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The Ahmad Hoax Is Not Going to Hold, and The Media Will Be Massively Discredited
I suppose that headline is a bit optimistic -- the media is very good about suppressing stories that expose them as frauds; see the Gosnell coverage.
But we're coming to a point where the media's continue refusal to acknowledge the obvious is going to become very embarrassing to them. IBD states the obvious. (I can't quote it because it's short, but it dispels so much of the previous myth-making here; do read it.) Suggesting, to me, that we're about to hit the moment of Peak Media Embarrassment is the fact that the tech community is now openly referring to this as a hoax. They focus on the fact that this kid did not "invent" anything -- he took a mass produced clock, took it out of its case, and put it into pencil box that looked like a small suitcase to make it look like a "cartoon" bomb. People who do tech know that no one, not even a ninth grader, would think he did anything of value here, unless he were mentally slow, which this kid is not said to be. Some in this thread call it simple "plagiarism." That is the exact analogy I used in talking about this: It would be as like a ninth grader simply xeroxing "The Old Man and the Sea" and then telling people "Look at my story." No one who is not mentally slow would think that mere act of photocopying made it "his story," and no ninth grader who was not mentally slow would imagine that taking a mass produced clock out of its case and putting it into another case constituted making an "invention" or even "building" a clock. Two videos to illustrate the difference between an electronics hobbyist building a clock and someone not building a clock. First, here is someone actually making a clock:But we are told that this kid is a genius -- so much so he's getting scholarship offers from MIT -- for a hoax, and for a plagiarism. Why would anyone think was an "invention" worth bringing to school?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 24, 2015 03:29 PM (Ii765)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 03:31 PM (+Q7pl)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 24, 2015 03:32 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 24, 2015 03:32 PM (evdj2)
To freak out the infidels, of course!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 03:32 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Eric Hoffer's Thumb at September 24, 2015 03:32 PM (3rmfJ)
Posted by: Penfold at September 24, 2015 03:32 PM (Fbt5B)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at September 24, 2015 03:32 PM (kff5f)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at September 24, 2015 03:33 PM (kff5f)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 24, 2015 03:33 PM (yddCj)
It's ridiculous that they keep referring to Ahmed as "brilliant."
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 03:34 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 24, 2015 03:34 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: Grump928(c) inventor at September 24, 2015 03:34 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Yahogie at September 24, 2015 03:34 PM (dHkIY)
Posted by: some guy at September 24, 2015 03:35 PM (Bw172)
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 03:35 PM (/lvv6)
So there's that.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 03:35 PM (FsuaD)
My original take was that the initial suspicion was not unwarranted, but that the arrest was. Every day makes it look more and more like that was wrong - the arrest was not only warranted, but there's an argument that the young man should have actual charges pressed against him, and possibly his parents and big sister, too.
Mohammedanism is an evil death cult. This is not helping me hold onto my illusion that some non-practicing Mohammedans actually exist.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Fire-hooks and Rock Salt for sale at September 24, 2015 03:35 PM (kff5f)
Posted by: steevy at September 24, 2015 03:35 PM (sPO3u)
Glad you caught yourself there on optimism, ace. Then again, who knows. Maybe there *will* be at least some humiliation and raising of awareness (see what I did there?).
But as I usually do, just step back and behold what a degraded, unserious country and culture we have become. Every single element of this "story" is jaw-dropping in its idiocy.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 24, 2015 03:35 PM (QDnY+)
Heh.... wait till the charge that Ahmeds sister was previously suspended from another school for "bomb-making" threats takes hold.
Posted by: fixerupper at September 24, 2015 03:35 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Furious George at September 24, 2015 03:36 PM (UlJ3l)
But he would be capable of far more than this little bastard ever did.
Posted by: Papist Bograt at September 24, 2015 03:36 PM (326rv)
The UN?????? Did they miss the part where a digital clock had already been invented?
He really is the mattress girl of Islam.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 03:36 PM (NOIQH)
An SJW of the Protected Classes could kill someone on live TV and it would be explained away. Oh wait, that already happened.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 24, 2015 03:37 PM (OpK2H)
And it took place in the same town as the Pam Geller rally and the ISIS suicide-by-security-guard, so it's not as if it's a town that is untouched by Islamic violence.
And I fell for it.
Looked like a nice aspie boy in a NASA shirt.
Difference between me and the media is that after falling for it I kept paying attention and changed my mind.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at September 24, 2015 03:37 PM (JtwS4)
I made a candle once from an empty pop bottle, some kerosene and a rag shoved in the neck of the bottle for a wick.
Posted by: fixerupper at September 24, 2015 03:37 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 03:37 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Grimaldi at September 24, 2015 03:37 PM (NhVA8)
Don't underestimate us, Ace.
Posted by: Sally Kohn at September 24, 2015 03:37 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Furious George at September 24, 2015 03:38 PM (UlJ3l)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 24, 2015 03:38 PM (yddCj)
Posted by: Vic-we have no party at September 24, 2015 03:38 PM (t2KH5)
Posted by: Grump928(c) inventor at September 24, 2015 03:38 PM (evdj2)
He was part of it. He was clearly contacted by CAIR as soon as it happened and assisted them in getting it to be national news. Obama was not duped, he willingly participated in this, community organizer-style.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 03:38 PM (NOIQH)
I mean, how much is anyone else's degree worth from a diploma mill that would offer a full scholarship to an "inventor" whose invention is a hoax?
Posted by: elaine at September 24, 2015 03:38 PM (Y0Piu)
The other thing the media doesn't talk about is that school only has about 6% white student population.
But....Racism!
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 24, 2015 03:38 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 03:39 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 24, 2015 03:39 PM (9krrF)
The results have proven the ploy well worth it.
I don't even think Sis is the mastermind behind this. It's Dad.
Posted by: West at September 24, 2015 03:39 PM (1Rgee)
Posted by: X at September 24, 2015 03:39 PM (57fhp)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 24, 2015 03:39 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: PC Principal at September 24, 2015 03:39 PM (OD2ni)
A French boy invents an agricultural robot operated from a smartphone.
An Indian girl invents a way to clean the filth out of the disgusting rivers in her country.
Lil' Ahmed "invents" a hoax bomb.
Sounds like the setup to a joke.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at September 24, 2015 03:39 PM (awspb)
Ahmed Mohamed retweeted
cel lxopez
Allah rewarded him for all his struggles. alhamdulillah.
[pic of Ahmed's bling list] http://tinyurl.com/oewk5km
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 03:39 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Baldy at September 24, 2015 03:40 PM (sEXjW)
Posted by: thathalfrican at September 24, 2015 03:40 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 24, 2015 03:40 PM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: wth at September 24, 2015 03:40 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 03:39 PM (FsuaD)
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It doesnt work at all.
That dial *will*not*turn*
You cannot set the time.
Stupid Americans
Posted by: Barrack Hussein Obama at September 24, 2015 03:40 PM (8XRCm)
As the mayor of Irving points out, the official Barack Obama account at Twitter was popping out tweets of support pretty much immediately, within a suspiciously short time.
Sure looks as though this was Astroturf agitprop cooked up by CAIR, and collaborated with by CAIR's friends in the Obama administration, who were aware in advance that it would occur.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 24, 2015 03:40 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 24, 2015 03:40 PM (/Ho8c)
Pabst Beer Upon Him?
Posted by: Insomniac at September 24, 2015 03:40 PM (2Ojst)
Posted by: Clock Boy at September 24, 2015 03:40 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: steevy at September 24, 2015 03:35 PM (sPO3u)
I think he knew the fact that he deemed relevant, namely: "CAIR needs something coordinated for PR that paints Texans as racist Islamophobes."
Posted by: Country Singer at September 24, 2015 03:41 PM (8hctH)
Around here, the Moslem's all suffer an "injury" on the job and get on SSI.
Posted by: Grump928(c) inventor at September 24, 2015 03:41 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Ahmeds atomic algebra clock at September 24, 2015 03:41 PM (8yJ7M)
Nothing new here. People named Mohammed have a history of duping the president.
Posted by: Jollyroger at September 24, 2015 03:41 PM (t06LC)
See also; chickens, roost, come home
Posted by: se pa moron at September 24, 2015 03:41 PM (sI4OA)
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 03:35 PM (/lvv6)
The next time the school play needs a bomb prop, they know who to call.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 24, 2015 03:41 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Dishonest Fvcking Media at September 24, 2015 03:41 PM (g1MTt)
Posted by: Ahmed the Inventor at September 24, 2015 03:42 PM (2Ojst)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 24, 2015 03:42 PM (ariQ4)
http://microsoft-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/satya.jpg
Posted by: Community Organizer at September 24, 2015 03:42 PM (9VLhN)
If it didn't, that would mean that the Leader of the Free World is a douchebag and an idiot, and that can't be right, can it?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 24, 2015 03:43 PM (8ZskC)
He's an aspiring clock maker, and is turning his life around.
Posted by: Ahmed's mother at September 24, 2015 03:43 PM (S7x7a)
http://microsoft-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/satya.jpg
Posted by: Community Organizer at September 24, 2015 03:42 PM (9VLhN)
Damn. All I got for being a douche in school was detention and baleful looks from my peers.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 24, 2015 03:43 PM (2Ojst)
Hours.
Tweeted "Nice clock, Ahmed..." *before* pics of the clock were made public.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 03:43 PM (NOIQH)
That's what made everybody else jump. I mean, it's the White House (I'm sure Obama himself had little to do with this) so everybody figured that the kid was vetted.
I do think that Obama has a direct line to CAIR and was probably talking with this particular branch beforehand because of the rejecting sharia thing.
I'm VERY interested in how the White House got information about this event. Did they get more than the rest of us?
