Did he refuse to answer what it was? Seems to me he was pretty clear that it was a clock. The only thing he refused is to say was that it was anything other than a clock.
I can see it now "What is it? Well, it's a flat panel LED numerical display, hooked up to an IC driver, which is being run from a clock IC which is fed from a power supply which runs either off the mains via a transformer and bridge rectifier with a pi filter, or a battery powered backup which will drive the clock chip but not the display, and..." "???? KNOCK OFF THE GOBBLEDEGOOK KID, WHAT IS THIS THING???"
... realized yet that his father is an activist? Ran twice for president of Sudan (from the US!)? Debated that FL pastor who burned a koran?
I knew this was too "perfect" the first whiff of it I got, and the more details come out, the more right I was.
ran for president of Sudan, on a moderate Islamic platform (with no hope of winning, just to make a statement). including the platform that people should be allowed to convert AWAY FROM Islam if they want to.
As for the pastor thing; Hell, I'd debate that asshole pastor if I was offered the chance. You're backing the wrong horse there buddy.
And, you must have missed in your deep and extensive research, he is big in a Sufi sect. You and your buddies might need to google that.
As a kid I did take apart a old, large TV, and there was sparks, shocks and the smell of burning flesh even though it was unplugged (capacitors...)
Yeah, that's how a bright kid learns about capacitors before school addresses the topic. If you're bright enough, you won't have to learn it a second time, with a friend's Tesla coil. I wasn't bright enough.
I'm gonna be bold, but he didn't invent shit. At best, from the picture, the "clock" seems more to be a commercial product hacked up in a different case. Why would he add 2 source of power (9V battery + main) ? Why do this on 2 different boards linked up by ribbon cables ?
He's not being arrested for patent violation, you know.
Gotta love the passive agressive accusations in the second article - "I don't mean to accuse him of being a terrorist, but wasn't he acting suspicious, isn't all this a little funny, isn't it kinda like he was a terrorist?".
once again I'll say it; people have two modes of thinking; data-based reasoning, and gut level intuition and faith. And individuals vary on how much of each they do, with some folks being very polarized at one mode or the other. And today, you can't be a rightwing American with any modicum of data-based individual thinking in you. It's entirely hierarchical/authoritarian/identity based. the point being, that once one of these guys jumped to the conclusion the kid was a terrorist, there's no amount of data, or lack of data, that can cause him to alter his gut level belief. In fact, obviously, the other way around; "I wouldn't be thinking he was a terrorist unless he was doing things to make me think, that, right?"
I'd like to highlight a part of the article that I thought made some good points:
[...]Teachers are taught to be suspicious and vigilant. Ahmed wasn’t accused of making a bomb – he was accused of making a look-alike, a hoax. And be honest with yourself, a big red digital display with a bunch of loose wires in a brief-case looking box is awful like a Hollywood-style representation of a bomb. Everyone jumped to play the race and religion cards and try and paint the teachers and police as idiots and bigots, but in my mind, they were probably acting responsibly and erring on the side of caution to protect the rest of their students, just in case. “This wouldn’t have happened if Ahmed were white,” they say. We’re supposed to be sensitive to school violence, but apparently religious and racial sensitivity trumps that. At least we have another clue about how the sensitivity and moral outrage pecking order lies.
Because, is it possible, that maybe, just maybe, this was actually a hoax bomb? A silly prank that was taken the wrong way? That the media then ran with, and everyone else got carried away? Maybe there wasn’t even any racial or religious bias on the parts of the teachers and police.
I don’t know any of these things. But I’m intellectually mature enough to admit I don’t know, and to also be OK with that. I don’t feel a need to take the first exist to conclusionville. But I do like to find facts where I can, and prefer to let them lead me to conclusions, rather than a knee jerk judgement based on a headline or sound bite.
Sure. Just as likely as that it was a hoax spaceship. Or a hoax robot. Heck, as long as you require no evidence whatsoever, it could be a hoax any damn thing. except a hoax clock. Couldn't be a hoax clock, because it was a real clock.
Our religion has a 1,400 year history of living side by side with Christians, Jews, fire worshippers, and atheists, even within the borders of Muslim nations, without incident.
Oh, there has been plenty of incident. To mention one thing that has been on my mind with the war in Syria of late, one thing that struck me traveling there before the war is that even under the "anti-fundamentalist" Assad regime, Christians were forbidden by law from putting crosses on their places of worship or inviting Muslims to their faith, while among Muslims it was completely allowed to engage in da'wah among the Christian population. As I would later discover, this discrimination in law holds for most Muslim states.
