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03-20-09, 11:36 AM #1
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To Avoid Offending Terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Replaces 'Terrorism' With the Term 'Man-Caused Disaster'. More change we can choke on
Even as President Obama compares bankers to suicide bombers, his Homeland Security Secretary is suggesting the T-word, terrorism, is too inflammatory and representative of old-fashioned "politics of fear." She's announced a new term: "man-caused disaster." From an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel:
SPIEGEL: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?But what if the suicide bomber is a female? Isn't it sexist to use "man-caused disaster"?
NAPOLITANO: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.
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03-20-09, 11:38 AM #2
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You have GOT to be shitting me.
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03-20-09, 12:09 PM #3
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The only man-caused disaster I see is Obama's cabinet.
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03-20-09, 12:18 PM #4
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Loony f#@king liberals.
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03-20-09, 01:07 PM #5
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This is pretty funny....
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03-20-09, 03:24 PM #6
Damnit, I'm hungry again.
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Someone please tell me this is a joke.
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03-20-09, 03:46 PM #7
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Originally Posted by pgg
Nope, this is the continued liberal pussification of the United Socialist States of America.
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03-20-09, 04:38 PM #8
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The Obama Administration treats the Prime Minister of our greatest ally with a total lack of class and offends Great Britain.This same Adminstration bends over backwards to avoid offending terrorist by not calling them terrorist. Disturbing......
SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM-Ex-Sheriff Martin Howe to Will Kane in "High Noon"
"It's a great life. You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If your honest , your poor your whole life. And , In the end , you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
Far from being a handicap to command, compassion is the measure of it. For unless one values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ordeals , he is unfit to command.
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03-21-09, 12:05 AM #9
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"Man-caused disaster" instead of suicide bombing or terrorist attack?
So, I assume that makes a terrorist a "man-caused disasterist"?
And if you consider that the Obama Administration will likely cause more damage to this country than any terrorist has ever done, would it be safe to say he caused a "man-caused disaster"?
So, I guess he and his minions are what we used to call terrorists?
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03-21-09, 01:31 AM #10
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"man caused disaster" How PC is that.
Where I come from, we call a spade a spade.
So after Obama's term is up, will we be calling him the man who caused the disaster?
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03-21-09, 06:15 AM #11
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Never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way" ~Martin Luther King, Jr
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03-21-09, 09:33 AM #12
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Unbelievable.
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03-21-09, 04:22 PM #13
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Come on people........we dont want to offend the very people that are hell bent on eliminating us off the face of the Earth do we??? This is the first step, the holding hands step. Next we invite them to sit down and sing Kumbaya (SP). Everyone knows there all just misunderstood adults who had a rough childhood.
Cant come up with more sarcasm right now.....someone help."An Unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper
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03-22-09, 11:14 PM #14
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I'm afraid to see what headlines are posted on April Fool's Day. If *this* story is true, I won't know what to believe when the fake ones appear Originally Posted by pgg
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03-23-09, 01:20 AM #15
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Oh good gravy. Will someone please just hit me over the head with an "assault weapon" and get this over with?
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03-23-09, 06:05 AM #16
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03-24-09, 12:55 AM #17
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No kidding, it will seem like an eternity. Originally Posted by mack
Choose The Right. When you're doing whats right, then you have nothing to worry about.
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