Chomsky child

Gosh, she was just using `performance art' to ``speak truth to power'

whats the big deal?

/do I really need to?

Any relation to OJ? They seem to share a common stupidity.

A real Star pupil.

More edgy art.

Sometimes, you have to be that smart to be that dumb.

If she had died, she'd have rated right up their with St. Pancake for idiot manuevers.

Shocked? I'm shocked that the authorities at Logan managed to stop her from boarding considering that they haven't exactly been proficient in tests run by the TSA. It's an improvement I guess.

She's lucky that she wont spend a good long time in prison for her stunt. I don't forsee a long prison sentence in her future - this is Mass. after all.

'Tas her, bro!

Art disguised as stupidity?

Stupidity disguised as art?

Probably read the Darwin Award books and thought they were seemed to be disproportionately represented by White Males from the South and sought a bit of affirmative action. Better luck next time.

...lotsa idiots on their way to school in Boston...don't kid yourselves folks...

FACISM! POLICE STATE! SUPRESSION OF FREE SPEECH!

/shouldn't have to explain this one.

Another case of "So smart that you're stupid."

When asked by reporters, Ms. Simpson said that this was an art project and that she wanted to stand out on career day.

Good luck getting hired now, idiot.

Maybe she's a Ron Paul fan like Taser Boy.

Art Attack!

re: #1 chinesearithmetic

Jeez hadn't even finished reading the arty and had the same thought.
/groupthink?

Think how much money my parents saved by sending me to a state university. Smart runs in my family! Not so much in hers.

Can you imagine the poop that would have hit the fan if this had gone down badly. What are these people thinking? Or are they at all? Star Simpson? Is that Homer's illegitimate offspring with a moonbat? Cull the gene pool, I say.

Man that was almost a Darwin award winner.
Performance art. Feh.

“She claims that it was just art, and that she was proud of the art and she wanted to display it.”

A mind is a terrible thing to waste, good thing she doesn't have one.

She was wearing this shirt when they arrested her.

MIT Student: But, but, but it was only art work and I should be allowed to express myself as I see fit. How dare you pull your guns on me in such a violent manner. I am the victim here. Where is the outrage at the system that abuses me in such a manner.

What a ultra maroon...

re: #13 Loki_1972

Another case of "So smart that you're stupid."

When asked by reporters, Ms. Simpson said that this was an art project and that she wanted to stand out on career day.

Good luck getting hired now, idiot.

Never underestimate the power of stupidity. She's probably sent a resume in to Moveon.org by now.

Art?
We have a student desperately unclear on the concept. She needs more schooling.

JWM

Soce Voce

"We've secretly replaced this art students fake bomb vest with the real thing. Let's see if she can tell the difference."

/'80's coffee commercial

There's a pic of the "art" here...
MIT student arrested at Logan in bomb scare

I'd figure this would be tried the same as someone who yells fire in a crowded building. I forget the legal term, but most courts dont find it funny.

I bet her parents are proud.

/ How much does a semester at MIT cost?

How big was the NEA grant she got to produce this work?

re: #22 Ringo the Gringo

Gringo owes me a keyboard

Dear Ms. Simpleton,

See you in 20 years.

I'm assuming Star Simpson is a love child of Homer Simpson.

art is so subjective isnt it?

Oh, she'll get a job. Don't worry. There are plenty of pandering organizations who will thank her for being "Edgy" and "Post-Modern." My favorite term I've seen pop up is "Post-Human."

Right.

She is living proof that you can have an IQ high enough to qualify for MIT without having a brain!

re: #36 crabtree

She is living proof that you can have an IQ high enough to qualify for MIT without having a brain!

IQ and common sense do not have to go hand in hand.

If thats art, then a crucifix in a jar of piss is art...

Anyone can call themselves an artist these days.

Well, she could get a job with the marketing wizards behind the Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Remember the idiots who shut down Boston with that stunt last spring?

They walked off scot-free, just like this lamebrain will.

I've done a lot of dumb things as a yoot, including dumb things in line at the airport metal detector (think homage to Spinal Tap), but that was back before 9/11. And before I grew up somewhat.

re: #8 hbwriter

'Tas her, bro!

I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with the thought of tazering someone with plastic explosives...

is she an actual "art major"? i suppose going to MIT for an art degree is like going to DeVry to study sculpture.

was probably thirteen when 9/11 happened. seems the ignorance of the next generation has already begun

re: #39 lawhawk

Thanks. Couldn't remember the name.

Star? obviously a brown dwarf.

She ties for first place Idiot of the Week with this dude.

re: #38 maddogg

This is why I never call myself an artist. I am a musician. The end.

Bomb girl and Tase boy. And these are supposed to be our best and brightest. We're in real trouble folks. Imagine what college students will be like in ten or twenty years from now if this idiocy doesn't end.

We're all lucky this idiot wasn't dropped. If she had been, there would have been a huge wave of ACLU-inspired bullshit bemoaning what a police state we've become, how we need to lower our security standards, and basically calls for us to drop our guard. Which might have succeeded.

re: #37 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

IQ and common sense do not have to go hand in hand.

They sometimes seem mutually exclusive - my brother is a genius, but has little common sense. That whole "book smart/ street smart" thing."

1) An art major at MIT?

2) Now she can work in the license plate art department.

3) Must have been a legacy.

Miss South Carolina isn't looking so dumb now, is she? Huh? Is she?

re: #36 crabtree

She is living proof that you can have an IQ high enough to qualify for MIT without having a brain!

Maybe she's Charlye Sarte!

Can we assume that this girl will be included in this years Fiskie nominees?

Are all college students really this stupid?

She reminds me of a gal I met in Japan some years ago. She was a grad student at Columbia (of all places). We went sight seeing for the day away from the main train station where we met. I noted that we can always make our way south by looking at the sun. Puzzled, she looked at me and asked me what I meant. After reminding her about the sun rising in the East etc, she gave me the most credulous and somewhat angry look and asked "How do you know that?"

Ivy Leaguer.

She said it was a piece of art...

