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Perpetually-New Homeland Security Dept. Story

The start up of the Homeland Security department is threatening to become one of those stories that just seems to never really happen, but keeps appearing in the news over and over and over again.

Today there are wire stories about the department's first day. Didn't we already have that? I'm so disinterested in this department I'm too lazy to go check what all that fuss was about a week or so ago.

This is like the story "Human Genome Mapped" that kept infecting newspapers. When it really happens, lemme know.

For Homeland Security it's even worse becuase the whole department seems to be an intellectual abstraction anyway.

Homeland Security Dept. Marks First Day

By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) promised a "united defense of our homeland" Friday in marking the launch of the department created to answer the danger of terrorism.

The Homeland Security Department combines the forces of 22 agencies and 170,000 workers who patrol America's borders, secure computer networks, check for contamination of crops and otherwise help guard against terrorism. Saturday is its first full day of work.