Sluggo Needs a Nap

Mr Ressam, incidentally, is a very instructive case of
how easy it is to proceed through modern Western "security"
systems. He was traveling under a false name on a genuine
Canadian passport which he obtained by forging a Quebec
baptismal certificate: the passport is high-tech, computer-
readable, hard(ish) to fake, but the document you need to
produce in order to get the hard-to-fake document is much
easier to fake. Mr Ressam was originally from Algeria and
when he landed at Montreal he was admirably straightforward.
He told officials he'd spent five months in jail back home for
being an Islamic terrorist. But Immigration Canada declined
to take him at his word. According to spokesperson Huguette
Shouldice, many asylum-seekers try to pass themselves off
as terrorists to "exaggerate the persecution they fear in their
homeland in order to impress Canadian immigration officials".
Read that again slowly: according to Mme Shouldice, claiming
to be a terrorist increases your chances of being admitted to
Canada, so immigration officials have learnt to disregard it as
no more than a little light resumé-padding. Yawn: here's
someone trying to slip in on the mad-bomber fast-track
admission quota again.

. . . you would think an unprecedented tsunami in a region
that has never been a U.S. sphere of influence would be
hard to pin on the Great Satan. And, to be fair to the
global rent-a-quote crowd, for an hour or two they were
stunned into silence. But it wasn't long before they were
back singing the same old song: Disaffected young Muslim
men in Saudi Arabia, devastated coastal villages in Sri
Lanka ... "These Foolish Things Remind Me Of U.S.A."
You really need Cole Porter:

You're The Pits
With your massive armies
You're The Pits
And you cause tsunamis

The Phantom of the Opera: The cinematic adaptation of
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway classic tells the story
of Jerry McCann, a bitter genius who lives in the sewers
of Jersey City , and his clandestine effort to sabotage the
front-runner in the mayor’s race so that his preferred
candidate, Lou Manzo, might land the leading role at
City Hall.