Breaking: Qatari Citizen Tries to Set Off Explosive Device on United Flight - Update: A False Alarm?

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Just coming over the news wires: a Qatari citizen is under arrest after allegedly attempting to set off an explosive device on United Flight 663, originating in Washington DC, headed to Denver …

UPDATE at 4/7/10 7:36:35 pm:

It may have been a Qatari diplomat who was smoking in the bathroom, then wised off to an air marshall about “lighting his shoes…”

UPDATE at 4/7/10 7:45:05 pm:

The suspect has been named: Mohammed Al Modadi, a third or fourth ranking diplomat in the Qatari embassy in Washington.

UPDATE at 4/7/10 8:02:48 pm:

Yep. It was a really, really bad joke by a diplomat with a very large chip on his shoulder. No explosives were found.

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183 comments
1 MPH  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:17:38pm

I’d like to know how did he got through security with explosives?

2 jamesfirecat  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:18:18pm

So was he tackled by a fellow passenger just like the last two guys?

3 Walter L. Newton  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:18:49pm

re: #2 jamesfirecat

So was he tackled by a fellow passenger just like the last two guys?

Where did you get that info?

4 jaunte  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:19:34pm

Flight 663 Air Marshal subdues Qatari citizen attempting to set off explosive device

5 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:19:45pm

Another failed explosive? Damn, we’ve been lucky so far.

6 brennant  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:20:22pm

Way to go Air Marshal! (if this is confirmed)

Wait, way to go ANYONE who takes that person down.

7 jaunte  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:20:25pm

re: #4 jaunte

Flight 663 Air Marshal subdues Qatari citizen attempting to set off explosive device


No reported injuries on United flight 663.
Link:
[Link: twitter.com…]

8 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:20:37pm

Hooray for the Air Marshall or Air Marshalls!

9 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:21:37pm

Man Attempts To Light Shoes On Fire On Flight To DIA

A passenger on a flight from Washington, D.C., to DIA reportedly tried to light his shoes on fire during the flight.

ABC News reports that federal air marshals on the flight stopped and restrained the man, who was a passenger on United flight 663 from Reagan National Airport to DIA Wednesday night. United flight 663 landed in Denver at 7:21 p.m.

According to ABC News, the man is from Qatar.


Shoe Jihad.

10 jaunte  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:22:52pm

re: #9 Killgore Trout
There’s a grim implication:

Two jet fighters flew in from Buckley Air Force Base to meet the flight as it flew the final 40 miles to Denver.
11 Charles Johnson  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:23:03pm

Radical Islamic groups are really trying hard to pull off an attack in the era of Obama. They know it would create serious political divisions in the US.

12 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:23:37pm

re: #10 jaunte

I think that’s part of the standard procedure since 9-11.

13 jaunte  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:24:34pm

re: #12 Killgore Trout

Yes, they’re not going to let the same scenario happen again without doing something to change the airliner’s course.

14 darthstar  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:24:58pm

Just posted this downthread in the comic section:

From Harper’s Index this month:
Average number of arrests made each year since 2001 by all 4,000 Federal Air Marshalls combined: 4
Federal spending this represents per arrest: $200,000,000

But when some asshole tries to blow up a plane and the marshalls stop him, that 200 million seems like a small amount of money.

15 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:25:21pm

re: #11 Charles

Radical Islamic groups are really trying hard to pull off an attack in the era of Obama. They know it would create serious political divisions in the US.

They are getting really sloppy. Poorly made explosives and they can’t get a well trained crew of 19 together anymore. Just a lone stooge with a dud bomb is the best they can muster these days.

16 Ojoe  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:25:24pm

This is a small example, and a warning, of what a certain state is trying to do with a much more powerful explosive; and why, pray tell, are we letting our enemies have a whole country where they can build any weapon, raise any army, and hatch any plot?

We are indeed either mad of foolish to the point of madness.

17 Stanghazi  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:26:02pm

First thought - thank God these guys are trying minor bombs.

Second thought - FUCK.

18 freetoken  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:26:14pm

re: #16 Ojoe

Don’t understand. Qatar?

19 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:26:14pm

re: #15 Killgore Trout

They are getting really sloppy. Poorly made explosives and they can’t get a well trained crew of 19 together anymore. Just a lone stooge with a dud bomb is the best they can muster these days.

Be grateful!

20 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:26:23pm

re: #1 MPH

I’d like to know how did he got through security with explosives?

There’s a scene in either AIRPLANE! or its sequel wherein we see people going through the security check at an airport. A stereotypical Little Old Lady goes through, and sets off the metal detector. Instantly, Security Officer Fife and pals violently tackle her and start putting the cuffs on. While they’re busy with that, a long line of stereotypical, keffiyeh and balaclava-clad PLO types casually stroll through, openly carrying their AK-47s, hand grenades, RPGs, and (IIRC) a wheelbarrow filled with blocks of plastique.

Unfortunately, that’s pretty much the way we’ve done things here since 9/11. All we know how to do is be reactive, and in only the least useful ways.

21 Ojoe  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:26:32pm

re: #18 freetoken

No, Iran.

22 darthstar  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:26:43pm

re: #11 Charles

Radical Islamic groups are really trying hard to pull off an attack in the era of Obama. They know it would create serious political divisions in the US.

They want the Bush type US goverment back…it was good for recruitment. All this reaching out to the international community makes them look bad by comparison. (I wish that was sarc)

23 Stanghazi  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:26:54pm

re: #18 freetoken

Don’t understand. Qatar?

Yeah.

24 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:27:00pm

re: #11 Charles

Sad to think that in this current climate of agitated wingnuttery, they (Islamic terrorists) might be able to do with one bomb what they could not do with the devastation unleashed on 9/11.

