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Leftist need something to pick at? But it was YOU that started the thread, without a link without info, but its the leftist fault
At the time, there really wasn't a link, but the next poster provided one.
The amusing part of this is the "complaints" from the leftists on the thread that I shouldn't have posted the "news" because the "news" changed a little while later, even though EVERY news outlet posted the same initial story about a potential shoe bomber.
Now that is petty and trivial, but I do understand where it comes from - a deep seated frustration.
At the time, there really wasn't a link, but the next poster provided one.
The amusing part of this is the "complaints" from the leftists on the thread that I shouldn't have posted the "news" because the "news" changed a little while later, even though EVERY news outlet posted the same initial story about a potential shoe bomber.
Now that is petty and trivial, but I do understand where it comes from - a deep seated frustration.
Wow..there goes that broken clairvoyance meter again. Tell you what, why don't you learn the difference between facts and YOUR opinion.
I can see where this was overblown but the guy is still an idiot and should be charged or fined or something. But of course they wouldn't dare risk offending anybody because of who he is.
Had this been some shlob from the US they'd have come down a lot harder on him just to show they have little patience for this kind of buffoonery. What a crap airline and we still have nobody making the skies safe.
Excuse me, but how else could the airline have done it differently? There was no explosive to find even if they'd have done a full body cavity search of the guy. They had a couple of air marshals on board who reacted as they should have after someone smelled smoke. They had no choice about not arresting a person with diplomatic status. It stinks that he doesn't have to answer for his poor judgment joke but, really, do we want OUR diplomats to be subject to arrest when they travel abroad? All diplomats are afforded that same privilege everywhere.
Excuse me, but how else could the airline have done it differently? There was no explosive to find even if they'd have done a full body cavity search of the guy. They had a couple of air marshals on board who reacted as they should have after someone smelled smoke. They had no choice about not arresting a person with diplomatic status. It stinks that he doesn't have to answer for his poor judgment joke but, really, do we want OUR diplomats to be subject to arrest when they travel abroad? All diplomats are afforded that same privilege everywhere.
>>>> He broke airline policy by lighting up. At the least they could ban him from future flights for a period of 3 months to a year. If he really made a joke or comment about " lighting his shoes on fire", he should have been physically detained and questioned for 24 hours or so and then told to never set foot aboard that airline again. Then drag his name about in public and ridicule the nitwit. You needed the US government to step up and come down on this guy instead they just looked the other way. Maybe they couldn't arrest him but they could put him in restraints and hold him before they let him go.
>>>> He broke airline policy by lighting up. At the least they could ban him from future flights for a period of 3 months to a year. If he really made a joke or comment about " lighting his shoes on fire", he should have been physically detained and questioned for 24 hours or so and then told to never set foot aboard that airline again. Then drag his name about in public and ridicule the nitwit. You needed the US government to step up and come down on this guy instead they just looked the other way. Maybe they couldn't arrest him but they could put him in restraints and hold him before they let him go.
"The U.S. plans to close the book on the bomb scare aboard a Denver-bound airliner after receiving assurances from Qatar that the diplomat who touched off the panic will be sent home," the Associated Press writes (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125702704 - broken link). A "State Department official and another person close to the matter" tell the AP of the agreement to send diplomat Mohammed Al-Madadi back to Qatar.
CNN adds that it's been told by two State Department officials that the U.S. and Qatari governments "agreed that was the best way to handle the matter."
It is just getting more and more difficult to kill athlet's foot fungus these days. They won't even let you burn it off in the airplane toilet any more. I mean what is a diplomat with foot itch going to do? Take his shoes off an light up in the seat? I mean be reasonable.
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