Quote of the Day

"He was trying to cover his tracks, but he left more clues than a guy walking into a bank to rob it without a mask. This guy left everything here but his wallet."

KEVIN B. BARRY, who retired in 2002 as a detective in the bomb squad of the New York Police Department, on the car bomb found in Times Square on Saturday night.

Good News, Attempted NYC Times Square Bomber Arrested!

Authorities arrested a Connecticut man, Faisal Shahzad, at Kennedy Airport early Tuesday in connection with Saturday’s failed Times Square car bombing. He's a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan.

And that's the bad news, well, bad news if you're in the news media or the Administration. Here's why...

One could feel - almost taste - how badly the NY Times and the Huffington people wanted this to have been a tea bagger. Oh, the salvation, the dripping drool of desire for a big juicy steak of a Tea Bagger car bomb... and one that didn't work, so they could laugh at the failure?! Sorry guys, no such luck.

Nope. Instead, it looks like this one is blowback from our involvement in Pakistan and all the terminator drone missiles and overt action to kill people without making it look like we're killing people, with impunity on their country. For some reason, they're kind of pissed about that? Who knew?

In typical NYTimes fashion, they're spilling the beans and practically explaining to potential follow up would-be terrorists or insane people. (Most are in both camps). Today's Times has detailed everything that Faisal did wrong... How his explosives wouldn't have done anything substantial to the area, except scare some folks - and how to fix that. They also mentioned that there was a lot of evidence left behind in the car, and just how easy it was to find him.

Okay, that's great. Let's hear about that in ten or twenty years. In a boring book about it. Now your next terrorist is going to set his SUV Car bomb in a clean room and leave NO evidence of who did it - and it's going to be full of something a lot scarier than fireworks.

The other 'bad news' item was, of the 1000 suspected folks who have grievances with either NY, or Obama, or the Theater District, not one of them was domestic. So, this whole War on Terror might, just might, be legit and something that the Democrat party is going to have to take a little more seriously? Nah. If they were going to do that they would have dusted off some helmets and fake general costumes out of the Vietnam exhibit in the Smithsonian and pretended they were going to take the war from Bush, but now they were going to win it! Perhaps even they knew that they were throwing too much empty rhetoric at Bush to make that come off as even slightly genuine? Eh, they did enough -- They voted to go to war, and to keep funding the wars, and to expand the war in Pakistan. They just said that they're anti-war and that our troops are baby killers. And played hard-to-get by blackmailing the funding until they got their district a new roads project.

I don't know, to me, actions always speak louder than words.

What's next? Probably a pretty strict parking ban around Times Square first off. Second, fewer civil liberties for the rest of us. All while the NYTimes telegraphs how to pull a successful car bomb off for the next guy. Oh, and Blue SUV's will become the Ryder Trucks of terror clichés, if it isn't now already.