25 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:27:05pm

re: #19 Floral Giraffe

Be grateful!

Definitely.

26 justaminute  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:27:26pm

I thought I heard or read somewhere that they thought that even if the attempt was unsuccessful that it would still make us fear full.

27 freetoken  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:28:46pm

re: #15 Killgore Trout

I guess we should take it as a positive sign that terrorists have proven to be rather ineffectual lately, in the US anyway. We have demonstrated rather effective countermeasures.

I will not, however, hold my breath waiting for whoever is being driven by the bombing ideology to stop. I’ve reconciled that for as long as I live we will be dealing with this issue.

28 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:29:04pm

MSNBC is reporting that the Qatari is a diplomat.

United Flight 663, a Boeing 757 with 157 passengers and six crew members aboard, landed safely at Denver International Airport, airline and airport officials said.
Story continues below ↓advertisement %P% your ad here

Sources told NBC News that the passenger who was subdued was a Qatari diplomat.

And that could potentially explain how the guy got through security (note that 24 hour rule in effect on confirming identity of man involved).

29 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:29:42pm

Since the wingnuts are now what the liberal loony left was a few years ago who want’s to predict the right wing reaction? Inside job to expand power? Seekrit Muslim President? Weak appeaser? Evil Tyrant? the choices are endless.

30 jamesfirecat  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:29:43pm

re: #3 Walter L. Newton

Where did you get that info?

I didn’t get that info from anywhere, I’m asking if anybody knows why exactly this guy ended up failing…

31 Ojoe  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:29:49pm

re: #27 freetoken

I’ve reconciled that for as long as I live we will be dealing with this issue.

That is not the way some previous generations would have handled this.

32 darthstar  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:29:55pm

re: #9 Killgore Trout

Man Attempts To Light Shoes On Fire On Flight To DIA


Shoe Jihad.

Another shoeicide bomber.

33 Political Atheist  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:30:02pm

re: #28 lawhawk

Pilots go through security-Diplomats do not?!

34 Ojoe  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:30:29pm

re: #32 darthstar

You have coined a phrase there.

35 darthstar  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:31:47pm

re: #34 Ojoe

You have coined a phrase there.

I can’t take credit for it here…it was something I said after the Reid incident.

36 freetoken  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:32:21pm

re: #31 Ojoe

That is not the way some previous generations would have handled this.

Disagree. No previous generation in the US had to deal with this exact issue. And no, border skirmishes with Mexico are not the same thing. It is not the same as piracy either, which has always existed on the seas, and the reaction against which hasn’t really changed over centuries.

The ideologically driven suicide bomber cult, as a sustained movement, is new to us.

37 darthstar  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:32:25pm

re: #35 darthstar

I can’t take credit for it here…it was something I said after the Reid incident.

And it wasn’t mine originally…can’t remember who said it first.

38 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:32:37pm

Initial reports are often wrong but……

Air Marshals Stop Alleged ‘Shoe Bomb’ Attempt On United Jet to Denver

The suspect was identified by authorities as a diplomat in the Qatar embassy in Washington, Mohammed al Modadi. The FBI said the man had full diplomat immunity as the 3rd secretary and vice-consul.


I’m pretty sure this isn’t covered by diplomatic immunity.

39 jaunte  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:32:37pm

re: #29 Killgore Trout

Since the wingnuts are now what the liberal loony left was a few years ago who want’s to predict the right wing reaction? Inside job to expand power? Seekrit Muslim President? Weak appeaser? Evil Tyrant? the choices are endless.

Laying bets: 50% Weak appeaser, 10% Muslim President, 20% Evil Tyrant, 20% random other…

40 Charles Johnson  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:32:44pm

Hang on — it could be just a passenger acting like an asshole.

He’s probably wishing he hadn’t wised off to the air marshalls now.

Apparently it was a Qatari diplomat.

41 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:33:07pm

re: #28 lawhawk

MSNBC is reporting that the Qatari is a diplomat.

And that could potentially explain how the guy got through security (note that 24 hour rule in effect on confirming identity of man involved).

Other headline: Air Marshall stops splodydope from sploding. ROPMA

42 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:33:14pm

re: #29 Killgore Trout

I was going to go look, but I had to reformat my hard drive today, & it’s not fully protected. I’ll rely on the LGF snoopers to look!

43 Ojoe  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:33:27pm

re: #36 freetoken

The ideologically driven suicide bomber cult, as a sustained movement, is new to us.

We had better squash it before it gets nukes.

44 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:33:47pm

re: #29 Killgore Trout

Since the wingnuts are now what the liberal loony left was a few years ago who want’s to predict the right wing reaction? Inside job to expand power? Seekrit Muslim President? Weak appeaser? Evil Tyrant? the choices are endless.

Obviously The Terrorists have been emboldened by our pledge not to nuke Qatar. /

45 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:34:11pm

re: #38 Killgore Trout

Initial reports are often wrong but…

Air Marshals Stop Alleged ‘Shoe Bomb’ Attempt On United Jet to Denver


I’m pretty sure this isn’t covered by diplomatic immunity.

Me too. I don’t think it covers acts of war.

46 austin_blue  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:34:28pm

Qatar is 95% Sunni.

47 justaminute  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:35:01pm

re: #21 Ojoe

So far there has not been any suicide bombers from Iran yet. If there were the Ayatollah would be deceased.

48 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:35:08pm

“no explosives involved” revelation in 5… 4… 3… 2…

49 darthstar  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:35:12pm

re: #40 Charles

Hang on — it could be just a passenger acting like an asshole.

He’s probably wishing he hadn’t wised off to the air marshalls now.

Apparently it was a Qatari diplomat.

Qatari? Bomb Iran!!!! Wait…that’s the last administration’s strategy.