Posted by: AmishDude at September 24, 2015 03:43 PM (Xd2w5)
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Hmm. Well, if they were red LED displays, you might not have seen anything.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 03:43 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 24, 2015 03:43 PM (4ErVI)
Being a perpetual victim pays off. Check the loot he got from Microsoft.
http://microsoft-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/satya.jpg
Posted by: Community Organizer at September 24, 2015 03:42 PM (9VLhN)
Jeeze louise. And look at the shit-eating grin on the little bastard.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 03:44 PM (FsuaD)
They had the knee jerk reaction and judged a group. White on not-quite-the-right-kind-of-white racism is just as bad as other racism, i tells ya.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 24, 2015 03:44 PM (ariQ4)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 24, 2015 03:44 PM (zOTsN)
"I do not undarshtand, vy do Texas allow you to own guns vidout permit but you vant to punish person for having clock???"
Texas guy, 6'5, 60-ish caucasian dude had a sheepish pained look, so I cut in (6' chink eyed minority with a deep, angry, Noo Yawk accent):
"Look, there was a kid who got punished for biting his poptart into the shape of a gun. A girl who brought a Hello Kitty soap bubble blowgun to school. School administrators are crazy. No one is being targeted"
I wanted to shake the little shit by the neck, but refrained. Texas guy looked grateful, and added "Yeah, they are out of control. If you get a certain haircut where I am, they'll think you're part of a gang".
I should have brought up the shit in California where you can't wear the American flag in some schools because the illegals will find it offensive.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 24, 2015 03:44 PM (E5UB0)
please don't paint Texas as unwelcoming to muslims CAIR. they might not want to move here.
Posted by: X at September 24, 2015 03:44 PM (57fhp)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
Cuz he's never gotten his lazy ass out of bed before noon before!
Posted by: Moochelle at September 24, 2015 03:44 PM (PEFlK)
**
hot new take on Dances With Wolves or "Dances with xenophobic racists too lazy to do the jobs that migrant white mans are willing to do"
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 24, 2015 03:45 PM (ariQ4)
No, a baby would mess it up because it can't hold a screwdriver right.
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 24, 2015 03:45 PM (8ZskC)
cel lxopez
Allah rewarded him for all his struggles. alhamdulillah.
May allah have a stampede for him. Or, at least, Mossad pigeons.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 03:45 PM (+Q7pl)
Why does the left always honor and sensationalize frauds and criminals? And why does the media parrot such honors?
It's as if credibility means nothing.
Posted by: BuckIV at September 24, 2015 03:45 PM (mE/ao)
cooked up by CAIR, and collaborated with by CAIR's friends in the Obama
administration, who were aware in advance that it would occur.
Posted by: torquewrench
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bingo.
Posted by: eureka! at September 24, 2015 03:45 PM (g1MTt)
how did they come to that conclusion?
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 24, 2015 03:45 PM (ariQ4)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 24, 2015 03:46 PM (8ZskC)
"Cool clock, Ahmed."
Sir ShitForBrains hasn't the slightest idea why the parts in the pencil case might even function as a clock. He never saw it run.
And yet, it was "cool". He's an agitating moron.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 24, 2015 03:46 PM (BK3ZS)
Worth doing? Who knows; maybe if I were going through a Prince phase.
++++
Heh. For some reason this feels like more than just a hypothetical. Just how much did you like Prince? Purple walls in your bedroom?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 24, 2015 03:47 PM (IN7k+)
It's the fucking cherry on top.
Posted by: Community Organizer at September 24, 2015 03:47 PM (9VLhN)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 24, 2015 03:47 PM (ariQ4)
I was once a ninth grader. If I had, say, taken a bit of blue transparent plastic and laid it over the red screen of a digital clock, I would have made the numbers appear purple rather than red. This would have been more of an "invention" than Ahmad achieved
In 9th grade, I punched "58008" into my calculator, then turned it upside down.
Where's my Nobel?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 03:47 PM (kdS6q)
Fuck, how did POTUS tweet his support for the kid more than 24 hours before the bulk of social and MSM picked up the story? Uncanny social skillz or coordinated action?
Posted by: Guy Valkyrie at September 24, 2015 03:47 PM (nefLa)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 24, 2015 03:47 PM (x4XMF)
Clock boy and Pajama boy team up.
Coffee drinking, pajama wearing, fake bomb making.
It'll be yuge I tells ya.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at September 24, 2015 03:47 PM (x3GpS)
"I do not undarshtand, vy do Texas allow you to own guns vidout permit but you vant to punish person for having clock???"
Because Hadji, Fuck you. That's why.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 03:47 PM (+Q7pl)
Being a perpetual victim pays off. Check the loot he got from Microsoft.
Posted by: Community Organizer at September 24, 2015 03:42 PM (9VLhN)
..................................
Now he can invent a3D printer.
Posted by: wth at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (wAQA5)
Sounds to me like little Ahmed was fishing for a reaction all day until one finally bit.
Posted by: weew at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (EaEMG)
Its the Media Jake...
The Media no longer has any shame... nor cares WHAT they spout, as long as it gets them airtime.
Bruce Jenner cross dressing, is not a serious news story, yet it is still being forced onto us.
Mary Katherine Hamm's husbands accident would never have gotten national attention, except SHE is a media person.
Little Ahmed would be back in school by now... EXCEPT that it was a contrived Media event... that the media bit on.
A bus and a duck boat just crashed in like Washington... and its suddenly a NATIONAL story???
Yet.... there was a murder 4 blocks from my house a couple of weeks ago... and I JUST found out about it yesterday...
Seems that stories I really don't care about at all, are shoved in my face constantly... (like wall to wall coverage of the Pope... I'm not Catholic, and hell don't even consider myself Christian)...
Yet stories that could affect me directly, I don't hear about at all.... (only heard about the local murder through my Mom, who heard it at church)...
And then people here biatch about Low Info Voters....
I watch less and less news as time goes by... because it is filled with horrible news... that does not effect me or mine. It traumatizes us until we no longer want to watch... and then of course we miss the few real things we actually NEED to know about.
/off rant
Posted by: BB Wolf at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (qh617)
how did they come to that conclusion?
Posted by: joe-impeachin44
Because members of the media have never seen the innards of an electronic device before except on TV when said innards are used to signify a seriously smart person.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (PEFlK)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (9mTYi)
Oh yeah, he looks all traumatized and shit. I hope the lawyers who have to defend against that little asshole's many lawsuits are collecting all the images of him smiling.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (LUgeY)
All the crap you learn about not whining and complaining growing up is just crap. Whiners and complainers get service before other polite people.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (OpK2H)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (x3GpS)
Posted by: Pope Franky Says Relax at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (awspb)
Clock boy and Pajama boy team up.
***
Will they do a p0rn with Mattress girl?
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (ariQ4)
When I first ran into this on Facebook, I tried to tackle it as a, "gee, the school overreacted, but the student was being stupid".
The more I recapped the facts to the various lefties, the more I realized ... they acted appropriately.
The teacher had to report him because he disrupted her class. The principal had to contact the police to investigate why a hoax bomb are being brought to school. The police had to process it as a hoax bomb because that's what it was.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 24, 2015 03:49 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at September 24, 2015 03:49 PM (x3GpS)
Correction
He was never offered a scholarship to MIT, although I am sure his father is claiming he was
A SJW who is a post doctoral fellow at MIT personally invited the kid to come to MIT and she would give him a tour.
Which asshat Chris Hayes announced was an invite from MIT itself and a scholarship
No
A person said she would show him around. Period
Posted by: ThunderB at September 24, 2015 03:49 PM (zOTsN)
I mean, how much is anyone else's degree worth from a diploma mill that would offer a full scholarship to an "inventor" whose invention is a hoax?
Posted by: elaine at September 24, 2015 03:38 PM (Y0Piu)
Yup, and MIT will probably still give to him, liberal assholes that they are.
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at September 24, 2015 03:49 PM (R8hU8)
Dr. Mehmet Oz
@IStandWithAhmed: keep thinking like a proton - always positive. See him on the show tomorrow!
Robert Herjavec
I hear Ahmed is a fan of @ABCSharkTank - can't wait to see you in the Tank! Keep inventing!
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 03:49 PM (kdS6q)
Sir ShitForBrains hasn't the slightest idea why the parts in the pencil case might even function as a clock. He never saw it run.
And yet, it was "cool". He's an agitating moron.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars
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I thought that was funny. Little shit sticks a clock in a box and Obama is like, "THAT'S TOTALLY COOL".
On one level it's not funny, because many people will take it seriously, and he's still in an influential position, but on another level it's funny.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 24, 2015 03:49 PM (E5UB0)
Posted by: RD Walker at September 24, 2015 03:49 PM (ImpgP)
I grew up near the town where the Tawana Brawley incident occurred. Most sane people smelled BS right away, but the media, politicians and race hustlers all went crazy.
Posted by: Benji Carver at September 24, 2015 03:50 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at September 24, 2015 03:50 PM (ariQ4)
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at September 24, 2015 03:49 PM (R8hU
There's no indication that he wouldn't wash out the first month.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 24, 2015 03:50 PM (2Ojst)
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*squinty eyes*
Heeeeyyyyy..... why would ducks need a boat?
Posted by: fixerupper at September 24, 2015 03:50 PM (8XRCm)
previous Muslim grievances - reportedly asked the cops to re-handcuff
his son - so his daughter could take the photo that went viral.
Uh-huh.
Perfectly normal outrage.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 24, 2015 03:50 PM (oVJmc)
In fact, it would be funny if the little shit took the SJW offer to show him around MIT
She is a half Jewish lesbian activist. I doubt very much his dad would let him near her
Posted by: ThunderB at September 24, 2015 03:51 PM (zOTsN)
Tweeted "Nice clock, Ahmed..." *before* pics of the clock were made public.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 03:43 PM (NOIQH)
Maybe Barry was using an Ahmed made clock which is why is timing was off
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 24, 2015 03:51 PM (493sH)
*squinty eyes*
Heeeeyyyyy..... why would ducks need a boat?
Posted by: fixerupper at September 24, 2015 03:50 PM (8XRCm)
The same thing God needs with a starship.
Posted by: Capt. James T. Kirk at September 24, 2015 03:51 PM (2Ojst)
The school handled it improperly.
