U.S. Terror Targets

OK here’s a pop quiz: what is the common factor between Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo and the Amish Country Popcorn factory? Well I didn’t know either until I read this in this morning’s New York Times: U.S. Terror Targets: Petting Zoo and Flea Market?

Uh?

Are these clowns serious? According to the Homeland Security Department, a bureaucratic oxymoron if ever there was one, these are places “whose criticality is not readily apparent”. No kidding! It’s so not apparent that it’s farcical. These idiots have created a “National Asset Database” which is the federal database used to fight terrorists. As the Times points out the database is a joke. A child could have prepared something worth more. Unfortunately the crony infested Homeland Security Department doesn’t employ enough children.

This database is one of the sources, if not the primary source, for the notorious apportionment of federal security spending. As you may recall the new spending amounts which were announced a couple of months ago caused quite a stir because they cut money to New York and Washington DC drastically while raising spending in places like Omaha. Now we know why. It’s because of potential terrorists targets such as the Mule Day Parade, or even more mysteriously the “Beach at End of a Street”.

What the heck is this? A sick joke? Has no one in the HSD have any brains at all?

The list says that New York City has only 2% of the nation’s banking and financial assets and thus ranks below North Dakota, that well known hot bed of banking. It says that Washington State has about twice as many national monuments as Washington DC. And it says that Indiana has more than twice as many “assets” as California.

Is this April Foll’s Day material or what? This is the quality of protection that we are getting from the world’s largest and most expensive security agency. No wonder Bush wants to keep everything secret. Terrorists the world over are laughing themselves sick over this incompetence.

We need to fire the lot of them and start over. Unfortunately since they are buddies of you know who that won’t happen. So the big security risk called the Homeland Security Department will trudge on making a laughing stock of itself until someone is seriously hurt. Only then will our do nothing oaf of a president exercise some of his supposed management skills and clean that cesspool up.

Really folks this is a sick joke. And it’s on us.