Beach at End of a Street

The Federal Even-yeared Anti-terror Response (FEAR) Unit is at it again, making the nation safe for Republican democracy y protecting the essential sites without which this nation would go to pieces:

It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that a child might have written: Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade, the Sweetwater Flea Market and an unspecified “Beach at End of a Street.”

But the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, in a report released Tuesday, found that the list was not child’s play: all these “unusual or out-of-place” sites “whose criticality is not readily apparent” are inexplicably included in the federal antiterrorism database.

The National Asset Database, as it is known, is so flawed, the inspector general found, that as of January, Indiana, with 8,591 potential terrorist targets, had 50 percent more listed sites than New York (5,687) and more than twice as many as California (3,212), ranking the state the most target-rich place in the nation.

Go ahead, laugh, but when the terrorists blow up "beach at end of a street," will you ever have egg on your face. And sand.

FEAR Unit's just doing their job, folks. Making sure everyone knows that they're five minutes away from a fiery and unspeakable death. Unless the GOP keeps Congress, that is.