I still recall an anecdote from the "old country" that goes something like this:
Someone told a joke at the zoo and all the animals laughed except the giraffe. Three days later the giraffe starts cracking up. He just got it. Sound takes time to travel.
If you're not rolling with laughter and soiling your self, don't feel bad. That one is from 4th grade. But watching the news about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the now infamous Nigerian "would be" bomber, forced my mind to resurrect that anecdote. Except, the giraffe is us. How big of a proverbial kick in the groin will it take for Professor Obamassiah to start rethinking his approach, or the lack there of, toward homeland security? Not that I don't have faith in Janet Napolitano, who disturbingly resembles Glenn Shadix (the actor who played Otho in Beetle Juice). I mean she does take up space... She does have a flat top... So if she says nothing is wrong, then I have to believe that some known radical sociopath trying to blow up a plane over US soil is just minor stuff. I mean, Obama knows best, so if it takes him almost a week to respond to this it must be fairly unimportant. I mean, it took him eight months to name a TSA chief, so a week is penuts. The system works!.. But then I turn on the news this morning and a chill runs down my spine....
I see the President and he's not on Oprah, so I know something is wrong.
"A systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable," Obama says.
But how? Gestapo Janet just told us everything is kosher...
"Had this critical information been shared, it could have been compiled with other intelligence and a fuller, clearer picture of the suspect would have emerged," he said. "The warning signs would have triggered red flags and the suspect would have never been allowed to board that plane for America."
fhew!... Im glad Professor O was there to break it down for me as to what should have happened. But.....
"I have ordered government agencies to give me a preliminary report Thursday about what happened...I will insist on accountability at every level!.."
Yes, Mister President, heads must roll!!!! Now you're cooking with gas! But where do we start? Do we go to Napolitano and hold her accountable for unexcusable neglect of obvious "red flags" and gaps in her agency's execution of set policies? Or maybe we should start at the top of the "system" (since this is a systemic failiure) and hold the President accountable for putting the country in danger by his obvious neglect and downplaying of radical Anti-western-ism, in the form of radical Islam, that is sweeping the globe? Which, just like Fascism and Communism before it, is just an excuse for the under-developed to blame their shortcomings on the more well off. But wait! I got it!!! The CIA is responsible! I mean it's their job to report these things, right? It's not like their agency's morale has been flushed down the toilet by the "water boarding" witch hunt earlier this year. Besides, it seems to be a common policy for this administration to bash a particular group and then expect their full cooperation immediately after, such as Obama's outburst against the 'fat-cat bankers'.
It's cool. The President had ordered a full panel inquiry, so as soon as he gets all the right advisers together and they tell Barry what to do and how to wipe his you-know-what, we'll be safe again. So just like the mighty giraffe, we'll get it. It might just take a while and maybe a few successful attacks... But we'll do something about this!!!! Barry said so! So let's just blame Bush and ramble on.
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