Growing up, I heard plenty, on
the news, about airplane hijackings.
Nutjobs, seemingly monthly, would take an airplane’s crew hostage with
some sort of weapon, and then make them fly to a place other than its original
destination.
Although this happened
world-wide, I recall the flights that were often diverted to Cuba
Terrorism is the act of putting
fear into people through frightening occurrences that the victims feel could
cost them their lives.
September 11, 2001, marked a day
when foreign terrorists, who were in this country illegally, four hijacked
commercial airplanes loaded with innocent passengers were sent into oblivion.
Until this day, counterterrorism
experts are attempting to figure out why those mentally ill cowards
commandeered those planes to kill nearly 3,000 blameless Americans.
Varying excuses for these heinous
deeds include they were subjected to poverty at an early age, they were angry
at sexual freedom in America
Just today I came across
something I consider frivolous, but is pretty costly and totally unnecessary.
This item is a pancake
printer. These are two words I never
thought I’d put together, but now I can without ridicule.
It seems as though a company is
selling something called PancakeBot, which is a printer of sorts.
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| PancakeBot |
You merely connect this 3-D
printer to your computer, place the carriage that dispenses the pancake batter
atop a griddle, and voila!
The computer is used to generate
pictures of nearly anything you’d like to create as a breakfast treat. Company ads for this must-have gem show an Eiffel Tower
The best news is one of these
contraptions can be had for the low, low price of $300.
If anything, I’ve got my
Christmas wish list nearly complete, now.
But I digress.
In any case, it was some serious
philosophical introspection that got me thinking.
Those wacko terrorists could have
another reason to hate Americans, other than for its non-Muslim majority.
Perhaps, just perhaps, it is an
invention that can create a work-of-art pancake in the likeness of the United States of America
You see, many of those psycho
terrorists live or lived in desert conditions without air conditioning, indoor
plumbing, running water, or electricity.
They don’t use toilet paper, yet they consider bacon unclean.
They arise in the morning to
learn how to jump off a moving motorcycle and shoot at random people at cafés
and citizens with baby strollers, all to make a point. In-between, they school one-another in how to
build bomb vests. All this sounds pretty
angry.
Perhaps if they used the PancakeBot
they would enjoy life a bit more to be able to
skillet-up a facsimile of a
Koran. I may be on to something.
