An organ donor drop off box?

Posted by: Dianna at May 07, 2010 01:50 PM (qrFCz)

Oh hell no! Not if it has my Yeung Lings in it!

& Jo Piazza

 - FOXNews.com

It isnÂ’t worth endangering the safety of an entire staff or network by pursuing a storyline that Muslim extremists might find offensive, media executives and writers tell Fox411.com.

Don't mess with Allah. That's the new, unwritten code in Hollywood following the one-two punch of Islamic extremists' threats against the creators of "South Park" and the failed bombing attempt outside the cartoonÂ’s parent company, Viacom, in New York's Times Square.

In the current, supercharged climate, it just isnÂ’t worth endangering the safety of an entire production staff or network by pursuing a storyline that Muslim extremists might find offensive, media executives and writers tell Fox411.com.

Aasif Mandvi, a self-described “liberal Muslim” and the “senior Islamic correspondent” for Comedy CentralÂ’s The Daily Show, said on air after the “South Park” threats that it would upset him to see the Prophet Muhammad depicted in a cartoon. But, he added: “HereÂ’s whatÂ’s more upsetting. Someone, in the name of a faith that I believe in, threatening another person for doing it.”       

But after the failed Times Square terror attack, "The Daily Show" asked Mandvi not to comment further on the matter, according to his spokesman. In fact, reps for the networks and television shows reached for comment on this article, including Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, FOX, NBC, and CBS, either failed to respond or asked to speak on background for fear of retribution. 

And it isnÂ’t just comedians on fake newscasts who are being muzzled. One writer for a scripted drama fold Fox411.com that in one of his show's final episodes, there had been a minor plot point involving a Muslim extremist. Last week it was removed and the script was rewritten, he said.

Hussein Rashid, religion professor and religion dispatches associate editor at  Hofstra University, said he is concerned that self-censorship will lead to a shutdown of the dialogue that must continue if people can be brought to understand the true meaning of Islam.

“I donÂ’t think it is ever smart to self-censor,” Rashid told Fox411.com. Â“I am a big believer that the response to speech should always be more speech. I think this ‘South ParkÂ’ episode has been good for that conversation.”

25 Rosie O'Donnell dropped her lunchbox.

No, the seismographs would have picked that up...

Hey Contessa it look over there that whitey looks suspicious

Probably some evil salt. I'm on it!!

The literary classic, which features characters such as Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, was described by the group as a call to "vice and sin".

Known in the original Arabic as One Thousand And One Nights, the collection of folk tales and short stories was first published in medieval times.

"I was shocked at the offensive phrases it contains," said Ayman Abdul-Hakim, member of Lawyers without Shackles, the non-governmental group that filed a complaint with Egypt's Prosecutor General calling for the withdrawal of the new edition from the market and for banning the book altogether.

Mr Abdul-Hakim said the book was "a waste of public money" and that several references to sex in the book and were "calls to sin".

But a Writers' Union spokesman said the lawyers were behaving "like the Taliban".

the GOCP Supreme Publication Committee, which decided to print another edition after the first one was sold out, said in a statement that Arabian Nights was an invaluable cultural heritage that could not be confiscated.

Ahmed Megahed, GOCP Chairman, said calls to ban the book were an assault on freedom of expression.

"The fact that the first edition was sold out shortly after it was issued shows that Egyptians are avid readers and that they will not be influenced by a bunch of people who take advantage of Islam in order to suppress freedom," he said.

Mr Magahed added that the latest edition was based on an older version that was already revised by al-Azhar, the world's leading institution of Sunni Islam, and that there is nothing immoral or offensive about it.

Posted by: TSA Worker

That ain't what the scanner shows. And it doesn't show much. Ha!

Posted by: Dr. Spank at May 07, 2010 01:58 PM (HfesM)

No, Cousin Mose has been with me all day

Posted by: TSA Worker

Slightly O/T: if these jerks are abusing each other with these scanners, what do you think that they are doing when we peasants pass through them? Can we get a betting pool started on the first time we learn that images are being saved and passed around? How long until there's a Facebook site for TSA perverts and their favorite images?

