"While taped messages from Al Qaeda have often heralded terrorist attacks, the Homeland Security Department did not raise its threat rating."

So Osama bin Laden is still at large and trying to run his game on the world. But there's nothing to worry about, even if he's threatening more attacks on America--no, nothing to worry about--we got Saddam! We've made sure he can't use any of those nasty Weapons of Mass Destruction on us. Of course, we found out Saddam didn't have any--but hey, neither does bin Laden, and look what he did with a bunch of suicidal religious fanatics and four hijacked jumbo jets! Um . . . no there's nothing to worry about, nothing at all.

"The Other Shoe Drops: bin Laden Weighs in" at AlterNet and "Osama rants in pre-election tape" at the New York Daily News' website.