Good news, bad news dept...

So it looks like an anti-terror bill is going to pass, despite the best efforts of the obstructionist GOPpers... Of course, there had to be some changes:

Republicans claimed that some of the initiatives being pushed by Democrats, such as a requirement that all ship containers headed to the United States from overseas be checked for nuclear threats, were impractical and would disrupt global trade.

Oh, well, we can't bother securing the ports if it's going to cost money or inconvenience a corporation....

It cut the guaranteed minimum grant each state would get to about $1.9 million this year from $3.8 million... That allows Homeland Security officials to distribute more discretionary grants to states where the threat and consequences of a terror strike are deemed greatest....Still, the minimum amount set aside for small population states like Wyoming, West Virginia and Montana, is 50 percent higher than the House first proposed when the bill was introduced in January.

That's right, spread those dollars around evenly, particularly to people on the right committees, because the Islamic Menace (TM) will obviously bypass New York or Los Angeles in favor of a 'spectacular' attack against Devil's Tower or Old Faithful....

And they agreed to a Republican request that broad legal coverage be offered to people who report suspicious activity. The measure was inspired by an incident last year in Minneapolis, where six Muslim men were removed from a flight after a passenger complained, which provoked a lawsuit against the passenger.

That's right, give our Faux News viewers the right to complain any time too many of those kinds of people get onto a plane at once.... yeesh...

Twain was right. People who respect the law and like sausage shouldn't watch either one being made.