Found this to be pretty interesting:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

Basically, there's been 13 times over the past 5 years where some sort of news which would be detrimental to public oppinion about George W. Bush and his campaign came out. Coincidentally, there's also been 13 times over the past 5 years where the terror level went up, most of these times for later-proved-bogus reasons.

You be the judge I suppose.

former Secretary of Homeland Security Ridge

*yawn*

more conspiracy from a FORMER something or other?

Umm ... who knows more about the Department of Homeland Security? Blearchie or Tom Ridge?

Your damn if you do and damned if you dont. Any possible flinch by terrorists needs a reaction.

They gotta keep us scared and not let us forget to be scared. :(

"Basically, there's been 13 times over the past 5 years where some sort of news which would be detrimental to public oppinion about George W. Bush and his campaign came out."

There's only been 13 times in the last 5 years that detrimental news came out about George Bush and his campaign??? Who would have thought he was doing so well.

I wonder if it would be considered detrimental to the public opinion of the Bush administration that the Supreme Court is hearing arguments to relax the governments ability to retaliate against whistle-blowers.

The Bush folks are pressing the Supreme Court for a decision which would make it more difficult for whistle-blowers to file suit for retaliation. If this puts them in a bad light, will we be getting another terrorist threat warning soon?

Guess we'll have to watch the bloggers and see.:rolleyes:

They already demote whistleblowers, what more do they want? Firing squad?

If protecting whiste-blowers in our government has come before the supreme court, I don't even know how to describe the utter failure of our democratic process.

If protecting whiste-blowers in our government has come before the supreme court, I don't even know how to describe the utter failure of our democratic process.

It sounds like the issue on the Bush side is keeping the privacy of some government work versus the opposition's argument regarding concealing government misconduct. According to the news article there was a "lively" one hour session yesterday discussing the matter, with the justices seeming conflicted on where to draw the line on the First Amendment freedom of speech protections.

Better yet, let's stick our heads in the sand even more. Yanno what I'm saying? Good lord the world has to love us if we ignore their hate of the things we were making work.

Jesus banana in a cup folks, you think they just started to hate us in the last 8 years?

Wake up....

Fandros