50 reine.de.tout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:36:24pm

re: #1 MPH

I’d like to know how did he got through security with explosives?

He has a diplomatic passport.
Diplomatic courtesy?

51 jamesfirecat  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:36:38pm

So wait an Air Marshal got this son of a bitch? Thank god, I’m tired of reading about how only the acts of a few brave bystanders can keep us from being blown to bits in mid air.

Not to demean or talk down to those brave people who rose above and beyond the call of duty to tackle people like Richard Reid, but as a democrat I’m glad to see a sign of governmental competence!

52 ~Fianna  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:36:48pm

re: #40 Charles

Hang on — it could be just a passenger acting like an asshole.

He’s probably wishing he hadn’t wised off to the air marshalls now.

Apparently it was a Qatari diplomat.

I wonder if he was being a jerk and smoking in the lav and didn’t realize he was mouthing off to law enforcement.

53 Escaped Hillbilly  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:37:08pm

re: #33 RightwingconspiratorHow they get through?.

54 Cato the Elder  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:37:33pm

See my post #20 on the last thread.

Some expenditures cannot be measured in dollars and cents.

55 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:37:43pm

re: #40 Charles

Hang on — it could be just a passenger acting like an asshole.

He’s probably wishing he hadn’t wised off to the air marshalls now.

Apparently it was a Qatari diplomat.

Could be but I’ve had a diplomatic passport before and they are fantastic. Many airports have separate lines and they aren’t allowed to search items designated as Diplomatic Pouch. It could be the method used to smuggle items onto a plane.

56 darthstar  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:37:49pm

re: #47 justaminute

So far there has not been any suicide bombers from Iran yet. If there were the Ayatollah would be deceased.

re: #38 Killgore Trout

Initial reports are often wrong but…

Air Marshals Stop Alleged ‘Shoe Bomb’ Attempt On United Jet to Denver


I’m pretty sure this isn’t covered by diplomatic immunity.

Simple solution: suspend diplomatic immunity - for everyone. Don’t just make it Qataris, or Iranians, or Saudis…include the English, Germans, French, Russians, Chinese…drop the whole fucking thing. Either they’ll send diplomats who can behave, or they won’t send anyone at all. And volunteer to hold our diplomats to the same standards overseas…so they know we’re not just being isolationist.

57 Obdicut  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:38:00pm

re: #40 Charles

Hopefully that’s the case.

However, if that does turn out to be true, the wingnuts aren’t going to believe it— it will turn into Obama covering up for the guy.

I’ll bet anyone $20 that if it wasn’t an actual incident and was a diplomat, that Obama is accused of covering up for a real attack.

58 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:38:00pm

re: #51 jamesfirecat

So wait an Air Marshal got this son of a bitch? Thank god, I’m tired of reading about how only the acts of a few brave bystanders can keep us from being blown to bits in mid air.

Not to demean or talk down to those brave people who rose above and beyond the call of duty to tackle people like Richard Reid, but as a democrat I’m glad to see a sign of governmental competence!

As a Republican, I’m glad to see a sign of governmental competence.

59 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:38:19pm

re: #50 reine.de.tout

He has a diplomatic passport.
Diplomatic courtesy?

Yup, that’s what I’m thinking.

60 Stanghazi  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:38:49pm

Hot headed passenger who did not have any explosives.


Guy on MSNBC.

Hold on, hold on.

61 austin_blue  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:38:51pm

This is comforting. I’m flying to Scotland tomorrow. Sheesh.

A_B: “Um, why is your shoe smoking?”

Perp: “Because I am no longer allowed to on your airlines, infidel.”

62 Charles Johnson  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:38:54pm

re: #57 Obdicut

Hopefully that’s the case.

However, if that does turn out to be true, the wingnuts aren’t going to believe it— it will turn into Obama covering up for the guy.

I’ll bet anyone $20 that if it wasn’t an actual incident and was a diplomat, that Obama is accused of covering up for a real attack.

Not gonna take that bet.

63 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:38:56pm

re: #51 jamesfirecat

Flights in and out of DC get a disproportionate number of air marshal attention because of the flight path through DC and high profile targets (to say nothing of various important passengers on board. Not that I’m complaining about it - just a good allocation of a limited resource. And it would appear that they got their guy before he could do any harm.

64 Stanghazi  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:40:12pm

Guy on MSNBC - “initial reports - guy was smoking, joked about lighting shoe on fire”

I’m just reporting - they may be wrong.

65 justaminute  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:40:20pm

re: #56 darthstar

That sound good but it will never happed since we have the UN here.

66 Charles Johnson  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:40:28pm

The officials know what happened already, I’m sure.

It’s looking more and more like an arrogant Qatari diplomat with a huge chip on his shoulder.

67 Spare O'Lake  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:40:44pm

re: #15 Killgore Trout

They are getting really sloppy. Poorly made explosives and they can’t get a well trained crew of 19 together anymore. Just a lone stooge with a dud bomb is the best they can muster these days.

Thank goodness this allegedly non-domestic alleged militant was allegedly not proficient.
///

68 jamesfirecat  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:41:50pm

Oh wow, that wasn’t even the 24 hour rule, more like the 24 minute one….

69 Cato the Elder  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:42:37pm

re: #66 Charles

The officials know what happened already, I’m sure.

It’s looking more and more like an arrogant Qatari diplomat with a huge chip on his shoulder.

Give him a rock and a pickaxe and let him chip away for about 20 years. With non-diplomats as bunkmates.

70 darthstar  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:42:46pm

re: #60 Stanley Sea

Hot headed passenger who did not have any explosives.

Guy on MSNBC.

Hold on, hold on.

