Isn't it about time we revisit the issue of racial profiling?

Notice anything similar among these 11 Egyptian students who came to this country legally as exchange students and then mysteriously fell off the face of the earth? Some have been captured, but in places all over the country. They look like fraternal twin brothers of every known terrorist I've ever seen a picture of...

1. IBRAHIM, EL SAYED AHMED ELSAYED
2. EL DESSOUKI, ESLAM IBRAHIM MOHAMED
3. EL BAHNASAWI, ALAA ABD EL FATTAH ALI
4. ABD ALLA, MOHAMED RAGAB MOHAMED
5. EL LAKET, AHMED REFAAT SAAD EL MOGHAZI
6. EL ELA, AHMED MOHAMED MOHAMED ABOU
7. EL MOGHAZY, MOHAMED IBRAHIM ELSAYED
8. ABDOU, EBRAHIM MABROUK MOUSTAFA
9. EL GAFARY, MOUSTAFA WAGDY MOUSTAFA
10. MARAY, MOHAMED SALEH AHMED
11. EL SHENAWY, MOHAMED IBRAHIM FOUAAD

Hopefully these guys will turn out to have had the best of intentions when they skipped town and embarked on their little diasporic adventure, though I suspect a more nefarious purpose to their wanderings.

I'm sorry, but there is too much at stake to let 11 young, middle-eastern men, traveling alone, waltz into the country on student visas and then disappear into thin air. If they cannot be kept up with, then they shouldn't be allowed in. Anybody whose country of origin is a known terrorist host, should be thoroughly vetted prior to gaining access to the U.S., I don't care what their reason for coming here is. If all they wanted to do was learn English, why not take a night class at Cairo University?

I think Homeland Security should put around their necks, GPS collars that explode if they are tampered with. That way we could track their movements and if they stray too far or do something suspicious, push the little red button and KABAAM!!!. Potential threat neutralized.

I know it sounds harsh, but drastic times call for drastic measures.

UPDATE: WASHINGTON (AP) - The last two of the 11 Egyptian exchange students who failed to show up at their college program were apprehended Sunday in Richmond, Va., customs officials said.

See, the authorities can find people when they want to. How about applying these methods to ALL terror suspects, and then adapting the methods to finding and deporting illegal aliens?

A small price to pay for your life...

Just plan your travel around the rules and it's not that big a deal...

LOS ANGELES - Tougher air travel security procedures were still evolving at U.S. airports early Friday, with a second layer of security check points opening at the airplane gates and National Guard troops arriving to patrol major airports in New York, California and Massachusetts.
The new rules, including a prohibition on carrying liquids aboard aircraft, were hastily added early Thursday after British authorities arrested 24 people in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound planes by using explosives disguised as common liquids and other items.

Sure it's it's inconvenient to fly these days, and becoming more of a pain with each foiled terror plot, but what's the alternative? Look, we Americans are spoiled rotten when it comes to air travel. We expect to be catered to, served drinks and food on the shortest of hops, and our every need met with a smile. Since 9/11, and what happened yesterday in England, all that must change. Draconian security measures on airlines are the price we must now pay for appeasing radical Islamo-fascists in our midst for the past 20 years.

Ever since Jimmy Carter yanked the rug out from under the America-friendly Shah if Iran and the hostages were taken, there has been an increasing and endless barrage of attacks on American and Western assets around the world, all without answer from us. We fussed around and listened to liberal hand-wringers who convinced us to listen to the terrorists, be nice to them, give them billions in tax-payer aid, understand them, appease them and they will like us, when we should have been methodically killing them and terminating their operations. For those disastrous decisions not to exterminate the terrorist threat and doing so in a way that vanquishes any idea they might have of attacking us again, the price we have to pay is long lines, invasive security searches, and now no liquids or gels in carry-ons.

It's an ominous fact that there are perhaps hundreds or thousands of terror cells just like the one in England, all over Europe and the U.S. patiently waiting for us to give them an opportunity to put their particular plan into action. We have to succeed in stopping them each and every time they attempt an attack. All they have to do is succeed once and we have another 9/11.

I don't think not being allowed to carry your $7 double caff. latte from Starbucks onto the plane is too much to ask if the policy is another proven method of stopping these bastards from succeeding again.

What an idiot...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian man died Tuesday when he tried to open what police believe was a rocket-propelled grenade with a sledgehammer in a mechanical workshop on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Another man who was in the workshop at the time of the explosion was rushed to a hospital with severe burns, a police officer told Reuters. The workshop was destroyed and several cars parked outside caught fire.

