I have been thinking about yesterday’s article in the New York Times about the company responsible for the current demolition project at the Deutsche Bank building in NYC.
First, a little background on the Deutsche Bank building. This building was originally damaged during the events of 9/11/2001 and is currently being deconstructed/demolished. Just a [...]
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Mile High Club membership getting too expensive
Published by November 14th, 2006 in Humor and Travel. 1 CommentIt looks like it is now too expensive to join the Mile High Club.
But isn’t membership free? Yes, so long as a flight attendant does not ask you to stop.
If a flight attendant asks you to stop your ‘activities’ and you don’t, you are now committing a felony.
From Section 46504 of Title 49 of [...]
I can’t even begin to wrap my brain around the death that the United States is responsible for over in Iraq.
While posting a comment to another post, I came across information about the number of deaths that can be attributed to the United States’ involvement in Iraq since 1991.
9/11 was a tragedy, 2,752 deaths [...]
Creator of the fake boarding pass generator appears to be in big trouble
Published by October 28th, 2006 in Miscellaneous and Travel. 1 CommentEver wonder if the security at airports is sufficient to stop a trained terrorist? Is the ban on liquids over 3 oz. really keeping us safe? Do I really need to take off my shoes to have them xrayed?
A friend of mine accidentally attempted to go through airport security in Seattle last weekend, with [...]
Airport security saves Seattle flyers from man speaking foreign language
Published by October 2nd, 2006 in Miscellaneous. 0 CommentsA Chicago man was briefly detained on Saturday after he spoke on his cell phone in a foreign language.
According to the Seattle P-I:
The man was speaking Tamil, a language largely used in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, on his cell phone at the departure gate and on the aircraft. An off-duty airline employee heard the [...]
The Old Viking looks at the facts and they aren’t pretty so far as Bush and the Republicans are concerned:
Published by September 27th, 2006 in Middle East, Miscellaneous, Politics and al Qaeda. 1 CommentThere is constant debate over Bush’s alleged failure to pursue an anti-terrorism policy in the first eight months of his first term. The (9/11 Commission report notes that the Bush administration had three (count them-three) meetings prior to 9/11. The first was in May, four months into Bush’s term and the third was the week [...]
Under the guise of preserving the security of the state, secret agencies monitor its citizens’ telephone communications without reference to a court or any meaningful legislative oversight; massive amounts of information are gathered and analysed from banks, libraries and other institutions used by the country’s citizens; enemies of the state are held in secret [...]
The five-year anniversary of 9-11 made me tired. It’s come and gone and I had nothing to say about it here.
Why? So many mixed emotions. It was a shocking event-one that unified our divided country and pulled together countries around the world to fight together against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
That didn’t last long. The [...]
There is a familiar litany of reasons for the growing opposition in this country to our involvement in Iraq. The fact that it is not going well is certainly a key one, along with the terrible human cost. The war is a financial drain and, even more critically, a burden on our armed [...]
