4 Great Short Stories

THESE ARE FOUR EXCELLENT STORIES. PEOPLE ALWAYS REMEMBER THE BAD THINGS ABOUT AMERICA BUT SELDOM THE VERY GOOD DEEDS WE HAVE DONE. TOO BAD SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE SUCH SHORT MEMORIES.


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When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.

Powell answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those who did not return."

It became very quiet in the room.


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Then there was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room saying. "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done?

He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?"

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our aircraft carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?"

Once again, dead silence.


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A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S. , English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks, but a French admiral suddenly complained that, ". . . whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only
English." He then asked, "Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?"

Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German."

You could have heard a pin drop


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AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE . . .

A group of Americans, retired teachers, recently went to France on a tour. Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his pass port in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.

"Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."

The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."
"Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France !"

The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained. "Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find any damn Frenchmen to show it to."

Ex-Manson follower dying, seeks release from prison

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former Manson family member Susan Atkins has requested a "compassionate release" from prison because she has less than six months to live, a California prisons spokeswoman said Friday.

Atkins, 60, was convicted in the 1969 slayings of actress Sharon Tate and four others. She had been incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Corona, California.

But Atkins, the state's longest- serving female inmate, has been hospitalized since March 18 and is listed in serious condition, state corrections department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. Because of privacy laws, Thornton would not disclose the nature of Atkins' illness.

Atkins' husband and attorney, James Whitehouse, was quoted as saying she has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, according to a blog called Manson Family Today. She also has had a leg amputated, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday, citing sources close to the case.

The compassionate release request has been approved by the prison, which conducted an evaluation, and is under corrections department review, Thornton said.

If the department approves, the Board of Parole Hearings and the sentencing court in Los Angeles also must sign off on the request. There is no timeline for a decision to be made, Thornton said.

Atkins, known within the Manson family as "Sadie Mae Glutz," has been in prison since 1971 and has been denied parole 11 times.

According to historical accounts of the murders, Atkins stabbed Tate, who was 8½ months pregnant, and scawled the word "pig" in blood on the door of the home the actress shared with director Roman Polanski.

"I don't want to seem like a heartless creature, but in all my years, I never considered this could happen," Debra Tate, the actress' sister, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

"She showed no compassion. She told my sister as she slit her throat that she didn't (care) for her or her unborn baby," Tate added.

Sharon Tate and three houseguests were slain in August 1969 by killers who burst into her Benedict Canyon home. A teenager who was visiting the home's caretaker in his cottage on the property also was killed.

The following night, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were slain in their home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. The two-day crime spree sent shock waves throughout Los Angeles.

All of the killers remain behind bars. Atkins also was convicted in the earlier murder of music teacher Gary Hinman.

Atkins, like Manson, received a death sentence, and the punishment was changed to life in prison when the California Supreme Court ruled the state's death penalty unconsitutional in 1972.

Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Atkins, told the Los Angeles Times that she "has paid substantially, though not completely, for her horrendous crimes. Paying completely would mean imposing the death penalty." But, he told the paper, given her terminal illness, "I don't have an objection to her being released."

According to her Web site, Atkins is a born-again Christian who during her incarceration has worked to aid at-risk youth, victims of violent crimes and homeless children.

Last month, authorities dug for buried bodies at the Inyo County, California, ranch where Manson and his followers once lived, after police became aware that testing had indicated humans might be buried there. Nothing was found, police said.

Mars on the brain? Red Planet pioneers to face cosmic mind trip.

LONDON, England (CNN) -- If Dr. Robert Zubrin could take a trip to Mars, he would be sure to pack a bread maker in his suitcase. Not just because bread is a pretty reliable expeditionary food, but because the act of cooking, according to Zubrin, seems to help people get along with each other, especially when they are in slightly dire, less than luxurious and more than stressful circumstances.

And Zubrin would know, too. He has, after all, led almost a half-dozen mock Mars missions on barren Arctic ice fields and scorching Utah deserts with volunteer teams made up of students, scientists, journalists and anyone else willing to wear fake spacesuits and live in tiny tin-can-like habitation modules for days on end.

The simulated expeditions were made, in part, to research ways to live and work on the Red Planet. But they also revealed something else: what personality types might best be suited to make the 35 million-mile journey and who would be better off watching from Mission Control.

"Some of these crews have worked out very well," said Zubrin, president of the Mars Society, a 7,000-member multinational group determined to reach what it calls the New World. "Others were at each other's throats."

"When you go to Mars, all bets are off," said Dr. Nick Kanas, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied astronaut psychology. "We don't know what is going to happen."

One particularly important task, Kanas explained, will be picking a team of astronauts who can both work and get along with each other on a trip lasting at least two years, spent mostly within the confines of a not-so-big spacecraft sailing through the dark. The European Space Agency and the Russian Institute of Biomedial Problems are scheduled to run a joint 520-day mock Mars expedition this year aimed to study the effects of extreme isolation and confinement on 12 volunteers.