The way to deal with it is to assume innocence on those points, take
the disruptive beeping device, explain how it could cause alarm, say
do not bring electronics projects, private or school-sanctioned, to
unrelated classes, go and sin no more with this detention ship - because in the sense that plugging his
clock into the wall (which he did during English class) led to an
interuption in English class activities, he has erred enough. And he could never do it again wit plausible deniability.
Trying to intimidate him into admitting he brought it to school to get a rise out of people, not with a scold and demerits or detentionwith arrest and interrogation, produced nothing value-added and never would. Making him creep home with nothing to show for the stunt but lost free time might have made the proper impression.
Questions are one thing, but the school and police courted the following preening PR palaver. If a low key, if sensible, approach had been used this wouldn't be a thing at all.
Posted by: SarahW at September 24, 2015 03:51 PM (3fTXW)
I guarantee it was administrators at MIT who offered the scholarship, not people versed in anything.
The speed at which everybody moved convinces me this is a PR stunt. Google, Microsoft, MIT get positive press. CAIR gets positive press. Obama gets positive press. His enemies - the police and white conservatives - get a black eye, and when the truth comes out, nobody gives a shit, because conservatives are icky racists.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 24, 2015 03:51 PM (OpK2H)
http://microsoft-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/satya.jpg
I don't want to live on this planet any more.
Posted by: weew at September 24, 2015 03:52 PM (EaEMG)
That said, I pity even more the other, genuinely deservingkid bumped off the admission list by MIT in its search for SJW immunity. That's what MIT's buying here, isn't it? An indulgence from the Church Of Social Justice And Perpetual Grievance? Immunity from Leftist persecution?
Posted by: troyriser at September 24, 2015 03:52 PM (CMthJ)
Which asshat Chris Hayes announced was an invite from MIT itself and a scholarship
Posted by: ThunderB
_________________
Stop it right now. Chris Hayes is brilliant. You can tell just by looking at his glasses.
Posted by: Furious George at September 24, 2015 03:52 PM (UlJ3l)
But he must be smart. Just look at those dorky glasses!Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 24, 2015 03:46 PM (8ZskC)
..................................
Maybe he can invent himself some cool.
Posted by: wth at September 24, 2015 03:52 PM (wAQA5)
I hear Ahmed is a fan of @ABCSharkTank - can't wait to see you in the Tank! Keep inventing!
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 03:49 PM (kdS6q)
Is he going to invent sharks?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 24, 2015 03:52 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Achmed the Dead Terrorist... at September 24, 2015 03:52 PM (qh617)
Kinda like something a Shit-Midas would do. Now it all makes sense.
If he had a son, and all that.
Posted by: Chupacabras at September 24, 2015 03:52 PM (XiVKO)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 24, 2015 03:51 PM (zOTsN)
That right there is a wellspring from which much politically incorrect humor could flow forth.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 24, 2015 03:52 PM (2Ojst)
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Hmm. Well, if they were red LED displays, you might not have seen anything.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 03:43 PM (9mTYi)
Haha, good catch. And that's why it'd be an invention.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 24, 2015 03:53 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2015 03:53 PM (OGm46)
The school handled it improperly.
The way to deal with it is to assume innocence on those points, take
the disruptive beeping device, explain how it could cause alarm, say
do not bring electronics projects, private or school-sanctioned, to
unrelated classes, go and sin no more with this detention ship - because in the sense that plugging his
clock into the wall (which he did during English class) led to an
interuption in English class activities, he has erred enough. And he could never do it again wit plausible deniability.
Trying to intimidate him into admitting he brought it to school to get a rise out of people, not with a scold and demerits or detentionwith arrest and interrogation, produced nothing value-added and never would. Making him creep home with nothing to show for the stunt but lost free time might have made the proper impression.
Questions are one thing, but the school and police courted the following preening PR palaver. If a low key, if sensible, approach had been used this wouldn't be a thing at all.
Posted by: SarahW at September 24, 2015 03:51 PM (3fTXW)
- - -
Wat?
The school doesn't have time to play every angle when they see a device that looks like a goddamn suitcase bomb.
Posted by: Community Organizer at September 24, 2015 03:54 PM (9VLhN)
Posted by: Pavel Chekov at September 24, 2015 03:54 PM (2Ojst)
Posted by: wth at September 24, 2015 03:54 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 24, 2015 03:55 PM (x4XMF)
4Chan had this debunked within hours. I mean, everything: the use of an actual clock as guts, the Islamist father, the optics of the NASA shirt, etc.
/pol/ was right. What in the hell kind of world are we living in where a message board that is devoted to trolling and edginess is able to pick apart the news while everyone else is fawning all over the kid?
I need a drink.
Posted by: LibertarianJim at September 24, 2015 03:55 PM (9TK8E)
As the mayor of Irving points out, her cops dispute all of these allegations, but because Mini-Mo is a juvenile, the city and the police department can't release the actual documented transcripts and recordings of Mini-Mo being questioned, unless the family sign a release.
The family have refused from the get-go to sign that release.
You don't have to have an especially keen nose to smell the rat in the woodpile.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 24, 2015 03:55 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Stock up on Trumpian Terrors from the Outrage Outlet! at September 24, 2015 03:55 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2015 03:55 PM (OGm46)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 03:55 PM (FsuaD)
previous Muslim grievances - reportedly asked the cops to re-handcuff
his son - so his daughter could take the photo that went viral.
"
I was wondering where that picture cane from. I couldn't figure out how Ahmed would know there'd be a SJW in the office to take the picture. It was his sister. Ok it allllll makes sense now.
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 03:56 PM (/lvv6)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 24, 2015 03:56 PM (/Ho8c)
In grammar school we made one of those papier mache volcanos. I didn't know at the time that I invented lava.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 24, 2015 03:56 PM (493sH)
The one that Shitlords will rule.
#GamerGate
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 24, 2015 03:56 PM (0NdlF)
-----
*squinty eyes*
Heeeeyyyyy..... why would ducks need a boat?
Posted by: fixerupper at September 24, 2015 03:50 PM (8XRCm)
go watch Fox News.... I'm on in 10 with that explanation.....
and your insinuation.... is despppicccablle.....
Posted by: Daffy Duck, Fox Political Analyst... at September 24, 2015 03:56 PM (qh617)
Are you making fun of a scientists shirt?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2015 03:55 PM (OGm46)
The last time an honest-to-God scientist had a really kick-ass shirt he got crucified by the shrieking harpy SJW crowd.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 24, 2015 03:56 PM (2Ojst)
Salon:
The despicable backlash against Ahmed Mohamed: Its nothing new for white America to see the gifted "other: as its greatest threat
by Arthur Chu*
*That guy who cheated at Jeopardy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Chu
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 03:56 PM (kdS6q)
And I think ValJar was the prime mover of this and she commanded TFG to go along.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 24, 2015 03:56 PM (LUgeY)
Then again, the committed left still tell me that Bush went to court in Florida to overthrow the 2000 election (which is clearly why the case is called "Gore V. Florida.").
Oh, and also, there were never any WMDs in Iraq, and Dan Rather was right.
There's no such things as "facts," just statements that identify your tribal membership.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 24, 2015 03:56 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 24, 2015 03:57 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Toonces at September 24, 2015 03:57 PM (e7T6D)
Posted by: ThunderB at September 24, 2015 03:51 PM (zOTsN)
That right there is a wellspring from which much politically incorrect humor could flow forth.
Posted by: Insomniac
__________________
So this half-Jewish lesbian activist, a future Muslim jihadist, and Sarah Jessica Parker walk into a bar . . .
Posted by: Furious George at September 24, 2015 03:57 PM (UlJ3l)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 24, 2015 03:57 PM (39g3+)
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day till the timer says
We have no more to time to do.
If I could make days last forever
If bombs could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then
Again, I would blow up with you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do, once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go through time with
Posted by: Ahmed Croce at September 24, 2015 03:57 PM (8XRCm)
Are you making fun of a scientists shirt?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2015 03:55 PM (OGm46)
...........................
I'm an engineer, it's payback.
Posted by: wth at September 24, 2015 03:57 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: se pa moron
I didn't have enough sense to shut up about it, but it smelled very suspicious to me from the word "go".
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 24, 2015 03:57 PM (/Ho8c)
He was questioned by the school resource officer. That's pretty damn low key.
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 03:57 PM (/lvv6)
Maybe Ahmed Edison can invent Barry's college transcripts and we can see all of those D-
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 24, 2015 03:58 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at September 24, 2015 03:58 PM (awspb)
In this day and age of school shootings (the Columbine dudes brought bombs) I would imagine that the school will not ignore such an obvious provocation, if for nothing else than to ensure that he doesn't escalate and bring in a working weapon next time. Even knowing it's a hoax bomb indicates Ahmed has some issues if he feels the need to instigate a bomb scare. You have to take that stuff seriously.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 03:58 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: BB Wolf at September 24, 2015 03:48 PM (qh617)
Word. And yet, here I am. Consumed with discussion about a thing I have no control over.
Posted by: Sambo at September 24, 2015 03:58 PM (9UV3C)
Posted by: Ken in NH at September 24, 2015 03:58 PM (qFlZT)
Salon:
The despicable backlash against Ahmed Mohamed: Its
nothing new for white America to see the gifted "other: as its greatest
threat
by Arthur Chu*
Ahhh, Salon. The blog that celebrates pederasty/pedophilia.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 03:59 PM (FsuaD)
The despicable backlash against Ahmed Mohamed: Its nothing new for white America to see the gifted "other: as its greatest threat
"
Gifted? Please.
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 03:59 PM (/lvv6)
If the police actually put his handcuffs back on to let him take a photo-op ... that's the first item of wrong-doing by the police I've heard from this story so far. (For self-infliction of bad PR optics)
"No, these are not toys. Go home and stay out of trouble."
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 24, 2015 03:59 PM (0NdlF)
I smell camel shit and curry in that rat pile.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 03:59 PM (+Q7pl)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 24, 2015 03:59 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Buzzion at September 24, 2015 03:59 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Foucault at September 24, 2015 04:00 PM (9mTYi)
That would be one way to return fire on the SJWs. "So, you're good with taking a chance a bunch of kids getting blown up as long as they're brown and black?"