No, that's the kind of crap that passes for art these days.

re: #40 JammieWearingFool

Remember the idiots who shut down Boston with that stunt last spring?

They walked off scot-free, just like this lamebrain will.

exactly...just a prank...maybe some private individual could sue her for...for...

As a somewhat-frequent flyer, I'm only hoping TSA does as good a job taking down *anyone* with suspicious stuff as those law enforcement did. Of course, the comments on the news sites are running towards the "oh, poor little innocent free speech marytr..." track. Idiots. Obviously, never been on a plane with suspiciously acting people. (I have, and with the agreement of my surrounding fellow passengers, I let the attendants know we were ready to help out if necessary. Thankfully, I'd had a long enough lay-over that I'd seen the air marshals board, but it never hurts to have lots of assistance at 40k ft...)

What an idiot. Did she expect to get a grant or something? Haven't people realized that acts of stupidity are taken as seriously as if they were real these days?

Perhaps she was looking to pay homage to Jackson Pollacks masterwork when the police bullets splattered her brains everywhere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pollock31.jpg

re: #54 SonOfLiberty

Can we assume that this girl will be included in this years Fiskie nominees?

More like the Fiskie Blooper real. She really hasn't contributed to Idiotarianism on a world wide level.

re: #52 Silhouette

Miss South Carolina isn't looking so dumb now, is she? Huh? Is she?

Did you watch the premier of Beauty & The Geek? One of the girls, when asked 'which is closer to the Earth - the Moon or the Sun?' replied, "They're the same thing, right?"

re: #54 SonOfLiberty

Nope. She's a piker compared to some of the other contenders.

I guess this Star wasn't that bright...

On the Darwinian scale she sits between a guy who tried to scratch his nose with an electrical drill and a guy who jumped into a stack of hay not noticing the rake sticking out. MIT? Moronic Idiocy Trend

In addition to her own personal stupidity,

this is the result of a Government that has not had the populace make sacrifices or get involved with the overall war.

Its not "OUR" war you see...its the Governments/Bush's war...etc...

/..."just keep shopping"...

Maybe she should do a nice still life instead.

JWM

I can't get over an "art" class at MIT.

Simpson was “extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used

Imagine the headlines:

Bush's brownshirts shoot art student!

re: #52 Silhouette

Miss SC sure looks better.

re: #67 toomanysnax

I can't get over an "art" class at MIT.

We want well rounded geeks.

R

no comment

re: #69 JammieWearingFool

re: #52 Silhouette

Miss SC sure looks better.

She makes most blondes seem smarter, too.

80% of koskidz think that fascists are oppressing free speech...
Boston doesn't appear to like blinking lights

If Miss Simson was so proud to display her "Art Work" then why did she in all probability not expose it on the Public Transportation she took to get to the Airport? I think if she wore it before she would have caused a real panic, you think?

re: #67 toomanysnax

I can't get over an "art" class at MIT.

It's like an astrophysics class at The Culinary Institute of America.

What do you expect from a place that has Noam Chomsky working there? MIT has NOT been a leading college ever since they employed that liar.

anything to get a little attention...

She is big time lucky to still be consuming air. Hate to have to clean her shorts.

Her parents named her Star? Poor child!

"She wanted to stand out on career day"? As what?

On the Darwinian scale she sits between a guy who tried to scratch his nose with an electrical drill and a guy who jumped into a stack of hay not noticing the rake sticking out.

My favorite Darwin award recipient was the guy who thought it would be a great idea to play Russian roulette with a .45 automatic.

I can cut the Miss Teen USA girl some slack. She was on the spot, nervous, and choked trying to answer an incredibly bad question. This goofball had time to think about what she was doing.

JWM

re: #79 Dianna

I think the question is what "career" was she attempting to begin?

/Is Osama hiring?

It's all about oil, the government has been playing us, there is no Islamic threat, so it's all just a big game.

If we have another attack here and someone she loves dies, she will be the first to blame the government (unless a Dem is in office, then retroactively of course), this time for not preventing it.

Brilliant!

#67 toomanysnax

Its like going to a weight loss clinic thats ran by Rosie

re: #73 Killgore Trout

80% of koskidz think that fascists are oppressing free speech...
Boston doesn't appear to like blinking lights

Same Kossack that penned the "I don't support the troops" diary.

I'll assume she wasn't a rocket science major at MIT.

re: #82 WrathofG-d

re: #79 Dianna

I think the question is what "career" was she attempting to begin?

Activist

re: #62 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Yeah, but they didn't walk into an airport with a fake bomb on. Still say they're smarter than Ms. Star Simpson.

re: #55 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Are all college students really this stupid?

Yes :
Students Know Less After 4 College Years

re: #74 Bernardc

Suggest she try performance art as her next endeavor.

Go as uncovered meat to the nearest ROP hang-out.

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Learn it, love it, live it.

Looking closer at the image of the shirt, I have to say the little grey burning man behind the device is a nice touch...

Great essay: Why Art Became Ugly
by Stephen Hicks

This is the internal website for MIT's fabrication shop. Star's picture is at the bottom showing she has rights to use the shop.

[Link: www.media.mit.edu...]

re: #79 Dianna

Her parents named her Star? Poor child!

"She wanted to stand out on career day"? As what?

I have cousins names "Star." I always thought it was just a redneck thing.

I remember being at Denver airport shortly after 9/11. Coming through the metal detector I noticed a guy in a jumpsuit with an M-16 slung over his shoulder. It was only after I got through that I saw his buddy with his weapon deployed behind the screener.

Another place, another time, this little dimwitette would have been ventilated for sure.

re: #81 JWM

I can cut the Miss Teen USA girl some slack. She was on the spot, nervous, and choked trying to answer an incredibly bad question. This goofball had time to think about what she was doing.

JWM

this needs to be a federal crime and a felony...what if she brought out a plastic pistol...disturbing the peace?...thats ridiculous

...Richard Reid was not available for comment but his lawyers and spokespeople were fired...

she's just a attention whore...she's not stupid, she knew damn well what she was doing and achieved her desired results. She'll play the little dopey college student routine, heck she already did...$750 bail? hah! but she's now got her 15 minutes of fame and she'll parlay that into more. take my word this little idiot isn't an idiot.

