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Funniest thing. Turns out, travelling alone with an 8-month-old is kinda tiring. Also taking 8-month-old to visit her great grandpa in hospital for weirdo stomach problems.

Anyway. Over ‘n out.

Categories: Wildcard

I love this. Mark Steyn is proven right:

[T]he imams have spoken: Saying that body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslim-American groups are supporting a “fatwa” – a religious ruling – that forbids Muslims from going through the scanners at airports. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

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

Google did. GOOGLE.

Categories: Business & Media

Open thread!

Categories: Wildcard

I’m just giving up now. There was no way I was going to get anything done today and tomorrow I get to go on a quick 2-night trip home! Woohoo!

So for today’s post, as all you ninmates are doubtless aware, Lord Monckton is on tour in Australia and Aussie Brett McS was on the [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

And Australian Climate Skeptic Speaking Tour Correspondent Brett McS will be on the scene!

Climate Change and Global Warming Australian Tour details Lord Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Scottish Peer, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, and International Business Consultant Professor Ian Plimer – School of Earth [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Fascinating story. Brad Pitt even makes an appearance.

The Times – Hail, Britain’s Indiana Jones of the Amazon The newly discovered rainforest civilisation shows that deforestation is not just vandalism but a crime against history, by Ben Macintyre

In 1925 the British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett plunged into the Amazon forest in search of a [...]

Categories: History

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

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

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

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

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

Let’s cheer ourselves up with this delightful story from Brett McS:

BBC – Steam train’s snow rescue ‘glory’

Passengers were rescued by a steam locomotive after modern rail services were brought to a halt by the snowy conditions in south-east England. Trains between Ashford and Dover were suspended on Monday when cold [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

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