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 24, 2015 04:00 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: tu3031 at September 24, 2015 04:00 PM (EDYaR)
Take a chihuahua, take off 'e's legs and ears, simple metal tube through the back of 'is 'ead so 'e can breath, paint 'im gray and voila! A shark.
Posted by: Grump928(c) inventor at September 24, 2015 04:00 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
__________
Jane, your comment yesterday or the day before about Clock Boy putting a bag over his head and claiming to have invented an umbrella and then our Low Information President stares in wonderment is STILL making me laugh.
Posted by: Furious George at September 24, 2015 04:00 PM (UlJ3l)
Maybe for his next trick Ahmad can invent a Stampede Preventer for Mecca?
A turnstile.
*repeated from previous thread*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 04:01 PM (FsuaD)
MIT will probably still give to him
Posted by: Velvet Ambition
There's no indication that he wouldn't wash out the first month.
Posted by: Insomniac
Might one offer the example of Harvard Law grad Barack "So smart we don't need to give him tests" Obama?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 04:01 PM (kdS6q)
The man who was mad that GamerGate was meeting at a bar in DC, and a few hours later, a bomb threat is called in to that bar?
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 24, 2015 04:01 PM (OpK2H)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 24, 2015 04:01 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at September 24, 2015 04:01 PM (evdj2)
He was tired of being "out bomb hoaxed" by his sister.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 04:02 PM (+Q7pl)
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/646011730552745984
Seriously, what we need to be doing is taking a bunch of these asshole lefty journalistas and dot-com CEOs, then presenting them with an array of (a) clocks unshelled and put into briefcases, and (b) clock based briefcase bombs lacking only the explosive component.
Then see how many of the assholes in question are reliably able to tell the difference between (a) and (b).
Posted by: torquewrench at September 24, 2015 04:02 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Pope Social Justice at September 24, 2015 04:02 PM (xwPSp)
Happy to provide some amusement in these sad times we're living in.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 04:02 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Bigby's Press-on Fingernails at September 24, 2015 04:03 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 04:03 PM (NOIQH)
This was a few minutes drive from Garland. Garland. Where there was an actual ISIS attack.
It would have been beyond stupid for the school to ignore it, and to not call the police. Furthermore, the other students would go home that day and tell their parents that Ahmed brought a "bomb" to school that day and that the school didn't call the police.
You can Monday morning quarterback this all you want. I think authorities did what they had a duty to do.
Posted by: ThunderB at September 24, 2015 04:03 PM (zOTsN)
Was lil' Ahmed given any cash-prizes. From the looks of him, he'll need the money if he wants to lose his virginity before his arranged marriage to his cousin.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at September 24, 2015 03:58 PM (awspb)
............................
After their honeymoon in Damascus, they lived happily ever after in Texas and raised lot's of little scientists... er... terrorists.
Posted by: wth at September 24, 2015 04:03 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Dang at September 24, 2015 04:03 PM (2oWD2)
Posted by: rickb223
That has to hurt a little mohammedan's self-esteem, being bested in jihadi training by a girl.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at September 24, 2015 04:03 PM (awspb)
Yea, that's what I was joking about. Obviously not well.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2015 04:04 PM (OGm46)
http://tinyurl.com/nw8d6k3
Posted by: Countrysquire, feeling reasonably fresh down there at September 24, 2015 04:04 PM (eEBON)
Take a chihuahua, take off 'e's legs and ears, simple metal tube through the back of 'is 'ead so 'e can breath, paint 'im gray and voila! A shark.
Posted by: Grump928(c)
"Alright. But only if I can watch...."
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 04:04 PM (kdS6q)
Then see how many of the assholes in question are reliably able to tell the difference between (a) and (b).
Mail them/deliver them thru their company mail rooms. Let everyone have a chance.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 04:05 PM (+Q7pl)
So naked immediately prior to 9/11, I've heard.
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 04:05 PM (/lvv6)
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 04:05 PM (/lvv6)
I got this! *starts sawing the legs off every pilgrim in Mecca*
Posted by: Clock Boy at September 24, 2015 04:06 PM (2oWD2)
Not for one second.
As soon as Obama and Zuckerturd chimed in on the twitterverse, within minutes of each other, I knew the thing was a set up.
Posted by: navybrat at September 24, 2015 04:06 PM (ETxiG)
by Arthur Chu*
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Gifted, chinkstuff? All you shitheads do is steal ideas from, say, Cisco, as in the case of Huawei. You comprehend ideas, but you never think of them in the first place. You are clockboy, writ large. Go smoke yourself to death in an opium den, asshole. (I'm half chinese so I'm exercising my privilege to make racist slurs).
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 24, 2015 04:06 PM (E5UB0)
The despicable backlash against Ahmed Mohamed: Its nothing new for
white America to see the gifted "other: as its greatest threat
Yet, Pediatric Neurosurgeon Ben Carson is running second in the current Republican primary.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 24, 2015 04:07 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at September 24, 2015 04:07 PM (x4XMF)
nothing new for white America to see the gifted "other: as its greatest threat.
----------------
1984.
False is true
True is false.
Someone who isn't a clockmaker but is declared to be a clockmaker is a clockmaker. The willingness to accept that determines your status as a citizen.
Black is white, white is black.
Posted by: Foucault at September 24, 2015 04:07 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Curtis E LeMay at September 24, 2015 04:07 PM (awspb)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 24, 2015 04:07 PM (39g3+)
SpaceCampUSA SpaceCampUSA
Creative minds are always welcome at Space Camp, and we appreciate donors who help them come. Someone has provided a scholarship for Ahmed.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 04:07 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 24, 2015 04:08 PM (E5UB0)
I should know, I taught him how.
Posted by: Brian Williams at September 24, 2015 04:08 PM (PEFlK)
Exactly. And what would happen if they shrugged off Ahmed this time (and didn't at minimum find out why he was trying to scare people - potential bullying situation) and then Ahmed next brought a weapon to school? Can you imagine the outrage of the (potential) victims' families that the police didn't take the threat seriously?
The school was treating Ahmed as a potentially troubled student, they weren't looking at him as an attention-seeking Muslim.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 04:08 PM (NOIQH)
white America to see the gifted "other: as its greatest threat.
-----
And its nothing new for Liberal America to elevate the mundane of their voting constituencies to "gifted special snowflake status".
Posted by: Ahmed Croce at September 24, 2015 04:08 PM (8XRCm)
The media, corporations, and president have rushed to the kid's defence because it pushes all the right-thinking-anti-islamophobe buttons.
If this was deliberate hoax (I'm not convinced it isn't) I don't think in their wildest dreams it would have taken off so quickly and successfully.
Posted by: blergh at September 24, 2015 04:09 PM (JVEmw)
.... uggggg sock off.
Posted by: fixerupper at September 24, 2015 04:09 PM (8XRCm)
Fvcking pedos.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 04:09 PM (+Q7pl)
Posted by: Iblis at September 24, 2015 04:09 PM (9221z)
I would say "has" or "did in the lead up to the '08 election".
Why is it that the great mass of people don't care? Lie to us, it's what we expect?
Posted by: GBruno at September 24, 2015 04:10 PM (u49WF)
Rosie's daughter who left to live with her bio mom is now living with her heroin baby daddy and his grifter family. They think they are going to get money from Rosie. And if no money, a reality show. Boy, are they in for a surprise.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at September 24, 2015 04:10 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Toonces at September 24, 2015 04:10 PM (e7T6D)
Yeah, I don't see anyone confessing here.
This whole event is sort of a sick parody of 80's sitcom lesson episodes.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 24, 2015 04:10 PM (bLnSU)
Klebold and Harris had rigged up impromptu propane tank devices which they had hoped would work as bombs, as part of their Columbine school massacre.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 24, 2015 04:10 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 04:10 PM (9mTYi)
SpaceCampUSA SpaceCampUSA
Creative minds are always welcome at Space Camp, and we appreciate donors who help them come. Someone has provided a scholarship for Ahmed.
"
Oh it's fucking on. Little bastard.
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 04:10 PM (/lvv6)
Yup, they still bring up Mattress Girl.
Posted by: Benji Carver at September 24, 2015 04:10 PM (OD2ni)
Yeah, but he still gets to see President Obama
"Gets to?" Ugh. Maybe Uncle Joey B. will be there to sniff the sister's hair and fondle the mom.
One can only hope.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 04:11 PM (FsuaD)
----
Yep.
For "embarrassment" to occur.... you need TWO things the main stream media is sorely lacking.
1. A conscience
2. Self awareness
Posted by: fixerupper at September 24, 2015 04:11 PM (8XRCm)
Since Irving just recently voted down sharia law
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 04:11 PM (+Q7pl)
Guy walks about liberal college campus, shows random students picture of Ahmad's "clock" and asks what it looks like -- and 95% of them instantly identify the device as "a bomb":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4KOW92fbSM
Oops!
Posted by: zombie at September 24, 2015 04:11 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Furious George at September 24, 2015 04:11 PM (UlJ3l)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at September 24, 2015 04:12 PM (jsWA8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 04:12 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 04:12 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
What's so wrong about a tool being used as a tool?
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 24, 2015 04:12 PM (E5UB0)
And.... for my NEXT invention..... Im going to take ALL the radiactive isotopes out of smoke detectors and.......
Posted by: Ahmed The Inventor at September 24, 2015 04:13 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: GBruno at September 24, 2015 04:13 PM (u49WF)
Want to have a 7th century theocracy? Great--there are several to choose from. Pick one.
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 24, 2015 04:13 PM (/Ho8c)
She should be wrapped in a burqa as Ahmad's slave, instead of mouthing off and defending Irving's police force.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 24, 2015 04:13 PM (E5UB0)
Obama's going to be awfully busy. For a change.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 04:13 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Notme at September 24, 2015 04:13 PM (s+gYh)
Chu didn't cheat at Jeopardy. He merely copied some of the winning strategies others used.