Police found several unexploded army issue rocket-propelled grenades in the workshop. They believe the ammunition had been brought there by scavengers wanting to sell them as scrap metal, but they also are investigating a possible link to Rio's heavily armed drug gangs who often raid military bases

Dude whacks an RPG with a hammer...what did he expect?

Something to chew on...

I was listening to Glenn Beck during my morning drive today and he had an interesting, albeit improbable, scenario which could develop if this thing between Israel and Hezbollah escalates or lingers too long...

Let's imagine for a minute that Iran has developed or nearly developed a working nuclear device. Let's also imagine, and this is very much in play, that Syria stupidly decides to assist Hezbollah because Hezbollah is still getting their butts kicked a few weeks from now and has retreated into Syria proper. Will Israel stop the hot pursuit of Hezbollah at the border with Syria only to allow them to re-arm and return to Lebanon a year from now to continue the fight?

No, especially if Syria appears to be helping them in any way. Isreal will do what it should do when faced with state-sponsored or State-actual agression; they'll take the fight, in a devestating way, to the enemy's doorstep.

So now Israel is pursuing what's left of Hezbollah into Syria and the Arab world explodes in seething hatred of the Zionist entity being on Arab soil and at America for sitting quitely in Israel's corner. Now the crazy Iranian Ahmadinijad decides to play his card and attacks Israel (Syria has a pitiful military but Iran has a competent and large one), what does the U.S. do?

In the meantime, while Israel fights for her survival, we are mired in Iraq and Afghanistan and militarily can only offer Israel hardware, ammo, and guns as we are spread very thin already.

Now the wild-card: Hugo Chavez, communist dictator of Venezuela, America hater, friend of Cindy Sheehan, and owner of 25% of the world's oil exportation business, decides to turn off the crude spigot. He can afford to do so because he's been stashing money since the price of crude has dramatically risen. The result...

U.S. economic crash!

Look at this scenerio. Is it all that improbable? Iran threatens to eradicate Israel daily. Chavez has voiced his hatred of America. Syria certainly is in no position to be a moderating effect with Iran kicking her in the rear to fight Israel. The only real question is whether Ahmadinijad has the support of the Arab world to attack Israel. Given that they(other Arab countries) sit on their hands and say nothing when terrorists strike the West, or when Hezbollah and Hamas regularly kill innocent civilians, I would say that constitutes implicit approval.

So the price of self-righteous, hand-wringing appeasers in the U.S. feeling good about themselves, is the American way of life.

WAKE UP!!!!!

TheRightRant: You cannot defeat an enemy you are unwilling to name...

I posted this back in July, and it fits perfectly for the attempted UK plane terrorism that was foiled today. The comments are as poignant today as they were then.

TheRightRant: You cannot defeat an enemy you are unwilling to name...

The fact that there is a pattern of behavior with these jihadists proves that we are dealing with a much larger issue than simple criminal behavior.

The Religion of Peace strikes again......almost

Chalk up another one for the good guys...

LONDON - British authorities said Thursday they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, averting what police described as “mass murder on an unimaginable scale.” Meantime, a U.S. counterterrorism official called the plot "the real deal."

And here's a breakdown of the plot....scary!

More from a counterterrorism official familiar with the plan to blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S.:
— The plan called for the flights to be blown up in-flight almost simultaneously, close enough so that flight controllers would not be able to ground planes, and far enough out in the Atlantic so that pilots would have no place to land.
— The plan was to have the attacks carried out near the 9/11 anniversary, but apparently no specific date had been set for the attacks.
— The attacks were planned for "up to 10 flights" on four airlines: Continental, United, American, and British Airways.
— The loss of life was planned to be "comparable to the death toll of 9/11,” meaning close to 3,000 dead.
— The attack was planned as a suicide mission.
— The official said that there is "very good reason to believe that this is al-Qaida.”

—Robert Windrem, NBC News Investigative Producer

I was shocked, shocked to learn that al-Qaeda, or al-Qaeda sympathasizers were the perps. It sounds like the same type of Brithsh-born, unassimilated, Muslim youths who bombed the London tunnels last year, but you won't hear that in very many places today as you watch the main stream media's biased coverage of the news. They will go to great lengths to hide from you, that these poor, misguided, young men were in fact radical Islamists. See how far you have to dig in the MSM today to find a story stating the fact that all the major terrorist attacks in the last 10 years share a common thread....the perps were Muslim!