She's Hawaiian. Clearly this is a case of profiling. Where's CHAIR (Council on Hawaiian-American Relations)?

re: #85 ChenZhen

Nice catch. See? He's not an LGF plant, he's a real koskid. Very progressive.

re: #87 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

re: #82 WrathofG-d

re: #79 Dianna

I think the question is what "career" was she attempting to begin?

Activist

Moron. That or member of the House of Representatives.

I read this earlier today and my first question is: what is going on here? I want to know the backstory.

Totally stupid no matter what the backstory is, but she had to have had a reason, and I am very interested in what it is.

Play-Doh -$2.00
Scotch Tape -$1.00
Circuit Board -$10
Sweat Shirt -$20

15 Minutes of fame - Priceless

Just waiting for the cries of excessive force/profiling and the ensuing lawsuits...

re: #80 Dirk Diggler

My favorite Darwin award recipient was the guy who thought it would be a great idea to play Russian roulette with a .45 automatic

I'd do that any day of the week and twice on Sunday, with a moonbat. Guests first.

Her gene pool was urinated into.

She should have confined her "hack" to one of the standard ones of converting the dome into a "giant tit" or some such. Of course it is a comment on the intelligence or lack thereof that a batch of folks at Logan could not tell the difference between a circuit board with some leds on it and a bomb. Of course this is not the first time this has happened in Boston. There was the "ad campaign gone wrong" incident with the led figures around Boston a while back.

Obviously, she was immature and stupid. But it goes to show how immature and stupid the security folks around Logan are too. Lotsa guys with middle eastern accents driving the cabs into the congo line who might be willing to be shaheeds, but they pick up on a kid not wearing a black contractor bag as clothing and damn near kill her.

It reminds me of the hazmat squads being dispatched to clean up the guacamole at the height of the anthrax scares. Don't do anything effective like surveillance of the radical Muslim crowd in Boston. Heaven forbid. That might even be effective. Make an example out of a kid with a circuit board and some leds. I wish to complain that the police are being MITaphobic and that they all take lessons in the politically correct nature of hacking. I will try and organize a rage day at MIT in the near future.

re: #65 WrathofG-d

In addition to her own personal stupidity,

this is the result of a Government that has not had the populace make sacrifices or get involved with the overall war.

Its not "OUR" war you see...its the Governments/Bush's war...etc...

/..."just keep shopping"...

I agree with Bill Buckley --- every American should serve two years. It would be good for our character and good for our culture.

I would wish triggergirlie as Drill Sergeant for Star Simpson.

re: #64 trigger girlie

I guess this Star wasn't that bright...

On the Darwinian scale she sits between a guy who tried to scratch his nose with an electrical drill and a guy who jumped into a stack of hay not noticing the rake sticking out. MIT? Moronic Idiocy Trend

She probably noved out at an early age and is now a 'black hole.'

re: #79 Dianna

Her parents named her Star? Poor child!

"She wanted to stand out on career day"? As what?

I think she wanted to apply for a job at Caterpillar, as a tread greaser.

Just goes to prove that not all the college idiots are in the humanities.

“She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day,”

Sorry, can't claim freedom of art as a defense.

re: #99 Spider Mensch

she's just a attention whore...she's not stupid, she knew damn well what she was doing and achieved her desired results. She'll play the little dopey college student routine, heck she already did...$750 bail? hah! but she's now got her 15 minutes of fame and she'll parlay that into more. take my word this little idiot isn't an idiot.

Exactly.

re: #89 Ringo the Gringo

The dumbest people I ever met I met in college.

re: #96 lucius septimius

I remember being at Denver airport shortly after 9/11. Coming through the metal detector I noticed a guy in a jumpsuit with an M-16 slung over his shoulder.

At Miami Int'l Airport in the weeks/months after 9/11, they had National Guardsmen with M-16s and M203 attachments deployed at security. It would have gotten, ah, awfully messy if they had had to use the latter.

re: #91 Killgore Trout

Wabbit swayer! Kill all da wabbits! - Elmer Fudd

I attributed it.

re: #111 meMarc

Just goes to prove that not all the college idiots are in the humanities.

Wait, it was supposed to be art. Never mind.

artsy fartsy

almost bledsy deadsy

re: #100 Occasional Reader

LOL!

re: #115 Occasional Reader

re: #96 lucius septimius

I remember being at Denver airport shortly after 9/11. Coming through the metal detector I noticed a guy in a jumpsuit with an M-16 slung over his shoulder.

At Miami Int'l Airport in the weeks/months after 9/11, they had National Guardsmen with M-16s and M203 attachments deployed at security. It would have gotten, ah, awfully messy if they had had to use the latter.

That strikes me as an inopportune weapon to use in a public place. OTOH, for those of us with poor eyesight, it might ensure we would hit something.

This young lady is certainly a poster child for forced sterilization. Can we afford to have her contaminate the existing gene pool by being allowed to breed?

The reason for Ms Simpson's hairdo:

"Hmm, I wonder if I put this nice shiny fork into this nice electrical so...BZZZTTT!"

CHARLES ET AL:

Here is a video showing "the art".

Star's mind turned out to be a black hole...

re: #113 ChenZhen

It's the same thing as "don't tase me, bro". They'll both become left wing free speech icons.
Somebody's going to get killed doing this stuff.

Just think- whenever a splodey-dope with some sort of device strapped to themselves appears in public, instead of shoot to kill, the cops will probably be wondering if this is just another dipshit Ivy-leaguer trying to make a statement or show off his/her latest art project...giving said splodey-dope enough time to go ka-boom.

re: #80 Dirk Diggler

My favorite Darwin award recipient was the guy who thought it would be a great idea to play Russian roulette with a .45 automatic.

Idiot! He should have used a Glock 17. That way he'd only have a 1 in 17 chance of getting shot!

