As for Israel – I have more faith in intelligent people who take their business seriously than in ass-covering automoton bureaucrats who scream at 3 year old kids, confiscate yogurt, buy overpriced puffer machines, and treat people who need to urinate as terror suspects.

Haym, interesting that political correctness has led the State to attempt looking at everyone naked. Has anyone else noticed that high tech approaches to problems are often too manpower intensive and insure the dilution of the process? We can put enough surveillance drones into the sky over Afghanistan that it takes months to look at all the video. We gather about 8 train boxcars every day worth of intelligence data that can’t even be reviewed. To paraphrase Sun Tzu, when everyone is protected from everything no on is really protected from anything.

I have always contended that at some point in time – and we may have reached that point given the intelligence level of this administration – we as a society will reach a turning point when the majority are ignorant. We are almost there with the majority not paying any taxes – and therefore supporting tax increases on those who do pay.

That turning point on ignorance is hovering around us. It may not be possible to come out of that black hole – except as a result of some devastating event, man-made or otherwise, that requires us to value intelligence and knowledge.