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|4.15.09 @ 12:08PM|#
I'm changing my name to Durka Durka Muhammed Jihad.
EscapedWestOfTheBigMuddy|4.15.09 @ 12:09PM|#
Oddly enough, the only place I recall every seeing a physical instance of the Gadsden flag on display was in the Navy Reserve building in the city where I grew up.
Who knew all those sailors were dangerous anitamerican extremists?
BTW--I have no idea why they had one.
Xeones|4.15.09 @ 12:10PM|#
I'm such a terrorist, i won't even take your quiz.
This Just In|4.15.09 @ 12:14PM|#
Hook-Nosed Jew May Be a Terrorist!
High Every Body|4.15.09 @ 12:15PM|#
High Every Body May Be a Terrorist!
I think I am just good at standardized tests.
Janet Napolitano|4.15.09 @ 12:16PM|#
"Who knew all those sailors were dangerous anitamerican extremists?"
I did!
Steve|4.15.09 @ 12:19PM|#
"...and receive a suitable-for-framing certificate"
I can't print my certificate... what's up with that?
Naga Sadow|4.15.09 @ 12:19PM|#
HEB,
Lies! You're the plant from the NSA!
High Every Body|4.15.09 @ 12:22PM|#
Lies! You're the plant from the NSA!
Oh please, I am animal not vegetable.
|4.15.09 @ 12:27PM|#
I guess I'd better update my resume to include my new certification. What's the job market like for those who are certified as having "Terrorist Tendencies"?
Warty|4.15.09 @ 12:29PM|#
What's the job market like for those who are certified as having "Terrorist Tendencies"?
Booming.
Xeones|4.15.09 @ 12:30PM|#
Warty just won the Internet.
Kent|4.15.09 @ 12:40PM|#
I'll put my terrorist certificate next to the one I got for being Time magazine's person of the year in 2006.
|4.15.09 @ 12:41PM|#
Steve | April 15, 2009, 12:19pm | #
I can't print my certificate... what's up with that?
With Firefox, right click, select "View Background Image", and then save or print the .jpg.
With IE, right click, select "Save Background As", save and then open with any program that can open and print a .jpg file.
High Every Body|4.15.09 @ 12:43PM|#
I can't print my certificate... what's up with that?
Are you connected to a printer?
Bubba|4.15.09 @ 12:49PM|#
Can't get nuthin' done round here widout connections.
|4.15.09 @ 12:51PM|#
I'm not going to take that test until I change into my Weeping Statue of Liberty tee shirt.
anarch|4.15.09 @ 12:54PM|#
My cell phone received, through the Freedom of Information Act, an unsolicited, redacted version of the flag.
It says "DON'T [-]READ ON [--]."
Bet that makes me a terr[it]or[ial]ist!
|4.15.09 @ 1:01PM|#
My bet is that half the police and military forces would qualify as suspect. I know a lot of military people have libertarian tendencies.
|4.15.09 @ 1:18PM|#
I figured a known insurgent's name would set off alarm bells, but it seems I was wrong.
Ravac|4.15.09 @ 1:40PM|#
Re: The Gadsden flag & Navy...
If I'm remembering this right, a version of the Gadsden flag was flown by the US Navy that sailed to meet British warships at the beginning of the Revolution.
Orange Line Special|4.15.09 @ 2:02PM|#
How old is Reason now? Oh my! You'll be entering kindergarten soon!
Meanwhile, in news you will hear from no one else, one part of the DHS report was lifted from a misleading report from a far-left group that supports illegal activity. As it happens, Reason has linked approvingly to that group in the past.
ed|4.15.09 @ 2:13PM|#
That Janet Napolitano is one ugly dude.
|4.15.09 @ 2:14PM|#
Is there any way to give LoneImbecile a virtual wedgie?
phalkor|4.15.09 @ 2:14PM|#
I come back from lunch and you call me a terrorist?!?!?
