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53 Foiled Terrorist Plot Attacks – 1 got through

justinhart — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:42:37 +0000

This list is taken from extensive research compiled by the Heritage foundation. It denotes 53 terrorist attacks which have been thwarted since 9/11.

I’ll be tweeting these out throughout the day.

Plot #1: Richard Reid – December 2001 :: AKA the shoe bomber. What a mug on that guy. FOILED
Plot #2: 2. Jose Padilla – May 2002 :: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed follower. Wanted to use dirty bomb. FOILED
Plot #3: Lackawanna Six – September 2002 :: Went to Afghanistan to train. FOILED
Plot #4. Uzair & Saifullah Paracha – March 2003 :T tried to procure chemical weapons FOILED
Plot #5. Iyman Faris – May 2003 :: Blow torches to the Brooklyn Bridge plot FOILED
Plot #6. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali – June 2003 :: Planned to kill Pres. Bush. FOILED
Plot #7. Virginia Jihad Network – June 2003 :: Trained in paintball for some attack or another. FOILED
Plot #8. Nuradin M. Abdi – November 2003 :: Wanted to bomb an Ohio Mall FOILED
Plot #9. Dhiren Barot – August 2004 :: plotted to attack the New York Stock Exchange. FOILED
Plot #10. James Elshafay & Shahawar Siraj – August 2004 :: plotting to bomb a subway station near GOP convention FOILED
Plot #11. Yassin Aref and Mohammad Hossain – August 2004 :: plotted to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat FOILED
Plot #12. Hamid Hayat – June 2005 :: attended an Islamic terrorist camp in Pakistan FOILED
Plot #13. Washington, Patterson, Riaz Samana, & Kevin James – August 2005 :: Founded radical prison group FOILED
Plot #14. Michael C. Reynolds – December 2005 :: Plotted to blow up Wyoming natural gas facility FOILED
Plot #15. Mohammad Zaki Amawi, El-Hindi, & Mazloum – February 2006 :: Tried to plan violent jihad against the US FOILED
Plot #16. Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee – April 2006 :: Video taped targets for attacks FOILED
Plot #17. Gang of 7 – June 2006. :: Blow up the Sears Tower FOILED
Plot #18. Assem Hammoud – July 2006 :: Attack New York and New Jersey tunnels FOILED
Plot #19. Liquid Explosives Plot – August 2006 :: Blow up 10 US bound airliners FOILED
Plot #20. Derrick Shareef – December 2006 :: Set off hand grenades in Chicago malls FOILED
Plot #21. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – March 2007 :: The hair back man. #nufsaid. Major arrest FOILED
Plot #22. Fort Dix Plot – May 2007 :: Plan to attack Fort Dix FOILED
Plot #23. JFK Airport Plot – June 2007 :: 4 men planned to attack the New York airport. FOILED
Plot #24. Hassan Abujihaad – March 2008 :: Passed information to terrorists about the military. FOILED
Plot #25. Christopher Paul – June 2008 :: American joined jihad in Germany. Returned to plot attacks. FOILED
Plot #26. Bryant Neal Vinas – November 2008 :: Plotted to attack the Long Island Rail Road FOILED
Plot #27. Synagogue Terror Plot – May 2009 :: Plan to blow up NY area Jewish Centers FOILED
Plot #28. Raleigh Jihad Group – July 2009 :: Planned attack on Quantico FOILED
Plot #29. Najibullah Zazi – September 2009 :: Planned a chemical attack. FOILED
Plot #30. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi – September 2009 :: Tried to plant bomb in Dallas FOILED
Plot #31. Michael Finton – September 2009 :: Tried to destroy Aaron Schock’s offices FOILED
Plot #32. Tarek Mehanna and Ahmad Abousamra – October 2009 :: plan to attack malls FOILED
Plot #33. The Christmas Day Bomber – 2009 :: The panty-bomber. FOILED
Plot #34. Raja Lahrasib Khan – March 2010 :: Planned to place bomb in a stadium FOILED
Plot #35. Faisal Shahzad – May 2010 :: Attempted to bomb Times Square FOILED
Plot #36. Paul and Nadia Rockwood – July 2010 :: Planned to assassinate military in US FOILED
Plot #37. Farooque Ahmed – October 2010 :: Planned to blow up Metro (also, he was my neighbor!) FOILED
Plot #38. Air Cargo Bomb Plot – October 2010 :: Printer cartridge bombers FOILED
Plot #39. Mohamed Osman Mohamud – November 2010 :: Bomb plot in Portland FOILED
Plot #40. Antonio Martinez – December 2010 :: Planned to bomb military facility in MD FOILED
Plot #41. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari – February 2011 :: Planned chemical attack FOILED
Plot #42. Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh – May 2011 :: Planned synagogue attacks FOILED
Plot #43. Yonathan Melaku – June 2011 :: Planned DC area shootings and bombings. FOILED
Plot #44. Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif and Walli Mujahidh – June 2011 :: Planned attacks on military in Seattle FOILED
Plot #45. Emerson Winfield Begolly – August 2011 :: Tried to create biological weapons FOILED
Plot #46. Rezwan Ferdaus – September 2011 :: Wanted a drone attack on the Pentagon FOILED
Plot #47. Iranian Terror Plot -October 2011 :: Plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador FOILED
Plot #48. Jose Pimentel -November 2011 :: Pipe bomb plots in New York FOILED
Plot #49. Sami Osmakac – January 2012 :: Planned night club attacks. FOILED
Plot #50. Amine El Khalifi – February 2012 :: Plot to attack the US Capitol FOILED