No explosive. Tuning into fox to see how carefully they’re covering it…Greta “I just bit into a turd” Van Sustern talking about Value Added Tax…oh, wait…she’s got the story now…and now she’s saying there was no explosive. I’m sure by tomorrow they will have had the diplomat biting the heads off of babies.

71 jaunte  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:43:07pm

re: #66 Charles

That’s a relief.
What an odd, self-defeating trait for a diplomat.

72 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:43:20pm

re: #66 Charles

The officials know what happened already, I’m sure.

It’s looking more and more like an arrogant Qatari diplomat with a huge chip on his shoulder.

If that’s all it is, then he should be declared persona non grata and sent home on e the first available flight.

73 political lunatic  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:43:31pm

Ugh… Look out for this to become Undie Bomber 2.0 within the next 24 hrs.

74 Stanghazi  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:43:53pm

re: #73 political lunatic

Ugh… Look out for this to become Undie Bomber 2.0 within the next 24 hrs.

Will he get read his rights?????!!!!!/////

75 austin_blue  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:44:11pm

re: #68 jamesfirecat

Oh wow, that wasn’t even the 24 hour rule, more like the 24 minute one…

The original post was at 7:16 and Charles’ 66 was at 7:40.

24 minutes. Eerie…

76 Cato the Elder  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:44:15pm

re: #70 darthstar

No explosive. Tuning into fox to see how carefully they’re covering it…Greta “I just bit into a turd” Van Sustern talking about Value Added Tax…oh, wait…she’s got the story now…and now she’s saying there was no explosive. I’m sure by tomorrow they will have had the diplomat biting the heads off of babies.

FO, FU.

77 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:44:19pm

re: #66 Charles

I hope he gets spanked, just the same. You just don’t make those kind of “jokes” on a plane or in an airport. There was zero tolerance for that crap even before 9/11.

78 darthstar  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:44:38pm

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck….does this mean we have to listen to Rudy Giuliani for the next three weeks saying there was never an attack on US soil during Bush’s presidency again?

79 Charles Johnson  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:45:17pm

The suspect has been named: Mohammed Al Modadi, a third or fourth ranking diplomat in the Qatari embassy in Washington.

80 jamesfirecat  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:45:22pm

re: #75 austin_blue

The original post was at 7:16 and Charles’ 66 was at 7:40.

24 minutes. Eerie…

DO-DO-DO-DO-DOOOOOO!

Or however you write out that X-Files music…

81 Stanghazi  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:45:27pm

re: #78 darthstar

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck…does this mean we have to listen to Rudy Giuliani for the next three weeks saying there was never an attack on US soil during Bush’s presidency again?

Oh hahahaha

82 CarleeCork  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:46:00pm

re: #58 Dark_Falcon

As a Republican, I’m glad to see a sign of governmental competence.


As an American, I’m glad to see governmental competence.

83 avanti  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:46:07pm

F-16’s escorted the plane, we went to a high alert status, did most everything right, but thankfully it looks like a idiot joking.

84 Tigger2005  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:46:31pm

re: #11 Charles

Radical Islamic groups are really trying hard to pull off an attack in the era of Obama. They know it would create serious political divisions in the US.

In “Force 10 From Navarone,” Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford, under the direction of a British demolitions expert, place several charges deep inside a dam. Their plan is to blow the damn, sending tons of water slamming against the pilings of a bridge downstream, preventing the Germans from crossing with their heavy artillery and annihilating the partisans on the opposite shore.

Knowing that giving the charges a long fuse (giving them a chance to escape) will increase the chances of it being discovered and extinguished, they light a short fuse and walk slowly down the tunnel, fully expecting to die. But when the charges go off, it appears that nothing has happened. However, the explosions have created small cracks in the damn, upon which millions of tons of water begin to work.

Sometimes I wonder if 9/11 has been like that. Briefly it pulled us together, but now we are so deeply divided, I worry that another major attack will splinter us completely. Or maybe I’m wrong and it will draw us together again. In a sane world, that would be the natural thing to happen. Unfortunately, we now live in a Bizarro world where pundits who claim to love America work overtime to divide us, turn us against each other, in the name of ratings.

85 reine.de.tout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:47:16pm

re: #83 avanti

F-16’s escorted the plane, we went to a high alert status, did most everything right, but thankfully it looks like a idiot joking.

Do you see some reports of that somewhere?
Not questioning the accuracy of that, but I just want to see for myself.

86 austin_blue  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:47:18pm

Poor Nick Fury. His thread was shot to shit.

87 Mad Al-Jaffee  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:47:36pm

Great South Park tonight. Funniest episode of the season.

88 political lunatic  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:47:48pm

re: #78 darthstar

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck…does this mean we have to listen to Rudy Giuliani for the next three weeks saying there was never an attack on US soil during Bush’s presidency again?

You betcha! They will do anything they can to throw the fact that 9/11 happened under Bush’s watch down the memory hole.

89 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:47:54pm

re: #70 darthstar

Greta “I just bit into a turd” Van Sustern

Anyone know what OT level Greta has attained?

(In case you haven’t cared, Greta and her husband — himself an advisor to Sarah Palin — are both Scientologists)

90 avanti  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:48:00pm

re: #85 reine.de.tout

Do you see some reports of that somewhere?
Not questioning the accuracy of that, but I just want to see for myself.

CNN, just now.

91 shiplord kirel  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:48:06pm

re: #79 Charles

The suspect has been named: Mohammed Al Modadi, a third or fourth ranking diplomat in the Qatari embassy in Washington.

He can’t be prosecuted if he has diplomatic immunity, but he can be sent home. After that, he can expect a meeting with the foreign minister and a new post as chute cleaner at the local camel dung processing center.

