As the weather gets warmer, it’s time for Americans across the land to go out in the sun, get (their scooters) some exercise, and return to hating Muslims, so here’s your third post of the day on this exciting, innovative movement. Our country, as we all know, is still pretty certain a terrorist attack is going to happen on domestic soil any second now, so it continues to throw money at programs that are pointless at best and, at worst, take attention away from real threats. Case in point: Nobody knows how much money the federal and local governments spend on unnecessary terrorism instruction for police officers in Podunk, USA. But because the money exists, there are people willing to call themselves “terrorism experts” and take it. People with mail-order diplomas and deep prejudices against and misconceptions about Muslims.
“When you have a Muslim that wears a headband, regardless of color or insignia, basically what that is telling you is ‘I am willing to be a martyr.’” There were other signs, too. “From the perspective of operational security, there are two things I am always looking out for: a shaved body and moving lips,” he explained. “Some of the Pakistani hijackers shaved their whole bodies in a ritual of cleanliness. If their lips are moving, these guys are praying. As they are walking through an airport, every second they’re going to be praying.”
Sure, whatever. “The Muslims who drive to the mosque in Fords are too afraid to blow themselves up. But you can spot the ones who are terrorists because they drive either a green 1997 Plymouth Breeze or ride around on a vicious dinosaur.” See, we could totally do this job. Give us defense moneys, pls.
The certification chairman for ATAB is a man named Keith Flannigan. Flannigan claims numerous qualifications: a BA from Kent State University in 2008, an MA in psychology from the University of Frankfurt, likewise in 2008, and a PhD in philosophy from Northfield University—once again in 2008. However, the National Student Clearing House, a degree-verification service, was unable to find record of Flannigan at Kent State, nor did the University of Frankfurt find any evidence of attendance. When queried, Flannigan claimed that we couldn’t find his records because Keith Flannigan is not his legal name. Flannigan may well have a doctorate, for what it’s worth, from Northfield University, as it is run by the University Degree Program, described by Chronicle of Higher Education as “the granddaddy of diploma mill operations.”
Let us trust this man with our security operations. He seems like a man we can trust.
But look what happens when an American Muslim security officer gets taught by one of these guys. Whoops!
The same month that Kharoba was being invited to incorporate his material into the FLETC curriculum, FLETC received a complaint from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official named Muhammad Rana. Rana had been angered by course materials that included a handout describing “fundamentalist Muslims” as people with “long beards and head coverings” who, while “we call them radicals … are practicing true Islam.” Eleven out of fifteen members of the class submitted a letter in support of Rana’s complaint, and Rana took his case to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which ruled in his favor.
Whatever happened to simple, instructional VHS tapes? Just get one guy who is a legitimate terrorism expert from the CIA or whatever, have him narrate a video with cheesy music and bad actors wearing Zubaz, and send it out to police departments across the country. Problem solved! Terrorism over! In conclusion:
[Washington Monthly via Wonkette operative "Abe R."]
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So Mike Bibby and his headband wearing brethren in teh NBA had better look out!!
Praise be to Allah that Hillary finally got herself a stylist, or they'd be insistin' that we got ourselves two Muslin terrorists in the White House!
Just two? *shakes head* Sooo, naive, pointing bear.
I remember that #23, brown-skinned dude who used to play hoop for Chicago used to wear a headband a lot.
I'm really surprised the Sears Tower is still standing.
Remember Terrorists/Muslims, Jesus loves you!
"or ride around on a vicious dinosaur.”
Just like Jeebus did.
*His* dinosaur was *never* vicious. A little snippy at times, maybe, but that happens to the best of us.
Obvs.
Trust me, Muscular Jesus' dinosaur was a bad-ass. He rode a vicious T-Rex.
Nice Trifecta of Haytin' On Teh Muslins today, Jack. God Of Abraham FAIL.
Just wanted to acknowledge your avatar. I Go Pogo!
In the bloggin' biz, that's what's known as a "hate trick".
Wait till they get to Satin's influence on our schoolchiyuldrunz.