I wouldn't disagree that most of the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world are peaceful in individual interaction, and I'm certainly grateful for the immense hospitality I have received across the Muslim world from the Maghreb to southeast Asia. But when this population acts as a political bloc, I don't believe that the outcome is as pleasant for non-Muslim minorities as you claim.
Ironically, the kid's father (remember the kid? with the clock?) ran a quixotic campaign for president of Sudan, which included as a platform repealing the laws against converting from Islam.
which oddly enough, causes the insane rightwingers to conclude it's all a SETUP!!!
What the fuck are "suspicious wires?" I have a drawer containing assorted lengths of wire, and if some of them are suspicious, I want to know about it.
Explosive devices!!! Put a couple of thousand amps through any of them and KABOOM! OMIGODYOUREASECRETMUSLIMTERRORISTSLEEPERAGENT!!!
Well, a little research discovers that the primary adult person doing the manipulating is this boy's father, which suggests that this whole thing may have been a set-up.
a little research, i.e. reading pam geller's latest fever dream and swallowing it unconditionally. it was a setup.... because THE DAD IS A MUSLIM TOO!!! THEY"RE IN ON IT TOGETHER!!! IT WAS A DRY RUN!!! IT WAS A PROVOCATION BY THE ISLAMIST FATHER!!!! SEND THE REPUBLICANS ALL YOUR MONEY!!!!
read the comments and weep for America. http://www.breitbart.com/big-g... I challenge any people who still consider themselves decent, rational Republicans to wade through that swill and still defend "Conservatism" as it is practiced in today's America.
Well, a little research discovers that the primary adult person doing the manipulating is this boy's father, which suggests that this whole thing may have been a set-up.
Yes, the father, a Sufi (as if you'd know what that means) who ran a no-chance-in-hell campaign for president of Sudan on a platform including repealing the laws against converting from Islam, said to the kid one day, "Ahmed, take this clock to school, the infidels will surely think it's a bomb and win us valuable sympathy"
Half a bomb is a stupid way to phrase things. The clock before it was taken apart was therefore also half a bomb. Radio Shack before it went bankrupt could be classified as a Do-It-Yourself half-a-bomb factory. It's not even a trigger yet, it's just a clock with minimal changes to put it into a pencil box (looks cooler, like something maybe from a really bad spy movie where you have to cut the red wire, no the green one).
Did he intend it to look like a bomb? I don't know. It does not look like one to me. It did NOT look like a bomb to the police or teachers either or they would panicked, maybe have an evacuation drill, and they would not have kept a possible-bomb around. What they thought was that the kid intended it to be a hoax bomb, which the kid denied, and they arrested him and against Texas law did not have his parents present. The school wanted him to sign a "confession" without his parents present.
It sounds like a big case of the police and school assuming the kid did something wrong, not having any solid proof of any of it, then just wanting to send a big message with the hand cuffs and perp walk. The kid is supposed to learn the lesson to not stand out, keep curiosity in check, go play football when the urge to study strikes. All hail zero tolerance, keeping our kids safe and stupid for a decade.
From what I can see there is nothing special about him or what he did, he is just some cheeky kid who used a very naive way of getting attention and it got out of hand. All this talk of discrimination etc. seems like a beat-up and the poor kid will pay the price in the long run for all the manipulating adults have done to politically capitalise on his prank. Now he has the entire world watching him and expecting to live up to their expectations when there is no solid evidence he is gifted at all.
How is he going to have a normal and healthy adolescence with that weight on his shoulders? How many children pushed into the limelight crashed and burned as young adults when reality came along and burst their artificially inflated egos? How is messing with children like that in any way ethical regardless of the cause you think it is in aid of?
if he'd been a "real American" kid caught with a gun in his backpack, the NRA and the whole pack of republicans would be defending his right to defend himself in our dangerous schools.
It was a fucking clock. His engineering teacher could have verified it. Second, if they were really concerned why the fuck was the bomb squad and fire dept not called? They kept that kid for two class periods interrogating him without a lawyer and his parents. The principal trying to force him to write some kind of written confession. Again, without his parents. Do you think that was reasonable? Jeezus.
