Thursday Morning News & Notes

Here's what's news:

-The ups and downs of counter terrorism through the years. It's at a definite nadir right now thanks to the systematic neutering of our intel gathering and the release of the "torture" memos.

-Arlen Specter will soon find out that nobody likes a traitor. I just read that even though Benedict Arnold was given a Brigadier General post, he was never trusted fully by the Brits because anyone who would sell out his own was just too unreliable. Arnold was promoted ahead of others and it had the effect of making him an outcast. I hope Specter suffers the same fate and is tagged with the same legacy. Instead of a "Quisling", perhaps we should call anyone who betrays their own a "Specter".

-Joe Biden says exactly the wrong thing again; tells public to stay off of subways and trains in light of the swine flu. That's it Joe, calm the nation in a time of crisis. What a friggin' buffoon, he makes Dan Quayle seem downright cerebral and Al Gore seem as intelligent as Einstein.

-People rag mag includes Rahm Emanuel and Tim Geithner among its "most beautiful". Perhaps they are a bit confused as to what beautiful actually means.

-Curtailing our rights at every opportunity. The Obama administration at its finest.

-Doing that old global warming two-step again.