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  Flying Commercial

  http://www.fearoflanding.com/flying/flying-commercial/
  36 days ago in Fear of Landing · Authority: 13

  My last flight was in a big jet with a crew and mini-bottles of wine and everything. It made for a change but I think I prefer the Saratoga overall - especially after putting together this grab-bag from the world of commercial flying. “Terrain, terrain, pull up. Too low.” Not something you want to hear as you are descending. At the new airport in Shamshabad, they don’t want you to worry. The official advice is to switch off the ground proximity warnings once the false warnings start. Sorry, but I really can’t blame the KLM pilot who decided to divert, even if he did end up 1500 miles away in Mumbai. ProTraveller have stirred up some conversation with their Top 10 Most Dangerous Aircraft Landings in theWorld. They don’t actually single out individual landings (wouldn’t you hate to be that pilot) but it’s an interesting (and somewhat hair-raising) collection of airfields which could be considered a bit of a challenge. For a bit of context on #4, you might want to look at Plastic Pilot’s video of coming into Courchevel in a PA28. It does look a bit tricky! Photos of the Divas Pink Flight, a themed flight put on for the Sydney Mardi Gras, looks like it was a seriously fun flight, although there is such a thing as too much pink. It must have been a bit shocking for those who booked it as a standard flight! Cranky Flier writes about the EMD Safety Bracelet, a “nasty little device [which] will give flight crews the ability to physically disable you with the touch of a button.” Will all the too-pretty passengers be wearing them next season? Ancient Pelican links a YouTube video of the funnest marshalling I’ve ever seen. Some great photographs over at Francoflyersof the “Ryanair Water-Ski team” when a B737-800 skidded on the runway and then ran off onto the wet grass. The plane was quickly evacuated using the slides and there were no injuries. If it had been Gatwick, it would have made headline news. Speaking of headline news, somehow I missed the woman passenger who was handed pliers to remove her nipple piercings before being allowed to board her flight. The TSA has made a statement that correct procedure was followed but conceded that maybe procedure should be modified. Maybe, as long as we get reassurance that we will remain safe from lethal piercings! Meanwhile, the details of the Liquid Bomb have finally been released. One of the commenters at Schneier on Security has a solution: “No carry on, no hand luggage, naked passengers …that might work” But would the Pink Divas approve?
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  Surrender monkeys

  http://theimpolitic.blogspot.com/2008/04/surrender-monkeys.h...
  40 days ago in The Impolitic · Authority: 133

  By Capt. Fogg It's become too obvious that the special privileges our administration has given itself; the signing statements, the elimination of probable cause, the elimination of habeas corpus and of the right to a trial by a jury of one's peers, have been used for any purpose Bush's wise guys see fit to use them for. I have to wonder about how they will use the latest new power to ignore environmental and land-management laws Secretary of Arrogant Power Michael Chertoff has assumed by fiat. Making up laws as you go along and exempting the Bush administration from laws set up by the people's representatives to protect them and their property from governmental abuse "will enable important security projects to keep moving forward" says the skull faced Minister of Whatever the Hell we Damned Well Feel Like Doing. Of course they get to determine what these important security projects are and not us or our representatives or our courts, even if that means making your property worthless and your civil rights nugatory. Who gets to object if DHS calls a coal fired power plant in Yellowstone or Yosemite and "important security project?" Who gets to object if they strip search your great grandmother or torture some innocent woman from Iceland whose flight was delayed? Not us, it seems. He answers only to Bush who answers to a higher father and makes a virtue out of snubbing his subjects. It's not that the government shouldn't have the power to deal with real threats, but it's crucial that the government remain within the limits self styled conservatives love to talk about if we want to have a government of laws and not of thugs, goons, crooks and some Texas family with lots of ties and debts to another crooked family in Riyadh. Why fruit pickers who don't speak English are more of a threat than explosives experts from Europe who arrive on student visas and then disappear to plot against us, is known only to those who seek these special powers and special projects and who keep special secrets and use it all to plot against dissent, punish political enemies and fish through our bills and papers and receipts looking for dirt. Why we don't inspect 95% of freight coming into our ports, but humiliate women and children in airports even if they are citizens is a question that Minister Screw You, We're DHS isn't about to answer. Why FBI plants frequently succeed in getting on board planes with knives, guns and bombs while American mothers are forced to drink their own breast milk, nobody can answer. Certainly the terrorists who have blown up various buildings over the past decades have come from everywhere but Juarez, Chiapas, or Guatemala and spoke good English. No one has ever hijacked a plane with a nipple ring either. The million or so innocent adults and small children on the TSA no-fly list pose no threat at all yet they have no right of appeal. They pose no threat - except to those "important security projects" and the bloated, money burning, neo-fascist government agencies who make a mockery of truth, justice and the United States of America. Chertoff speaks, Cheney snarls and Bush sneers, but we legitimize these illegitimates with our silence and our sniveling fear. We may love to call other countries "surrender monkeys" but we've surrendered to apes and why anyone would object to some preacher saying God Damn America when we've damned it all by ourselves.
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  Episode 005 - Emo Beating For Fun And Profit

  http://www.fancypantsgangsters.com/wellfed/episode-005-emo-b...
  40 days ago in Fancy Pants Gangsters - Twin Cities Netcast Network · Authority: 1