I'm fully pretend outraged!
Also, thanks LoneWhacko for your truly inspiring insight.
alan|4.15.09 @ 2:23PM|#
Steve | April 15, 2009, 12:19pm | #
"...and receive a suitable-for-framing certificate"
I can't print my certificate... what's up with that?
Just saving the background image wont save your name to the image.
Find the Print Screen button on your keyboard, hit it. F12 should work as well. Open up an image editor, you should now be able to paste that image of the screen to an image file in the editor.
alan|4.15.09 @ 2:28PM|#
Of course, printing it out is another matter, and depends on your setup. I have to print out through an image editor, GIMP or Acrobat, in my case, because the print from screen doesnt carry enough format information for the printer to work with, however seen some lazy bastards do have direct print from screen to printer set up.
G|4.15.09 @ 2:29PM|#
It's worth noting that printing works fine now. Just go back to your certificate and click 'print it.'
A new window will open up along with a print dialog. Ta-da!
Allah Akbar|4.15.09 @ 2:31PM|#
They've found me out!
|4.15.09 @ 2:32PM|#
alan, I don't think "print from screen" has worked fully since monochrome monitors. So I guess it might work with an AS/400 session.
Gosplan|4.15.09 @ 2:34PM|#
http://www.reason.com/terroristquiz/?u=0300cd1a6c75a0935d8146c7fe22e3ff
Nick|4.15.09 @ 2:40PM|#
Are Janet Reno and Janet Napolitano the same person? I hadn't seen Janet Reno in a while.
|4.15.09 @ 2:51PM|#
The terrorists have already won.
alan|4.15.09 @ 3:04PM|#
alan, I don't think "print from screen" has worked fully since monochrome monitors. So I guess it might work with an AS/400 session.
Yeah, I qualified my remarks because I have seen my bro do it. I suspect he uses intermediate software in the backgrond to preset format information.
The Wine Commonsewer (You can |4.15.09 @ 3:36PM|#
Sam Kinnison once said that he wasn't afraid of terrorists because he'd been married for two years.
|4.15.09 @ 3:37PM|#
Sam was the last great American philosopher.
|4.15.09 @ 3:54PM|#
What's everyone so concerned about? If you don't do anything that merits suspicion, why worry?
At least that's what I was told by the rightwingers the last 8 years when I protested Bush's redacting of the bill of rights.
|4.15.09 @ 4:01PM|#
Press sure is running with this story. Easy to believe stuff when it fits your preconceptions.
Fan of Sam|4.15.09 @ 4:04PM|#
"Sam was the last great American philosopher."
He also said that we shouldn't be sending food to starving Sub-Saharan Africans, because what they really needed was U-Hauls.
YOU'RE IN THE FUCKING DESERT! NOTHING GROWS HERE!
Gosplan|4.15.09 @ 4:05PM|#
"At least that's what I was told by the rightwingers the last 8 years when I protested Bush's redacting of the bill of rights."
I don't believe you.
Citizen Nothing|4.15.09 @ 4:12PM|#
Tony always seems disoriented. Where do you suppose he thinks he is?
|4.15.09 @ 4:17PM|#
Tony always seems disoriented. Where do you suppose he thinks he is?
He's having trouble wrapping him mind around the fact that the political spectrum has axes other than "left" and "right".
Kreel Sarloo|4.15.09 @ 4:31PM|#
A coiled or extended snake has figured on a couple of versions of the Navy Jack since revolutionary war times.
A version was reinstated after 9/11 and ordered to be flown on USN ships at appropriate times (nautical flag etiquette is a way more complicated subject than I have ever been prepared to learn).
So, yes, it interesting that the flag of the world's best navy is considered a terrorist symbol by a bunch of deskbound bureaucrats.
Of course time was, our Navy striking terror into the hearts of our enemies was considered a good thing for the nation.
|4.15.09 @ 4:41PM|#
In what type of country does professing your love of freedom equals threating the government?
