As for keeping track of mosques and other subversion centers, that's a great idea. It doesn't go far enough though. One should compile a comprehensive list of all Moslems in the USA, publish it extensively on the internet and elsewhere and develop individual initiatives for combatting the malevolent influence of ethnic Islamic jihadism.

Here's a thought — how about making them wear green armbands with a little crescent and star on it, 'cause, you know, sometimes, like when they shave off their beards or take off their veils, they can look almost human. But if they wore armbands, people could cross to the other side of the street when they see them coming and the police would immediately know who to arrest when there is any trouble.

I originally thought that maybe the armbands should be yellow, but that might remind some people of something else. That wasn't a particularly good idea either

Iran recently passed a law requiring Jews to wear distinctive clothing, although it temporarily suspended its implementation due to worldwide outrage about it.

The only problem being that the story about there being such a law was a complete fabrication created by the notorious neocon mouthpiece Amir Taheri of Benador Associates. The story was quickly and completely debunked and the original publisher, the National Post of Canada retracted the article and apologized. This has been well documented. see this piece at The Nation: (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/cohleresses).

Since the world (with the exception of the neocon dead-enders) knows that the story was false, your repeating it means that you are either a liar or extremely gullible (or more likely, both).

But, hey, as your boy Bush showed, you can't start wars of aggression without an intensive disinformation campaign first.

Winston Churchill had this to say about the turning of the tide with the stopping of the German advance at el-Alamein:

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=388

So I see the stemming of the current offensive against the Constitution of the United States of America. It has been coming for a long time, but coming it was; in general the American people don't like being lied to, and they don't like being played for chumps, and they most certainly don't like being lied to and played for chumps and treated like they are too stupid to realize it. Churchill's cautious optimism is well suited to the present situation. It is not over, but it will no longer continue unchecked.

My criticisms of Southern Sensibility are mild compared to Molly Ivins. Mild.
— Ché Pasa

And Ivins was mild compared to H. L. Mencken. Don't miss his "The Sahara of the Bozart" (http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng423/restricted/mencken.pdf).

Can someone please translate RealName?

I'm a Democrat since probably before you smashed your first Starbucks window. I'm not sure I've ever watched more than 15 secs of FoxNews.

I'm utterly lost on this dialect of Wingnutese. Can someone please translate it to simple english?
— Iokannan in the Well

I think what RealName is trying to say is that he/she is a self-made idiot and has had no help from the purveyors of ignorance at FoxNews. I think he is also trying to make the point that not all Democrats are smart, just as not all Republicans are stupid (although you would never know this if shooter were the only Republican you knew).

shooter: Moussaoui's laptop was kept closed because of difficulty fulfilling then FISA requirements, and you know what happened next.

Actually, Moussaoui's computer was kept closed because of the incompetence of the DOJ:

The frantic efforts of Minnesota FBI agents to search the computer and belongings of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui in August 2001 were thwarted by lawyers at FBI headquarters who misunderstood the law on foreign intelligence surveillance warrants, a congressional committee was told yesterday.
"Had the agents succeeded in obtaining a special intelligence warrant in the weeks leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks, they would have found materials that could have led them to al Qaeda members -- including hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi -- who had gathered for a key meeting in Malaysia in January 2000," Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), a member of the panel, said yesterday.
The lawyers worked for the F.B.I.'s National Security Law Center. The Congressional committee report says that they "advised FBI counterterrorism officials that agents did not have enough evidence to seek an FISA warrant." One of the lawyers said that Moussaoui would have to be linked to a "recognized" foreign power, which the committee staff's report called "a misunderstanding of FISA."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62612-2002Sep24.html

There was no difficulty fulfilling the FISA requirements. The FBI/DOJ lawyers didn't know what the FISA requirements were. All the requirements for a FISA warrant were met but the FBI lawyers refused to apply for one because they didn't understand the law and didn't know know what the requirements were. And you know what happened next. Please, shooter, basing your concept of "the real world" on Rush Limbaugh is not a sound policy.