Also speculating what the kid was up to? Really? Why not just give him the benefit of the doubt?
was the school evacuated? did the bomb squad arrive? did the police wear armor when approaching the "bomb"? was there a bomb-sniffing dog? was the "bomb" deactivated by dunking it in a barrel of water or shooting it or whatever they do? this is what happens when you suspect something is a bomb http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09...
the story here is "we didn't think it was a bomb, but we think you're a bomber"
And here we have someone at Artvoice who put great effort into writing an article criticizing him for not silk-screening his own circuit boards. I mean, seriously? What sort of person did he think he was writing for?
He was probably writing for someone with reading comprehension. He doesn't criticize the kid at a for silk-screening or not, but simply points out that most hobbyists do not silkscreen their boards, especially hand drawn ones (as opposed to cheap boardhouses that deal with only electronic formats now). It is just a big hint that the board is not a hobbyist's, d.i.y. board.
Plenty of people learned electronics as a young teenager or even younger, and were making their own boards. I remember getting the supplies to do so for $10 from Radioshack decades ago, and it is even easier and cheaper online, with far more instructions and tutorials available. If I hear a teenager say they made an electronic clock, I would assume they did make their own boards, because it is a common project to do...
for a one off project, it still seems easier to me to wire and solder. might be different if i was trying to save space or something, though.
The country took a determined turn to the right in the 1980s, with the Reagan Revolution and all. In addition, the attention of corporate leaders changed from long term issues to quarterly profits.
Less well known is that the corporate leaders of Exxon-Mobil did as well. The team that supervised actual research into the effects of fossil fuel consumption (and was also investigating long term strategies for the company for after the oil biz was dead) was replaced by executives that doubled down on petroleum now, petroleum forever.
I half agree with you. My opinion is that intelligence is in general not a useful evolutionary attribute and the fact we have it is simply dumb luck. In evolutionary terms, we're not much of a success; by mass, algae and amoebas are way ahead. We're more populous than monkeys, but then so are mice.
indeed. technological sophistication is pretty likely to correlate with the ability to create weapons of increasing power, and/or powerful tools or machines which make big booms when they break; and at some point, that is no longer a positive for survival of the species.
Zero tolerance of what, precisely? I though zero tolerance was meant to be zero tolerance of breaking rules. Not zero tolerance of random shit made up on the spot by mad people.
Last I checked, clocks weren't against the school rules.
Plus who builds a two foot by two foot portable clock that looks like a bomb?
It only looks like a bomb because oooh scary circuit boards!!1111one1!oneONE1!
zero tolerance of intelligent thought, a texas/rightwing principle for a long time now.
the kid is part of Obama's muslim socialist secret army, and he is going to be interrogated as to how his plot failed.
probably going to end up gay married, too.
His clock now sits in an evidence room. Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb â" though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that itâ(TM)s a clock.
So, he might be charged... for not making a bomb... and for telling everybody it's not a bomb?
What the actual fuck? He didn't create a bomb, he didn't create a hoax bomb. Morons incorrectly concluded he made a bomb, he told them repeatedly it wasn't a bomb, but these morons now wish to charge him for the non-making of a non-bomb in a non-hoaxing kind of way?
These police are fucking morons, who if left in public could be accidentally confused with competent law enforcement officers. They should be charged with creating a hoax police department.
Apparently being a nerdy brown kid is now illegal in America. If this was a white Christian kid, he'd be a national fucking hero.
On one hand I wanted to commend you on your sarcasm but, I'm afraid you may be both dead serious and right. There's a lot of islamophobic stupidity in this country at the moment and it runs deep in all government institutions especially involving police or defense.
no doubt that at the same time, there were half a dozen kids in the school with a backpack full of drugs, and another half a dozen carrying a gun.
Let's kill football too - my tax dollars are better spent on teachers than coaches.
That would be true if it weren't for the fact that football programs are self sustaining, and actually through the extended avenues of revenue they have (example, keeping Alumni interested and donating), football programs often contribute TO the schools and help pay teachers, and help support other athletic programs in the school which are not revenue generators.
in fact, if they could just get rid of all that expensive education nonsense, the whole thing would run real good.
Why the fuck, when your fucking student that you've known for months and probably met their parents opens the fucking box on their own to show you something where the TIMER ALREADY WENT OFF, is your first thought "this must be a bomb"?!
maybe i'm wrong, assuming the adults involved to be rightwingers, but this fits my hypothesis that rightwingers are constantly pooping in their pants from terror.
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Did he refuse to answer what it was? Seems to me he was pretty clear that it was a clock. The only thing he refused is to say was that it was anything other than a clock.
