Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

A bit wordy for basically saying (cutting to the chase) Keep Government out of business, commerce and industry. It can only do harm. Let the free markets work and sort things out as they will surely do. Treasury bonds aside, the business of exchange of buying or selling of commodities is best left to business. Especially in these times when you have multi million dollar lobbyist currying special favors in just about every flavor covering all corners of Washington DC. It really did not appear that Congress could muster a backbone in the whole entire lot of them… It was the leadership that was clearly abysmal but in spite of it all (Terrible leadership from the top down) Congress did the “Peoples” business and protected the peoples dollars from the foolishness, and folly that landed the markets in their present unpleasing situation. Sure things will always fall upon the little guy the hardest… But today was one of those rare moments that Americans prevailed over special interest. But in a larger sense it was The Constitution… A victory for Freedom! Simply amazing.

The Untied States House Of Representatives doing a fine job in a defining moment… Something of a divine intervention no doubt.

MPs warn over air security checks
by BBC Reports–
Heightened security checks at airports could create a potential new target for terrorists, MPs have warned.
A report by the Commons transport select committee said queues of hundreds of passengers in cramped spaces could become a security hazard.

The committee recommended that reducing queues at security and speeding up check-in times should be a priority.

The Department for Transport (DfT) said baggage security rules introduced last August met “a very real threat”.

The reasons why we are losing the war on terror are clear to all but the most menial of minds… The administration has lost popular support on all fronts because of ham fisted half measures and a policy enforced upon the flying public by an army of minions.

One would not venture to say how airport security has affected the flying public in the UK… (I dare say that, at least in the UK, only the cream of the crop is selected for security services). But here in the US flying has become a nightmare to the public. We find that an army of the mentally challenged have taken station over our most important municipal centers (our airports) in addition the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is compiling secret databases on the flying public despite repeated warnings by the United States Congress to stop in this illegal action. The ones who are in charge of operations have little more than a high school diploma and some even have criminal records. They make a mockery to all who are associated with security services and become a hazard to the flying public more than any terrorist possibly could, and are loath and despised by any who must endure fools…

Those who’s duty its is to secure areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan must know that the incompetent actions of those few left in charge of our most important urban security assets are a direct reflection upon public sentiment on our war effort abroad. The TSA has been a catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina proportions and should be disbanded immediately if our foreign policy efforts are to enjoy any measure of success. It is obvious to any who understands the workings of a modern democracy that a war effort will NEVER succeed unless it maintains the popular support of the people (at least in the government houses). As to the war on terror, the TSA remains the terrorist greatest ally more than even Osama Bin Laden. The only prudent move is to abolish the TSA as soon as funding expires.

Is a sacred day in most any year but this year particularly demands a special pause… Men, our sons, fathers and mothers are once again dying in numbers that should strike a cord in the hardest of hearts… In a hostile and increasly unpopular war, doing what they were ordered to do. Fight for our freedom, they deserve better. Not just from the country that sent them into harms way but from the leadership that has somehow managed to stall and drive this nation into an ever weeping field amuck.

First of all let me be clear, I for one never bought into any of this prade of lies that carried us into this field far astray from our founding fathers… But now that we are there and about to lose whatever is left of our self respect as a nation I feel it is incumbent to do all we can, as Americans, to avoid a widening Catastrophe that the present administration seems to have little problem in finding at every turn… Or so it seems it finds them. Never the mind that we could (The United States of America that is) fight this war for another 50 years if, that is “IF” we found the proper political will and motivation. It is clear, at least in my mind, that the present leadership is fairly oblivious to this fact but content to trudge on aimlessly into the ever darking field of their own void stupor.

Now, to just about everyone else in the free world its clear a change in direction should be followed by a change in Policy… It IS NOT winning a War but securing a Peace that is imperative. The change (the troop surge) cannot find a suitable outcome unless some one is at the helm that the people and more importantly the “people” in Congress feel we can trust… And its not “Condi” Rice at the World Bank

My short list in the best of all possible worlds is General Colin Powell, James Baker, or Sam Nunn. I’m sure it’s a bit much to ask of anyone but I think General Colin Powell deserves an apology from this administration and an opportunity to set the historical record right once and for the entire world to see. Would he take on such a awesome responsibility… Anyone else with an ounce of common sense would, in all probability pass, but General Powell has uncommon sense and the duty of a solider. The President should be man enough to admit that mistakes were made and offer the General the opportunity to set things right… He deserves it, the country deserves its, and lord know our soilders in the field need to know that they have “THEIR” man making the calls instead of a yes, man or woman. The World Bank needs a new direction and securing a peaceful future for all nations should be at the very top of everyone angenda. How about the real fight to save our planet from global climate Catastrophe… God bless America!

I’m sure there are none more compelled to find a solution to the present delimma than Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen John McCain and Sen. John W. Warner. Perhaps these men might set the President’s ear on fire. Lord knows we do not need another Vietnam.