Bogglement news
An Italian politician used a Nazi slogan in a pamphlet:
An Italian politician has used the "work makes you free" slogan that topped the gates at Auschwitz in a brochure to promote local job centres, saying he could not remember the source but was impressed by the quote. ...
"Work makes you free. I don't remember where I read this phrase but it was one of those quotes that have an instant impact on you because they tell an immense truth," Coletti wrote in the pamphlet, Ansa reported.
Ho-lee crap. How do you register "an immense truth" but not register that the source of it is a cruel false Nazi slogan? How do you get past cruel false Nazi slogan to begin with, and why?
Moving on to airport hijinks... that's hijinks...
An Iraqi-born man flying out of JFK was forced to change his shirt because it had Arabic on it. On the BBC World News broadcast scroll, it was described as "an offensive t-shirt", but all it said was "We will not be silent" in English and Arabic.
Mr Jarrar said he was told a number of passengers had complained about his T-shirt - apparently concerned at what the Arabic phrase meant - and asked him to remove it.
He refused, arguing that the slogan was not offensive and citing his constitutional rights to free expression.
Because you know that Arabic script=Terrorism OMG!!!9-11!! If people are so jittery that seeing words written in another language makes them think they'll be blown up, then maybe they shouldn't be flying. And if they think making another passenger remove a t-shirt will make them less likely to be blown up, then they are unutterably stupid.
This isn't about actual safety concerns. Whitebread Americans have decided the threat of terrorism means they have the right not to fly with anything or anyone that makes them uncomfortable, whether that's people, images, or words. It's bigotry. And I don't even think they're self-aware enough to know that. They think their unease with unfamiliar people or ideas is the same as feeling unsafe.
In less offensive airport bogglement, a man told airport security an object in his luggage was a bomb because he didn't want his mother to hear it was part of a penis pump:
He's been charged with felony disorderly conduct, said Andrew Conklin, a spokesman with the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Amin faces up to three years in prison if convicted.
You know, if I were them, I'd investigate the mom a little bit. What kind of person is she that she'd disapprove of her son having a sexual aid, but think it was hunky dory for him to be carrying a bomb?
An Italian politician has used the "work makes you free" slogan that topped the gates at Auschwitz in a brochure to promote local job centres, saying he could not remember the source but was impressed by the quote. ...
"Work makes you free. I don't remember where I read this phrase but it was one of those quotes that have an instant impact on you because they tell an immense truth," Coletti wrote in the pamphlet, Ansa reported.
Ho-lee crap. How do you register "an immense truth" but not register that the source of it is a cruel false Nazi slogan? How do you get past cruel false Nazi slogan to begin with, and why?
Moving on to airport hijinks... that's hijinks...
An Iraqi-born man flying out of JFK was forced to change his shirt because it had Arabic on it. On the BBC World News broadcast scroll, it was described as "an offensive t-shirt", but all it said was "We will not be silent" in English and Arabic.
Mr Jarrar said he was told a number of passengers had complained about his T-shirt - apparently concerned at what the Arabic phrase meant - and asked him to remove it.
He refused, arguing that the slogan was not offensive and citing his constitutional rights to free expression.
Because you know that Arabic script=Terrorism OMG!!!9-11!! If people are so jittery that seeing words written in another language makes them think they'll be blown up, then maybe they shouldn't be flying. And if they think making another passenger remove a t-shirt will make them less likely to be blown up, then they are unutterably stupid.
This isn't about actual safety concerns. Whitebread Americans have decided the threat of terrorism means they have the right not to fly with anything or anyone that makes them uncomfortable, whether that's people, images, or words. It's bigotry. And I don't even think they're self-aware enough to know that. They think their unease with unfamiliar people or ideas is the same as feeling unsafe.
In less offensive airport bogglement, a man told airport security an object in his luggage was a bomb because he didn't want his mother to hear it was part of a penis pump:
He's been charged with felony disorderly conduct, said Andrew Conklin, a spokesman with the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Amin faces up to three years in prison if convicted.
You know, if I were them, I'd investigate the mom a little bit. What kind of person is she that she'd disapprove of her son having a sexual aid, but think it was hunky dory for him to be carrying a bomb?