I can see it now "What is it? Well, it's a flat panel LED numerical display, hooked up to an IC driver, which is being run from a clock IC which is fed from a power supply which runs either off the mains via a transformer and bridge rectifier with a pi filter, or a battery powered backup which will drive the clock chip but not the display, and..."
"???? KNOCK OFF THE GOBBLEDEGOOK KID, WHAT IS THIS THING???"
... realized yet that his father is an activist? Ran twice for president of Sudan (from the US!)? Debated that FL pastor who burned a koran?
I knew this was too "perfect" the first whiff of it I got, and the more details come out, the more right I was.
ran for president of Sudan, on a moderate Islamic platform (with no hope of winning, just to make a statement). including the platform that people should be allowed to convert AWAY FROM Islam if they want to.
As for the pastor thing; Hell, I'd debate that asshole pastor if I was offered the chance. You're backing the wrong horse there buddy.
And, you must have missed in your deep and extensive research, he is big in a Sufi sect. You and your buddies might need to google that.
As a kid I did take apart a old, large TV, and there was sparks, shocks and the smell of burning flesh even though it was unplugged (capacitors...)
Yeah, that's how a bright kid learns about capacitors before school addresses the topic. If you're bright enough, you won't have to learn it a second time, with a friend's Tesla coil. I wasn't bright enough.
I'm gonna be bold, but he didn't invent shit. At best, from the picture, the "clock" seems more to be a commercial product hacked up in a different case. Why would he add 2 source of power (9V battery + main) ? Why do this on 2 different boards linked up by ribbon cables ?
He's not being arrested for patent violation, you know.
Gotta love the passive agressive accusations in the second article - "I don't mean to accuse him of being a terrorist, but wasn't he acting suspicious, isn't all this a little funny, isn't it kinda like he was a terrorist?".
once again I'll say it; people have two modes of thinking; data-based reasoning, and gut level intuition and faith. And individuals vary on how much of each they do, with some folks being very polarized at one mode or the other. And today, you can't be a rightwing American with any modicum of data-based individual thinking in you. It's entirely hierarchical/authoritarian/identity based.
the point being, that once one of these guys jumped to the conclusion the kid was a terrorist, there's no amount of data, or lack of data, that can cause him to alter his gut level belief. In fact, obviously, the other way around; "I wouldn't be thinking he was a terrorist unless he was doing things to make me think, that, right?"
I'd like to highlight a part of the article that I thought made some good points:
[...]Teachers are taught to be suspicious and vigilant. Ahmed wasn’t accused of making a bomb – he was accused of making a look-alike, a hoax. And be honest with yourself, a big red digital display with a bunch of loose wires in a brief-case looking box is awful like a Hollywood-style representation of a bomb. Everyone jumped to play the race and religion cards and try and paint the teachers and police as idiots and bigots, but in my mind, they were probably acting responsibly and erring on the side of caution to protect the rest of their students, just in case. “This wouldn’t have happened if Ahmed were white,” they say. We’re supposed to be sensitive to school violence, but apparently religious and racial sensitivity trumps that. At least we have another clue about how the sensitivity and moral outrage pecking order lies.
Because, is it possible, that maybe, just maybe, this was actually a hoax bomb? A silly prank that was taken the wrong way? That the media then ran with, and everyone else got carried away? Maybe there wasn’t even any racial or religious bias on the parts of the teachers and police.
I don’t know any of these things. But I’m intellectually mature enough to admit I don’t know, and to also be OK with that. I don’t feel a need to take the first exist to conclusionville. But I do like to find facts where I can, and prefer to let them lead me to conclusions, rather than a knee jerk judgement based on a headline or sound bite.
Sure. Just as likely as that it was a hoax spaceship. Or a hoax robot. Heck, as long as you require no evidence whatsoever, it could be a hoax any damn thing. except a hoax clock. Couldn't be a hoax clock, because it was a real clock.
Oh, there has been plenty of incident. To mention one thing that has been on my mind with the war in Syria of late, one thing that struck me traveling there before the war is that even under the "anti-fundamentalist" Assad regime, Christians were forbidden by law from putting crosses on their places of worship or inviting Muslims to their faith, while among Muslims it was completely allowed to engage in da'wah among the Christian population. As I would later discover, this discrimination in law holds for most Muslim states.
