Is Racial Profiling Wrong?

9-11, Madrid Train Bombing, London Subway Bombing, Explosion outside of Glasgow Airport, cars filled with Petroleum and Gasoline... all have one thing in common: These plans were planned, perpetuated, and opperated globally by one religious group-- Radical Muslims. 

The West and the Middle East are at a breaking point.  Unfortunantely the world does not seem to recognize this fact.  According to this stream of thinking (perpetuated by Al-qaeda and other extreme offshoots of Islam), there are only 2 sides to this struggle: "The House of Islam" and the "the House of Unbelievers". 

The thing that I find so disturbing, is this ideology has captivated and enslaved almost an entire generation of new believers.  Young and old alike are conforming to this Islamic philosophy that is completely with odds and even militantly hostile with the Western Thought.  (Not that I believe Western Ideology is correct, for there are many fallacies within it, however the strain of thought as it exists today is not militant... : just to clarify the US invasion against Iraq was not a battle against an ideology as it was a battle against a dictator.  Lets not forget the fact, Sadam = Bad.  Thankfully the militant western ideology that did exist in the British Empire in the 1800s as seen through the Opium Wars is now dead.  It was horrible by the way.  Sorry for this elongated rabbit trail).

In the latest development--muslim doctors, healers of people, have planned not only in Great Britain but also in the United States, to rain destruction upon people.  Just Recently Al-zawari (Al-qaeda's #2), prophecized about the "West's" immediate and apparent demise.  Not "The United States" or "Great Britain", but the entire West. 

It pains me to even think this way, but do we need racial profiling: USA, Canada, Great Britain, China... etc. etc.

Many of you should know that I am not entirely pleased with my country.  I think Congress is completely inept, and the misteps of my President (whom I support even with mixed feelings on Iraq) is continunally blasted across the printed and televised media.  Does anyone else, with the exception of Bush and all of his mistakes, take the threat of radical Islam seriously? 

How do you stop or prevent Radical Islam from spreading?  Was 9-11 really our fault-- (we were'nt in Iraq then.)   How do you reason with a group of people who only want to see our demise?  How do you weed out the peaceful strain of Islam from the destructive form of it? 

From someone who is a strong supporter of Hispanic Immigration to the United States and in favor of reforming the old out-dated system... (someone who is strongly in favor of rights for minorities) I must ask this question-- Are there any more options set apart from racial profiling? 

I fear change is coming.  Our way of life is changing--either from the inside or the outside.  The apparent question that remains now is which force will produce the most change? 

Mankind Messes up Survival of the Fittest... Either Way We are Screwed without a Creator

Meet Dancer, soon to be named the "world's smallest dog." 

Measuring in at nearly four inches tall, Dancer is smaller than the previous record holder by nearly 1.4 inches. 

While some might think this little bar of fluffy fur is cute, I see a genetically flawed animal--that if left to procreate it will spread it's bad genes. No, I'm not intentionally trying to be cynical on this saturday morning (I will be flying from Hong Kong today back to the US), but I'm being realistic. 

If Dancer was left to surrive in the nature, it would probably have be eaten by a domestic house cat.   There is no way that the subspecies of Chihuahua (no matter how revered by ditzy, and often slutty, female celebritites) would surrive. 

The Chihuahua in fact is a genetically flawed dog.  From the creationist or the evolutionist perspective, the earliest ancestor of the dog was proably some sort of combination of wolf-dog species.  It contained the genetic blue prints for all the varieties in dogs we see today.  However, as time has paseed, genes have mutated (through errors in transcription or deletion.. never through addtion), and henceforth some species of dogs are now reduced to a few inches larger a blade of grass. 

Even if the Chihuahua were to breed with a Great Dane (a feat which would be mightly impressive), it would still carry on its "flawed" genes to the offspring.  Therefore with each generation, the genes for the genetically flawed Chihuahua are passed on. 

Unfortunately, mankind is directly responsible for messing up the natural flow of the "survival of the fittest", and to tell you the truth, we always have been.  From our intervention with dogs, to our destruction of the environments and ecosystems of wild animals, we have been selectively choosing which species or subspieces will survive and which ones will become extinct.  This only serves to mean that the subspieces of Chihuahua is safe for a long time. 

