January 3rd, 2004
I'm still not completely happy with it. The posts never look broken apart enough. Since I refuse to use titles, I'm just not sure what to do. I'm sure you'll all be able to cope, though. *Sniff* My readers...so brave...
Ok, back to football as broadcast by the most annoying tier one announcing team on TV.
Posted by fad at 5:57pm
January 2nd, 2004
Posted by fad at 4:37pm
I really hate trying to get style sheets working right in IE.
Posted by fad at 3:13pm
What the hell, a Friday Five.
What one thing are you most looking forward to . . .
1. ...today?
Going home in 15 minutes.
2. ...over the next week?
Going home in 15 minutes.
3. ...this year?
Trashcan Sinatras concert on March 16th.
4. ...over the next five years?
Like I'll live that long.
5. ...for the rest of your life?
My life's not worth wasting the time to consider the rest of it.
Well, that was fun and thought provoking.
Posted by fad at 1:49pm
Some bacon tales to amuse on a Friday afternoon.
The driver was going 15 to 20 mph over the speed limit when DuPage County Deputy Sheriff Ben Hecht pulled him over in unincorporated West Chicago.Should have confiscated his kid, too, as evidence.
"I asked him for his license and insurance and the reason he was going so fast," Hecht recalled. "He said the 'little one' has to get home and go potty. The kid was maybe 3."
Hecht was stunned as the kid's mother jumped from the passenger side, "goes to the back seat, reaches for a potty, puts the thing on the curb and proceeds to drag the kid out and said, 'OK, go ahead,' " he said. "The kid's looking at the mother like, you've got to be crazy."
Des Plaines police Sgt. Carol Dougherty remembers pulling over a doctor who used an unauthorized access road to escape a traffic mess on the Northwest Tollway.Hey, some patients may require a slightly more upscale pacemaker. Is this cop a doctor? How does she know Lord & Taylor doesn't make pacemakers!
He said he was rushing because "he needed to do heart surgery, or install a pacemaker," Dougherty said. But it seemed likely he just wanted to get home after visiting the mall, based on the fact his wife was in the car and the back seat was filled with shopping bags. "I said, 'Is the pacemaker . . . in one of those Lord & Taylor bags?' He didn't think that was too amusing."
The funniest encounters involve women drivers who, expecting a male officer, adjust themselves accordingly, she said.Wait...wasn't that out of one of the "Cannonball Run" movies? American classics, I tells ya. Both of 'em. Up there with the first two "Godfather" movies.
"One was a model . . . I walk up and she has a skirt with a slit on the side . . . she was unbuttoning the thing, and she looked up and there was a visual disappointment," Dougherty said.
Posted by fad at 1:14pm
You've seen it elsewhere. Too bad it squeaked into 2003 or this would be a sure leader in the 2004 moral equivalanothan. In writing about games with violent, amoral content, some feller named Christoper Byron wrote this.
This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boyAccording to the charges filed, some people think that Jackson drugged and then raped children. You may find these games objectional, you may think they have caused some delusional idiots to choose (and they choose these things) to act violently, but this is extreme. There is hyperbole to make a point, but there are limits. Calling the potential, and unproven, influence of a video game 10,000 times worse than the actual violation of a child crosses that.
I do wonder if Christopher Byron has the same view of PETA and other such groups. Are they 10,000 times worse for potentially sparking some to choose violent action such as bombings and other assaults?
By the way, I've tried to play the GTA series. Bored the fuck out of me.
Posted by fad at 11:58am
Reason Castro sucks #4,768.
The bearded guerrilla leader is showing his age, but he still has the stamina to give a speech lasting eight hours, as he did at a parliamentary session earlier this month.Eight hours? Nobody deserves to be subjected to that. I'm sure everyone paid rapturous attention, though. Threat of dungeons have a way of keeping one's ears. Thankfully all that free healthcare is available for the sore backs and necks of the audience. Hell, he's created the wonder of 100% literacy. Why didn't he just publish it so his loving people could read it on their own time? I mean, he's banned so many other books. I'm sure they'd like to use those word deciperin' powers on something.
Posted by fad at 11:52am
I read this headline:
"AP: Senators question terror money block"
and my initial thought is that some Senators are upset/questioning why something actually was blocked. However.