I wouldn't disagree that most of the 1.5 billion Muslims in the world are peaceful in individual interaction, and I'm certainly grateful for the immense hospitality I have received across the Muslim world from the Maghreb to southeast Asia. But when this population acts as a political bloc, I don't believe that the outcome is as pleasant for non-Muslim minorities as you claim.
Ironically, the kid's father (remember the kid? with the clock?) ran a quixotic campaign for president of Sudan, which included as a platform repealing the laws against converting from Islam.
which oddly enough, causes the insane rightwingers to conclude it's all a SETUP!!!
What the fuck are "suspicious wires?" I have a drawer containing assorted lengths of wire, and if some of them are suspicious, I want to know about it.
Explosive devices!!! Put a couple of thousand amps through any of them and KABOOM! OMIGODYOUREASECRETMUSLIMTERRORISTSLEEPERAGENT!!!
Well, a little research discovers that the primary adult person doing the manipulating is this boy's father, which suggests that this whole thing may have been a set-up.
a little research, i.e. reading pam geller's latest fever dream and swallowing it unconditionally. it was a setup.... because THE DAD IS A MUSLIM TOO!!! THEY"RE IN ON IT TOGETHER!!! IT WAS A DRY RUN!!! IT WAS A PROVOCATION BY THE ISLAMIST FATHER!!!! SEND THE REPUBLICANS ALL YOUR MONEY!!!!
read the comments and weep for America. http://www.breitbart.com/big-g... I challenge any people who still consider themselves decent, rational Republicans to wade through that swill and still defend "Conservatism" as it is practiced in today's America.
Well, a little research discovers that the primary adult person doing the manipulating is this boy's father, which suggests that this whole thing may have been a set-up.
Yes, the father, a Sufi (as if you'd know what that means) who ran a no-chance-in-hell campaign for president of Sudan on a platform including repealing the laws against converting from Islam, said to the kid one day, "Ahmed, take this clock to school, the infidels will surely think it's a bomb and win us valuable sympathy"
Half a bomb is a stupid way to phrase things. The clock before it was taken apart was therefore also half a bomb. Radio Shack before it went bankrupt could be classified as a Do-It-Yourself half-a-bomb factory. It's not even a trigger yet, it's just a clock with minimal changes to put it into a pencil box (looks cooler, like something maybe from a really bad spy movie where you have to cut the red wire, no the green one).
Did he intend it to look like a bomb? I don't know. It does not look like one to me. It did NOT look like a bomb to the police or teachers either or they would panicked, maybe have an evacuation drill, and they would not have kept a possible-bomb around. What they thought was that the kid intended it to be a hoax bomb, which the kid denied, and they arrested him and against Texas law did not have his parents present. The school wanted him to sign a "confession" without his parents present.
It sounds like a big case of the police and school assuming the kid did something wrong, not having any solid proof of any of it, then just wanting to send a big message with the hand cuffs and perp walk. The kid is supposed to learn the lesson to not stand out, keep curiosity in check, go play football when the urge to study strikes. All hail zero tolerance, keeping our kids safe and stupid for a decade.
everybody knows that's not what a bomb looks like. This is what a bomb looks like: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2815...
From what I can see there is nothing special about him or what he did, he is just some cheeky kid who used a very naive way of getting attention and it got out of hand. All this talk of discrimination etc. seems like a beat-up and the poor kid will pay the price in the long run for all the manipulating adults have done to politically capitalise on his prank. Now he has the entire world watching him and expecting to live up to their expectations when there is no solid evidence he is gifted at all. How is he going to have a normal and healthy adolescence with that weight on his shoulders? How many children pushed into the limelight crashed and burned as young adults when reality came along and burst their artificially inflated egos? How is messing with children like that in any way ethical regardless of the cause you think it is in aid of?
if he'd been a "real American" kid caught with a gun in his backpack, the NRA and the whole pack of republicans would be defending his right to defend himself in our dangerous schools.
It was a fucking clock. His engineering teacher could have verified it. Second, if they were really concerned why the fuck was the bomb squad and fire dept not called? They kept that kid for two class periods interrogating him without a lawyer and his parents. The principal trying to force him to write some kind of written confession. Again, without his parents. Do you think that was reasonable? Jeezus.
Also speculating what the kid was up to? Really? Why not just give him the benefit of the doubt?
was the school evacuated? did the bomb squad arrive? did the police wear armor when approaching the "bomb"? was there a bomb-sniffing dog? was the "bomb" deactivated by dunking it in a barrel of water or shooting it or whatever they do?
this is what happens when you suspect something is a bomb http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09...
the story here is "we didn't think it was a bomb, but we think you're a bomber"
And here we have someone at Artvoice who put great effort into writing an article criticizing him for not silk-screening his own circuit boards. I mean, seriously? What sort of person did he think he was writing for?
