Did you know that there should only be a 1/2 ton variation at most between your A/C unit’s condensing unit and its evaporative coil?

(crickets chirping)

Neither did I. I know, I know – is this so esoteric that no one out there understands the risk involved? Well, as it turns out Fidelity Home Warranty cares (and I’ll blog more about that tomorrow), which is why it took me until 2 PM this afternoon to even find out that a major terrorist attack involving planes between Great Britian and the U.S. was foiled today with the help of British and Pakistani intelligence.

So now everyone from grandmothers of 85 to pre-teens are being forced to toss their waters, sports drinks, hair gels, and perfumes in the trash – all because a group of Muslim extremists wanted to hide plastic explosives inside sports drinks?

Question: I hope you’ll pardon the logical thinking here – and you better not accuse me of being a racist here or I’ll find you and cut you where you live – but wouldn’t it be easier to simply aggressively search all airline passengers of Muslim descent? Look, I know that not every Muslim is a terrorist or even a budding terrorist, but I don’t think I’m divulging any great secret here when I say that 99% of all terrorist acts throughout the world involve Muslim extremists of one form or another. Sure, it would be a sad, unfortunate, and inconvenient thing for sure for Muslims who simply want to use air travel to go from point A to point B, but, for God’s sake, anyone with a brain would have to understand why they should be under greater scrutiny than, say, Aunt Dolly from Knoxville, TN going to visit kin in Portland, OR – right?

BTW, Michelle Malkin has every – and I do mean EVERY – angle covered on the terrorist plot story and other potential terrorist-related activities here in the U.S., including this update by Annie Jacobson on a mighty suspicious and frightening experience she had on a flight from Detroit to L.A. back in 1994, and other stuff here, and here.

Today’s headlines a yet another reminder that the Global War on Terror is not over by a longshot, and it has nothing to do with Iraq. Politically, today is nothing less than Howard Dean’s, Nancy Pelosi’s, and Harry Reid’s worst nightmare.