/what?

re: #107 Shr_Nfr

Of course it is a comment on the intelligence or lack thereof that a batch of folks at Logan could not tell the difference between a circuit board with some leds on it and a bomb.

Are you saying the authorities at Logan were stupid for not immediately seeing it was harmless and just ignoring it?

I wish to complain that the police are being MITaphobic and that they all take lessons in the politically correct nature of hacking. I will try and organize a rage day at MIT in the near future.

Oh, I'm slow. Sarcasm.

Hell, the cops should have pumped 50 rounds into the idiot, then called the mess art!

re: #120 lucius septimius

re: #115 Occasional Reader

re: #96 lucius septimius

I
remember being at Denver airport shortly after 9/11. Coming through the
metal detector I noticed a guy in a jumpsuit with an M-16 slung over
his shoulder.

At Miami Int'l Airport in the weeks/months after 9/11, they had National Guardsmen with M-16s and M203 attachments deployed at security. It would have gotten, ah, awfully messy if they had had to use the latter.

That
strikes me as an inopportune weapon to use in a public place. OTOH, for
those of us with poor eyesight, it might ensure we would hit something.

Hey, I shot expert on the M-16 in my brief time in ROTC, but could never get the M203 to shoot within 10 feet of the target!

Where do these people come from? I am interested in hearing what she thought she was doing...

re: #26 BenZacharia

"We've secretly replaced this art students fake bomb vest with the real thing. Let's see if she can tell the difference."

/'80's coffee commercial

I always wondered when one of those commercials would erupt into violence.

"You SWITCHED MY COFFEE?! SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!" BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM

re: #91 Killgore Trout

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Learn it, love it, live it.

22 years of training down the drain.
/

Is 'activist' a good paying job these days? Does it have opportunities for advancement? Benefits?

" "In a sentence, I'm an inventor, artist, engineer, and student, I love to build things and I love crazy ideas,"

Stunning...truly stunning...

re: #125 Killgore Trout

re: #113 ChenZhen

It's the same thing as "don't tase me, bro". They'll both become left wing free speech icons.
Somebody's going to get killed doing this stuff.

Eternal optimism abounds.

re: #123 WrathofG-d

CHARLES ET AL:

Here is a video showing "the art".

That's sure doesn't look like "art" to me. If it was soaking in urine, maybe, but not like that.

Corrie has a friendre: #130 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

re: #120 lucius septimius

re: #115 Occasional Reader

re: #96 lucius septimius

I
remember being at Denver airport shortly after 9/11. Coming through the
metal detector I noticed a guy in a jumpsuit with an M-16 slung over
his shoulder.

At Miami Int'l Airport in the weeks/months after 9/11, they had National Guardsmen with M-16s and M203 attachments deployed at security. It would have gotten, ah, awfully messy if they had had to use the latter.

That
strikes me as an inopportune weapon to use in a public place. OTOH, for
those of us with poor eyesight, it might ensure we would hit something.

Hey, I shot expert on the M-16 in my brief time in ROTC, but could never get the M203 to shoot within 10 feet of the target!

They might have been issued special round. I think they made a CS gas shell at one time.

OT

I really like the CACIQUE girl. I have for a long time now.

Why do I suspect she is a troofer?

re: #82 WrathofG-d

You do have to wonder.

I'm still trying to get over the fact that her parents named her "Star." At least my mom came to her senses before "Artemis" was put on my birth certificate!

I'd also like to point out that Star has a MIT blog.

re: #126 Fenway_Nation

That's the real damage here, it makes cops hesitate in very serious situations. If they shoot someone who's innocent, there's hell to pay. This stuff puts us all at greater risk and it will cost lots of lives. I guarantee it.

re: #133 Just_A_Grunt

re: #91 Killgore Trout

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Learn it, love it, live it.

22 years of training down the drain.
/

Been walking on egg shells all morning here too.

re: #139 Plato

"The CACIQUE girl"?

Stupidity is now a "lifestyle".

How very sad.

re: #123 WrathofG-d

CHARLES ET AL:

Here is a video showing "the art".

It irks me when they call a 19 yr old a kid.

Thanks for the video.

Comments that advocate violence will be cause for immediate banning with no appeal.

Hm. Well, for instance, I advocate violence against Iran's nuclear program sites. But I guess that's not what CJ is talking about.

re: #130 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

re: #120 lucius septimius

re: #115 Occasional Reader

re: #96 lucius septimius

Hey, I shot expert on the M-16 in my brief time in ROTC, but could never get the M203 to shoot within 10 feet of the target!

Uhh you don't have to get any closer. The burst radius on an M203 round is 5 meters (15 feet)

Here's some more info

Link is to LLL Boston Globe site.

She's very lucky to be alive, the troopers at troop F (AKA F troop) carry the MP5. Would have been real messy.

Comments that advocate violence will be cause for immediate banning with no appeal

Would suggesting that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be thrown off the Brooklyn Bridge be considered advocating violence?

If so, I won't suggest it again.

Ok for all of you that are lazy, I have found:

Star's BLOG

re: #49 Pickle

We're all lucky this idiot wasn't dropped.

I disagree. The only acceptable response by Logan Airport security should have been two rounds in the center of mass, and a third round to the head. Immediately, before the potential suicide bomber had a chance to detonate the device.

At the very least, I want to see airport maintenance personnel putting up very large signs at each entrance this afternoon announcing that security threats will be met with deadly force, no exceptions...

re: #142 WrathofG-d

I can't get it to come up anymore, but when I read it earlierly, she said she traveled the world, fighting villians with the delivery of her just-in-time gadgets.

What the heck does she mean by that?

Saving the world with art? Engineering? Who are the villians? What kind of gadgets is she making for those fighting the villians?

re: #107 Shr_Nfr

And the playdough in her hands?

The Logan people did their jobs.

re: #148 Highrise

Childhood extends into the late 20's now.

re: #13 Loki_1972

Another case of "So smart that you're stupid."

When asked by reporters, Ms. Simpson said that this was an art project and that she wanted to stand out on career day.

