The world’s primary buyer and user of weaponry was itself attacked by a weapon today, when two shots were tragically fired at the terrible war building, by somebody somewhere (the woods?). According to Reuters, “there were no injuries or significant damage,” which marks the first time the Pentagon has been involved in anything that didn’t lead to injuries or significant damage. This may, however, be part of a shocking series of solitary, harmless attacks on military buildings in Northern Virginia!
Today’s impressive attack upon the Pentagon happened in the wee small hours, and after a brief lockdown everything was “open for business” again by about 5:30 a.m. Security has been much tighter around the Defense Department headquarters since another “lone gunman” ran up to an entrance and started firing in May of this year, wounding two guards and getting himself shot dead in the process.
But was the seemingly random shoot-and-run today connected to another seemingly random gunfire incident outside the Marine Museum in Quantico? As usual, there’s no way to know, but authorities caution that we may need to walk through many more of those “let some bacon-mouthed high-school dropouts gawk at you, naked” machines, for freedom. [ABC/Reuters]
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Eric Cantor approves!
Ricochet off Lou Dobbs house?
10-19, never forget!
10-19 was an inside job!
GUN OWNERS ATTACKED US ON 10-19!
(do I win?)
While they have the right to, I don't believe that is a good idea for gun owners to build a firing range two blocks away from the Pentagon.
STOP THE 10-19 MOSK!!!
You're really not going far enough- after all, it's a well-documented fact that gun owners love building firing ranges at the sites of their greatest victories and conquests, just like they did in America, starting in the 1500s.
NO VICTORY MOSK AT 10-19, OR ANYWHERE ELSE.
OK, who do we invade?
I vote for Switzerland.
Switzerland?! They got oil now?!!!
Does this mean we have to start walking around in zig zags again when we pump gas?
Serpentine.
No, it just means William Ayers is in town.
Glenn Blech watcher + Oath Keeper = Shoot at gubbmint buildings.
But "both sides" do it.
Obviously the work of some commie, racist, librul looking to tarnish the reputation of the Tea Bagger Movement.
Probably driving a rusting Volvo wagon with leather sandals.
Jeez, Ken, don't you know that letting bacon-mouthed high-school dropouts gawk at you naked is the principal industry of Northern Virginia?
Was someone warming up for a Second Amendment solution to a perceived problem?
Was that problem Medicare's refusal to pay for a new rascal?
We're gonna need a bigger building.
Ha ha, that's the bureaucratic response to every challenge.
I thought that the bureaucratic response to every challenge was to form a committee to appoint a non-binding advisory commission, blue ribbon, obviously.
…and bipartisan…
I want to know what Lou Dobbs has to say about this.
You know, the next time I end up going through an airport with one of those "let high school drop-outs gawk at you" machines, I'm going to make sure to spend the requisite two minutes in the bathroom to make sure that I walk through the underpants-sniffing-machine sporting a rager. Mainly to confuse these flabtards, or at least make them insanely jealous/turned on. For Freedom. Also.
Shooting at the Pentagon strikes me as a monumentally stupid idea. Especially, as the news reports said FIVE shots were heard and only TWO hit the building. It's a big building, so the terrorists are bad shots who shoulda spent a little more time at the NRA firing range.
As an aside, I read once about hunters in Wyoming or South Dakota who liked to shoot at Army tanks out on training exercises. Unlike the deer and the antelope, the tanks can shoot back. But if they somehow "bagged" a tank, how would they mount it over the fireplace?
Sarah Palin is on the right "track" (ha ha) for tank hunting: A helicopter. But you really need a missile of some kind, not a rifle.
An NRA member would have hit 5 times.
This was a 'wannabe' pretending, badly.
Oh, and 100 p's for "Bacon Mouthed high-school dropouts"
this was meerly a distaraction while jan nippletano SNATCHED the pentagon's babby!
Will they treat this as a "crime" and send some law enforcement personnel out to investigate? Or will they just call it a "war" and send predator drones out to bomb some random weddings in Maryland?
How about Delaware? Too far?
No wedding bombings. Once the culprit is identified, they'll just spend the next nine years bombing the surrounding hillside while the perp releases bi-annual missives saying essentially "nana nana boo boo".
The grade school near where I live gets hit with this many bullets like every day, during school hours, and the kids never make such a fuss.
Somebody over in Arlington seriously needs to put on their big boy underwear and get over it.
Legalize marijuana and this will no longer be an issue. Sure, there may be more traffic jams as every household in the nation orders delivery pizzas simultaneously, but there will be less violence, and American manufacturing jobs (tye-dye, hemp clothing and glassblowing, at least) will start picking up. Really, when's the last time someone totally baked went on a shooting rampage and attacked an innocent building? For the sake of our ugly-ass architecture, repeal pot laws now!
If I remember correctly, the last time a bunch of people got that baked, they all thought it was a genius idea to hold hands and try to levitate the damn thing!
Obviously they did not consider economies of scale. Sure, you get a bunch of stoners and you can levitate a plate of brownies, but you need a nation of stoners to levitate a pentagon.
Isn't this kind of like someone throwing letters at a post office?
OR CRASHING YR. CAR INTO THE D.M.V.
OBAMA MUST STEP DOWN NOW AND DO IT POLITELY WITH NONE OF THISE SARCASTIC TOSS-OFFS HE LOVES OR PANTOMIME GESTURES OF BRUSHING OF DANDRUFF I HATE THAT WON!!1!!1
"…which marks the first time the Pentagon has been involved in anything that didnt lead to injuries or significant damage…."
