I really enjoy posting thing that I find amusing, and I hope that you all get a good laugh as well. The problem is that I haven’t been very inspired the past few weeks to post anything. Caci would say that she’s proud of me for actually getting some work done, but I know that the rest of you would rather that I continued to slack off at work so that I could put some new items of interest out on my site. Amazingly, today the tide has turned.
I’m still not slacking off at work, but I did just run across this news article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16673691/) about a nine year old boy that managed to fly from Seattle to Phoenix and then to San Antonio before he was stopped. Even more amazing is that he never bought a ticket. So we know a couple of things right off:
1. He’s not a student from Caci’s class trying to get back home; way too smart.
2. The airport officials he came into contact with may have been student’s from Caci’s class before she started teaching; they missed the benefits of taking things to the next level (words and sentences in reading).
3. Southwest Airlines is serious when they say, “You are now free to move about the country,” in their ads.
I’ve already posted on here before that the whole security process at the airport is a sham anyway that basically helps the airline provide jobs and allows them to politely force you to do things a certain way. It’s obviously not designed for security otherwise it wouldn’t be so easy to bypass. I never imagined, though, that it was so easy that a nine year old could do it, and that really brings up a couple of key questions: Is this nine year old just really smart? Or is it really that easy?
Either way, you’ve got to assume that someone who can build a bomb out of the leftover gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe and detonate it with a cell phone is smarter than this nine year old. And you know what the kicker is? They said that they stopped him because he didn’t have a good story when they asked about his papers. That just implies that if he’d planned a little better he wouldn’t have been stopped at all. Do you think that you could come up with a better story than a nine year old?
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Ok, I've got a lot of things to say here....
1st) like the new look of your blog
2nd) miss the rolling up entries
3rd) don't be dissin' on the intellectual capabilities of my students...they can't be held responsible for what their mama's did while they were in utero
4th)I am glad you have been working at work
5th)I did enjoy the story...pretty funny!
I am so glad you are back. Bubba had already told me this story but nonetheless you do have a way with telling a good story, so I still enjoyed it for the second time.
WHHHHAAAAAAAASSSSUUUUUUP! Glad to see your not working again! We've all been busy too, not working and playing on facebook. You should join us! I promise I'll accept your friendship if you sign-up.
I agree with Lissa....you should come join Facebook, although I am not sure if I will accept your friendship. Just kidding! I better be the first friend you have on there....also, in case you didn't know, Ben has a blogsite now and you can check it out if you would like
www.sixthdayphoto.blogspot.com
it is mostly about his jobs and things, but pretty interesting...just FYI
I miss the roll-up functionality, too, but I can't see a way to do it on this new Google Blogger. They've moved the code for the actual post to a widget somewhere that I don't see a way to touch.
yeah, it is much harder for me to understand the code too. I guess they got tired of people personalizing them so much?
But I'll bet that 9 year old boy would have no problem figuring it out....
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