Quick, use this duct tape and a shovel...

...and this piece of lint...and...

News today: Al-qaida is poised "to strike U.S. hard."

Why should this be a newsflash? I kind of remember being around in 2001 when (if memory serves) they already DID this. Did anyone think that they "hit U.S. hard" and then decided they were done? Clearly, judging by the current administration's foreign policies, whatever message they had sent was well-received and we can all just go about our business. The truly dumbfounding nature of telling the American public that there is credible intelligence that something might happen is that I could've given up that kind of intelligence. And, hey, I'm a fairly credible source. I mean, something could happen anytime. That's the nature of existence. Things do happen. Some of them are horrific. Some of them aren't. Truly, though, the only reason to broadcast this kind of information to the general populace is to cya -- cover GWB's ass. So, when something does happen, he can say, "Well, I told you so." And then we can all say, "Oh, yeah, I guess he did." Well, guess what? 9/11 told us so. We're EMPLOYING this (yes, we pay him $250K a year or so...does anyone think he's earning it?) to STOP IT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN (among other things that he isn't doing. He's spent more time on vacation in the past 4 years than any president before him. Has he earned any of it?). Veiled threats and vague information is not protection. It's not security. It's insecurity. It's fear. And they've been trying to breed it so they can stay in power.

Fire the bastard.