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We’re all going to die unless Obama nukes someone

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That’s the take away here, IMHO:

A passenger was subdued by a federal air marshal during an incident aboard an airliner flying from Washington to Denver on Wednesday night, sources told NBC News.

The FBI was investigating whether the man, a Qatari diplomat, attempted to ignite something aboard the plane.

It’s worth nothing that there were no attacks made by Qatari diplomats on American soil on Bush’s watch.

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  4. 4.

    JGabriel

    Somehow, I think this will not go over well with the Qatari government – meaning I suspect this guy will be in big trouble at home. We’ve had pretty good relations with Qatar, if I remember correctly, and they can’t be eager to endanger that.

    I could be wrong, but I don’t think Qatar will be making anything more than pro forma objections, if any, regarding immunity.

    Of course, it may be to our advantage to let the Qatari handle the situation… if a bomb is involved – though I suppose that’s a non-starter politically.

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  6. 6.

    Joseph Nobles

    Reads like dude was smoking in bathroom and then cracked a badly timed joke when confronted about it.

  8. 8.

    MattR

    Did not realize we had a new thread to discuss this. Just posted on the previous one:

    Well, the silver lining is that I can’t see what new security measures the TSA will create after this. Or at least how they will affect the non-diplomats among us.

  9. 9.

    JGabriel

    @Joseph Nobles:

    Reads like dude was smoking in bathroom and then cracked a badly timed joke …

    That seems a lot more likely than a Qatari diplomat becoming an Islamic terrorist.

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  10. 10.

    MattR

    @Joseph Nobles: Sounds like he made the kind of joke that most of us would like to, but know we can’t without ending up in jail. Either he didn’t realize that (doubtful) or didn’t care/think it applied to him due to his diplomatic immunity (much more likely)

  12. 12.

    Martian Buddy

    I know what that means: Diane West is currently sitting in a self-made puddle and feverishly scribbling down another call to expel all Muslims from the country.

  14. 14.

    BDeevDad

    @MattR: Just replied no smoking on airplanes.

    Anyways, I wonder, if this was just a case of smoking in the bathroom, if the anti-hate crime folks say this is an example where for a non-diplomat, our laws work or if they’ll come out with harsher penalties and break our treaties while we’re at it.

  22. 22.

    gbear

    Well, the silver lining is that I can’t see what new security measures the TSA will create after this.

    Maybe the TSA will set up a system to allow passengers to vote one person off the plane. No minimum age.

  26. 26.

    MattR

    via Jon Stewart, “Lesbian Bondage Fiasco” needs to be converted to a tagline in some way and added to the rotation.

  30. 30.

    Calouste

    @gbear:

    Diplomatic immunity doesn’t mean they can’t declare him persona non grata and put his ass on the next plane back to Qatar. I somehow doubt that the Qatari government is going to make a big fuss about it.

  31. 31.

    MattR

    If this started with a flight attendant smelling smoke, does this mean all the talk about smoke detectors in the lavaratories is bullshit?

  33. 33.

    Mike Kay

    @MattR:

    via Jon Stewart, “Lesbian Bondage Fiasco” needs to be converted to a tagline in some way and added to the rotation.

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, lesbian bondage….

  36. 36.

    Brian J

    @Cris:

    On a completely unrelated note, I was once told that I wasn’t allowed to laugh by someone who worked for the office of the photographer who was taking our yearbook pictures in high school. I despised these people in every which way, and not only because they took awful pictures. They argued with me about smiling with my teeth for my senior portrait. I actually refused to let my mom buy any pictures from them.

    I really, really hope that place goes out of business. Yes, I know that’s awful, but those people suck.

  37. 37.

    MattR

    @Chad S:

    Apparently thats what happened, and then he made a crack about lighting his shoes on fire. Dumbfuck.

    Someone, I think MSNBC, is now reporting that he may have said he put his cigarette out on his shoe.

  41. 41.

    Whackjob Militia Leader soonergrunt

    It looks like the guy is about to get another plane ride very soon. The kind where you get ordered home by the Foreign Ministry or PNG’d by the US State Department.

  42. 42.

    El Cid

    Jon Stewart on the Daily Show points out that Domino’s Pizza has been more contrite than the Catholic Church, and that was just about their shitty pizza.

  46. 46.

    Cris

    @demimondian: . I believe the part about smoking in the lavatory—but, hey, dude? That’s like a federal crime, too.

    So is disabling the smoke detector. For some reason, the fact that the flight attendants explicitly mention this in the pre-flight safety shpiel cracks me up.

  48. 48.

    Whackjob Militia Leader soonergrunt

    @demimondian: We used to smoke on planes all the time. Hell, they used to have little ashtrays in the arm rests in the back section of the plane, the smoking section. The no smoking in lavatories thing was at the same time as the no smoking on board thing because it’s an enclosed space where nobody can see you light up. That’s why there’s a smoke detector in there and why there’s a fine for tampering with it.
    Smoking on Domestic flights shorter than three hours went first, followed by all domestic flights a couple of years later. It was between 1993 and 1996 that international flights that terminated in the US went smoke free. I smoked on the plane taking me to Germany, but couldn’t smoke on the flight coming home.

  49. 49.

    kdaug

    @Ken:

    I thought he kissed them and held hands while prancing through the gardens.

    Think we actually have pictures on that one.

  53. 53.

    hamletta

    If he thought diplomatic immunity could get him out of this, he’s probably not an actual diplomat, but the douchebag son of a diplo.

    Growing up near DC, we had explicit instructions in driver’s ed to avoid cars with diplomatic plates. Privileged asshole children of diplos are notorious for reckless driving and causing wrecks they can just walk away from.

  55. 55.

    mclaren

    Why doesn’t someone point out the obvious? Nuclear weapons have only one use in today’s world: they serve as magnets for terrorists.

    Let’s get rid of ’em everywhere, worldwide. The damn things are useless.

  56. 56.

    Bobby Thomson

    It’s worth nothing that there were no attacks made by Qatari diplomats on American soil on Bush’s watch.

    Very accurate and I assume intentional typo.

  57. 57.

    Whackjob Militia Leader soonergrunt

    @mclaren:

    Let’s get rid of ‘em everywhere, worldwide. The damn things are useless.

    My Father in Law, who spent 27 years on nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the Navy says the same thing. He thinks nukes are dumbest damned idea mankind has ever had.

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