Via TimR in comments: “Someone reverse-engineered Ahmed’s clock. Stupid media got suckered again.”
So I turned to eBay, searching for vintage alarm clocks. It only took a minute to locate Ahmed’s clock. See this eBay listing, up at the time of this writing. Amhed’s clock was invented, and built, by Micronta, a Radio Shack subsidary. Catalog number 63 756. […]
So there you have it folks, Ahmed Mohamad did not invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation. It all seems really fishy to me.
Wot? Even Bill Maher is seeing a pattern? Perhaps …
What absolutely astonishes and abhors me about this story is clearly this was just a suit-case of electronic jumble. Clearly NOT a clock (where was the read-out?)
This kid was not an Einstein genius, yet the president and the press fete him? Manchurian President. It’s almost as if this was all prearranged, including the rediculous NASA and MIT responses.
Someone reverse-engineered Ahmed’s clock. Stupid media got suckered again.
http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/
So I turned to eBay, searching for vintage alarm clocks. It only took a minute to locate Ahmed’s clock. See this eBay listing, up at the time of this writing. Amhed’s clock was invented, and built, by Micronta, a Radio Shack subsidary. Catalog number 63 756.
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So there you have it folks, Ahmed Mohamad did not invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation. It all seems really fishy to me.
actually Robert, it is/was a clock, build by a radio shack subsidiary in the 70T’s. \The “kid” disassembled the sucker and then stuck it back together in a haphazard way, and claim to have built the damn thing. I smell set up!!!
And of course that mammoth jerkoff HOR-HAY RAMOS chimes in to defend his Religion of Mayhem allies from THE F—— SUDAN. THE SUDAN!!! WTF?
Tim R- Nicely done! But as usual, the truth has no place in this story. He’s got an invitation to the White House, among others and an education fund has been started. Frankly, none of this surprises me in the headlong rush of the PC crowd anxious to show everyone how fair and liberal they are.
Let’s stop for a moment.
Someone called Mohammed, who looks the part, arrives at your door with a contraption that looks remarkably like a bomb.
Do you
1. Run like hell
2. Reflect on what a genius these Muslims are and applaud him
3. Immediately pull out your prayer rug and ask Mohammed to pray along
4. Reflect on the clear genius of this Mohammed (like so many other Mohammed’s) able to copy Radio Shack so well
5. Smile as you wait for the explosion and know the 72 virgins will soon be yours
If you answered 2 to 5 you are a blithering idiot who needs urgently to move back to the Middle East or a lefty Canadian or American left winger devoid of any common sense in which case you should also consider moving to the Middle East and leave the rest of us alone.
Jorge Ramos should be exposed more often because he’s as bat S#@*& CRAZY as they get. He battled Bill Maher over this issue along with Maher’s use of the phrase “Illegal”. He also battled Chrissy Matthews over the medias role prior to the Iraq war. He looked like a fool in all of them. This clip exposes him to be nothing but a race baiter. He completely misses the point of the story. I doubt if these FACTS would have swayed him….
**The police overreacted. Yet the device did look like something Ethan Hunt would lob out of a helicopter at the last minute in “Mission: Impossible.” As National Review’s Charles Cooke pointed out on Twitter, the scary-looking tangle of wires “looks a lot more like a bomb than a pop tart looks like a gun.”
Josh Welch, a white Maryland kid with ADHD who was 7 years old when he was kicked out of school for chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a pistol and pretending to shoot other students with it, must be puzzled.
Where’s his White House invitation? Where’s his chance to start networking at Facebook? His parents were forced to hire a lawyer and spent a year and a half just trying to get the suspension erased from the kid’s record. They were repeatedly refused.
“I stand with Ahmed, too. But I also stand with Alex Stone,” noted Reason writer Robby Soave. Alex Stone, a 16-year-old white kid from Summerville, SC, wrote a short story in which he imagined using a gun to kill a dinosaur. For this his locker was searched and he was arrested, handcuffed, charged with “disorderly conduct” and suspended from school for three days.
Obviously the White House and Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t be bothered to comment, but you’d think that, at the very least, Stephen King would have sent out a tweet expressing outrage that imagination was being punished.**
And there’s more…
http://nypost.com/2015/09/19/how-ahmeds-clock-became-a-false-convenient-tale-of-racism/
This is a reprise of the flying imams scam.
An attempt to lend credence to the bogus notion of “islamophobia”.
According to Mark Steyn the father is an Islamist activist who owns a company called Twin Towers Construction. Cute eh?
That is the first time I have seen Bill Maher and didn’t want to strangle him. He has it right on that issue.
So Maher gets it right once in a blue moon. He is still a leftist jerk.
Why did the kid take his contraption to six different classes? Was he looking to create an incident?
And will someone puleez put a cork in Whore-Hay Ramos.
Robert, if I understand your post correctly, you are misinformed about Maher’s beliefs.
Maher has been loud and outspoken about radical Islam and it’s jihad on the west for many, many, years now. He has been poking and attacking the ignorance of his own on this one at most every opportunity and has probably done more to raise awareness of the evils of Islam than most Republicans.
