(said with snark)

How was I supposed to know that security would be deserted?  Never in my life have I been through screening this quickly!!  Don't these people know that we are at war!!

When I asked if she'd been groped, she replied:

Not at all.  They barely glanced at us.  Terrible security!

I mentioned that TODAY might be the day they are taking off.

I need that link for the xray proof underwear again. :)

DADT and START will be great victories but the tax cut deal is very, very ominous.

I worked for a state circuit court judge (meaning she had felony criminal cases) as a court clerk. The judge was tough but fair.  Most defendants who came before her got out either on ROR pre-trial or on probation at the time of sentencing. The ones that didn't were habitual offenders and / or accused of violent crimes.

She would try to "scare straight" many of the ones she knew wouldn't be back - usually those caught with drugs, or my, favorite - three teenage boys who stole a Salvation Army truck because they thought it would be cool.  Usually she'd let them sit there through the entire criminal call, watching and waiting as the more hardened defendants came up from the jail and had their proceedings taken care of.  You could tell by the looks on their faces that they started to get the message that they might be joining the bunch going downstairs in handcuffs with the deputy.  

When their case was called, they would try to apologize, as their defense attorney prepped them to do.  She would tell them, "Don't apologize to me - it doesn't matter to me.  The person (people) you need to apologize to is (are) sitting in the back of the courtroom."  They then figured out that she wanted them to apologize to their parents, which they then would do.  Then she would give them probation with a "hope you learned your lesson" statement and a chance for a complete expungement from their record.

It totally true too. Guys at my level will be the ones that implement this and make this happen at the soldier/sailor/airman/Marine level. The DOD and Pentagon folks will take their time with their "plan" then it'll be our job to execute, the plan that is.

"When asked why my hometown in Mississippi did not suffer the same racial violence when I was a young man that accompanied other towns' integration efforts, I accurately said the community leadership wouldn't tolerate it and helped prevent violence there. My point was my town rejected the Ku Klux Klan, but nobody should construe that to mean I think the town leadership were saints, either. Their vehicle, called the `Citizens Council,' is totally indefensible, as is segregation. It was a difficult and painful era for Mississippi, the rest of the country, and especially African Americans who were persecuted in that time."

Lindsay Lohan will file a formal complaint against the woman who triggered a criminal investigation against the famous rehabber ... TMZ has learned.

Sources connected with Lindsay tell us Lindsay is adamant ... the staffer whom she pushed earlier this month was the instigator, berating Lindsay and grabbing her before LiLo pushed her.