Never question authority - it only pisses me off.

Two Asian-looking passengers who children thought might be bombers because a few people might have overheard them speaking Arabic, where escorted off of a plane in Britain. The passengers stages a walk-out and several refused to even board. Yes, regular Joe's are now committing racial profiling of their own, to disastrous results.

Frankly, I would have revoked each one of the passengers who mutinied. Racism should not be tolerated in any form.

As mentioned in my previous post, racial profiling is rarely ever successfull in pinpointing terrorists. However, it is derogatory and insulting. This behavior will cause even more animosity, rather than the healing we all need.

Don't die.

Someone stole the last piece of my pie! Its going off!

Today, I received a disheartening forward from one of my family members. The e-mail is a list of multiple choice questions, asking who committed such and such crime. The answer was always (d), which happened to be "A muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40." This questionnaire is an attempt to wake Americans up to the fact that in this case, racial profiling is probably a smart way to catch terrorists.

Unfortunately, such facts are not valuable to determining who is or isn't a terrorist as racial profiling ignores the fact that Americans (mostly white) have been known for horrible acts of terrorism as well.

Profiling is also a way to let security guards become lax at any person who doesn't fit the Muslim extremist profile. For example, a Muslim extremist need not always be descended from the Middle East with dark skin. Nor does the extremist need to be male, as seen by the recent developments with female terrorists who were to use their children as shields to their true purpose. Should racial profiling become standard, expect to see events such as those seen in the second series of 24, where extremists converted a rich, white woman to finalize diabolical plans.

However, racial profiling is a brilliant way to rise the ire of a group of people against another group of people. History has proven that profiling is insulting and degrading. It has a history of abuse.

Let us bury these thoughts of racial profiling.

Don't die.

**EDIT**

If you have not seen the forward, I have put it on my website.

The dread lords have nothing on me.

Football teaches children good lessons. That's what a judge in Kenton, Ohio said anyway, before staying two teenagers sentences so they can still play for the highschool football team.

Right. Good lessons. Good one, judge. Good one.

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Open this Door, Ye Who Wishes to Gain Ill Gotten Goods.

Supposedly, the United States conviced Iraq and Turkey to refuse passage of an Iranian cargo ship transporting missiles to the Hezbollah. All of these reports are, as of yet, unconfirmed.

However, should the information be proven true, I'm fairly certain Israel will be particularly upset. It is possible that Israel's troops will be shifted, and the war will continue on a different front.

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Progress is overrated - I think the Stone Age was a brilliant time.

As suspected, President Bush and the NSA are going to appeal Judge Taylor's decision that the wiretapping program was illegal.

Also, this particular wiretap ruling may prove to be a significant boost in forcing telecoms to protect our privacy and cost them large amounts of money in the various lawsuits brought against them.

Hopefully, the Supreme Court comes to the same conclusion as Judge Taylor.

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Pass me some tabasco sauce.

U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has told the NSA, in no uncertain terms, to halt their illegal domestic wiretapping program. More than likely this ruling is not going to go unchallenged, but at least a good precedent has been set.

Woot!

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Bowls of cheerios should be taken to the garbage and dumped like so much trash.

Finally, someone who understands why classical books should not be read by teenagers - they're an absolute chore to read. The sentences are long and complex, the words are usually archaic, and the plot is full of allusions to historical fact which the children have not even come across yet.

Stephen Moss makes this recommendation: "Why not take the latest example of chick lit and analyse it; or compare JK Rowling with CS Lewis; or take a leaf out of Christopher Ricks's book and study the language of pop lyrics?" I second it.

Children must learn to love to read. You can't love reading if you have had to drudge through "classic" lit.

A pie should never be humble.

Who won the conflict in Lebanon and Israel? Well, let's get some input from the major players:

ISRAEL: We got those terrorist bastards!

HEZBOLLAH: Those Zionist pigs didn't know what hit 'em!

IRAN: God has done good on his promises - pious youths have taught the Zionists a lesson this day.

USA: Damn terrorists. We should just blow the lot of 'em up and have done with it. Oh, and Israel won.

SYRIA: Stupid Israel. Let's send over some more missiles for Hezbollah to play war with.

LEBANON: Ouchies, ouchies, ouchies. Let's play somewhere else, mmmkay.

So, the outcome: Will be decided upon another sally forth to the battlefield because everyone agrees that their side won the war and nothing was truly accomplished except the deaths of too many innocent civilians and the utter destruction of southern Lebanon.

Woot for war! It solves so many things.

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Scorpio's are dangerous to my health.

Although men driving around with 1000 telephones is a bit odd, the FBI has no evidence of terrorist activity. From what I've been reading, they don't even have any evidence of wrong-doing, unless, I've missed a law which states we can only have so many phones on our person at a time.

Unfortunately, the media have had a field day with it. Local law enforcement quickly, and more than likely rashly, have filed charges claiming they were "collecting or providing materials for terrorist acts and surveillance of a vulnerable target for terrorist purposes."

Supposedly, there was a target, but Tuscola County Prosecutor Mark E. Reene couldn't say for sure what led officials to this belief.... other than the fact they had lots and lots of phones which could be used as detonators or place untraceable calls with them.

This is not enough evidence to plaster their faces on the news and smear their names with the word 'terrorist'. The media should be ashamed of fear-mongering.

Don't die.

Dilbert was right.

So, did Neil Armstrong actually walk on the moon? Or was it an elaborate Hollywood stage?

Well, NASA can't answer, because they have lost the original recordings of the event. Yes. NASA has misplaced one of the most historic events of human kind.

Jeez. NASA must be the most useless bunch of prigs in the whole of the galaxy.

Don't die.