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Our president says, in his best cavalier-cowboy tone, that he's after Osama, dead or alive, and it doesn't make any difference to him. It should. Let's think how crazy and nasty these folks are. Don't you think that at least some of them — living right here in the good ole UsofA — are programmed to do something awful when their boss is reported killed. Not that capturing him and having a trial would make a lotta sense, but there is an alternative, and that is to find him dead under disgraceful circumstances. Maybe he's found in bed with a foreign correspondent — male or female — or with a goat, or better yet, Mohammed Omar. Two glasses of wine by their camp-cot, maybe a porn tape in the VCR. And how 'bout a letter of apology saying that he knew better, but he just couldn't resist exploiting a bunch 'o ignorant ragheads.
...Israel isn't having a lotta luck dealing with their Palestinian neighbors. They are flattening houses, shooting people, and have cut off relations — such as they were — with Yassir Arafat. The problem they face is that since the beginning of the Intifada, and particularly since the spike in Islamic psychosis on September 11th, the Muslim extremists are in charge, and if Arafat were to try to control them, he would be killed. Let us remember that Sharon lit the fuse 16 months ago with his desecrating visit to an Arab holy place. And let us not forget that Sharon and Arafat are killers, who wouldn't want peace if they knew where to look for it.
...Here in Shasta County, judges who don't face opposition get a free ride. They're not even listed on the ballot. Now while I don't think they should have to campaign, they really should have to get voter approval, however few would cast ballots in the judicial contest. I mean, surely there are folks who put their "X" anywhere there's space. And even if some of the judges had upset everyone in the county, at least they could vote for themselves. I'd suggest that judges have to get a certain percentage of the ballots cast, in order to sit on the bench, but they wouldn't like that.
...The airlines have some strange way of doing things anyway, and the hepped up security consciousness pushed them over the edge. Southwest has a system whereby they randomly search a number of their passengers, which means going through the luggage which has already gone through airport security, and getting electronically frisked. Of the group we saw "selected" there wasn't one who fit a terrorist profile, at all. I'm told other airlines do this as well. What I've also witnessed are airlines doing a complete search at the gate of people who have come in from other flights and who have changed their tickets. United held up boarding for twenty minutes while their employees searched luggage and people. Why they didn't simply march them all up to the security control is beyond me, and probably them, too.
And that's SetonnoteS...I'm Tony Seton.
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