Posts Tagged “airline”
- The Justice Department’s inquiry into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes will be escalated into a criminal investigation headed up by a special prosecutor. Their efforts have been frustrated by agency personnel who not only deny existence of the videotapes, but deny they ever tortured or interrogated anyone, that there is even a war in Iraq, or that they themselves actually exist…
- A winter storm that has seen temperatures in the South drop into the 20’s has farmers there struggling to protect their crops from the cold. That means anyone talking about their grapefruits shriveling up is not discussing female anatomy…
- New York City public school officials say the number of high school students who smoke has declined to its lowest level ever, to about a third of what it was 10 years ago. Unfortunately, this corresponds with a dramatic increase in addiction to narcotics like iPod, PS3 and MySpace…
- An international watchdog group says there were fewer airline crashes worldwide in 2007 than anytime the past 44 years. Could that be because half of those flights are still waiting to take off?
- A federal agency gave approval to oil and natural gas development off Alaska’s coast over environmentalist objections about the effect on marine mammals there. I think that agency is called Who Gives A Crap About Whales…
- An Arizona beauty pageant winner and law school student clerking for a federal judge was charged with kidnapping and torturing an ex-boyfriend. I’m guessing she was not a finalist for Miss Congeniality…
Tags: airline, Alaska, Arizona, CIA, Justice Department, MySpace, New York, whales
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- New York begins the new year as the only state that now requires airlines to provide food, water, rest rooms and fresh air to passengers whose flights are stuck on a runway longer than 3 hours. This will be a particular comfort to those who could have driven to their destination by then…
- The Coast Guard is working to rescue a freighter with two dozen aboard that is disabled and drifting off the coast of Alaska. The crew reports that all aboard are doing fine and are curious about whether there might be a reality series deal in the works for them…
- A volcano erupted in southern Chile yesterday, spewing ash and smoke but posing no threat to inhabited areas there. In other words, none of their ashes got smoked…
- A federal judge in California will rule this week on how the Navy must protect whales and other marine mammals from the loud blasts of its sonar equipment while training there. It would be a real tragedy if a big whale thought the sonar was sending out a mating call…
- A new study finds that the use of pain medication by emergency room doctors has increased greatly the past decade, but whites appear to get it more often than minorities–which researchers suggest is due to physicians’ concern that they may be drug abusers who are lying about their pain. I suppose the perception is normal–most of the public sees doctors as caring people who will do whatever is necessary to help their patients…
- A Massachusetts burglary suspect’s planned escape while handcuffed in court was worked out in detail between him and his girlfriend–during jailhouse phone calls, which are monitored by sheriff’s department officials. Let’s just say his big surprise was no big surprise…
Tags: airline, Alaska, California, Coast Guard, Massachusetts, Navy, New York, whales
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