I new it! Those Muslins wurship Satin! Jezus save us!
That Satin, he's smooooth.
Moving lips? So "Clutch Cargo" was actually a form of Muslim indoctrination?
Worst. Cartoon. Evar!
You know who else had long hair and a beard…….
Johnny Damon.
Duane Allman?
Abe Lincoln?
Well, scragley hair…
Willie Nelson?
Rasputin?
Carrot Top?
ZZTop?
2/3rds of ZZ Top?
Wait, Frank Beard is no longer their drummer?!
Tom Cruise
Well, his beard has long hair . . .
FTW
Relatedly: John Travolta.
(Long hairpieces count, right?)
I thought John Travolta's beard was Kelly Preston?
Rush, circa 2112?
I'm sure that Geddy Neal and Alex will be dead by then.
Truck Driver?
Aragorn, son of Arathorn?
Jim Caviezel?
Salma Hayek? http://goremasternews.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/ha…
Boy, do I get conflicted feelings from that photo.
Christine O'Donnell's unkempt vagina?
Me!
The Mormon Elders? Bob Marley? Frank Zappa?
Rip van Winkle?
Lee Greenwood?
Not anymore.
Winona Ryder, in that one scene in Little Women, where they're putting on a play?
(Even w/the fake beard, highly bangable.)
Gandalf?
Iron & Wine?
That steak leftover from two weeks ago?
That guy down the street, what's-his-name… you know who I mean… the guy with the blue car.
Someone (successfully) bloating his pee by casting this chum into the water?
or, um, George Washington?
Some stuff in teh bottom of my fridge?
Wonkette?
Jack Stuef?
jimbo's mom's date gunther?
Bruce Vilanch?
Johnny Depp?
All elderly Eastern European women?
For all domestic and international flights, the U.S. threat level is Brown, or Bullshit.
Ah yes. The color-coded system of terror. Also known as the Pantone of Panic. Does it even still exist?
I'm an expert in terrorism; I'm terrified by everything.
From the perspective of operational security, there are two things I am always looking out for: a shaved body and moving lips
Has he tried the men's room at the Minneapolis airport? Of course he has.
He could also try visiting the Valley and our nation's proud porn studios.
After some research, it seems that this "Keith Flannigan " is a professor emeritus at the University of Phoenix, where he also coaches their top 25 football team.
Go, go, Fightin' For-Profits!
there are two things I am always looking out for: a shaved body and moving lips
Ah, yes. The Competitive Swimmer Theory of Terrorist Profiling.
Yeah, I'm wondering how you casually observe a totally shaved body in a public place, especially considering that most religious Muslims, including the men, try to be covered from head to toe.
Let's just say we don't want to push that inquiry too far, shall we? (reaches for brain-'n-eyeball-bleach)
My hair fell out after living downwind from the Indian Point nuke plant for six months and I move my lips when I read. Guess I better not walk through any airports.
BRAZILLIONZ DID 911!!
He's gotta have some way to relax in his free time, if you know what I mean *wink
I'm more qualified to be a "terroizm hexpurt" than these fuckers because I've read Huntington (ass) and Bernie Lewis (he reads well, but an ass on TV) plus I eat Halal meats from time to time, make Hummus and my neighbor is Pakistani and play Counterstrike on line.
What Went Wrong was an interesting book.
…your neighbor is "Pakistani"(pronounced: OSAMA BIN LADEN!!!!!!)?! I already know he must always play with the Terrorist class!!!
You terrify me.
A BA, MA, and PhD all in the same year? Who is this guy, Doogie Howser?
Sheldon Cooper
I wonder if he got his dissertation and his thesis mixed up when he defended them. Wups!
Lucky for him Delta has a direct flight from Cincinnati to Frankfurt, otherwise the commute might have killed him.
That could explain his interest, or 'manhunt' if you will, for hairless dudes.
All three degrees most likely purchased with grant money from Homeland Security, because, by golly, we need some "terrorism experts" and we we need 'em right now!