We're being attacked from the south by the illegal spicks pricks, we're being attacked from the east by the fanatical ragheads ragheads, and we're being attacked from every which direction by the damn fucking damn Communists who are running the place.

God I love this country.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 07, 2010 02:09 PM (UOM4

Given that porn is so widely available on the Web, there are only two classes of image that would be valuable to the pervs: children and celebrities.

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 07, 2010 01:57 PM (ucxC/)

Heh.  An American flag in Times Square would be pretty suspicious, wouldn't it?  Especially attached to a teabagger's hand.

#67 

Without! Who wants that much electrical science near their crotch?

Posted by: Count Chocula at May 07, 2010 02:10 PM (uFokq)

Just 53 hours after he parked a SUV full of explosive and flammable materials in the middle of one of the most crowded places in the USA and one of the most recognizable places in the world.

Does it really matter how long it took them to find him AFTER he placed that deadly payload right on his target?

I'm not gettin off this fuckin raft again!! You got that!! Honey...shut-up and keep paddlin!!!

Posted by: TSA new recruit wielding baseball bat in parking lot at May 07, 2010 02:14 PM (WBIMn)

The same thing I said to the FBI when I reported a bomb located in your car. I'm in the TSA. I have the power!! (sadly, that last line was a quote from an actual TSA thug).

per megan on fox.

Speaking of dangerous packages which require close examination..........

Posted by: Count Chocula at May 07, 2010 02:17 PM (uFokq)

So a caller on Rush's show today gave a good theory for the increase in the unemployment rate: some people whose unemployment benefits had run out and who were waiting for the next extension while it was held up in Congress dropped off the unemployment rolls as "non-seekers."  When Congress passed the extension, those people had to again be counted as "actively seeking" in order to qualify for their benefits.  Hence, an increase in the unemployment rate.

Does that mean the bomb squad guys are drinking the beer?

The suspicious package.

Speaking of dangerous packages which require close examination..........

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 07, 2010 02:20 PM (R2fpr)

Proddings.  Probings, even.  Fumblings with clasps and straps.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 07, 2010 02:24 PM (9hSKh)

It's different here during the day.  Especially the morning.

"And it isnÂ’t just comedians on fake newscasts who are being muzzled. One writer for a scripted drama fold Fox411.com that in one of his show's final episodes, there had been a minor plot point involving a Muslim extremist. Last week it was removed and the script was rewritten, he said."

Well, Sayid already ate a snack-pack of C4 in this week's episode of Lost...I guess he's gonna stay dead this time, and not come back to claim the entire island under Sharia...  Damn.

102  The suspicious package wound up belonging to one "Cuntessa Brewer"...

*just for you, because I care

Posted by: Jane D'oh

While we think longingly about Megyn? Pish posh.

UPDATE: Not sue what it is was but apparently nothing dangerous.

I got your dangerous right her ya friggin teabaggers!!

http://tinyurl.com/q693ll

"I hear Contessa Brewer loves suspicious packages."

VIOLENT RHETORIC!  YOU WANT TO BLOW UP C-BREW!

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 07, 2010 02:31 PM (9hSKh)

Yeah.  That's it.

102  The suspicious package wound up belonging to one "Cuntessa Brewer"...

*just for you, because I care

Posted by: unknown jane at May 07, 2010 02:29 PM (5/yRG)

Just think about the poor woman's unfortunate childhood...

BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: Count Chocula at May 07, 2010 02:23 PM (uFokq)

Listen, the system WORKED.  Just as well as it did on the Christmas Day flight into Detroit.

(Apparently the system involves a rabbit's foot, a penny and a four-leafed clover.)

"Photo surveillance clearly shows a person of interest, disguised with a blond wig and wearing a "I Love Teabagging" T-shirt running from the scene.  Witnesses questioned at the scene said it looked like a little know TV personality in an amateurish disguise.  Video at 11."

