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marmar

(77,077 posts)
Sat Sep 19, 2015, 01:08 PM Sep 2015

Sarah Palin says don't let a clock become a mushroom cloud




Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said on Saturday that arresting and suspending Ahmed Mohamed, the ninth grader who brought a homemade clock to school, was totally reasonable.

Palin called initial media reports of Mohamed's arrest "fishy" and said that school officials were totally justified in thinking that his clock, made out of a pencil box, was a bomb.

"Yep, believing that's a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history," she wrote in a Facebook post in which she shared pictures of her kids' pencil boxes. "Right. That's a clock, and I'm the Queen of England."

Palin also compared the incident to others in which students were suspended and said that Mohamed was obviously an "obstinate-answering student."

"Friends, consider the kids disciplined and/or kicked out of school for bringing squirt guns to school or taking bites out of a pop tart until it resembled (to some politically correct yahoo) a gun. Or the student out deer hunting with his dad early one morning who forgot he had a box of ammo in his truck when he parked in the school's lot later that day," she wrote. "Whereas Ahmed Muhammad, an evidently obstinate-answering student bringing in a homemade 'clock' that obviously could be seen by conscientious teachers as a dangerous wired-up bomb-looking contraption (teachers who are told 'if you see something, say something!') gets invited to the White House." .....................(more)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sarah-palin-ahmed-clock_55fd7d59e4b0fde8b0ce7ddc?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&section=politics




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Sarah Palin says don't let a clock become a mushroom cloud (Original Post) marmar Sep 2015 OP
'Obstinate-answering' student... WTF does that mean? AzDar Sep 2015 #1
Same here? treestar Sep 2015 #4
I'm sure that Palin doesn't know. Gormy Cuss Sep 2015 #12
If she ever got an original thought in her head, it would get lonely and leave. hobbit709 Sep 2015 #2
lol treestar Sep 2015 #5
Teehee marmar Sep 2015 #6
i fart in her general direction. spanone Sep 2015 #3
I observed yesterday that Bristol Palin's observations on Ahmed's clock... backscatter712 Sep 2015 #7
Obstinate Contrary1 Sep 2015 #8
To sum up: the white Christian students oppressed by the school system are heroes Johonny Sep 2015 #9
I have never wanted awoke_in_2003 Sep 2015 #10
God, no..... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2015 #13
A clock can't become a mushroom cloud, Sarah. Iggo Sep 2015 #11
Those brave administrators and policemen who carried the bomb around with them until it turned off.. randome Sep 2015 #14
The next time a clock scares school officials, maybe they'll remember to B Calm Sep 2015 #15
She sounds more like Bullwinkle the Moose everyday olddots Sep 2015 #16
We let a bag of rocks become an Alaskan governor. Motown_Johnny Sep 2015 #17
Tell Sarah she missed a perfectly good opportunity to complain... JHB Sep 2015 #18
Says the mother of the abstinence-answering pregnant daughter Generic Other Sep 2015 #19
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Sep 2015 #21
Just tryin' to calm down his bucking bronco in my stall. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #24
One of the best Twitter posts ever: Nac Mac Feegle Sep 2015 #20
Palin giving bigots everywhere a bad name. hay rick Sep 2015 #22
I think she's in her own mushroom cloud, what with seeing Russia and all. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #23
That Palin photo would be much cooler with mushroom clouds instead of PufPuf23 Sep 2015 #25

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
12. I'm sure that Palin doesn't know.
Sat Sep 19, 2015, 05:33 PM
Sep 2015

"Obstinate" is one syllable longer than the other words in her .

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
7. I observed yesterday that Bristol Palin's observations on Ahmed's clock...
Sat Sep 19, 2015, 01:37 PM
Sep 2015

...made her the second most stupid person I've seen.

Guess who's number one? The turd doesn't fall far from the asshole.

Contrary1

(12,629 posts)
8. Obstinate
Sat Sep 19, 2015, 01:44 PM
Sep 2015

[ˈäbstənit]
ADJECTIVE

1.stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so.

Yep, while the police violated his rights, this "obstinate-answering" student stubbornly refused to admit that his homemade clock was actually a bomb, even though it wasn't.

Johonny

(20,835 posts)
9. To sum up: the white Christian students oppressed by the school system are heroes
Sat Sep 19, 2015, 01:47 PM
Sep 2015

The Muslim student with a clock cannot be oppressed by the school system because they are the anti-christ and should be tortured by the full extent of the school curriculum. The logic of a very small mind that was only one heartbeat from the presidency if John McCain had been elected. It's scary what counts as a serious Republican candidate these days.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
10. I have never wanted
Sat Sep 19, 2015, 02:18 PM
Sep 2015

anyone to get a chronic disease, but I think that is the only way we will be rid of her.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
14. Those brave administrators and policemen who carried the bomb around with them until it turned off..
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 08:34 AM
Sep 2015

...are heroes!
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JHB

(37,158 posts)
18. Tell Sarah she missed a perfectly good opportunity to complain...
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 11:14 AM
Sep 2015

...about "political correctness".

In the past, a box like the kid used would have been called a cigar box, even if it had never held cigars.

Nac Mac Feegle

(970 posts)
20. One of the best Twitter posts ever:
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 04:06 PM
Sep 2015

Stonekettle
‏@Stonekettle

Palin's voice makes me think of an amphetamine fuelled howler monkey forcibly strapped into automatic dildo testing machine.



I'll never be able to shake that image, but I can modify it so that Caribou Barbie is the 'subject'. That helps.

PufPuf23

(8,767 posts)
25. That Palin photo would be much cooler with mushroom clouds instead of
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 05:28 PM
Sep 2015

whoooosh coming from her ears.

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