There are at least a couple dozen of these letters that have been sent this week and the situation only hits your radar when it's the New York Times that's affected? Why is that?

I know they don't compare in scale but these and the other letters ARE terrorist attacks. The intention is definitely to strike fear in the recipients.

So this kinda pokes a hole in the whole 'there's been no terror attacks' meme the Right likes to spout, even discounting the REAL anthrax attacks they like to conveniently forget as well.

Watchin' their clicky kitchen clocks...

They're jumpin' outta buildings!

They're hidin' behind big rocks!

"Who will do the work?"

Who will wash OUR dirty socks?

It's a way to intimidate the press, the worst kind of terrorism; whether it's anthrax or not, it doesn't matter.

The idea is to strike fear in people.

And that's what the FBI should be thoroughly investigating, not ACORN.

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/obama_threat_white_powder.php

wash my dirty socks?

Oh, it's probably going to get worse leading up to the election. Hell, somebody might even set the Reichstag on fire. Anything to destabilize things leading up to a vital election.

We know that the previous actual anthrax terrorist acts were sent with anthrax from a government lab. And we know that at least one government employee probably was involved. So who might be the source of these attacks?

hummmm

1. the government

2. some weirdo acting in a way that he thinks represents the government

3. or doesn't

4. the media giant which owns the Times

5. an opposing media giant.

There must be lots more of these possibilities. None of which matters to any of us who don't work at the Times. It is certainly diverting. Oh, maybe that is its purpose.

you think?

What jangles our national nerves

Won't one whit hurt

Danger! Danger Will Robinson!

Cries out Lost in Space robot!

It's a crisis in the McMedia making

That's what all we Uh-mericuns has got!

Some Silly sent you some Sugar Smacks

Everybody knows Trix are kids

And NY Times is for hacks...

Some might say it's Chad Castenega again, the guy who taunted Keith Olbermann last year. Or it's the late Bruce Ivins, oh wait....

An Al Quaeda website recently broadcast a message endorsing John McCain with the rationale that he would be the most likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, badly draining the US's resources while recruiting thousands of more Islamic radicals for terrorist groups. (Link to Telegraph article in my signature)

They further encouraged terrorist attacks in the US in the days leading up to the election in the belief that such attacks will frighten more Americans into voting for McCain.

I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but its... c o n c e i v a b l e these envelopes might be related. (Although the last anthrax attacks sure felt domestic.)

All I know is my head hurts.

It's the crew of the starship Exeter reduced to crystals.

anthrax?

osama audio/video releases?

al qaeda press releases?

...must be an election year with the republicans in trouble

haven't we seen this before?

sad part is it will probably work - mccain will be all over the news the next few days using the fear card to get people to turn off their brains before they vote

Given the hostility some candidates are deliberately trying to generate against the media, is this suprising? Funny how there are no administration figures out there warning us to be careful what we say when it's in the service of hostility at (perceived) liberals.

I don't know about your neck of the woods, but around here the Obama signs keep getting vandalized. It's a sad state for our freedom of speech

We know who is responsible for the anthrax attacks after 9/11 and we know who's repsonsible for these - someone in the Bush administration.

And if there was ever a real investigation into this as opposed to the bullshit investigations - it would all come out.

I should join Palin's church and make it official, since they have prophets as part of their church hierarchy!

I predicted there would be a terrorist attack to put everybody into scare mode right before the election. And I said gas would drop below three dollars. Gas is $2.50 and dropping and now this.

Now I'm just waiting for the big emergency which allows Bush to invoke the emergency rules he put into place earlier.