al-Qaeda plot to crash a jet into LA tower

In today's news I read that President Bush has decided to release some details of a thwarted attack on the US after September 11, 2001. He claims that an attack by al-Qaeda was thwarted. In this attack, young southeast Asian men would take over a commercial airline by blasting open the cockpit door with explosive shoes. Then they would take over and crash the plane into a Los Angeles skyscraper.

I know that Bush is pretty proud of this accomplishment, a prevention of another September 11 style attack. But I can't help but think that he is taking more credit than he should, because this plot is simply ridiculous.

The first part of the plot, getting suicide bombers onboard with explosive shoes, is frightening enough, and could have been accomplished. I will give credit for stopping that crime.

This plot was to take place in October 2001, after Sept. 11, and before Richard Reid, the British "Shoe Bomber", was caught in his failed attempt to blow up a jet over the Atlantic in December 2001. So airlines were not checking shoes at that time.

But after that, the plot get silly.

First, blowing up a cockpit door with just enough force to allow entry, but not enough force to damage the aircraft to the point where control is lost, is a fine science. Did these terrorist practice on all sorts of cockpit doors to find the exact formula for the proper placement and composition of explosives in different environments to achieve this exacting result? No. Blowing up anything INSIDE of an aircraft is pretty foolish and most likely to cause far more serious problems than it could possibly solve. A good crowbar would be a much better tool for this task.

More than likely, they would have simply blow up the cockpit, ripped a hole in the fuselage, and crashed the aircraft then and there. They would have never had a chance to gain control to perform a kamikaze run into a building, a la, Sept. 11.

Second, even if they did manage to somehow get to the cockpit door and attempt to gain access, they would have had to murder every single passenger on the plane, including the pilots, to do this. The September 11 terrorist forever destroyed the airplane hijacking business as the world knew it.

Before Sept. 11, hijackers were given the benefit of the doubt, and were assumed that they didn't want to kill their hostages and themselves. The protocol was for the passengers to remain calm and seated, and most likely they would survive. Now, the passengers have to assume that they are going to be killed unless they act.

So anyone who hijacks an aircraft now has to go way out of their way to convince the passengers that they should not rip him to pieces on the spot. Trying to gain access past the cockpit door means all bets are off, and the passengers have no choice but to fight him to the death. God knows I would never allow a hijacker to get past me to the cockpit as long as I still had a breath in my body. I think most people feel the same way.

The Mohammed Drawings Fiasco

Man.... I am so disgusted with humanity right now. This whole Mohammed Drawing crises is so stooooopid it falls off the scale.

First off, the whole thing is a staged by the rulers-that-be in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria in order to distract their teeming masses from paying attention to the real news. The real news being (a) for Iran, the nuclear issues, (b) for Saudi Arabia, the fact that they can't run the haij in Mecca without killing hundreds of people, (c) and for Syria, the fact that they have been caught red-handed murdering Lebanese politicians.

The evidence is clear. These drawing were printed in a small Danish newspaper in September 2005. It is now Feb 2006, four months later. Why the delayed reaction? Simple. No one noticed, and no one cared, until it came to attention of some Middle Eastern dictatorships as a great propaganda idea.

A group of Danish "Imans" toured the Middle East recently trying to whip up anti-Danish and anti-Western sentiment by showing the drawings around to Islamic leaders there. But being unable to find drawings provocative enough, they decided to add a few new, and very inflammatory drawings. Then they claimed they too were printed (they were not). Read it about the fake drawings they added HERE.

It was also discovered this week that all these drawings were printed in a major Egyptian newspaper back in October 2005, and NO ONE COMPLAINED. Read about it HERE So the whole "you aren't allowed to show images of the prophet" argument is BS. Why are these idiots not rioting at the Egyptian embassy?

Syria has had serious riots and damage to embassies. Now Syria is a country where you can't even take a dump without the secret police knowing. So how was it that a "spontaneous" riot was allowed to happen, and the police were unable to protect the embassies? Because it was all part of the script. That is why.

The Middle Eastern newspapers run horrible cartoons of The Jews and Americans all the time. Talk about a double standard. Is their religion so weak and thin skinned that a dozen drawings on a tiny country in the northeast corner of Europe can ruin it? Please.

And why didn't all the Muslims apologize to the world's Buddhist when the Taliban blew up the ancient statues in Afghanistan because they were deemed to be un-Islamic?

There is an old saying.... "The first casualty of war is the truth". Since the leaders of Islam had decided to sacrifice any resemblance of the truth in the incident, I can't help but think that they have declared war on the values we in the West hold most sacred.

s.f.w.

No... not "Safe For Work". It stands for "Stupid F**king World". It is the blog of an anonymous frustrated ad copyrighter in Dallas who drinks too much, smokes too much, and hates his job. The guy comes up with some good stuff, like this post that I love!

True Love Is Blind (And Deaf And Mentally Retarded)

The other night, I asked my girlfriend if she would still love me if I got in a horrible fiery accident and they had to replace my face with my butt.

She said no.

Bitch.

Kitten War!

I normally try to refrain from linking to silly stuff. But I can't resist this one. Sorry!

For those who thought they knew everything..

Here is a refresher course.

• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
• The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. (Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you!)
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN!
• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first "Marlboro Man."
• Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE!
• PEARLS MELT IN VINEGAR!
• The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs... but, not downstairs.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
• Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)
• And the best for last.....
  Turtles can breathe through their butts.
  (I know some people like that, don't YOU?)

Hat tip to SAS Andrew. Thanks bud.