Doom and gloom roundup:
The spooks aren't the only people using the Current Situation to get
all the things they've wanted for so long:
various corporate interests are
trying to as well, from opening up oil drilling in Alaska ("screw the caribou!
what have they done for us lately?") to groups trying to rush through
everything from tax cuts for the wealthy to expanded free-trade zones,
with minimal debate, as Matters of National Urgency.
Meanwhile,
a librarian at a Florida university has been
suspended without
pay for 30 days for ordering the removal of "Proud to be American" stickers
from the library's public desks. The treacherous Commie ratfink in question
said she did it as "not to offend foreign students", and that "librarians
should be neutral and not express opinions". A likely story.
Meanwhile, closer to home, apparently
Bin Liner's terrorist networks are active in Australia, and things can only get more dangerous in this part of the world.
(Or so a terrorism researcher says, anyway.)
Not only that, but those Taliban fiends are preparing to flood the market
with
cheap heroin. Is there any low to
which they will not stoop?