Ok, this one requires you "logon" to youtube because of "mature content".. it's just a commercial for pizza - specifically BOOMERANG PIZZA, which appears to be the pizza of some Rocky from the Rocky Horror Picture Show look-alike meant to be a god in the heavens?!!? You gotta see this. The half second of mature content is enough that you probably won't want to watch this with any co-workers around that do not t share our high-school-lunch-table sense of humour...
Apparently, Harper's corporate tax cuts will allow us to each pay an extra $500 per year in personal taxes. Join this group to show your support - membership has no privledges!
I suppose we can always take comfort that there may be governments with more rampant stupidity than ours.
Here's a story about a veteran who has been declared dead 4 times - it contains one of the best lines I've heard in a while: "So far, Being alive is not sufficient proof that he's not dead."
Wow.. that's pretty bad.. I suppose I could understand someone making the mistake once.. but after the second mistake, maybe someone should have gone to investigate whether this was fraud or not
As for the idiots and their tweets.. I kind of take the side of Homeland Security... if people make jokes like that and HS doesn't clamp down on them, security will just get lax. It's as funny as jokingly shouting "bomb" at an airport (which I suppose could be funny when you see the person get tackled and cuffed). I wish we lived in a world where jokes like this could easily be brushed aside. I agree that HS can be tools and certainly enjoy power tripping faaaaar too much, but with their job, I can't blame them for having no sense of humour.
.. I kind of take the side of Homeland Security... if people make jokes like that and HS doesn't clamp down on them, security will just get lax. It's as funny as jokingly shouting "bomb" at an airport...
I would agree, except that we're talking about DHS here - they have resources on par with the CIA or NSA. If they truly believed that this couple was a threat to America, they should want to investigate, and during the 12 hours that the couple was in detention, they could have made a quick call to their counterparts in GB for confirmation of the slang, and maybe done a google search or something to confirm the family guy reference (of course looking for it now just produces articles about this incident). This pair is going to be blacklisted from entering the US now, because of a stupid joke (albeit in poor taste maybe) that any reasonable person would recognize as such. If making jokes in poor taste becomes a legitimate reason deny access, some people I know will never be allowed to go anywhere
It should also be noted that these comments weren't made on the flight over or anything, they were made a couple of weeks before the trip. So I would say it's nothing like saying "bomb" at an airport, it's more like saying in conversation with a friend two weeks before you even get to the airport.
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