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How can we expect any better from the leadership secrets of the man whose dour appearance belies what seems to be a “I Don’t Give a &^%$” philosophy.

Monday, July 24th, 2006

“TheDenverChannel.com
* Video: Air Marshals Say SDR Quota Puts Pressure To Label People As ‘Suspicious’
Marshals: Innocent People Placed On ‘Watch List’ To Meet Quota
Marshals Say They Must File One Surveillance Detection Report, Or SDR, Per Month
POSTED: 9:49 pm MDT July 21, 2006
UPDATED: 10:56 pm MDT July 21, 2006
DENVER — You could be on a secret government […]

Posted in Bill of Rights, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Transportation, Chertoff, Airlines |

Since air travel has now reached the equivalent of interstate Greyhound rides in the late 1960s, I question the rationale of loading more and more people on an airplane. How many of each of the following characters will now take their acts to 40,000 feet?

Monday, July 17th, 2006

There is usually a non-stop talking vegetarian who prefers travel by birch bark canoe, but must take bus despite the fact that tires are made of meat products.
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What bus trip doesn’t have the Bob Dylan imitator who can’t play, sing or rhyme.
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The tattooed and recently released, skinny ex-con who is working […]

Posted in Business, Transportation, Airlines |

No comment.

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

‘Huge concrete panels were removed from the tunnel after a section of the ceiling collapsed last night, killing one woman. (Globe Staff Photo / George Rizer)
State Police identify victim in tunnel collapse
By John R. Ellement and Andrew Ryan, Boston Globe Staff | July 11, 2006
Transportation officials this morning have begun removing the three-ton […]

Posted in Transportation, Architecture, Automobiles, Massachusetts |

The power failure may be over, but the memories will linger.

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

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If only we had listened to Klaatu instead of having drilled him with a carbine.
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May 25, 2006
Power Failure Halts Rails in Northeast
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One of the many eastern seaboard GG-1 engines silenced by the British-looking alien.

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This 1951 Long Island traffic jam was but a portion of the disruption.
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By JOHN HOLUSHA
Tens of thousands of commuters’ […]

Posted in Business, Energy, Movies, Transportation |

What can be more glorious than laboring through the Himalayas as one’s lungs straining to find oxygen while listening to some Nanking farm implement salesman try to sing “Get Off of My Cloud” while blitzed on GANG OF FOUR Black Label Lichee vodka. His fellow-traveling octagenarian mother can scream when he spills his drink on her cat. Bring on the folk dancers!

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Karaoke trains to the roof of world

Thu May 18, 8:50 AM ET
Ticket to Tibet, sir? That’ll be $1,000 a day. But at least you’ll be able to have a good sing on the way.
China is planning to offer luxury trains to the roof of the world when it opens a long anticipated and highly […]

Posted in China, Transportation, Travel |

The buffet must be impressive.

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

World’s largest cruise ship docks

By Luke MacGregor Sat Apr 29, 8:42 AM ET
SOUTHAMPTON (Reuters) - The world’s largest cruise ship docked in England on Saturday ahead of its inaugural trip — a floating behemoth four times the size of the Titanic, with facilities never imagined at the dawn of the liner age.
Please find […]

Posted in Great Britain, Transportation, Travel |

The infamous rainy New York line, “Who do you have to ____ to get a cab around here?” won’t travel well.

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Police in Tehran ordered to arrest women in ‘un-Islamic’ dress
· Taxi drivers responsible for clothes of passengers
· Purge allied with effort to cut viewing of western TV
Robert Tait in Tehran
Thursday April 20, 2006
The Guardian
Iran’s Islamic authorities are preparing a crackdown on women flouting the stringent dress code in the clearest sign yet of social and […]

Posted in Religion, Transportation, Iran |

As a child who attended grammar school during the period when sonic booms were hailed as progress, Scott Crossfield was my champion.

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
Famed aviator Scott Crossfield dies in plane crash
Thursday, April 20, 2006
P-I STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES
Scott Crossfield, the University of Washington graduate who was the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound, was found dead Thursday in the wreckage of his single-engine plane in Georgia.
Crossfield, 84, dueled with Chuck Yeager a half […]

Posted in Transportation, Science |

We’re Ready When You Are…er…He is?

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Posted in Religion, Transportation |

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