Well, turns out Bush nominated Bernard Kerik, former NYC police commissioner under Giulliani on 9/11. While I still think the job is a bullshit job (and if they put out duct tape that was color-coded to match the alert levels, you'd have all of Ridge's contributions to American life summed up in one fell swoop), Kerik's a good choice. The early criticisms of him-- that he isn't a politician; that he doesn't have experience with a bureaucracy-- aren''t critisms in my book, they are attributes.

But again, I'm from the school that thinks it is the role of the military to protect the homeland. Although I guess the new role of the military is to invade Islamic countries and bless them with democracy. I'm loving this-- Buh insisats that the Iraqi elections be held as planned January 30 and not be postponed. Um, if we're so supportive of Iraqi self-government, shouldn't that be their decision, not ours?

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