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Racial Profiling Quiz

Friday, Aug. 06, 2004 - 9:14 a.m.

I found this on my other old computer, so I'll pass it along here...

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Subject: Stop Racial Profiling!

To ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly insane fanatics intent on killing us, airport screeners will not be allowed to profile people. They will continue random searches of 80-year-old nuns, four-year-old children, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal Of Honor winning former Governors.

Pause a moment and take the following test, which will show you why racial profiling is discriminatory and evil:

In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
(a) Olga Korbut
(b) Sitting Bull
(c) Arnold Schwarzenegger
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) Lost Norwegians
(b) Elvis Presley
(c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
(a) Sgt Rock and his Howlin' Furies
(b) The King of Sweden
(c) The Boy Scouts
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In April 1983, the American Embassy in Beirut was blown up killing 63 people, by:
(a) Carl Sagan
(b) A beach volleyball team gone bad
(c) Apaches
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In October 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up killing 242 soldiers, by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy
(b) Pee Wee Herman
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70 year old American passenger in a wheelchair was murdered and thrown overboard by:
(a) The Smurfs
(b) Donny and Marie
(c) Jimmy Carter
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:
(a) Captain Kidd
(b) Charles Lindbergh
(c) Mother Teresa and 12 other militant nuns
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed killing 270 people by:
(a) Scooby Doo and the gang
(b) The Tooth Fairy
(c) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, who had a few sticks of dynamite left over from the train job
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed by:
(a) Richard Simmons
(b) Grandma Moses and several other unidentified "primitive artists"
(c) Michael Jordan and his girlfriends
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) Mr. Rogers
(b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill's bimbo eruptions
(c) The World Wrestling Federation to promote its next villain: "Mustapha the Merciless"
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In October 2000, the USS Cole was attacked and 17 sailors killed by:
(a) Bert from Sesame Street
(b) Angry While Males
(c) Ice T
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed, and over three thousand people were killed by:
(a) Enron
(b) The Supreme Court of Florida
(c) Sonny and Cher
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
(a) Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd
(b) The Lutheran Church
(c) The NFL Cheerleaders
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
(a) Bonnie and Clyde
(b) Captain Kangaroo
(c) Billy Graham and the 700 Club
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

In 2004, Nick Berg and several other Americans were kidnapped and beheaded by:
(a) Martha Stewart
(b) Spongebob Squarepants
(c) The pledges of Delta House
(d) Arab-Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

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I spoke with my brother and with the attorney handling the probate yesterday. I'm getting two different sets of answers about what still needs to be done, and I have a feeling I know who is not up to speed.

But it will be handled soon. Yay!...

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