The Treasury Department agency charged with stopping the flow of terrorist money is under scrutiny from key lawmakers after twice failing to freeze the assets of people identified as terrorist financiers by U.S. allies.the point is more that blocks that probably should be happening, aren't. At least they start out immediately in the article about what it really means, but a better headline is certainly needed here.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., sent a letter just before Christmas citing widespread concerns about sloppy record keeping and lax enforcement inside Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Posted by fad at 10:20am
As many have found out, blogs have a strong influence on Google. Since they update frequently, they get crawled frequently. Google-bombing is a prime example of one abuse of this quirk. Today, I'd like to present you with an even stronger way to take over Google. It's really quite simple.
First, have a page on your site that dynamically lists all search terms used to find the site via Google. Then allow Google to index that page.
Enjoy as the internet faeries* begin their dance.
Posted by fad at 8:48am
How come no feminists have complained about all the attention on exploring Mars rather than Venus? I have to think that at least one academic has written about this with obscuring prose in some obscure journal. But, then, if we did launch new exploration of Venus there would probably be complaints about how the shapes of the rockets and use of the term "probe" would signify phallic invasion and agression towards peaceful Venus.
If the first of two spacecraft bounces onto the surface of Mars on Saturday and unfolds itself into a rock-inspecting rover, NASA scientists hope to begin writing the latest chapter in man's long search for life on the red planet.Here's hoping they did all the calculations in the same system unlike that one explorer which was screwed up due to use of a combination of metric and imperial. Or, hell, here's just hoping it isn't like the other two or three the US sent that just disappeared.
The European Space Agency is still desperately searching for the British-made, $375 million Beagle 2 -- a probe no bigger than an open umbrella -- that was supposed to parachute onto Mars on Christmas Day but never sent a signal to confirm the landing.Of course it would be twisted perfection the US' spacecraft hit the Beagle 2.
Posted by fad at 8:06am
Tax payer matching of campaign funds. Is there anything more grand? Why, yes. This strange mole on my stomach for one.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark will get $3.7 million, the largest amount. That's followed by $3.6 million for Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, $3.4 million for North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and $3.1 million for Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt. Perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche will get $839,000 and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich will get $736,000.Please note that Lyndon LaRouche is getting more than $100,000 more than Dennis Kucinich. If that isn't evidence of fringery, than I'll knit you a driving cap from the finest woolens.
Taxpayers pay for the program by checking a box on their income-tax returns.Is that really the sole source of money for that fund? I know that that money is put toward this, but I really have trouble believing it is the single funder. I do admit that I could easily be wrong since I really don't know enough about it.
Each candidate, to qualify, must raise at least $5,000 in each of 20 states in donations of $250 or less and keep detailed contribution records, including donors' names, addresses and employer information.Doing the math (ok, the computer did it), that works out to a minimum of 400 supporters nationwide or 20 per state. Really, the barrier to this isn't that high. It's almost tempting to run for president in 5 years just to try to get some of that sweet matching cashola.
Posted by fad at 7:30am
North Korean thaw?
North Korea has agreed to allow a U.S. delegation to visit its main nuclear complex next week, a South Korean official said Friday.Most likely they think they've moved everything away from that one facility. Either that or they want to use the trip as an opportunity to drop just enough evidence to keep everyone guessing or off guard. I cannot take this at face value.
For weeks, North Korea has said it was boosting its nuclear weapons program, and that it was willing to demonstrate its nuclear capabilities in a "physical" manner.Which is the style at the time. And what's this "weeks" stuff. Haven't they been threatening that for well over a year now? Now read how the article ends.
North Korea has said it is willing to hold a second round of six-nation talks early this year on ending the crisis. The first round ended in August without agreement or a date for a new meeting. Russia, China, South Korea and Japan also are taking part.I think the Matrix just reloaded.
The first round of talks held in Beijing in August ended without agreement, or a date for new talks.
Posted by fad at 7:11am
January 1st, 2004
Posted by fad at 12:15pm
I wasn't going to post today, but Reuters got me. In a story about Willie Nelson's anti-war song (where it's all about OOOIIIIIILLLLL!!!!!!!) the dispatch finished with this.
Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in March saying that Saddam Hussein threatened U.S. security by possessing weapons of mass destruction, but no such weapons were found.That's it. They summed up everything like that as if that is a dispassionate distillation of everything relevant. At Reuters, there were no other reasons given for war at all. Imminent threat of WMDs was everything, even though that was just a part of it, and never was the claim that it was imminent. At best it was a reason. Also it was more that the known WMDs from the early 90s were unaccounted for (And are still unaccounted for. We know they existed. While they haven't been found, evidence of their destruction hasn't either. Therefore logic requires the most likely scenario to be that they are still hidden or were shipped elsewhere which is scariest) as well as their being an active or pre-active program in place. That last has been shown by the searches for anyone who actually bothered to check the Kay report. Still even all that is just a portion of the arguments given. It's really, really sad that unsophisticates who can't even be bothered to pay attention are those in charge of news.
One truly amusing, if one finds annoying idiocy amusing, things about the whole "imminent" thing was that most of those now claiming that while the President never said "imminent" he clearly meant it or was implying it are the same type of people who go on and on about how stupid the masses are compared to their glowing genius. However, here they are the ones who were too clueless to actually grasp what this whole idea of "pre-emption" really meant. Not that they were helped much by our media guardians who were themselves too unsophisticated to grasp it either. "What's this? New idea?? No, no, no. That's clearly not possible. He must have meant this tired old idea. We only have a certain amount of intellectual boxes. Can't be adding new ones. That'd make our jobs, like, tough and stuff." Of course their excuse is that if someone pumping as much brain candlepower as them could be so easily mistaken, then surely no one else had a chance. Egos such as these allow one to elevate even in error.
Posted by fad at 12:04pm
Happy 2004. Now let's get on with it.
Posted by fad at 12:00am
December 31st, 2003
All I can hear
Is the clucking of tongues.
I can see them
Plucking at crumbs
Of conversation.
A drunk uncle's breath
And they're touching my hands.
As this now turns into then,
Dream turns into dreamt,
Spend turns into spent,
One turns into one too many (say when).
And in the blue corner
Crouches a mediocre joker.
The jokes are on me,
And the arch of my back cracks
Under the weight of the wisecracks.
Stop the clock;
I want to get off.
Though I knew what argue meant,
And I knew what punish meant,
And I knew what embarrass meant,
I never found out what achieve meant.
All heaven broke loose,
But I knew they had something to hide.
They were turning the page,
But I glimpsed the very last line.
Now we raise a toast to celebrate
As December's embers fade.
And every fire's just a host
Of January's little joke.
"January's Little Joke" - Trash Can Sinatras
(Lyrics as heard by me)
And, what the hell, since New Year's Eve falls on a Wednesday, one of my favorite songs seems appropriate as well.
I'm looking on the bright side
But I still don't see the light.
And why are friends so hard to find
On Wednesday night.
I've got a £10 note in my pocket
And it'll never find it's way back home.
And you thought I'd be lonely when you'd gone.
Discipline is a shelter.
The punishment's my home.
Built on sticks and stones
And now brittle bones.
I'm just a slip of a thing,
And now I'm on the slide.
I get so confused on my own.
Barmaids, beware!
Sweet stout style
And whisky drunk flair!
I'm drinking the wishing well dry
And collecting the coins.
And my cup's brimming over with bliss.
Seems that when my throat gets dry
My words get wry.
And I raise my glass like a fist.
Every sip's a kiss.
You used to say my secrets were safe.
And that I had no need to lock them away.
But I could kick myself to death for leaving you the key
And now I know what security means to me;
Hard to get a hold of what it means to me.
And it's hard to get out of the gutter
When it's raining feet
And every helping hand's a fist!
I'm drinking the wishing well dry,
And collecting the coins.
And my cup's brimming over with bliss.
Seems that when my throat gets dry
My words get wry.
And I raise my glass like a fist;
Every sip's a kiss.
But hey, where will I go?
And now that you have gone.
And now that you have gone.
And now that it has gone.
Where will I go?
No nowhere; where will I go?
No nowhere; where will I go?
No, nowhere.
"Drunken Chorus" - Trash Can Sinatras
UPDATE: Links killed.