Good luck getting hired now, idiot.

She'd better learn to say, 'Do you want to supersize that?'

She should be charges as a bomber and be facing 25-Life.

re: #158 Killgore Trout

re: #148 Highrise

Childhood extends into the late 20's now.

I've got friends who've pretty well extended it into their 50s.

Holding granade...anybody seen the pin for this thing...?

Highrise, #148

Perhaps two or three generations ago at age 19 one had to be fully an adult. This gal has all the maturity and intellectual capacity of a junior high school student and therefore the term 'kid' does fit, unfortunately. What's worse, what in society makes 19-year-olds fully accountable as adults?

Photogallery » Italy: Venice Celebrates Historic Links With Islam

And they don't mean the Historic links to Terrorism.

re: #151 Just_A_Grunt

re: #130 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

re: #120 lucius septimius

re: #115 Occasional Reader

re: #96 lucius septimius

Hey, I shot expert on the M-16 in my brief time in ROTC, but could never get the M203 to shoot within 10 feet of the target!

Uhh you don't have to get any closer. The burst radius on an M203 round is 5 meters (15 feet)

Yeah, but I wanted to put the round right in the little hole on the target bunker. Point of pride, y'know?

re: #158 Killgore Trout

re: #148 Highrise

Childhood extends into the late 20's now.

If thats the case, voting rights should be adjusted in kind.

re: #155 eCurmudgeon

...that security threats will be met with deadly force, no exceptions...

"..that security threats will be met with deadly force, no exceptions. Survivors will be billed for OT and jailed. Same for estates if there are no survivors. And we're going to ask hard questions of your mum and dad."

re: #153 Ringo the Gringo

Comments that advocate violence will be cause for immediate banning with no appeal

Would suggesting that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be thrown off the Brooklyn Bridge be considered advocating violence?

If so, I won't suggest it again.

Yes. Please don't. After all, anybody with any style at all would throw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad off the George Washington Bridge.

Sorry for OT but this is too funny:

John Kerry speech tazer incident dubbed with Monty Python dialogue:

re: #162 lucius septimius

re: #158 Killgore Trout

re: #148 Highrise

Childhood extends into the late 20's now.

I've got friends who've pretty well extended it into their 50s.

I'll be 60 in October, and I still collect diecast cars...:)

re: #125 Killgore Trout

For what it's worth, I voted 'yes' on that silly Kos poll. There needs to be a deterrence for these attention stunts.

BTW- They aren't always politically motivated, per se. You've got the 'runaway bride' and that gal from here in Rockford that faked her own abduction too. Even if no harm comes to these people, it's a terrible waste of money and resources, along with the effect that 'crying wolf' has on future, real incidents.

How could you expect security at Logan to open fire when even our troops are not allowed to in a war zone?
Link button isn't working for me so here is the link. [Link: www.blackfive.net...]

re: #166 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

re: #151 Just_A_Grunt

re: #130 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

re: #120 lucius septimius

re: #115 Occasional Reader

re: #96 lucius septimius

Hey, I shot expert on the M-16 in my brief time in ROTC, but could never get the M203 to shoot within 10 feet of the target!

Uhh you don't have to get any closer. The burst radius on an M203 round is 5 meters (15 feet)

Yeah, but I wanted to put the round right in the little hole on the target bunker. Point of pride, y'know?

BURMA SHAVE!

re: #153 Ringo the Gringo

Comments that advocate violence will be cause for immediate banning with no appeal

Would suggesting that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be thrown off the Brooklyn Bridge be considered advocating violence?

If so, I won't suggest it again.

No, he could land on a garbage scow & live! ;)

'Star'...

Parent constellation: between noamchomsky and Ronpaulius2008
Right Ascension: 22h 7m
Declination 22°47'30" N
Distance: way out there
FOV: 180 Deg
KosKidz code: definitely

/Poor kid.

re: #137 meMarc

re: #123 WrathofG-d

CHARLES ET AL:

Here is a video showing "the art".

That's sure doesn't look like "art" to me. If it was soaking in urine, maybe, but not like that.

She could always call it "Bomb Christ" and get a grant from the NEA.

re: #160 DANEgerus

She should be charges as a bomber and be facing 25-Life.

I agree wholely...this is not funny and there should be absolutely no chicken shit backing down...federal charges/hard time...it wont happen again after that...common sense is dead

re: #107 Shr_Nfr

She should have confined her "hack" to one of the standard ones of converting the dome into a "giant tit" or some such.

Of course, my critique of MIT is that if any of the students there had any talent or motivation, they'd be out in the Valley working at some startup instead of sitting in classes in Boston.

re: #95 Piltdown Man

This is the internal website for MIT's fabrication shop. Star's picture is at the bottom showing she has rights to use the shop.

[Link: www.media.mit.edu...]

Funny, she doesnt look stupidish.

#107

I will try and organize a rage day at MIT in the near future.

Make sure Islamic Rage boy is present.

so what is the standard for shooting someone if they ARE carrying a bomb...Is there any threshold in any airport where
one of these cretins or criminals are interdicted?
/thjey shoud have winged her. Iforsee big bucks and donk-fame for her.

re: #171 Dustyvet

re: #162 lucius septimius

re: #158 Killgore Trout

re: #148 HighriseChildhood extends into the late 20's now.

I've got friends who've pretty well extended it into their 50s.

I'll be 60 in October, and I still collect diecast cars...:)

I'm thinking more along the lines of artsy folk who've nearly put off real employment long enough to retire without ever working.

re: #122 trigger girlie

Star's boyfriend drives a Volkswagon!

re: #163 Dustyvet

Here you go---> /

re: #173 Just_A_Grunt

Wonder who's in charge of ROE's? Oh yeah, same guy who's lettin' in ArmaniDinnerJacket.

re: #24 Stinky Wizzleteats

re: #13 Loki_1972

Another case of "So smart that you're stupid."

When asked by reporters, Ms. Simpson said that this was an art project and that she wanted to stand out on career day.

Good luck getting hired now, idiot.

