Sadly, No!

Looks like the Power Tools have set their keyboards to stun:

We noted here the mysteriously under-covered story of the three would-be terrorists who were arrested in Italy after vowing to launch an attack on America that would dwarf September 11. […]

Italian authorities recently announced that they had used wiretaps to uncover the conspiracy to conduct a series of major attacks inside the U.S. Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said the planned attacks would have targeted stadiums, ships and railway stations, and the terrorists’ goal, he said, was to exceed the devastation caused by 9/11.

Curiously, what was deemed worthy of a worldwide media blitz abroad was virtually ignored by the U.S. media, and conservative media watchdog groups are saying that is no accident. link

The magic word, of course, is wiretap. Because as part of the never ending war on straw, conservatives are now arguing that liberals are against all wiretaps everywhere every time. That shit makes a lot of sense. As to the Algerians who were arrested:

The men’s arrest in Brescia and Naples came as they were allegedly about to flee Italy and followed a complex three-year surveillance operation of a GSPC cell by the Italian intelligence service SISMI. The three were flush with cash, and moved around constantly between the northern cities of Brescia and Vicenza, the Italian capital, Rome, and the southern city of Naples, police allege. They were also in contact with other terror cells in the northern cities of Venice, Cesena and Milan, as well as the central Italian city of Florence, according to the investigators.

We’re sure 3-year surveillance operations are routinely done without warrants in Italy. Oh, and that media blitz? Google Germany. Google France. Google UK.

Sadly, No!

[Muthafuckin’ G. Supah-Muthafucka-Ninja-Warrior adds:

Um, what ship is that? Do any of those exist? No. So isn’t he being all like, “Bla-bla, I’m going to blow up the Death Star — somehow, by packing it with explosives?”

I personally want to blow up an Imperial Star Destroyer by ‘packing it with explosives,’ and I’m so waiting until they start building those.]

Special power: Underwear-yoink. Yoinks underwear over Dean’s head, hitches him to telephone pole.

“Aaah! Let me down! I’ll kill you and the leakers too! I’ll keel-keel-keel…”

Hey Seb, are we fully up yet? Can we post that pic we have of Dean at the titty bar?

Everyone else has yoinked onto this already, but here’s Jonah at Townhall.com singin’ that Duran Duran late-career fave, ‘Too Much Information’:

A ratio of 30-1?

Worst. Sexual History. 3V@R!!1!!!!111!!eleventyone11!!!

My alma mater had a ratio of about 1.2:1, and you grabbed on and rode that .2, man. Over 4 years, that yielded large dividends.

Are pictures working yet? Can we post that pic of Jonah with Kennedy at that MTV thing — the one where he’s holding the microphone like it’s a boinky wiener in his lap?

Nah, too depressing. 30-1. Jeez.

Where’s the Stupid? First they blindfold you, then they spin you around and around, and then you have to pin the tail on it! It’s hard.

From Scott Johnson, the Curly Howard character at Powerline:

Oho, wait, is this the Stupid?

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 4th edition:

And who’s Progress for America? Oh, it’s those guys. Also see here:

Back to Powerline:

Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that, Scott. Why, if you’re in the loop for this, then we can only imagine that Tony Snow is too, and so on. But as for not mentioning the Republican astroturf group that’s flying these ‘liberal Democrat’ clerks around to all these pro-Alito meetings, rallies, and press conferences, you have to understand this ‘Google’ thing, which anybody can use if they…

Oh wait, Hindrocket has a new one up.

Aaaah! They’re Stupiding faster than we can pin!

Malkin: Hillary Clinton wants an inquiry on providing upgraded body armor to the troops, therefore upgraded body armor is bad and the troops shouldn’t have any.

Several cherry-picked and unrepresentative cites follow, and Soldiers For The Truth is tarred as a group that is bad.

Bonus Stupid:

Hell yeah, screw ‘safe!’ Let’s send ’em into battle armed with spitballs, like John Kerry wanted to do an angry Zell Miller, with a cuckoo popping out of his head, said that John Kerry wanted to do.

Oh right, that’s ‘different.’

The above solon was apparently in the Marines at some point during or after the Gulf War, although we’re interested in knowing whether he was ever, for instance, in combat. Our slight familiarity with such things leads us to imagine that combat quickly knocks the fool out of you.

Um, what “insurgents?” Maybe we’re missing something here, but this seems to mean that you were driving around in a post-cease-fire Gulf War convoy with the Iraqi Army surrendering and/or hauling ass back toward Baghdad en masse, and no one shooting at anyone except for Barry McCaffrey and his ‘highway of death.’

Similarly, I have walked Adams Morgan in the midnight hour, and feared not the black people — but then, that’s why they call me Bad Motherfuckin’ G., ’cause I walk through the valley of…sorry, lost my train of thought there. So, what “insurgents?” You thought there might be some, but there actually weren’t any, right?

[UPDATE: The writer responds, and Auguste of Malkinwatch responds to the response (see comments).]

Bipartisan Scandal

The Washington Times reports that […]

[Insert pro-forma passage pulling John Hinderaker’s briefs into wedgie and hooking the waistband to a telephone pole.]

Hello-hello? Is this thing working? Ring-a-ding-ding.

In our 2005 review post, we wrote the following:

6. Dumbest Thing Written by the WSJ Editorial Page

[Tied with 7,562 other things.]

But instead the U.S. Secretary of State has to put up with lectures about the phony issue of “secret” prisons housing terrorists [sic] who killed 3,000 Americans. We put “secret” in quotes because the CIA could hardly carry on operations in Europe without the knowledge of the countries involved.

New year, same stupid:

Instead, the “controversial” NSA surveillance has been directed at people with unambiguous al Qaeda connections. Nor was it a secret in the sense of being hidden from other parts of government.

So there you go. What you have here is a clusterfuck of incoherence. On the one hand, Captain Murder Fantasy argues that the leakers of the NSA surveillance should be executed, while the WSJ finds the real scandal in the FBI building being named after J. Edgar “Rosetta” Hoover (click on the link if you don’t believe us!) Besides, it wasn’t really a secret — after all, some people knew about it!

So… the site looks ok, except for all the pictures that are missing and whatnot. Also, when you click on a permalink the page displays fine but in IE you (or at least we) get an error message:

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Fehler: Object expected
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Firefox and Opera are happy though.

We’ll continue tweaking, but we’re going to get back to flaming. Hooray!

Here’s our logo, since it won’t show up otherwise: (Added: Oops, guess not!)

Whoa — we were down for 2 days and this is the best we could do! You’re goddamn right this is it!

Consider the site once again operational to be pretend working — the stylesheet will be fixed tonight (our tonight, not your tonight.)

But please be very, very careful — if any of you break anything, Sadly is going to be very upset!

… is moving to a new host today.

Hold on to your kittens.