Posted by fad at 11:00pm
And so comes the end of a year filled with heartbreak, as much personal destruction as I could muster (and there's more where that comes from) and a complete collapse of confidence (but not in aliteration!) that should have been quite noticeable to some of you. But I realize that while this year sucked hard, others had it much worse. So I will swallow my whine.
For once I will focus on the good. I made several great new friends this year and proved that, should I re-put my mind to it, I can once again break free of certain bad habits and people. Health and life of those nearby is well or at least not worse. Life, when I lift my head, ain't that bad. It was a shitty, shitty year, and I'm happy to see it gone, but it is one that gives hope for future years.
Have a happy and safe New Year, everyone. 2004 is going to be a hell of a ride
Posted by fad at 7:18pm
Ah, another With Somebody Who Generally Makes You Miserable, But At Least You Can Say You're Not Alone And That's All That Matters Eve. At least as it commonly seems to be. Hell, I'd take that were it an option. Hope everyone enjoys the last day of a lousy year.
Posted by fad at 6:05pm
I'm of two minds about this. Ok, that could just be my various personalities leaking out from the sludge that is my mind or maybe even the leavings of last night's taco dinner, but on to the point.
Rhode Island Senate President William Irons announced Wednesday he is resigning from office because of questions raised about his business dealings.It's bad if an elected official has done things that warrant resigning, but how rare is it that such an official actually does resign before it is publicly too late. Most of the time they bob-n-weave with legalize margle in hopes that it will blowover. I guess it's so surprising to see what could be actual taking of responsibility by an elected official that admiration almost overtakes the fact that he could be an ethical slug.
[...]
Irons, who owns an insurance company, did not specify the allegations or who made them. But he said he had "received assurance from the state Ethics Commission that my activities were appropriate and proper."
Posted by fad at 1:51pm
I am an arrogant dork. Everyonce in a while I'll start writing something up, then get distracted by something shiny or some Fritos or something. Ok, porn. Anyway, sometimes I find these half written things lying around the various computers form which I post. Here's a duesy.
Overwhelming helplessness in the face of so much horror producesGood God, whatever posessed me to start writing that magumbo? Behold how lucky you are I have at least a small self-censor.
self-righteous cynicism. Hence the "but what about here?" reaction instead of just the glorying in the good that has been done. Good done here reminds too much of suffering still existing. It is better that no good be done because it makes it easier to abstract the bad currently going on.
Posted by fad at 11:49am
Max Boot in a book review in the New York Times highlights one of the most frustrating things about discussion around the war.
Mr. Shattuck writes that four criteria should be used to assess the outlook for United States intervention in a human-rights crisis: whether crimes against humanity are being committed; whether the conflict is causing regional instability; whether intervention is likely to set off a broader conflict; and whether the intervention will use the minimum means necessary to achieve its objectives. By those standards, toppling Saddam Hussein, who murdered more people than Slobodan Milosevic, would seem to be a moral imperative.I can see more wiggle room for the author of the reviewed book, a former diplomat in the Clinton administration who says he was often frustrated with the lack of focus on interventery human rights policies, only in the "cause a broader conflict" portion. But that the author's opposition, according to Boot, was this.
Yet Mr. Shattuck writes, "The U.S.-British military operation to change the regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 did not meet these criteria."
Why not? Mainly because it was "unilateral" and lacked the United Nations' blessing.If that is truly the author's reasons, and I have to go with what Boot says since I have not read the book myself, then that is most frustrating. Intellectual and moral consistency has been utterly lacking by many human rights hawks. They clamber for something to be done, then when something is done it's like they just couldn't handle it because of the source.
Posted by fad at 11:41am
What the hell, some predictions.
Return of the King will not win Best Picture at the Oscars©™õû. Fanboys and girls who have always claimed that these awards are meaningless will demonstrate how much it actually meant to them by writing furious posts about how meaningless the award is.
Michael Moore's new movie about the complicity of George Bush in the September 11th attacks due to his connection to the bin Laden family will be full of already well disproven myths and lies, but even with its clumsy idiocy will draw good attention to the overly close ties to the Sauds by the government at large, particularly the incestuousness with the State Department (known as the Department of September 10th 'round these parts).
As to the movie, it will be cautiously praised by Roger Ebert. It will be gushed over by internet tool Harry Knowles with prose so thick you feel yourself being choked causing you to never want to read or see a movie again. In fact, you'll curse your eyes. Paul Krugman will take to movie reviewing and declare that it once and for all proves that agents of the Bush administration run around at night sneaking into old people's homes and changing the decimal place on their social security checks.