92 reine.de.tout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:48:19pm

re: #85 reine.de.tout

Do you see some reports of that somewhere?
Not questioning the accuracy of that, but I just want to see for myself.

argh.
The news sites just have the most basic of information.
Basically - attempted but subdued.

93 jamesfirecat  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:48:26pm

re: #77 Slumbering Behemoth

I hope he gets spanked, just the same. You just don’t make those kind of “jokes” on a plane or in an airport. There was zero tolerance for that crap even before 9/11.

Not necessarily true.

I once, was on a tour of the Pentagon as part of my boyscout troop. At one point a bit outside the gift shop at the top of my lungs shouted “Don’t use that Vending machine, there’s a nuke in it! Like in that movie!” To one of my fellow scout, having recently scene sum of all fears.

Even for my ADHD brain it only took about 10 seconds to realize what stupid thing to say that was.

I am glad to say that no one beside members of my scout troop paid attention to what I had said.

Granted I was only 12-13 years old at the time, but still….

94 Escaped Hillbilly  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:48:46pm

re: #83 avanti

F-16’s escorted the plane, we went to a high alert status, did most everything right, but thankfully it looks like a idiot joking.

Send him the bill. Federal Air Marshall $20,000, 2 bomber escorts $2.6 mil, Karma for a Qtari, priceless.

95 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:48:56pm

re: #79 Charles

The suspect has been named: Mohammed Al Modadi, a third or fourth ranking diplomat in the Qatari embassy in Washington.

I don’t think he’ll be a diplomat in the US for much longer…

96 jamesfirecat  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:49:49pm

re: #86 austin_blue

Poor Nick Fury. His thread was shot to shit.

Lets just be glad for the real life Nick Furies who are keeping us safe from this kind of thing….

97 Charles Johnson  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:50:06pm

A shout out to LGF from Irshad Manji:

[Link: www.irshadmanji.com…]

98 Political Atheist  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:50:08pm

If that is just an asshole diplorat, uh diplomat- Send him home barefoot. Take away his shoes and socks and put him in an airport terminal to catch the very next plane home without his singed shoes.

99 austin_blue  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:50:33pm

re: #89 negativ

Anyone know what OT level Greta has attained?

(In case you haven’t cared, Greta and her husband — himself an advisor to Sarah Palin — are both Scientologists)

Has she gone on the Sea Cruise with Tom?

100 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:50:46pm

MSNBC reports that the guy was confronted by an air marshal emerging from a restroom after the marshal smelled smoke. The guy said something about his shoes, and it goes from there. More here.

101 reine.de.tout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:50:51pm

At MSNBC:

A half hour before landing, an air marshal smelled smoke and confronted a man emerging from a bathroom who claimed he was trying to set his shoes on fire, WNBC reported.

It was uncertain if anything actually was on fire or if this was a joke, NBC reported. Investigators were looking to see what might be in the man’s shoes.

Sources told NBC News that the passenger who was subdued was a Qatari diplomat who would have full diplomatic immunity.

After the pilot declared an emergency, military jets scrambled and escorted the jet into Denver, where the plane remains in a secure area, NBC affiliate WRC reported.

102 b_sharp  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:51:19pm

re: #95 Floral Giraffe

I don’t think he’ll be a diplomat in the US for much longer…

I doubt he’ll be a diplomat anywhere.

103 Political Atheist  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:51:44pm

re: #97 Charles

Nice. Bookmarked.

104 MandyManners  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:51:49pm

Good to see that Fact-Checking is approved and alive here.

105 jaunte  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:52:09pm

re: #97 Charles

Well said, Irshad Manji:

Rather than leap to the Left in disgust with the Right, Johnson announced his independence from the partisan puppeteers. His camp is his own. He belongs to his conscience.

Is it conformity if more us follow his lead? Just by thinking about it, you’ll be breaking ranks with the wingnuts. Because you’ll be thinking, period.

106 Stanghazi  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:52:09pm

See CNN - Anderson Cooper. According to this person it was a Quatar smoker making the worst joke possible on a plane.

107 albusteve  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:53:05pm

diplomats are mere people like me, with a different job….book ‘em

108 yenta-fada  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:53:28pm

re: #72 Dark_Falcon

To the rich emirates, we are pretty well a bunch of dumb infidels. They have encouraged extremism as long as it didn’t interfere with their luxurious lifestyles. They have oil and Indian workers. We’re just decadent Westerners. Apparently most of the Middle East is an irony free zone.

109 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:54:16pm

re: #97 Charles

Nice.

110 Cato the Elder  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:54:56pm

Meh. If it had been a real attack and a successful one, a) no F-16 escort would have made a shit-bit’s worth of difference, except to maybe shoot down the plane and have everything second-guessed from here to eternity, and b) the so-called left would have immediately gone haywire and authorized anything recommended by the shadow president, Karl Rove.

If it turns out to be a bad joke, a) the so-called left will use it as an excuse for letting a whole lot more Saudi students in on unsupervised visas, and b) there will be an immediate reduction in the number of air marshals.

And meanwhile, no matter who is president, the next, bigger, eviler 9/11 remains unstoppable.

Don’t thank me for telling you I told you so when it happens.

111 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:55:20pm

re: #100 lawhawk

Interesting.

112 albusteve  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:55:31pm

re: #109 Killgore Trout

Nice.

“I’m post wing”…I like it

113 austin_blue  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:55:49pm

re: #97 Charles

A shout out to LGF from Irshad Manji:

[Link: www.irshadmanji.com…]

Sweet!

114 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:56:04pm
But exactly because the fringe now has a disproportionately loud voice not only in Islam but also in American politics, it’s even more important not to get sucked into that vortex.