Sarah Palin did it. Wait! No, she got one degree in sixteen years and six sort-of institutions of "higher" learning. But that must qualify her as a terrist x-purt. She can see terr-rists from her house, betcha.
Well, he got the BA for drawing "Sparky", the MA for drawing "Mittens", and the PhD for drawing "Mr. Bunny Rabbit", so really, the majority of the year was occupied with the search for matchbook covers.
"But because the money exists, there are people willing to call themselves “terrorism experts” and take it. People with mail-order diplomas and deep prejudices against and misconceptions about Muslims."
I can get a few mail order degrees by tomorrow and I have deep prejudices against and misunderstanding of whichever group is currently on someone's hate list (Mormons, fashion designers, readers of Red State–you name it).
I can haz monies?
I have neither deep prejudices nor a mail-order diploma, but I am perfectly willing to fight against terrorism by reading library books and drinking coffee. For a bonus of one month's salary, I'll also fight terrorism by petting the neighbor's cats.
Hello?
Anyone?
*crickets chirping*
*muffled cough from back of auditorium*
Jeebus hates downfisters.
It's really more that he loves upfisters:
Alla y'all's talk about fisting is giving me a longing.
It is not that unusual to get ALL your degrees in the same year. Many under grads are working on their MA and PhD while struggling to get that BA and support a family of 27. It is very common. Nothing to see here.
His real name? Ibrahim Abdullah.
Why is this bad? Sarah Palin went to five schools.
Howdy Downfister. How are you doing? How was your week long meal? Did you have to shit a lot?
Still kind of pissed we make fun you don't you. Where are your friends from Bitpart land? I sure would like you to knock down my pee score. I don't want to be in triple digits anymore. Too much pressure.
Is that who I should blame for my intractable double-digit pee? 'Cause the only alternative would be that my stuff just isn't that good, and surely that can't be right.
Because a guy who was able to finish his undergraduate, masters and doctorate courses in a year was DEFINITELY going to a real school and not a diploma mill that teaches three-week long "courses."
And they were in unrelated fields. How many classes did he take? All of 'em, Charlie.
And they were on unconnected continents, too.
Sounds as credible as the mail-order Witchcraft Expert whose testimony put the West Memphis 3 on Death Row in Arkansas. According to that genius, if you wear "black dungarees", paint yr. nails black, and have tattoos, you're into Witchcraft. That would put about 2/3 of Portland in thrall to Satan, I think.
Which is just silly. Everyone knows it's closer to 4/5.
I didn't realize Maine had such a vigorous Satanic following…
A college roommate of mine did his internship and psychiatry residency in Portland ME. He talked about ER cases like patients with light bulbs stuck in their rectums as being common. So yes. Lord Satan is venerated in Maine, too.
Well, good, Fox News now has a use for their old 1960s riot footage.
Just as soon they edit out all of the palm trees.
They can use riot film from Attica. Not only will it show "liberals" rioting, it will prove that they are also criminals who should be locked up.
This might help too:
At a news conference in Kent, Ohio, on Sunday May 3, 1970, the day before the Kent State shootings, Gov. Jim Rhodes said of the Kent State protesters:
"They're worse than the Brownshirts, and the Communist element, and also the Night Riders, and the vigilantes. They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."[
"Flannigan" has a BS in just about everything.
Wait, was this from his terrorism seminar or his personal add on Craigslist's m4m section?
I hear Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) also wears a headband and has been known to sport long, flowing locks. Goodness! I just realized I was recruited as a Martyr when listened to "WIld World" so many years ago!
Not to mention Al-Ivia Newton-John
And Jimi Hussein Hendrix.
Personally, my only information for what is happening in the Muslim world is what Glenn Beck has devined from his visions. Anything else is suspect.
This country is becoming too stupid to breathe. And get off my lawn!
Some of you seem to think he's unqualified for his position. He was hired because he's a Christian™. Duh.