Plots #51 – 53 :: Other documented attacks over the past 3 months FOILED

Plot #54 :: The brothers Tsarnaev succeed in their gruesome attack on the Boston Marathon

Ballots cast vs. turnout

justinhart — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:06:40 +0000

Of course, the base of all elections is turning out the voters to vote… so the root cause of our loss is that Obama turned out more voters than we did… but let’s dive a little deeper.

We’re getting some initial numbers on true voter turnout (% voters / eligible voters).

While total votes cast were down nationally (8.2 million fewer voters, 7.1 million fewer Obama voters, 1 million fewer GOP voters)… when you look at the swing states the numbers were not that much down from 2008 – in raw terms…

… but when you take into consideration the number of eligible voters in each state we find:

6.8% decrease in turnout across all states compared to 2008
5.9% decrease in turnout across the states compared to 2004
3.9% decrease in turnout across battleground states compared to 2008
.7% decrease in turnout across battleground states compared to 2004

In other words, the number of ballots cast nationally was lower and the number of ballots cast in the 8 battleground states was higher but the percentage of voters compared to eligible voters was lower than in 2008 and 2004 nationally, and only slightly lower across the battleground states.

Turnout was a problem but the bigger culprit is the model we employed here in Boston.

Bottom line: the political team assumed a model where the Dem turnout would be only 3 to 4% higher than GOP turnout. Actual Dem turnout was closer to a +6% higher. Across the key 8 battleground states Obama beat us by an average of 3.35% pt

In other words – had our model proven true and Dem turnout was lower – we would have won.

Chart below:

Churchill doctrine still holds true

justinhart — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:04:01 +0000

Hello all – I’m back. A sad turn of events to be sure. I’ll have more about my journey with Gov. Romney later. For now, I’ll be posting some of my analysis here on the site.

First, age. Maggie Thatcher once noted that the facts of life are conservative. Her distant predecessor, Winston Churchill put it this way: “Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and anyman who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”

I’ve played with that model a little bit below noting that 40 seems to be the breaking point here in America. To wit: if you’re under 40 you’re likely to be a liberal – over 40 – a conservative.

The Ultimate Liberal Bias Litmus Test

justinhart — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:02:10 +0000

Matthew 23:24: “Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.”

I love it when the liberal bias rears its ugly head in full view of anyone with a Google machine.

