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by John Cole|  August 30, 20079:55 am| 4 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Punchy

    August 30, 2007 at 11:51 am

    Time to pick a fight with TZ:

    SAN DIEGO – American Airlines flight 590 from San Diego finally made it to Chicago late yesterday, after being delayed in an incident involving passengers heard speaking Arabic.

    It turns out six Iraqi men on board work for a defense contractor and were reportedly taking the overnight flight home after a job at Camp Pendleton training Marines headed for Iraq.

    Their boss says some of the other passengers complained after hearing them speak Arabic. Everybody was ordered off the plane. According to the airline, law officers questioned the men and then quickly let them go. But by that time it was too late for the plane to take off until Wednesday morning.

    Once again, 1 or 2 Bed-Wetters can cause 1) A flight to be grounded, 2) people inconvienced to get a pricey hotel room, and 3) Missed meetings, rides, luggage, etc.

    Why? Cuz a bunch of Brown People spoke something other than English. It’s now a suspicious activity to speak Arabic in an airport. Unreal. There just aren’t enough diapers in this world for all these idiots.

    I’m sure TZ will disagree with me.

  2. 2.

    Ryan S.

    August 30, 2007 at 4:36 pm

    The conspiracy theorists are all in a titter, suppose thats normal.

  3. 3.

    jake

    August 30, 2007 at 9:48 pm

    Massachusetts & Iowa, sittin’ in a tree,
    K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

    File this under Shit you never expected in a bazillion years.

  4. 4.

    jake

    August 30, 2007 at 10:39 pm

    And since this is an open thread:

    I hereby move that we start torching media outlets if they don’t shut the fuck up about Princess Diana for a little while. It seems like every single damn day there is something about her in the news. Even if the story starts out about one of her kids it becomes: “Prince William, the son of Princess Diana, who died blah, blah, blah…”

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