Shaved and moving lips is what I always look for too! Wait, are we talking about the same thing?
people with “long beards
Sheeiiit! I didn't know that Rutherford Hayes was a Muslin! And, Grant, Garfield, Lincoln and Harrison to boot. Almost like the Masonic Preznits. All of them were pretty bad Preznits ceptin' Lincoln – but he freed the colored people we used to be afeard of before we found the Muslins.
Hmmm. It just occurred to me that we bought all those colored peeple from the Muslins, well not me but the rednek states. So what if they're actually a giant sleeper cell.I had a vision of that showing up on Beck's blackboard. So. Never Mind.And Gabby Hayes! And Isaac Hayes (well, the beard anyway)!
Not to mention President Doug Wobble, President Geoffrey Risenburg, and President Geoffrey Savinkus. But not President Buddy Knox, who only had sideburns.
"If their lips are moving, these guys are praying. As they are walking through an airport, every second they’re going to be praying.”
I wasn't praying, I was just muttering to myself about how much I hate teh muslins.
..spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon…
See, I'm praying all the time in the airport too – namely that I'll get to my flight without having to deal with the TSA guy who just had this "course" and is hopped up on Red Bull and the hope of making a takedown.
On the other hand, if Newt's lips are moving, you know he's lying.
Yeah, I've met idiots like this — they will tell you authoritatively that some shit crazier than most of what's been refuted on Snopes is absolutely 100% true. Ten years before Dubya saved the world from Saddam Hussein, they were telling anyone who would listen that he had poisoned villages secretly to test chemical warfare technologies and that dozens of Iraqi wells had chem-bio shells and manufacturing equipment hidden in them, just ready to be put on SCUD missiles and fired at Israel. They're the grandchildren of John Birchers and the speakers at the DA convention in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Hell, a lot of them still subscribe to the Birchers' "Fluoride in drinking water is Communist mind control!" bullshit.
So the only people who are ideologically sound have teeth like a meth fiend?
I think there's a bit of overlap in *that* particular Venn diagram!
"If that Muslim is on a treadmill with his headband, it's because he's training to blow up the New York Marathon"
Boom shocka locka shocka locka shocka locka…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKupOsaJmk
Downfister mad!!
…honestly, I wouldn't blame anyone driving a "Plymouth Breeze" if they decided to strap 30lbs of C-4 around their waste and turn themselves into red mist! Actually, I may encourage it!!!!!!
I thought Frank Abagnale Jr. was in retirement from all that pretending-to-be-someone-he-wasn't.
He is out and working for the FBI, right? Last I heard anyway. We used to pen pals but then he dropped me for a sexier pen pal.
Hell, he's been out of prison since 1974. He gave a talk at my high school back in '76.
Let me get this straight. Three different "degrees" in one year, and an outright xenophobic hatred of Muslims. Who the hell cares about Newt, this guy is the only true possible candidate for President.
Great career op for any out-of-work Wanketeers. Anyone?
The husb likes me shaved with my lips moving. Most men are appreciative of moving lips. Muslins are no exception. In fact they hate teh hair sooooo much Barack Hussein Obamar demands they cover their head with fancy scarves. Everybody knows that Obamar is a muslin, Kenyan, Communist, Marxist, Chinese, Liberal, potato farmer, drug addict married with children homosexual. Suck that xtians.
Potato farmer?
Yes, the naughty tuber that grows underground under nefarious conditions and is eaten by the truckload by poors.
k. time for a cocktail.
i don't understand the idea that sometimes it is not time for a cocktail.
also, i think today is officially lily allen day:
fuck you, fuck you very very much
cause we hate what you do
and we hate your whole crew
so please don't stay in touch.
But those are white peeple, duh! They cain't be terrists.
This. I'm pretty sure the term SorosBot was searching for was "lone nut" or "guy with an understandable grievance actually" or "actually, this one friend from high school who hasn't seen him in years said he smoked pot, so he must be a liberal".
"If their lips are moving, these guys are praying." Or maybe just using hands-free cellphone, same thing.
Wow, the less I comment here, the bigger my p's. That's incentive.
Table candles?