So, here’s a test: if you’re bashing Mitt Romney today for signing a guestbook in Israel and getting the day wrong by one day… did you knock Obama for getting the date wrong by three years?

Just sayin’!

Romney:

Obama’s 3-year gaffe

DIY Deficit Charting: Impress Your Friends; Demolish Liberal Arguments

justinhart — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:26:56 +0000

Mark Twain once quipped: “Get your facts straight, then you can distort them as you please.”

Have you ever found yourself debating a liberal who claims that Barack Obama isn’t the biggest spender this side of oblivion? Did you find yourself scrambling to refute the claim, frantically searching the Internet for facts to refute them? Well, fear no more… below I take you on a step by step process to demolish their claims with data from the White House’s own website. All you need is a browser and a copy of Microsoft Excel. In short: I’m going to show you how to create your own chart showing just how much spending and deficits President Obama has presided over. There will be little doubt left where things end up.

Step 1: Go to your favorite search engine and type in “OMB historical tables.” (I’d take you through the WhiteHouse.gov website but I’m afraid you’d get lost) OMB stands for the Office of Management and Budget, a supposedly independent arbiter of spending, revenues, and deficits from the Executive Branch. If the search engine gods have smiled on you, your first link should be to this URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/

Step 2: You are now looking at the official data collected from the OMB giving detailed outlays, surpluses, deficits and more going all the way back to 1789! Assuming you have Excel, click on the link for “Table 1.1—Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits (-): 1789–2017”: (on some phones you can even do this with built in applications).

Step 3: Open up the Excel file (hist01z1.xls). It should look something like this:

Let me orient you a bit to this. We’re going to be looking at columns A through D. Since President Obama is so fond of laying blame at his predecessor’s feet we’re going to compare his performance to that of President Bush.

Step 4: Let’s separate the data a little bit so we can concentrate on the last ten years or so. Here’s how we do it. Highlight all the rows from 2001 through 2012 Estimate and columns A through D with your mouse. It looks something like this:

Step 4: Copy the section by pressing Ctrl-C (or Apple-C) on your keyboard or go to Edit and Copy. Next create a new spreadsheet by going to File and New. Now click on the cell A2 (so we can give a little room at the top.) Press Ctrl-V (or Apple-V) on your keyboard or go to Edit and Paste. You should have some room at the top for the column headers in row 1. Type in Year (press tab); Receipts (press tab); Outlays (press tab); Deficits. Expand the columns a little bit if you can’t see all the numbers correctly. It should look something like this:

Step 5: This is where the fun begins. Let’s do this in one fell swoop so you can get on with your life and leave your liberal friends in the dust. Highlight everything on the page. Now hit Insert > Chart > Line Chart.

The result should look something like this:

Notice the drop in receipts from 2008 with the increased spending into 2009 (TARP and Stimulus). Now check the gap between spending (outlays) and taxes (receipts) past 2009. The gap is a chasm! Bottom line: from 2010 President Obama has presided over massive spending increases and even larger deficit spending.

Here’s a quick comparison. Over 8 years President Bush ran up $2 Trillion in deficits. Let’s leave 2009 in no-man’s land and give Obama credit for 3 years. Results? Nearly $4 Trillion in deficits.

Case closed.

Love Helps: How Relationships and Marriage Affect Health, Happiness and Finance (Infographic)

