One Quick “Ouch” Before I Turn In
Rod Liddle:
Just like you, I will be glued to my TV tonight to watch the first instalment of a Channel 4 series in which famous figures of today choose an iconic figure from the past and explain how influential they have been to their lives and philosophical outlook. Tonight we [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Creepy On SO MANY Levels
Via RC2’s Google Feed: Exposed: Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Printed, Circulated By Airport Staff
UK Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said last week that the images produced by the scanners were deleted “immediately” and airport staff carrying out the procedure are fully trained and supervised.
Of course, you can just imagine all the [...]
Categories: War and Peace
With Lawyers Like These, Who Needs Litigation
Man. One of Kerry’s 2004 Election Lawyers says:
It should be obvious now, even to Obama’s most passionate supporters that shielding the free world requires more than mere words like “hope” and “change.” Bush’s detractors should be embarrassed having arrogantly thought they could do it better, and those Republicans who abandoned Bush when he [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Clearly We Are Toast
LA Times – U.S. learned intelligence on airline attack suspect while he was en route
U.S. border security officials learned of the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day jetliner bombing attempt as he was airborne from Amsterdam to Detroit and had decided to question him when he landed.
Well, they’re not [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Seattle In the News X! Airport Security Edition
A young man, on a watchlist, shopped to the CIA by his own father, who spent time in Al Qaeda-controlled lands learning “Arabic”, who began his travels in sketchy west Africa, who paid cash for his ticket, who checked no luggage, who HAD NO PASSPORT, gets on a flight and tries to blow up a [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Where Cartoonists Have Panic Rooms
The Sunday Times – Panic room saved artist Kurt Westergaard from Islamist assassin
An axe-wielding Somali extremist broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard on Friday night as the 75-year-old cartoonist was looking after Stephanie, his five-year-old granddaughter. Westergaard, whose little ink drawing of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
A Few More Knickerbomber Links
NRO – Mark Steyn: The Joke’s on Us The Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. We are.
On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh? But the Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. The real laugh was the [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The Nigerian, The Knickerbomber
New Years Resolution #3 (I have others): Clear out my stupid Google Reader! rolls up sleeves
National Post – David Frum: U.S. looks for bombs instead of terrorists
The real culprit in the underwear bombing? It’s the U.S. embassy in Lagos, argues Thomas Lipscomb. According to the Department [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Wear Clean Underwear
Brett McS and I were just talking about these x-ray things (prompted by one of Vanderleun’s reprints)…
In the wake of the foiled terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff tells National Review Online that the United States needs to “aggressively pursue” more whole-body imaging during primary searches [...]
Categories: Politics
The Decade in Review: Kinda Sh.tty
The Sunday Times – 9/11: When all that was solid melted into the air The twin towers were there, then they were gone. Money was there, then it disappeared. Welcome to the age of insecurity
In March 2000 the dotcom bubble — based on delirious stock-market valuations of companies that could never possibly [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Delta Flight: Holy Crap
Excuse me while I just quote this whole thing (again: holy crap):
The Corner – Mark Steyn: Let’s Roll 2
On September 11th 2001, the government’s (1970s) security procedures all failed, and the only good news of the day came from self-reliant citizens (on Flight 93) using their own wits and a willingness to act. [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
The Geneva Conventions Are About Incentives, Too
WSJ – Holder’s al Qaeda Incentive Plan by William McGurn
[T]he perverse message that decision [to dispatch Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda leaders to federal criminal court for trial] will send to terrorists all over this dangerous world is this: If you kill civilians on American soil you will have greater protections [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Islam, Secular Nationalism and Devotion
An email to Jonah Goldberg:
Dear Jonah I am 34 years old, born in the U.S., raised as a (nominal) Muslim in Iran, and returned back to the U.S. in 1990 (thank Goodness). I converted to Catholicism in 2002, and became a reservist in the Navy (through the Direct Commission Officer [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Celebrating Diversity at Fort Hood
NRO – Tragedy or Scandal?<br/> We weaseled and equivocated and appeased. By Mark Steyn
Well, like they say, it’s easy to be wise after the event. I’m not so sure. These days, it’s easier to be even more stupid after the event. “Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaeda,” mused MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. “That’s not a [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Gosh, What an Honour To Be Chosen As a Host Nation
Telegraph – Olympics ‘biggest security challenge since WW2′
Hey man, the Blitz is still within living memory. Sign me up!
Categories: Sports and Leisure
