From Telegraph:
A trans-Atlantic pilot was arrested at Heathrow airport after he failed a breath test as he attempted to board a United Airlines plane carrying 135 people.The pilot is not quoted in the article. The Metropolitan Police, on the other hand, is:
He was arrested on suspicion of being aviation staff while exceeding the proscribed alcohol limit and about to take the plane.Pot, kettle...
It is my suspicion that most Americans think of the dance of political correctness and diversity training as a harmless game for the elites to satisfy their own sense of self-righteousness with. The massacre of Fort Hood is a reminder that it can be deadly serious.I am not sure that I absolutely agree with this post, but it's a worthy reading nevertheless.
Are really for ghouls. Take this instead:
And cool down.
From measuring distance in miles and weight in pounds. Still, they somehow escaped a fate worth than death: driving on the wrong side of the road.
On a serious note: Terry Glavin with a tribute to Canadians who died fighting Taliban.
Yitzchak Goodman aka Judeopundit, one of my favorite bloggers, in his post Mind changed expressed his desire to figure out some shady aspects of the Fort Hood massacre, namely the lack of vigilance displayed by some US agencies prior to the tragedy.
I have posted a somewhat flippant comment:
Uhu... I can already see where it goes. In a few weeks some blogger or other will tell us that it was a Zionist provocation.A minute or two after doing so, I had me a very short brainstorm that resulted in the Google search "nidal malik hasan zionist".
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, arguably the most famous Russian in history, even if by proxy - the AK-47 assault rifle, was recently celebrating his 90th jubilee.
The man is quite sprightly at his advanced age, and I really don't have anything against him. It is the use that his famous invention (well, with some assistance from Hugo Schmeisser, as they say) was put to is bothering the heck out of me.
Mikhail Timofeyevich, it should be said, is painfully aware of that aspect of his invention:
I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.In the next reincarnation, probably, Mikhail Timofeyevich. Meanwhile, take care...
Asks Hawkeye of CiF Watch. Not being an avid watcher of Steve Bell, a cartoonist of very little ability and less than little sense of humor, I am not sure I know the answer to this question.
On the other hand: why should Steve Bell read Stormfront when he has Guardian available on his desk?
That's why.
Besides, I guess, parakeets prefer their own diet.
As usual, are not featured here. A soothing picture, on the other hand, is offered freely:
Look at the eyes without blinking for 3 minutes... relax...
Dan Senor, co-author of 'Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle,' discusses with CNBC how Israel has managed to become a leader in business innovation.
I shall never see the Olympic Games as I did before reading this, I am afraid.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan came into the Starz strip club not far from the base at least three times in the past month, the club's general manager, Matthew Jones, told FoxNews.com.Whether it's a ploy by the strip club owner to get some free PR or the truth and nothing but the truth, I am not betting. But the plot thickens as one reads the article:
Jennifer Jenner, who works at Starz using the stage name Paige, said Hasan bought a lap dance from her two nights in a row.I wouldn't dare to disagree with an expert, would I? Still, there is one point Ms Jenner made I am not sharing. She says:
I think he mostly came here to kill some time and just relax.I say: he went there to get some first-hand knowledge about handling of the virgins.
Who would expect such a turn of events:
An Iranian cleric called over the weekend for a radical change in Muslim prayer practices, urging followers to no longer pray in the direction of the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The cleric, Ahmed Alam al-Hadi, told worshipers that Muslim states such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq have been taken over by infidels, urging them to turn instead to the holy city of Mashhad, located in Iran.Of course, any single Muslim country trying to pull a trick like this will be blamed in pursuit of glory, happiness and, let's say it loud, financial benefits.
It should work for everyone, once the Islamic world gets used to the idea. Besides, many notables in that place share quite a few of the ideas with inhabitants of Mecca and/or Mashhad. Especially the ones who, after achieving a state of financial bliss, have grown a new conscience.
It's fashionable in the West to incessantly complain about the powers that be that, according to the complainant, are "muzzling" him or her. Usually the hidden meaning of the complaint is that Oprah is slow to come up with an invitation or NYT (Telegraph, The Onion, you name it) are not forthcoming with an interview and an attached bio.
All crybabies in this category could learn the real meaning of being muzzled from Yoani.
Yoani SƔnchez is a Graduate in Philology. Lives in Havana and combines her passion for information science with her work on the Portal Desde Cuba. Yoani also has what it takes to fight the regime and to take her fight to the streets of Havana and to the Internet.
In her post A gangland style kidnapping Yoani tells about her latest experience with the enforcers of the ailing regime. I hope that the "muzzled" could learn something from this.
And I believe and hope that the day for this prophesy to come true is close:
I managed to see, however, the degree of fright of our assailants, the fear of the new, of what they cannot destroy because they don’t understand, the blustering terror of he who knows that his days are numbered.And the sooner the better.
