I don't know whether to laugh or cry ...

[unixronin]

Your tax dollars doing crystal meth in the bathroom:  The Department of Homeland Security's Red Cell teams have determined, at great expense, that pressure cookers are a threat to national security.  (Sorry for the PDF.)

Yeah, you heard me right.  PRESSURE COOKERS.  Because you can put explosives in them.

What inane silliness will they come up with next?

OH MY GOD!!!!!!   CLOTHES ARE A DEADLY THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY!!!!11!   EVERY KNOWN SUICIDE BOMBER HAS BEEN WEARING CLOTHES!!!!   THE 9/11 HIJACKERS WORE CLOTHES!!!!!   SQUEAKY FROMME HAD CLOTHES ON!!!!!   FIDEL CASTRO WEARS CLOTHES!!!!!   HUGO CHAVEZ WEARS CLOTHES, THAT PROVES HE'S A TERRAHIST!!!1!1!1!

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OK, that's quite enough.  This nonsense can stop now.  The Department of Homeland Security calls this "imagination" and "thinking out of the box."  I call it "paranoid ravings at taxpayer expense" and "complete idiocy."  And the 2005 DHS Appropriations bill contains almost $19 million for this nonsense.

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(Crossposted to neph_politics)

Comments

[tww1fa]

And in an unprecedented strike for Freedom and Democracy, agents from Homeland Security raided and shut down The Food Network. Taken into custody were, among others, the terrorist mastermind Emeril Lagasse, who's "Bam!" catchphrase was obviously a coded message to inspire suicide bombers.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

"Iron Chef" is a codename for a military operation if I ever heard one..... ;)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Schlock Merecenary. The once upon a diplomat who we haven't seen in quite awhile.