keep gays out of the military. What self-respecting gay man would be caught in that?

[sabotabby]

Good point.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Well, the Army recruiting standard have been relaxed. I suppose they had a problem with recruits who had problems with buttons.

I presume they will be using Velcro on boots, too. Tying boot laces is a lot more complicated than doing up buttons.

[sabotabby]

Bootlaces are hard! Do they still make you shine them all the time, or is that just during peacetime?

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

Al Qaeda should run around telling everyone how the fucking Harry Potter book ends. That would ruin everything.

You made me laugh about the pony.

[sabotabby]

I bet they were the ones who leaked the photos of the book to the intertubes. (Which I was up late reading last night, BTW.)

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

damn, I came here to say exactly the same thing. I'm so unoriginal. *mopes*

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

Or I'm unoriginal and just a faster typist.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Speaking of silly and scary, you must read this account of a Neo-Con cruise.

I adjust and stiffly greet the first man I see. He is a judge, with the craggy self-important charm that slowly consumes any judge. He is from Canada, he declares (a little more apologetically), and is the founding president of "Canadians Against Suicide Bombing". Would there be many members of "Canadians for Suicide Bombing?" I ask. Dismayed, he suggests that yes, there would.

[sabotabby]

Oh. My. Fucking. Gawd.

I should have found a way to infiltrate the staff on that cruise. I mean, I'm not Filipina, but to have been able to eavesdrop on those conversations!

[peterbilt-47.livejournal.com]

I don't know about you, but my cover would be blown when I fell on the floor in a wave of convulsive laughter the first tine I heard any of them exchange more than two sentences at a stretch.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Frightening article. I liked what he had to say about William F. Buckley though - I thought he had died. He still seems to have his wits about him; the rest of them are an assortment of shouting cartoons.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

He still seems to have his wits about him; the rest of them are an assortment of shouting cartoons.

All things being relative. He is good at presenting an image that is more humane and urbane than other paleolithic conservatives, but it's mostly image. The National[ist] Review has printed some blatantly racist screeds on his watch, yet it still gets a pass thanks to his vast vocabulary.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

The National Review and it's columnists

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

But if Al Qaeda wanted nukes, I'm sure they could have found someone with one of the missing Soviet warheads a long time ago. But I wish people wouldn't keep giving them ideas.

[sabotabby]

http://www.slate.com/id/2169232/

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Not that anyone who wanted to couldn't come up with their own ideas easily enough.

I could see a strategy (if there really were an anti-terrorism strategy, which there isn't) of encouraging terrorists to think that certain easily detected methods would be the most effective terror tools.

I doubt anyone is stupid enough to bother with nukes, though.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

Hey that article totally stole my idea for a nekked airline. Not that I have flown in ten years or anything.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

wait, wait, if we give osama bin laden a pony will that fix alla this mess?

[sabotabby]

True fact: He became a t3fforist because they wouldn't let him be an astronaut.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

really? I mean, really??

[sabotabby]

Yes.

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

huh. this seems to back up the theory that behind every major atrocity is a spoiled little boy.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Off topic: cat.

[sabotabby]

Aww.

Next frame: Cat falls in, hilarity ensues.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Your email notifications working?

[sabotabby]

Haha no.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Wow, Al Qaeda wants to attack the United States? Nobody evers tells me anything anymore! I feel like a mushroom sometimes, everyone keeps me in the dark and just feed me a bunch of shit.

[sabotabby]

I know! It's all so shocking. I thought Osama was the CIA's bestest friend...oh wait.

[ocicat-bengals.livejournal.com]

After two weeks here across the pond in my home state, I'm still looking for evidence of this so-called liberal media.

[sabotabby]

If it weren't for the right-wing press, how would we know about the pink-pistol-packing lesbian gangs?

Off Topic

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Fake iPhone ad from Conan O'Brian:

Re: Off Topic

[sabotabby]

See, now, I want one of those.

Re: Off Topic

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

The hand grenade application made me think of you.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

Weight, I thought the Shi'a were the evil ones. Now the Sunnis are? Halp, I r confy00zd.

ps. Sorry for the double post, sabs, bad HTML :/

[sabotabby]

They are all sand people and look the same to National Intelligence.

Or, I should say, we are all sand people:

So-called "single issue" terrorist groups probably will attack here on a smaller scale. They include white supremacists, anarchists and animal rights groups, such as Animal Liberation Front.

o_0