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While scanning the web and actually looking for a rant excuse [why do some bloggers solicit donations? as in Matt Welch's so-called War Blog - you've seen them, the ubiquitous Paypal, donate now button. I clicked on the resume button, to find the author quite the well-rounded author about the LA town and more.] If it's not pc, our apologies, but do you really NEED the donations? And no, we don't mean to pick on you, a search at google with the word (support blog paypal) kicks out over 150,000 results.

Hey, how about DONATING the donations to a worthy cause?

On to the subject - really. At Little Green Footballs, (whoops, there's that donate button again, hey maybe it's donations for a kids cause?) I ran into a short summation of Bolivia's boot to a score of terrorists bent on piloting passenger jet missiles. Also at Yahoo News. Quoting:

"(Ferrufino) said that the tip-off from French police said that the 16 Muslims were planning to hijack a plane en route from La Paz via Santa Cruz to Buenos Aires to attack targets in the United States," the news agency report said.

State Prosecutor Jaime Solis, who is overseeing the case, said nine of the detainees would be deported -- he did not say to where. Several other detainees had already been released.

"According to French police, there is information that four of the nine have supposed connections to terrorism," Solis was quoted as saying.

Martial law may not be such a bad thing, even if sugar-coated.  Bolivia just gave them the boot, these guys need to be HELD, and at least given a psych, because they sound like sociopaths. But they weren't, they were deported, which is definitely not (cured, calmed down, persuaded to another method, talked out of [whatever], take your pick.)  The bottom line is that these guys, if for real, were bent on taking a passenger jet to US targets. Does anybody think the present American defense footing would not have shot that plane out of the sky at the first hint?