Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Frightening Thought...

Today's "Scary Thought of the Day" comes from this story:

BRA official asked help from mosque backer

Pushed for mayoral visit to Mideast during talks

A Boston Redevelopment Authority official involved with the city's decision to reduce the price of land it sold to the Islamic Society of Boston for a Roxbury mosque asked a Saudi Arabian supporter of the project to help plan a trip to the Middle East for Mayor Thomas M. Menino and two of his political allies, according to BRA documents.

Yes, you read that correctly. They used the words "Menino" and "talks" in the same sentence. Someone actually thought that sending Mumbles to Saudi Arabia would be a good idea...

I can't decide if it was a punishment for the Saudis, or reward for the BPD members that have to guard this tool...

Would Mumbles have caused an international incident, as his garbled request for a napkin to wipe his sweaty brow sounded like "I would like to cover your daughter in ointment"? Only the Shadow knows...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe Mumbles will be kidnapped - imagine his hostage statement tape being released - The terrorists would kill themselves trying to get an intelligible statement out of him.

BobG said...

Sounds like a good place to send him.

Anonymous said...

My fantasy is that he'll tell them of his Mideast peace plan of a "gun buy back program".

I don't think his hosts would be able to keep from snickering.

Mike

Jay G said...

Heh heh heh...

Y'all think the same way I do. I *would* like to hear Mumbles telling the tangos that they won't control the city.

'Course, given "Mumble-speak", they'd probably think he was complimenting them...