Well, they're at it again - times get tough on the Administration, and out come the terror alerts. I guess their mothers never read them enough fairy tales (wisdom in the guise of stories). What's worse to me is that they are also sitting there in their bunkers and wishing for something horrible to happen again, so they can say: "I told you so."

Of course the Democrats aren't much better. Nor the Press. I watched PBS news yesterday, and one of their main talking heads was doing an interview with someone from the right and the left (always have to represent both sides - as if two liars presenting two different kinds of lies provide any help in finding the truth). The Press could lead in the direction of the truth by asking far better questions, but then nobody official from the left or the right would come on their shows. So the Press asks a lame question of one, and then the other, - suggesting that this is objective journalism.

Its not even journalism at all, by the way. It's much more like a lame-brained game show where the host (the so-called journalist) has to keep the contestants happy so that nobody jumps across the table and hits someone else in the face. Never mind that the watcher/listener has to clean the horse shit out of their living room when the show is over.

Here's the right side lady about the war on terror - Iraq division, I'll paraphrase:

"Oh me, oh my. Great horrors await if we leave. Its all Al-Queda all the time (that's today's talking point folks, nobody on the right deviates from the script). The dominoes will fall. Only we can stem the evil tide. Democracy world wide is in danger!"

Here's the left side guy on the same subject:

"Well we do have to defeat the terrorist, but the American People don't want this war anymore and we need to follow the American People. Yes, we Democrats have no actual foreign policy, but no policy is better than the one we've got from the Administration!"

Now lets pretend there is an actual journalist there, someone who has been following this matter closely for years, does a lot of research and isn't interested in ass kissing the guests.

"A couple of questions folks - mostly in the form of some observations by someone who is actually thinking here, and you can fight each other over who tries to give an honest answer.

"Isn't the War on Terror just bullshit? I mean, think about it. Even with 9/11, that same year drunk drivers killed 10,000 people on the highways in our own country (and hundreds of thousands die from problems related to the drug alcohol, while we jail millions for a makes you smile and be peaceable thing that grows like a weed). Several millions of people died of aids and starvation world-wide. So we spend half our national budget on war toys for neo-con imperialist children who think the world is the place for a neat game of chess, and people still die and suffer of all the things we don't bother to fix in far greater numbers than those that die from terrorism. This fantasy war on terror only makes a certain elite class of bankers and industrialists richer (they are already obscenely rich). Of course, since you are in the pockets of the corporations that own Washington, and get you to do anything but solve real world problems, why are we surprised you come on TV and say the same misleading lies politicians have been saying since the first one - yea that snake - tricked Eve into giving Adam that damn apple."