MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
So my wife's pressure cooker can now be considered a WMD with the right ingredients - who woulda thunk it?
Bush is vindicated - the US officially sees a WMD in every pot.
Dzhokhar messed with the wrong short-order cook - his life is on the line now.
I wonder if those planes that took down 2 skyscrapers were considered WMDs?
But a bomb that killed 3 is one.
Every IED laid in Afghanistan is now a WMD - we have a whole new set of war criminals to pursue to the end of the earth - Afghanistan 4-evuh.
For every IRA terrorist who laid a pipe bomb or plastic explosive, must be ego-thrilling to know these are now escalated into "WMDs"
As the world's only remaining nuclear superpower, spending $700 billion a year on our military on different stockpiles of WMDs, more than all other countries spend together, sometimes we seem too stupid to breathe.
America, still Jumping the Shark after 240 years.
Somewhere Timothy McVeigh is feeling pissed off - he needed to stack 5000 lbs of fertilizer in a Ryder truck that took down half a building to achieve his WMD wings - Dzhoghar gets his for a little canister set off in the middle of a crowd.
Comments
Would an explosive packed Bushmaster AR-15 have avoided the terror charge?
by NCD on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 10:02am
McVeigh would be even more po'd by a thread I saw a Facebook last night howling to try Tsarnaev for treason. McVeigh very much wanted to be tried for treason but wasn't even though he killed and injured very many more in blowing up a federal building. I will never understand the urge to give that much recognition to plain murderers - mass or not.
About how much in a mass, I read that in marketing it is appealing to the greater part of the bell curve of a population. I guess that means omitting the tails which leaves 60-80%. Should we apply the same metric to WMDs?
by EmmaZahn on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 12:26pm
You may be missing PP's point as I take it.
The WMD in this case were a pressure cooker, black powder explosive, nails and blasting cap. These items are available at many Wal-Marts.
Ergo, if Bush found a pressure cooker in Iraq he could claim Saddam did, in fact, have WMD.
by NCD on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 1:31pm
Why thank you so much for elucidating. I never would have got that on my own.
by EmmaZahn on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 1:43pm
And Emma's point I think was "No WMD left behind" ;-)
Bell curve rules as a grading system.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 3:03pm
....except for AR-15's.
by NCD on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 6:08pm
I agree. I don't think these weapons meet the WMD standard, and trying to say that they do, or that there's one international standard and one domestic standard unnecessarily complicates a case that will be most successful if kept simple.
by erica20 on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 2:11pm