All this time I was thinking the reason all those rednecks moved away from me at the Waffle House in Mobile AL was because I was a dirty hippie, now it turns out it was because I was a Muslin?
Long hair: check.
Long beard: check.
Shaved everywhere else not covered by long hair and long beard? Oh, hell no.
Moving lips? I WAS EATING MY WAFFLES, YOU ASSHOLES!
Razor blades! Poison! Hangin' ropes! Get yer razor blades, poison and hangin' ropes right here! Ya can't give in to complete despair without yer razor blades, poison or a hangin' rope!
yep yep
OT, but Anna Marie Cox was just on Cenk Uygur's show talking about potential Republican presidential candidates. Not a single word about buttsechs. My disappointment is palpable. But I was only listening, not watching, so maybe she sent out some hand signals or something (the hand moving up and down vigorously or something).
no mention of teabagging either?
Didn't stop me from fap fap fap'ing.
I can has loop of Anna Marie Cox moving her hand up and down?
Heh, heh, you said Cox.
Well, I see the "Arrogant Progturds" changed it's moniker to "ProgtardsFearDissent" today. Wonder what the odds are that it's our hit-and-run downfister? Every time I see that happening, "Eleanor Rigby" starts playing in my head.
In this same vein, it turns out much of what we've heard, read and seen about law enforcement "profilers" is pure BS.
I highly recommend "Dangerous Minds" by Malcolm Gladwell (yes, that Malcolm Gladwell). Fascinating!
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/12/071…
At least the "muslim headband = martyr" is a concept these knuckledraggers can easily retain in their lizard brains. I'd love to see them try to grasp the "[whatever color] bandana + [right/left] rear pocket = type of gay" code I had to learn when I moved to the Castro. That shit took *years* to figure out.
MYGAWDTHETERRISTHAVETOOKENOVERMY7-11!!!1!!one!WON!!!!
I guess the real question is why are we spending government money to train cops to be racist assholes? It's like teaching Newt Gingrich how to be a sleazebag.
Q: How can you tell that a lawyer is lying?
A: His lips are moving, his body is shaved, he is wearing a headband, he has a long beard, and the ACLU and the UN and the SEIU are in league with radical Islamists to impose Sharia law schools on personal liability attorneys.
While we're on the subject of terrists: Que Sirhan Sirhan…
One would think SS would be a Rep hero for killing a Dem.
Who isn't looking for a shaved body and moving lips?
Now I have a Bon Jovi song stuck in my head.
Shave your body and move your lips
Talkin' to Allah while your heartbeat rips
Back at the madrassa, you used to be so shy
But you'll show them all when you kiss them goodbye
Whoa! He's a loaded gunnnnnn…
Whoa! There's nowhere to run
Ahmed's got the Semtex
On Flight Ninety One
Just like Glenn Beck and O'Reilly claim
You give Islam a bad name
(Bad name)
Your Sharia law makes you play this game
You give Islam a bad name
(Bad name)
"“From the perspective of operational security, there are two things I am always looking out for: a shaved body and moving lips,” he explained."
Well, no WONDER it's not working! That's not a terrist, it's porn!
So counter-terrorism education is about as accurate, and as effective, as D.A.R.E. Except it doesn't encourage kids to turn their parents into the police, so it still has a ways to go.
When I first heard that I thought it was a joke. Then a good friend of mine told me his daughter had caught him with a joint and was blackmailing him.
Is this a wonderful country or what?
hey! where is the wonkette coverage of the northwestern university live sex demonstration of a motorised sex toy in a lecture hall?
this has been a particularly hard day and i think we've earned it.
Great training class! [Gives thumbs up.] Aces!
Amen!
You want to know something that's curious. For better or worse, I work on political violence as a career. No, not in the applied but rather the academic sense, sorry. So here's the odd thing: professional bomb makers do, in fact, shave themselves completely clean. They also assemble their diabolical machines while completely naked. Why? In a word, friction. Static electricity is not your friend if you're fiddling with PETN.
Oh, and you'd really best get yourself seriously slick if you want to go retro and play with fulminating silver. Ah, that's the stuff if the capitalists come at you with congreve rockets, comrade!
