[sspadowsky]

Interesting points, GA. I guess my beef is that, every time and without fail, they pull this "something bad may happen, somewhere, sometime, but we don't have any specific information to make us think that" shit.

Of course they were expected to do something, but Christ, they do the dumbest thing possible- implement a ridiculously huge and remarkably cumbersome and inefficient mess.

Interestingly enough, according to Franken's book, the Clinton administration proposed the Homeland Security dept. shortly before the end of Clinton's term, but the Bush administration blew it off when they moved in. Eight months and one nasty attack later, voila! They're in full support of the idea. Not that it's any less ridiculous an idea. It's just dumb later than it was intended to be.

BTW, GA, if I don't see some pics of you and the Gunny, I'm going to have to hurt you.