AND IN THE REAL WORLD – AT 9:09 P.M. ET:  Let us not forget that history outside our electoral system does not stop.  The bad guys are just as mean today:

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terrorist group's branch based in Yemen, has claimed responsibility for the failed mail bomb plot on cargo planes bound for the United States...

...The bombs, which were found in two packages intercepted in Dubai and England, had been addressed to Jewish places of worship in Chicago, and their discovery set off a tense daylong search Oct. 29 for other packages that may have been part of the plot.

Al Qaeda also claimed responsibility for the Sept. 3 crash of a UPS cargo plane in Dubai.

"We say to Obama: we pointed three attacks to your planes within one year, and we will continue Allah-willing to direct our attacks on the American interests and the interests of America's allies," the group said, according to an English translation of the Arabic.

COMMENT:  They mean it.  One day they will prove that they mean it, and we will be woken up from our slumber again.

November 5, 2010