Meanwhile, someone at "CreepRepublic"

Is making a Chapaquidick joke.

The Senate Judiciary Committee heard Thursday morning from one of its own about some of the problems with airline "no fly" watch lists.

Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy says he had a close encounter with the lists when trying to take the US Airways shuttle out of Washington to Boston.

The ticket agent would not let him on the plane because Kennedy's name was on the no-fly list — in error. After a flurry of phone calls, Kennedy was able to fly home, but then the same thing happened coming back to Washington.

Kennedy says it took three calls to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to get his name stricken from the list. The process took several weeks, in all.

Edward Kennedy, "Ted Kennedy" on the no fly list?

Sounds like some cretin in the Homeland Security Departments idea of a little joke doesn't it?

But Tom Ridge said, "We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security"?.

Oh, I forgot that they do of course.

So how many other petty little grudges are being played out in that department?

Feel safer?