Bush Bashing

Although I'm a keen Bush basher myself, I must say that I am a bit sick of it. It seems like whereever I look, someone is either laughing at him or frowning at him. At some point however, I think the issue needs to be seen slightly wider than the man himself.

For example, he was elected twice by a large number of people. This means that either the soceity needs to look at itself, or it needs to look at it's presidental electoral system. Probably both. At some point, all the Bush bashers should stop to think about things apart from Bushisms and accusations of a hick Texan. Those insults are funny, but they're also intellectually lacking and (should be) politically neut.

For example, any country that 1) holds that it is a citizen's right to possess military grade weapon systems and 2) is so terribly stuck in individualistic consumerism that others' needs seem irrelevant when they're not a nusance should take a breather. God doesn't like guns. God doesn't like greed. Yet, God is big in America. To me, that does not compute.

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Terrorism

I wonder what airport security officals can do about bone, stone or glass weapons. I mean, the thought that hijackers could use bone tools is pretty absurd, but it's resonably feasible. I mean, bone is a pretty strong substance; I sure wouldn't like being knocked over the head with a club. Then again, they need to get through reinforced doors into the cockpit.

Dispite the difficulties with getting through the door, I can imagine a low tech terrorist operation being carried out. They could use blowpipes and poison darts to take out the crew - and their carved weapons to deal with anything else that they need to take care of. What you would need is lots of electronic devices which will screw with the areoplane's navigation and communication systems. Perhaps the terrorists could create a handheld transmitter at the frequency the plane is using and use it as a jammer.

Then you just gotta get through that door. I'll let the terrorists figure that one out.. Don't wanna get arrested!