Actually, the shirt wasn't meant to be part of the disguise.  It's always what I wear to the office on Casual Fridays.

I want to know 2 things...

A) If those students were cutting class as the news said. Why werenÂ’t those kids arrested yesterday for truancy?

And

2) did they have a permit for parading around?

Hmmm?

(Apparently the system involves a rabbit's foot, a penny and a four-leafed clover.)

Posted by: stuiec at May 07, 2010 02:35 PM (W+GYq)

Heh.  Don't forget the Magic 8-Ball.

128  We should start a new meme:

"Stand up to "the Man"...wear an American flag, quote the Constitution."

This somehow belongs on this thread.

http://tinyurl.com/2a9xgoj

I would never call you a junkie, ya damn drunk..

128  I think Iowahawk already did something along this line.

135 Really? (see, I could so believe this as true -- look how Countessa turned out)

138 You forgot the Cootie Catcher.

Did Megan say they just found another suspicious truck?

Posted by: Mjim

I thought Mayor Bloomers was against profiling and backlashes? This discrimination against insulated-americans must cease!! It has as much right to sit on the corner chillin'. ( should apologize for the pun, but I won't).

Now let's not get histerical, I have everyting under control. I'm in charge.

The system worked, I tell you - it worked!

Now let's not get histerical, I have everyting under control. I'm in charge.

Posted by: A. Haig

If only we were so lucky as to have him back.But noooo. We got Hilary and Scranton Joe.

Posted by: joncelli

That depends. Did we ban someguy and snapdragon yet?

Posted by: Roland Negrin at May 07, 2010 02:28 PM (vwh8M)

i no longer get hysterical

This administration has made us impervious to hysteria and shock.

Well then here is the $1.00 you wanted

Posted by: chaz bono

You mean that they didn't provide instructions with that?

"The fact that the first edition was sold out shortly after it was issued shows that Egyptians are avid readers and that they will not be influenced by a bunch of people who take advantage of Islam in order to suppress freedom," he said.

Gee, who does that NOT sound like?

Posted by: chaz bono at May

Drink heavily, and try to read them again at closing time. They'll then become crystal clear.

Vodka bender done
the waking Ewok reaches
for his old keyboard.

"Hey, it's almost 3:00 PM  someone wake up Ace, time for him to post something already posted at HA AoSHQ."

FTFY.

DO NOT GENERATE THE SHORT BY CONTACTING UNIT INTO WATER OR RESULT WILL BE OF FIRE.!

NOT TO BE USED IN THE OUTSIDE WAY.

DO NOT USE IN THE WAY THAT IS OTHER THAN INTENDED.

KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN.

THAT NO CHILDREN THAT MY WIFE.!

CONTAINING THE LEAD.  WASH HANDS AFTER YSE IN CALIFORNEA OR INSTANCE OF CANCER MAY BE HAD.

DO NOT GENERATE THE SHORT BY CONTACTING UNIT INTO WATER OR RESULT WILL BE OF FIRE.!

NOT TO BE USED IN THE OUTSIDE WAY.

Posted by: THAI WEENIE CO. TECHNICAL WRITOR

I think that I speak for everyone here when I say that the person quoted above should be given guest posting previleges. We can learn so much from him. Or her.It. Whatever.

NOT FOR THE USE WHEN SLEEPING.

"a T-shirt with the US Flag on the front and Live free or die on the back."

*shakes head in disdain*

I can think of nothing worse.  What is this country coming to?

It's been a shiite-y week.  Next week looks to be more of the same.  Join me in this lovely recipe from the chubby but cute Ina Garten for Fresh Whiskey Sours.

http://tinyurl.com/38y8oaq

I'd be very taken aback if any kid came to school on July 4th.

Hello?  Summer vacay anyone?

There was another "suspicous package" that resulted in a fight between two TSA workers.

http://tinyurl.com/34t3h5j

"Suspicious" Package Found In Times Square

Oh geezes, that could be my luggage that Delta Airlines lost. This could be embarrassing.