Terrorists and others around the world will continue to learn that Americans are indeed fat, lazy, stupid and soft, and that they'll fight furiously to stay that way.
On a serious note, the nation's fringes will go nuts this year. With the election and the Bush hatred, there will be an explosion of "action" as they like to call it. ELF will step it up as well as insane animal groups. Finally, there will be a bombing in the US with loss of life this year, but it won't be from Islamicist terrorists. It will be from a domestic source of those convinced they already live in a police state and that there is no redeeming it, only destroying it. But back to the fun predictions.
Bob Herbert will mange to find one person adversely affected by a government policy and will write a column explaining that this single person is the evidence that the administration is cruel and heartless and wrong. He will write 40 columns like that.
Maureen Dowd will finally admit she's a lonely old hag.
Ted Rall will write a column explaining that widows of terrorist attacks or soldiers killed in war should just get over it by fucking him like just about every other woman on earth has. Yes, he's quite the stud. He gets laid so much, he has to conserve his energy which is why his drawing is so shitty. Can't waste the energy needed for the constant rumpy-pumpy making cartoons that look like anything!
On a positive note, Helen Thomas will write a column containing a paragraph consisting of three whole sentences.
Ann Coulter will say that it'd be neat of one of those well wishers shaking Howard Dean's hand was a suicide bomber who takes out a bunch of Dean supporters at the same time. Her rabid apologists will defend her rabidly claiming it was just a witty, witty way of demonstrating the perils of his being soft on terrorism. Normal people will be appalled but not surprised.
Late in the year Rush Limbaugh will change his name to Sister Shamrod Shamsham and move to an apocalyptic commune in the New Mexican desert.
Bush will win, but not by as much as his supporters currently think. What will put him over the top for sure will be the behavior of the idiotistas outside the Republican convention in New York. He will not win California. Why? Because he's a Republican, stupid! Republicans get stupid about California and waste a lot of money there, but they won't win it.
The Republicans will pick up a couple seats in the Senate and probably a few in the house. Yeah, as you can tell, I'm not paying attention to that shit for a few more months.
Ted Stevens (R - Bacon) and Robert C. Byrd (D - The Robert C. Byrd Senatorial Seat) will set aside their differences long enough to guarantee large amounts of governmental pork going to their respective states. What's a little tiff about war when there's tax money to leech!
Finally, I have no predictions for myself because nothing ever really changes with me.
Posted by fad at 9:19am
After the problems with Europe's Beagle and Japan's attempt at a Mars probe, I sure hope this project is one exploration project that finally works.
After a five-year voyage of 2 billion miles NASA's spacecraft Stardust is finally nearing the climax of its mission -- a close encounter with a comet to grab dust samples that could yield clues to the origins of the solar system.Sounds really cool, though two more years to wait until the samples get back. Too bad the lead scientist on the project had to tie it in with this.
[...]
Tiny bits of matter 10 to 330 microns in diameter, up to three times the width of a human hair, will be collected in the spacecraft's "cometary catcher's mitt,"...
[...]
...After the fly-by, the collector panel will fold down into a clamshell-like capsule for a return flight to Earth aboard Stardust in two years.
The capsule will ultimately separate from the spacecraft and re-enter Earth's atmosphere for a landing in the Utah desert in January 2006, while Stardust veers back into space.
"One of the mantras of our project is that we are stardust, as in the Joni Mitchell song, because the atoms in our bodies,["]Joni Mitchell? Bah. I much prefer XTC's We're All Light.
Posted by fad at 8:06am
Here's a way to make your family proud.
The air marshal approached the woman, who was allegedly intoxicated, vocal and obnoxious aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 1057 on Tuesday, Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Marty said.Bet she's a real doll to hang out with.
After the woman continued to be disruptive, she tried to choke the marshal in a later exchange, Marty said. She also kicked the marshal in the groin and bit a law enforcement officer after she was escorted off the plane, Marty said.
Posted by fad at 6:51am
How sweet. Raises at the stroke of a pen.
