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Dana Perino: ‘We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term’
I guess former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino has never seen one of those “Never Forget” 911 bumper stickers. Not only was there a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term, it was a fairly large one. In fact, it was the largest terror attack the world has ever seen.
I guess Fox News is trying to pin the blame for the Ft. Hood massacre on President Obama because he doesn’t understand that we are in a war on terror. If we are in fact in a war on terror, why didn’t President Bush have congress declare war on terrorism?
Terrorism is a technique. You can’t wage war against a technique.
911 terrorists will finally stand trial
After eight long years, some of the terrorists involved in the terror attacks of 911 will face a trial in a civilian courtroom. From the AP (via MSNBC):
Attorney General Eric Holder announced the decision Friday to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to trial at a lower Manhattan courthouse.
I don’t understand why it took this long. Granted, I didn’t expect Bush to do something like this, but we elected Obama over a year ago, and he was sworn into office in January.
This should have been done his first week in office.
I’ve long believed that we will never defeat terrorism militarily. Terrorism is a technique, not a nation or a group of people. How do you wage war against a technique? The goal should be to hunt down and bring to justice those that engage in this awful, disgusting technique.
Ideally it should be done a lot sooner then eight years after the fact.
For the past eight years, we have fought terrorism by spending billions of dollars in invading and occupying two Muslim countries. We’ve lost well over 5,000 service members and thousands more have been injured in this futile military pursuit. It’s hard to say exactly if these costly military excursions and occupations have contributed to the fact that the United States has not suffered a terrorist attack since September 11, 2001, but what is quite clear is that there are more Islamic terrorists in the world today then there was on September 12.
I believe the military occupation of two Muslim countries has greatly contributed to this problem. I believe that if you want to create more Islamic terrorists, occupy a Muslim country.
I don’t know if we will ever defeat terrorism. It’s hard to defeat someone who engages in a technique that often results in their own death. I do know this: terrorism will never be defeated in an epic tank battle.
Responding to terrorism with our massive military makes about as much sense as responding to North Korea invading South Korea by sending the FBI to the Korean Peninsula. If terrorism will ever be defeated, it will be in the courtroom, not the battlefield. It will be defeated with our laws and our judicial system, not our smart bombs and our main battle tanks.
Man calls 911 because he has headaches in his leg
This has got to be the funniest 911 call ever, not that 911 calls are usually very funny. This one is.
The 62 year old man placing the call is getting frustrated with the 911 operator because she keeps on asking him questions to things he does not know the answers to such as his medical history or his phone number. Also, she keeps on asking him what his apartment number is even though he explains to her that he doesn’t live in an apartment.
He lives in a townhouse, or as he calls it, a “town… house“.
Erin Andrews calls 911 because the paparazzi are treating her like Britney Spears
ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews noticed a vehicle with two men inside parked outside her Georgia home last week and placed a call to 911. Evidently her local police department told her to call 911 if and when she noticed paparazzi lurking outside her home. She has been in the news lately because of a video tape floating around online showing her in a hotel room not wearing her clothes. Reportedly, the video was shot through the peephole and without her knowledge.
I haven’t seen the video and I have absolutely no desire to do so. The only thing creepier than filming a woman without her consent through a hotel room peephole is wanting to watch the resulting video.
Last I heard, there are more than enough women on the Internet who actually want people to see them naked. Why stoop to filming a woman without her knowledge or consent?
Anyway, TMZ has the actual audio of the 911 call and Deadspin published the transcript:
Dispatcher: DeKalb 911. What’s the address of your emergency?
Andrews: Um, I was in the news recently about being in a hotel naked, and I have paparazzi outside my window, and I was told by law enforcement that if I did to call 911.
Dispatcher: Do you want to meet with an officer?
Dispatcher: Do you want to meet with an officer, ma’am, when they come out?
Andrews: Yeah, these guys are sitting in a car outside my house right now. I would like to tell the officer to have them leave because the cops have told me to call 911 if they’re outside my house.
Dispatcher: And what’s your name?
Andrews: My name is Erin. My last name is Andrews. I’m all over the news right now.
Dispatcher: I’m not familiar.
Andrews: I’m the girl that was videotaped without her knowing, without her clothes on in the hotel.
Dispatcher: Really?
Andrews: And I’ve got two assholes sitting outside my house.
Dispatcher: I’m so sorry.
Andrews: I am, too. Thank you.
Dispatcher: We’ll send someone out. What kind of vehicle are they in?
Andrews: They’re in a RAV, a white RAV4. I’m in a gated community, and I don’t know how they got in. Mom, can you see their license plates? It’s a handicap license plate they have. What’s the license plate number?
Dispatcher: What’s the tag number?
