I was out and about earlier with the scanner on. What I heard shocked me, and it’s darn hard to shock me.

Rochester NY city fire was dispatched to a “fumes in the house” call. As the engine company responded, it was advised by the dispatcher that there was a note on that address. The note advised that “this address is a known, fortified drug house” and that it may be “boobytrapped by the occupant to injure responders”.

They waited outside for the police and all seems to have turned out ok.

Earlier today I posted about Latasha Shaw, who was stabbed to death by a mob, at rush hour, at one of the busiest intersections in the city. And no one saw anything.

Why on earth are we worrying about a few hundred deaths in Iraq each year when a hundred times that number are killed in our cities? Why are we concerned about Iraq when there are places in America that firefighters and EMT’s cannot go alone, without police escort?

We could load up every minority male in our inner cities between the ages of 16 and 30, ship them to Iraq, and they’d be safer.

Where are the liberals? Where are the Democrats? Where is Al Shapton and Jesse Jackson?

When will a candidate for President say “I will end the killings in our inner cities!”