On returning home

Today, after completing the post below this one Lesley and I did almost nothing. Dallas is a city, like pretty much every city in Texas (with the possible exception of San Antonio), that is not worth a tourist's afternoon.

We returned the two two books we bought, one on New Mexico, we will go back, but probably armed with a Lonely Planet, and one on Texas - not going back there again thank you. We spent much of the afternoon in a book store, I read some of Confessions Of A Political Hit Man, as anyone who knows me might expect, I was unsurprised to learn that Jack Abramoff is a slime (that he is a Jew like me is embarrassing). Republicans are hypocrites (go ahead, each of those three words points to a Republican who slammed President Clinton then got themselves into a good old fashioned sex scandal). And that Washington Politics is so poisoned - I blame the Republicans - that anyone who wants to run as a Republican probably ought to just turn themselves in to the authorities and skip the intermediate steps of running, flinging mud at the other guy, and getting elected.

After the book store we returned to DFW, where I am pleased to report that I survived another experience with the helpful people at the TSA (Transportation Security Administration). The TSA are the lovable bunch who make you take your shoes, belts, sweaters off, then remove your coins, cell phones and or Blackberries, laptops, and bags.

I have a really idiotic question to ask, does anyone, besides perhaps Michael Chertoff, honestly believe that the evildoers are going to pull the same stunt twice? Its not as terrorizing the second time and that's the whole point. Osama Bin Laden cannot win an outright war against the United States, but he can scare Americans into surrendering their basic rights and freedoms... ooops, guess what, Bin Laden, he won the War on Terror. Don't believe me? Take a drive through Texas and then decide.

It took 60 years but the United States went from the Greatest Generation to the generation of shop till you drop... the economy.