Never underestimate the power of stupidity. She's probably sent a resume in to Moveon.org by now.

she probably has a major museum show now.

Maybe hshe has a handler and this is a test-run for a real bomb. The Logan security better be on guard.
This is just too goofy

re: #160 DANEgerus

She should be charges as a bomber and be facing 25-Life.

I disagree. We don't put people into prison for life for dumb stunts. Then what would you do with the real attempted-bombers? She should be charged and tried for the appropriate crime; which appears to be what they have done.

As a college student, I can assure you, not all of us are that dumb. I do, however, look around and see some people who seem like they would be capable of doing something that dumb.

re: #186 BenZacharia

re: #173 Just_A_Grunt

Wonder who's in charge of ROE's? Oh yeah, same guy who's lettin' in ArmaniDinnerJacket.

but does she have a 'right' to wear her artwork in the airport?...just kidding

re: #188 big L

I thought the same thing. Could this be a security probe?

re: #184 Fearless Fred

ROTFL!

I don't think she's stupid, I think she's crazy as a loon. Still should do time.

re: #188 big L

Maybe hshe has a handler and this is a test-run for a real bomb.

Oh, please.

This was a sophomoric (literally) "self-expression" imbecility by a cossetted college kid. No need to look for conspiracy theories here.

"Art is subjective, we shot on sight"

She could be the new spokesperson for Prozac... breakfast of champions!

As an MIT alum ('92, '93) I think you guys are being a bit hard on the Institute for the actions of this student. During my time there it was very apolitical. Sure, there was a small group of idiots, but you were working too hard to care about much else than school.

Also, you should not be surprised at an MIT art major - there's also a great music program there. There are only a handful of students that get degrees each year, but they are subject to the same core requirements as all other majors - requirements that put them on par technically with degrees from most other colleges.

Anyway, taking a look at this device; it is a simple breadboard state machine with a battery and a blinking star on it. (Please take a look at the picture of the device.) Given the girl's name is Star, I think I could give her a pass for wearing it around campus. I don't think there was any moonbattery involved at this point.

Wearing it to the airport is really not so smart. When you are a student there, immersed in that enveloping world, the reality of the outside world fades out, and you can do some really brainless things.

I cannot figure out what the play-dough was for. I also can't figure why she did not answer when asked about the device. It probably would have avoided the whole incident.

Anyway , easy on the Institute, Chomsky aside... :-)

re: #182 big L

It will take a true suicide bombing for us to adjust how we handle this stuff.

I don't know how these police do their job sometimes.

No hat tip?

re: #79 Dianna

Her parents named her Star? Poor child!

"She wanted to stand out on career day"? As what?

Greeter at Costco.

re: #192 distwalker

If it isn't a security probe, it sure exposed the process of what they'll do when faced with the situation.

re: #168 BenZacharia

re: #155 eCurmudgeon

...that security threats will be met with deadly force, no exceptions...

"..that security threats will be met with deadly force, no exceptions. Survivors will be billed for OT and jailed. Same for estates if there are no survivors. And we're going to ask hard questions of your mum and dad."

Fine with me. I was trapped at Boston Logan last year the day after the "liquid explosive" security panic, and would not want to be flying in or out of there for some time after this.

shoot

re: #198 ckb

Given the girl's name is Star, I think I could give her a pass for wearing it around campus.

Are you serious?

re: #198 ckb

I cannot figure out what the play-dough was for.

It looks like plastic explosive.

And she is old enough to vote. Can we restore the LVA to 21 again now, please? Or maybe 30?

re: #84 trigger girlie

#67 toomanysnax

Its like going to a weight loss clinic thats ran by Rosie

Or an AA meeting run by Ted Kennedy.

After the massacre at Va Tech shouldn't she be... evaluated?

re: #196 BenZacharia

"Art is subjective, we shot on sight"

hahaha...good one!...case dismissed...

Somebody give Star a Lite Brite set for Christmas...

re: #192 distwalker

re: #188 big L

I thought the same thing. Could this be a security probe?

It would be the dumbest security probe in history. She was wearing the thing in plain sight, over her clothing. What kind of security probe is that?

re: #197 Jonas Parker

She could be the new spokesperson for Prozac... breakfast of champions!

That's a toss up between Star, Cindy Sheenan, or Dinner Jacket...

OR,

At least lose them in the system fer awhile while their ACLU attorney runs from pillar to post with their hepeas corpus demands. "Sorry yous just missed her, we bussed her down to central like tree minutes ago."

re: #202 Highrise

That is correct. No matter what her intention, it is an ex post facto security probe.

There will be injuries in the stampede to give her a grant.

re: #213 Occasional Reader

re: #192 distwalker

re: #188 big L

I thought the same thing. Could this be a security probe?

It
would be the dumbest security probe in history. She was wearing the
thing in plain sight, over her clothing. What kind of security probe is
that?

"It's an X-K-Red-27 technique."

re: #106 trigger girlie

Her gene pool was urinated into.

Her gene pool has two shallow ends.

re: #218 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

"It's an X-K-Red-27 technique."

I know I should know that quote, but I don't. Source?

re: #212 Dustyvet

Somebody give Star a Lite Brite set for Christmas...

So perfect! ...hehe, lol.
But for punishment, send her to serve in the Army two years.

How much weed resin was found on that circuit board?

re: #198 ckb

Thank you.

re: #213 Occasional Reader

What kind of security probe is that?

In the infantry, we called it "probing by fire". You guarantee a response so that you can measure and document it.

I am not saying that this is probe, in fact I doubt it is. Nevertheless it should always be considered in situations like these.

I dont like a distinction between threatening and pretending to threat...I would like a simple fine honed law...bomb/simibomb/play bomb/art bomb=bomb...

re: #189 Occasional Reader

Playdoh-circuitboard-battery and a condescending provocational attitude?

She, and that bozo who got caught leaving box-cutters on aircraft, are disrupting thousands of people and contributing to the atomosphere of terrorist induced tension.

If I get caught brandishing a gun at you, it doesn't matter that later that gun turns out to be a pellet gun...

