“I’m shocked like everyone else, but everyone knew something like this might happen one day,” said Cristina Perez, who was evacuated from the subway after the attacks. “You can’t let something like this stop your life. I don’t plan to change anything.”
About The Author

BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Save our wild salmon! Easy form
done and I hope my wingnut senators from KS, can get a clue.
CAPTION: A U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat escorts the MV Coho on a Thursday departure from Port Angeles to Victoria. Patrol boats from Group/Air Station Port Angeles escorted the ferry in and out of Port Angeles on its Thursday runs following explosions on transportation systems in London believed to be al-Qaida attacks. (Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News) – 07-08-2005
STORY:
Peninsula beefs ferry, bus security in wake of London bombings (07-08-2005)
Thursday’s terrorist bombings in London brought changes to mass transit and ferry operations on the North Olympic Peninsula. … more at link
P.S. That’s the same ferry that Ressam used to get from Canada to the U.S. in 1999 … he was part of the millenium bomb plot and was nabbed by a sharp-eyed grandmother / customs official in Port Angeles, where he took off and was chased by the local police until they got him.
the one facility in the entire country known for sure to have been successfully protected by government action.
Maybe Homeland should be sending observers instead!
The plot was aiming at LA; the people in WA now being assisted were the successful captors.
That’s funny, isn’t it. I suppose the U.S. government has to put on some kind of a show, they feel, to reassure the American people.
I think that Ressam also had plans for the Seattle Space Needle, not just California…. forget the details now.
That Pt. Angeles customs officer had had no special training or government alerts. She just used her eyes and powers of deduction.
It’s interesting that Ressam had no trouble getting on the ferry in Victoria, B.C. When I’ve gone through customs there, I thought the B.C. officers were a fairly careful group.
So I was trying to explain to someone the other day the difference in attitudes between Booman Tribune, and dKos, and why I spend more time on BMT these days. The best I could come up with was an analogy with the Matrix movies (if you haven’t seen them, this won’t really spoil anything, but you might not really understand what I mean, either).
If you imagine the Matrix as the progressive movement, dKos is more like the Architect, and BMT is more like the Oracle. Kos is more interested in things like elections, and furthering the left’s intentions through cold, calculated strategy. BMT has a more intuitive, warmer feel, where the issues themselves never transcend the humanity that they affect (and vice versa). The understanding of progressive motivations and goals is not necessarily ‘better’ on either site, just different.
What do you think?
Oh, and if I haven’t mentioned it before, yes I am a big geek.
At least it better be, because that’s what I am, and I make no pretense otherwise. It wouldn’t do any good if I tried, because my geekiness would come out sooner or later anyway; so why even bother trying?
Just to let you know, I’ve submitted a slightly edited version of your open letter to George W. Bush (I just cannot bring myself to type his stolen job title in front of him, like President Gore or President Kerry) to about a half-dozen major newspapers here in California.
I’ll keep you posted. Thanks again.
You’ll notice that nowhere in my little rant does the word “president” appear. That was by design, as we geeks like to say.
Thanks for letting me know! I’ll be interested to see if anyone decides to print it.
(Oops, sorry about the empty post…FireFox likes to auto-scroll for me at inopportune times)
I’m in the same boat (and I suspect a lot of us here are!). My geekiness will always shine through, and I guess I’m proud of it now (though that wasn’t always the case).
“By Jove Watson, I believe he has gotten it.”
I like this very much and concur with your assessment, thank you.
Ok, I admit it, I too am a Geek, my wife often wonders why I have a need for 5 computers running in our home. I just like to tinker and see what I can do to make them crash and why, as it makes me a better tech, with a broader understanding of how non-Geek’s can muck up the works.
Kevin Drum has written about soemthing that’s bugged me for quite a while and that I’ve found primarily at local TV station Web sites:
As near as I can tell, there are now more people dedicated to making the internet unusable than there are people who actually use the internet. But it was nice while it lasted.
—Kevin Drum 2:07 PM
Christopher Hitchens just came on MSNBC, and he looks scary.
Looking at a full day making sure that everything is strapped down. It occurred to me last night before I slumbered off that you may have thought that I wasn’t just teasing you about Mattman……I was only teasing you and sorry if you may have thought otherwise at any point of my teasing. I forget that this computer is only a screen, that you haven’t met me in person and you may not know when I’m kiddin around. I did go over to Kos today to check out the banning thing. Once again I ran across posting from Mattman to some who were upset. He makes so much sense and is such a kind and decent soul! I suppose in my next life I will request marriage to Mattman…..he is a cyberdude way ahead of his time though in Tracy’s opinion!!!