President Bush issued an executive order Tuesday giving federal workers a 2 percent raise, but the increase is likely to be doubled when Congress returns next month.No one at my company has seen a raise in over 3 years, nor is one anticipated until late next year at the vaguely promised earliest. Isn't it so much nicer when your revenue stream is at the point of a gun?
Posted by fad at 6:43am
December 30th, 2003
Minnesota and Oregon each donated 1,000 Sun Bowl tickets to soldiers preparing for duty in Iraq.Give 'em a good game.
[...]
"This is just such an awesome experience because it gives us a chance to be around the true soldiers," Minnesota tight end Ben Utecht said. "I just have so much respect for these men and women."
[...]
The soldiers, from units in Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico, will spend a year in Iraq, Col. Bryon Greenwald said.
Posted by fad at 7:03pm
Due to the request of one person, I'll briefly tell the tale of being at the football game on Sunday. If you have no interest in football, then don't bother. You'll be bored, and I won't care that you are.
[Read On]
Posted by fad at 3:27pm
Here comes all the "hangover cure" spam. I'm surprised it took this long to start showing up. I'm even more suprised it isn't an RC Racer Hangover Cure.
Posted by fad at 1:38pm
First they tear us all up with a competition to choose a new color, and now M&Ms are losing color altogether.
M&M's will run a contest in 2004 which will offer six grand prizes and for a brief period offer the world-famous candy in only black and white.2004 is shaping up to be a terrible year. I can't take this constant toying with my heart. Yes, since there is nothing else to toy with my heart, I have placed it in the care of candy colors. You would too if you only knew.
[...]
The company will re-introduce color four to six months into the new year by running a contest in which six bags - out of the more than 100 million in retail stores - will contain colored M&M's. Each of the six will contain M&M's of the same color - one each for red, yellow, green, blue, brown and orange.
Posted by fad at 11:02am
This is beautiful. Read through this article about the new ban on Ephedra. Ok, just skim it since I just gave you all the info you need.
Now look at the very bottom of that page at the "Related Advertising Links". I guess they are related, but quite poorly placed.
Posted by fad at 10:32am
For those of you faithfully following my insurance saga, things have been settled. After I sent a few bitchygrams to them, they suddenly "found" the forms lying around. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt, normally. Hey, forms get misplaced all the time. However, this is the same group that lost my I-9 forms 3 times in two years.
Posted by fad at 10:06am
Yes, I'm back. I was going to write up in more detail about the trip and, especially, the game, but realized y'all don't care about that stuff. I'll just say it was one of the bestest fan experiences I've had at a stadium. Plus I was able to wear shorts the whole game through, though with the temps in the low 40s that barely counts as an achievement. But when you're me, you take what accomplishments you can get.
Let me just offer one quick story. We hit a well known, long established supper club (Kroll's East, for those in the know) late Sunday evening. This is the type of place with an ancient waitress who had to reluctantly leave her cigarette at the bar to come take our order. So reluctantly I had to split my infinitive over it. One of my friends ordered a Killian's Red off the tap. The waitress replied, in a smoke soaked voice, "Nah, sorry, hon. We had to take all da reds off da gun."
I'll slowly ease back into things here. One thing I realize when I take a few days off is how nice it is not to be obsessively scanning the headlines all the time. However, I know that doesn't last long. I was hooked on that long before I started this site. It's irresistable. At least with this site my lame jokes have an audience of 10s rather than just my few friends.
Posted by fad at 8:36am
Obviously the major focus of the new terrorist warnings involve terrorists using international flights to attack targets (US or otherwise). This is shown by the cancelation of those flights from France, and now the new rules requiring an armed law enforcement-type person on each flight.
The new directive Ridge outlined Monday requires selected international flights that enter U.S. airspace to carry an armed law enforcement officer aboard. The Homeland Security Department will require such officers on airplanes where intelligence information leads to a specific concern about that flight.Ok. Swell. So who will be picking this officer? Will the US be going so far as to do the background check on these people? How easy will it be for a terrorist or other nogoodnick to become this officially armed person on a flight? I'm just wondering if the thoroughness and seriousness of other nations about the threat of terrorism and the US' ability to monitor and influence such decisions was taken into account. I'm sure these details are out there, known and easy to find, but I'm lazy and just want to read one article to get all my information.
Posted by fad at 6:52am