So she is in fact a terrorist, even if she is only playing at it.

Do you think she'd be any less dead if the police responded with gun fire? Would her parent's lawsuit demand any less money?

Leave it to the judge to show mercy... but charge her with her crime.

25 years, out in 5, probation until she pulls her afro out of her ass.

re: #27 Killgore Trout

There's a pic of the "art" here...
MIT student arrested at Logan in bomb scare

Get a load of her hair. And she's a swimmer? Not with that hair.

According to the MIT website, Simpson is from Kihei, Hawaii, and is a sprinter on the school's swim team. On Simpson's personal website at MIT, she says she is studying computers and enjoys tinkering in a student-run machine shop.

"In a sentence, I'm an inventor, artist, engineer, and student, I love to build things and I love crazy ideas," the website says.

A future bomb-builder, maybe in some reincarnation of the Weather Underground.

re: #220 Occasional Reader

A Fish Called Wanda.

IM IN UR CAMPUS MAKIN ALL UR FAK BOMBZ

re: #220 Occasional Reader

re: #218 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

"It's an X-K-Red-27 technique."

I know I should know that quote, but I don't. Source?

Sounds like a audible called by Peyton Manning.

“She’s lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue.”

That makes the rest of us unlucky, I suppose. Natural selection didn't work its magic in this case. That's the bad thing about natural selection - it's not infallible. Somehow, the really lucky ones bumble their way around an untimely demise.

There's always the chance she could fall in a tar pit. It's a small chance, but enough to give me hope.

I wonder if Star realizes how profoundly stupid and dangerous her work of "art" was? Walking into a crowed airport terminal wearing a fake bomb, assuming that the employees, passengers and armed security personnel would somehow "get" her ironic, po-mo statement.

If things had gone wrong, she could have been shot and killed and some unfortunate policeman would have to live with that guilt for the rest of his life.

Star shouldn't be allowed to walk away from this with a small fine and probation (and an interiew with Leno or Stewart). People want their 15 minutes of fame, but Star would be better off with six months behind bars and a heavy fine.

This is a security probe.

re: #198 ckb

not buying it as it was NOT seen when she was on public transport

re: #219 Cygnus

Her gene pool is a water bong.

re: #228 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

re: #220 Occasional Reader

A Fish Called Wanda.

I haven't seen that movie in a million years; maybe since I saw it in the theatre.

CKB,

You have got to be kidding me that you would give her a pass if it was worn on campus.

re: #133 Just_A_Grunt

re: #91 Killgore Trout

Attn: Lizards
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Learn it, love it, live it.

22 years of training down the drain.
/

Good for you, Charles. Fewer comments that Kos'll want to cherry pick.

#115

At Miami Int'l Airport in the weeks/months after 9/11, they had National Guardsmen with M-16s and M203 attachments deployed at security. It would have gotten, ah, awfully messy if they had had to use the latter.

Could've been loaded with CS rounds...or maybe filled with rubber shot? (is there such a round for the 203?) At least- that's what I'm hoping. I transiting through Newark International airport about 2 months after 9/11 and they had NJ state troopers with 12-gauges slung over their shoulders.

#130

Hey, I shot expert on the M-16 in my brief time in ROTC, but could never get the M203 to shoot within 10 feet of the target!

I did that full-time for awhile- for qualifying, we were supposed to be able to put the M203 round (which was loaded with some flourescent orange powder) through a 'window' cut out from this metal plate from about 100 yards, and I kept hitting the wall right next to the window until the exasperated NCO in charge yanked it out of my hands and said 'Give me that, private! I'll show you how it's supposed to be done!'. His first and only round hit the hulk of a tank that was some 75 feet away before he started grumbling about how the sights weren't properly adjusted.

Am I the only one on this thread who HASN'T had the chance to play with an M203?!

[sulking]

re: #167 Syrah

re: #158 Killgore Trout

re: #148 Highrise

Childhood extends into the late 20's now.

If thats the case, voting rights should be adjusted in kind.

That wouldn't help much, have you had a gander at the code pink babes lately? Ignorance is curable, but stoopid is for life.

I only know one MIT grad.
He is probably the smartest person I know.
He has zero common sense.
Routinely screws up daily life decisions.

Actually when you look up Google Image "Star Simpson' MIT you get a website. [Link: www.media.mit.edu...] if you go to that website and click on what are we about you get this explanation:
"MIT media
"What's a Wearable?

To date, personal computers have not lived up to their name. Most machines sit on the desk and interact with their owners for only a small fraction of the day. Smaller and faster notebook computers have made mobility less of an issue, but the same staid user paradigm persists. Wearable computing hopes to shatter this myth of how a computer should be used. A person's computer should be worn, much as eyeglasses or clothing are worn, and interact with the user based on the context of the situation. With heads-up displays, unobtrusive input devices, personal wireless local area networks, and a host of other context sensing and communication tools, the wearable computer can act as an intelligent assistant, whether it be through a Remembrance Agent, augmented reality, or intellectual collectives.""

When you think about MIT students you think of computer boards and electricity, or at least I do.
So it appears she did exactly what the course she was in wanted.
Do you think she'll get an A?
Do you think MIT will change the course content? It sounds like suicide vests fit right in to their curriculum.
Do you think terrorists will kidnap her and have her working on suicide vests in some basement, as intelligent slave labor?
She's artistically and engineeringly brilliant, and politically and socially a fool?

I don't see any puddy in the picture, just a standard prototyping breadboard, some LEDs, and a 9V battery. I would not have thought it was a bomb. I don't think there was any malice here.

re: #236 Ward Cleaver

re: #228 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

re: #220 Occasional Reader

A Fish Called Wanda.

I haven't seen that movie in a million years; maybe since I saw it in the theatre.

Otto West: "We're de-briefing a KGB defector in a safe house nearby & just wanted to let everyone know."

Wendy: "Why?"

Otto West: "So there's no panic ma'am."

Wendy: "But isn't it supposed to be secret?"

Otto West: "You have no idea how secret."

Wendy: "Then why are you telling eveyone?"