Take a cue from one of Charles Johnson. He runs a blog called LittleGreenFootballs. As The Daily Beast’s Jon Avlon notes, “Johnson had risen to prominence as a committed anti-jihadist — a cause he continues to fight. ‘I used to get pretty nasty emails from radical Islamists,’ he told me, ‘but the stuff I’m getting now from right-wingers is an order of magnitude worse.’“

Rather than leap to the Left in disgust with the Right, Johnson announced his independence from the partisan puppeteers. His camp is his own. He belongs to his conscience.

Is it conformity if more us follow his lead? Just by thinking about it, you’ll be breaking ranks with the wingnuts. Because you’ll be thinking, period.

Cheers to her!

115 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:56:45pm

re: #101 reine.de.tout

Maybe he was just trying to sneak a Marlboro and made a dumb ass crack about about his shoes when busted.

116 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:57:27pm

re: #112 albusteve

“I’m post wing”…I like it


The whole bird. I like it.

117 albusteve  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:57:28pm

re: #110 Cato the Elder

Meh. If it had been a real attack and a successful one, a) no F-16 escort would have made a shit-bit’s worth of difference, except to maybe shoot down the plane and have everything second-guessed from here to eternity, and b) the so-called left would have immediately gone haywire and authorized anything recommended by the shadow president, Karl Rove.

If it turns out to be a bad joke, a) the so-called left will use it as an excuse for letting a whole lot more Saudi students in on unsupervised visas, and b) there will be an immediate reduction in the number of air marshals.

And meanwhile, no matter who is president, the next, bigger, eviler 9/11 remains unstoppable.

Don’t thank me for telling you I told you so when it happens.

what?…is this an original thought?…of course we will be hit again

118 TampaKnight  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:57:50pm

I’m flying to Denver on Friday….I’ll bring my A game!

119 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:58:15pm

re: #115 Killgore Trout

Maybe he was just trying to sneak a Marlboro and made a dumb ass crack about about his shoes when busted.

Pretty stupid, if that’s the case.
He’s (hopefully) going to regret it for a long time!

120 pingjockey  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:58:47pm

Not a smart idea to make a wise crack to an air marshall about shoe bombs!

121 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:58:53pm

re: #97 Charles

A shout out to LGF from Irshad Manji:

[Link: www.irshadmanji.com…]

From that article:

Whenever I’m asked whose “camp” I pitch my tent in, I answer, “My own.” If the questioner persists, I elaborate: “Independent thinkers don’t belong to a ‘camp.’ They belong to their conscience.“


From some guy named Phomas Taine or something like that:

My own mind is my own church.
122 albusteve  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:59:07pm

re: #118 TampaKnight

I’m flying to Denver on Friday…I’ll bring my A game!

hit em hard and drive through them

123 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:59:16pm

re: #106 Stanley Sea

Yep, I just saw the same segment. Wise-assery to a Federal Air Marshall about bombs on a plane is NOT a good idea. What an idiot.

124 austin_blue  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:59:17pm

re: #100 lawhawk

MSNBC reports that the guy was confronted by an air marshal emerging from a restroom after the marshal smelled smoke. The guy said something about his shoes, and it goes from there. More here.

Hahaha! Those wacky Qataris! Always with the jokes.

125 Cato the Elder  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:59:25pm

re: #117 albusteve

what?…is this an original thought?…of course we will be hit again

Stop maligning me. I’ve never had an original thought in my life.

126 SanFranciscoZionist  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:59:26pm

re: #16 Ojoe

This is a small example, and a warning, of what a certain state is trying to do with a much more powerful explosive; and why, pray tell, are we letting our enemies have a whole country where they can build any weapon, raise any army, and hatch any plot?

We are indeed either mad of foolish to the point of madness.

Well, I’d like to see the Saudis set down a peg myself, but…

127 Killgore Trout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:00:28pm

re: #119 Floral Giraffe

Pretty stupid, if that’s the case.
He’s (hopefully) going to regret it for a long time!

Hopefully. Qatar has a lot of business interest and they need good relations with the West. They may waive diplomatic immunity as a good will gesture.

128 albusteve  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:00:40pm

re: #120 pingjockey

Not a smart idea to make a wise crack to an air marshall about shoe bombs!

he’s a diplonut…he’s immune…probably got a sack full of smack on board, maybe an Uzi

129 TampaKnight  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:01:42pm

CNN just changed their story to Qatar diplomat “jokes” about shoe bomb after being caught smoking.

You have to wonder just how stupid this guy was.

130 albusteve  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:01:44pm

re: #125 Cato the Elder

Stop maligning me. I’ve never had an original thought in my life.

heh…fuck that, just keep bringing it on…me and your Mom still love you

131 SanFranciscoZionist  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:01:55pm

re: #31 Ojoe

That is not the way some previous generations would have handled this.

Previous generations fought governments.

And we played games with the Sovs for a good long time.

132 freetoken  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:02:17pm

re: #125 Cato the Elder

I’ve never had an original thought in my life.

Has every thought that could be thought been thought?

133 pingjockey  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:02:55pm

re: #128 albusteve
We can revoke his diplomatic status, make him persona non grata and kick his ass back to the Persian Gulf.

134 Cato the Elder  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:02:56pm

Personally I’d be pleading for a little more “Arab profiling” onboard planes right now, except they seem to be doing that already.

Good on ‘em.

135 austin_blue  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:03:30pm

re: #132 freetoken

Has every thought that could be thought been thought?

Wow, I hadn’t thought of that. What if it’s true? Do our lives have any meaning?

Geez, what am I thinking?

136 albusteve  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:03:59pm

re: #133 pingjockey

We can revoke his diplomatic status, make him persona non grata and kick his ass back to the Persian Gulf.

his wife will be pissed…oh well

137 reine.de.tout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:04:18pm

re: #115 Killgore Trout

Maybe he was just trying to sneak a Marlboro and made a dumb ass crack about about his shoes when busted.

