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Scarborough is my new fave show.

The prison life shows on tonight were a little tough to watch but I think if flipping hamburgers or selling drugs illegally are my options I would flip burgers.

My childhood friend is doing time in Chowchilla for three strikes dealing drugs and she sent me a pic she took on the inside it struck me funny...it looked like a prom pic and her date was a beady eyed exotic hispanic hard looking woman with tons of make up and my childhood friend who is half Japenese and has been obese her whole life in matching purple shirts with this gal.

She is doing the end of three years. I pray that she will go straight some day she is addicted to the big bucks.

If she was straight she would make a great accountant as she kept her fathers books for his Mom/Pops store that he lost due to the drug trafficking. Sad but that is the choice she made. She has tried living a lawful lifestyle but can't stick with it. Funny thing about her being a drug dealer all these years she does not drink or even smoke pot and never uses the hard stuff that she sells.

that show was very good. but the really good guest was the middle eastern fellow who was on in the segment with Steve Emerson. He made two really good observations:

- he said AQ was short on weapons, but long on people. He said the same things we have said here: that they have to hijack or steal their weapons, if they had WMDs, they would have used them. But then he also added that AQ had many cells here in the US, that the arrests in Buffalo and Portland were of little significance. He said that AQ could conduct the same kind of suicide operations that Hamas does in Israel at any time with the people they have here, and that his read on the intel was that AQ was deciding whether they wanted to play this hand with the people they have now to discredit the recent US successes, or continue to hold those people in reserve until larger operations like 9/11 could be put into effect. Scary stuff listening to him, but it does makes me once again wonder why it is that we haven't been able to arrest and breakup more cells right here in the US.

- his second point was that the terrorists would rather hide inside the US where the legal system protects them, rather then fighting it out in areas where US forces are operating. A sad but true comment, our courts protect them when they are here, while at the same time our soldiers and intel agents are trying to kill them overseas. At some point, I think Bush is going to have to have some kind of "flash point" against the judiciary if we are going to be able to combat this domestically. The judicial branch is not going to protect us. Let's see what happens when Padilla is set to be released in a few weeks.