I personally don't know any men who would actually start fires in their laps. They value their manhood too much. Add the fact the man is tens of thousands of feet in the air in a pressurized cabin.  The outcome makes me proud of heroes reacting with the message, "You are not going to do this to us anymore."

For once it was a relief not to hear the bleeding hearts clamor to microphones and cluck cluck to me that I should not judge anyone until found guilty in court and how peaceful the religion of Islam is. Americans have been down this road before and I sense a change in attitude at least on airplanes.

 I used to fly from my then home in California to Virginia at least once annually. After 9/11, I kept an eye on everyone. I trusted no one. If there was anything or anyone suspicious, I was going to speak up. Fortunately I flew safely on different airlines. My take away lesson from the Christmas Day incident is:  don't mess with the American people on an airplane. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

I heard a so called journalist pose the question of why was there no sky marshal on the flight. I don't know that there wasn't.  One anonymous man is said to have crawled over others to reach the attempted bomber. Haven't heard from or seen him since.  I haven't jumped to any new conclusions, as the "journalist" seemed to with her question.

I would suggest to whatever faction of Ismaelites or anyone acting alone that you will encounter a huge fight with fellow passengers if you try anything suspicious on an airplane now.  We are not going to take  this anymore.  Act suspicously, test us, try violence, get drunk and start yelling anti American rhetoric, and you will be confronted.

Sending Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to declare the system worked at first was a huge mistake.  That is why our president should have been front and center from the beginning telling us the truth:  the system failed.

It is time to stop pulling disabled elderly people out of line for extra security precaution.  Call it profiling if you want, but there seems to be a common thread among all the close calls with in flight explosions begun by young men.  Start pulling them aside out of the security line and check their underwear while you're at it.  Leave our elderly alone.

The close call and quick reaction in the air has given new meaning to the expression "fire in the hole."  And don't even think of wearing explosive underwear.  Because to use a musical reference by the group The Who, "we don't get fooled again."