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To: James Calladine who wrote (72938)	7/12/2006 9:09:24 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 361152

Sources.. (from an Undisclosed..Secret Location..) reveal V P Cheney.. said to be learning how to say.. Go Fook Yourself in Russian... LOL Putin rips Cheney's verbal 'hunting shot' By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press Writer MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin lashed out at Vice President Dick Cheney ahead of this weekend's G-8 summit, calling his recent criticisms of Russia "an unsuccessful hunting shot," according to a television interview being broadcast Wednesday. The remark, from an interview with NBC, referred to the shotgun blast by Cheney on a hunting trip that accidentally wounded a companion. Cheney, in a May speech in the ex-Soviet republic of Lithuania, accused Russia of cracking down on religious and political rights and of using its energy reserves as "tools of intimidation or blackmail." Asked about Cheney's remarks, Putin said, "I think the statements of your vice president of this sort are the same as an unsuccessful hunting shot. It's pretty much the same."

To: James Calladine who wrote (72938)	7/12/2006 9:26:23 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361152

If you live in Indiana, Move Now. Wednesday, July 12 2006 @ 01:43 AM EDT Contributed by: Stranger That is, if you think the DHS database of potential terrorist targets isn't completely worthless. It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that a child might have written: Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade, the Sweetwater Flea Market and an unspecified “Beach at End of a Street.” But the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, in a report released Tuesday, found that the list was not child’s play: all these “unusual or out-of-place” sites “whose criticality is not readily apparent” are inexplicably included in the federal antiterrorism database. The National Asset Database, as it is known, is so flawed, the inspector general found, that as of January, Indiana, with 8,591 potential terrorist targets, had 50 percent more listed sites than New York (5,687) and more than twice as many as California (3,212), ranking the state the most target-rich place in the nation. The database is used by the Homeland Security Department to help divvy up the hundreds of millions of dollars in antiterrorism grants each year, including the program announced in May that cut money to New York City and Washington by 40 percent, while significantly increasing spending for cities including Louisville, Ky., and Omaha. “We don’t find it embarrassing,” said the department’s deputy press secretary, Jarrod Agen. “The list is a valuable tool.” But the audit says that lower-level department officials agreed that some older information in the inventory “was of low quality and that they had little faith in it.” “The presence of large numbers of out-of-place assets taints the credibility of the data,” the report says. Complete incompetence has permeated every level of this government, and it originates from the top. The only other possible explanation is that they're fucking everything up on purpose - and even for an old cynic like me, it's extremely difficult to imagine that level of venality. Tags: Homeland Security, Terrorist Targets, Government Incompetence blah3.com