{"id":5283,"date":"2010-01-09T13:26:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T20:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2010-01-09T13:33:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T20:33:42","slug":"prophetical-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/01\/09\/prophetical-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophetical-wise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick Question:\u00c2\u00a0 How much credit does Calvin Trillin get for this “Underwear Bomber” prediction<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The answer, I’m afraid to say, is not a whole awful lot.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s predictable enough.\u00c2\u00a0 Tell someone a few years ago that this would be used as a store-house for explosive devices, and I don’t see how any sane and sensible person could miss a beat.\u00c2\u00a0 Drugs are smuggled in that route, right?\u00c2\u00a0 )If you don’t know that, you’re even more naive on issues of Illegal narcotics than I am.)<\/p>\n

Likewise, if someone were to tell you now that a few years hence, a particularly creepy TSA employee will be caught making private use, or releasing publically, Full Body Scan images, you shouldn’t miss a beat.<\/p>\n

So we’ve now reached that point where Air Travel is undesirible and unwelcome.<\/p>\n

………………………………….
\nIn other news.\u00c2\u00a0 Make sense of this what may<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An Ohio man who became loud and disruptive aboard a Wednesday night flight from Miami to Detroit — at one point telling those around him he “wanted to kill all the Jews” — was removed from the airplane before takeoff and arrested.<\/p>\n

The man was identified as Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, who authorities sayposed no potential security threat.<\/p>\n

Miami-Dade police say he caused enough of a “disturbance” that the pilot had to return to the jet-bridge. When Asad was taken off the plane to be interviewed by police, he threatened officers, made racial comments and charged an officer, authorities said. He was Tasered twice.[…]<\/p>\n

According to the arrest affidavit, Asad said: “ `I’m not afraid of you cops. I’ve gotten in fights with cops in Ohio and broke their arms in three places. I’ve broken skulls too!’ ”<\/p>\n

He then prayed and chanted, before telling a cop to “Go back to Africa, you white racist cop!”<\/p>\n

… A tad incoherent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quick Question:\u00c2\u00a0 How much credit does Calvin Trillin get for this “Underwear Bomber” prediction? The answer, I’m afraid to say, is not a whole awful lot.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s predictable enough.\u00c2\u00a0 Tell someone a few years ago that this would be used as a store-house for explosive devices, and I don’t see how any sane and sensible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}