Crotch Bomber Studied At Australian Uni

[Little Arminius]

As long as they keep strip searching nuns, the world is a safe place.  Apparently the jackass didn't have any luggage, didn't even have a passport, and had a bomb.  He was on the big lookout list and had a name that fit the profile.  Give me a break.  Where are all the good rent-a-cops?  At the malls?  They were probably strip searching a nun when he went through.

Homeland Security, CIA, FBI, CTU, George Gollin, Obama, et al, and they can't stop a Muslim Bomber getting on a US flight! Me thinks the US Government is quite happy to see a few planes to go down - then it can continue to pontificate. Otherwise they'd get Jack Bauer on the job.

The U.S. government is presently led by the most liberal Administration since WWII and yet shows no signs of reversing the policies of its predecessor with respect to the Muslim world. The fact that Mr. O campaigned on reversing exactly those policies is somehow lost on the American public. All except the most radical left-wingers have seemingly accepted it as fait accompli. That the public gives up so easily on issue after issue (which politicians count on), sometimes it's liberals and sometimes it's conservatives, is one cultural characteristic that Americans shouldn should be ashamed of. My best guess is that it is a combination of overall material comfort and a loss of any real deeply-held beliefs.

An example of this is a comment made after the attempted Christmas bombing by my mid-30's cousin. After hearing that no one had been seriously hurt, he asked if I thought that this incident could affect the NFL playoffs (American football) in any way. Before I even answered, his older brother chimed in that he thought it was definitely possible (I didn't even bother to ask him how). Both cousins are college grads, married and gainfully employed but have world views that don't extend far beyond sports and their flat screen TV, twice yearly vacations and Hollywood entertainment.

It is largely the same on gay marriage - they don't approve of it but don't feel strongly enough about it to contact their elected representatives and make their opinions known. There is a strange indifference, they don't agree with it, consider it strange behavior but if the law is changed to allow it, they'll shrug their shoulders and return their attention to the betting line of the College Championship Game. (American football again)