Watch these terrorists claim they are political refugees.

"Are the Democrats prepared to handle this with a heavy fist?" Really?

You tell me Kim, since Dems have been in power of Congress for all of a week, what should they be prepared to do for finding some people in a truck in Florida? Bomb Cuba? Go to war with Iran?

And is Congress even in charge of the heavy handed response of the Port of Miami? Should this Congress, after 5 years of all Republican rule since 9/11, now make it so every container and truck is searched? If so, why isn't your question, "Are the Republicans ready to answer for why port security is a joke?"

Kim, I consider myself a conservative and I voted for Bush twice. But please, Bush has not been exemplary when it comes to illegal immigration.

The Islamists claim their culture is superior, but are reduced to cowering in the back of cargo trucks???

Yes, by all means, convert us all to your dysfunctional way of life. Jesus! Literally.

"Are the Democrats prepared to handle with with heavy fist? I seriously doubt it.

Kim,

You always manage to inject a degree of obtuse historical ignorance into your otherwise adequare reporting. The credit for current state of port security is owed exclusively to the current administration and last congress who had virtually unlimited funds to handle homeland security and still did a terrible job with our borders and ports.

It's great that they caught these guys, but we cannot be sure how many more get in each day as a result of the "bottom of the lis" prioritizing that border/port security has gotten the past 5 years.

Kim,

I too agree with you stmt asking if Dems are prepared to handle stuff like this.

Maybe Im not as smart as I think I am, but when asked if someone 'is prepared', that to me indicates something happening in the future, not something that has happened.

We know the lib trolls will try to spin anything posted on this board, but, what exactly is it about Pelosi?reid that makes anyone comfortable with how they will handle ongoing threats?

Kim, I consider myself a conservative and I voted for Bush twice. But please, Bush has not been exemplary when it comes to illegal immigration.

And the Democratic congress will improve this situation?

The House was the main impediment to a worsening illegal immigration problem. That has now changed.

Also, let's hope this is only an illegal immigration problem.

I believe one of the incoming majority's top priorities is to implement 9/11 commission reccomendations re: port security, something largely ignored by BushCo, which is hard to believe because I'm sure there's lots of money to be made there by some cronies of the administration. What's taken them so long? Oh, I remember now, too busy invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.

I agree with Bill K. Bomb or invade somebody/someplace. Show'em we mean business.

Kim, you have a propensity for being a kneejerk rightie hack attempting to turn everything into an issue about the Democrats.

Looks like you can pick up a talking point w/ out even having to check in w/ your Limbaugh/Hannity puppeteers.

I am waiting for just one slightly challenging essay rather than your pavlovian reguritation about Democrats.

Amazing that you did not take Pelosi to task for the over-the-cliff USC football player...or are you still developing a scenario for that?

Oh, and BTW, seems that the Port is back in operation.

Remarkable how stuff like this *always* happens before Bush wants to expand his war...

Lordy, blackcat77, please tell me you were kidding. If not, you're starting to sound like the lunatic DUers.

Kim, if only you could realize how absolutely ridiculous and desparate you're sounding these days....

Lordy Kim, tell us you're not really Alex, the Demophobic Bunny-Boiler.

Even more remarkable is waiting for the fantasy liberal-land martial law and internment camps Bush has been waiting to impose on everyone who disagrees with him.

Liberaltarians were thought of as the black-helicopter types, but you left-wing nuts are surpassing them with all your bogus conspiracy theories and all those "rights" you keep thinking are being taken away.

The poor mideasters could not afford a plane ticket....This is discrimination at its worst..

The chimp is wagging the banana again..

Why do I think this article will quickly become another Jamil Hussein moment, where a so-called outrage becomes "Never mind. My bad."

Any evening now, sometime around 6:00 pm, Kim will post the following:

Breaking: Democrats Steal Sun From Sky!

Democrats in Washington, lead by Nancy Pelosi, have broken yet another campaign promise and have stolen the sun from the sky, plunging America into darkness. I haven't found any reports on Fox News yet, but it is clear from just looking out of my flag-draped window that the sun is gone from the sky, and we all know that the Democrats in Congress are behind this!!!

