Failer
By mistermix December 12th, 2010
How in the hell do you detonate a huge car bomb, and a suicide bomb, in the middle of a busy shopping area a couple of weeks before Christmas without killing anyone but yourself? I’m sure we’ll learn every little detail about the person who did this, and maybe there are more attacks to follow, but at the moment this looks like more confirmation of DougJ’s thesis that terrorism is for losers.
Posted in Assholes, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Terrorism Is For Lovers would make such a great follow-up to Love Is A Battlefield. (No link because I really, really, dislike that song,)
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December 12th, 2010 at 8:56 am
Because you were more interested in killing yourself than others?
linky
December 12th, 2010 at 9:03 am
Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and suicide bombs.
Do we have enough body scanners to install at every mall across America when the first bomb is detonated inside the food court?
December 12th, 2010 at 9:03 am
As someone who likes to hear all sides of an issue, I’ll withhold judgment until I have an opportunity to assess the counterargument that Terrorism is for Winners!
edit: /snark (for the snark-impaired – you know who you are.)
December 12th, 2010 at 9:08 am
@Onkel Bob:
That fits in with those crazy fuckers who want to take as many people out as they can while offing themselves.
@El Tiburon: “Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and suicide bombs.”
You forgot teenage love.
I fully expect some nut to detonate themselves in a large crowd here, you just know it’s going to happen. You also know that the police state will lurch forward a few more steps when that happens.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:10 am
Great, the first emo suicide-bomber. Did he go out with ICP on his iPod?
December 12th, 2010 at 9:10 am
The only time a terrorist fails is when he’s not mentioned in the news.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:14 am
@Onkel Bob:
Wait, are you saying Terrorists are not in fact a group of superior beings that can melt steel with their lazer vision?
I don’t believe it. I am told the only way to destroy a Terrorist is with a Million dollar missile shot from a drone because their super mind tricks can cause a regular human pilot to cry like a little girl.
Why I hear the Terrorists are 12 feet tall and never sleep and hide under our beds at night and creep around our attics silent as a mouse.
I hear stories that terrorists can turn themselves into steel-sharks and are making their way to our shores and will invade our shores and eat our women and children.
My understanding is we should all be very, very afraid of these SuperTerrorists who never sleep. They are perfect killing machines that can travel through time and space and the New York sewer system.
Anyway, this is what I hear.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:18 am
Last night there was some speculation that the Stockholm bombins were Assange-related. Didn’t make much sense to me: his admirers and supporters may be a lot of things, but “incompetent” nor “suicidal” are not their defining attributes.
I get the anger over the war in Afghanistan, but has there been another wave of Scandinavian cartoons mocking Islam/Mohammad/the Qur’an recently?
And totally O/T but I just heard that the roof of the Metrodome has collapsed because of the weight of all the snow. Holy shit.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:22 am
@El Tiburon: Please. Close also counts with nuclear weapons.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Yeah, I suppose all the people with experience in the field are dead. A difficult environment for advancement I’d guess.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:25 am
@SiubhanDuinne:
again?
December 12th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Uh huh. It sure as hell got your attention though, didn’t it? It made you much more conscious of certain things that you didn’t pay that much attention to before now, didn’t it?
Mission accomplished.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:31 am
We’re getting some snow here in Glorious Southern Illinois but nothing serious especially because I don’t have to go anywhere. Bird watching out the window, watching cats watch the birds out the window. Pot of what may be kick ass pozole simmering on the stove. Life isn’t too bad at the moment.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:34 am
@arguing: Did it happen before? I don’t remember that (noit doubting you, I truly don’t remember).
And apologies to all for the weird and unfortunate double negative in my #9 post. Can’t even blame WordPress for that one. FYSD.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:35 am
@SiubhanDuinne:
iirc, the metrodome did collapse under snow several years ago. I could be wrong about that, so don’t quote me.
ETA: It may have been the dome in Detroit.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:37 am
@bjacques:
fucking bombs. how do they work?
December 12th, 2010 at 9:38 am
That’s Glorious Southern Illinois®
December 12th, 2010 at 9:43 am
According to Wikipedia, The Dome’s roof also collapsed in November 1981 due to snow fall. There have also been a number of deflation events due to tears in the roof’s fabric. The roof is held up by pressurized air in the stadium.
December 12th, 2010 at 9:47 am
Thanks, Purple Girl!
December 12th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Back on topic, sort of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
“You silly sods!”
December 12th, 2010 at 9:57 am
Fox will call him a “homicide” bomber anyway. (and put a “D” after his name)
December 12th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Metrodome roof deflated, not collapsed.
They’re scrambling to find venue for tomorrow’s Vikings-Giants game.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12.....ts.html?hp
December 12th, 2010 at 11:00 am
I kind of suspect the non-loser would-be terrorists feel no urgency to attack, seeing as how we’re pretty much screwing ourselves over.
December 12th, 2010 at 11:44 am
“DougJ’s thesis that terrorism is for losers.”
Just a thought, but, based on recent events, (underwear bomber, Times Square etc.) maybe they realize that you don’t send your best and brightest out on suicide missions.
December 12th, 2010 at 11:50 am
@Gian:
I’ve always wondered—what would Fox call someone like the Unabomber who kills people with letter bombs? A remote homicide bomber?
December 12th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
[...] Today the righties are outraged, and not without cause, about a Stockholm suicide bombing. The bomber was, news accounts say, protesting the publication of anti-Muslim cartoons and the war in Afghanistan. (Since the perpetrator is not around to explain himself we have to guess, but some question the official explanation) [...]
December 12th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
I don’t quite understand how only a death counts as success, as though bombings are a kind of video game.
Survivors are sometimes described as only injured or wounded, even if they lose limbs or sustain horribly crippling brain injuries.
No, terrorists are not supermen, but this kind of glib cherry picking over the facts to try to “prove” that terrorists are just hapless sad sacks who only hurt themselves is a waste of time.
December 12th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Some bombers go out of their way to avoid killing people and so try to minimize possible deaths – not many but this has happened a few times – not all want to kill other people but rather, die for the cause. Go figure.
December 12th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
The bomber must have been driving a Volkswagen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rac3SnwO2PU
December 12th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
“Log in to manage your products and services from The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.”
My products and serivces, eh? I think not.
December 12th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
@El Tiburon:
I have smelled several such bombs in my life. Not pretty.
cain
December 12th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
The suspect pretty much looks like a white guy. So much for magic Israeli Airport profiling!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....orist.html
December 13th, 2010 at 10:15 am