Second Life isn’t just furries, marketers, and Mike Gravel — no, according to an Australian “security expert,” it’s positively crawling with terrorists! [The Australian via Slashdot]

Remember how last week we were all being terrorized at our airports by al-Qaeda sympathizers sneaking cheese bombs onto airplanes? Oh, and duct taped ice packs? Turns out that story was complete bullshit. On Saturday morning, CNN admitted that the “terrorist dry runs” they warned about last Wednesday were made up. “Just kidding,” said anchor T.J. Holmes. That’s right, just fucking kidding. He actually said that. MORE »

Last week the TSA sent an advisory to law enforcement offices across the country warning them that recent suspicious activity could be part of a terrorist dry run. The incidents range from deadly duct tape-wrapped ice packs to bizarre pepperjack bombs like the one pictured above, confiscated from a Baltimore couple. MORE »

Al-Qaeda personally calls Brian Ross on his prop phone to confirm reports from Mike Chertoff’s gut. [The Blotter]

* More rats abandon the McCain ship. [Wizbang Politics]
* But you’ll still be able to find what’s left of the McCain campaign in Concord, NH this weekend. [On Call]
* President Shitsack gets joy from making little girls cry. [Hot Air]
* Sadr was spotted in Najaf. He might as well just be in Iraq because it’s not like the U.S. actually hunts downs and kills its enemies anyway — we’ll probably just blow up a school or a hospital in Baghdad instead. [Iraq Slogger]
* Nutcase has a knack for creative writing. [IMAO]
* Cheney loses his allowance until he come out of his goddamn room and explains himself. [Election Central]
* We have often asked ourselves the same question not just about the Times, but rather all of Los Angeles County — but generally that has nothing to do with fat, imbecilic slob Fred Thompson. [LGF]
* Al Qaeda is on the verge of killing your children — that is, if they haven’t recruited them to kill you, instead. [Blotter]

Republican loser Rick Santorum has a message for America: He has inside knowledge of GOP “terror attacks” that will terrify Americans into voting for whatever abortionist Republican candidate survives the primaries. The two-term senator told some terror-crazed talk-radio show that the 2008 campaign will bring certain surprises for those expecting some Democrat to flush the White House of Cheney’s Crooks. MORE »

Terrorists across the world still believe in the DIY ideal of jihad, refusing, after years of entreaties, to sell out to monied interests, and still making bombs the old-fashioned way. MORE »

Aptly-named Representative Anthony Weiner, Democrat from Queens, has been bitching and moaning about the Statue of Liberty for years now. The Statue was closed to visitors after 9/11, following fears that terrorists, monsters, intelligent apes representing the folly of man, aliens, supervillains, or rogue political cartoonists would target it for attacks. In 2004, the pedestal, housing the museum, was reopened. The crown, though, remains closed to this day.

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Take a look at the gentlemen to your right. Would you trust him with anything besides perhaps being an effective, physical power forward for your National Hockey League franchise? Of course not! So explain to us, please, why a federal appeals court isn’t allowing us to lock him up forever and ever without charges? MORE »

Ohio crackpot Thomas Potter doesn’t believe the government’s official story of what happened on 9/11, and to prove his point, he found three listings for “Usama bin Laden” in an internet phone book. MORE »

This past Memorial Day caretakers at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Neenah, Wisconsin noticed that more than two dozen American flags were missing from the graves of military veterans. Who was to blame — commies? terrorists? beatniks? No, the answer was even more chilling: our so-called “friends” in the rogue animal kingdom. MORE »