justinhart — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:03:36 +0000

Source: http://FrugalDad.com

What I’m reading today

justinhart — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:40:37 +0000

Anyone w/ a mama will cry (should cry!) RT @jennyerikson Mamas, I dare you to watch this video and not cry link
Unless Paul Ryan is stopped, Julia gets it. – link
Ron Paul continues to win delegates. – link
Gingrich: inconceivable! – link
More on Romney-Huckabee. – link
How Grenell boxed Romney in. – link
Republican crowdsourcing. – link
The Old Dominions swing status. – link
Democrats plan to dump $25 million in swing states. – link
SNL cuts anti-Obama sketch. – link
Buffett backs Obama, but not at the SuperPAC. – link
Goolsbee: Obama in the fight of his life. – link
Waking Joes comments back. – link
Did Joe Biden endorse same-sex marriage. – link
Kaine stands up with Obama at VA launch. – link
Parsing Obamas kickoff speech. – link
WashPost: Obamas less-than-stellar kickoff via – link
Ayotte blasts Obama on Iran – link
VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling: President Obama Cant Run On His Record – link
Romney has earned the GOP nomination – link
Bachmann: Romney economic record will win over female voters – link
Republican poll analysis: The race to November begins – link
Romney Issues New Video Attacking Economic Numbers – link
Ross Douthat: The party of Julia. – link
Boris Johnson: What football (soccer) teaches us about creating a thriving job market. – link
Paul Krugman: The French are revolting. The Greeks, too. And its about time. – link
Jon Huntsman: How to manage the China relationship. – link
Robert Samuelson: Battle of the beards: Paul Krugman vs. Ben Bernanke. – link
Fred Hiatt: Is democracy still up for the job? – link
The role that Twitter and microblogs played in the Chen incident. – link
ICANN is still working on restarting and testing its new domain application system – link
Hillary Clinton raised concerns over cyber-intrusions – link
A free online handbook for data journalism. – link
A middle school student’s petition asking Seventeen magazine to print one unaltered photo – link
New York City is asking for ideas and feedback on the city’s digital roadmap – link
A guide to open data for transportation agencies. – link
Amtrak conductors are going to get iPhones to scan tickets – link
NYC’s 911 system “sometimes sends firefighters or police officers to the wrong address” – link
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s bolo tie has a Twitter feed. – link
A look at the activism that stopped the Stop Online Piracy Act – link
@alicemalin That would be cool!”>link
@catholicmomva I agree… skip the commercials.”>link
Democrats are expected to make some changes to cybersecurity legislation to attract GOP votes – link
Cyber attack on the national pipeline – link
NSA looking to beef up infrastructure security – link
Romney ads: Obama isn’t working – link
FBI to companies: give us a backdoor – link
NYT looks into the Obama campaign operations – link
Nike commercial. – link
Animals will kill you in many ways. – link
From the Derby. – link
How to live unhappily ever after. – link
Ranking all 62 Stephen King books. – link
Dish Network drops AMC, because, well, no one really watches Mad Men. – link
Hollywood is Josh Whedons for the taking. – link
Satire is manna to my soul. RT @jennyerikson: The greatest thing you will read today: link
Celebrity voices crowd-out voiceover vets. – link
@malvenue You will click. ”>link
pffft. RT @stephenkruiser: Saw this at a bachelor party once…RT @justin_hart: Cigars and the Laffer Curve. – link
@csmatteson You are correct. He’ll still be here in DC.”>link
Exactly. RT @daveweigel: Why wouldn’t he? RT @justin_hart: Obama vows close ties with France’s socialist leader. – link
Cool iPad cases. – link
Facebook censorship or spam blocking? – link
The Facebook way, Zuckerberg writes, is to move fast and break things. – link
You have been hacked now, seriously. – link
Cigars and the Laffer Curve. – link
FDA user fee bill getting pushed through. – link
Americans control an increasingly shrinking portion of their health care spending. – link
Feingold v. Pelosi on Social Security. – link
Fracking rules even with new fracking rules. – link
Wind lobby tries to adapt to the Tea Party era. – link
Voters reject same sex marriage over and over. – link
Senate control cliffhanger. – link
Liberalism embodies in Elizabeth Warren. – link
24 hours left and Dick Lugar may be gone. – link
Immigration policy meltdown. – link
Mongolia election snag. – link
Crocker to NATO: Show us the money. – link
Feinstein, Rogers: Taliban is stronger since the surge. – link
Chen negotiations. – link
Election upheaval. Cameron reacts. – link
The Problem with Intellectuals – link
Robert Samuelson: Battle of the beards: Paul Krugman vs. Ben Bernanke. – link
Fred Hiatt: Is democracy still up for the job? – link
Mike Mullen and Steven A. Cohen: Keeping veterans off of the unemployment rolls. – link
Peter Hecht: Marijuana market is taking a hit in Californias Emerald Triangle. – link
Jake Tapper, et al.: How Twitter is changing politics. – link
Peter Boyer and Peter Schweizer: Why cant Obama bring Wall Street to justice? – link
Andrew Malcolm: Obama vows close ties with Frances socialist leader. – link
2012: Obama-Romney race competitive in swing states. – link
For Most Graduates, Grueling Job Hunt Awaits link
Challenge to Austerity, And Germany, Is Sharpened link

Links for today: Internet fight!; SF pro-biz mayor?; 1940 census; Tagg takes on Mad Men

justinhart — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:35:07 +0000

The Internet fight! Where do you fall on the equation? Total subsidized Internet or Big Brother controls? http://ow.ly/a37hq
A surprising advocate for business in San Francisco. Ur thoughts on Mayor Ed Lee? http://ow.ly/a37CB
Genealogists bring down servers clamoring for the 1940 census. Pure geriatric awesomeness or new young trend? http://ow.ly/a37Oe
Tagg Romney takes on Mad Men – and for good reason – it was an ugly slight. Agreed? http://ow.ly/a37Ul
So excited… really… I am… no really… Occupy.com – “Huffington Post for #Occupy” – are you? http://ow.ly/a382j
Groupon problems have people looking at regulations *sigh* - http://ow.ly/a389F
Tsup! White House 360 yo! Or something like that… http://ow.ly/a38eW
Anti-hate app on the way! Is it necessary? http://ow.ly/a38jP
A Rangel challenger emerges: http://ow.ly/a38r0
MTA opening up real-time train arrivals to developers. Cool or scary cool? http://ow.ly/a38z0
Activists on the right can learn from how the Left took down this anti-GW institute funding. http://ow.ly/a38Fm

Links from the week: Fandom marketing; Obama signing; Sarcasm Bombs; Cell-phone data; Fed Regulations

justinhart — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:10:41 +0000

Using social media to promote old media
- Using fandom to promote activism. – http://ow.ly/9OvO0
- Hollywood looking to Social Media to drum up buzz -http://t.co/fR0U1dXf

Political SocNet in the news
- Obama goes viral on sign language – http://t.co/k8w19Pkl
- NYTimes looks into the #RomneyToys meme on Twitter. Meh. -http://t.co/DJVQTQpa
- Political sarcasm bombing on Brownback’s Facebook page – http://t.co/aXI3AoMW
- Another sarcasm bomb. -http://t.co/hJFHk8Nk
- The Economist compares Facebook maps to colonial terratories -http://t.co/SXuPvV8U
- If you want free stuff, vote for the other guy? – http://t.co/SHEDSio0

Online metrics and politics
- Cell phone data, Romney, Santorum and Illinois - http://t.co/lnvTa3Ic
- Google search predicting a Romney win in Illinois? – http://t.co/KuUlA6Cz
Oddball topics
- Yikes. Wikipedia turns librarian in to geriatric porn star. -http://t.co/HW97S5ym
- Ummm. So this guy can fly like a bird apparently. #fb http://t.co/Kz31TRF7
- RT @WiredFeed: No, U.S. Mole-Men Are Not Causing Haiti’s Earthquakes: http://t.co/Ll4HEsvG
- Santorum responds to criticism about his stance on porn. – http://t.co/1icueqyE

Rant topics
- The 2011 Code of Federal Regulations in XML format is 100 Megabytes! http://t.co/DbnqNWix
- Faster, please. FAA reexamining device use on planes -http://t.co/Mly7tHKj

Feds Arrest Man Allegedly Heading To U.S. Capitol For Suicide Mission After Sting Investigation | Fox News

justinhart — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:25:08 +0000

Well this is frightening…

Exclusive: Feds Arrest Man Allegedly Heading To U.S. Capitol For Suicide Mission After Sting Investigation | Fox News.