"Destroy America"? Why not just wait a few years, I thought the current kleptocratic oligarchies were doing a pretty good job of that all on their own.

(Before anyone jumps on that - was just joking - I'm not quite that negative yet.)

IIRC, the 1993 WTC bombers were caught because they attempted to cash in some kind of refund or discount for the rental truck used in the attacks. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

This is precisely why I'm not concerned about terrorist attacks. Yeah, sure, the are going to happen, and innocent people will be maimed and killed.

But there's nowhere to hide... And the people who will be seeking refuge will be incredibly naive.

Does anyone remember the tiny scrape of evidence that condemned the Lockerbie bombers? It was a ¼¢ piece of plastic in a cassette recorder that was part of the mechanism.

And in the twenty years since WTC, computerized record-keeping for every article and every transaction has exploded.

Bad things will happen, but it will not be possible to get away.

(Before anyone jumps on that - was just joking - I'm not quite that negative yet.) -- Lobster at October 17, 2012 6:39 PM

Don't worry about it.

If we get Obama and a Republican congress I give us about 15 months. If we get Obama and a Democrat congress, I figure 12 months. If we get Romney and a similar makeup in congress we have 18-20 months. If we get Romney and a Republican congress it is about 20-24 months. If we get Romney and a Tea Party congress we might come out of this.

• QEIII is starting.
• Obamacare takes off next year.
• The Bush tax rates go away Jan 1.
• Alpha Natural Resources, which possesses the world’s third-largest supply of coal, will cut 1,200 workers and close 8 mines.
• China is rioting.
• Greece is broke and the austerity measures are not working.
• The EU is running out of money.
• The U.S. government is borrowing money to run the alphabet soup. The tax revenue is barely covering the interest on the debt, the entitlement spending and the military.
• U.S. Manufacturing is at its lowest point ever.
• The middle east is burning.
• There is no technological bubble that can really bail us out like the dot com increase. Short of someone coming up with a cheap power source like cold fusion, etc. or hitting a trillion gallons of petroleum source there is no technology that will really help.
• There is no one that can bail the U.S. out.

So I still need to get an AR-15 and stock up on toilet paper. I'm hoping I'm going to be blowing dirt out my ass far more than I'm going to be blowing it out of a gun.

"the Bangladeshi dipshit"

An appropriate epithet for a terrorist. Even has a ring to it. Quazi Nafis, aka "the Bangladeshi dipshit".

Bangladeshi dipshit, Quazi Nafis, who wanted to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan

And if he succeeds, hey, it's OBVIOUSLY THE TEA PARTY!

In April, James Cromitie went to court after he was stung for terrorism by the FBI. The judge hearing his case said “Only the government could have made a ‘terrorist’ out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope.”
http://reason.com/blog/2012/04/30/the-fbi-making-sure-we-dont-need-to-impo

I am willing to bet that if it had not been for the FBI, Nafis would have spent a few years ranting and then grown up. These "terrorists" are morons with a big mouth. The FBI gets involved and convinces these idiots that they should blow stuff up. If the "terrorist" ever wavers, the FBI stiffens his back bone. Cromitie said “I don’t want anyone to get hurt” but the FBI convince him otherwise.

According to his father, the lad is completely innocent.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19994503

"I am 100% sure that he had no contact with anybody. He has been victimised."