When asked if she will insist that Muslim women wearing hijabs must go through full body pat downs before boarding planes, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano did not say yes or no, but told CNSNews.com there will be “adjustments” and “more to come” on the issue.


If anyone should be scanned or otherwise searched it should be Muslim men and women.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?...ted;photovideo

...are you trying to put something together that can reach Georgia?

Concensus seems to be that the mystery plume belongs to an airplane and the military doesn't know what it is but they know it wasn't a missile...hmmm.

My wild speculation is that it's a new cruise missile disguised to look like and have the radar signiture of an airplane and it was fired from a Chinese submarine. Better crank up the defense spending.

As an aside, how many of our submarines do you think are now headed to the vicinity "just in case?"

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ations/?page=1

The article is about a Pakistani born American that allegedly intended to help al Qeada only he wasn't talking to a/Q, he was talking to FBI agents posing as a/Q. The article makes it sound like the FBI agents contacted him, gave him assignments to conduct surveillance and then arrested him once he completed them. Their actions seem very close to entrapment. It will be interesting when more of the story gets out.

One of the skills neccesary to become an effective politician is the ability to say one thing and mean something completely different, or even better, to be sufficiently vague that no one can nail down exactly what you mean. I would like to compile a list of political euphemisms as a service to those participating in the upcoming election. I'll start with a few of my favorites:

Invest or investment - That's when they want to take your money and spend it on something.

Reform - The act of taking bad legislation and making it worse by making it more complex, expensive, inclusive, exclusive, etc.

Consensus - When experts can't agree on a politicians point of view then the politicians seek the consensus of non-experts for support.

Fair - If something is "fair" it produces equal results and thwarts equal opportunity. If sports were "fair" every game would end in a tie.

This is an interesting article I heard discussed on the radio yesterday; I condensed it from the original piece by By KT McFarland. I tried not to change the context of any part of the original piece.
Published October 19, 2010 | FoxNews.com

Poll after poll shows Americans are sick to death of character assassination campaigning. But candidates still do it, with increasing frequency and viciousness. Why? Because negative campaigning works. Not because it convinces us to switch our vote from one candidate to the other, but because it convinces us not to vote at all. That’s the dirty little secret of modern campaigns – it’s all about turnout – if you can’t get people to vote for you, at least you can stop them from voting for the other guy. If you can get more of your opponents’ supporters to stay home on election day, than he does of yours, then you win.

Every year fewer of us vote. Good candidates don’t want to stand for office, for fear the snarling pack of dogs will tear apart their families and their good names. We elect leaders that few of us like, or agree with, or admire. We have to hold our noses when we pull the voting lever. And what’s the result? We’re starting to hate them all – throw the bums out is the most popular slogan of our times.

So how to do away with the negative campaigning that is a cancer to our system? We can’t make it illegal without infringing on free speech. But we can undercut its effectiveness. What if everybody had to vote on election day, or pay a fine if they didn’t? Candidates wouldn’t bother with negative campaigning, because it wouldn’t work. It feels un-American, somehow, to force people to vote. We don’t like compulsory anything, much less compulsory voting. That’s what they do in Australia, Chile and Singapore, where voters get fined for not voting. The price is less than they'd pay for a a parking ticket, but it gets some 90% of their people to the polls, as opposed to less than 20% in our own primary or off year elections. And if they don’t like any of the candidates, they can leave their ballots blank.

And, guess what? In those countries the very best people run for office, there is very little negative campaigning, and their election season is mercifully short.

Kathleen Troia "K.T." McFarland is a Fox News National Security Analyst and host of FoxNews.com's "DefCon 3."

sound advice applicable to many situations.

When my kids were a little younger I had a "No one-on-one" dating policy. My kids could go out with friends, friend and parent(s), but they could not go on a date alone with someone of the opposite gender.

A while back I caught my boy and his girlfriend at the time scheming to go to the movies, just the two of them. I uncovered this plan by listening (paying attention) to him when he talked about his plans and by reading a note I found in his pocket as I was doing the laundry. My wife called the parents of one of the friends they said they were going to meet up with and confirmed that their boy had no plans to go to the movies with them and then we called the girl's parents to let them know what was going on. They too were told that our kids were going with a group of mutual friends.

I asked my son about the whole deal and he said everyone that initially said they would go out backed out at the last minute, which I believe.

I related this to another parent in the office lunchroom that was curious about a note she found in her daughter's pocket. The difference being she wouldn't read her daughter's note because she didn't believe in "spying on her own children." An interesting discussion ensued and sides formed along gender lines; the guys said they would read the note and the women said they would not. I thought this was interesting because I had no reservations whatsoever about reading the note.