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The Joke’s on Us
NRO ^ | January 2, 2010 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 01/17/2010 12:54:44 AM PST by SloopJohnB

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 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions.

(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; nwa253; terror; tsa; underwearbomber
*rolling eyes*
1 posted on 01/17/2010 12:54:46 AM PST by SloopJohnB
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To: SloopJohnB

God help us.


2 posted on 01/17/2010 1:10:50 AM PST by onedoug
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To: SloopJohnB

And a Kenyan got in the White House

But no matter they will be exposed and we are too strong to be brought down.

Lucky us!


3 posted on 01/17/2010 1:34:11 AM PST by screaminsunshine
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To: SloopJohnB

I read this the day it came out.

Glad to see someone linked it again.

It’s just as good the second time.


4 posted on 01/17/2010 2:05:20 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: SloopJohnB

Yeah, next time you get one of those Nigerian scam-emails offering you millions of dollars if you’ll just help the poor soul get a trunk full of cash out of some security company’s vault in Lagos, remember that if you don’t send them the cash, they might come looking for you with a bomb strapped to their ‘nads, LOL


5 posted on 01/17/2010 3:45:43 AM PST by mkjessup ("Mr. Abdulmutallab, Mr. Coyote? Please pick up the Acme Explosives Courtesy Phone!!")
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To: SloopJohnB

The TSA needs to keep occupied with the ‘busy work’ to justify continuing to overlook the painfully obvious, which is that they are deliberately NOT looking for terrorists. That would be racist.


6 posted on 01/17/2010 6:10:08 AM PST by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: Spok

The entire obama administration is a joke that is strangling the US.

Janet Incompetano doesn’t have a clue as to what is going on. She isn’t a Kenyan. Maybe she will have a skivvy bomber on her next commercial flight


7 posted on 01/17/2010 6:26:01 AM PST by chainsaw ("When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson)
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