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1. Brian says:

   November 29, 2007 at 12:10 pm

   My taxes went up. All that has changed is there is more government in our lives and less freedom. Other than that, has not changed. The middle east is still nuts, Africa is still starving, Asia is still growing.

2. donviti says:

   November 29, 2007 at 12:32 pm

   and Leon is getting Larrrrrrgeeeerrrrr

3. G Rex says:

   November 29, 2007 at 1:21 pm

   I had to fill out a 10-page form to sign up for a cropdusting course.

4. Von Cracker says:

   November 29, 2007 at 1:25 pm

   Need to take out a 2nd mortgage to travel to Canada now! Thanks Bu$hCo!

5. disbelief says:

   November 29, 2007 at 3:51 pm

   G, are you one of those maniacs that fly bi-planes within inches of power lines in order to kill enviro-friendly insects with DuPont chemicals?

6. jason330 says:

   November 29, 2007 at 3:55 pm

   I’m paying much more for gas because 9/11 made us attack Iraq for some bogus reasons which I can’t recall right now.

7. cassandra m says:

   November 29, 2007 at 4:20 pm

   I am spending half of my work life in security lines — spectacularly ruining my productivity and generally pissing me off.

   And all of this security is largely security theater — designed to make travel look safer, not not necessarily delivering on real security.

8. Bookem says:

   November 29, 2007 at 4:36 pm

   Theres still liberals with their head in their. . .

   Too easy

9. Bookem says:

   November 29, 2007 at 4:36 pm

   Theres still liberals with their head in their. . .

   Too easy

10. disbelief says:

    November 29, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    I gladly give up my rights that were established 235 years ago and made this country the world leader until about last year.

11. Protack for Governor says:

    November 29, 2007 at 7:04 pm

    The security show at the airport is widow dressing and little more. I see it first hand every day I fly. Three bilion $$$ a year wasted.

    As for gas it is up because of that simple fact-supply and demand.

    We are still the world leader by a large stretch. Did the Middle East Leaders go to France to move the talks forward? No, they cam to America.

12. Brian says:

    November 29, 2007 at 7:20 pm

    Hi Protack, I need to correct some things in your analysis…..

    “Did the Middle East Leaders go to France to move the talks forward? No, they cam to America.”

    1. that is not quite correct they have been to Rome for meetings with the EU over the past two years and laid the groundwork for the meeting here.

    “As for gas it is up because of that simple fact-supply and demand.”

    2. Gas is up because of speculative markets not because of either supply or demand. You can see this in fortune magazine and check it out on Wall Street.

    That said, you are quite correct that “Three billion $$$ a year wasted” is really being wasted.

    And finally:

    “We are still the world leader by a large stretch.”

    In economics yes, but that margin is closing, and I want you to read the Military Commissions act 2006 and both “patriot” acts before you think we are the leaders in liberty and human freedom.

    Reagan would be going crazier than Dennis Kucinich about our stance on torture and waterboarding, and would be amazed and despise the “big state power” conservative movement. Billions in subsides to agri-business, and corporations, as well as a more rigid economic system under the “free” trade system- that politicians move into board membership of select corporations and speculative trading firms and out of to become lobbyists….

13. Jason O'Neill says:

    November 29, 2007 at 7:25 pm

    Everytime I drove home to visit family in NYC, I see the empty skyline void of the World Trade Center. I am also reminded of the heavy security at the tunnels and bridges in and around NYC.

    We must not forget the important lesson of that tragic day. America and its citizens naive to a terrorist attack. We were not prepared. We failed to learn from the 1993 failed WTC attack. We did not address illegal immigration then.

    We still have not due to career politico-crats who are more interested in self interest than the needs of this country.

14. Brian says:

    November 29, 2007 at 7:29 pm

    Terrorism is nothing to be scared of- it is a paper tiger. You my friend have nothing to fear but fear itself.

15. donviti says:

    November 29, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    protack needs to get his “simple facts” a little tweeked.

16. Brian says:

    November 29, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    “We failed to learn from the 1993 failed WTC attack. We did not address illegal immigration then.”

    This is correct, we failed to learn Reagan’s point of view, that politics “in the middle east are absurd and we should not be involved with them. We have no reason to go over there.”

    If you want them to stop attacking us we need to change our policy towards them and restore justice for both of us so we do not have an endless war on an tactic of weak and desperate people, and leave ourselves more vulnerable to attack at home.

17. disbelief says:

    November 29, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    They probably aren’t attacking us because we condone torture. Or, maybe they are.

18. Brian says:

    November 29, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    Lol…I only hope that wisdom will grow in proportion with our power and teach us that the less we use our power the greater the nation will be.

    When you read the 9/11 comission report it lays it all out there. But it does not conform with the neo-conservative constant warfare state plan. You can read all about their plan that we will be the “global police men” ala Kristol the “gaurdians ruled by an exclusive elite” ala Leo Strauss, or the “ever present revolutionary force, always attacking all enemies” ala Ledeen. Or the bankers and war-profiteers who will benefit from such a policy and against the common people who are going to suffer and die the longer their ideas are implemented.

19. cassandra m says:

    November 29, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    Reagan’s middle east view as detailed by Brian came after the Beirut barracks bombing where 241 Marines and other servicemen were killed. Reagan lobbed a few bombs off of the deck of a battleship and then turned tail and ran. Teaching those terrorists a lesson of some kind, I guess.

    Chinese competition for oil as well as availability (and lack thereof) of refining capacity does count as part of the supply and demand equation. Analysts peg the security premium of a barrel of oil at $10 – $20 per barrel. The unfortunate result of all of the current price of oil is that it gives those arrayed against us plenty of funds for their cause.

20. donviti says:

    November 29, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    cassandra,

    you’d think a wanna be Governor would know that wouldn’t you?

    seriously mike stick to flying planes

21. Steve Newton says:

    November 29, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    9/11 made me have to stand in line today in the Philly airport behind a man who obviously has not changed his socks since then.

    9/11 has cost me the lives of two friends in Afghanistan (I won’t count the ones in Iraq against it).

    9/11 created both a cottage industry in national security consulting (some of which, I admit, I collected on) and a general willingness of my fellow citizens to give away my civil rights in exchange for the illusion of protection.

    9/11 has given me countrymen/women who are markedly more hostile toward anyone with darker skin, foreign accents, or a different faith

    And

    9/11 forced me to explain to my twins, who were then in kindergarten, and to continue to try to explain to them, why so many people want to kill us and each other.

    Hopefully, some day, I’ll come up with a satisfying explanation.