However, there are deeper consequences to mans actions.  By our intervention in the natural selection process, mankind is actually weakening the gene pool and making humanity more susceptible to disease.  Most people look at plagues and diseases as a bad thing.  I hate getting the flu every bit as much as the next person.  However, a more powerful force of nature is at work--determination in self preservation.  Man reduced to his most rudimentary form, has always been bent on suriving... at the cost of others.  

Lets face it, mankind truly cares about one thing--themselves.  At the heart of every individual is a greedy, selfish, self-centered, prideful being who really doesn't give a worth about anyone other than themselves.  Now there are some self-less people out there, BUT, the natural tendency of mankind is to look out for themselves first, and if there is room for anything else, than others come later.   

What does this mean in terms of natural selection?  While I mentioned earlier, that most humans hate diseases, getting sick, disease has always been a method of weeding out the human population.  In order to circumvent this process, man began studying geneticsm, medicine, and the other sciences in hopes of a cure for many diseases.  While science has been sucessful in eradicating (or reducing) some diseases, it has never reduced man's suceptibility in catching the disease.  In fact, what science has done is actually increased man's suceptibility for these diseases by watering down the human genetic pool. 

People who would naturally not survive a plague, through medicine, are given injections, popped full of pills until they pull through.  A great survival story if you will... but not without its consequences!  According to Darwin, that person was weak, and the disease would have been the natural process in weeding out the weakest individuals so the society could survive healthy and fit.  But, through medicine, that person survives, only to pass on his weaker, and more susceptible genes onto further generations.  Yes you are hearing me correctly.  While we might build up immunities, we are actually increasing the chances that the human race will be susceptible to diseaese. 

So on and so forth.  The big picture is that mankind is directly responsible for destroying the process of natural selection.  Yes, there you have it, man's self-preservation is actually crumbling the very genetical fibers of its future offspring.  Trully we are a flawed species.  All that being said, thankfully there is a creator who can get us out of this mess... because without him, I don't see how the human race could survive for so long. 

Smelly People

Have you ever noticed that some people smell worse than others?  The thing that I've noticed, is that Indian males generally smell pretty bad.  This has nothing to do with them not showering, but it is my understanding that many do not wear deoderant. 

Sometimes, I can just be walking when suddenly I am struck by a pungent odor... this is my cue that I must be near a Indian.  Now this may seem like a horribly stereo-typical thing to say.  I'm not saying all Indians smell bad, in fact I know that they don't-- because I have some Indian friends.  However, many in Hong Kong do not smell pleasant.  Chinese people in general do not have bad oders, even female Indians do not smell unpleasant, but it just seems to be localized with male Indians.  There are other people who smell bad as well. 

Once I was on a train (subway for those in America)--MTR for those in Hong Kong, and I was taken for nasal knockout.  Next to me was a Buddhist monk, and by the smell of it, I don't think he had showered in weeks.  I very well might have become a champion breath-holder in record time. 

Other people smell also.  In America, I think freshman (in high school) often have a problem with deoderant.  There seems to be consensus in teachers.  We believe that the students just don't realize that their bodies are changing.  Henceforth, they have a need for deoderant. 

So how do you politely tell someone that they need deoderant because they smell? 

This man is a Hero

President Bush has anointed the first hero of the Virginia Tech massacre.

Liviu Librescu threw his body in front of the door to his classroom while his student escaped through the windows. Cho Seung-Hui was on the other side, trying to make another stop in his shooting spree at Norris Hall that left 30 dead.

Mr. Librescu was apparently hit by a bullet that pierced the classroom door, USAToday wrote.

“We take strength from his example,” the president said today at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.

The location was fitting because Professor Librescu, who was 76, survived the Holocaust, only to be killed on Yom Hashoah, the international day that commemorates Holocaust victims,” The Times story on the victims said.

Across the Web, many others have paid tribute to the professor. One report was recommended by almost 3,000 users at Digg, a social news site.

While his life included important achievements on aeronautical engineering, his role in two moments in history called out for a connection, which a blogger at Powerline made with grace:

More than sixty years after his liberation, the rescued became the rescuer.