H is a first class nut/racist tho.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at September 24, 2015 04:13 PM (0x/TW)
to America's Islamaphobia. They don't give up their designated
hero-victims that easily.
Horst Wessel.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 24, 2015 04:13 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: LeBron Horowitz at September 24, 2015 04:14 PM (SnIuD)
Carry it into the secure area of an airport.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 04:14 PM (+Q7pl)
SpaceCampUSA SpaceCampUSA
Creative minds are always welcome at Space Camp, and we appreciate donors who help them come. Someone has provided a scholarship for Ahmed.
"
Oh it's fucking on. Little bastard.
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 04:10 PM (/lvv6)
hold up
i don't give a shit about going to facebook or google hq but now this little fucker gets to go to space camp?
when i was that age i would have done way worse than a bullshit clock to get to go to space camp
Posted by: the real ch3 at September 24, 2015 04:14 PM (IG5KL)
Breaking news:
The Senate on Thursday rejected a short-term spending bill that would defund Planned Parenthood. Senators voted 47-52 on ending debate on the short-term continuing resolution, well short of the 60 votes needed.
The vote divided Republicans, with eight of them breaking ranks. Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Susan Collins (Maine), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Dean Heller (Nev.) Mark Kirk (Ill.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ben Sasse (Neb.) all voted against moving forward.
After the vote, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed a new short-term spending bill that would fund the government and Planned Parenthood.
Woo hoo! Vote GOP!
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 04:14 PM (kdS6q)
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/646011730552745984
Seriously, what we need to be doing is taking a bunch of these asshole lefty journalistas and dot-com CEOs, then presenting them with an array of (a) clocks unshelled and put into briefcases, and (b) clock based briefcase bombs lacking only the explosive component.
Then see how many of the assholes in question are reliably able to tell the difference between (a) and (b).
Posted by: torquewrench at September 24, 2015 04:02 PM (noWW6)
Wouldn't it be better to have one of them be a real bomb and give them, oh, five minutes to defuse it? Entice them to participate with a promise of unlimited H1-B visas.
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at September 24, 2015 04:14 PM (nFdGS)
Posted by: LeBron Horowitz at September 24, 2015 04:14 PM (SnIuD)
agreed. just like the roanoke shooting
Posted by: the real ch3 at September 24, 2015 04:15 PM (IG5KL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
-----------------------------------------------
More than that. He's using community organizer tricks, like false flag operations. He's a community organizer prodigy, smarter than Obama. Obama was still huffing choom at his age.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 24, 2015 04:15 PM (E5UB0)
Of course the goal has already been met. The Left gets to portray America as "Islamophobic" for a few days in the headlines, Obama gets to polish his cred with CAIR and other terror sympathizing groups, the media will never, ever fully report the facts, and little Ahmed the clock-deconstructor gets to be the Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown figurehead for the idiot masses. If those idiot masses aren't stirred up by ethnic/Religious/racial animus, they're useless to the Left. So a fake story, a fake controversy, gets real results.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 24, 2015 04:16 PM (2cS/G)
times 3.12.83 reporting boy clockinventor doubleplusungood refs
unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling
Posted by: INSOC at September 24, 2015 04:16 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Ahmed the Inventor at September 24, 2015 04:16 PM (2Ojst)
http://microsoft-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/satya.jpg
*******************
He won't know what to do with all that equipment.
I almost want to contact Microsoft asking if I send them a disassembled 70's clock from Goodwill if they can send me the same stuff they gave that fake inventor kid.
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at September 24, 2015 04:16 PM (B11vO)
Posted by: INSOC at September 24, 2015 04:16 PM (evdj2)
-----
hey.... somebody tell sven he's posting under an old sock....
Posted by: fixerupper at September 24, 2015 04:17 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Rolling Stone at September 24, 2015 04:17 PM (RQbH7)
Creative minds are always welcome at Space Camp, and we appreciate donors who help them come. Someone has provided a scholarship for Ahmed.
Why? Because he had a NASA shirt on?
Be glad he didn't have a Brazzers shirt on.........
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 04:17 PM (+Q7pl)
Being a perpetual victim pays off. Check the loot he got from Microsoft. ------
You get what you pay for.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 24, 2015 04:17 PM (+c55T)
Two word: Boko Haram
Killing Christians because Western education is bad.
*mic drop*
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 04:17 PM (NOIQH)
All of the "______phobic" labels are just conversation changers designed by the SJW movement to put the conservative side of the discussion on it's heals. I am not islamophobic in the sense of having a psychological condition. I am only islamophobic in the sense that I have a sense of self-preservation. But I am not afraid of them. Nor am I afraid of homosexuals.
Posted by: Sambo at September 24, 2015 04:17 PM (9UV3C)
YOUTUBE
"Students Say Ahmed's Clock Looks Like Bomb"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4KOW92fbSM&feature=youtu.be
The question was generic ... "what does this look like?". I think "Ahmed" was never mentioned.
I now expect the SJWs to stage massive witch hunts on college campuses.
I forget where I found the link ... LiveLeak, maybe
Posted by: Arbalest at September 24, 2015 04:18 PM (FlRtG)
There's no such things as "facts," just statements that identify your tribal membership.
The song of our times. That's really how it goes. Demented people living in safe, soft, comfortable times, thinking they can impose their will on reality and it will bend. People deluded into thinking they can make their own truth because nobody will say otherwise.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 24, 2015 04:18 PM (39g3+)
This is the kind of crap they just love doing. But maybe they should ask themselves:
Who loves blowing up passenger airplanes, coffee shops, newspaper outfits, and other civilian targets the most on the world stage for the last 40 years or so?
Maybe it isn't really a "phobia," ie, unreasonable fear.
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 24, 2015 04:18 PM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 24, 2015 04:18 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Arbalest
See comment #221 above! Same link.
Posted by: zombie at September 24, 2015 04:18 PM (jBuUi)
Thanks. I read your post and had to go watch Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent on YouTube. Still hilarious.
Posted by: Benji Carver at September 24, 2015 04:18 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Most Interesting mohammedan in the World at September 24, 2015 04:18 PM (awspb)
200 Seems likely to me that this is just an effort to intimidate the school district and especially Mayor into kneeling before Muslims and letting them do anything they want.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 24, 2015 04:07 PM (39g3+)
The mayor. It's all about the mayor. If this actually were not a setup by the father who do you think he would have criticized first? My bet would be the school or the police. Who did the father to after immediately? The mayor.
Posted by: Buzzion at September 24, 2015 04:18 PM (z/Ubi)
http://microsoft-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/satya.jpg
Surface Pro 3: $1800
A cube 3d printer: $1000
Microsoft Band: $150
Surface Pro 3 Keyboard: $100
Office 365: $75
Raspberry Pi 2: $40
Random other stuff: Probably another $250
Kid got well over $4,000 worth of stuff from Microsoft.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 24, 2015 04:19 PM (jhqr1)
Have you noticed that the media actually does talk about how bad things are? Since the article in the WashPo a week or so ago about the rise of the desperately poor in this country, I've started paying attention to 'stuff'. The media is actually telling stories about how bad thing are getting not only in this country, but also in the world.
But never, ever - and I mean never, ever - in the context of Obama. It is always in terms of either capitalism is destroying the world, or shit happens.
Obama, healer of planets and stopper of rising of oceans, has nothing to do with it and further, can't possibly be expected to do anything about it.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 24, 2015 04:19 PM (BZAd3)
By 14, shouldn't little Ahmed be in a gifted program or something?
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel
If the school system has one, yes.
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 24, 2015 04:19 PM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: Little Ahmed at September 24, 2015 04:20 PM (oVJmc)
http://microsoft-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/satya.jpg
Posted by: Community Organizer
That is sickening.
Everything is beyond parody.
Posted by: zombie at September 24, 2015 04:20 PM (jBuUi)
Kid got well over $4,000 worth of stuff from Microsoft.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 24, 2015 04:19 PM (jhq
Where's fucking Lois Learner and the IRS when you need, errr want them?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 24, 2015 04:20 PM (+c55T)
What is even sadder, after all of these faux news stories - we as a society keep falling for them. And we are too lazy to demand an investigation into truth.
In today's world, our educators and school administrators dive for cover if they hear the snapping of bubble gum. We excoriated them for not acting when hindsight showed there were troubling signs leading up to when a student committed a horrendous act. Now we beat them up for being cautious? WTF?
Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at September 24, 2015 04:21 PM (DlmoZ)
http://microsoft-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/satya.jpg
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He won't know what to do with all that equipment.
I almost want to contact Microsoft asking if I send them a disassembled 70's clock from Goodwill if they can send me the same stuff they gave that fake inventor kid.
- - - -
Easy. He'll take the front bezel off the tablet, throw in some leftover wires from the clock project and claim he invented a better iPad.
Posted by: Community Organizer at September 24, 2015 04:21 PM (9VLhN)
In my defense I didn't actually read the whole thing, in fact I didn't even read to his name, so my initial thought was actually "Texas, brown kid, probably Mexican."
The original stories reported his dad owned an electronics repair shop, without reading I assumed he threw together some parts from there.
Here's the thing, I was part of the "destructoid" crowd at that age, I took shit apart a lot.
Electronics, since I knew nothing about them, were actually kinda boring. They all look the same on the inside more or less (again, with no real knowledge)
So I gravitated towards the mechanical. As do most kids this age who can't make heads or tails of a circuit board.
My friends who stuck with it (and had electrical engineering parents to help them) by this age had actually learned to solder.
Based on the other "stuff" I've seen from this kid (basically a bunch of stuff removed from it's case) he has no idea what solder even is.
Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at September 24, 2015 04:21 PM (tM4uk)
*!*
Just came to me. Buy all of the same clocks that you can, sell them along with a matching pencil case and a screwdriver. Mail the 'kits' to Obama, Slate, Chu, et al.
Or better, offer them for sale. "Learn to build a clock , just like Ahmed did."
