The Billiken's Bluff

"This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale."

-Deputy Commissioner Paul Stephenson of Scotland Yard

A news wire telegraph from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow?



Rampage police blotter SOS??

Mutants attack Champagne head towards Chicago.




How can grenades detonated on a plane(s) be referred to as unimaginable? How can 3, 4 even 5 planes exploding qualify as death on an unimaginable scale? [Apologies if this offends any of the victims, of which there were not any] If your elected government can't brainstorm attacks on this scale (US or Britain or otherwise) then what are they doing? That Big September Thing recalibrated the terror warning scale. It should now take much, much more to be referred to as unimaginable:



At least something chemical or nuclear in nature, I guess that is the next benchmark in terror. A chemical attack or a nuclear explosion in the Western world. That while imagined, still would have the power of something unexperienced previously.

The threshold for unimaginable was 5 years ago raised beyond airplane terror.

Maybe this interior minister said this in passing. But this is what media outlets have seized on to. This makes sense and a story to them, but it isn't accurate.

This is unimaginable!



and this



this



this!#$%!#$^@!



Back to red, whites, and blues... how is it that officials haven't already identified all solvents, solutions, chemical combinations and otherwise that can be made into explosives and banned them from airports? They now let you go through security without taking off your shoes. These lessons of terror should build upon one another. They are not seasonal or passing, they should be permanent. Here you go, a solution, not liquid in nature:

You walk on to planes barefoot and with no carry-on possessions, zero, maybe even in some pre-issued airplane dress like a hospital gown or prisoner uniform, you sneak nothing on. !Vyborne! Problem solved no more in-flight terrorism, the world loves us, follows suit with our innovation, Al Qaeda gives up, Israel withdraws from Lebanon and Gaza Strip and West Bank creating a lasting peace in region, Global Warming AND Global Dimming cease, Alex Rodriguez wins over the hearts and minds of NY baseball fans, and Pluto emerges from an Astro-physics conference in Prague retaining its status as the solar system's smallest planet.

:) Imagine