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		<title>By: Koowie</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/07/12/critical-infrastructure-database-full-of-useless-junk/#comment-20874</link>
		<dc:creator>Koowie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 00:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank God they remove the color codes.  That was stupid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank God they remove the color codes.  That was stupid.</p>
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		<title>By: Two years of Homeland Stupidity - Homeland Stupidity</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/07/12/critical-infrastructure-database-full-of-useless-junk/#comment-10222</link>
		<dc:creator>Two years of Homeland Stupidity - Homeland Stupidity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] And the government, being what it is, can&#8217;t help but screw things up. Consider the National Asset Database, being used to determine what needs to be protected from terrorist attack. It&#8217;s full of poor quality data, or rather, useless junk like Old MacDonaldâ€™s Petting Zoo, a Kangaroo Conservation Center, Jayâ€™s Sporting Goods, several Wal-Mart stores, Amish Country Popcorn, and the Sweetwater Flea Market. Mere hours after publishing this, I was on talk radio legend Brad Messer&#8217;s radio show for a half hour talking about it. Even so, you still probably missed it. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] And the government, being what it is, can&#8217;t help but screw things up. Consider the National Asset Database, being used to determine what needs to be protected from terrorist attack. It&#8217;s full of poor quality data, or rather, useless junk like Old MacDonaldâ€™s Petting Zoo, a Kangaroo Conservation Center, Jayâ€™s Sporting Goods, several Wal-Mart stores, Amish Country Popcorn, and the Sweetwater Flea Market. Mere hours after publishing this, I was on talk radio legend Brad Messer&#8217;s radio show for a half hour talking about it. Even so, you still probably missed it. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: buff daddy</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/07/12/critical-infrastructure-database-full-of-useless-junk/#comment-10221</link>
		<dc:creator>buff daddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let me clarify my previous comment a bit since re-reading it today doesn&#039;t seem as &quot;intelligent&quot; as it did when I first wrote it!

There was obviously a reason why somebody decided to include these &quot;irrelevant&quot; sites in this database, and regardless of whether they were puposely chosen or accidentally included, they do deserve to be there.

The citizens of the &quot;Allies of Freedom&quot; (or whatever the slogan is) have a similar profile (or stereotype, if you prefer) of what makes a terrorist a terrorist.  They hate freedom with a passion, they hate all religions except their own, they&#039;re psychotic and insane, they&#039;re stupid people and single-minded and they have no compassion, empathy or morals whatsoever.  If this a fair statement, then what does that mean to us &quot;infidels&quot; since we&#039;re the target of their hatred?  Since their group&#039;s numbers are small and their resources are even smaller, they will try to get the most out of what they have, right?

A casino is a perfect target for a terrorist because it has four things:  1. Thousands of people in one building, 2. The mortal sin of gambling, 3. The freedom for people to sin and 4. The devestating financial impact on the economy on both a federal level and a state level.

An amusement park also has the perfect combination of population, freedom and children.  We&#039;ll be pissed off if you kill two thousand people, but what would be the social impact of killing 2 thousand children?  Not saying they would, but if we believe they have no compassion or morals then why couldn&#039;t we believe they&#039;d do something like this?

Again, Wal-mart and similar type stores has become the new &quot;Face of a Free America&quot; that we display to the world today.  Whether anybody likes it or not, the fact that Wal-Mart is a MAJOR factor on many levels of our current economy makes them a very inticing target for &quot;destruction from within&quot;, the same reason for choosing the WTC.  Wal-mart has more employees on it&#039;s payroll than any other corporation, and right now our unemployment rate is a little shaky right now.  It&#039;s like killing two birds with one stone, so to speak, by making people afraid to shop and reducing the amount of jobs for employement.  Everybody has this notion that Wal-Mart is an evil empire and they&#039;re taking over the country, but the truth of the matter is that they&#039;re the &quot;heart and soul&quot; of our CURRENT economy and if they&#039;re gone in a blink of an eye, we&#039;re screwed!  You can&#039;t create all those jobs AND entice consumer spending quickly enough to prevent an economic disaster!