He absolutely gets it…
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/08/bill-maher-hundreds-of-millions-of-muslims-support-attack-on-charlie-hebdo.html
What all these people are missing is that this could have been a ‘dry run’. This kid took a triggering device into a public school somehow avoiding the metal detectors that are programmed to detect knives and guns and then exposed it to a number of teachers who were too stupid or too naive to recognize it as a possible threat. The next step is to plug this device into a 5lb. block of semtex and send the kid into a cafeteria or assembly with two hundred to three hundred kids and the fabric of American society is rendered and torn beyond repair. Don’t think it couldn’t happen, then you haven’t been paying attention for the last thirty years and this little incident is going to bite your ass. The Muslims have been doing this on a smaller scale in Israel for at least that long but in typical American fashion the next attack will be bigger and better.
It does not look like 1970’s… a clock is basically a ring counter and the Chips used in 1970’s were 16 DIL….
The Ribbon connector cable & single chip function looks more like a KIT from China complete with a full function LED (with decimal point)
Only a hobbyist would purchase that kit….
I had a retired IBM Engineer (AZ) buy a storage Scope from me
because he was teaching his grandson electronics….
Just saying
Since when is a metal briefcase a pencil case?
I thought the topper was Chrissy Matthews’ screeching about other people making hysterical comments before knowing the whole story. It only seems right that he might have considered putting himself and many of his twit friends at the top of that list, not to mention that some people rely on substandard News services for the story…PMSNBC comes to mind for some reason. This bunch were being too charitable to the kid. Difficult to believe the event was an unplanned misfortune.
I suppose that even a broken ‘clock’ is right twice a day. That would be about all Maher is right about. Other than that he is a despicable POS!
“Maher has been loud and outspoken about radical Islam”
You missed his 9/11 show where he praised them for bravery, his sponsors cancelled the show & he was an unemployed leper.. He had an adjustment made to his attitude & posted a bond. That is the only reason he stays onside…. He is a cheap shot freak
Oh but the Whitehouse doesn’t engineer psy-ops that push its agenda – that’s conspiracy theory!!!
Fast & furious – corresponds with renewed Dem attack on 2nd amendment
Ferguson – corresponds to Dem recruiting street gangs as poll enforcers
Black lives Matter – cop killers intimidate local police into fed control
Sandyhook – signing of UN civil disarmament
Expulsion of the Muslim clock boy during Islamist migration
nope, all coincidence
“You missed his 9/11 show where he praised them for bravery, ”
Bullshit. He never praised them, he made a factual statement that what they did took guts. It did. He was right. Deal with it. And then the conservative equivalent of the twitter mob went into frenzy and his show was canceled only to re-open at a different name and network.
“He had an adjustment made to his attitude & posted a bond.”
Bullshit again. For the first few years of his current show he went both barrels after the right. He did that with a vengeance. Eventually he realized the threat “religion” of peace represents and has since been one of the few leftists who dare to criticize it. In a way he is similar to Chris Hitchens. A leftist with occasionally libertarian tendencies unafraid to stand against mainstream left when he feels like it.
Why is everyone offering scholarships to the clock/ fake bomb making kid???
Who are those people who think this kid is great???
Mahers getting to be more and more delusional probibly too much dope and booze and the usial nutcases he interviews
Who is the guy on the right side of the panel
This is an unusual group for arguing the sides that they have taken including Chris tingle Matthews
Anyway the 14 year old could now give bambam a bro hug with a bom b in his pocket without a security check .
“Anyway the 14 year old could now give bambam a bro hug with a bom b in his pocket without a security check“.
We should be so lucky.
If your President can be so easily suckered by a high school student imagine what the Iranians can do to him.
If your President can be so easily suckered by a high school student imagine what the Iranians can do to him.
Yes thanks. I read the link. Just I never saw the display.
Apparently the device is now in secure lock-up with Obama’s birth certificate.
“Great kid who deserves an aploogy” Bill Maher “is the son of a belligerent Muslim activist and perennial Sudanese presidential candidate whose brother runs a trucking company amusingly called Twin Towers Transportation),” Mark Steyn
Can’t figure out Robert if you’re stupid or ignorant or both. The read out was the red bar at the top of the open suitcase. To any one not privy to what a bomb would look like (they actually come in all shapes and sizes) this could look to them like a bomb. It does look like the electronics of a bomb.
Semtex can be made into many, many forms so the case itself or the lining could have been made of such. Pandering to a muslim kid who knowingly brought something that looks like a bomb to school is simply pathetic.
Antenor….I am so GLAD someone else gets this..!!
ABSOLUTELY this is a dry run…You have to ask yourself these questions:
Why would the kid use a bright aluminum box to hold this assembly of 70’s era junk..? why not his backpack.??
Why bring this to every class during a day to show EVERYONE what he had built..?? If this truly WAS a real invention, surely you would only show at in your science class…no.?? they would be the only ones interested.
This was all about desensitizing his classmates and teachers to seeing a bright aluminum briefcase.
From Steynonline:
.. Mohammed, the 14-year old all-American schoolboy clockmaker who didn’t make a clock at all and is the son of a belligerent Muslim activist and perennial Sudanese presidential candidate whose brother runs a trucking company amusingly called Twin Towers Transportation…”
Like hello people….Talk a bout a HUGE RED FLAG. And now he has an flipping invite to the White House.??
Collective INSANITY has taken hold.
I feel at times I am living on BIZZARO, the 180 degree opposite world from Superman comics 50 years ago…honest to Christ, I really do.!!