Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Anti Terorism Funds: A Festival of Pork

NY TIMES: WASHINGTON, July 11 — It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that a child might have written: Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade, the Sweetwater Flea Market and an unspecified “Beach at End of a Street.”

But the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, in a report released Tuesday, found that the list was not child’s play: all these “unusual or out-of-place” sites “whose criticality is not readily apparent” are inexplicably included in the federal antiterrorism database..."

To read the entire article go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/washington/12assets.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

3 comments:

Lulu Maude said...

My favorite part is that the Dept of HS doesn't find the list embarrassing. It is, instead, "useful."

...here a quack, there a quack, everywhere a quack quack.

Lulu Maude said...

Well, Indiana IS a red state... and a long time midwestern Klan haven, too!

Lulu Maude said...

Protect the Custer's Last Stand landmark! Yeah!