{"id":1926,"date":"2009-12-28T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/28\/2009-12-28-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-nigerian-wiener-bomb-update-html\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T03:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T03:53:00","slug":"2009-12-28-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-nigerian-wiener-bomb-update-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/2009-12-28-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-nigerian-wiener-bomb-update-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaunty Dumptruck O&#8217; News: Nigerian Wiener Bomb Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akc.org\/breeds\/dachshund\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/92\/Dachshund_from_1915.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"a picture of a dog instead of an actual picture related to the event described in the following text. you're welcome.\" \/><\/a><br \/>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been paying attention to the news over the last few days, but returned to learn of 23-year old Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab&#8217;s attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane over Christmas<emdash>with a package of plastic explosive attached to his, um, package. Sure, the passengers did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/27\/us\/27plane.html?ref=us\" target=\"_blank\">a heroic job<\/a> of halting Mr. Abdullanutjob&#8217;s attempts to correct the problem of his bomb not properly blowing up his crotch, but the Secretary of Homeland Security spent the day on the Sunday chat shows saying that &#8220;the system worked&#8221;? I suppose Secretary Nepolitano has a point, if the system now consists of malfunctioning devices and passengers needing to forcibly subdue terrorists to save their own skins. It appears that there&#8217;s now no need for TSA in this new system, which is good if they&#8217;re going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/27\/us\/27security.html?_r=2&#038;hp=&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1261908070-9t4+DD7tycS6XWxyLuJEFw\" target=\"_blank\">increase security to such an extent<\/a> to close this particular barn door.<\/p>\n<p>Heckuva job, Janet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I haven&#8217;t been paying attention to the news over the last few days, but returned to learn of 23-year old Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab&#8217;s attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane over Christmaswith a package of plastic explosive attached to his, um, package. Sure, the passengers did a heroic job of halting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/2009-12-28-jaunty-dumptruck-o-news-nigerian-wiener-bomb-update-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jaunty Dumptruck O&#8217; News: Nigerian Wiener Bomb Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-dangerous-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}