The numbers of men and women, their ages and even cultural upbringings must be carefully calculated to try to prevent what could be potentially devastating cosmic quarrels. "You can't just take a walk and get away from somebody," Kanas said.

Nor will astronauts really be able to talk to anyone, either -- at least not on Earth -- mainly because of a 44-minute communication delay between the Blue and Red planets, "which means you can't have a nice chat with your kids," said Kanas. "You are so far away; you really are isolated."

That means Mars-bound astronauts will also have to skip out on the ground-based psychological support sessions that astronauts and cosmonauts working on the international space station routinely have just to make sure microgravity has not gone to their heads (Before Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961, experts were afraid weightlessness might cause schizophrenia, explained one doctor).

And they will not be able to receive surprise presents, like special cookies or favorite movies, which are often brought to the space station on supply shuttles when someone starts feeling homesick or maybe a little blue. Thus, decking out the Martian-bound craft with family photographs, special trinkets, books and even plants will be crucial for a mostly monotonous extraterrestrial road trip that will bring a whole new meaning to the "are we there yet?" question.

If someone becomes sick -- either physically or mentally -- the crew has to be ready to cope with that, too.

"If someone gets suicidal, you have to take care of it on board," Kanas said. Mission Control might also have to make some tough calls, like whether to tell an astronaut about a death in his or her family or other tragedies back home.

Yet the big unknown, according to Kanas, does not involve who astronauts will not be able to talk to or what gifts they will not be able to get, but instead what they will not be able to clearly see: planet Earth.

Kanas has even coined a term for the situation: the "Earth out of view" phenomenon.

"Nobody in the history of mankind has ever experienced the Earth as a pale, insignificant blue dot in the sky," he said. "What that might do to a crew member, nobody knows."

But Walter Sipes, a NASA psychologist at Johnson Space Center in Houston, said he thinks he knows where to look to start finding answers: history books.

"When early explorers left their home countries on the seas, they didn't see their home countries anymore," Sipes said. "They didn't even have a dot to look at. It was out of sight on the other side of the world. It is not like we are reinventing the wheel. We are just doing the same thing in a different environment that was just as demanding then."

And just as some early explorers made the ultimate sacrifice while searching for unknown lands, space pioneers may also pay a steep price for bravely going where no human has gone before.

"Do you follow the the sea tradition where people are buried at sea?" Sipes asked. "If someone dies, are they buried in space?"

Salamander-inspired therapy may aid injured vets

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) -- Last week in an operating room in Texas, a wounded American soldier underwent a history-making procedure that could help him regrow the finger that was lost to a bomb attack in Baghdad last year.

Army Sgt. Shiloh Harris' doctors applied specially formulated powder to what's left of the finger in an effort to do for wounded soldiers what salamanders can do naturally: replace missing body parts.

If it sounds like science fiction, the lead surgeon agreed.

"It is. But science fiction eventually becomes true, doesn't it?" said Dr. Steven Wolf of Brooke Army Medical Center.

Harris' surgery is part of a major new medical study of "regenerative medicine" being pursued by the Pentagon and several of the nation's top medical facilities, including the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic. So far nearly $250 million has been dedicated to the research.

Air Force Technical Sgt. Israel Del Toro is one of the wounded vets who might one day benefit from this research. He was injured by a bomb in Afghanistan. Both his hands were badly burned. On his left hand, what was left of his fingers fused together. "You know in the beginning when I first got hurt, I told them just cut it off. So I can get some function," Del Toro said. His doctors did not cut off his injured left arm. And since that injury, advancements in burn and amputation treatment mean he may one day be able to use his fingers again. 

A key to the research dedicated to regrowing fingers and other body parts is a powder, nicknamed "pixie dust" by some of the people at Brooke. It's made from tissue extracted from pigs.

The pixie dust powder itself doesn't regrow the missing tissue, it tricks the patient's body into doing that itself. All bodies have stem cells. As we are developing in our mothers' wombs, those stem cells grow our fingers, toes, organs -- essentially our whole body. The stem cells stop doing that around birth, but they don't go away. The researchers believe the "pixie dust" can put those stem cells back to work growing new body parts.

The powder forms a microscopic "scaffold" that attracts stem cells and convinces them to grow into the tissue that used to be there. "If it is next to the skin, it will start making skin. If it's next to a tendon, it will start making a tendon, and so that's the hope, at least in this particular project, that we can grow a finger," Wolf said.

It has worked in earlier experiments. "They have taken a uterus out of a dog, made one in the lab, put it back in, and had puppies," said Wolf. Researchers have also regrown a human bladder, implanted it in a person and it is working as nature intended.

