I'm reading it. and having trouble believing it...

[alexpgp]

From CNN.com:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.

In a bulletin sent Christmas Eve to about 18,000 police organizations, the FBI said terrorists may use almanacs "to assist with target selection and pre-operational planning."

It urged officers to watch during searches, traffic stops and other investigations for anyone carrying almanacs, especially if the books are annotated in suspicious ways.

About the only way this makes sense is if the FBI knows for a cold hard fact that there's one particular almanac out there that needs to be found. Otherwise, the more I turn this around in my mind, the more I am convinced that this is a ploy to have Congress allocate emergency funds for anti-terror recruitment so that the idiots that promulgated this idiocy can be replaced, and quickly.

Ye gods.

Cheers...

Comments

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

hey there, citizen,
wot's that book you have there?

*cue sinister music*

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Someone's an idiot. Like that's a surprise. Bureaucrats - can't trust'em, can't shoot'em ;)