Breaking.....

Yeah, breaking all right, breaking us up with laughter over this sideshow of insanity being exhibited by the wingnuts -- who were complacent and docile while their protectors were in complete plower -- but have come absolutely unhinged ever since election day.

Any chance the truck driver's name is Jamil? I'm sure Lorie is checking on that.... lol.

Frank nailed it above: "The credit for current state of port security is owed exclusively to the current administration and last congress who had virtually unlimited funds to handle homeland security and still did a terrible job with our borders and ports."

But conservative bloggers like Kim aren't really interested in matters like Homeland Security -- they are only interested in political power -- and as they lose more and more political ground to the left they've become more and more desperate with their lies and spin.

Kim,

Maybe before you haul off and make ridiculous accustations about Democrats or whomever, you should just report the event and see what is really going on.

Talk about being flagrant, jesus. This isn't a question, at this point, of what the damn democratic congress is going to do, it's a question of what the FBI, the DHS, and the Border Patrol are DOING.

Not every event has to be linked to partisan nonsense, you know.

BREAKING...Fox News has reported that the truck is 40"feet long, capable of carrying 43,000 lbs. of cargo. Could it be a 21.5 kiloton nuke????

Until something happens at one of the ports (or as a result of lax security), how can anyone say that our port security is lacking? Have any of you snuck a suitcase nuke into the country lately? I didn't think so. As you conspiracy nuts know, there is much that goes on that we don't know about. Unlike you, however, I don't think the administration is trying to take away my rights when it is protecting me. I slept well under Clinton, and I sleep well now.

BREAKING... Fox News has reported that the 3 Middle-Easterners aboard the suspect truck have been found, by the NSA telephone Surveillance Division, to have been in top-secret, underground collaboration with Martian Muslim Greys, known to be experts in explosives nuclear bomb-building technology.

The life of Brian (no pun intended), Lee, Brian, and arepukelian: Wait for every post to appear on a single coservative website, then pounce on it with every ounce of energy in the comments section. Amazing! Do you guys ever go anywhere?

Mentioned Brian twice. Think I meant Hugh. Oh well, now comes a raft of posts about how stupid I am!

As usual, the faux outrage of the day is never mind, nothing to see here. I can't get enough of the best unintentional comedy site on the Internets!

The Jamail Hussein moment consisted of finding out about his lies. Nice try Lee, but no cigar.

And no, the democrats don't have the balls to handle any of this. They are only good at putting something together like a minimum wage hike. With real national security issues, they are a big ball of estrogen.

BREAKING... " At no time was the port closed...either for cargo or passenger operations."

So much for Fox News which has reported all sorts of inaccurate versions of the news this afternoon.

No weonder that Wizfools are so egregiously misinformed!

Kim...switch channels lest you appear to have become Alex- the Bunny Boiler.

I detect sock puppetry with the new names here, arpubeklican, etc. The wackjobs love our blog, don't they?

Pathetic they have to hang out here and over-post the crap out of threads, instead of DU, etc.

Your right Mitchell!

I used the name Rahm Emmanuel to be funny & be a lib for once!

It was very enlightening being a sockpuppet!!

mitchell, "Our blog". Oh, brother! It's the Wizbang crew's blog and all real comments are good comments. Goose egg= No Good!

What's taken them so long? Oh, I remember now, too busy invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.

Ignorance like this must be bliss. Regardless if it had anything to do with 9/11, Saddam has had a history of two things: supporting/funding terrorists and using chemical weapons.

The next time I hear some lefty whine about how we should intervene in darfur or some other place they deem we need to be hands on for human rights, we should point to the millions of people Saddam killed, maimed and tortured (and those via proxy providing money/shelter to the PLO, Abu Nidal and YES, al qaeda) and then ask where the hell were you guys?

You trolls are both sad and pathetic.

Your funny sockpuppet #2!

Is Your birthday on the 14th too?

I gamble but I dont do drugs.

How old am I? iF yOU WERE REALLY mE yOU WOULD KNOW? doodoodoodoodoodoo

Sockpuppeting is fun. I generally have to snort a bunch of dope to get into it, but immitatting these democrappies sort of gives me a hard on...well..that could be the meth too, I cain't never tell.

