On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh?
But the Pantybomber wasn't the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government. The global hyperpower spent the next week making itself a laughingstock to the entire planet. First, the bureaucrats at the TSA swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions.
Against radical Yemen-trained Muslims wearing weaponized briefs? Of course not. That would be too obvious. So instead they imposed a slew of constraints against you. At Heathrow last week, they were permitting only one item of carry-on on U.S. flights. In Toronto, no large purses.
Um, the Pantybomber didn't have a purse. He brought the bomb on board under his private parts, and his private parts weren't part of his carry-on (although, if reports of injuries sustained in his failed mission are correct, they may well have been part of his carry-off). But no matter. If in doubt, blame the victim. The TSA announced that for the last hour of the flight no passenger can use the toilets or have anything on his lap — not a laptop, not a blanket, not a stewardess, not even a paperback book. I can't wait for the first lawsuit after an infidel flight attendant confiscates a litigious imam's Koran as they're coming into LAX.
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This won't be the first time a pair of panties have taken down a President !
ReplyDeletehow about it. a dirty bomb.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like panty raids are in order....
ReplyDeleteHeard his news conference today:"Christmas incident was "screw up" - Obama said
ReplyDelete"Obama has been attempting to destroy America’s Intelligence capability since 1/20/2009. He appointed a CIA Director, Leon Panetta, that has Zero respect among the rank & file. He appointed a political hack, Napolatano, to head the Department of Homeland Security who has Zero respect among the rank & file.
Obama attacked the CIA and Military for Waterboarding, the Military Prison at Guantanimo, and the Intelligence Communities actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama then ended Military Tribunals and treats Terrorists to Jurisprudence as if they are American criminals rather than the Stateless enemies we have been at war with since 9/11, and pushes the military to Court Martial Soldiers that were only performing their assigned duty.
Now that the entire American Intelligence community is tied up in knots and prevented from doing their job, he accuses them of failure. If Obama needs to find out who failed he need only look in the mirror.
I heard the same thing about the "carry-off". Not that he'll need it in prison.
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