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Your link to the main page is incorrect. There's three back-slashes instead of two.
Posted by Uthor at April 18, 2008 03:34 AM
98.214.72.4
I see a revival of the shouting man experience...
Posted by Snipergirl at April 18, 2008 03:44 AM
220.101.13.113
SurveillanceSaver is probably the greatest thing ever. I've often found myself just sitting at my computer, staring at it, when I get home.
Have you seen the manatees yet?
Posted by Andrew at April 18, 2008 05:29 AM
131.128.138.151
There's no such thing as Czechoslovakia any more. It's either the Czech Republic or Slovakia. It's like Yugoslavia or the USSR : a thing of the past.
Posted by Wood at April 18, 2008 05:42 AM
86.210.20.166
Good catch, Uthor. I'll pester Spike to fix the link.
However, your terminology is incorrect: Those are not backslashes. There are no backslashes in Web addresses (not as far as I'm aware, anyway). Those are just regular slashes.
Posted by Uthor at April 18, 2008 08:57 AM
159.53.46.144
There needs to be a character called the "backstab".
Also, Ben needs to start moving slowly towards the door.
Posted by Jerry at April 18, 2008 10:05 AM
67.120.204.113
You know what I want to see now? Dr. Elijah Bash vs. Reagan Mancuso. Best of three rounds of verbal repartee.
You know it's going to happen. I can't wait!
Posted by Jason at April 18, 2008 11:17 AM
67.170.208.203
Oh shit.
Posted by Tekkactus at April 18, 2008 02:38 PM
141.151.83.180
Things happen in Omaha. You just don't hear about them.
The college campus you're seeing is probably UNO, and in 2003 and pretty much every other year since, there has been at least one riot, rape, or murder on the campus, or in the housing on campus. Also. They do medical research on animals in one of the buildings, annnnnnnd they have been targeted by PETA more than once.
Did you know that in Army briefings on terrorism, PETA is the number one most active and aggressive terrorist organization? Did you also know that there are nuclear weapons in Omaha?
I'm just saying. We have pleeeeenty of reasons to go overboard on the CCTV cams.
:)
Posted by Madonna at April 18, 2008 07:13 PM
76.84.160.56
Did you know that in Army briefings on terrorism, PETA is the number one most active and aggressive terrorist organization?
Per recent FBI guidelines (evidently 'if all else fails, default to exactly what the nearest billionaire tells you'; this seems to have happened since 9/11 and stayed that way), 'eco-terrorism' actually receives about as much funding and surveillance as Islamist terrorism - and Dominionist cells (f'rinstance, the one that basically runs Arkansas) get little to no negative federal attention at all.
Bear in mind that there are maybe two or three actively militant environmentalist groups; the closest there's ever been to one was when the neo-Nazis attempted to take over the Sierra Club. (Not even kidding - it was over immigration.) The 'eco-terrorist' population of the US is probably smaller than the number of people involved in 9/11, and they're nowhere near as well-funded.
The intriguing thing is that if there's a connection to homeland security, that could well be why there's so much CCTV in Omaha - I just got back from a trip to Zion, and the absurd nature of DHS funding is such that the park service branch running Zion had millions of dollars lying around, and pretty much had to blow it on ridiculous things like night-vision goggles for park rangers.
Galling as that entire episode with New York losing scads of counterterrorism money and the world's largest ball of twine gaining it was, it kind of misses the larger picture: Bush's bureaucracy couldn't be worse-structured to deal with domestic terrorism if it were actively designed to fuck the pooch. We've got several million dollars to put redundant CCTV on a Midwestern campus and night vision on park rangers, but God forbid we overspend on port security.
There are two possible arguments as to why this is; either Bush's handlers (a) consider 9/11 the best thing ever to have happened to them and want as little as possible in the way of another such attack, or (b) have such a cavalier disregard for the jobs they've been elected to fill that it seriously seems acceptable to them to cut most of the budget from the country's largest concentration of terrorist targets for cheap political points.
The obvious question is who in the Hell benefits from al Qaeda being at par for funding with Greenpeace and PETA. I mean, the people who Cato and RAND whore themselves out for might benefit a bit from shit-naming them, and from keeping close enough tabs on them to mitigate any PR damage, but it's not like being rich as Croesus makes you immune to international terrorism.
Sorry to have gone on a tear, but I can't help but think that the perfect headstone for the Bush Administration is just that - that our bold, fearless terrorist-fighting leader's greatest victory against terrorism was quietly shuffling green advocacy groups into the category and stepping on their throats. At some point, there's such a thing as too greedy for your own good.
Posted by alec at April 19, 2008 02:36 AM
70.173.194.71
Templar is awesome. Surveillance Saver is awesome. But you haven't mentioned the best one: the inside of a really ornate church in Romania or somewhere.
Posted by Patrick at April 19, 2008 08:54 AM
12.202.178.66
That doesn't get my goat. What gets my goat is the FBI harrassing peaceful anti-war protesters. We're talking Mennonites and Quakers here -- people who would never hurt anyone, for any reason. Pacifists under surveillance from the FBI.
I can damn straight tell you that if someone tried to 'infiltrate' those organizations with a militant message, they'd tell the FBI themselves -- after giving the person a very kind and gentle nudge out the door.
Posted by Miako at April 19, 2008 11:21 AM
128.147.28.1
There's a typo in the second panel... "And we put on you your couch."
Posted by Justine at April 19, 2008 11:45 AM
128.239.181.102
Alec:
Apparently a terrorist group put a flyer in my mailbox yesterday. Always knew PETA was up to no good.
Posted by fop at April 19, 2008 05:01 PM
216.239.81.54
I'm sitting on the edge of my seat here.
I can't decide if Ben's going to be able to pull this one out of the fire or not. Maybe he should've brought Scip along for this trip.
I hope he doesn't just totally rat Gene out, though.
Posted by Tyler at April 19, 2008 06:38 PM
68.39.79.105
Yeah. It would be way to easy to just default to "My friend, the idiot savant, took your money, but he didn't MEAN it." I'm still waiting for the article I'm desperately hoping Ben is writing on the Jakes.
Posted by Jala at April 19, 2008 09:59 PM
68.118.230.164
Ben's a smart chap. I doubt he'd get out of that basement without a speech, but I think screaming guy is a bit flustered enough where ben could be out that door before he could get a swing at him.
Posted by Chris at April 22, 2008 11:42 AM
209.213.84.10
Well, at least I was semi-right. Seeing as I've never been to the forums or read the FAQ, I'll chalk that up as a victory for my shoddy, mildly retarded deductive skills. I'm gonna go do those things. Now.
Posted by Lauren at April 26, 2008 12:49 AM
67.35.22.90
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