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    "title": "Jihadi Hates Holiday Travel",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2009-12-30 15:03:34 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>When the flight to Detroit started boarding, the concierge told me to keep quiet and he would take care of the check-in. The US State Department agent asked to see my passport, and the concierge explained that I was a Somali refugee. So she looks at her computer screen and says, \"um, I'm afraid there's a problem, this passenger's name is on a watch list.\" Oh, great. Looks like my dad is playing Mr. Buzzkill again, just because I took that semester off from Oxford to go backpacking in Yemen. So I showed her my official State Department visa.</p>\n<p>So I'm like, \"honey, do I look like I'm a US military veteran?\"</p>\n<p>\"No.\"</p>\n<p>\"Do I look like I'm some sort of right wing anti-tax teabagger?\"</p>\n<p>\"No.\"</p>\n<p>\"Do I look like anybody else on the DHS terrorism danger list?\"</p>\n<p>\"No, but...\"</p>\n<p>\"Then I suggest that unless you want a nasty anti-discrimination lawsuit on your hands, you'd best give me an aisle seat. With extended legroom.\"</p>\n<p>That shut her up.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/12/man-do-i-hate-holiday-travel.html\">iowahawk: Man, Do I Hate Holiday Travel</a></em>. Read the whoel thing; hilarious and insightful.</p>\n"
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