*dsahes off to Ebay*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 04:21 PM (9mTYi)
Breaking news:
The Senate on Thursday rejected a short-term spending bill that would defund Planned Parenthood. Senators voted 47-52 on ending debate on the short-term continuing resolution, well short of the 60 votes needed.
The vote divided Republicans, with eight of them breaking ranks. Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Susan Collins (Maine), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Dean Heller (Nev.) Mark Kirk (Ill.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ben Sasse (Neb.) all voted against moving forward.
After the vote, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed a new short-term spending bill that would fund the government and Planned Parenthood.
Woo hoo! Vote GOP!
"
Fuck Rand Paul in particular.
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 04:21 PM (/lvv6)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 04:22 PM (+Q7pl)
Posted by: blaster at September 24, 2015 04:22 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: Garrett at September 24, 2015 04:22 PM (MRjwY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 24, 2015 04:22 PM (W5DcG)
By 14, shouldn't little Ahmed be in a gifted program or something?
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel
Ahmed's got that "slow" look from consanguineous Islamic marriage.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 04:22 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Community Organizer at September 24, 2015 04:21 PM (9VLhN)
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Well.... in fairness.... that *would* be a better iPad.
Posted by: fixerupper at September 24, 2015 04:23 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 04:23 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: bonhomme at September 24, 2015 04:19 PM (jhqr1)
He probably already had an Obamaphone (complete with a 30 free trial of obamacare (no substitutions, no refunds)).
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 24, 2015 04:23 PM (BZAd3)
"The Media Will Be Massively Discredited"
.......................
Excuse me while I hit the snooze button.
Posted by: wth at September 24, 2015 04:23 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: Jollyroger at September 24, 2015 04:24 PM (t06LC)
If the school system has one, yes. "
Irving ISD is a huge district. They absolutely have AP classes and probably IB as well.
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 04:24 PM (/lvv6)
-Everyone is equally valuable. No one is better than anyone else. To say otherwise is to discriminate, and discrimination is evil.
-Therefore, if anyone does better than anyone else, they didn't manage it by personal ability or talent. They cheated. They stole. They oppressed and kept others down.
-If anyone does worse than others, its not their fault, they were held back by oppressors and cheated.
-Therefore, people who are doing better need to be punished, held back, controlled, and limited.
-White males from Europe have been dominating the world with technology, music, culture, art, industry, and just about every other sphere and clearly since they did so by immoral and oppressive means, must be stopped and punished.
Remember that and the insane things the left does begins to follow a pattern.
Sure, its insane. Sure its utterly without any reality. But that's what they believe and why they act.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 24, 2015 04:24 PM (39g3+)
"238
Fuck Rand Paul in particular.
And Kelley Ayotte. Guess what toots. Enjoy your remaining time in the Senate cause you won't get re-elected.
Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at September 24, 2015 04:24 PM (DlmoZ)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 24, 2015 04:24 PM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 24, 2015 04:24 PM (kXoT0)
"The vote divided Republicans, with eight of them breaking ranks. Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Susan Collins (Maine), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Dean Heller (Nev.) Mark Kirk (Ill.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ben Sasse (Neb.) all voted against moving forward."
Some of the usual traitors I see.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at September 24, 2015 04:25 PM (+aCe4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr.
Hey, I jogged really slowly, panting and wheezing, around my school track while carrying an iPad showing a video of Usain Bolt winning the Gold Medal, and as a result I was offered an athletic scholarship to join the track team at USC!
Posted by: zombie at September 24, 2015 04:25 PM (jBuUi)
- - - -
Easy. He'll take the front bezel off the tablet, throw in some leftover wires from the clock project and claim he invented a better iPad.
That will really chap MS's ass, sice iPads are Apple.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 04:25 PM (+Q7pl)
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 24, 2015 04:24 PM (bZ7mE)
Nowadays that would get you arrested, your parents arrested, and the state would begin proceedings to place you in foster care.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 24, 2015 04:25 PM (2Ojst)
We are the judges of our own opinions and we hear from the prosecutors first.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at September 24, 2015 04:25 PM (GzDYP)
Posted by: Lauren at September 24, 2015 04:21 PM (/lvv6)
He's supposed to be libertarian. I thought libertarians were all about self sufficiency, even unto death.
Lying fark.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 24, 2015 04:25 PM (BZAd3)
I'd like to think that when the shit hits the fan, Zuckerberg will be the first to be beheaded by Ahmad. Do you really think he'll like you, Mr. purveyor of shitty blogging software?
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 24, 2015 04:26 PM (E5UB0)
So what the hell is up with Cotton, Sasse, and Paul? All of them are going to catch sheer hell from home. What are they thinking?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 24, 2015 04:26 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: bonhomme at September 24, 2015 04:26 PM (jhqr1)
Posted by: Grey Fox
When I was 14, a friend and I invented a fool-proof system for stealing dirty magazines from a local convenience store.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at September 24, 2015 04:27 PM (awspb)
The gift certificates that came with it provided me with some more tools with which to complete the real project: building
A bomb from a clock?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 24, 2015 04:27 PM (+Q7pl)
"The vote divided Republicans, with eight of them breaking ranks. Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Susan Collins (Maine), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Dean Heller (Nev.) Mark Kirk (Ill.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ben Sasse (Neb.) all voted against moving forward."
Some of the usual traitors I see.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at September 24, 2015 04:25 PM (+aCe4)
Tom Cotton? I'm surprised. Well, add him to the "fuck him in particular" list.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 24, 2015 04:27 PM (2Ojst)
Posted by: Little Ahmed at September 24, 2015 04:27 PM (oVJmc)
Hell, if I had that, I'd start my own business.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 24, 2015 04:27 PM (LUgeY)
This belongs in the OED as an example of "litotes".
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 24, 2015 04:28 PM (E5UB0)
Some of the usual traitors I see.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at September 24, 2015 04:25 PM (+aCe4)
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And a new one effn' TOM COTTON.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 24, 2015 04:28 PM (LXJ1e)
I'd like to see this little bastard prosecuted, at this point. This would really drive the point home -- it would showcase the left's deception and the president's complicity in that propagandizing deception.
Posted by: Pastafarian at September 24, 2015 04:28 PM (LqrRo)
Our demand is not unreasonable. We can't stop the Holocaust, but can we at least not fund it?
America is as bad as Nazi Germany. AS BAD.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 24, 2015 04:28 PM (OpK2H)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 04:28 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Donkey Joto at September 24, 2015 04:28 PM (K1Azf)
Posted by: redenzo at September 24, 2015 04:29 PM (WCnJW)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 24, 2015 04:29 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 24, 2015 04:29 PM (39g3+)
Probably.
Sad thing is, it wasn't even all that long ago - less than two decades. I don't like this brave new world we are building.
Posted by: Grey Fox at September 24, 2015 04:29 PM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 24, 2015 04:29 PM (LXJ1e)
"Tom Cotton? I'm surprised. Well, add him to the "fuck him in particular" list- Insomniac"
That's why I said some. A few surprises in there.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at September 24, 2015 04:29 PM (+aCe4)
The Columbine victims' parents. Dylan and Eric brought bombs to that school for the finale.
This whole hoax makes bringing an actual bomb to school to do your massacre far easier than using a gun.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 24, 2015 04:29 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: schizoid at September 24, 2015 04:30 PM (inJa1)
Posted by: dc at September 24, 2015 04:30 PM (oY/R7)
PEAK meant I got to take off a day of school each week and go to Higgins Armory, now defunct, which housed one of the largest Arms and Armor collections in the U.S.
The coolest thing we did with GATE was release a balloon in Oxford, MA and (somewhat) accurately predict that it would come down on the West Side of Worcester. No GPS in those days, so it was a project to find it. We did, weeks later, in Paxton, just over the Worcester line. (Someone called the Phone Number on the bottom and we picked it up).
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 24, 2015 04:30 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Insomniac at September 24, 2015 04:25 PM (2Ojst)
I know, right. The shit I did as a juvenile if things were like they are now, I'd still be in prison, charged as an adult, no possibility of parole. I even had a *gasp* rifle in my pickup. I use to blow up tree stumps off our property, unsupervised. I'd probably still be in an interrogation room being waterboarded.
Posted by: Semper In Stercus at September 24, 2015 04:30 PM (BZAd3)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 24, 2015 04:29 PM (AC0lD)
- - -
That's the plan!
Posted by: Ahmed the Clock Genius at September 24, 2015 04:30 PM (9VLhN)
Hell, if I had that, I'd start my own business.
Has anyone seen a cool project made from this type of plastic additive printer?
I've mostly seen tabletop game pieces and random toys that look like Chineese knockoffs of Chinese knockoffs.
Someone made a printable gun that could fire a dozen .22 rounds before failing. Other than that, seems like it's mostly just "I made this!"
Posted by: bonhomme at September 24, 2015 04:31 PM (jhqr1)
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*kicks at the dirt*
I never won anything, and I dissassembled several clocks
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 04:31 PM (9mTYi)
Challenge him to search for, find, and de-activate an IED.
I'd pay to watch that.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 04:31 PM (FsuaD)
Hell, if I had that, I'd start my own business.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 24, 2015 04:27 PM (LUgeY)
Little Ahmed can certainly use that to print a bomb off the Internet.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 24, 2015 04:31 PM (kXoT0)
Word is the hybird goat/human experiment didn't go over well.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 24, 2015 04:32 PM (9krrF)
Then see how many of the assholes in question are reliably able to tell the difference between (a) and (b).
'
I agree with Emmett, only I wouldn't even tell 'em.
Posted by: West at September 24, 2015 04:32 PM (1Rgee)
Posted by: Albie Damned at September 24, 2015 04:32 PM (HzqYP)
Posted by: Moderate Salami, weeping for our dead Republic at September 24, 2015 04:32 PM (/Ho8c)
Posted by: Semper
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Yup.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 04:33 PM (9mTYi)
256 zombie at September 24, 2015 04:18 PM (jBuUi)
Thanks.
I had been watching THIS
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=574_1442788233
"Look everyone I invented a clock .... (in 20 sec)
This makes Ahmed look like MIT material ...
