Out of the way out-of-towners always pray that the enemy has good aim. A lousy shot at the White House would end up in my front yard!
And to think, on the long trudge to the restaurant last evening, I was chatting with WFO and remarked that after 9/11, the odds of a repeat attack were less. Seems I was half right, different mechanism, same target.
Recognizing that there is no personal distinction between being hit on the head with an HBomb or a fifty pound sack of potatoes, I must give enormous credit to the British for keepinga stiff upper lip during the Blitz, and the Israelis who don't know form one of one year to another when the next nut will implode.
Also, I never understood why after 9/11 everyone was afraid of flying - they should have been afraid of high rise ofiices!
On a similar irrational note, I read today:
In California, Arizona, New Mexico and more, left-wing lawmakers have repeatedly tried to give illegal aliens the right to get state drivers licenses! State drivers’ licenses are the most recognized legal form of identification we use in the U.S.
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These state lawmakers seem to have forgotten that a number of the 9/11 terrorists had acquired drivers’ licenses.
Well the chicken little author seems to forget that every one of the 9/11 terrorists entered this country legally, and had appropriate, legal, paperwork to justify a driver's license! ow by the time of 9/11 some of the terroists Visa's had expired. If we were really worried about the repeat a event patterend after 9/11, shouldn'y we be spending lots of bucks rounding up folks with expired Visas than on building our own Berlin wall on our Southern Border. And where is the wall, protecting us from terorists from Canda - the only known terrorist to enter the US came from Canada, not Mexico.
These silly politicians and pundits remind me of the drunk seraching for his car keys many blocks away from where he suspected he dropped them because "the lights better here".
der Brucer
I'll still take the risk of riding the New York subways over the 7 hour demolition derby of driving back and forth for the visit.
The closest think I saw to mayhem on our trip was when a young oriental chap who was taking our picture for us, backed up into the street to get a wider view just as a van came careening aroung the corner - I don't think he even noticed that driver's last minute quick swerve - but some of us watching sure did.
der Brucer
On the brighter side - NYC has many, many dogs on leashes on walks throughtout the city, and I saw nary a pile of poo!
