Various things to go over in my 1st blog post of 2010
1) This past Christmas, another suicide/homicide bomber attempted to blow up a plane! He was tackled once the other passengers sense what he was about to do!
This bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to light explosives hidden in his underpants, which gave him the nickname "The Underpants Bomber".
Anytime something like this happens, some people say really stupid things in a pathetic attempt to express "hey look at me everyone, I'm defying political correctness!"
In the past, people would say "racially profile Muslims, they're the ones bombing stuff!" Hello, Muslims are NOT a race, they're a religious group!
Yes, Islam started in the Middle East, but it spread to Africa, eastern Europe, South Asia and Southeast Asia!
So people were saying "racially profile Arabs!" The Underpants Bombers would NOT have been caught that way, because he's not Arab, he's from Nigeria!
Even a really white European-American could join the jihad cause! Remember John Walker Lindh! He was the European-American convert to Islam that joined Al Qaida and was captured by US troops in Afghanistan!
While Islam has a larger share of violent fanatics than most other religions, you don't even have to be Muslim to be mad at the world to blow up something!
None of the school shooters in the US had any affiliations with Islam! They were just mad at the world, and were willing to kill others and get killed!
Also, this "racially profile Arabs" nonsense has put many Latin Americans in the crossfire! This is because many Latin Americans have light brown skin, just like many in the Middle East!
I mean, people have asked me "are you from Iraq?" or "are you from Afghanistan", even though I am only of Mexican, Puerto Rican and European ancestry!
Latin Americans are mostly Catholics! Their cultures are extremely different from Middle Eastern cultures, they're from different parts of the planet, yet they're caught in the crossfire just for having similar colored skin!
2) As for airport security, another controversy is body scanners, where those looking at the computer screen can see under your clothes to look for possible explosives!
While many worry that perverts might apply to work those body scanners, it's probably not as uncomfortable as being patted down! Nothing makes people more uncomfortable than being patted down! Plus, pat downs can only find so much!
So we might as well just live with body scanners at this point!
3) DIFFERENT TOPIC
Last week Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake!
And again, stupid things are being said about it!
Ultra-conservative preacher Pat Robertson said this
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017511878
"Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," he said. "They were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you'll get us free from the French.' "True story. And the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal,'" Robertson said. "Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another."
The host of "The 700 Club" also said that Haitians need to have a "great turning to God."
This isn't the 1st time Pat Robertson said something stupid after a tragedy. After the 9/11 attacks, Robertson expressed agreement when Jerry Falwell blamed homosexuals, abortionists, feminists and the ACLU for angering God, leading to 9/11!
Other ultra-conservative Christians believe that natural disasters are punishments from God! They thought Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment to New Orleans for hosting gay parades and wild street parties! They thought the 2006 Asian tsunami was God's punishment for those people being Muslims, Hindus, or Buddhists!
Yet, they have nothing to say when the US Great Plains, where many conservative Christians live, get hit with tornadoes!
Natural disasters don't discriminate by religion! They just happen regardless of who's around! After all, they happened milleniums before humans existed!
4) Danny Glover blamed global warming for the Haiti earthquake!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/15/danny-glover-haiti-earthq_n_425160.html
"What happened in Haiti could happen to anywhere in the Caribbean because all these island nations are in peril because of global warming," Glover said. "When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I'm sayin'?"
Another ridiculous statement!
Global warming is about the atmosphere getting warmer!
But earthquakes don't result from what happens in the atmosphere. Earthquakes result from what happens underground!
This is basic earth science! You're supposed to know that by the time you reach middle school!
5) Even this global warming controversy makes me skeptical!
If the Earth is getting warmer, why was it in the recent Orange Bowl, the announcers kept saying it's the coldest temperatures the game was played in?
If the Earth is really getting warmer, it was supposed to be the hottest conditions the game was played in, not the coldest!
In fact, Florida had near freezing temperatures earlier this month!
Al Gore keeps saying the debate over global warming is over! Well, obviously, the debate is nowhere near over!
6) DIFFERENT TOPIC
While most of us call 2010 a beginning of a new decade, there's still some who insist that the new decade starts at 2011, and that this millenium started in 2001, blah, blah, blah!
Look, when we're talking about the 1990's, we're talking about 1990-1999, NOT 1991-2000! When we're talking about the 1980s, we're talking about 1980-1989, NOT 1981-1990!
So those who angrily insist 2010 isn't a start of a new decade, GET A LIFE!
7) Running out of time!
Time permitting, I'll soon write about what I think about Obama's 1st year in office! Stay tuned!