I don&#039;t want to hit on every specific company sited above, but you should get the idea.  If we have a Critical Infrastructure Database with opinion-based entries, then it WILL be useless.  I am not concerned about what happens to a Wal-Mart store in Boise, ID, I am terrified about the possible social impact a terrorist bombing of a Wal-Mart store in Boise, ID would have when people start asking themselves &quot;If IDAHO isn&#039;t safe from a terrorist attack, is ANYPLACE safe in the US anymore?!?!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me clarify my previous comment a bit since re-reading it today doesn&#8217;t seem as &#8220;intelligent&#8221; as it did when I first wrote it!</p>
<p>There was obviously a reason why somebody decided to include these &#8220;irrelevant&#8221; sites in this database, and regardless of whether they were puposely chosen or accidentally included, they do deserve to be there.</p>
<p>The citizens of the &#8220;Allies of Freedom&#8221; (or whatever the slogan is) have a similar profile (or stereotype, if you prefer) of what makes a terrorist a terrorist.  They hate freedom with a passion, they hate all religions except their own, they&#8217;re psychotic and insane, they&#8217;re stupid people and single-minded and they have no compassion, empathy or morals whatsoever.  If this a fair statement, then what does that mean to us &#8220;infidels&#8221; since we&#8217;re the target of their hatred?  Since their group&#8217;s numbers are small and their resources are even smaller, they will try to get the most out of what they have, right?</p>
<p>A casino is a perfect target for a terrorist because it has four things:  1. Thousands of people in one building, 2. The mortal sin of gambling, 3. The freedom for people to sin and 4. The devestating financial impact on the economy on both a federal level and a state level.</p>
<p>An amusement park also has the perfect combination of population, freedom and children.  We&#8217;ll be pissed off if you kill two thousand people, but what would be the social impact of killing 2 thousand children?  Not saying they would, but if we believe they have no compassion or morals then why couldn&#8217;t we believe they&#8217;d do something like this?</p>
<p>Again, Wal-mart and similar type stores has become the new &#8220;Face of a Free America&#8221; that we display to the world today.  Whether anybody likes it or not, the fact that Wal-Mart is a MAJOR factor on many levels of our current economy makes them a very inticing target for &#8220;destruction from within&#8221;, the same reason for choosing the WTC.  Wal-mart has more employees on it&#8217;s payroll than any other corporation, and right now our unemployment rate is a little shaky right now.  It&#8217;s like killing two birds with one stone, so to speak, by making people afraid to shop and reducing the amount of jobs for employement.  Everybody has this notion that Wal-Mart is an evil empire and they&#8217;re taking over the country, but the truth of the matter is that they&#8217;re the &#8220;heart and soul&#8221; of our CURRENT economy and if they&#8217;re gone in a blink of an eye, we&#8217;re screwed!  You can&#8217;t create all those jobs AND entice consumer spending quickly enough to prevent an economic disaster!</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want to hit on every specific company sited above, but you should get the idea.  If we have a Critical Infrastructure Database with opinion-based entries, then it WILL be useless.  I am not concerned about what happens to a Wal-Mart store in Boise, ID, I am terrified about the possible social impact a terrorist bombing of a Wal-Mart store in Boise, ID would have when people start asking themselves &#8220;If IDAHO isn&#8217;t safe from a terrorist attack, is ANYPLACE safe in the US anymore?!?!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: buff daddy</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/07/12/critical-infrastructure-database-full-of-useless-junk/#comment-10220</link>
		<dc:creator>buff daddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you guys only knew the true genius behind this then the LAST thing you would ever consider doing is ridiculing me for saying it...

&quot;The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you guys only knew the true genius behind this then the LAST thing you would ever consider doing is ridiculing me for saying it&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Vasiliy</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/07/12/critical-infrastructure-database-full-of-useless-junk/#comment-10219</link>
		<dc:creator>Vasiliy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, personally I can see how the Donut shop needs to be protected.  Hit that puppy at the right time and you take out most, if not all, cops in the area.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, personally I can see how the Donut shop needs to be protected.  Hit that puppy at the right time and you take out most, if not all, cops in the area.</p>
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		<title>By: Nate</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/07/12/critical-infrastructure-database-full-of-useless-junk/#comment-10218</link>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They should start another commitee to spend three years analyzing
how to improve the report.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They should start another commitee to spend three years analyzing<br />
how to improve the report.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Hampton</title>
		<link>http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/07/12/critical-infrastructure-database-full-of-useless-junk/#comment-10217</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hampton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>DHS will be too busy saving themselves to worry about anyone else, I suspect. It&#039;s up to us to do it ourselves, as it always has been.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DHS will be too busy saving themselves to worry about anyone else, I suspect. It&#8217;s up to us to do it ourselves, as it always has been.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Then again;
You had an article saying that DHS will not save you in the case of a natual disaster, Wal-Mart will.

Perhaps this database of &#039;junk&#039; is actually saying that peers will help themselves to safety.
I mean, after all, won&#039;t DHS be too busy clogging up their &#039;critical infrastructure&#039;s&#039; abilities to help anyone?

Certainly smuthering someone in &#039;safety&#039; means protecting themselves from... themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Then again;<br />
You had an article saying that DHS will not save you in the case of a natual disaster, Wal-Mart will.</p>
<p>Perhaps this database of &#8216;junk&#8217; is actually saying that peers will help themselves to safety.<br />
I mean, after all, won&#8217;t DHS be too busy clogging up their &#8216;critical infrastructure&#8217;s&#8217; abilities to help anyone?</p>
<p>Certainly smuthering someone in &#8216;safety&#8217; means protecting themselves from&#8230; themselves.</p>
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		<title>By: tangledwing &#187; Moss and mountain stream, 2 trillion dollar war, Critical database and Petting Zoos, Computing the forces of nature</title>
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		<dc:creator>tangledwing &#187; Moss and mountain stream, 2 trillion dollar war, Critical database and Petting Zoos, Computing the forces of nature</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] It is tempting to think that the people (Republicans) in charge are incompetent, that really isn&#8217;t the problem, the problem is a governing philosophy that has a world view that isn&#8217;t rational. All the decisions that are made are discussed and policies are agreed to. They know what they&#8217;re doing, Critical infrastructure database full of useless junk The Department of Homeland Security is building a massive database of critical national infrastructure to be used to determine what sites most need protection from terrorist attacks. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] It is tempting to think that the people (Republicans) in charge are incompetent, that really isn&#8217;t the problem, the problem is a governing philosophy that has a world view that isn&#8217;t rational. All the decisions that are made are discussed and policies are agreed to. They know what they&#8217;re doing, Critical infrastructure database full of useless junk The Department of Homeland Security is building a massive database of critical national infrastructure to be used to determine what sites most need protection from terrorist attacks. [...]</p>
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