The horror, the horror
Illegal hockey sticks have been a hot topic in the Lovely Promise household this winter. In particular, Ilya Kovalchuk's too-curvy lumber has caused some low moments for our Atlanta Thrashers. Imagine how startled I was by this slice-of-life detail from Orville Schell, writing about entering the siege world that is Iraq:
At the departure gate [of the Amman airport], a crimson placard warns against carrying FORBIDDEN ITEMS: "Gun Powder, Golf Clubs, Hand Grenades, Ice Axes, Cattle Prods, Hocket Sticks [sic], Meat Cleavers and Big Guns"
No hockey sticks? Huh. Well, I hear it's pretty hard to get ice time, anyway.
Labels: Iraq
posted by Nell @ 2:35 PM
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4 Comments:
Just clicked over to your blog from your comment at LeftI: Under Eli's entry about UAV's. You mentioned that "private contractors are involved in targeting and control of the drones."
I wondered, and Eli posted the question below your comment: Do you have a link or citation for that information? Rings a bell with me, but I can't recall where. Thanks--could you post at Eli's?
jawbone
Wait, am I to understand that small guns and bread knives are okay?
@saurabh: Hey, they were very specific about the big guns, so I'd guess what's not forbidden is allowed.
A bread knife, though... You know all those blog commenters who're always criticizing certain politicians for 'bringing a knife to a gunfight'? Multiply that times 1000.
Iran's the only way to coverup other corruption, deceit, greed and lobbiests. It would seem to me that what this White House always does.
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