Janet Napolitano and Underwear Bomber Both Caught With Their Pants Down!

Just when you thought that our world could not withstand any increase in the Wierd Quotient....here comes Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's Christmas Gift to Northwest Airlines. A botched butt bomb. Reports are now circulating that he was escorted on board by a "sharp-dressed man" and that he appeared in a "stupor." What? What now?

Then his pants popped, caught fire, passengers intervened....bottom-line no lives lost on Christmas Day from this operative.

But then this very curious statement comes from Jan Incompetano:

NAPOLITANO: "What we are focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel. And one thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here."

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I don't get it. Either she was flummoxed and just tried to bs her way out of a gooey situation...or she believes the system does work as long as bombers are incompetent and passengers are on guard. Or....or.....you are with the Alex Jones crowd who feels that the Underwear Bomb Scare is a CIA coverup staged in order to put full-body scan detectors into airports.

As the former governor of our arid yet alluring state, Ms. Napolitano has been used to throwing the media off the scent with delicious officious lingo. There you go, AZ TV, there's your feel-good-sound-bite now go away. Except on the national stage, it doesn't play out that way.

I do not plan on taking airplane rides soon, and now, along with aliens tearing out the engines, I can add exploding Fruit-of-the-Loom (Loon???) to my list of reasons to stay away from Sky Harbor. Kidding. Sort of.

All the Mensawarrior knows for sure is that there is an increasingly large number of people who have lost faith in Washington, in the media, in news reporting in general. We will not return to the days where Cronkite's monologue was thought to be etched on clay tablets. Yet....this climate of "trust no one" is also wrong-headed. It's the thorny road to anarchy.

The American People need some honest talk, some respected values and some return to free enterprise and unfettered democracy.

And Janet - the system failed miserably. Please leave this big job to bigger people.