Andrews: We’re trying to see. Do you see it, Mom? OK, I’m gonna try and go to another room and see if I can read it. I can’t believe these jerks are knocking on my door. Fucking assholes. Mom, you’re totally being obvious.
Dispatcher: Are they black, white or Hispanic?
Andrews: What?
Dispatcher: Are they black, white or Hispanic?
Andrews: They’re both white males. I think it’s — they know I’m here, ’cause I have a car out front. So they know I’m inside. I have private security that I’m working with, but they’re not with me currently, and they said call 911. OK, here’s the license plate. It’s a handicap license plate for Georgia.
Andrews: They’re looking at me through my window.
Dispatcher: Are you OK?
Andrews: Yeah, I’m just — I did nothing wrong, and I’m being treated like fucking Britney Spears, and it sucks. I’m sorry.
Dispatcher: OK, the first available unit will see you as soon as possible.
Andrews: Thanks. Do you know how far they’re out?
Dispatcher: No. They should be in — they’ll be here as soon as possible.
Andrews: OK.
Dispatcher: OK, thank you.
Andrews: Thanks.
Next time she calls 911 and wants to the police to come in a hurry, she needs to tell the operator that the two guys sitting in the car out in front of her house are having the gay sex and are selling crack cocaine to special needs children.
She needs to jazz up the story a bit.
Who’s to say that they weren’t having the gay sex? They are the paparazzi.
I forgot how wasteful the Air Force was
I often forget just how wasteful the U.S. Air Force is with it’s resources until something comes along to remind me. Yesterday the U.S. Air Force caused a lot of unnecessary drama by flying one of the 747’s used to fly the president from one place to another, Air Force One, directly over Manhattan so that a photographer ridding in an F-16 fighter plane could snap pictures.
Not only did this stunt cost a lot of money, it understandably scared New Yorkers who were painfully reminded of the morning on September 11, 2001 where airliners slammed into the World Trade Center.
Oops.
So while many Americans are losing their jobs, watching their 401K’s drop like a rock, or getting their homes foreclosed on, the Air Force is wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars so that they can take pretty pictures of Air Force One.
The woman who called 911 over her McNuggets
Latreasa Goodman went into her local Florida McDonalds and ordered a $3.49 10-piece chicken McNuggets meal. After the McDonalds employee took her order and her money, Goodman was informed that they had run out of McNuggets. She was told that she would have to choose something else from the menu for the same price. Goodman refused saying she didn’t want anything else and that if she couldn’t have McNuggets, she wanted her money back.
The McDonalds employee told her that McDonalds does not give refunds. Goodman was told that she had to pick something else or get nothing.
Instead of getting angry or belligerent with the McDonalds employee, Goodman did what you are told to do when you are being robbed – she called the police.
She called them by placing not one, but three separate 911 calls.
I actually feel sorry for Latreasa Goodman. I’ve heard the 911 tapes and she sounds calm and collected. She just wanted what she has coming to her; her McNuggets or her money. It doesn’t sounds like a lot to ask. Granted, you aren’t supposed to call 911 over something that isn’t an emergency, but who knows the phone number to their local police department? Not that I would ever call the police. I learned a long time ago that you are better off simply taking care of problems yourself and not involving the police.
I once had a similar problem with McDonalds not giving me something I paid for. It was years ago when I was just a kid and still lived in California. I went through the McDonalds drive-thru right before closing and ordered some burgers. The person at the window took my money and then told me to park up ahead and someone would bring us our food. I pulled up ahead and waited. And I waited. My food never came. I pulled back around to the same drive-thru window and tapped on the glass. The manager came over to the window and instead of giving me my food, yelled that they were closed. I tried to explain that I had been waiting for my food, but she would not listen. She just kept on screaming that they were closed.
Unable to do anything else, I left.
The next weekend, I went back to that same McDonalds and I saw that the same manager was on duty. I then left and went down the street to a payphone. I found the phone number to that McDonalds in the phone book and I placed a call. The manager answered the phone and I explained to her that I was a bus driver hauling a bunch of high school kids back from a band competition. I said that I was about 45 minutes away and that I wanted to give her the heads-up that we would be stopping to eat. She thanked me for the heads-up and said that they would be ready.
I waited an hour and went back to that same McDonalds. At this point in the evening it was around 11:00 p.m. and the dinning room was practically empty. I went to the counter and ordered a Coke. I looked behind the counter and into the kitchen area. There was a massive amount of food ready to be sold. Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and Big Macs were everywhere growing colder by the minute. The manager — the same woman the week before that refused to even listen to me at the drive-thru window — was visibly angry. I think by this point she realized that there was no bus load of hungry kids coming and that all that food would have to be trashed.
She really should have listened to me the week before.
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