Posted by: Arbalest at September 24, 2015 04:33 PM (FlRtG)
6M Jews vs. 55M abortions. We're worse.
And the pricks we send to DC to represent us are completely deaf to our wishes. Over half the population wants it stopped.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 24, 2015 04:33 PM (LUgeY)
Conservative Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said he voted against McConnell's bill because it did not provide enough military funding.
Concern Status
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[X] Noted
[ ] Other Than Noted
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 04:33 PM (kdS6q)
If you could look into that camera... no, that one... there you go... and speak to Mr. Trump, would you tell him to drop out?
Posted by: Megyn Kelly at September 24, 2015 04:33 PM (Ui7Rt)
I could ruin the Flashlight industry.
Posted by: Ahmed the Clock Genius at September 24, 2015 04:33 PM (9VLhN)
When I was a rebellious tweener, my and friends made what we called "Drano Bombs" using the following technique:
- Get some of those old aluminum film cannisters that used to be commonplace in the pre-dgital-cameras era; camera shops would dump thousands of them per week. They looked like mini 2-inch-high metal cannisters with screw-top lids.
- Steal a contain of Drano crystals from under some mom's sink.
- Put about a tablespoon of Drano in the bottom of the completely dry cannister, then put a teaspoon of water separately in the lid.
- As quickly as possible, slam the lid down closed on the cannister and screw on the lid and throw it with all your might.
Five seconds later:
- BOOM!
Then run like hell in every direction!
So, OK, we were for real learning about chemistry.
But no one gave a shit about "learning." Instead, we got a night in jail and a juvenile record.
Posted by: zombie at September 24, 2015 04:34 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Donkey Joto at September 24, 2015 04:28 PM (K1Azf)
He said blue. With a blue filter over red.
Still don't know if it would turn purple.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 24, 2015 04:34 PM (LXJ1e)
I have a classification for kids everyone says are smart, clever, or creative even though a 6-year-old could run rings around 'em: "genius retard".
Yes, I've run into enough to have a classification for 'em. Not as many lately, but my last stint in school... O.o
Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 24, 2015 04:34 PM (9krrF)
I hope he takes all of that stuff from Microsoft and announces he's used the components to build a superior Apple product.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel
..................
I hope he sells it all at a garage sale and O.D.'s on crack.
Posted by: wth at September 24, 2015 04:35 PM (wAQA5)
We are doomed.
Posted by: JoeF. at September 24, 2015 04:35 PM (JnAgK)
Posted by: goon at September 24, 2015 04:35 PM (gy5kE)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 04:36 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 24, 2015 04:36 PM (2x3L+)
I hope he sells it all at a garage sale and O.D.'s on crack.
I just hope the little "genius" gets called on this...
Posted by: donna at September 24, 2015 04:36 PM (hUdMz)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 24, 2015 04:37 PM (S0bOl)
U.S. Senator Rand Paul issued the following statement today after voting against the FY2016 short-term continuing budget resolution brought before the U.S. Senate:
"While I support all efforts to stop federal funding of Planned Parenthood, this bill is a clear representation of business as usual in Washington - too much spending and too much debt. The American people deserve better."
The Senator then added, "SMK WD EVRDAY".
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 04:37 PM (kdS6q)
So there's that.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 03:35 PM (FsuaD)
Faster, please! Those crowds aren't going to be crushing people to death forever.
Go!!!
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at September 24, 2015 04:37 PM (7rAXc)
The first candidate who would renounce the GOP and leave the party over this would have my support for eternity.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 24, 2015 04:37 PM (OpK2H)
Posted by: Meth cooker at September 24, 2015 04:37 PM (V8uX9)
Posted by: JoeF. at September 24, 2015 04:37 PM (JnAgK)
Posted by: simplemind at September 24, 2015 04:38 PM (5vV+V)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 03:34 PM (NOIQH)
Why not? They keep referring to Obama as a "great orator" and Michelle as "beautiful."
Posted by: kathysaysso at September 24, 2015 04:38 PM (fMQoG)
I keep up with 3D printing a good bit, since if I ever become gainfully employed again, I'll probably be working with that technology.
I'm amazed at how far it's advanced in the past five years. There is some really kewl stuff being made that was literally impossible until just recently. And more advances are being made in metal 3D printing too. There was even a video of a molten glass printer in the sidebar recently.
That stuff makes my pocket protector get stiff.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 24, 2015 04:38 PM (LUgeY)
This is what has happened to this country.
Wake up and smell the bullshit, America.
Posted by: se pa moron at September 24, 2015 04:38 PM (sI4OA)
And what happened to Cotton???
Posted by: GBruno at September 24, 2015 04:39 PM (u49WF)
First, open a 2-liter bottle of diet coke.
Next, roll up a piece of thick paper and use it to dump an entire roll of Mentos into the bottle really fast.
Then.....---BOOM!!---
Posted by: Ahmed at September 24, 2015 04:39 PM (NOIQH)
Clearly you don't, Rand.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 24, 2015 04:39 PM (OpK2H)
And what happened to Cotton???
Posted by: GBruno at September 24, 2015 04:39 PM (u49WF)
It was the gin what got him.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 24, 2015 04:39 PM (2Ojst)
... and, again, for comparison:
This 14-Year-Old Boy And His Homemade Motorbike Will Inspire You
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/this-14-year-old-boy-and-his-home-made-motorbike-129642350152.html
Ahmed seems to not be operating at this level.
What could it mean?
Posted by: Arbalest at September 24, 2015 04:40 PM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Meth cooker
Apprenticeship FTW yo!
Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 24, 2015 04:40 PM (awspb)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at September 24, 2015 04:40 PM (V8uX9)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 24, 2015 04:40 PM (kXoT0)
Then they're off to Mecca.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
"Doh! Missed the flight because some broke the alarm clock. Why you...!"
"Don't have a cow, man!"
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 24, 2015 04:40 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: GBruno at September 24, 2015 04:39 PM (u49WF)
It was the gin what got him.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 24, 2015 04:39 PM (2Ojst)
Golf clap.
Posted by: kathysaysso at September 24, 2015 04:40 PM (fMQoG)
Posted by: Make America Great Again
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See - 69
LED's have very narrow spectral bandwidth.
A truly 'blue' face would not pass red LED emission.
spectral chart: http://preview.tinyurl.com/nmpt2pb
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 04:40 PM (9mTYi)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 24, 2015 04:38 PM (LUgeY)
Yeah, all the cool stuff seems to be happening at the industrial scale more than the hobbyist level.
Which is totes cool, but my point is don't be looking at the people with Makerbots and saying "this is it?!"
Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at September 24, 2015 04:40 PM (tM4uk)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 24, 2015 04:40 PM (W5DcG)
Heh!
And Caitlyn Jenner is stunning and brave!!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 04:41 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: goon at September 24, 2015 04:41 PM (gy5kE)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 24, 2015 04:41 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes
I would not be surprsed if this was cooked up IN the Oval Office in conjunction with CAIR.
Nothing would surprise me anymore. I suspect the absolute worst, and whenever the truth is revealed by accident, it ALWAYS is either as bad as or even worse than I had assumed.
Posted by: zombie at September 24, 2015 04:42 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: steevy at September 24, 2015 04:42 PM (sPO3u)
Posted by: 3.14159 at September 24, 2015 04:42 PM (MaINI)
Posted by: goon at September 24, 2015 04:43 PM (gy5kE)
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at September 24, 2015 04:29 PM (+aCe4)
That makes me wonder if something was not amiss. These days, as it pertains to politicians, you can never tell who is stabbing you in the back, or standing on principle about something that isn't readily apparent. And then when they come out with their explanation of their principled stand, you can't tell if they are lying to cover themselves or not.
I've given up trying to discern any more. I just make generalized judgements about the character of the person based on some major actions, and unless they do something overtly opposed to conservative ideals, I just blow it off.
Posted by: Sambo at September 24, 2015 04:43 PM (9UV3C)
I think the fact that he had the gall to call it an 'invention' when it was actually just disassembled and stuck in something else tells you everything you need to know about this.
Posted by: Lea at September 24, 2015 04:43 PM (lIU4e)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at September 24, 2015 04:43 PM (vA2ew)
They invented the condom. Made from the large intestine of a goat. 300 years later the French got the idea to remove it from the goat first.
Posted by: Grump928(c) at September 24, 2015 04:43 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 03:38 PM (NOIQH)
^^^^^^!
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at September 24, 2015 04:43 PM (7rAXc)
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>>>> 6M Jews vs. 55M abortions. We're worse.
And the pricks we send to DC to represent us are completely deaf to our wishes. Over half the population wants it stopped.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 24, 2015 04:33 PM (
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This bears repeating. The fearful aspect of this all is that it will take much more blood shed, many more terrorist attacks which we and Europe are opening the doors for before this becomes a war we will get involved in as a country in order to fix the abortion problem and Muslim problem.
Poland was invaded on Sept 1, 1939. It took 2 years and 3 months later before Pearl Harbor. We stayed out of the war all that time. Hitler was invading Russia by then.
It's going to take a lot more of the bad stuff, before or if, we ever address any of these two plagues
Posted by: L, Elle at September 24, 2015 04:43 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at September 24, 2015 04:44 PM (GzDYP)
by Arthur Chu*
In many ways, this story is also mine... Except perhaps that stab my boyfriend to death part.
Posted by: Crystal Magnum at September 24, 2015 04:44 PM (326rv)
So if it isn't a threat, but simply a discipline issue, that's how it should be handled. And what did arrest get them? Nothing. And that' the point they never had anything but the possibility the kid made a clock or a mock-up of a "hollywood bomb". He never used it in a threatening way. He never implied it would be. He called it a clock. He argued with the teacher it was a clock.
She saw it was not dangerous and acted only as if he meant to get a rise out of people.
What he should have gotten was detention for making noise with it in class and some lecturing about proper times and places.
