[jan in Colorado]

Sinister.

I'll add despicable...thanks for the ping Fred.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Read tonight, after the perps were looting and running amok with guns. Bush debated declaring an insurrection and sending in federal troops to restore order and over ride blank Blanco objections. Legal types told him it was rioting, not an armed insurrection by the general populace and federal powers did not extend to take such action for present conditions at the time.