Saturday, May 31, 2008
Some Things Never Change Dept.
"Good tires," mused Ahmed, casually lighting a cigarette, "but certainly not great tires."
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Not unlike the Saudis who trained as pilots for the 9-11 attacks, these chaps seem not to have been overly concerned with take-off procedures. In this case, the aircraft is, or shall we say was, a spanking new Airbus A340-600.
Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $80 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totaling it.
The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown, for there has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere. Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs. Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.
Let's go over that last point again: reporting that a Muslim Arab has done something stupid or dangerous or both is an insult to all Muslim Arabs and is therefore forbidden.
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That's totalitarianism, pure and simple, but "an insult to all Moslem Arabs" is not my problem, and "therefore forbidden" can go fuck itself.
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Hmm. Maybe Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim after all.
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HT: Kate of small dead animals
