BRITAIN FIGURES IT OUT

Finally...after foiling a terrorist attack that would have killed hundreds of people, the folks running things on the other side of the pond have gotten wise.  They get it.  The government of Great Britain is working with airports to implement new security protocols.  And what exactly are those new rules being put in place going to do?

Will they intensify the strip-searching of little old ladies?  Nope.  Are they going to foolishly confiscate every passenger's hair gel, nail clippers and anything else that might remotely be used as a weapon?  That doesn't appear to be part of the new protocol.  No..the plan is to look for people that behave suspiciously, have unusual travel plans or are of a certain religion or ethnicity.

In other words, they're going to start profiling!!!!

Can you imagine that! 

A specific group of people is trying to kill innocent British citizens, and now the Brits are actually going to concentrate their preventative efforts on that specific group of people?  In another era this would have made perfect sense to everyone ... but this is the era of political correctness!

The British version of the TSA, something called the Department for Transport, has decided that putting people in long lines at the airport for random searches is a waste of time.  And they're right, it is.  Would the police randomly search people on the street if they had a report that an Arab male had just robbed a bank?  No, they would not.  Do authorities stop white people and ask for ID when they are  in pursuit of a black carjacker?  They do not.  This isn't racism. It isn't bigotry.  It's simply common sense.  You receive a threat from members of an identifiable group -- and you concentrate your response on the members of that identifiable group.  

It's not racial profiling.  It's not religious profiling.  It's terrorist profiling.  No ... not all Muslims are terrorists.  But with only a very few -- and long ago --- isolated incidents, all terrorists are Muslims.  Just about every terrorist that has hijacked a plane in the last 30 years has fit one, single description: Arab Muslim.  That is the description of the suspect.  The terrorists who blew up nightclubs in Bali, the terrorists who wanted to lop off the head of the Canadian prime minister ... Muslims.  Every one.  Every terrorist that planned to blow up airplanes over the Atlantic last week was an Muslim who, if not from the Middle East, was of Middle East decent.  This isn't rocket surgery.  So ... get ready for the howls of protest from the Islamic community in Britain.  If the Brits stick to their guns on this one perhaps it will evolve into one more reason for Muslims who truly want to live their lives in peace ... to be left alone and to leave alone ... to rebel against those of their religion who have brought this upon them.

TEXAS GENEROSITY REWARDED

The good people of Houston and the taxpayers in Texas continue to be rewarded for their generosity in accepting some 150,000 "refugees" after Hurricane Katrina.  In fact, it continues to be the gift that keeps on giving.  Houston recorded a 17.5% increase in homicides since the evacuees landed there.  In fact 21% of the homicides in that city involved a Katrina refugee.  The New Orleans gangs that Houston has imported continue to cause problems.  The Sheriff's department has reported a 41% increase in felony arrests.

Excuse me, but can I get an "I told you so" in here?  Even before the busses started to arrive at the Houston Astrodome I was telling the people of Houston that trouble ... real trouble ... was on the way. 

So now what is Houston...and to a larger extent, Texas...who is paying for a lot of this...going to do?  Just as they rounded them up and brought them there, they can't just round them up and send them back.  They're stuck.  New Orleans' crime problem is now their crime problem.  In fact, Houston is starting to be outraged at how lax New Orleans was on crime.  A lot of these thugs only did only 60 days in jail, then were released.

In an attempt to be a good neighbor, Houston foolishly agreed to accept all of these people from gang-ridden, high-crime areas.  Now they are paying the price for that generosity.  Officials in Houston now are hoping that once their federal assistance dries up, the evacuees will go home.  Fat chance.

THE MEDIA STILL LOVES DICTATORS

You've probably already seen photos....the lovable, huggable, nice, old man laying in his hospital bed holding a newspaper.  He wants the whole world to no he's alive and doing just fine!  Except that nice old man the media is showing you is Fidel Castro, the butcher of Havana.  A communist dictator.  He's not your lovable old uncle, he's a murderer and a tyrant.

Leading the charge is CNN, who hasn't lost its affinity for tyrants.  In fact, they're running the photos of not only Castro, but of Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez visiting Castro.  Such nice men, these are....not.  So why is the media cozying up to these dictators?  Evidently either to maintain media access or to try and convince us all that they're really not bad guys.  They're just misunderstood.

I have a picture idea.  You can either get Jimmy Carter to pose, or get some Lebanese photographer to use his PhotoShop software ... but can we get all three of them, Fidel, Hugo and the man who never met a dictator he didn't like, in bed together?