True. The last time the Pentagon held a bake sale do you know what they went out and bought?
i thought it was still bow season? unless, the deer have started shooting back?
One can only hope!
Today we are all gawking bacon-mouthed high-school dropouts.
I am you.
"Bacon-mouthed?"
Ummmmmmmmm. BACON!
Well is Sharron Angle in town warming up for November 3?
I vote for the single bullet theory.
Conservative:: Why did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone?
Liberal: Because he could never remember his lines.
damn! i went to up-thumb you and my hand slipped and i down-thumbed you by mistake. my apologies, your stock here should be two pee points higher than shown.
i'll search out your other recent postings and give you two pee points up to clear the account.
I got it, Prommie 1 upped
You need to strengthen those wrists!
What is he, some kind of homo?
Either way, there's still one surefire way to make 'em stronger…
shittin' bullets.
Does this mean it's time to plant my Glenn Beck crisis garden?
Don't forget about the food insurance.
Mmmmm. Ol' King James Hebs 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest. Coincidence Wonketteers, or is the deep under the covers Xtin OD coven at work here?
But my favorite, Proverbs 6:69: "Verily I saith unto you that Jonah Goldberg is indeed as biggeth a cunt as his mother."
I tell ya, it is a sad day in US America when a man can't just haul off and pop a few shots at the Pentagon fer chrissakes. I thought this was a free country and men could express their opinions any way they see fit, because of the 1st Amendment. I tell ya it's like I just want to go ahead and give away all my guns and rocket launchers and night vision goggles, what good are they now, huh? Call Sam Alito ASAP.
*takes bacon out of mouth and slouches sadly away*
from time to time i am grateful for the general level of american ineffectuality. this is one of those times. (see today's news from chechnya for comparison and contrast.)
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."
You've been beaten to the punch, General Turgeson.
So save you precious bodily fluids.
Drat.
Cheney STILL doesn't know what a pheasant looks like.
He doesn't know what a peasant looks like either.
Not all muslins want to superficially damage concrete walls
But all concrete walls were superficially damaged by muslins
Glad nobody was hurt.
Luckily, only cheap-ass bullets were used. Imagine the carnage had it been one of the high-end, expensive DoD weapons? Like a hammer, or a toilet seat.
Disgruntled bullets protesting all the innocent ammunition lost since WW-II???
I still think it's a good idea to have your military headquarters next door to where they bury their mistakes.
That is also how the dog pound works in rural areas. If they don't do it right, wolves will come and dig up the dog bodies.
I can't speak for the rest of the Wonkeratchik, but this one just doesn't give a shit. I'm much more concerned by the assault on our religious freedoms posed by the second law of thermodynamics and the socialists who believe in it.
The Teaturd candidates certainly follow the 2nd Law's bit on increasing entropy – the universe as we knowz it just gets crazier and crazier.
Re: yer 2nd sentence, no! The 2nd Law does not drive a stake in the heart of evolution. Snowflakes are more ordered than water vapor, and they don't kneecap the 2nd either. Hard to get into the details here since Iz a stupid on the mark-up rulez and don't know how to post the calculus on this site.
That's exactly my point! These "scientists" just can't explain EvilUtion to Real Americans because it don't make sense in 140 characters or less!
Sorry, for my getting yer post backwards. Need more koffeez…
Wankettes (socialists) consider attacks on any part of government an assault on their religious freedoms.
Given that one of government's jobs is to protect religious freedom from the enforcement of any one set of religious norms on the rest of us, even with fanciful make-believe about the founding fathers intending for this to be a "Christian Nation," then yes, an assault on the state by extremists of any sort (including religious extremists) is in fact an assault on the religious freedoms of all Americans. This is one of the things I really *like* about America. No snark either.
Myself, I'm a Maxwellian, and no not Maxwell Smart. I saw the light, del dot E = 4 pi rho et al, when Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon my head, but this slightly spiritual agnostic thinks 4TheTurnstiles haz it spot on — a violent assault on the state is an assault on all our freedoms.
I haz a confused. I thought we were free from religion.
WOLVERINES!!!!!
There ya' go. I don't follow sports, though. 'Sorry.
Them libunatics be wacko here.
Yeah, dey is.
But den agin, dem libunatics be's wacko ever wear.
Ok. Where's Neilist?
Iz he the Guy Fauxer for this?
It all started with a few beers with Tucker Carlson.
Dear Penthouse Forum…
I hope Wonkett is paying Prison Planet royalties for using their animated gifs.
Probably just warning shots at reporters from a Teabagger Security Detail. They've got to land somewhere.
Are we sure the Pentagon should be looking at the "lone gunman" theory, and not the "clumsy drunk guard" theory?
What the hell is this lockdown crap? If there's a crime (shooting, bank robbery, etc.) near a school, they put the school in lockdown to protect the kids but this is the freakin' Defense Department! Don't they have armed guards? This is not the take-charge military I was expecting.
I blame James Belushi. Somebody happened on a War at Home re-run, then grew so disgusted as the half-hour progressed, the body had to do something.
Maybe it's too soon but, would this have happened if the Pentagon had been allowed to carry a concealed gun? Probably not.
Has Jesse Ventura weighed in on this yet? Who was on The Grassy Knoll?
Is the bear Catholic?
He only hit twice. I'm guessing a staunch fundamentalist unitarian.
Now that Cheney is going out "pheasant hunting" again, how long do you think it will take before the Pentagon apologizes to him for the shooting?
Can I safely assume as an average midwesterner that this particular building is designed for this?
Maybe we should just treat the entire building as a giant second amendment remedy teabagger snaring device.
Dem crazy:
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/dem-crazy-…
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