What a sad, frightened remnant of a country.

“Scramble the fighters! We have a smoker! Repeat, we have a smoker!”

Hey, at least Obama hasn’t had him executed…yet.

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The best part is the joke about setting fire to his shoe. It suggests the dude may have been smoking something a bit more pungent than tobacco.

Chicago Blue Dog No. 1

Lighting a cigarette finally has been rightly found to be an attack against fellow humans! This is all good.

What a sad, frightened remnant of a country.

Why they allow foreigners to travel on american aircraft is beyond me.

America needs a more expensive response. Why did it take only two F-16s to subdue the plane? The seriousness of our response to terror demands at least an eighteen plane squadron, and a marching band.

Each F16 costs about $17million so a response of $34million ‘f’s is resaonable. Operating costs are about $50K hr, assume 6hrs of farting around, that would mean about $300,000.

$300,000 per plane means we only spent $600,000 on the insidious cigarette. With a full 18 plane squadron, we could have burned through $5.4 million. Now that will cause any smoker to think twice.

Good morning, pups. It’s Collins and Kristof in the Times today. Ms. Collins, in “A Confederacy of Dunces,” says it’s been a tough time lately for those of us who take social studies seriously. Just look at what’s going on in Virginia and Texas and elsewhere. Mr. Kristof sends “A Postcard From Zimbabwe.” He’s writing from Hwange, Zimbabwe, and says you know it’s bad in Zimbabwe when citizens wax nostalgic for the time when they were governed by a white, racist elite.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got blueberry pancakes today. So far (fingers crossed) the tomato plants look much healthier than they did last year so maybe we’ll actually have some. The peppers and eggplants also look happier. I’m still new enough at this gardening stuff that it’s all still a miracle to me when something grows… Have a great day.

He’s lucky the Air Marshal didn’t fire a warning shot to the temple.

If we include a drummer boy and piccolo player we could reach $5.4 million and a little bit. Of course enquiring minds would like to know what kind of cigarette was it. I doubt it was Marlboro, too american. A Balkan Sobranie, very elegant but maybe too expensive. My bet is a Camel, not that I am profiling you understand.

He’s lucky the Air Marshal didn’t fire a warning shot to the temple.

Probably an Air Vice Marshall if he was checking the bathrooms.

My money’s on Tareytons. Be sure to tip the wait staff, and try the veal. Dr. Turk’ here all morning.

Actually, a national discussion of Civil War history sounds fine — as long as we could start by agreeing that the whole leaving-the-union thing was a terrible idea. In the proclamations, it generally sounds as if everything went swimmingly until the part where the South lost and grudgingly rejoined the country.

I am not so sure the south “lost”. They are still fighting the battle and are doing a damn good job of destroying Congress and the rest of America. I say let the buggers, and baggers, secede.

A nuclear armed CSA? Are you sure?

Size really is everything, who knew.

Those bumbling bastards would drop it on themselves in all probability.

It would mean less outflow of tax dollars from the areas that are supporting themselves, actually.

Speaking of which, this reminds me of how Jethro and Miss Hathaway embarked on a life of international terrorism.

Good morning all.

Brilliant
Cost of latest weapon of mass distraction $5.00
Cost to US of latest weapon of mass distraction $1,000,000

Gives a whole new meaning to “ASSymetrical Warfare”

As far as Qatar is concerned, all options have to be on the table.
Up to and including appointing John Bolton as US ambassador.

Oh noes! Anything but that.

not sure why we are up in arms over this

here is man who thinks he’s above regulations and the law, obviously disabled a smoke detector and one would extrapolate, does this all the time

and he claimed he had a bomb

does anyone here think the martial should disasembel the shoes on the plane to see if the threat was real or not?

here’s what I would have done in the martial’s position;

I would immobilize the subject, I would somehow try to buffer a possible explosion from the shoes with available material/equiptment, I would land the plane and get that subject to some wherever bombs go for threat determination

I would NOT try to remove the shoes there could be an electronic activation device, I would NOT continue on with the flight

OT but couldn’t help but notice that in the coverage of the mine disaster in W. Virginia the corporate media, including NPR, rarely, if they have ever, points out the fact that the mine was non-union and was a notorious violator of safety rules. Most Americans actually think they have an honest and “free” media.

In all fairness, NPR repeatedly discusses the numerous violations at that mine. They don’t, however, as you point out, mention that it was a non-untion mine.

Does NPR discuss safety violations of non-union mines vs. those of union mines? That would probably be too much work for the pampered and privileged “journalists” who are by and large more concerned with climbing the ladder and receiving their honorary lifetime invitation to the Beltway cocktail weenie circuit.

in addition, the rescue workers could not do their jobs BECAUSE their was gas THAT DIDN’T BELONG THERE, this maggot REMOVED the ventilation system that HAD TO BE THERE BY LAW because it took too much room, cost too much money, it wasn’t coal and coal pays the bills

Disagree with the statement re: the violations. ABC/Diane Sawyer makes a point of mentioning the hundreds of violations in recent months/years frequently during her reporting of the story.

So… let the wrangling between diplomatic immunity and enemy combatant fiats begin!

Oh noes, Sheiks on a Plane!

Can Obama order him assassinated?