Posted by: SarahW at September 24, 2015 04:44 PM (3fTXW)
Posted by: L, Elle at September 24, 2015 04:36 PM (2x3L+)
Interesting tidbit, my prom date was scary smart. He got a four year full ride to MIT.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 24, 2015 04:45 PM (kXoT0)
LED's have very narrow spectral bandwidth.
A truly 'blue' face would not pass red LED emission.
spectral chart: http://preview.tinyurl.com/nmpt2pb
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 24, 2015 04:40 PM (9mTYi)
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Ok, I thought it would turn black, not see anything.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 24, 2015 04:45 PM (LXJ1e)
The KosTard diary is still up:
"They didn't think he had a bomb."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/17/1422329/-- They-didn-t-think-he-had-a-bomb
(copy, paste, remove space before "They-")
The K-Tards are certain it's raaaaaacism.
Both they and Ahmed are 1 squeezed handful of PlayDoh short.
Posted by: Arbalest at September 24, 2015 04:45 PM (FlRtG)
This 14-Year-Old Boy And His Homemade Motorbike Will Inspire You
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/this-14-year-old-boy-and-his-home-made-motorbike-129642350152.html
Ahmed seems to not be operating at this level.
What could it mean?
Posted by: Arbalest
This is Ahmed's level :
https://youtu.be/6Ng5u6HVhXg
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 24, 2015 04:45 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 24, 2015 04:45 PM (S0bOl)
MRE Bomb. Same same. Take a couple of MRE chemical heaters, 5 gal water can. Add water and wait for BOOM!
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at September 24, 2015 04:46 PM (7rAXc)
Wait for the police video which will shed more light on his intention.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at September 24, 2015 04:46 PM (V8uX9)
She saw it was not dangerous and acted only as if he meant to get a rise out of people.
What he should have gotten was detention for making noise with it in class and some lecturing about proper times and places.
Posted by: SarahW at September 24, 2015 04:44 PM (3fTXW)
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You do not know that since the boy's parents won't allow the police to release the interview/interrogation tapes.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 24, 2015 04:47 PM (LXJ1e)
Posted by: goon at September 24, 2015 04:48 PM (gy5kE)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 24, 2015 04:48 PM (LUgeY)
Posted by: Pastafarian at September 24, 2015 04:48 PM (LqrRo)
Posted by: PETA at September 24, 2015 04:48 PM (inJa1)
Posted by: Fritz at September 24, 2015 04:49 PM (3tjn4)
They invented the condom. Made from the large intestine of a goat. 300 years later the French got the idea to remove it from the goat first.
Posted by: Grump928(c)
Believe it or not, they had condoms back in ancient Rome!
Seriously.
Back then, they wee made out of fish skin, and broke pretty often. I think it was the French, 1600 years later, who made a revolutionary condom improvement by switching to lambskin.
Final step was switching to rubber, in the 20th century.
But the Arabs actually DID invent a form of birth control:
The IUD.
For real.
But it wasn't for humans -- it was for camels.
On transcontinental caravans it was a major problem that the female camels tended to get pregnant, and thus walked slower and slower, and slowed down the whole caravan.
Sometime in the distant past some Arab got the idea to grab a handful of pebbles, and then literally reach his arm up the female camel's vagina and push the pebbles into its uterus.
I know, yechhhh - - but it worked.
This primitive IUD prevented the camels from getting pregnant, and made the caravan trade faster and thus more profitable.
This was invented long before Islam appeared -- no one knows the exact date.
I think it took another 18 centuries before some european got the idea to try it on humans.
Posted by: zombie at September 24, 2015 04:50 PM (jBuUi)
Probably his intention (or his CAIR bear dad's) all along.
The teacher was obligated to call the police.
Now Clock Boy is going to the White House and the UN and is a lefty hero.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 24, 2015 04:50 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: zombie at September 24, 2015 04:51 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Soona at September 24, 2015 04:52 PM (Fmupd)
And that somebody was ... Lena Dunham.
And now you know ... the rest of the story.
Good day.
Posted by: Zombe Paul Harvey at September 24, 2015 04:53 PM (evdj2)
Heh!
And Caitlyn Jenner is stunning and brave!!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2015 04:41 PM (NOIQH)
"She's" a hero!
*glances around for PC Principal*
Posted by: Buzzion at September 24, 2015 04:54 PM (z/Ubi)
http://tinyurl.com/ptuxn3r
Posted by: KT at September 24, 2015 04:56 PM (qahv/)
Another overlooked point here: it's not necessarily "Islamophobic" to worry about bombs being brought into a school by students. Spree killers with no Muslim affiliation are also interested in bombs.
Klebold and Harris had rigged up impromptu propane tank devices which they had hoped would work as bombs, as part of their Columbine school massacre.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 24, 2015 04:10 PM (noWW6)
I'll note that the deadliest spree killing in American history was at a school.......with a bomb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 24, 2015 04:58 PM (UBLhq)
Nothing would surprise me anymore. I suspect the absolute worst, and
whenever the truth is revealed by accident, it ALWAYS is either as bad
as or even worse than I had assumed.
Posted by: zombie at September 24, 2015 04:42 PM (jBuUi)
Exactly my thought, and my experience.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 24, 2015 05:01 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Zombie Michael Crichton at September 24, 2015 05:01 PM (VPLuQ)
Posted by: Thatch at September 24, 2015 05:02 PM (pBZp4)
Here's a thought. Why doesn't someone with deep pockets hire a group of professional protesters who can lock arms and block the vehicle bringing the undeserving fraud to the WH. Make DC police haul em off.
Posted by: The guy who cries wolf a lot at September 24, 2015 05:04 PM (h25SG)
It's going to take a lot more of the bad stuff, before or if, we ever address any of these two plagues
Posted by: L, Elle at September 24, 2015 04:43 PM (2x3L+)
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And they still praise their socialist hero God FDR, that lying bastard. Talk about God waiting on doing anything about Auschwitz . . .
Exponential Margaret Sanger and even the Pope. Maybe Ahmed's clock is a sign from God . . . about Time.
The storm's a brewing. Thar be dragons.
Posted by: GBruno at September 24, 2015 05:05 PM (u49WF)
Sound far-fetched? Of course it does, but I bet zombie Rajiv Gandhi wouldn't laugh it off, and flying planes into buildings at one time sounded far-fetched too.
And imagine the coup it would represent for the Muslims: attacking the Great Satan at the seat of government.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 24, 2015 05:07 PM (oKE6c)
Better idea - how bout we get a episode of south park featuring this BS clock and the idiots who compete with each other to see how stupid they can be,featuring King Stupid as president.
Oh that's right, they won't fark with islam anymore.
Posted by: simplemind at September 24, 2015 05:08 PM (5vV+V)
Posted by: GBruno at September 24, 2015 05:09 PM (u49WF)
Posted by: Clockboy at September 24, 2015 05:18 PM (O7MHB)
Posted by: Religion Of Peace! at September 24, 2015 05:26 PM (Mrl1e)
Posted by: Clockboy at September 24, 2015 05:31 PM (O7MHB)
Posted by: bruce at September 24, 2015 05:40 PM (X86uj)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 24, 2015 03:57 PM (2cS/G)
That's how I wrote "Ishmael and the Whale"
Posted by: Clockboy at September 24, 2015 05:47 PM (O7MHB)
Posted by: gp at September 24, 2015 05:59 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: bonhomme at September 24, 2015 04:19 PM (jhqr1)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Should have left his 'clock' under Bill Car.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 24, 2015 06:39 PM (NaeCR)
Posted by: Stephanie at September 24, 2015 07:22 PM (eLvFT)
Alarm clock...don't they all look like bombs in attache cases?
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, aging supermodel Redneck Queen at September 24, 2015 07:37 PM (LJ4iV)
But do keep in mind they showed you how to make the clock, take any common digital clock, take off the plastic, stick the clock in a box.
So for people who thought it looks like a bomb, a cartoon bomb maybe. TV bomb. But please don't go home, say eenie-meenie-mini-mo, microwave, telephone, oven, tv remote, tv, dvd player, radio, or whatever, take the screws out, open the plastic and call the FBI and tell them someone put a bomb in your vacuum cleaner.
Posted by: Severely Conservative at September 24, 2015 08:09 PM (p6UPL)
He is 14 years old
He took apart a clock put it in a pencil case
Idiots thought it was a bomb. But of course never actually treated it like it was a real bomb no evacuations or bomb squad was called
But unlike the kid with the pop tarts. He did not just have his parents called and miss 2 days of school for bad judgement
The click kid was handcuffed questioned without either parents or lawyer and sent to juvie
Posted by: John at September 24, 2015 08:50 PM (x6zMD)
Posted by: the littl shyning man at September 24, 2015 10:11 PM (0MxG5)
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
Posted by: obama_NOT_MUSLIM at September 24, 2015 10:14 PM (rVEMe)
1. The media skewered Bush for months about that comment.
2. The scanner actually WAS cool. It was a new type that had just been introduced into service.
We all know this clock boy episode was a false flag op but at least there is a narrative that Obama's IQ is demonstrably below average room temp.
Posted by: Beeblebrox has 2 Heads at September 24, 2015 10:49 PM (OPCz2)
Has anybody confirmed whether or not the kid had to plug the box into the wall and set the alarm in order for it to go off during his English class?
Posted by: KT at September 25, 2015 12:31 AM (qahv/)
Posted by: SarahW at September 25, 2015 01:56 PM (3fTXW)
The teacher was not obligated to call police, and didn't call police. She took her sweet time with the crazy clock.
After a short argument with her student trying to tell him what it was, and he resisting with "its a clock, it doesn't look like a bomb to me", she confiscated it. Later she brought it to the school administrators.
THEY called the police, and mainly for the same reason - to elicit a confession that the clock was a prop-bomb.
It would have been much wiser, when there is no student announced hoax or attempt to confuse or pass off the device as a bomb, to use some discretion.
Discipline for class disruption, clock taken for rest of year, instruction to limit projects to dedicated classes or at home. Kid loses free time, and if a stunt, is disappointed in the severest way - no PR angle.
Posted by: SarahW at September 25, 2015 02:04 PM (3fTXW)
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