Seriously?

I know we all look at politicians sometimes and think,"What in the hell are they thinking?", but our President's latest move has me in a quandary of epic proportions. President Bush is supporting an Arab company's bid to control the security at six of our largest ports. The company, Dubai Ports World is owned by the United Arab Emirates and would operate ports in New York, Philly, Miami, Newark, New Orleans and Baltimore.

I'm not a student of geo-politics or some political activist. I'm not a right wing hawk or a left wing dove. I'm just a guy who slings jokes for a living, but this sounds like a monumentally bad idea. I don't know all the details, and quite frankly I don't need to know. I'll just have my usual knee-jerk reaction and if I'm wrong, I'll sort it out later. Didn't we get bombed by an Arab country a few years ago? Aren't we over in an Arab country now killing people and having our own people killed. What the fuck is Bush thinking? Even if this company is on the up and up, it just doesn't look right. Does the term "fox guarding the hen house" mean anything to anyone? You know it's a bad idea when both Republicans and Democrats are shouting it down with equal volume.

Maybe I'm watching too much "24" but I know it only takes one corrupt person to unleash an entire shitstorm. Where did this season's terrorists pick up the nerve gas? The ports, that's where! Talk about art imitating life or vice versa. Yeah, I know! The whole Arab world isn't behind the attacks on our country, but some of it was, and the rest hasn't really been all that helpful. This is just one more bad idea on a list of bad ideas. What's next, Barry Bonds named to head the investigation into steroid use in baseball, Rush Limbaugh giving a talk on racial harmony, Dick Cheney teaching gun safety?

Maybe I'm wrong, but sometimes it really is better to be safe than sorry. I'm gonna blow a call into Jack Bauer at CTU just to be sure. Duck and cover! Later...Brian