Oh Lordy, Lordy! What a difference a day makes — 24 little ol’ hours . . .

Not even an entire day passes after we get to say sionara to Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney and start working to help now Independent Joe Lieberman defeat the nutmeg-state Democratic primary winner Ned Lamont before the largest terror plot since 9/11 is routed in Great Britain. From the BBC News online:

A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit “mass murder on an unimaginable scale” has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.

It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft.

Police are searching premises after 21 people were arrested. Home Secretary John Reid said they believed the “main players” were accounted for.

High security is causing delays at all UK airports.

And, to make matters worse, three of the airliners targeted were destined for the US. ABC News’ Brian Ross is reporting that Pakistanis were heavily involved. Gotta love our buddies in Pakistan!

More than 20 suspected terrorists were arrested in England by early Thursday morning, in an operation that involved British intelligence, Scotland Yard and assistance by a number of other law enforcement and intelligence agencies, including those in Pakistan.

ABC News has learned that two “significant arrests” in Pakistan in recent days may have significantly accelerated the pace of the investigation.

Many of the alleged terror plotters appeared to be of Pakistani descent. It appears that they were probably “homegrown” terrorists with strong links to al Qaeda and Pakistani operatives. This new generation of terrorists have figured significantly in plots in the U.S., London and Canada in recent months.

In this case, the plotters apparently intended to assemble small but powerful bombs in flight and use them to take down flights from England to the United States.

This latest threat is causing discussions at high levels about suspension of some civil rights in England, especially those of immigrants. Guess they are finally facing up to the heavy bill being handed to them by the piper for decades of Liberalism and Multiculturalism run amok! Finding it almost impossible to investigate, arrest, prosecute and detain/deport the radical Islamists in their midst, Britains’ home secretary John Reid made this statement to a meeting at a London thinktank:

“Sometimes we may have to modify some of our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms.”

“We are probably in the most sustained period of severe threat since the end of World War II.

“While I am confident that the security services and police will deliver 100% effort and 100% dedication, they cannot guarantee 100% success.”

Can you imagine how that would play in Ned Lamont’s Connecticut? Some of those individual rights, like being about to take your iPod onto the plane are already toast! Everyone gets a clear plastic bag to hold their passport and their glasses, and that’s about it. Everything else is being scanned, x-rayed, searched and then put in the cargo hold. That outta make 9-hour flights to the East Coast fun! But, at least you’ve got a chance of getting there.

Dean Barnett, blogging at Hugh Hewitt’s Townhall blog gets it:

AS FREE SOCIETIES, the Western democracies have a choice of whether or not face up to the existential challenge they face from Radical Islam. The lure of seeking an easy way out is almost irresistible. The siren song of sitting down and reasoning with the Hezbollahs and Ahmadenijads of the world is powerful. If we could just do something to convince ourselves that all is well and that there’s nothing to fear, life sure would be easier.

Just as is the case with an illness, there are a lot of people willing to tell us that are fears are overblown. If you want to believe that George W. Bush and the Patriot Act are the greatest threats to our way of life, you won’t have much trouble finding a professor on a nearby college campus to buttress your theory. (…)

It’s time we stop having a sphere of things that are “unimaginable.” Let’s imagine airliners exploding over our cities. Let’s imagine a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv. Let’s imagine a mushroom cloud over New York.

Let’s imagine how such things might happen. And the let’s resolve to stop them.

He also links to Mary Katharine Ham at Townhall who has found a Liberal blogger that has jumped-the-shark over the Code Red terror alert.

Oh, Lordy. This is why another meme was starting yesterday– the one that says the Netroots liberals are driving the Democratic Party over the anti-war edge, to a place where they can no longer be trusted on national security issues (and, frankly, they were iffy before).

International terrorist plot, guys. You got a victory yesterday, but it’s really not all about you.

And they wonder why we say they can’t be trusted on security?

Maybe this is a big part of the problem? The MSM just can’t seem to find the gravitas in the radical Islamic pantheon. It’s all just another great story, another round of the oppressed rising up against the oppressors, the have-nots putting it to the haves. Just what was Mike Wallace thinking?

(CBS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sat down with Mike Wallace in Tehran on Tuesday in a rare, exclusive interview with a Western reporter.

In the wide-ranging interview, the Iranian leader comments on President Bush’s foreign policy, the lack of relations between Iran and the United States, Hezbollah, Lebanon and Iraq.

The report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

And what was Wallace’s impression of the Iranian wackjob? According to the Hollywood Reporter:

“He’s actually, in a strange way, he’s a rather attractive man, very smart, savvy, self-assured, good looking in a strange way,” Wallace said. “He’s very, very short but he’s comfortable in his own skin.”

“He couldn’t have been more accomodating. He had a good time doing the interview[.]“

After a Napoleonic comment like that, lucky for Mike, he got to keep his head! Uhhhhh . . . gonna be a great moment for all those Beavises and Buttheads out there for sure, for sure. What I’m waiting to see is what good ol’ Mahmoud has planned for August 22nd. If it’s cataclysmic, I can’t wait to hear what Ned Lamont would have us do about it . . . (db)

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