If you want more secure ports, make sure the fox is watching the chicken coop

We already knew no one was really watching the ports; now we find out that the only ones who will be watching them are employees of a foreign country that, oh, by the way, birthed two of the 9/11 highjackers. I feel soooooo much safer. How about you?

It gets better. It turns out that two of the Bush appointees (We know how well this works out don't we? Ask anyone in a FEMA-afflicted area about a Bush-appointee...) have extremely close and remunerative ties to to the very Dubai-based firm that got the rubber-stamp okay from Bush's cozy and very private little governmental agency to pay the British company $6.8 BILLION for the right to make sure we (meaning those of us in the States) don't get blown up, anthraxed or otherwise terrorized.

Yup, I feel soooo much safer. Now about that duct tape and plastic wrap...

Read more about the dirty BIG details in this article from Truthout.