From the Washington Post:

“Teams of undercover air marshals and uniformed law enforcement officers will fan out to bus and train stations, ferries, and mass transit facilities across the country this week in a new test program to conduct surveillance and “counter potential criminal terrorist activity in all modes of transportation,” according to internal federal documents.

According to internal Transportation Security Administration documents, the program calls for newly created “Visible Intermodal Protection and Response” teams — called “Viper” teams — to take positions in public areas along Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and Los Angeles rail lines; ferries in Washington state; and mass transit systems in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Viper teams will also patrol the Washington Metro system.”

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Air marshals and officers are going to be patroling the mass transit system in Baltimore??!! Give me a break! I’m from Baltimore and I’ve tried riding the bus. Believe me, it’s the slowest, most horrible mode of transport. And it’s really not that safe. I doubt terrorists would be riding the bus in Baltimore. Or if they did, they would get mugged by crack dealers and pimps.

-Jean Chen

Ok, so Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is officially crazy. Yesterday, he publicly stated that the Holocaust is a myth.

However, check out what he says later on in the same speech:

“If you committed this big crime, then why should the oppressed Palestinian nation pay the price? This is our proposal: if you committed the crime, then give a part of your own land in Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to them so that the Jews can establish their country.”

Hmm. He does have a point. The Germans killed millions of Jews… so as a reparation, why did the Allies give the Jews someone else’s land? It would have made more sense for Jews to get a part of Germany. Maybe if that had happened, there woudn’t have been so much bloodshed in the Middle East.

- Jean Chen