It is my contention that most Americans don't have a whole lot of sympathy for the misfortunes of a city which had such a well-deserved reputation for moral depravity.

Thanks for the joke. Given the subject matter, I think we all needed a good laugh.

Good satire, btw. I didn't think anyone could parody themselves quite so...convincingly.

I mean, its not like real, decent Americans really feel that way about NOLA.

Well it turns out (not surprisingly) that it was the product of a fevered imagination and untrue.

Clearly someone forgot to properly embalm you if you can still spout this crap.

Do us all a favor and crawl back to whatever shallow grave they dug for you in Jersey. The Major contributes more to the discussion than you ever have.

If you are going to block current methods, you're going to have to come up with alternatives or concede that you don't care about prevention.

You clearly have been embalmed, as that's the most brainless statement you've uttered in your time here.

Pity none of the morticians thought to sew your mouth shut when they were working on you.

Knowledge is power. Try it sometime.

Coming from a know-nothing zombie from Jersey? So say we all.

But what is somewhat baffling in all of this is just how politically stupid and self-destructive their behavior is.

Sounds like "Potomac Fever"; sort of a psychotic break wherein the sufferer starts to think the world begins and ends inside US 395, and consequently re-arranges their thinking and actions to please the Villagers there to the exclusion of all others.

Glenn, has the House Leadership actually come out and said its going to push this atrocity forward, or has it just been trial balloons so far?

If nothing else, it's exquisitely easy to be cavalier about the balance of rights versus safety, when you aren't responsible for either.

Hence your frequent pontification and dismissal of both.

Eunuch.

I haven't tuned in to Glennwald since last week

Feel free to tune back out. Preferably permanently.

And no, its not because of your tone. You've simply demonstrated you have nothing to add to the discussion.

You're all here because you haven't a clue what to do.

Pray, then, regale the rest of us with your own tales of great deeds and actions that will surely shame us all.

I await something other than the crickets chirping, and know I'll hear nothing else.

In fact, most of my posts here are defending it from unreasonable and unreasoned attacks.

And you expect respect for defending such an atrocious mess?

Exactly how long did they have you in their dungeon before you broke and became the good lapdog? Five minutes? Four?

Christ, you people take boilerplate to whole new levels of inanity.

Oh, oh, oh. Someone fetch me smelling salts. Proximity Warning is being mean to me. Oh, boo hoo.

You should see someone to help you with those anger issues, lad. You'll be kicking puppies and beating your children next.

No need - you people are pissed off about everything and everyone because basically that's the way you are.

The fact you aren't even slightly disturbed by our countrymen becoming like this:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/04/puppy.marine/?iref=mpstoryview

or engaging in this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1211872,00.html

or proving indifferent to this:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0902_050902_katrina_suffering.html

...says considerably more about you than about those of us outraged by all of it.

Hope you can live with yourself and your indifference. Sad little creature.

* McCain treats the press like friends, and they return the favor.

He sees no problem with the press giving only fawning coverage of a favorite candidate, without the slightest trace of serious analysis of their merits, platform, abilities, or controversies.

Who's surprised? Anyone?

http://www.esquire.com/features/fox-fallon

The short version: there's some maneuvering within the Administration to relieve CENTCOM chief Admiral Fallon of his post and put someone more agreeable to 'action' against Iran in his place.

No idea if it'll actually happen, but the danger is there.

Something to watch for in coming months.

As for Columbia and Ecuador, perhaps the question comes down to simply whether we expect modern states to behave in a mature, civilized fashion with each other...or like a collection of insecure, morally vacuous thugs.

Kinda like Fred Hiatt, when you think about it.

Offer something, rather than posturing.

Here's a really radical idea: accept the problem isn't going to be solved, least of all by the United States of America.

If this is the best solution the Columbian government decided it had, let them accept the consequences. The best thing we can likely do is stay out of and let the OAS hash it out.

Terrorism is a fact of life the world over, shooter. Accept it. Or don't.

You're already dead anyway, so who cares about you?

The reality is that you folks are only upset about such databases because you don't like the putative reasons for them.

You are in that 'database', shooter.

And I could likely construct a very compelling case, just based on your comments on this thread and in past ones, that you harbor insurgent if not outright anti-American sympathies, and that you are predispositioned towards violence against the American public. Based upon the strength of such anecdotal evidence, you would be subject to further surveillance and possible internment and interrogation by Federal officials, possibly even judged as an 'enemy combatant'.

Still like the existence of these databases?

There won't be anything left to 'start again' with. That geriatric warmonger will make sure we're all just radioactive cinders.

Please, don't misinterpret this, but seriously - why don't you fuck off and die?

That's being unkind. He's simply a dumb animal that doesn't realize what's really at stake, able to act only on instinct and herd mentality.

But I agree. The world would be a cleaner place if he joined his ancestors in the ground.