Catching Up,....

First, congratulations to Ryan Howard on breaking Mike Schmidt's season home run record! If Howard doesn't get league MVP, something is very wrong with the state of baseball (other than juicers like Barry Bonds being allowed to play the game).

Second ( and third), some sad passings this week:

• Glenn Ford, man's man and actor's actor at age 90.
• Pittsburgh, PA Mayor Bob O'Connor, cut down too early in life by brain cancer.

Finally,....why we should continue to profile terrorists:

Al Qaeda No. 2 Releases Tape Inviting Americans to Convert to Islam
Sunday, September 03, 2006

CAIRO, Egypt — An American who allegedly joined Al Qaeda appeared in a videotape along with the terror group's deputy leader on Saturday, calling on Americans to covert to Islam and for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars.
The TrekMedic thinks "Quisling!"

The 48-minute video, posted on an Islamic militant Web site, had footage of Al Qaeda's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri and of Adam Yehiye Gadahn, a 28-year-old American who the FBI believes attended Al Qaeda training camps in Pakistan and served as an Al Qaeda translator.

It was the second time Gadahn has appeared in the same video with al-Zawahiri. In a July 7 video marking the one-year anniversary of bombings against the London transit system, Gadahn appeared briefly, saying no Muslim should "shed tears" for Westerners killed by Al Qaeda attacks.

Saturday's message came days before the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States.