Well how patently phony is this?  Even as I write, Keith Olbermann is now reporting that the 'nerve gas' scare is over, and has been determine to be a 'false alarm'.

False alarm?  But of course.  The Bush administration will resort to any dirty trick to scare the American public, and it works.

Look at this phony report:  first an 'alarm', ostensibly to detect nerve gas, goes off.  Then the reports say a 'powder' was found in the 'attic', but that the 'powder' turned out to be harmless.

So the powder set off the nerve gas false alarm?  Or after the alarm went off, someone immediately searched the attic and found a powder?  What in the hell is an 'attic' doing in the Russell Office Building?  Isn't an attic what your grandmother has in her house?

Mark my words:  Someone deliberately made this a news story in prime time just to remind all the idiots out there that there are terrorists on the loose, so wiretapping is OK, torture is OK, lying is OK, war is OK, loss of civil liberties is OK, cutting back on social programs for war is OK, an incalculable deficit is OK, and anyone who dares say or indicate otherwise is UnAmerican (and also subject to a little closer scrutiny).

If this group is not voted out of power in the mid-term elections, it's all over but the shouting. 

They also need to get off Brittany Spears' ass about not having her kid in a car seat.  When I grew up they used to stand us up in the middle of the front seat and throw their arms out in front of us if we headed for the windshield- and quite a few of us survived.

Good day.