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Also, they thought to call the cops but not to initiate a lock down or evacuate process ?
Even if they thought it was a hoax bomb - Oh I stand corrected - the braniac cops thought it was a movie bomb.

What the *#)$^)@$ is a movie bomb in this context if I might ask ?

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By that reasoning, anyone who buys a pressure cooker has built half a bomb.

Too bad these people don’t have more than half a brain.

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after their war on clocks i sure hope these wingnuts address the real danger:

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Anyone with a bottle has half a dry ice bomb.
If he attached a thing that looked like a brick of C4 and went around saying it was a bomb then they would have a reason to arrest him, but all he had was a clock.

What he had was
Power supply + display + circuit

At least the kid will end up getting into a better school now, and a lot of peoples islamophobia is being put out for display.

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Richard Hofstadter identified these people in 1964; they’re a common, easily recognized thing, like a species of bird. Nothing is benign for them, nothing innocent, if it’s associated with the perceived enemy:

A distinguished historian has said that one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen. It is precisely this kind of awareness that the paranoid fails to develop.

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Right! Anyway, dickface Gaffney’s cell-phone is itself a remote detonation controller, so he’s just trying to throw us off his own scent, in case his dickish countenance does not sufficiently distract. :expressionless:

Great deal at Walmart you can buy a travel “half a bomb” for $3.98; it is extraordinarily accurate and has a snooze alarm.

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Would an optimist see the bomb as half-full, or half-empty?

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Someone please build a bomb that keeps accurate time.

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You know, first you feel yourself trying to snark-reason with the crazy, evil, awful bigots–“so, now we’re supposed to be afraid of circuit boards? Or Muslims with circuit boards? We should never allow any Muslim to ever have a circuit board. Or clock. So, my smartphone is ‘half a bomb?’ We must ban computers from schools! And clocks! No clocks or watches in schools!”

And then realize that they’re crazy, evil awful bigots spewing crazy, evil, awful bigotted nonsense, acknowledge that all bigotry is a form of insanity based on deranged and disordered thinking and move on.

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By this logic, here’s a vastly incomplete list of things that warrant calling the cops, because they look like ‘half a bomb’ when opened up.

  • Cell phone
  • Kindle
  • iPad
  • TV remote control
  • Video game controller
  • Toaster
  • Wristwatch
  • Calculator
  • Furby
  • R/C car
  • Digital bathroom scale
  • Metal detector wand
  • Dick Cheney’s pacemaker
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My favorite response to Gaffney’s tweet: “I think the one with the explosives attached is the bomb”.

Any idiot with a minimum of electronics knowledge can tell which one is the homemade USB hub.

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Nah, the circuit boards are fine. Keep the integrated circuits away from them.

But if you’re into belt-and-suspenders approaches, don’t let them have ICs, circuit boards, transistors, vacuum tubes, wire, solder, or gears. Probably better outlaw bottles so they can’t build water clocks either.

Another half baked argument by a Republican with less than half a brain.

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I’m starting a GoFundMe page for Gaffney and Geller to enable them to purchase a large quantity of adult diapers. When you’re wetting your pants on a daily basis, the cleaning bills really mount up.

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Two questions:

  1. If he were intending to blow up the school, why would he show his teacher?
  2. What’s missing from his clock that would make ti a bomb trigger? Wait, I’ll answer that: THE FUCKING C-4!
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If a clock is half a bomb then I have half a bomb on my wrist, in my cell phone, in my computer, in my tv set, in my camera, in my microwave oven, in my stove, in my clock radio, in my portable radio, in my dvd player, in my blood pressure monitor, in an old VCR, in my car radio, and maybe in a few more things around my house. Dang! With all these half bombs the average American has, everybody in the United States should be locked up as a terrorist!

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Oh my GOD, it’s a…a…circuit board! They’d better not walk into a H.S. Electronics class in Anytown America. They may just stroke out a seeing all the Terrorists in Training–including all the brown students!

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I always knew there was something suspicious about The Furby.

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Muslim with a mouth-operated rocket launcher! Everybody panic and run in circles waving your hands!

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