If you are an iPod user, you will love this download site. I see…

1.Foreign Corporation sells to Foreign Corporation.
2.Foreign Corporation of the first part balks at suggested improvements to Port(lights,increased security),Foreign Corporation of the second part agrees to said improvements.
3.Foreign Corporation of the second part (DPW if you are confused) currently holds similar contracts with U.S. Ports (Houston most pertinent to my viewpoint).
4.USCG and DHS still held accountable for Port security by law.
5.UAE participation in the GWOT is critically important.

Summation……..if your gut reaction is “If Carter is for it, then it is wrong”, then maybe you should try thinking deeper than 1/2″ on the subject.If agreeing with Hillary Clinton makes you ill, then maybe you should stick to reading the classified ads–you may find a good deal on a slightly-used Pinto.

Everyone is ignorant, just on different subjects. The main thing is not to be willfully ignorant, nez pah?

National security is not simply a matter of systems or numbers, even though one’s training may militate in that direction… pun only semi-intended. Oswald worked alone, but that does not mean the country would have been better off with Cuban nationals running the Florida Coast Guard. Almost everyone knows that we must work /horse trade/negotiate with the Arab world, but not everywhere and not about everything. Given the shocking neglect of border security our politico’s objection to the UAE deal smells like an ancient herring in the August sun. But that does per force make it a good deal, either: Arab societies, per se, are rife with anti-Western violence, demonstrably given to long-term plotting of a religious nature, systemically prone to double-dealing, and prone to a pathological hatred of Jews unseen since Kristalnacht. In the banking world lenders insist on higher interest rates for questionable loans. It is not wrong to set the bar high – even quite high – to protect our national security. The benefits must balance the risks… no matter how many friends our government employees may have acquired in a certain part of the world. And no one has yet put forward the case that the benefits outweigh the risks.

To quote our humble scribe “…apply different cognitive lenses and using their own reason,…” that’s what I’m doing here. Lex, dear man, I’m not taking sides by any means. But you, as usual, so eloquently put into words where I’m coming from – my own experiences and views.

Babs – the daughter of one of my dearest friends was murdered on 9/11/01 on Flight 11 – Heather Lee Smith. My perspective on this issue – and many like it – is seen thru the lens of grief, loss and a sense of righteous indignation and supreme anger. It certainly doesn’t give me a very objective thought process, to be sure.

So I’m not sure I can honestly say I disagree wiht Lex – but I can say that I am struggling with making sense of this thru my own “cognitive lens”.