{"id":35,"date":"2007-02-28T19:40:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T00:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngc2632.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2007-02-28T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T00:52:07","slug":"todays-theme-suspicious-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/everything\/todays-theme-suspicious-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s theme: Suspicious Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxboston.com\/myfox\/pages\/Home\/Detail;jsessionid=8D3B8F68A0E457E6249DF9713702B7D7?contentId=2523232&#038;version=3&#038;locale=EN-US&#038;layoutCode=VSTY&#038;pageId=1.1.1\"><strong>I got yer &#8220;suspicious package&#8221; right here, pal!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boston Police, laughingstock of the nation for their response to the Mooninite Invasion, are now blowing up &#8220;suspicious&#8221; DOT-installed traffic counters chained to lamp posts in the financial district.This link has video, kids. Watch an innocent traffic counting device get blowed the fuck up!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaryideas.com\/print\/1848\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"322\" height=\"440\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" title=\"Bag-o-BOOM!\" alt=\"Bag-o-BOOM!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/Picturefakebombs.jpg\" \/><strong>Brilliant! Now I know what to make my bomb packages look like! And even where I should put them!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Someone, somewhere has committed what we used to refer to as a &#8220;thinking accident&#8221;. Like the old Centipede&#8217;s Dilemma, which is when you make a centipede think about how it organizes its leg movements when it walks, it stops being able to walk&#8230;&#8230;and here you have a mall security force that, due to trying to think about how to increase awareness of &#8220;suspicious packages&#8221;, has found a spectacular way to immunize the populace against responding to seriously overt threats. Way to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/articles\/070305fa_fact_hersh\"><strong>Seymour Hersh indicts the Bush Administration of spending money in Iraq to incite sectarian violence&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;including supporting groups known to be aligned with al-Qaeda against Shiite pro-Hezbollah groups.For those of you that aren&#8217;t forty years old and\/or haven&#8217;t been paying attention, that&#8217;s an order of magnitude worse than Reagan&#8217;s Iran-Contra scandal, where Reagan sold weapons to Iran for money to support the Contras in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Gates, current secretary of Defense, was Deputy Director of Central Intelligence back then (and Director during the First Gulf War under Bush, Sr.). There&#8217;s no way that sort of thing is going on this time, is there? Whaddya say, Rob? Are <em>we<\/em> supplying the weapons that are blowing up our own troops? Are we paying the people, directly or indirectly, who theoretically knocked down the WTC and smacked a hole in the Pentagon? All because we&#8217;re not happy with the new Shiite power structure that&#8217;s emerging in Iraq and Iran?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/022607A.shtml\"><strong>What a mess.<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[*]<\/p>\n<p>PS: Bonus image.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fun fun fun!\" title=\"Fun fun fun!\" src=\"http:\/\/neatorama.cachefly.net\/images\/2007-02\/grafitti-fun-crime.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">[.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got yer &#8220;suspicious package&#8221; right here, pal! Boston Police, laughingstock of the nation for their response to the Mooninite Invasion, are now blowing up &#8220;suspicious&#8221; DOT-installed traffic counters chained to lamp posts in the financial district.This link has video, kids. Watch an innocent traffic counting device get blowed the fuck up! Brilliant! Now I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rL5j-z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}