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Entries from July 2008

Well, That Takes All The Fun Out Of It!

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Sex ban on the Airbus A380 - Times Online
The A380 may have the world’s first airborne double bed, but it won’t be put to the obvious use if Singapore Airlines has its way: “If couples used our double beds to engage in inappropriate activity, we would politely ask them to desist,” said the company’s Stephen [...]

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Tags: Aviation Stuff · Complete BS · Insanity

Team Toucan Getting The Gear Together

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Support Equipment Update
As we might have shared on the website, Infinity Entertainment is committed to creating an experience for airshow fans that goes far beyond any single performance. Access to both the airshow aircraft, the support aircraft, to the team members and to the support equipment is a philosophy we are committed to once we [...]

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Tags: Airshows · Aviation Stuff · Cool Stuff · USA

Oops!!! They Probably Didn’t Mean To Kill THAT One

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

FOXNews.com - Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It - Evolution | Human | Theory | Man | Paleontology
British marine biologists have found what may be the oldest living animal — that is, until they killed it.
The team from Bangor University in Wales was dredging the waters north of Iceland as part of [...]

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Tags: Cool Stuff · Science

U.S. Air Force SSgt Accused By Italy Of Child Maltreatment - Children Taken And Put In Italian Foster Care While Mom On Military Mission

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

FOXNews.com - Americans Put in Italian Foster Care While Air Force Mom on Mission - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
A Minnesota couple is worried about their American granddaughters after Italian authorities placed the children in foster care while their mother, an Air Force staff sergeant, was on a mission [...]

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Tags: Complete BS · Government BS · Law Enforcement · Military · Politics · USA

TB Infected Illegal Enters U.S. 76 Times In The Past Year - Why The Silence?

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

FOXNews.com - Official: Mexican Infected With TB Used Alias to Evade Capture - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
WASHINGTON — For the second time this year, the federal government has failed to stop a man infected with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis from traveling to and within the [...]

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Tags: Complete BS · Government BS · Immigration · Insanity · Media · Mexico · Politics · USA

CBP Predator Crash In AZ Caused By Pilot Error, Failure To Follow Proceedures

October 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

NTSB Cites Lax Safety Controls, Pilot Error in Ariz. Drone Crash - washingtonpost.com

The pilot, an employee of General Atomics, was flying the drone Libby Airfield in Sierra Vista, Ariz., about 60 miles away, when the problems started about 3:30 a.m., NTSB investigators said.
The pilot’s computer console locked up, investigators said. He started to transfer control [...]

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Tags: Aviation Stuff · Law Enforcement · Technology · USA

Sign Of Success In Iraq - Burials Down At Holy Site In Najaf

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch - Yahoo! News
NAJAF, Iraq — At what’s believed to be the world’s largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn’t good.
The city, with the shrine and graveyard, is considered the third-most important holy site for Shiite Muslims, [...]

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Tags: GWOT · Iraq · Middle East

A Post For Those Who Want “Free” Healthcare

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Stop The ACLU » Blog Archive » Need Another Reason to Hate Socialized Medicine?…
Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.
And by the end of the decade 200,000 “health tourists” will fly as far as Malaysa and South [...]

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Tags: Government BS · Insanity · Politics · USA

Credit Where It’s Due - Scott Thomas Beauchamp Redemption

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Michael Yon : Online Magazine » Blog Archive » Beauchamp and the Rule of Second Chances
Beauchamp is young; under pressure he made a dumb mistake. In fact, he has not always been an ideal soldier. But to his credit, the young soldier decided to stay, and he is serving tonight in a dangerous part of [...]

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Tags: Bloggers · GWOT · Iraq · Media · Middle East · Military · Sierra Hotel · USA

Iraqi Army Collected Donations For SoCal Fire Victims

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Stop The ACLU » Blog Archive » Iraqi Army in Besmaya collected a donation for the San Diego, Calif., fire victims
Iraqi men that are risking their lives everyday and barely have the money to feed their own families are donating to the fire victims of San Diego.
Where is the MSM?
Where, indeed, is the Main Stream [...]

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Tags: Cool Stuff · Iraq · San Diego · USA