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PC LOAD LETTER

2011-11-07 10:58:36 AM

Department of Nudity, Groping and Sex Toy Commentary

Vodka Zombie

2011-11-07 11:00:19 AM

Bedwetters Anonymous.

And, The voting is a lie.

ZAZ

2011-11-07 11:01:32 AM

Fondlers' Bureau of Investigation

GammaGuy

2011-11-07 11:04:37 AM

UFIA

Flab

2011-11-07 11:10:19 AM

Komitet Gosudetsvenoy Bezopasnosti.

bunner

2011-11-07 11:11:51 AM

Geheime Staatspolizei

Flab

2011-11-07 11:12:05 AM

WHAR
VOTING
WHAR?
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James!

2011-11-07 11:12:42 AM

Department of things that don't sound like Hitler thought of them first?

Quasar

2011-11-07 11:14:59 AM

Department of Unnecessary Cavity Searches

GAT_00

2011-11-07 11:16:21 AM

Unearthing Fascism in America

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat

2011-11-07 11:21:06 AM

Minilove

Eddie Adams from Torrance

2011-11-07 11:27:18 AM

Bush's Big Bureaucratic Bungled Boondoggle.

/Also an apt name for the Iraq war.

bunner

2011-11-07 11:28:45 AM

Is it a bit odd that the entire Patriot Act and HSA and all this Soviet flavored crap was ready to roll within a week of 9/11?

Seth'n'Spectrum

2011-11-07 11:35:48 AM

Flab: Komitet Gosudetsvenoy Bezopasnosti.

Well, I see we're done here, comrades.

Vodka Zombie

2011-11-07 11:37:06 AM

DHS = Dreaming of Horrific Scenarios.

Rain-Monkey

2011-11-07 11:39:05 AM

The Imperial Guard, brought to you by Exxon.

/This post has been brought to you by Coca Cola.

FloydA

2011-11-07 11:47:15 AM

Security Theater Uniting Paranoids In Denial

what_now

2011-11-07 11:55:12 AM

Department of Security Theater.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat

2011-11-07 12:06:19 PM

bunner: Is it a bit odd that the entire Patriot Act and HSA and all this Soviet flavored crap was ready to roll within a week of 9/11?

"Odd" is not the word you're looking for.

NewportBarGuy

2011-11-07 01:07:55 PM

Gigantic Waste of Money That Doesn't Do Anything to Protect Us

Break them up like Ma Bell and go back to independent agencies. Maybe Sprint will buy them out.

Weaver95

2011-11-07 01:15:00 PM

MiniTrue.

Weaver95

2011-11-07 01:17:19 PM

Rain-Monkey: The Imperial Guard, brought to you by Exxon.

/This post has been brought to you by Coca Cola.

psssh. the necron codex it out. the Imperial Guard is gonna get stomped on by a wave of Monoliths.

Moderator

2011-11-07 01:23:32 PM

Flab:
WHAR
VOTING
WHAR?

Earlier comments envotinated.

muck4doo

2011-11-07 01:30:23 PM

DORA: Department of Reach Around

IgG4

2011-11-07 01:42:41 PM

Well, there's no doubt that the current name has propagandistic, Goebbels-like overtones. When it was first organized I didn't think it was really even necessary. I still think that fighting terrorism internally can be handled by the FBI (working closely with other intelligence agencies of course). Unfortunately in the last 10 years the organization has ably grown into it's name so if we ca't get rid of it all together we might as well just leave it as it is.

FormlessOne

2011-11-07 01:44:00 PM

Department of the Posterior

SDRR

2011-11-07 01:44:15 PM

KGB?

Gestapo?

Or do we have to come up with names that haven't been used already?

gtfan92

2011-11-07 01:44:32 PM

Department for the Cause of Unsolicited Boners in Airports

Allen. The end.

2011-11-07 01:45:34 PM

Minifisters.

Weigard

2011-11-07 01:45:45 PM

The Bohica Collective

Slaxl

2011-11-07 01:46:01 PM

The Centre for United National Terrorist Stopping

Because that's what they are, and anyone who disagrees is one too!!

WellBelowAverage

2011-11-07 01:46:04 PM

War Dept

justafarkingchef

2011-11-07 01:46:11 PM

The Department of WHY? BECAUSE FARK YOU THAT'S WHY.

tinyarena

2011-11-07 01:46:12 PM

Department of Security in the Homeland

pgh9fan

2011-11-07 01:46:35 PM

Department of People Who Watch Person of Interest and like to take the show to their jobs.

Tax Boy

2011-11-07 01:46:56 PM

Department of Alternative Transportation.

Making you wish you took the train since 2001.

Hypothetical Imperative

2011-11-07 01:47:10 PM

Department of Freedom Reduction

BalugaJoe

2011-11-07 01:47:30 PM

Committee for Public Safety.

vudukungfu

2011-11-07 01:47:32 PM

Pants shiatting morans hell bent on reducing our freedoms to zero and creating a new police state while screwing us out of our hard earned tax dollars while they are at it bastards.

At least it's an honest title.
The collective assholes.

Buffalo77

2011-11-07 01:47:33 PM

Under Bush: Dept of Great Americans

Under Obama: Dept of Facists

OR Vice Versa depending on your politics

Churchy LaFemme

2011-11-07 01:47:50 PM

Why bother changing the name? It's Orwellian name seems to fit just fine...

Cheesus

2011-11-07 01:48:00 PM

Slaxl: The Centre for United National Terrorist Stopping

Because that's what they are, and anyone who disagrees is one too!!

Centre? Only terrorists spell it that way.

plc5_250

2011-11-07 01:49:30 PM

Department of Redundancy Department

tgregory

2011-11-07 01:49:44 PM

Department of Do Whatever We Want By Saying it's for Safety

The Voice of Doom

2011-11-07 01:49:50 PM

Reichssicherheitshauptamt

Buffalo77

2011-11-07 01:50:19 PM

BalugaJoe

Committee for Public Safety

FTFY