AMERICA’S WAR ON TERROR – Day 484
The news as reported in The Washington Times:
[Note – All links go to The Washington Times’ website.]
1. President Bush has said there will be dialogue with North Korea.
[I have to trust the President on this one. I worry we may get rolled on the nuclear issue.]
Bush promises talks with N. Korea
2. US Intelligence confirms the Iraqis are building a double-layer defense ring around Baghdad.
[It’ll do them no good. If you control the skies, you win.]
Saddam sets up defenses around Baghdad
3. The troop buildup in the Persian Gulf region will give the President the option of ordering an attack in February.
[Tick, tock, tick, tock.]
Troop buildup in Gulf enables Bush to order attack
4. On the prospect of more tax cuts for Americans, the stock market rallied yesterday.
[Time for another muffler!]
Stimulus proposal propels stocks
5. Meanwhile, the Criminal Party offered a stimulus package of their own, which was one-sixth the size of the President’s. It offers $600 tax rebates to married couples.
[Hmm. I thought the Criminal Party didn’t particularly care to underwrite and encourage marriage. No matter. Let’s do like the last time all this rolled around. Let’s take the President’s package AND add the rebate on top of it.]
Democrats map cuts of $100 billion
6. NASA is testing a “jet taxi” program that would use small jets to link the Nation’s roughly 5,400 small airports. These small planes would carry three or four passengers between small airports on demand.
[Why is the Government involved in something like this? If it is needed and can be made economically viable, the private sector will do it.]
NASA tests 'jet taxi' program to connect airports
7. Fairfax police have raided some bars and removed patrons who were excessively drunk.
[Commonwealth law has a quirk here – establishments with liquor licenses are defined in statute as public places, giving the right to the authorities to conduct such operations and arrest people for “public drunkenness.”]
Fairfax cops hit bars to cite suspected drunks
We shall not rest until we have cut a swath 60-miles wide through the entire left - taking all that is before us with us as we go. We shall leave nothing to the enemy that may be of value to him. We shall show him that he may count on nothing and will be able to keep nothing, not his spirit, not his soul, not that upon which he shall feed. We shall not cease until the moment we have rent through their entire land and have arrived at the sea, with our glorious victory upon us.
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Why is the Government involved in something like this?
I've wondered that myself. Since I've been working at NASA this past year I've heard almost no one speak of this program. The only place I've seen it mentioned is in a couple of mainstream media stories. It's running below the radar screen within NASA, so to speak.
Mr. Chairman, thanks for the story about Herndon police antic-, er, tactics in bars. My dear ancestral home, my personal home for five years... this is your most annoying side. Law and Order are fine and well, but Fairfax County frequently makes a good imitation of a police state. If you believe in rigid enforcement of every law, from murder on down to parking, then Fairfax is your place. If you believe in rational law, and rational enforcement of it, then, for example, don't try driving 5mph over the limit on the Rte. 123 overpass of I-66 on certain "collection" days. And never, ever, try to win a case over a landlord or developer. The County's unforgiving police enforcement is echoed in the courts, where the judges are ruthlessly dismissive of nuance.
Don't get edgy with this criticism, you Fairfaxans, it just is. There's an air of "enforcement" in Fairfax that pervades. It comes from the top, and from tradition.
gulfcoast6: perhaps you have some thoughts on this.