President Orders "Surge" of US Martials

President Obama today ordered a significant step up of US Martial presence on International flights as of February first. US Marshals's jobs are to observe passengers and if the underwear bandit Abdul Metalah had been scrutenized they would have seen how nervous his behavior was in his staring and constantly wiping his forehead. Abdul Matalsh will be tried in Civilian court, much to the disdain of Republicans. And yet shoe bomber Richard Reed and over two others have been successfully prosecuted under civilian courts. The observation is made that the government will lose valuable intelligence oppertunities if we don't water board this guy while we have the chance. And yet others like the Press Secretary point out that we've already gained a lot of intelligence from Abdul Matalah, if we can believe him. We haven't heard the last of new security measures; you can count on that. These nude scanners put out only a fraction of the X Rays that Medical X Rays put out, and most of the rays bounce off of the skin. No doubt this will be taken into consideration when their wide spread use is contemplated.

Four democratic senators have declared that they will not run again for Senate in 2010 today. These include Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, whom Randy Rhodes personally vouches for as a progressive. Dodd is the son of Thomas Dodd, who was considered for Vice Presidential pick by Lyndon Johnson in 1964. However it's pointed out that even more Republicans are expected not to run again. Many on the radio are not optimistic about democratic changes in 2010 however keep in mind that this batch of Senators last stood for election in 2004 when the Republicans were still winning. Hence there are more Republicans ripe to knock off. Some have suggested that Ed Schultz run for the empty North Dakota slot being opened up by Byron Dorgan's departure. He's a popular progressive talk show host so why not. I see absolutely no reason for the democrats to feel disspirited at this time.

Rush Limbaugh is carrying on about how great medical care is in this country yet Hawaii has the most government care of any of the fifty states, so he picked a bad example. Randy Rhodes points out that when the bill comes, most people can't pay it, but with Rush's 400 million, he's not in any position to compare what the rest of us have to deal with. Some have speculated that Rush's chest pains are from eating a too highly spiced hoagie.

Governor Swartzenegger gave an encouraging State of the State message today. For once he wasn't blaming poor people for the State's problems, but the Federal Government. He says that California only gets back $74.00 for every hundred dollars we sent to the Federal Government in tax revenue. The governor also said that Alaska, perhaps thanks to Sarah Palin gets 173% of the revenue that they send to the federal government. The governor in fact expressed sympathy for both poor people and school children. He said that it was a crime to spend fifty percent more on State Prisons than on Education. I would agree if that's true. The governor expressed optimism about the economic recovery in general, and that's a good thing to hear. Certainly in industrial production and in other ways, signs of growth are sprouting up all over. The governor said that tax revenue drop off in the state was eight times the slump in the state economy. I find that a little hard to swallow. People say that the governor is a termed out "Lame Duck" but I'm glad that at least he wants to go out on a positive note.

In the Sudoko puzzles the idea is to fill in the right numbers based on certain pre-set rules and precepts. A lot of it involves the process of elimination. Also like police action boards, once you think you have isolated one key clue to a meta-physical certain, that clue itself becomes a tip-off to other clues out there. If a police detective wants to find where the truth lays, he knows to talk to people who are known to tell the truth even when it would be in their interest to slant the truth and lie a little. Sometimes like the Sudoku puzzle, you get stuck and can't go on the direction you are going, and there are blanks still left to be filled in. If you have an Action Board for one crime scenario, you may need to construct other action boards for other entirely different scenarios as to how the crime took place. Sometimes it all depends on the defendant drawing a sympathetic judge. In today's soap opera Nicole appears to have drawn a sympathetic judge who had an axe to grind against at least two of her many accusers, Elvis Di Mira and Samantha Brady. Seldom has one lie hurt more lives than this lie about her baby. She lied to her husband and was caught in one lie, but then she was still lying even then. As a result many lives were traumatically affected. Were I the judge I would not just dismiss this reality. Even people with reputations as utter jerks can have a truly just legal cause.