Have we completely lost our minds?

[TreasonousBastard]

Almanacs, airspace over Vegas, duct tape, Canadians not born there must have special visas, journalists must have special visas...

It goes on and on, and all I can think of is the Communist hysteria I grew up with.

Watching the replay of Hardball this AM I see Chris Hitchins and some other rightwing gasbag telling us Mad Cow is no problem, but the Democrats are leading us to our doom and destruction by daring to talk about it.

Bianca whatshername is telling us about the "security problem" when some drunken jerk stole a bus and went for a joyride. This after some poor slob in a small plane buzzed the Statue of Liberty and will undoubtedly have his ticket pulled after his requisite month in some dungeon. We're all gonna die!

Now we have every airline in the whole world is on notice they can't even fly NEAR here unless they put air marshals on board when we tell them to. And Tom Ridge just noticed that people making connecting flights don't have to go through security checks while making the connection. And small airports might be targets.

The military is stretched to its breaking point and local responders aren't doing much better. Cops are supposed to watch for terrorist activity and ignore rapists and drivebys? I remember when we had Corrections Dept. guys on overtime watching Newark Airport's back gates. Are we to get back to that and have those mile-long checkpoints at Westchester airport again?

It once took me 4 hours to get over the GW Bridge when they checked every car and truck.

Do we have to show ID and empty our pockets to get into every public building in the country?

Bianca's back now talking about those damn almanacs like it's serious stuff.

Is ANYONE going to say this is ridiculous?

My head is exploding.