Nothing can really be considered a "minor" tiff in regards to the NY firefighters right now. They are the biggest American folk heroes in DECADES.

Combine that with the scandal breaking as to how the funds raised for victims' families is being disbursed, or not, and you have tremendous potential for hot heads prevailing.

I think Americans are reaching a point where they are fed up with claims that the skies are safe, that the money raised for victims is being siphoned off by fat bureaucrats with entirely different agendas than victim assistance, that the displaced and unemployed workers are going to be screwed out of any assistance by the Congress and the White House in favor of more corporate welfare schemes to Dumbya's good buddies, etc etc etc

People are really beginning to feel financial pain, and the tolerance level for incompetent "security" protection of the flying public despite long delays, hassles, and harrassment while flying is about to erupt into some major public outcries.

Of course, by then Dumbya's cronies will already have made off with all the taxpayers money they can truck out of the Treasury while nobody is looking--oops! I mean economic stimulus packages, of course.

Like I said earlier, now that the unity facade is crumbling, we're beginning to see who we *really* are as a nation, and what the priorities are going to be for Our President for the next three years.

And something tells me, it won't be a pretty sight here, or in many places in the world where Dumbya will run off playing Texas cowboy games.