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When you say the Pledge of Allegiance, isn't the hand over the heart????
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What the heck more do you people want... you're going to quibble on two words that he didn't use?
We are at war. We are at war against al Qaeda, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people, and that is plotting to strike us again. And we will do whatever it takes to defeat them.
And we've made progress. Al Qaeda's leadership is hunkered down. We have worked closely with partners, including Yemen, to inflict major blows against al Qaeda leaders. And we have disrupted plots at home and abroad and saved American lives.
And we know that the vast majority of Muslims reject al Qaeda. But it is clear that al Qaeda increasingly seeks to recruit individuals without known terrorist affiliations, not just in the Middle East but in Africa and other places, to do their bidding.
That's why I've directed my national security team to develop a strategy that addresses the unique challenges posed by lone recruits. And that's why we must communicate clearly to Muslims around the world that al Qaeda offers nothing except a bankrupt vision of misery and death, including the murder of fellow Muslims, while the United States stands with those who seek justice and progress.
To advance that progress we've sought new beginnings with Muslim communities around the world, one in which we engage on the basis of mutual interest and mutual respect and work together to fulfill the aspirations that all people share -- to get an education, to work with dignity, to live in peace and security.
That's what America believes in. That's the vision that is far more powerful than the hatred of these violent extremists.
Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses, but we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. That is exactly what our adversaries want. And so long as I am president, we will never hand them that victory.
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White House National Security Adviser James Jones warned that Americans would feel "a certain shock" after reading the report on the Islamic jihadist who hid bombs in his crotch and tried to blow up Northwest Flight 253 in Detroit on Christmas Day.
White House National Security Adviser James Jones warned that Americans would feel "a certain shock" after reading the report on the Islamic jihadist who hid bombs in his crotch and tried to blow up Northwest Flight 253 in Detroit on Christmas Day.
Well, I was shocked.
The loudest (deafening, actually) part of Obama's remarks Thursday o n the war on the West is what he didn't say. Not once in Obama's self-aggrandizing speech on the Muslim Christmas bomber did he ever mention jihad or Islam.
And that is whom we are at war with.
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US cans cartoon plans in 'unfunny' recession
By North America correspondent Lisa Millar
The US Treasury Department has ditched plans to hire a cartoonist to help with workplace humour after complaints that there was nothing funny about the recession.
The US Treasury's Bureau of Public Debt advertised for a cartoonist to make the connection between humour and stress relief.
It wanted someone who could create funny drawings on the spot about jobs at the bureau.
But the idea was dumped after a Democratic Senator argued that it was inappropriate because there was very little humour in today's economic conditions.
MORE:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/18/2629578.htm?section=world
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FTW wrote: Now I believe we have gotten sufficiently silly with this discussion of the location of a cartoon. Can we get back to serious stuff?
My point about it was that the cartoon didn't make sense in context of what's been going on lately-- I don't think the TSA has been reported as allowing anybody on a flight that is on the no-fly list.
oh, well, moving on.
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CaptainObvious wrote: FTW wrote: CaptainObvious wrote: FTW wrote:
Odd, I didn't think the TSA screened passengers in AMSTERDAM.
I must have missed something. Where in this cartoon does it imply this is Amsterdam? This guy does not look like an underwear bomber.
The title of the cartoon is "Is that a bomb in your pants". An obvious reference to the underwear bomber who boarded his flight in Amsterdam.
You are adding 1 + 1 and coming up with 3. Since it is TSA it is obviously not Amsterdam. You are assuming that is what they mean. Referencing the underwear bomber in the name of the cartoon does not in and of itself set the location of the cartoon. Here is a quote from one of your posts in another thread talking about the underwear bomber. "He wasn't on the terror watch list that I know of." The fictional bomber in the cartoon IS on a watch list so using your own logic he cannot be Mutallab and therefore this is not Amsterdam. Now I believe we have gotten sufficiently silly with this discussion of the location of a cartoon. Can we get back to serious stuff?
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FTW wrote: CaptainObvious wrote: FTW wrote:
Odd, I didn't think the TSA screened passengers in AMSTERDAM.
I must have missed something. Where in this cartoon does it imply this is Amsterdam? This guy does not look like an underwear bomber.
The title of the cartoon is "Is that a bomb in your pants". An obvious reference to the underwear bomber who boarded his flight in Amsterdam.
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In CO's case the underwear would have to be over his head in a basement somewhere in Easton MD.
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CaptainObvious wrote: FTW wrote: 
Odd, I didn't think the TSA screened passengers in AMSTERDAM.
I must have missed something. Where in this cartoon does it imply this is Amsterdam? This guy does not look like an underwear bomber.
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FTW wrote:
Odd, I didn't think the TSA screened passengers in AMSTERDAM.
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