Home of the free? as long as you don't publicly acknowledge it.
|4.15.09 @ 4:42PM|#
Threatening, I should say.
ap|4.15.09 @ 5:43PM|#
What's everyone so concerned about? If you don't do anything that merits suspicion, why worry?
At least that's what I was told by the rightwingers the last 8 years when I protested Bush's redacting of the bill of rights.
so, instead of joining in outrage over the increasingly broad and absurd definition of terrorist you say 'gotcha'
i bet you took the same tact with regards to obama's spending binge(not that you disagree with either since Team Blue is doing it). can you make my day by dropping the best line of the online socialist trolls these days "your views lost out to mine in the election, get over it" - please?
engineer|4.15.09 @ 5:51PM|#
"He's having trouble wrapping him mind around the fact that the political spectrum has axes other than 'left' and 'right'."
Imagine that. A wingnut who thinks purely in terms of left and right.
engineer|4.15.09 @ 5:55PM|#
"What's everyone so concerned about? If you don't do anything that merits suspicion, why worry?
At least that's what I was told by the rightwingers the last 8 years when I protested Bush's redacting of the bill of rights."
Tony: Please get it through your head. We are libertarians. That means we oppose infringement of economic liberties AND personal and civil liberties. Hence, we are not Republicans. If you can only make arguments that apply to conservatives, please troll somewhere else.
Kolohe|4.15.09 @ 7:02PM|#
BTW--I have no idea why they had one.
The First Navy Jack is the reason I had to answer yes.
There are two flags shown on a ship in port. The Ensign, which is typically on the stern, and the Jack, which is smaller and typically on the bow.
The first Navy Jack as you said, was reinstated after 9/11. It is flown every day on every commissioned ship in port and will be done 'for the duration of the War on Terror'.
|4.15.09 @ 7:17PM|#
Tony: Please get it through your head. We are libertarians. That means we oppose infringement of economic liberties AND personal and civil liberties. Hence, we are not Republicans. If you can only make arguments that apply to conservatives, please troll somewhere else.
I didn't accuse you of being Republicans. Why so defensive? If we're such comrades when it comes to civil liberties why not have a little fun at the right's expense on the subject of their rank hypocrisy?
I don't blame you guys for the perception that you're more aligned with Republicans. They like to use your ideas to sell their plutocratic shtick. Then again, for every liberal who posts here there are about 20 actual wingnuts.
|4.15.09 @ 7:18PM|#
yeah, the reference to the Gadsden Flag/First Navy Jack makes this REALLY funny for me, especially since the report also refers to vets.
|4.15.09 @ 7:52PM|#
IT'S A TRAP!
|4.15.09 @ 7:54PM|#
The only people that need fear a Don't Tread On Me flag are people that intend to tread on me.
|4.15.09 @ 8:25PM|#
I dated a girl once (hottest girl I ever dated -- 17, softball player, tall, liked to be naughty...) who's dad was in politics. I went to an event with their family and accidentally brushed J-Nap's butt when I went to put my arm around her for a picture. I figured out later that J-Nap is a dyke, so she either didn't care or didn't notice, but still, I touched her ass.
buy wow gold|4.16.09 @ 4:59AM|#
This is funny "Andrew May Be a Terrorist!" Just because I answered no to all the questions. Lmao, not even in my dreams.
Mr. Chartreuse|4.16.09 @ 10:58PM|#
Oddly enough, the only place I recall every seeing a physical instance of the Gadsden flag on display was in the Navy Reserve building in the city where I grew up.
If you ever happen to catch a USMNT home soccer match on TV, and I'm probably one of the few soccer fans on H&R, you'll see several Gadsdens and maybe even a Culpeper flag flown by the supporters groups. Nike even adopted the design for the Don't Tread on Me design for the USMNT (not for the kit/jersey, but for marketing and merchandise).