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Got wine at the airport? It's harder to grab a cab
Mpls Star-Tribune ^ | 28 sep 06 | John Reinan

Posted on 09/29/2006 12:15:02 PM PDT by white trash redneck

When flight attendant Eva Buzek returned to Minneapolis from a trip to France, five taxi drivers refused to take her home from the airport. The reason? She had two bottles of wine in her suitcase -- and the drivers were Muslims, who don't drink and refuse to have alcohol in their taxis.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: aclumia; alcohol; dajooz; discrimination; doublestandard; drugwar; hatecrime; islam; islame; islamicimperialism; islamicsupremacists; islaminamerica; islamislame; islime; prohibition; religiousintolerance; warondrugs
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To: Individual Rights in NJ
"What a joke Minnesota is. /Sigh I guess I can add another city I will never go to."

Minneapolis is definitely not Minnesota.
41 posted on 09/29/2006 12:49:35 PM PDT by Prokopton
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To: trisham

She asked him to be careful with her suitcase because it had wine in it; she told him.


42 posted on 09/29/2006 12:49:40 PM PDT by linda_22003
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To: white trash redneck

Sounds a lot like the pharmacists who won't dispense the morning-after pill.


43 posted on 09/29/2006 12:50:22 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: white trash redneck
the drivers were Muslims, who don't drink and refuse to have alcohol in their taxis.

...but if she'd wanted to mutilate her daughter, be a party to an "honor rape" or behead an infidel in their cab, it'd all be cool by them.

44 posted on 09/29/2006 12:50:54 PM PDT by Prime Choice (True Conservatives don't vote for Liberals just because they have an 'R' by their name.)
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To: white trash redneck

The real question is, will they object to me wearing my nice pigskin leather jacket while in their (their employer's) taxi. How about pigskin leather luggage?


45 posted on 09/29/2006 12:51:20 PM PDT by Lekker 1 (("...the world will be...eleven degrees colder by the year 2000" -- K. Watt, Earth Day, 1970)
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To: Prokopton
Minneapolis is definitely not Minnesota.

That's like trying to say that Los Angeles is not California.

Besides, the maps say otherwise.

46 posted on 09/29/2006 12:51:57 PM PDT by Prime Choice (True Conservatives don't vote for Liberals just because they have an 'R' by their name.)
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To: Victor
There is much wisdom in your words: Maybe, as a culture, this is what's wrong with these people.

Drinking promotes friendly interaction of separate classes and genders. It enables forgiveness and co-mingling. Had the Brits not been drinkers, I guess they would still be seething about the Romans.

47 posted on 09/29/2006 12:52:21 PM PDT by bukkdems (If this global warming gets out of hand, we can use some of that nuclear winter.)
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To: white trash redneck

If they are this upset over a few bottles of wine, I'm guessing the sack of pork rinds would really have a "chilling" effect.


48 posted on 09/29/2006 12:55:09 PM PDT by Gingersnap
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To: Individual Rights in NJ
That's rich from a guy from New Jersey LOL. What a joke Minnesota is
49 posted on 09/29/2006 12:58:12 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Lekker 1

I shall always carry my Vodka bottle and pork sausage in plain sight!


50 posted on 09/29/2006 12:58:32 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Gingersnap

Mussies have taken over the airport. Not surprising they run the cabs too.


51 posted on 09/29/2006 12:58:53 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: trisham
If it's red wine and the bottle breaks, the clothes in the case would be ruined. I'd put it in a bag by itself.

I'll have to remember that on my next trip to Germany, Spain. Portugal or Australia.

52 posted on 09/29/2006 1:00:18 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: white trash redneck

But if a pharmacist refuses to dispense RU 486 on religious grounds, the outrage from the left would be immediate and wouldn't stop until the poor guy was fired.


53 posted on 09/29/2006 1:01:34 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (Everyone should have a subject they are ignorant about. I choose professional corporate sports.)
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To: Cobra64

Because if they break, everything in your luggage is ruined.


54 posted on 09/29/2006 1:04:39 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There's nowhere to go and you've got all day to get there ... on some beach, somewhere.")
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To: Cobra64
Some of the duty-free stores will pack bottles for you, in fairly secure boxes. If you were to visit a winery, it's possible they might offer something similar as well. My in-laws shipped cases of wine home while they were traveling abroad.
55 posted on 09/29/2006 1:04:51 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: white trash redneck

Sounds like racism. What'd Jesse Jackson have to say about this?


56 posted on 09/29/2006 1:09:11 PM PDT by xrp (Fox News Channel: MISSING WHITE GIRL NETWORK)
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To: white trash redneck

That can go both ways. If the market, aka the customer, specifies a culturally American infidel taxi driver, such hacks will step in to fill the gap, leaving the sensitive Muzzies with empty pockets. F'em.


57 posted on 09/29/2006 1:13:09 PM PDT by Titan Magroyne (Suicide Bomb Instructor: "Now pay attention, I'm only gonna do this once...")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Mussies have taken over the airport. Not surprising they run the cabs too.

Yep. Most of the cabbies, "show me your boarding pass" screeners (not TSA) and people driving the electric cars for elderly/disabled people are Somali immigrants.

That being said, I did have one Somali cabbie sing nothing but praise for President Bush about a year ago.

58 posted on 09/29/2006 1:14:02 PM PDT by xrp (Fox News Channel: MISSING WHITE GIRL NETWORK)
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To: white trash redneck
How about a giant bag of these?
59 posted on 09/29/2006 1:14:11 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: bukkdems
"....Drinking promotes friendly interaction of separate classes and genders. It enables forgiveness and co-mingling. Had the Brits not been drinkers, I guess they would still be seething about the Romans....."

That was really my first thought. These people don't know how to relax. No wonder they're so uptight. The Bible teaches us that wine in moderation is a good thing, and that life to a man "deprived of wine" is a substandard life.

Obviously the Koran doesn't teach this. I guess that's the net result of Satan re-writing scripture.

60 posted on 09/29/2006 1:17:28 PM PDT by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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