Arizona bans Arabic numerals

[yurbud]

(Patriot Newswire) After sparking national controversy by requiring police to check the papers of those they suspect of being illegal immigrants and banning ethnic studies, Arizona continues its march toward cultural purity with a ban on Arabic numerals.

Tom Horne, Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, explains why he felt the ban was necessary: "I was shocked to learn that students at all levels were being taught with the numbers of our non-European enemies, who we are engaged in a multi-millennial existential struggle to the death with us in the War on Terror. Worse, these numbers are being used all over the country."

Horne illustrated the threat posed by Arabic numerals in a presentation at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

"If you look at this photo behind me of Osama bin Laden, you'll notice them squiggly lines in the background. Now I've been told those are actually Arabic letters, and we have absolutely no way of knowing what those letters say--hell, they might not even be spelling words in English. If our children are learning Arabic numerals, they could be passing terrorists messages without us knowing it right under our noses."

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2010/05/arizona-republicans-ban-arabic-numerals.html">FULL TEXT

[ZombieHorde]

1. Funny. nt

[havocmom]

2. LMAO, but don't give the bozos any ideas. We know they jerk knees before engaging brains

:rofl:

[Enthusiast]

14. No problem. They will never know

what we are talking about.

[havocmom]

25. and there in lies the problem. They will see ARAB and their knees will jerk

'SOMETHING MUST BE DONE TO STOP THIS!!!!1!!!!' <--- I can hear it now

[Enthusiast]

26. I can hear it too.

Tune in to Limbaugh. I bet he will be ranting the entire program.

[wndycty]

3. I guess Miss USA won't be visiting Arizona

:kick:

[Swamp Rat]

4. LOLOL!!

:rofl:

"Horne is looking to address this concern with DNA testing of ancient Romans. To prepare for the possibility of a multi-ethnic outcome, he is also scouting for backup numerals of Celtic, Viking, or at least Albino origin"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[EFerrari]

5. Brewer's Anti-Spanish Law Bans All of Arizona and Part of New Mexico.

lol

[rabs]

13. Numeritos

Shucks, we have been using Roman numerals forever here in NM. ;)

For example:
___
CLVMMMDCXXXIII = number of registered DU members (158,633)

:hi:

[old mark]

6. Please do me a favor - ban Al Gebra....my nemesis. nt

[alp227]

7. HAHHA Satire. Good luck doing math with Roman Numerals. n/t

[Codeine]

8. LMAO! +1 nt

[WillyT]

9. Perfect !!! - K & R !!!

:applause:

:rofl:

:evilgrin:

:kick:

[provis99]

10. hey, as long as they don't ban Viking runes, I'll be ok.

[Quetzal]

11. When i first saw the headline

I thought it was for real until I opened the link. But it was funny though :-) I am not surprised by the things that Arizona does nowadays.

[AnArmyVeteran]

12. I see this becoming a law! Let's also require Queen's English eliminating Bubba-ese Language!

Let's also ban all words, expressions and slang that doesn't conform to the Queen's English. But that would wipe out 90% of the dialogue used in the south, by hillbillies and tea baggers, leaving them speechless.

[Bonobo]

15. Also French Fries, Greek Salad and Italian Dressing. nt

[Mendocino]

24. Dang Canadian Bacon,

it's not even bacon, it's HAM! And I don't dig no swine.;-)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

35. Michael Moore's sorta funny movie:Canadian Bacon

With Lily Tomlin. Unfortunately,his star, John Candy, died when it was released.

[Mendocino]

36. I like the scene where Dan Akroyd

as a cop is going to fine John Candy. "That will be $1000 Canadian or $10 American."

[Mendocino]

37. I like the scene where Dan Akroyd

as a cop is going to fine John Candy. "That will be $1000 Canadian or $10 American."

[Vinca]

16. By tomorrow this probably won't be satire.

[EFerrari]

17. When she goes after chiles, there will be an insurrection.

[hobbit709]

18. What are they going to use?

They can't use Roman numerals because those are Latin.

[pampango]

19. Hey, roman numerals may be cumbersome, but at least they're "white"! (I know, Italian immigrants

- not to mention the Irish, Germans, Eastern Europeans, and other "white" immigrants - weren't welcomed when they were the "others" coming to the US, but that was a long time ago. We are all happy with "long-ago" immigrants. It's the modern ones that bother us.) ;)

[Canuckistanian]

31. I'll never understand Roman numerals if I live to be C

:D

[Scuba]

20. Hilarious

[Scuba]

21. Arizona bans cotton!

Cotton is an Arabic word, for a cloth that was introduced to Europeans by Arabs. Gotta go. Doesn't fit with our culture.

[yurbud]

22. only polyester is an American fiber--oh wait--it's made from oil which we got from the A-rabs

[closeupready]

23. Next item on the shit list: algebra.

n/t

[tavalon]

27. Now, are we talking Arabic or Muslin numerals?

Teh stupid, it burns. I know this is satire but let's not give them any ideas.

[bridgit]

28. Breaking: Heritage Foundation 'fellows' required to wear billy bob teeth when talking

[yurbud]

29. that would be redundant

[yurbud]

30. they have two kind of fellows: billy bobs and Thurston Howell III.

[Wednesdays]

32. Rec +MCCLXVIII

nt

[Duppers]

33. OMG! how fucking dumb!! Hahaaaaaa!

This is like the proposed bill in the state of Indiana to round off the value of pi -π- to 3.2!
...oh, I'm sorry, make that III.II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

Hahaaaaaaaaaaaa! Dumbasses.

[awoke_in_2003]

34. +MM. nt