by banned » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:13 pm
....like the one in Oklahoma?<br><br>Here's my question...if they're trying to scare the shite out of everybody, how come the hush hush on the kid at OU? Why didn't they make a big howdy do about that, that he was attending a mosque, was trying to get into the game and blow people up but they foiled him, but next time, better beware, blahblahblah? A threat to the New York subway system is scary mainly to New Yorkers (not that any of us want anyone blown up, anywhere, but New York's a long way from the heartland or the West). The idea that 'sleepers' who are actually Americans and hence not swarthy, be-turbaned types likely to arouse suspicion may be targeting that most hallowed institution, organized sports--well, that could panic the entire nation, nobody would want to go to a ball game, high school, college, or pro. Beer and hot dog sales would plummet, sports bars would go out of existence, divorce rates would skyrocket as cranky men had nowhere to go to watch overpaid males chase balls of various sizes around and their wives realized what oafs they really are, the now-untethered men would gather in gangs and start hitting anything that moves with baseball bats, the women would marry Sensitive New Age Guys who would encourage them all to go back to medical or law school and demand equal pay and reproductive control, once there were no more visible black sports zillionaires African Americans would realize that other than Oprah, Condi, and a few rappers, they are disproportionately poor and begin to revive the Civil Rights movement...wait, this is starting to sound like a good thing. I mean, families would fall apart because SNAGS generally want to be househubbies and women only make 51 cents on the dollar, kids would have to go to work in coal mines again (maybe with those attractive folks on the GE commercial?), and since they'll no longer be able to afford their Ritalin they'll be hyperactive and easy to get 7 12 hour days out of so we won't need oil anymore...wait...now THIS sounds good...well, if you're not a kid...<br><br>Anyway, my point was, seemingly harmless students vaporizing college stadiums seems to me a better way to grip the nation in terror than a lame "London Revisited" subway threat, but they didn't play it that way. Why? <p></p><i></i>
