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Mark Steyn: Flying While Arab
Steyn Online ^ | July 16, 2004 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 07/16/2004 6:28:10 PM PDT by quidnunc

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To: Publius6961

tribal primitive behavior?


101 posted on 07/17/2004 10:27:47 AM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: cyborg
Love or leave it. I agree.

Even love is not a necessity. I would be happy with absence of resentment and active hate.

102 posted on 07/17/2004 10:31:08 AM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either.)
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To: Publius6961

Well you will never see that either. I was being a bit light hearted with the love or leave it comment. I'd be happy if our important personalities in politics didn't trash their own country. Hate is a very old human emotion. I think it may well be more powerful than love.


103 posted on 07/17/2004 10:33:11 AM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Valin
Please tell me that you are nowhere near any law-enforcement or national security task.
You, and others, ignore totally the "other" explanation: that even if the intent of these scumbags was simply to deliver an elaborate joke on the other passengers, they did it out of malice and control, relishing the terror they created in some passengers. Not acceptable. And the "authorities" did nothing.

It's not "innocent fun" such as my having a fake cigarette in my mouth in non-smoking places.

104 posted on 07/17/2004 10:39:56 AM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either.)
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To: Ramius

it's more about the political correctness ... we know who hijacked the aircraft ... sure if you screen everyone then it seems nothing can get through ... but if there is another September 11-type incident, I doubt it will be an old man like the one in the picture ...


105 posted on 07/17/2004 10:58:18 AM PDT by Bobby777
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To: dagnabbit

you'll be safe on El Al ... I'm sure of that ...


106 posted on 07/17/2004 11:01:34 AM PDT by Bobby777
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To: cyborg
tribal primitive behavior?

You must not get out much.

Yeah. Tribal primitive behavior. Like "Who you looking at "cracker?" or "Call me my new name of the week, or I'll hurt you".

As for choosing their own group name as opposed to accepting the one the world gave them? Understandable. But not every 5 years. That's attempt at control over the majority.

107 posted on 07/17/2004 11:06:25 AM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either.)
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To: Guillermo
All of them had all of their carry ones rifled through, they had to take off their shoes, they went over them again and again with the wand, etc.

2 of them were better looking than the podium girls in the Tour de France.

I think that explains it.

108 posted on 07/17/2004 11:07:00 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: Publius6961

Actually I do get out, and I'm not old. I'm thirty and other than to be a smartass I'd not call anyone negro or colored. I have not been granted the same respect by some of the people I live around but I don't try to start anything either. I take it you have personal experience in this area.


109 posted on 07/17/2004 11:10:12 AM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: dread78645

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that kid who got a TOY PLASTIC G.I. JOE RIFLE confiscated by airport screeners. I think Boortz brought it up, a good year ago.

What is a kid going to do with a 2" long plastic gun? "Fly this plane to, uh, Disneyland! And I want some candy! Death to girls and their cooties!"

Jeez.



110 posted on 07/17/2004 12:37:05 PM PDT by The Libertarian Dude ("We're the GOP, and we're for smaller government, right after we pass these laws... and these...")
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To: Valin

These people are now government union employees. "Screening them out" won't work, when all they have to do is whine to the press that Bush is trying to take the food out of their kids' mouths.

No wonder Daschle used that line "You can't professionalize unless you unionize". It won the libs a whole new crop of voters and a pile of union-due money to the DNC.

As for another 9/11... if that happens, the least of our worries will be union thugs. We'll be in a police state.


111 posted on 07/17/2004 12:40:40 PM PDT by The Libertarian Dude ("We're the GOP, and we're for smaller government, right after we pass these laws... and these...")
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To: dread78645

Wouldn't you know, I fire off a quip about this, and THEN read the link.

What stupidity! No wonder our kids are screwed up.


112 posted on 07/17/2004 12:44:43 PM PDT by The Libertarian Dude ("We're the GOP, and we're for smaller government, right after we pass these laws... and these...")
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To: The Libertarian Dude

These people are now government union employees

Like you (I'm sure) I was concerned about that.

As for another 9/11... if that happens, the least of our worries will be union thugs. We'll be in a police state.

I think it depends on how the persident handles it. And what the attack is.


113 posted on 07/17/2004 1:04:29 PM PDT by Valin (Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.)
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To: Valin

I fired that off without thinking, but the most likely scenario is, in the highly-undesirable event of a Kerry win, followed by some sort of attack, THEN we'll have a police state, and Hillary will be able to wear the lovely brown shirts she's been keeping in her closet, right next to Nancy Pelosi.


114 posted on 07/17/2004 1:12:43 PM PDT by The Libertarian Dude ("We're the GOP, and we're for smaller government, right after we pass these laws... and these...")
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To: Hamza01

Bump for a conservative Arab. Not too many of you around, I'm glad you're with us.


115 posted on 07/17/2004 1:16:32 PM PDT by Serb5150 (God Bless Ronald Reagan.)
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To: The Libertarian Dude

I fired that off without thinking,

OK THAT'S IT! Now I'm going to have to report you to the Viking Kitties!

I ddo worry about what happens when the next attack hits. And I believe we will get hit again, the terrorist only have to get lucky once. That's why it's so important that we take the war to them.


116 posted on 07/17/2004 1:20:45 PM PDT by Valin (Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.)
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To: Valin

Noooo! Not the Viking Kitties! Have mercy!

BTW, does the Homeland Security staff know about these kitties?


117 posted on 07/17/2004 1:27:54 PM PDT by The Libertarian Dude ("We're the GOP, and we're for smaller government, right after we pass these laws... and these...")
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To: The Libertarian Dude; Valin
BTW, does the Homeland Security staff know about these kitties?

Know about what?

118 posted on 07/17/2004 1:56:28 PM PDT by dread78645 (Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
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To: MarMema; OrthodoxPresbyterian; FormerLib; katnip; monkfan
I think OP is right on the target in #63. The Roman Catholic Church has been cracked and, some might argue, "decatholicized." The only remaining major Christian block that is seen as an obstacle to a godless globalist NWO, a western version the Internationale, are the Orthodox. But then the Orhodox were the communist Internationale's thorn in the eye as well, as a subject of major persecution, unlike other Christian groups. It is fascinating how the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Coptic Orthodox Christians in the Sudan all these years received but a lip service, and how 200 dead Muslim (mostly combatants) in Gorazde (Bosnia) stole the outrage and the headlines from half million butchered civilians in Rwanda in the same week.

The NWO has its priorities, indeed.

119 posted on 07/17/2004 5:44:44 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: Valin

"Hmm... The bag was full, then it was "almost empty," then it was gone. Sounds like what happens to my McDonalds bag when I finish eating. "

So you take your my McDonalds' bag into the toilet to eat while you take a crap?


120 posted on 07/17/2004 7:40:13 PM PDT by Max Combined
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