from pjalpha.

The coach had put together the perfect team for the New Orleans Saints. The only thing missing was a good quarterback. He had scouted all the colleges and even the Canadian and European Leagues, but he couldn’t find a ringer who could ensure a Super Bowl victory.

Then one night, while watching CNN, he saw a war-zone scene in Afghanistan. In one corner of the background, he spotted a young Afghan Muslim soldier with a truly incredible arm. He threw a hand-grenade straight into a window from 80 yards away. Then he threw another from 50 yards down a chimney, and then hit a passing car going 80 miles per hour.

I’ve got to get this guy!” coach said to himself. “He has the perfect arm!”

So, he brings the young Afghan to the States and teaches him the great game of football. And sure enough the Saints go on to win the Super Bowl.

The young Afghan is hailed as a hero of football, and when the Coach asks him what he wants, all the young man wants to do is call his mother. “Mom,” he says, “I just won the Super Bowl!”

“I don’t want to talk to you,” the old Muslim woman s ays. “You deserted us. You are not my son!”

“Mother, I don’t think you understand,” pleads the son, “I’ve just won the greatest sporting event in the world!”

“No! Let me tell you,” his mother retorts. “at this very moment there are gunshots all around us. The neighborhood is a pile of rubble. Your two brothers were beaten within an inch of their lives last week, and I have to keep your sister in the house so she doe sn’t get assaulted!”

The old lady pauses then tearfully says, “I will never forgive you for making us move to New Orleans.”

Riiiiight, I know. Who would ever believe that the Saints would win the Super Bowl?

Let’s look at three possibilities:

1. This could be a revenge kidnapping against any reporter from FoxNews.

2. The Paleos thought they were getting Morris. They do kinda favor each other.

Or 3. Centanni was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Occam’s Razor says #3 is the most likely. I cannot rule out the first two.

I’m just wondering out loud if there might be a connection between the kidnapping of Fox’s Steve Centanni and this story in the Guardian
An iman at a London mosque says a FoxNews reporter tricked him into talking…Representatives of an east London mosque used by several of the terror suspects reacted angrily yesterday to what they called a “sick stunt” by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel.
Mohammed Shoyaib, the imam of the Musjid-e-Umer mosque in Walthamstow, complained that he and other elders were tricked by a representative from the cable channel, a priest who said he was working for the Vatican and wanted to talk peace.

“He introduced himself as priest working in Rome,” said Mr Shoyaib. “Then he said he was working for peace in the world, that all faiths should work together for peace, that he needs a united message of peace for the American people. Only later he said he was from ‘a sister network of Sky News’, but never mentioned Fox.”

Hoover Dam Reopens After Explosives Scare. I don’t know how I missed this. Happened yesterday, reopened today.

From MIPT:
BOULDER CITY, Nev.

The Hoover Dam visitor center reopened Monday while authorities continued investigating the weekend discovery of an explosive blasting cap in a construction tunnel.

Bob Walsh, spokesman for the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the dam, said a fire department bomb squad was called about 1 p.m. Sunday after the blasting cap was found.

“Nobody hurt, nobody panicked,” Walsh said. The visitor center was closed as a precaution, and authorities said there was no indication of terrorism.

Officials removed the explosive from the tunnel in a canyon wall and detonated it away from the dam.

The Bureau of Reclamation estimates that close to 1 million visitors a year tour the dam on the Colorado River, 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, and millions more drive across it.