He was probably writing for someone with reading comprehension. He doesn't criticize the kid at a for silk-screening or not, but simply points out that most hobbyists do not silkscreen their boards, especially hand drawn ones (as opposed to cheap boardhouses that deal with only electronic formats now). It is just a big hint that the board is not a hobbyist's, d.i.y. board.
Plenty of people learned electronics as a young teenager or even younger, and were making their own boards. I remember getting the supplies to do so for $10 from Radioshack decades ago, and it is even easier and cheaper online, with far more instructions and tutorials available. If I hear a teenager say they made an electronic clock, I would assume they did make their own boards, because it is a common project to do...
for a one off project, it still seems easier to me to wire and solder. might be different if i was trying to save space or something, though.
http://boingboing.net/2015/09/...
The country took a determined turn to the right in the 1980s, with the Reagan Revolution and all. In addition, the attention of corporate leaders changed from long term issues to quarterly profits. Less well known is that the corporate leaders of Exxon-Mobil did as well. The team that supervised actual research into the effects of fossil fuel consumption (and was also investigating long term strategies for the company for after the oil biz was dead) was replaced by executives that doubled down on petroleum now, petroleum forever.
I half agree with you. My opinion is that intelligence is in general not a useful evolutionary attribute and the fact we have it is simply dumb luck. In evolutionary terms, we're not much of a success; by mass, algae and amoebas are way ahead. We're more populous than monkeys, but then so are mice.
indeed. technological sophistication is pretty likely to correlate with the ability to create weapons of increasing power, and/or powerful tools or machines which make big booms when they break; and at some point, that is no longer a positive for survival of the species.
Zero tolerance policy
Zero tolerance of what, precisely? I though zero tolerance was meant to be zero tolerance of breaking rules. Not zero tolerance of random shit made up on the spot by mad people.
Last I checked, clocks weren't against the school rules.
Plus who builds a two foot by two foot portable clock that looks like a bomb?
It only looks like a bomb because oooh scary circuit boards!!1111one1!oneONE1!
zero tolerance of intelligent thought, a texas/rightwing principle for a long time now.
the kid is part of Obama's muslim socialist secret army, and he is going to be interrogated as to how his plot failed.
probably going to end up gay married, too.
So, he might be charged ... for not making a bomb ... and for telling everybody it's not a bomb?
What the actual fuck? He didn't create a bomb, he didn't create a hoax bomb. Morons incorrectly concluded he made a bomb, he told them repeatedly it wasn't a bomb, but these morons now wish to charge him for the non-making of a non-bomb in a non-hoaxing kind of way?
These police are fucking morons, who if left in public could be accidentally confused with competent law enforcement officers. They should be charged with creating a hoax police department.
Apparently being a nerdy brown kid is now illegal in America. If this was a white Christian kid, he'd be a national fucking hero.
Texan bumper sticker: "Make Glocks, not clocks"
I started reading....
Please don't be a Arab-sounding name. Shit!
Please don't be in Texas. Fock!
Sigh... well played, stereotype, well played.
well, speaking realistically, this has been very educational for the kid, no doubt about that.
On one hand I wanted to commend you on your sarcasm but, I'm afraid you may be both dead serious and right. There's a lot of islamophobic stupidity in this country at the moment and it runs deep in all government institutions especially involving police or defense.
no doubt that at the same time, there were half a dozen kids in the school with a backpack full of drugs, and another half a dozen carrying a gun.
I dunno, wearing a bear sounds pretty damn manly to me.
only if it's not coiffed and trim. it's probably a gay bear if it is.
That would be true if it weren't for the fact that football programs are self sustaining, and actually through the extended avenues of revenue they have (example, keeping Alumni interested and donating), football programs often contribute TO the schools and help pay teachers, and help support other athletic programs in the school which are not revenue generators.
in fact, if they could just get rid of all that expensive education nonsense, the whole thing would run real good.
Why the fuck, when your fucking student that you've known for months and probably met their parents opens the fucking box on their own to show you something where the TIMER ALREADY WENT OFF, is your first thought "this must be a bomb"?!
maybe i'm wrong, assuming the adults involved to be rightwingers, but this fits my hypothesis that rightwingers are constantly pooping in their pants from terror.