Very funny, Beaudreaux. You've just been banned for posing as another real Wizbang commenter. To the rest of the liberal trolls: you're welcome to dissent all you want to anything I say, but I will not tolerate anyone posing as another real Wizbang commenter.

Kim, Trolls??? I thought a troll was one who linked "Russian Lolita" to a 300-pound German skank. Or is that a spammer? I'm confused.

Steve of Norway who posted, "supporting/funding terrorists and using chemical weapons."

Do you ever know what you are talking about? Yep, Saddam coughed up $25K to families of DEAD palestinian suicide bombers & yes, he used the chemical weapons that Reagan/hand-shake Rummy passed out to him. If that is grounds for getting 3000K+ Americans killed & getting this country into his quagmire, then you are one sicko.

Go off, volunteer, and ride into Baghdad on the gun-barrel of a US tank, if you believe so much, you f__king CHICKENHAWK P.O.S.

..sad and pathetic?...regardless of (whether) it had anything to do with 9/11/...thanks for making my point.

After the unspeakable tragedy of 9/11, our fearless leader elected to invade and occupy a country that had no part in the attack, although he did his best to conflate the unrelated issues. Terrorism=evil, Saddam is evil, what are we waiting for? No proven connection. None. He invested comparatively little in terms of port/border security, largely due to the sucking of US capital into the Iraq debacle.

aRepukelican,

I'm getting sick and tired of your nasty comments toward other commenters. So far you've offered nothing of any substance to the debate. Instead the only thing you've contributed is some of the most putrid name calling I think I've ever seen. If you can not offer anything more than what you have so far, then I suggest you hit the road and find another website willing to put up with you. If you want to continue to have commenting privileges here, I suggest you shape up. If I don't see any improvement in your comments in my threads, you're outta here.

Have I made myself clear, buddy?

Ever notice that on lib bogs, dissenting opinions are deleted yet libnuts come here, and other conservative blogs and prove over and over again all of the things they truly lack in life.

Hardly, Kim...

Some of the more putrid, personal attacks have been from the likes of _Mike_, Rob_la_ca, scrapiron, lord ragschaft, jhow66, and any number of the other wiztards and trolls.

You just don't like what he has to say. So ban him. Establish your free speech zone. Any opinion you like as long as it's yours...

Most of the folks you call trolls were speaking out against the Iraq war, when you were out beating the war drum.

I feel sorry for your brother-in-law's family. From what I read, he was a quality guy.

To the extent that you worked against the war, or you advocated for war, you are proportionaly responsible for the death.

YOU are personaly responsable, Aunt Kim, for why "daddy" didn't come home for Christmas.

THAT clear enough for YOU, buddy girl?

Kim

Sorry for my intemperate reply to Steve of Norway.

I will attempt to respect your parameters.

Thank you, aRepukelican. You can respond to me as you want (within reason, of course) because I put myself out there by blogging, but to call another a chickenhawk POS is out of line. I will be enforcing these rules toward all commenters by the way.

This is to all commenters: recently, comments around here have deteriorated into a nastiness free-for-all and that must change. We can disagree with each other without being so disrespectful.

Two things. Have any of you lefties followed the investigation of the papers/documents captured during the invasion of Iraq? There are hundreds of incidents that prove a direct connection between Saddam and the terrorists on 9-11. People are so stupid they won't believe anything that has been proven because it doesn't fit their Left wing anti-american ideas. I believe an order issued by Saddam in July 2001 to attack Americans and American interest around the world will eventually be proven the order to attack on 9-11. Eventually proven will be too late for the millions that will die as a result of the cowardance of the dhimmi's. The number alaughtered by Islam with the help of the dhimmi's may even exceed the number (3 to 5 million) the dhimmi's got slaughtered in Southease Asia since the weapons of today are more effective.

The incident in Miami proves once and for all that no one that cannot speak and read english should be allowed to drive on the highways of America. The left wingers will change their mind one at a time as their family members are killed on the highways.

