Friday, January 06, 2006

Vegas In Full Frontal Whinge...Courtesy of Clueless Reid...

From Best of the Web:

"U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called for the resignation of Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday, one day after the government dropped Las Vegas from a list of cities considered potential high-risk targets eligible for special anti-terrorism grants," reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

"Anyone who can't see that Las Vegas is a high-risk area doesn't deserve to serve in a position like that," Reid said.
"We had more visitors on New Year's Eve than they had in Times Square and we're not a high-risk area? For heaven's sakes."

We wanted to send Reid an e-mail expressing our support for his position, so we went to the "E-Mail Form" on his Web site. The form includes a pull-down menu to select the "general topic of your message." There are 29 topics, but homeland security is not among them."

Funny as all hell. Reid being so very dumb isn't news, but reading what he has to say is always a great way to wind down from a hctic day. To say they had more people in the entire city than NY did in 6 or 7 square blocks is true. And that's it. Lots more folks in the greater metropolitan area than Vegas. Lots. And lots more targets that are appealing to terrorists.

Obviously.

To waste the time and effort to protect a town dead last on the list of places that would be in danger is silly. But that's what Vegas specializes in so none of this surprises me.

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