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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:21 AM
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Great Quiz at Solon to counter Airport Racial Profiling Myths
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2006/06/16/askthepilot190/print.html

In 1986, who attempted to smuggle three pounds of explosives onto an El Al jetliner bound from London to Tel Aviv?

a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Michael Smerconish
c. Bob Mould
d. A pregnant Irishwoman named Anne Murphy

In 1962, in the first-ever successful sabotage of a commercial jet, a Continental Airlines 707 was blown up with dynamite over Missouri by:

a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Ann Coulter
c. Henry Rollins
d. Thomas Doty, a 34-year-old American passenger, as part of an insurance scam

In 1994, who nearly succeeding in skyjacking a DC-10 and crashing it into the Federal Express Corp. headquarters?

a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Michelle Malkin
c. Charlie Rose
d. Auburn Calloway, an off-duty FedEx employee and resident of Memphis, Tenn.

In 1974, who stormed a Delta Air Lines DC-9 at Baltimore-Washington Airport, intending to crash it into the White House, and shot both pilots?

a. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
b. Joe Scarborough
c. Spalding Gray
d. Samuel Byck, an unemployed tire salesman from Philadelphia

(All answers are D.)

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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:54 AM
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1. Who's the blue-eyed Cybill Sheppard lookalike who gets her boobs
patted down at O'Hare EVERY time she flies?


1) my sister


DING DING YOU WIN!
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Sailor for Warner Donating Member (615 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:59 AM
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3. I am a blond haired blue eyed Jew
Who gets the violation treatment every time I fly too. But that is because I mouthed off to the TSA Agent once right after 911 and ive been "Randomly Selected" EVERY time ive flown civilian airlines since then.
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nosillies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 11:36 AM
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4. I'm also blond-haired/blue-eyed
and get felt up pretty much every time I travel. I always thought it was because I had a nice rack. Now I think maybe they believe the stereotype, and think we're too dumb to mind!
:7

Last time I was flying with my baby, and when they got started in that area, he started yelling "Boobies!" over and over at the top of his lungs. Priceless.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 10:58 AM
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2. So I take it that was written in response to that stupid RW email
where every answer is "Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40"


Its the best rebuttal I've seen, and that forward has been going around for years
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