It's the end of the world as we know it ... and I feel fine

Did you know a Weapon of Mass Destruction was detonated in a Londonderry, PA market this weekend!?

Pellets hit crowd in blast at flea market

An Elizabethtown man was charged Saturday with possessing a weapon of mass destruction after police said he ignited a device filled with plastic pellets inside Saturday's Market in Londonderry Twp., hitting at least five people and causing alarm in the building.
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The device looked like a plastic Easter egg with a firecracker inside, said Peggy Beckley, the market's vendor manager. She said the pellets, like those used for an air gun, were inside.
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Beckley said she was startled by the loud sound and the pain of the plastic pellets hitting her.

"It sounded like a window shattering to me, but some people said it sounded like a gun going off," she said.

No one was taken to a hospital, Beckley said.
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He was charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction, risking a catastrophe, recklessly endangering another person, disorderly conduct and simple assault.

I admire that this print reporter was able to report the 'WMD' (AKA firecracker) going off in the Londonderry flea market with a straight face, (actually I guess it was with straight type ... not that there's anything wrong with that.)

I especially admire that Liz Collin of a local CBS affiliate was able to report on the horror, Oh the horror I tell you, with a straight face, (there's definitely something wrong with that.):

Police say Camp did it right in front of two security guards working at the front entrance. No one was hurt but police say the plastic air-gun pellets hit five people.
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Camp is from Elizabethtown. He was released on $5,000 unsecured bail last night.

Do ya think they're aware that this charge is going to make a laughingstock of their local criminal justice system?

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Jeebus have we lowered the bar. Dog nose Colon Powell* would have had even more non-existent WMDs for his dog and pony show before the UN 5 years ago today, if he'd just known a firecracker and harmless plastic pellets were WMDs!

And frankly I don't give a damn that he considers the "pre-Iraq U.N. speech a 'blot' on his record"

Happy 5th suckiversary Colon!

May you suffer the same fate as all the 3,954+ Americans and the one million+ Iraqis have from your lies.


*I didn't mistype his name, the only way anyone could be that full of $hit is that they would have to be a colon.



Cross posted at VidiotSpeak

Only 935?

(Graphic by Dancin' Dave)

Ohhhh, this is just counting the lies about Iraq, not about all the other stuff.

WASHINGTON - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

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The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.

"It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida," according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. "In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003."

Named in the study along with Bush were top officials of the administration during the period studied: Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.

Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq's links to al-Qaida, the study found. That was second only to Powell's 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq and al-Qaida.

The center said the study was based on a database created with public statements over the two years beginning on Sept. 11, 2001, and information from more than 25 government reports, books, articles, speeches and interviews.

The question we should really be asking is .... just exactly when did this administration ever tell the truth?
crossposted at Rants from the Rookery