He needs one of those electronic nicotine delivery systems that looks and puffs just like a cigarette, only there’s nothing burning. I have one. Not particularly satisfactory, EXCEPT in dire nicotine-withdrawal situations.

138 Joo-LiZ  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:04:51pm

re: #132 freetoken

Has every thought that could be thought been thought?

I’ve had that thought at least a half-dozen times =P

139 SanFranciscoZionist  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:05:13pm

re: #79 Charles

The suspect has been named: Mohammed Al Modadi, a third or fourth ranking diplomat in the Qatari embassy in Washington.

I guess in Qatar you get the job through family, and don’t have to go to diplomat school?

140 albusteve  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:05:18pm

re: #132 freetoken

Has every thought that could be thought been thought?

(searching my Castaneda index)

141 Spare O'Lake  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:05:49pm

re: #117 albusteve

what?…is this an original thought?…of course we will be hit again

You heard it here first second 9,888th.

142 SanFranciscoZionist  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:06:32pm

re: #97 Charles

A shout out to LGF from Irshad Manji:

[Link: www.irshadmanji.com…]

HI, IRSHAD!!!

(I like Irshad Manji.)

143 reine.de.tout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:07:02pm

re: #142 SanFranciscoZionist

HI, IRSHAD!!!

(I like Irshad Manji.)

I do too. Been a fave of mine for quite some time.

144 Racer X  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:08:07pm

re: #129 TampaKnight

CNN just changed their story to Qatar diplomat “jokes” about shoe bomb after being caught smoking.

You have to wonder just how stupid this guy was.

Dry run.

145 Stanghazi  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:08:23pm

re: #137 reine.de.tout

He needs one of those electronic nicotine delivery systems that looks and puffs just like a cigarette, only there’s nothing burning. I have one. Not particularly satisfactory, EXCEPT in dire nicotine-withdrawal situations.

Do they allow those on planes? You could just do it next to your seat mate?

146 b_sharp  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:08:25pm

re: #125 Cato the Elder

Stop maligning me. I’ve never had an original thought in my life.

I hear they can be painful.

147 Cato the Elder  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:08:48pm

re: #132 freetoken

Has every thought that could be thought been thought?

Don’t even think that, or you’ll disappear into a quark up the ass of the Higgs boson.

148 Spare O'Lake  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:09:02pm

If this guy’s real surname turns out to be Reid I’m gonna be really pissed off.

149 Cato the Elder  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:09:48pm

re: #144 Racer X

Dry run.

Bullshit. Stupid is stupid, as you should know.

150 austin_blue  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:10:48pm

re: #144 Racer X

Dry run.

Doubt it. Just a self-important Sunni diplomat who didn’t buy the “smoke detectors in the bathroom” bit and was Jonesing for a Marlboro. “I have diplomatic immunity. Fuck off.”

151 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:11:02pm

re: #18 freetoken

Don’t understand. Qatar?

Zedushka and I were at JFK last year and we saw this ginormous double-decker Airbus 380 from “Qatari Airways” which means it must have been some prince’s flying yacht. It was being towed away from the jetway so that our little Delta connection (a little Canadair that looked like a bug next to this 380) flight could board.

Ha ha, we Jewed up the jetway.

152 astronmr20  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:11:48pm
Yep. It was a really, really bad joke by a diplomat with a very large chip on his shoulder. No explosives were found.


Ass.


Hole.

153 SanFranciscoZionist  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:11:50pm

re: #123 CuriousLurker

Yep, I just saw the same segment. Wise-assery to a Federal Air Marshall about bombs on a plane is NOT a good idea. What an idiot.

He could have gotten the whole damn plane shot down with himself in it—which I assume is the only part that matters to someone this arrogant.

Eejit.

154 Racer X  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:12:05pm

re: #149 Cato the Elder

Bullshit. Stupid is stupid, as you should know.

Heh.

Humor is humor.

Except when it evades you.

;-)

155 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:12:28pm

re: #133 pingjockey

We can revoke his diplomatic status, make him persona non grata and kick his ass back to the Persian Gulf.

And we should do so.

156 b_sharp  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:12:45pm

re: #143 reine.de.tout

I do too. Been a fave of mine for quite some time.

Her comments look quite interesting.

I wonder if she has considered atheism.

157 reine.de.tout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:13:28pm

re: #145 Stanley Sea

Do they allow those on planes? You could just do it next to your seat mate?

There is no smoke.
There is no burning.
There is no smell.

The thing looks like a cigarette and you “puff” on it like a cigarette.
It’s battery-powered to give you a puff of STEAM, not smoke.

158 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:14:15pm

I wonder if this had anything to do with the “out of fuel” emergency pit stop on my kids’ flight this afternoon. It took 2 hours for them to refuel, and then, they left my daughter’s luggage in Detroit!

She’s really pissed now.

159 Fionn MacCumhaill  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:15:08pm

It will be interesting to she what happens to this idiot when he gets home. If the management in Qatar sees him as having brought shame or embarrassment onto Qatar, his return home could be the end of more than just a diplomatic career.

His fate will tell us a lot about elite Qataris think about the West.

160 Stanghazi  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:15:30pm

re: #157 reine.de.tout

There is no smoke.
There is no burning.
There is no smell.

The thing looks like a cigarette and you “puff” on it like a cigarette.
It’s battery-powered to give you a puff of STEAM, not smoke.

I would guess the person sitting next to you would freak out regardless.

I need to look into this thingy.

161 reine.de.tout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:15:44pm

Cato are you still here?
Did you see the response I gave you about how much space you have?
Basically, pretty much as much as you want.
The book size is about 6x8.