Didn't the British use Congreve Rockets at the Battle of New Orleans?
Now, of course, to call the British Imperialists is a bad thing. Just ask Mike Huckleberry…
I guess President Obama was on the phone with the DHS in that video, evidently.
Ironically, these are the only government jobs that the GOP approves of. I don't know what "ironically" means.
WHAT? OMG, then this is a photoshop!? I'll never trust the internets again!
But that bit about the Bulls having a headband ban is interesting, considering the idea of those things is to keep the sweat out of your eyes, and basketball players tend to sweat, on occasion.
Eh, eff Chicago, anyway. Eff the NBA.
[/disgruntled ex-Supersonics fan]
Jack, if we are going to have to watch some 90s hippity-hop video, why can't it be that "let me clear my throat" song? That was awesome. http://bit.ly/3uBZsb
thanks. love the highest rated comment "This was the Shit. This was when it was REAL" damn skippy son.
So … every time I see a "Jesus Loves You" bumper sticker and it makes me seriously consider running into its owner on purpose … and my lips are moving because I'm muttering "goddamit, godamit, godamit" under my breath … and I'm sweating because I have repressed anger … I'm a terrorist and I can expect to be whacked? Well, I may as well start wearing my keffiyeh again.
you know the word "keffiyeh". i guess you didn't go to northfield?
They are all from Orange County, CA, yes?
speaking of terrism, the capitol in madison has been officially cleared of "slobs" and "abnormal" people (thx glenn grothman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbKIeuL3GhM).
i marched w/ over 5,000 nurses today up state street to the capitol. then, suddenly, one of the doors opened. oops! a bunch of people went in (not i, alas). hours later they left. some lawyers came and went. at one point, there were 21 protesters in the capitol and, oh, i don't know, 10 times as many law enforcement officers. seems a bit silly, if'n you ask me.
so the capitol has been cleared after 17 days of camping inside. some folks are still camping outside.
a judge ordered the capitol remain really real open to the public during normal business hours. but people can't stay there overnight.
we are expecting the largest crowd ever this saturday. over 70,000.
there are some who say we won. there are some who say we lost. i don't know. all i can tell you is this shit ain't over yet. we are not leaving. we will not be intimidated. we are working on recalls of republican state senators. we have inflatable goddamn palm trees. we have crazy beast people. we have thousands of people who have never protested before. this shit ain't over.
Love the inflatable palm trees! I certainly hope that Grothman pays at the polls for that "slobs" idiocy–the arrogant prick.
Solidarity from Boise, ID, where the legislature is also preparing to throw teachers under the bus. Again. And then run the bus back and forth until they're good and squashed.
Shit aint over until Walker is impeached. That asshole needs to be deported back to the Republic of Retardanica.
N_I_C, Oh how I wish i was retired or a "job creator" person and could come up there and support you guys.
Is there anything we can do to help?
you can donate $ to the teachers assistant association https://secure.actblue.com/page/taa-pac or the group that is trying to recall the republican state senators http://www.recalltherepublican8.com/.
or! since we are all cosmic hippies here, you can send us good vibes.
thank you and thank you and thank you.
I always move my lips while walking through airports. I am saying, "Get me the fuck out of this airport."
This Flannigan knows about which he talks! He, is a graduate of Kent State where a line of heavily armoured terrorists lead by that fundimentalist radical Dickni Xon shot down four students in 1970.
You can always tell a radical muslin terrorist because they have an X in their name.
I propose a new national holiday: National Shave Your Body and Move Your Lips Day! Now that's kinky!
"there are two things I am always looking out for: a shaved body and moving lips"
Well, you've pretty much described most analysts on Fox News right there…
I'll move my body, but as little as possible. Nope, no shaveee the lips, sorry. BTW, we are doomed.
But he haz no beard.
♪♫ It's like hair on your baby's face
It's a moustache ride when you've already shaved
It's the grooming advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought…it itches… ♪♫
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!!
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