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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 08:55 AM
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Are you concerned that al Qaeda will try to strike the U.S. during the holiday shopping season?
Ridiculous CNN poll.

Yes, I'm extremely worried Al Queda is going to strike when I'm shopping, because we all know OBL is fond of REI and Dick's Sporting Goods.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 08:57 AM
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1. No, I am more worried about the freaks jockeying for parking spots
at the mall during the holidays. Some of them belong on the terrorist watchlist!
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bigscott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 08:57 AM
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2. that is why
i stay inside my duct-taped home and order everything online - so much safer :sarcasm:
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 08:57 AM
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3. this is total BS.
and I am sure the retailers are jumping with joy over this. * regime with your daily dose of FEAR AND PARANOIA.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 08:58 AM
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4. Better poll question
If there is an attack involving "masked gunmen" will they be employed by Blackwater?
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zabet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:00 AM
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5. Who really has the extra money
to do much shopping? Not me. According to the early push
by stores towards xmas sales, it is a sure sign that consumer
spending is way down.
I see this as more of dumbya's convoluted thinking....."If you
don't spend money 'merika, Al kayda will bomb our malls. Be
patriotic, go out and shop."
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 10:03 AM
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31. no one has any money what a way for us to screw these
retailers, make your own gifts, why should we give our money what we have left to these retailers, BS let's fight back.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 10:05 AM
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33. they'll use the threat as an excuse to explain the coming dismal xmas shopping numbers...
people were too SCARED to shop.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:01 AM
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6. I have inside information from Al Kader!
Their operatives will all be dressed in red suits and caps trimmed with white fake fur, and they will all be wearing fake white beards. Their suicide belts will be hidden by pretending to be very fat. They will lure small Christian children to gather around them, and then....
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:25 AM
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19. Al Kader? He's an amateur. Remember Sandinista Claus??
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:52 AM
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27. I know Alberto Queda. Al Queda is my friend. You, sir, are no Al Queda.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:02 AM
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7. If I spend more will it make them stop?
Isn't that how it works or something?
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:02 AM
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8. i`ll be very afraid if he shops at
tj max,borders,and my local charity shop...come to think of it there are "those kind of people" who shop at that charity shop.....
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:02 AM
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9. No. Baby strollers are my main concern.
I'm more afraid of tripping over a wheeled toddler device
and hurting a child than I am of a terrorist at the mall.

And I shop at the Pentagon mall.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:04 AM
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10. What is shopping?
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:04 AM
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11. "War on Christmas"
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:04 AM
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12. If AQ causes me to...
...have a less than pleasant shopping experience, I swear I'll have them banned from the mall. I know the manager so I ain't screwin' 'round, bin-Laden, got that? You'll die before you get another Cinnabon!
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:05 AM
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13. Yes - I intend to be in constant fear ...
like our government wants us to be.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:07 AM
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14. Actually this is setting up an excuse for Bush
when the retail sales are in the toilet this year and there's no big hiring surge for the holiday. He can now blame the threats from Al-Qaida for making people afraid to shop. Because they hate us for our freedom to spend ourselves broke for state sponsored religious holidays.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:09 AM
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15. No. Not one bit.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:17 AM
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16. Hmm. Is that why the shopping day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday?
Wasn't there a really bad terrorist movie made about this?
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:18 AM
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17. I am concerned that over a thousand people a day die from cancer in America
How many a day die from terrorism? Where should our priorities really be? Is America completely brain dead?
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:21 AM
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18. Nope. But I wouldn't be a bit surprised if one of our own home-grown
terrorists chose this particular season to try to "make a statement."

Sad, isn't it?

I "fear" my fellow Americans much more than I "fear" al Qaeda operatives.
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Zywiec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:42 AM
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22. What home-grown group are you talking about? n/t
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Cerridwen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:48 AM
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24. Not thinking of groups, I was thinking of individuals in the US who
perpetrate attacks on people in the US.

Timmy McVeigh is the most infamous who first who comes to mind. Then I remember the anthrax letters, still unsolved. And the freeper moran who sent white powder to several people.

I was thinking more along the lines of individual nutbars who think threats and violence are solutions or acceptable ways of "influencing" people.
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Giant Robot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:28 AM
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20. No I am more worried that there will be no money
For my daughter's first Christmas.
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:39 AM
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21. Nope
Edited on Fri Nov-09-07 09:43 AM by Marrah_G
I am pretty sure when they hit us again it will be a bigger target then a mall.

I also don't think there is anything we can do to stop the threat until we get a new president who has a clue on how to deal with other countries and make some peace.

I think we can limit the risk somewhat through good police work, but not alleviate it.

Stories like that one are simply there to instill fear in the public. The only threat is to the stability of the market if sales drop off even more then they already have.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 10:08 AM
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34. I agree the threat is to the stability of the market, which will be hit hard.
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peace frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:46 AM
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23. Not in the slightest
CNN: Be Afraid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:eyes:
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:49 AM
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25. Why this year?
They've missed the past six Christmases. Why suddenly come up with a terra attack for this one? Likewise their idiotic assumptions about every July 4, Super Bowl, etc. 911 was a stealth, sneaky thing, if there were to do it again, they would not make it on some obvious date, and not on 911 again, either.

CNN are hugh morans. Anybody can see how ridiculous their attempt to stir up fear of terra is.
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bluedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:51 AM
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26. I'm concerned about the poisons in toys
no one has to attack us....they do it through foods..dog foods......and toys.....thats what we have to check for......watch yours labels..check to see where everything you touch is made......
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The Stranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:54 AM
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28. They won't have "Al Qaeda" strike because that would interfere with CONSUMER SPENDING.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 09:59 AM
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29. CNN are a bunch of Grinches.
They're the kid in the Kindergarten Cop movie who suggested Schwarzenegger had a brain tumor. They are such a drag.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 10:02 AM
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30. Bring. It. On.
Edited on Fri Nov-09-07 10:04 AM by QuestionAll
actually i'm more worried about poppy's crew pulling another operation northwoods-type attack ala 9/11 to help dim son further encroach on civil liberties.
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NeedleCast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 10:04 AM
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32. Most of my shopping
will be done on the interwebs. Unless the terrorists go after my house, I'm feeling pretty comfortable. Ahhh, the joy of ordering my mom more cat trinkets from the internet. Hooray!
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 10:15 AM
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35. Why? Can al Qaeda place limits on my credit cards?
No credit increase? No perceived American middle-class prosperity...

:scared:
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stirlingsliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 10:17 AM
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36. OMG!! OMG!! OMG!!
OMG!!!!

al Queda is going to strike the US during the holiday shopping season!!

Run!! Hide!! Cower!!

Oh, and Obey, too.

(This message brought to you by the Bush/Cheney/Rice Regime of Thugs)

We are listerning to you.

:sarcasm:
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 11:05 AM
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37. Al Qaida will strike when their CIA handlers tell them to.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 11:52 AM
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38. No, I'm concerned the repubs will
let's call a fact a fact, shall we?
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 12:54 PM
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39. holiday shopping season? what shopping? what money?
Unless they strike the local thrift shop, I don't give a fig. I don't plan to buy anything (new) for the holidays. If I don't already have it, can't make it, or find it at a thrift store, it ain't happening.

-member of the underclass.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-09-07 01:16 PM
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40. No absolutely not
For every reason already cited on this thread and then some. I'm more afraid of the bastards who have stolen the government than any boogie man.
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