162 reine.de.tout  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:17:14pm

re: #160 Stanley Sea

I would guess the person sitting next to you would freak out regardless.

I need to look into this thingy.

The person next to you would be more likely to freak out simply because you are, shudder, a nicotine addict.

Really - there is no smoke, no burning, no smell, no nothing. When you “puff” on it, nicotine is delivered through a little puff of unscented steam, right to you and only to you.

163 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:28:04pm

re: #153 SanFranciscoZionist

He could have gotten the whole damn plane shot down with himself in it—which I assume is the only part that matters to someone this arrogant.

Eejit.

I can’t decide which boggles my mind more; his arrogance or his stupidity. I’m sure he just cost himself what’s probably a pretty cushy job. I hope whoever he answers to chews him up and spits him out before sending him home. Or tells him, as my dad used to say, “They’re gonna have to take both of us to the hospital because they’re gonna to have to cut my foot out of your ass.”

IMO, there shouldn’t be diplomatic immunity for that kind of crap.

164 Escaped Hillbilly  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:39:36pm

Colbert is on…he just had Jeff (rabbi) Goldblum perform the snip on a marlboro (removing the filter).

165 Escaped Hillbilly  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 8:42:26pm

re: #159 Fionn MacCumhaill

It will be interesting to she what happens to this idiot when he gets home. If the management in Qatar sees him as having brought shame or embarrassment onto Qatar, his return home could be the end of more than just a diplomatic career.

His fate will tell us a lot about elite Qataris think about the West.


Alot of people seem to think so. But I would think not. He’ll probably get home and get little more than a private tongue lashing. Then the Qatar government will lodge a formal complaint against the US for our shameful abuse of their diplomat at which point Obama will have a lower level dimplomat issue a formal apology and promise a review of the Air Marshall program.

166 Dookiestain LaFlair  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 9:49:48pm

We must crush Islamic terrorism before they doom our chances to leave the planet before the sun expands. They will not build starships or explore advanced physics. The gods wager on our fate, will we escape this oblate spheroid or perish in expanding ball of flame?

167 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 9:50:52pm

re: #166 Dookiestain LaFlair

GAZE

168 Querent  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 9:57:05pm

re: #166 Dookiestain LaFlair

d00d, who said we ALL had to escape the planet? Those whose faith bars them from boarding the Arks shall not be forced!

(dammit, where’d i put that fresh batch of sarc tags?)

169 Escaped Hillbilly  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 10:01:15pm

re: #168 Querent
I’m for attaching giant rockets to the Earth and jetting off for the next class 9. Why leave home to explore the Galaxies?

170 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 10:02:17pm

re: #166 Dookiestain LaFlair

Newsflash: Here in the U.S., islam is not the major religious force knee-capping scientific progress.

re: #168 Querent

d00d, who said we ALL had to escape the planet?

These guys.

Then Against My Better Judgment I Went Walking Out That Door.
I Smiled At One Person Then I Nodded To Three More.
One Man Asked Me For A Dollar, I Asked Him, “What’s It For?”
He Said, “I Have Seen Them.” I Said, “O.K., It’s Yours.”

171 Dookiestain LaFlair  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 10:08:11pm

re: #170 Slumbering Behemoth

The US is not the only one making scientific progress, we must protect the Hadron Collider. We need to build Marauder-class power armor before it is too late.

172 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 10:08:51pm

re: #171 Dookiestain LaFlair

Been playing Warhammer 40K a bit too much?

173 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 10:11:40pm

re: #171 Dookiestain LaFlair

We’d have our own Hadron Collider already if not for the aforementioned, non-muslim religious forces at work here in the U.S.

174 Querent  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 10:17:06pm

re: #169 Escaped Hillbilly

I’m for attaching giant rockets to the Earth and jetting off for the next class 9. Why leave home to explore the Galaxies?

you be stylin’ mon. i like it.

175 Dookiestain LaFlair  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 10:21:56pm

re: #173 Slumbering Behemoth

Maybe some otters just need something to believe in. We should leave them to ride atop the backs of their ostriches in peace while we advance the future of our species.

176 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Apr 7, 2010 10:25:18pm

re: #175 Dookiestain LaFlair

Maybe some otters just need something to believe in. We should leave them to ride atop the backs of their ostriches in peace while we advance the future of our species.

OK. Now I’ll upding you for the South Park reference.

177 michaelgh  Thu, Apr 8, 2010 12:18:47am

How is ANYONE dumb enough to smoke in aeroplane toilets?

178 jordash1212  Thu, Apr 8, 2010 12:34:20am

Diplomatic Immunity: 1
Air Marshalls: 0

179 Univac  Thu, Apr 8, 2010 4:45:23am

So if he was smoking in the bath room, what happened to the smoke detectors? Are they just for show?

180 PAUL_MACDONALD  Thu, Apr 8, 2010 5:48:47am

No explosives? Or is that what they want you to think? Cue dog with shifty eyes and scene!

/there shouldn’t be a need

181 wiffersnapper  Thu, Apr 8, 2010 6:07:17am

Wow, what a buffoon.

182 spiderbucket  Thu, Apr 8, 2010 6:40:01am

Why don’t people who do stupid things like this ever face REAL consequences ? How many idiots have we heard about since 9-11 that have caused airports to get shut down, planes diverted, and jets scrambled ? It pisses me off that they get away with wasting time, resources and money with their behavior.

183 doubter4444  Thu, Apr 8, 2010 5:14:39pm

re: #166 Dookiestain LaFlair

We must crush Islamic terrorism before they doom our chances to leave the planet before the sun expands. They will not build starships or explore advanced physics. The gods wager on our fate, will we escape this oblate spheroid or perish in expanding ball of flame?

I thought that was kinda funny.
In a nerdy kinda way.


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