JUST WONDERING .....

With all of this global warming we were supposed to have a terrible hurricane season this year.  Now I guess I could be wrong here, but aren't we in the middle of hurricane season right now?  Aren't we supposed to be reeling under the effects of hideous monster hurricanes caused by global warming?  The Earth didn't suddenly cool down, did it?  Just wondering, 'cause if you look at the website for the National Hurricane Center you will see that there are "no tropical cyclones at this time" in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico or the Eastern Pacific. 

Please ... those who want to attack Western capitalism through phony environmental concerns and scares ... take heart.  There's still plenty of time.  All you need is one good hurricane and you're back on the global warming warpath again!

GOOD BYE CHRISTINA! ... FOR NOW, ANYWAY.

Today is the last day on the Boortz show for our Summer intern, Christina Gonzalez.  Christina will be returning to New York City where she will be a senior at NYU majoring in politics and journalism.  Christina is extremely bright and personable, and has been a tremendous help to Belinda and myself in the production of the show for the past several months.  Trust me when I say she will be sorely missed.

Even though Christina will be missed, we are already plotting to find a way to hire her as soon as she graduates from NYU.  Hopefully by then the show will have grown to the point where an extra hand is needed on deck. 

Christina's stories about life at NYU are incredible.  She is, after all, from the South, and that seems to be a badge of dishonor among her leftist classmates.  She has actually had other NYU students ask here to sit elsewhere in the classroom because they didn't want to sit next to someone "from the South."  Their loss.  It is interesting to note that there are many radio stations across the country who just won't carry our show ... in spite of our incredible ratings success stories ... for exactly the same reason.  We broadcast from Atlanta, Georgia.  That, of course, is in the South.

Over the past few months Christina has contributed greatly to the notes on Nealz Nuze.  Here is something Christina wrote about a little flap that occurred at the State University of New York at Fredonia.  Yes ... Fredonia is a real town.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

I have full confidence that the U.S. is safe as long as we have these anti-terrorist training camps. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

A great one to start off today's assignments.  Charles Krauthammer says "Party while you can, peaceniks."

This is a sad commentary on the state of education in the United States of America.  A new poll finds that while 75% of Americans can  name at least 2 of the seven dwarfs, only 25% can name at least 2 Supreme Court justices.  This is exactly what politicians love...government schools keeping the masses ignorant.  Well ... the Seven Dwarfs have been around longer I guess.

MSNBC is running an excellent article about how people and businesses are finally getting tired of the breeders that let their little monsters run free, annoying everybody else on the planet.  It's about time some attention was brought to this problem.

The big guns are stepping up to raise money for Joe Lieberman...and surprise!  Republicans are throwing their weight behind Joe just as much as Democrats.  Could be that Ned Lamont is about to fade into history.

Democrats are trying to exploit the UK airline terror plot for political gain.  They are blaming the whole thing on George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.  Never mind the fact that Al-Qaeda and Islamic terrorists were in business long before Bush invaded Iraq.  Small detail, I know.

A Republican lawmaker has apologized for remarks he made about one of the Marines accused in the Haditha incident.  The Marines' lawyers have yet to hear from John Murtha, who also made remarks slamming the troops that were there.  They might not want to hold their breath on that one.

Perky Katie Couric says she found in her 'listening tour' of American cities that people want the evening news to be a full hour, rather than the current 30 minutes.  The odds of this happening, however: zero.

George Will wonders exactly what it is that Israel has won in Lebanon against Hezbollah.   He argues that rather than diminish Hezbollah, that terrorist group has now been elevated.

Patrick Buchanan goes even further and says Israeli generals who called the fight against Hezbollah a stupid, losing war were right.  He says all Israel accomplished was to pump up Hezbollah's status in the world.  Buchanan predicts Prime Minister Olmert's next move.

Are laws that define marriage as a union between man and a woman discriminatory?  Thomas Sowell examines the question and says the gay community may have overplayed its hand here.  He also points out that there is no gay marriage to ban.

Professor Mike Adams as from time to time published lists of colleges people might want to avoid for various reasons.  Today we get a new one: colleges for Jews to avoid.  First up: The University of Texas at Austin.

Brandon Miniter, one of the best researchers and writers out there on terrorism and the Middle East, says that the Democrats aren't doing all that well with their "another Vietnam" message.

Michelle Malkin on the British plans for airport profiling.

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