Won’t somebody think about chillin’?
Ever hear of McCarthy? Better keep an eye on your neighbor, they might be Bolsheviks plotting to overthrow the US. This is the same kind of bullshit.
Won`t somebody think about the children.:dubious:
Ummm, that’s the real reason my table lost at LonDope. We knew this was coming. Ummm, yeah. Really we did…it had nothing whatsoever to do with beer, cleavage, or jet lag. 
(Actually, I wasn’t supposed to mention my insider knowedge of Homeland Security…I guess they’ll have to arrest me now.)
My, that’s quite a well-thought-out post! Where did you say you lived again, Deadly? Is that your doorbell? You might want to go answer it-- careful not to trip over all your almanacs…
Well that’s it, the terrorists have won.
Anyone else think that Ashcroft might be the Anti-Cecil?
skillet, if you really think that cops are so stupid that they wouldn’t put 2 & 2 together in your example, you’ve got the lowest opinion of cops of anyone I’ve ever met. Including many anarchists, punks, and general teen rebels.
Sure, cops aren’t stupid. But somebody issuing memos is. Else they’re desperate to keep a sinecure job, and they’re issuing warnings right and left to make themselves seem necessary and useful.
I can’t figure it out.
Daniel
Ya know, if I was the President, and I read something like that, the entire intelligence community would be out on their collective ass by the end of the day. Well, maybe not the entire intelligence community. I’d probably keep a few CIA cyber-ninjas around to pick off all the people I’d fired. Maybe just put a terminus on their gene pools to be safe.
My brother-in-law got two almanacs as Christmas presents. Does that make him a terrorist, or are his parents (who gave him the gift) the ones who hate America so much?
What if someone is caught with an old almanac? I think this would be a good indication that they were planning on going back in time via time machine to disrupt our timeline. The temporal ramifications are enormous!! What if they give AK-47s to Australopithecusesis?!
On the other hand, what if someone is caught with an almanac from the future?
Maybe this is a complicated double-secret triple-reverse bluff whereby they make a high-profile public press announcement about something completely irrelevant so the terrorists will say “huh?” and go ahead with the plan the authorities know all about but don’t want the terrorists to know the authorities know all about in order that said authorities can apprehend said terrorists in the act of perpetrating said plan.
Or maybe they’re just making noise to justify the budget.
My God! Michael J. Fox is a terrorist!
He’s Canadian as well. Perhaps a pattern is emerging here…
Be sure to do it at Borders, Barnes & Noble, CostCo, or some other shop that tracks all your purchases. Did somebody say “I did not have sex with that woman?” Or that terrorist? But what concerns me is that I had an almanac in 2001. Sure it was The People’s Almanac from 1975, and all those annotations in the back are from when I tried to figure out my IQ (before I had an opportunity to read it upside down in a guidance counselor’s file)–but perhaps I should be more circumspect (12th grade vocabulary word).
Why limit it to John Ashcroft?
Al-Queda might run into problems using the long-range weather forecasts in the Farmers’ Almanac.
They could plan an operation months in advance, expecting good weather, and get buried under two feet of snow.
Isn’t it O.K. to carry jugs of napalm in your car, as long as they’re Approved Safety-Sealed Containers?
Maybe because he’s got something to hide
Awww, shit. Just the other day I was browsing through my 1975 Guiness Book of World Records…I hope none of the men in grey suits were watching! :eek: