Some Other Inconvenient Truths

Farkers are on a roll this week. Recent right-wing moonbattyness includes the delusional reasoning that Bush and Republicans kept the nation safer than President Obama and the Democrats have. Two Fark.com posters weighed in on the absurdness of the claim with a few inconvenient truths on their side.

tweekster 2010-01-08 01:53:48 PM

* March 7th, 2008 - Bomb detonated at Times Square Recruiting center in NY.
* December 6, 2007: Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque.
* May 9, 2007: Unidentified person deliberately set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
* April 25, 2007: A package left at a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death. April 16, 2007 - Terrorism? Virginia Tech Shootings.
* September 13, 2006 David McMenemy crashed his car into the Edgerton Women's Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then doused the lobby in gasoline and then started a fire. McMenemy committed these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions, however Edgerton is not an abortion clinc.
* March 2006 - Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
* December 12, 2005: Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana.
* July 4, 2005: A clinic Palm Beach, Florida was the target of an arson.
* October 1, 2005 - Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma killing himself in the process.
* October 2002 - John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway Sniper Attacks
* July 4, 2002 - An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself.
* May 2002: Luke Helder injures 6 by placing pipebombs in mailboxes in the Midwest.
* June 11, 2001: Tacoma, Washington bombing destroys a Clinic Wall
* December 12, 2001 - Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.
* December 22, 2001 - Richard Reid attempts to bomb flight 63
* November 2001 - Clayton Waagner mails powder-laden envelopes to 550+ Clinics, is convicted on 51 counts in 2003.
* September 2001 - 5 People Killed, 17 Infected by Anthrax laden letters, $250million spent cleaning up postal facilities.
* September 11, 2001 - 15 Saudis, 2, UAEs, 1 Egyptian and 1 Lebanese Hijackers kill 2,973 persons, cost billions of dollars, and cause permenant, irreparable damages to modern societies freedoms to the United States citizens.

Pesky facts. Always getting in the way of a good plundering. Now, for a brief comparison of the Bush and Obama administrations, from another Fark poster in the same thread:

TheGhostofFarkPast 2010-01-08 03:12:43 PM

Terror Attacks Under Bush: 22

Deaths: 3010

* July 27, 2008 - Jim David Adkisson shoots two persons in a Unitarian Church
* May 5, 2008 - Pipe Bomb detonated outside Federal Courthouse in San Diego
* March 7th, 2008 - Bomb detonated at Times Square Recruiting center in NY.
* December 6, 2007: Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque.
* May 9, 2007: Unidentified person deliberately set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
* April 25, 2007: A package left at a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death.
* April 16, 2007 - Terrorism? Virginia Tech Shootings.
* September 13, 2006 David McMenemy crashed his car into the Edgerton Women's Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then doused the lobby in gasoline and then started a fire. McMenemy committed these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions, however Edgerton is not an abortion clinc.
* March 2006 - Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
* December 12, 2005: Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana.
* July 4, 2005: A clinic Palm Beach, Florida was the target of an arson.
* October 1, 2005 - Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma killing himself in the process.
* October 2002 - John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway Sniper Attacks
* July 4, 2002 - An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself.
* May 2002: Luke Helder injures 6 by placing pipebombs in mailboxes in the Midwest.
* January 5, 2002 - 15yo Charles Bishop, expressing sympathy for bin Laden, crashes his Cessna into a Tampa Florida Skyscraper
* June 11, 2001: Tacoma, Washington bombing destroys a Clinic Wall
* December 12, 2001 - Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.
* December 22, 2001 - Richard Reid attempts to bomb flight 63
* November 2001 - Clayton Waagner mails powder-laden envelopes to 550+ Clinics, is convicted on 51 counts in 2003.
* September 2001 - 5 People Killed, 17 Infected by Anthrax laden letters, $250million spent cleaning up postal facilities.
* September 11, 2001 - 15 Saudis, 2, UAEs, 1 Egyptian and 1 Lebanese Hijackers kill 2,973 persons, cost billions of dollars, and cause permenant, irreparable damages to modern societies freedoms to the United States citizens.

Terror Attacks Under Obama: 6

Deaths: 15

* Christmas Underpants Bomber
* November 5, 2009 - Ft. Hood Gunman killed 13, injured 30.
* June 11, 2009 - White Supremacist Von Brunn kills woman at Holocaust Museum
* May 31, 2009 - Dr. George Tiller Murdered
* February 4th, 2009 - West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Trent P. Pierce Chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board was critically injured in a car bombing that occurred in his drive way.
* January 22, 2009 (2 days into office) - Matthew Derosia drives his SUV into a Planned Parenthood facility

(shamelessly stolen from reddit.com)

...and shamelessly reposted by Cranky.