Scrap,

Im sure libbies will argue for an Iraqi connection with the OKCity bombing, but anyone paying attention that day wil remember the 1st APB was for a middle eastern man.

The Third Terrorist a book by Jayna Davis, a local TV reporter who was very unhappy with the shoddy investigation by Reno-Freeh, pursued info so much the FBI eventually consulted her.

Why did Klinton-Reno call off the APB for a middle eastern man, and what did they hide?

There are terrorist threats, but this isn't one of them; we need to remember to get the facts first, even if that takes a little time.

"Incident at Miami port just 'miscommunication,' authorities say"

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/16406400.htm

No one can say at this time whether this is a terrorist threat. It could be a probe of defenses to evaluate our responses. Or it could be "bad communication." Or it could have been part of an operation that was indeed thwarted.

Having been placed face down on 140 degree foreign concrete with a nervous 18 year old holding a loaded M-16 at my head because some jerk-off didn't relay the right number of folks in my vehicle, I can relate to security responses to "miscommunications."

Its good to see port security does handle these situations rather than ignore them.

"No one can say at this time whether this is a terrorist threat."

Perhaps, but the authorities now seem to be discounting that. We should wait for more facts before getting alarmed, or concluding decisively that there was not threat. The best indication we have from the authorities is that no charges will be filed and that there was no threat. But, for the final word, we'll need to wait for the final word...

Much ado about nothing. It's days like today when I am embarrassed to be an American. I saw the "breaking news" on Fox this morning, flipped it off, and had a great Sunday. The rest of you should have done the same. A great country like ours shouldn't be afraid of our own shadow. These sorts of feeding frenzies are exactly what the terrorists want.

I do not comment here often, but this is a daily read for me.

Kim, I would like to apologize in advance for what I am going to say, but I do feel that this needs to be addressed. I am sorry.

Posted by: John at January 7, 2007 09:02 PM
John, or whomever you may be (or want to be).
That comment was completely off the charts.
Yes, there are many back and forth pokings and proddings on these blogs, but you should be ashamed of yourself!
Attacks do not get more personal than that.
Obviously, you are as ugly on the inside as your post suggests.

Kim,
I would also like to say that I am so sorry that this scumbag John felt the need to be so horrible to you.

Melissa,

Go ahead and appologise to the person who feeds you this kind of crap day in and day out...

Kim writes... Just great. Now we have those who work at the port sneaking illegal Middle Eastern men into the country through the ports. Are the Democrats prepared to handle with with heavy fist? I seriously doubt it.

Added: One commenter said that Bush doesn't' have a stellar record on illegal immigration. I agree whole heartedly. But this isn't just an illegal immigration issue. This is a terrorism issue, which is why the port has been locked down and the FBI and the police are all over this. The Democrats are not strong on terrorism and national security issues.

By the way, I don't attempt to make my living by lying to you.

ahh a-hole if Your going to impersonate Me do it right!

You are not capable of hurting My feelings ..so go impregnate some other blog with your pre-adolescent rant..

By the way?? who spared you the .09 to use the computer at plastic pelosis house?? you gelfling!

Just a reminder -- it takes two to tango.

Middle Eastern men? Aieeeeee! We're all gonna die! Save me!

Update: XI: What, it was another hysterical screw-up?

Oh, never mind.

People are so stupid they won't believe anything that has been proven because it doesn't fit their Left wing anti-american ideas. I believe an order issued by Saddam in July 2001 to attack Americans and American interest around the world will eventually be proven the order to attack on 9-11.

People are so stupid they won't believe anything that HASN'T been proven because it doesn't fit their right-wing anti-american ideas.

While these men may just be guilty of poor language skills and stupidity, what happened to them was the right thing to do.

And in regards to Kim's commentary in the original post, it is unfortunate that she chose to interject political affiliation with this incident when this should transcend political idealology. Kim don't you know that is the job of the liberal trolls around here (who by the way seem to be multiplying like rabbits!).

JR: My metaphor is more like a kaleidoscope of trolls: a few mirrors strategically placed, and when viewed through a pinhole all it takes is a little twisting and turning to make a few colored rocks change into endless patterns that appear to be complex and constantly changing. Almost mesmerizing...