who's going to tell Art?

[Original Larry]

That Isis is US'S!

[BobGrau]

Oh, thank god, I thought you meant the other thi - I've said too much. 

[Eddie Coyle]

   A CIA-Mossad collaboration hatched in 1975.

   http://youtu.be/T1qsScOtTDI

[Original Larry]

I thought for sure I would be savagely attacked. Unfortunately, I just realized I typed in about 4 or 5 NSA trigger words as I was researching for my rebuttal.
oops.

[BobGrau]

I thought for sure I would be savagely attacked. Unfortunately, I just realized I typed in about 4 or 5 NSA trigger words as I was researching for my rebuttal.
oops.

Finally got to use this! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQD2w4HU3jw

[BobGrau]

   A CIA-Mossad collaboration hatched in 1975.

   http://youtu.be/T1qsScOtTDI

Thanks for reminding me about this song, Mr C! My very own Isis (we all have an Isis don't we?) was actually born on the fifth day of may, and I do indeed manage to hold on and just be her friend.  :

[Claudius]

I love coming across threads that are lunatic fringe at best. Great humor!

[albrecht]

I love coming across threads that are lunatic fringe at best. Great humor!

Same. They can be hilarious but sometimes have some grain of truth:
http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-04-01/one-toyota-pickup-truck-top-shopping-list-free-syrian-army-and-taliban
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Isis (sort of ironic, one must admit, I wonder if their women drive these or if they transport the kidnapped girls and women to auction in these vehicles.)
http://fortune.com/2015/10/07/us-isis-toyota/ (why? See first link above and the trucks given to the Iraqi army.)
Since we know that many of those rebels we armed and trained left to join ISIS, or simply cut-and-run and left their weapons and equipment behind, it is no surprise where ISIS got many of their vehicles. Plus the amount of money they raised rather quickly (via looting, oil, sex slaves, bank robbery, money given to "rebels", etc) I would imagine there is a Toyota dealer somewhere that wouldn't mind just selling them to them.

[Claudius]

That Isis is US'S!

Explain how ISIS advances the United States' strategic goals and our national security policy?

[albrecht]

Explain how ISIS advances the United States' strategic goals and our national security policy?

Pure speculation but, if I understand some of the conspiracy theory, it further destabilizes the Middle-East, allows more defense spending and contracts for certain companies, even destabilizes or even fractures Europe (via "refugees") so that the EU doesn't become a real power-bloc, keeps fear (in some cases now real) of radical Islam so people vote and accept civil rights violation for "safety," and I'm sure there is some theory regarding oil and pipelines in there.

[aldousburbank]

Explain how ISIS advances the United States' strategic goals and our national security policy?

http://youtu.be/8y06NSBBRtY

http://youtu.be/jMnLHmTXjgU

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBZ-AOeI9Ck

[BobGrau]

Every empire needs a frontier. It's a training ground for the troops, while also keeping said troops too busy to revolt. It's also essential for an economy based on arms sales, such as ours. Plus it does wonders for the black market, smuggling, money laundering etc.

Who needs conspiracy theorys? I got the above from reading Asterix.

[Camazotz Automat]

I thought for sure I would be savagely attacked. Unfortunately, I just realized I typed in about 4 or 5 NSA trigger words as I was researching for my rebuttal.
oops.

Whispering into a microphone that only the audience can hear: Today's secret NSA trigger word is "bellgab."

Every empire needs a frontier. It's a training ground for the troops, while also keeping said troops too busy to revolt. It's also essential for an economy based on arms sales, such as ours. Plus it does wonders for the black market, smuggling, money laundering etc.

Who needs conspiracy theories? I got the above from reading Asterix.

Are you then saying that Captain Kirk's and Mr. Spock's Federation is merely corruption at warp speed?

We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill

I am devastated. As Digital Pig Snuggler might advise, I think it's high time I turned in my Tricorder.

[BobGrau]

...Whispering into a microphone that only the audience can hear...

Tautologous!

[Camazotz Automat]

Tautologous!

Show your work or your Raymond Smullyan card will be confiscated.

[BobGrau]

Whispering into a microphone that only the audience can hear: Today's secret NSA trigger word is "bellgab."

Are you then saying that Captain Kirk's and Mr. Spock's Federation is merely corruption at warp speed?

We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill

I am devastated. As Digital Pig Snuggler might advise, I think it's high time I turned in my Tricorder.

I was thinking about this, upon the stairs, and I can sum it up as follows: If you were running the Federation, would you want someone like Kirk at home causing trouble? Fuck that, keep em busy. (Spock is his handler)

[BobGrau]

I was thinking about this, upon the stairs, and I can sum it up as follows: If you were running the Federation, would you want someone like Kirk at home causing trouble? Fuck that, keep em busy. (Spock is his handler)

...So now I have a whole alternate theory worked out where Kirk is a dangerous anti-social thought criminal sentenced by creepy utopian dictatorship to wander the holodeck while they study his behaviour.

Or:

Spock is in hell.

[Original Larry]

Explain how ISIS advances the United States' strategic goals and our national security policy?

I don't know what US inc.'s strategic goals are, but US inc. seems to have NO national security policy other than harassing it's own citizens. What kind of security policy includes open borders?

[Original Larry]

Oh, thank god, I thought you meant the other thi - I've said too much. 

NOW I finally get it. Art believes 911 was an "outside job"
that's what you were referring to? or something else?

[BobGrau]

NOW I finally get it. Art believes 911 was an "outside job"
that's what you were referring to? or something else?

Yes sir, everything is a reference to 911.

[Richard Groyper]

Sterling Archer. That's what I think of every time I hear ISIS.