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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 08:14 AM
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wait a minute ... I keep hearing a lot of the RWers saying that "political correctness"
keeps security from catching potential terrorists ... then I thought about it ... and looked up a few things.

Hmm ... the "underpants bomber" was black ... from Nigeria ... traveled initially from Nigeria.

How would "political correctness" have picked out a "black" man, in the middle of a largely "black" crowd of fliers?

Then, I thought about something else I found on the Wikipedia article about the bomber.

Educated in Engineering, earning a degree in mechanical engineering in June 2008, earned an MBA (hmm, where else have we heard about MBAs being a measure of greatness?) ... that's interesting, because I keep hearing about how it's the "uneducated, illegal immigrants" we are afraid of ... sounds like a mechanical engineer would have been a highly sought after employee, especially if he's not familiar with the pay rates of citizens in the U.S. ...
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 08:34 AM
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1. Whenever a nig- um, I mean BLACK person is allowed to comit a crime
Or allowed to go to college, buy a house or get a good job, it's "political correctness".
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