I was on my way into work this morning, listening to NPR, and our local news announcer told a disturbing story. It appears that over the weekend, some of Alabama’s finest arrested a middle aged woman and placed said woman’s teenage daughter in protective custody. Why you ask? Because this idiot of a woman had a box that was too big to fit in her mini-van. Because this idiot of a woman thought it would be bright to place the box on top of her mini-van….with her daughter sitting in the box to hold it down. She told the cops that her daughter wasn’t in danger because not only had she put her daughter in the box to hold it down, she had also used other means to secure the box to the top of the vehicle. WTF!
Another disturbing story: I’m sure you have heard that the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing of the United Nation food agency’s compound in Islamabad but did you hear about the guy who tried to assassinate Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef? The dude supposedly denounced his al-Qaida connections and was working with the prince on his rehabilitation. In an “effort” to have the prince recruit some of his colleagues, Abdullah al-Assiri set up a meeting with the prince. What the prince didn’t know was that al-Assiri had stuffed a bomb up his own ass. The plan was for Prince Nayef to use a cell phone that would detonate the bomb al-Assiri was hiding. Maybe I just have never believed in something so completely that I was willing to die for it, but I just don’t get this. Why on God’s green earth would someone do this?! In the end all al-Assiri accomplished was: a) not killing the prince; b) alerting the rest of the world to al-Qaidas newest method of suicide bombing; c) killing himself. Yeah, don’t think I will ever understand.
Anybody out there who reads this, keep Tam in your thoughts. She is having to deal with a lot right now and could use support, even if she doesn’t know you. Once I get all the specifics, I’ll update.
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