Oops. A man brought some kind of explosive device on a plane. He was proceeding to explode it when he was tackled by some passengers. There was no sky marshals on this plane.

The last time I flew security took away my yogurt.

Umar, the under-pant wearing terrorist lost his way. His dad sensed something was amiss and tried to warn and contact various agencies. In one news blurb the dad said the word “jihad” and for some reason that did not arouse suspicions. No one the dad contacted got a hold of the “right people.” Perhaps there should be a directory posted and promoted so you can get to the right people if your son or daughter or anyone you know is into a “jihad” and is planning to blow up anything wearing explosive panties or something else. How about a public service commercials? Or maybe at work you can be given a sheet of whom to contact, in case.

It seems Umar was testing the explosive device for a terrorist organization. He was a newbie terrorist and they put him in product testing. He was willing to take the risk of losing his penis, balls and who knows what else. None of that mattered as Umar was in a jihad.

And there was info about Umar long before Umar boarded that plane. Long before passengers tackled Umar. The US Homeland Security Team did not get that info. WHY? I don't know. They don't know. But here is what I do know. OUR GOVERNMENT IS DYSFUNCTIONAL. It does not work as it should. We were not protected on that plane by anyone in our government. Yet our government allots much cash to run these inefficient agencies. And our government does not have money for the citizens such as health care for all. Why? Because all the cash goes to the incompetents. I think everyone of authority that was involved in this issue should be fired. Of course they won't and that is the problem. If they were fired then maybe they would get on the ball. It is like your parents told you. You need consequences for your actions. Our government has none. If you screw up you get on TV and look upset and then you point and blame and then you get reasonable again and say you will get to the bottom of it. And maybe you will and maybe you won't and we the public citizens of the United States, In God we trust, we will never know. We will never be told.

“Abdulmutallab, 23, abruptly told his family he would abandon the life that took him from a $28,000-a-year private school in Togo to a degree at an illustrious London university. That message pushed his father, a prominent banker from Nigeria, to contact security officials and the US embassy to bring his son home. "We provided them with all the information required of us to enable them to do this," a statement from the family said.”

“The father of a man suspected in a botched terror attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight contacted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria recently with concerns his son was planning something, a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday. The father -- identified by a family source as Umaru Abdul Mutallab -- contacted the U.S. Embassy "a few weeks ago" saying his son, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had "become radicalized," the senior administration official, who is familiar with the case, told CNN.

Dad contacted a US embassy in Nigeria. Now we know that being in Nigeria is not prestigious. So some schlep was there to hear a worried father talk about his dysfunctional son. The schlep either ignored this or he told someone. It does not matter because our government was out of this incident. Our government either did not get the message or they ignored the message. The facts are irrelevant. Homeland Security and the CIA were asleep. Fire them. It is their job to get and find info so they can protect us. Once they are fired the next batch can take over. If they screw up then fire them. At one point there will be a team. It will work better sometime In the future. Once the dysfunctional government employees understand they will be fired and held reponsible for their actions maybe we John Q Public Citzen will be protected.

“A family source told CNN that Mutallab -- who recently retired as chairman of First Bank PLC, one of Nigeria's premier banks -- had contacted the embassy in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and various other security agencies earlier than the time line provided by the administration official. The family source said Mutallab went to those agencies about three months ago after receiving a text message from his son.

Abdulmutallab's father notified the U.S. Embassy with information on his son, saying the family feared he went to Yemen to participate in "some kind of jihad." “

Every time I read this and hear the word “jihad” I get shivers. Is jihad like slumber party? Not in the least. Jihad is serious. Yet the US Embassy armed with this intel missed the boat. Maybe they had a pool and took bets on the jihad.

Is there really anything else to say. Talking point one: Fire the idiots. Talking point two: Expect results. Talking point three: Protect us and let me keep my yogurt.