My Stock is Rising

When I first heard a report on television that the terrorist plot to blow up aviation fuel lines and, perhaps, storage facilities at JFK airport in NYC would have produced destruction worse than the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, I thought about it for maybe two seconds and said to my wife, "Hooey, gasoline pipelines don't blow up and affect a large area. You'll get a bang and fire at the site of the explosion and that's it." How did I know this? Well, common sense, that's how.

This morning an article in the KC Star said pipeline experts disputed federal prosecutors' claims of the vast damage the bombing of JFK fuel facilities would produce. When my wife saw the article, she said, "Look here. You were right about the amount of damage terrorists could do at JFK." Ah, vindication for an opinion. Indeed, in my wife's estimation, my stock is rising.

How could the federal prosecutors thought otherwise? Perhaps, they were hired by that Goodling gal, who favored politics over competence.