While the technique has incredible promise, doctors will be watching for unexpected side effects as they follow Harris' recovery. "It could grow a cancer," Wolf said. "We will be closely monitoring for that to make sure that doesn't happen."

If the military's most badly wounded start benefiting, so will civilians. "If we can pull this off in missing parts the next step is, 'OK, can we grow a pancreas? Can we grow and replace that in a diabetic?' And can we do the same thing with a kidney and can we do the same thing with a heart?"

One day, he hopes, people with heart trouble will be told, "That's OK. We will just grow you another one.

"That is something that is real science fiction."

Saudi activist seized by secret police, wife says

(CNN) -- A Saudi Arabian political science professor who is an outspoken human rights advocate was taken into custody this week by the country's secret police, his wife said Friday.

Human Rights Watch issued a report calling for the release of Matrook al-Faleh, 54, who was seized at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, two days after he publicly criticized conditions in a prison where two Saudi human rights activists are serving jail terms, according to the agency.

Jamila al-Uqla, al-Faleh's wife, said her husband went to the university on Monday and never returned. She said police informed her that he was in custody at the city's main detention facility.

The next day, al-Uqla said, she tried to call police back, but no one could give her more details. She said that police did not say why he was seized and that she has not heard from him since.

"I keep calling the secret police, but they keep denying they're holding him at their facility," she said. "I have called his cell phone, but there is no answer. He has not called even once."

Al-Uqla said she and al-Faleh are patriotic Saudis.

"My husband is transparent and doesn't hide anything. He says whatever he sees. He has loyalty to his country and the interests of his country," she said.

Joe Stork, deputy director at Human Rights Watch's Middle East division, said the arrest shows that human rights advocacy in Saudi Arabia remains "a risky business."

"By suppressing peaceful dissent, Saudi Arabia only stands to gain further notoriety as an abuser of human rights," Stock said in the report.

Phone calls to Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry were not answered.

On Saturday, Human Rights Watch said that al-Faleh sent an e-mail to human rights activists and journalists about visiting procedures and detention conditions at a Buraida General Prison, where his fellow friends are being held.

He called the visiting procedures laborious and compared the visiting area to a "chicken coop."

"Al-Faleh's fellow activists, the brothers Abdullah al-Hamid and Isa al-Hamid, are serving prison sentences at Buraida General Prison for expressing support for a demonstration that took place in front of Buraida's secret police prison by wives and relatives of long-term detainees held there without charge," the group said.

The activists decried the prison's conditions as filthy and crowded, with poor health care, according to Human Rights Watch, which said it independently confirmed such conditions.

"It is outrageous that the Ministry of Interior arbitrarily arrests Dr. al-Faleh rather than addressing the inhumane conditions he documented," Stork said.

Al-Faleh, Abdullah al-Hamid and Ali al-Dumaini, who runs a Saudi discussion site, were arrested in 2004 for circulating a petition to then-Crown Prince Abdullah calling for a constitution guaranteeing basic human rights.

A court sentenced Al-Faleh, Abdullah al-Hamid and Ali al-Dumaini, to six, seven and nine years respectively, but King Abdullah pardoned them in August 2005, Human Rights Watch said.

Al-Faleh's recent statement had been reproduced on menber-alhewar.info, al-Dumaini's Web site, according to Human Rights Watch.

In contrast to her husband's detention on Monday, al-Uqla said police in 2004 allowed her husband to call her just after his arrest.

Saudi authorities arrested blogger in December after he called for the release of a group of detained peaceful reform activities. He was released in April.

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This is one Muslim who is trying to make a difference and see how he is treated by the majority of his countrymen.

> This one is for Private Matt Maupin,

 a local soldier captured 4 yrs ago
> and listed as missing in action. His remains were finally discovered
> this past weekend March 29-30, 2008). He would have been 24 this July.
> The insurgants put him on video after they captured him and televised
> it. Shortly thereafter another video was seen of a soldier as he was
> beheaded. But his family firmly believed it wasnt him. All
> we know is that his remains have been found, whether or not he was
> actually beheaded, we dont know (and they complain about how we treat
> our captives). But his family now has closure. President Bush called
> and offered his condolences. Matt's family has been to the White House
> several times at the request of the President. His family is not mad
> that he went and sacraficed his life. They are extremely proud of him.
> His family and many of their friends even marched in our local annual
> Baseball Opening Day Parade on Monday, proudly carrying Flags in honor
> of their son.
>
>
> I think President John F. Kennedy expressed it rather well when he said,
> "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your
> country." God Bless Matt Maupin, and all of our soldiers, Veterans,
> past, present, future, living and deceased. Long Live Freedon.
>
>
> Let us pray...
>
>
> Prayer:
> 'Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect
> them as they protect us Bless them and their families for the selfless
> acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen.'
>
> Prayer Request: When you read this, please stop for
> a moment and say a prayer for our troops around the world. Of all the gifts you could give a Marine, Soldier,
> Sailor, Airman, & others deployed in harm's way, prayer is the very best
> one.
>

6 million Jews,

20 million Russians,

10 million Christians

and

1,900 Catholic priests

'NEVER HAPPENED'

Robin Williams 

 

Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.

Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)

'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.'

1) 'The US will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those ' good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?'

Professor Wichman E-mail

 

The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman.   Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association. The e-mail was in response to the students' protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist. The group had complained the cartoons were 'hate speech' Enter Professor Wichman. In his e-mail, he said the following: Dear Muslim Association, As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest. I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest inTurkey), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called 'whores' in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting inParisFrance. This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Muslims to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile 'protests.' If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - You are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option. Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans. Cordially, I. S. Wichman Professor of Mechanical Engineering As you can imagine, the Muslim group at the university didn't like this too well. They're demanding that Wichman be reprimanded and the university impose mandatory diversity training for faculty and mandate a seminar on hate and discrimination for all freshmen. Now the local chapter of CAIR has jumped into the fray. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, apparently doesn't believe that the good professor had the right to express his opinion. For its part, the university is standing its ground in support of Professor Wichman, saying the e-mail was private, and they don't intend to publicly condemn his remarks. ============================================================ Send this to your friends, and ask them to do the same. Tell them to keep passing it around until the whole country gets it. We are in a war. This political correctness crap is getting old and killing us.

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 ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ 
 By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez
 
 I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible
truth - Europe died in Auschwitz.
 We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims.
 In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent.
 We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced
 great and wonderful people who changed the world.

 The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art,
 international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world.
 These are the people we burned. And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove
 to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened
 our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance,
 religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an
 unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
 
 They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities
 into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.
 
 Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government,
 they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.
 
 And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred,
 creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and
superstition.
 
 We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and
 their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their
 determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death,
 for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others,
 for our children and theirs.
 
 What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe. 
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A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine

America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

Absolutely No Profiling! Pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following

multiple choice test.

 These events are actual events from history. They really happened!
 Do you remember?
 
 
 HERE'S THE TEST
 
  1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
 a. Superman
 b. Jay Leno
 c. Harry Potter
 d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40 
 
   2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred  by :
 a. Olga Corbett
 b. Sitting Bull
 c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
 d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 
 
   3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
 a. Lost Norwegians
 b. Elvis
 c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
 d . Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 
 
   4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
 a. John Dillinger
 b. The King of Sweden
 c. The Boy Scouts
 d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 
 
   5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
 a. A pizza delivery boy
 b. Pee Wee Herman
 c. Geraldo Rivera
 d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 
 
   6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old;
 American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
 a. The Smurfs
 b. Davey Jones
 c. The Little Mermaid
 d. Muslim male extremis ts mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 

   7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying
to rescue passengers was murdered by:
 a. Captain Kidd
 b.. Charles Lindberg
 c. Mother Teresa
 d. Muslim male extremists! mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 
 
   8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
 a. Scooby Doo
 b. The Tooth Fairy
 c. The Sundance Kid
 d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 
 
   9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
 a. Richard Simmons
 b. Grandma Moses
 c. Michael Jordan
 d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 
 
   10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
 a. Mr. Rogers
 b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems
 c. The World Wrestling Federa tion
 d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 
 
   11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to
take out
 the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US
 Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.
 Thousands of people were killed by:
 a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
 b. The Supreme Court of Florida
 c. Mr Bean
 d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 
 
   12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
 a. Enron
 b. The Lutheran Church
 c. The NFL
 d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
 
 
   13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
 a. Bonnie and Clyde
 b. Captain Kangaroo
 c. Billy Graham
 d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 
 
   No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?
 So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent
 on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile
 certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women,
 little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are
members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips,

and  Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males  between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
 
 Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and
 other dunder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart
 common sense, feel ashamed of themselves -- if they have any such sense .
 
 As the writer of the award winning story "Forrest Gump" so aptly put it,
 "Stupid is as stupid does."
 
 Come on people wake up!!! Keep this going. Our Country and our troops
 need our support.

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  I have received a few of these stories from people in different countries around the world and as I have been saying for a long time, people are finally waking up. It is time to put an end to this violent subversion of a religion. Racial profiling is a necessity in this day and age.

  If all this crime is being done by a certain section of our society, they are going to be highly scrutinized, like it or not.

  To all the naysayers, what if the shoe was on the other foot? What if whites were 99% behind a certain kind of heinous crime? You can double dam bet that all the whiners in the Muslim community would be asking for racial profiling of whites.

  Has anyone found out if Muslim countries racially profile white people and other races. I bet they do.

  Accept what is inevitable, Muslims. Every heinous mass murder and butchery on the face of the planet, just about, is perpetrated by Muslims.

  If I am wrong, I'd like to know where.

  This is Norm's view.