Otto: "It's a smokescreen? Double-bluff? Look, you obviously don't know anything about intelligence work, lady. It's an X-K-Red-27 technique.

re: #244 PhoenixMike

"That requires the willing suspension of disbelief." -Hildebeast

;-)

re: #244 PhoenixMike

I don't see any puddy in the picture, just a standard prototyping breadboard, some LEDs, and a 9V battery. I would not have thought it was a bomb. I don't think there was any malice here.

doesnt matter...there is an ethic involved here if nothing more than overwhelming narcsisim...it could have gone badly and she should certainly get some time for it

That's so mean and selfish. She could have given somebody there a heart attack from fear. I hope MIT kicks her out. She doesn't deserve to be a Miter.

re: #171 Dustyvet

re: #162 lucius septimius

re: #158 Killgore Trout

re: #148 Highrise
Childhood extends into the late 20's now.

I've got friends who've pretty well extended it into their 50s.

I'll be 60 in October, and I still collect diecast cars...:)

I still kick myself for letting my mom sell all my Hot Wheels cars, track, etc in a garage sale when I was about 20. Who knew it would all be worth something?

re: #180 Eowyn2

re: #95 Piltdown Man

This is the internal website for MIT's fabrication shop. Star's picture is at the bottom showing she has rights to use the shop.

[Link: www.media.mit.edu...]

Funny, she doesnt look stupidish.

Yeah, but there's some pretty bizarre-looking types on there.

The Kos Kids have started up a poll...

Should Star Simpson be prosecuted?

Let's Rock the Vote Lizards!

re: #251 lysol

Crazy..and no surprise..the NO is winning.

re: #245 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Been watching too much "Burn Notice" huh?

Osama bin Laden issues threat to Musharraf

The al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, vows to retaliate against the 'infidel' president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf

re: #251 lysol

The Kos Kids have started up a poll...

Should Star Simpson be prosecuted?

I'm gonna call the winner right now:

"No, rather BushHitler should be prosecuted for his crimes against humanity" (95%)

re: #253 Just_A_Grunt

Actually, I've never even heard of it. Been watching too many late inning Phillies games!

re: #232 Paul

I wonder if Star realizes how profoundly stupid and dangerous her work of "art" was? Walking into a crowed airport terminal wearing a fake bomb, assuming that the employees, passengers and armed security personnel would somehow "get" her ironic, po-mo statement.

If things had gone wrong, she could have been shot and killed and some unfortunate policeman would have to live with that guilt for the rest of his life.

Star shouldn't be allowed to walk away from this with a small fine and probation (and an interiew with Leno or Stewart). People want their 15 minutes of fame, but Star would be better off with six months behind bars and a heavy fine.

See...it's the neocon reich-wing rethuglican fascists like you who are trying to impose your morality on people!
/sarc

re: #239 Fenway_Nation

I doubt they were issued any 203 rounds, not even the M651 CS round. (Of course, I may be wrong.) These are likely their assigned weapons that they would use any time they go to a field problem or to the range. It's probably easier for the armorer to give their assigned weapons than start pulling out extra M16s to issue to 203 gunners. It still has a functioning M16 portion.

re: #240 Occasional Reader

No, I was one for ~1/2 year before switching to SAW. Liked it, but had trouble with getting it fixed (due to lack of money?) This was during the Clinton administration (ahem).

//former 203 gunner

An Open Letter To Star Simpson,

Star, in life, you've got to use common sense. I know you haven't been taught any in all the years you've spent in school.

In the real world, you don't get an "A" for stupidity, like you do in college. You get fired from your job, you lose a sale, you get chewed out by the boss, or you get shot by the cops when you masquerade as a bad guy in a public place. In the real world, ideas have consequences. You won't hear any of this from your professors, because most of them have never lived in the real world.

Next time you want to pull a stunt like this, ask the supermarket check-out girl if she thinks it's a good idea. Ask the janitor who cleans the halls at MIT. Ask the plumber. They have more common sense than you or your professors do.

And another thing, computers aren't art. If you want to see real art, check out the stuff that was made before 1900. Better yet, go look up Michaelangelo, Raphael, or Rembrandt. That is art. You can call a computer and play-doh art, but then you are playing word games. They are not art, just as you are not a serious thinker. You have a lot to learn.

re: #170 AW

Sorry for OT but this is too funny:

John Kerry speech tazer incident dubbed with Monty Python dialogue:

[Link: youtube.com...]

We are the Cops Who Say 'Ni'!'

Testing the waters with an innocent Anglo Mit-wit.
Phase 27 in the "All your base are belonging to us" plan.
Not even a college kid could be that stupid

re: #240 Occasional Reader

No. For some reason, no one will let me play with anything bigger than a .45/70.

If someone wanted to be really nice to me for my birthday some year, they could find a way for me to fire the main gun of an Abrams.

Fook. They should make her the 2008 Valedictorian.

MIT: Not just for smaht people anymore...

re: #260 Cygnus

re: #170 AW

Sorry for OT but this is too funny:

John Kerry speech tazer incident dubbed with Monty Python dialogue:

[Link: youtube.com...]

We are the Cops Who Say 'Ni'!'

Did you read the comments below the video? A million morons out there...

re: #159 Cygnus

re: #13 Loki_1972

Another case of "So smart that you're stupid."

When asked by reporters, Ms. Simpson said that this was an art project and that she wanted to stand out on career day.

Good luck getting hired now, idiot.

She'd better learn to say, 'Do you want to supersize that?'

Plenty of places for her to work- journalism ( NY Times, the Nation, etc.)
any university, Democratic party, Moveon.org, head shops, hippie outdoor markets...

'God' Responds to Senator's Almighty Lawsuit

In the paper, “God” says the suit by Sen. Ernie Chambers (D-Omaha) should be thrown out because there was “[n]o proper and sufficient service of summons” by a deputy.

And although He doesn’t issue “terroristic threats,” as Chambers had claimed in his lawsuit, “God” wrote that the senator would receive an “appropriate punishment.”