I keep thinking about the, what I first of all thought was a thigh bomber because of a computer generated picture I saw in the Sunday Times. In it, this geezer seemed to be fiddling with something on his thigh, whereas we’ve later seen that it was in fact his testicles he was groping for. So you can say he’s a test bomber.
(I didn’t add the talking bubble by the way - too crude)
After that, we’ve all seen photos of the ill-fated underwear - so parochial and unbecoming! Always wear boxers, people!
The US president, Barrack Hussein Obama, only spent a few days putting a statement together, and it didn’t even contain the words “not jump to conclusions,” or “this has nothing to do with islam,” just a new (?) and no less strongly worded sentence: ”… blah blah … acted alone …blah blah.”
(Yes, when I’m blown to smithereens coming in for landing at Oslo airport because a Norwegian once visited a Dane who lives in the same street as that evil Danish cartoonist, I’ll feel so much better knowing that the (Ear? Nasal Passage? Elbow?) Bomber was just a dispossessed son of some diplomat or president, acting alone.)
Now, only 11 days later, however, Obama has decided that the guy didn’t act alone, but on the contrary was influenced by some rather unsavoury characters down in Yemen. Is that why he insists on continuing to send Guantanamo Bay terrorist suspects home to Yemen; so they can get a well-deserved stern talking-to from the authorities there?
Old Gordon Brown hasn’t been slow in jumping on the action bandwagon. As early as last Friday he was busy considering how to strengthen security at airports, and like the Americans, was all for taking people’s carry-on luggage from them, clearly in view of recent Shoe, Arse, and Crotch Bombers.
Yes! Take people’s paperbacks away - that’ll learn’em.
Brown also said: “We all urgently need to work together on how we might further tighten security arrangements - in particular, at what point suspects … are deemed too risky to be allowed to fly.”
At what point? Clearly the point at which the plane explodes. Because it couldn’t be at the point when a known terrorism suspect who has recently spent time in Yemen and whose own father has warned authorities about him being likely to carry out a terrorist attack buys a plane ticket to the US, could it?
I liked the following tongue-in-cheek comment:
“Mads Oyen, a policy specialist at Unicef in New York, suggested removing from a plane any specific seat that had been used by a would-be terrorist. ‘If he used, say, 36E, remove that seat. Then this cannot be tried again.’ ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/business/05road.html
I mean, first of all it’s just way too risky to even fly to Ohio… and who goes there seriously?? And really, can he just please define “the point.” What the heck is that suposed to mean.
Do you see Islamic Nazguls in Hong Kong?
No, we’ve been blissfully spared them so far. Of course there are many wearers of tents with beards down to their knees who no doubt will be willing to take up the AK47 for Ah-La when the time comes, but these would then have to deal with the CHINESE，