{"id":596,"date":"2009-01-18T14:57:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T12:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-01-18T14:58:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T12:58:41","slug":"the-next-terrorist-threat-canada-geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"The Next Terrorist Threat: Canada Geese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-597\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"Evil Geese\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/geese.jpg\" alt=\"Evil Geese\" width=\"128\" height=\"85\" \/>But for some fancy flying by Captain Chester &#8220;Sully&#8221; Sullenberger and his co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles, a menacing flock of geese would have managed to pull of the same feat that Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s gang of thugs took pains to plan and execute.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=La+Guardia+Airport&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=38.690438,62.402344&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=40.777682,-73.8731&amp;spn=0.144809,0.243759&amp;z=12&amp;iwloc=addr\">La Guardia Airport<\/a> is as close to Manhattan as an airport can get.\u00a0 It wouldn&#8217;t have taken much for that plane to kill many people.\u00a0 The geese almost got their way.<\/p>\n<p>Now it has been shown that geese can wreak havoc on our infrastructure, especially those Canada geese that crap all over the east coast.\u00a0 Probably the Canadians planned it that way.\u00a0 Blame Canada, too.\u00a0 Next we should probably invest in goose protection technologies.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/\">DARPA<\/a> is already on it.\u00a0 Harboring geese?\u00a0 Better beware.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re being watched already.\u00a0 How do you think Bin Laden managed to get them positioned?\u00a0 Did he pay them off?\u00a0 Did he seed their trail right through Queens?\u00a0 Let us flock to investigate and excoriate the guilty.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, as we evict the 43rd president from the White House, a man who defined his administration by the war on terror, who led from a place of fear, and who capitalized on the fears of others, let us shut the door on this sorry chapter of our history by endeavoring to <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-600\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Goose Poop\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/goose-poop.jpg\" alt=\"Goose Poop\" width=\"94\" height=\"84\" \/>remember the miseries we have to go through at airports, the violations of our privacy that were made in our names, the destruction of our international reputation through the reckless disregard for human rights and international law, and now goose poop, which perhaps is best cleaned up with the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, as they have no better use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But for some fancy flying by Captain Chester &#8220;Sully&#8221; Sullenberger and his co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles, a menacing flock of geese would have managed to pull of the same feat that Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s gang of thugs took pains to plan and execute.\u00a0 La Guardia Airport is as close to Manhattan as an airport can get.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Next Terrorist Threat: Canada Geese&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,9,15],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-politics","category-security","category-stupid-stuff","tag-evil-geese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}