People, this is World War III whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, and the appeasers on the American and European left as well as the otherwise peaceful Muslims who sit on their hands and say nothing when these things happen will have a lot to answer for when it hits the fan sooner or later.

This is beyond cool...

This has got to rank among the 5 or 10 greatest engineering achievments of man...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - With 14,000 laborers toiling day and night, the first of Dubai’s three palm-shaped islands is finally about to get its first residents.
The Palm Jumeirah, a 12-square-mile island group, is part of what’s billed as the largest land-reclamation project in the world, the product of five years of brute hauling of millions of tons of Persian Gulf sand and quarried rock.
On Nov. 30, the palm will open to some 4,000 residents, said Issam Kazim, a spokesman for Dubai’s state-owned developer Nakheel.

When fully complete by 2010, the Palm Jumeirah will be an offshore city, with some 60,000 residents and at least 50,000 workers in 32 hotels and dozens of shops and attractions, Nakheel said.

You would think that if some Arab countries like UAE can be economically prosperous, pro-development, tech-savvy, embracers of post-modernism, then why can't all the Arab countries? To answer that question all you have to do is ask what do all the unproductive, failing, backward, pre-historic, third-world, Arab cat boxes have in common? The answer is a governing belief in radical Islam. All these societies know is hate and resentment of non-Muslims, a neanderthal understanding of modern societal construction, and that all the tribulations of the world's 1.2 billion or so Muslims can be blamed on the existence of 14 million or so Jews. Think of the contributions that could be made to the world community if all Muslims stopped the exportation of hate and violence and used that energy toward progress and development like this man-made island city in UAE...it would be incredible.

This is a sad ending...but not so sad that I won't ridicule it

Seriously, can you think of a more pathetic figure than the supremely gifted athlete who engineers his own self-destruction on the world's stage?

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Maurice Clarett was charged with carrying a concealed weapon after a highway chase early Wednesday that ended with police using Mace on the former Ohio State running back and finding four loaded guns in his sport utility vehicle, police said.
Officers used Mace to subdue Clarett after a stun gun was ineffective because the former Fiesta Bowl star was wearing a bullet-resistant vest, Sgt. Michael Woods said.
“It took several officers to get him handcuffed,” Woods said. “Even after he was placed in the paddy wagon, he was still kicking at the doors and being a problem for the officers.”

I'm not a fatalist or anything. I believe our paths in life are self-determined, but even I have to recognize that there are just some people who seem pathologically bent on their own destruction and failure, and there is absolutely nothing anybody can do to prevent it. I can't think of another athlete who had so much potential and for whom success beyond his wildest dreams lay for the taking, who made so many bad decisions, and who fell so far so fast as Maurice Clarett.

At least O.J. managed to finish his career before slashing his way to ignominy.

Al Gore just can't buy a break...

U.S. scales back Atlantic hurricane forecast

MIAMI - The United States hurricane season will be slightly less intense this year than first predicted with nine hurricanes expected to form, government forecasters said on Tuesday, but they warned the most dangerous part of the season was still to come.

“This year’s three named storms may pale in comparison to the record nine storms that formed through early August 2005, but conditions will be favorable for above-normal activity for the rest of this season — so we are not off the hook by any means,” said NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher.

It seems that even dreaded global warming and the eeeeviiil George Bush cannot produce the excessive, destructive weather that Al Gore needs to ravage the U.S., in order to "prove" his wacky environmental theories. Since nobody went to see his idiotic movie, he needs some serious death and destruction in the U.S. so Americans will take him seriously rather than as the moronic, class clown he's viewed as now.

Parenting 101...what not to do

Melanie Griffith and her 16 year old daughter, Dakota, from her marriage to Don Johnson, sharing some mother/daughter bonding time...real classy with the tattoo and all. She looks like a bus-stop hooker who is taking under her wing a homeless runaway from Paduka. Only in Hollywood does illegally introducing to your child a deadly, life-long vice count as quality parenting time. Maybe in a few years they can get a family discount on chemotherapy for their lung cancers. Excellent role model there Mel.!

I've goofed on Britney for her lack of parenting skills but this goes way beyond incompetence. At least Britney seems to genuinely care about her kids, she's just clueless as to how to go about it. I'd rather take my chances with Britney's ignorance, than have Melanie Griffith intentionally corrupt my kid. The legal smoking age is 18 in California. Mel is guilty of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Where is California DFACS when they're needed?