  It’s been a while since Dave had a hot cheese injection, so this week we checked out Matt’s Bar, home of the Juicy Lucy. We also talk about why some people shouldn’t get nipple piercings, why other people should die in a fiery plane crash, and why everyone should tell their friends about Fancy Pants Gangsters. Location: Matt’s Bar in Minneapolis Opening Theme: Squirrel Nut Zippers - Good Enough For Grandad (from The Inevitable) Topics: Launch Of Fancypantsgangsters.com (you’re already there) Ric Flair:Minnesota Boy Does Good Large Hadron Collider To Be Started, unless this guy wins his case Supplemental Link: www.lhcdefense.org Piercings Cause Airport Security Issue Emo Beatings In Mexico Bill Clinton Tells Democrats to “Chill Out” REMINDER: Final Round of March Madness: Girl Fight Edition - Please feel free to contact us, either in the comments thread or via email to cast your vote for Isla Fisher vs. Carrie Byron. You can send us topic ideas, restaurant recommendations, comments, challenges, and questions to wellfed@fancypantsgangsters.com
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  Well Fed Guide To Living Episode 5 - Emo Beating For Fun And Profit

  http://www.fancypantsgangsters.com/wellfed/episode-005-emo-b...
  40 days ago in Fancy Pants Gangsters - Twin Cities Netcast Network · Authority: 1

  It’s been a while since Dave had a hot cheese injection, so this week we checked out Matt’s Bar, home of the Juicy Lucy. We also talk about why some people shouldn’t get nipple piercings, why other people should die in a fiery plane crash, and why everyone should tell their friends about Fancy Pants Gangsters. Location: Matt’s Bar in Minneapolis Opening Theme: Squirrel Nut Zippers - Good Enough For Grandad (from The Inevitable) Topics: Launch Of Fancypantsgangsters.com (you’re already there) Ric Flair:Minnesota Boy Does Good Large Hadron Collider To Be Started, unless this guy wins his case Supplemental Link: www.lhcdefense.org Piercings Cause Airport Security Issue Emo Beatings In Mexico Bill Clinton Tells Democrats to “Chill Out” REMINDER: Final Round of March Madness: Girl Fight Edition - Please feel free to contact us, either in the comments thread or via email to cast your vote for Isla Fisher vs. Carrie Byron. You can send us topic ideas, restaurant recommendations, comments, challenges, and questions to wellfed@fancypantsgangsters.com
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  TSA Forces Woman to Remove Nipple Piercings with Pliers

  http://search4beauty.blogspot.com/2008/03/tsa-forces-woman-t...
  40 days ago in Truth & Beauty · Authority: 12

  TSA Forces Woman to Remove Nipple Piercings with Pliers The TSA never fails to disappoint with its intellectual approach to protecting the homeland. "Welcome to Texas! Howdy and please remove your nipple jewelry!" Here's another ridiculous safety-associated assault that I initially ran across this on the Roxiticus Desperate Housewives blog: "The Transportation Security Administration said it will change they way its officers search passengers with body piercings after a Texas woman complained she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane." Her attorney said, "The last time I checked, a nipple was not a dangerous weapon." Personally, I hope that Mandi Hamlin sues the crap out of Big Brother for this one.You can read the MSNBC story here. Posted by Erik
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  TSA responds to nipple ring complaint

  http://buyflightscheap.com/2008/03/31/tsa-responds-to-nipple...
  41 days ago in Buy Flights Cheap · Authority: 7

  The Transportation Security Administration said it will change they way its officers search passengers with body piercings after a Texas woman complained she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane.
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  A Nipple Ring, A Pair of Pliers, and Emergent

  http://johnohara.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/a-nipple-ring-a-pa...
  41 days ago in oharaville · Authority: 12

  A Nipple Ring, A Pair of Pliers, and Emergent Posted in news, science, stories by johnohara on March 30th, 2008 This post is in honor of Tony Jones, for his birthday. While preparing a delicious meal of spaghetti and meatballs for my wife and son, a national news story caught my attention. A female Texan was passing through airport security and was setting off the airport metal detectors. When the offending metal was discovered to be in her chest area, she suggested to airport security that her nipple rings may be to blame. They told her that the aforementioned jewelry would have to be removed prior to entering the gateway. She was able to get one out without a problem, but the second was a bit trickier and required pliers. The television displayed a mannequin wearing a tastefully non-revealing brassiere at this stage in the report, complete with nipple ring, and showed someone removing said ring with pliers, just in case people were unclear about how it all went down in real life. Of course, at the conclusion of the report, immediately I considered the obvious connection to Emergent. There are more than a few out there who claim to “dabble” in emerging thought, but those who have dabbled with an open mind realize that one can dabble with emergent like one can get a little moistened by a plunge off the high dive. Or, by contrast and with respect to this news story, one can escape the implications of emergent like one can remove a nipple ring at the airport metal detector. It would take pliers and the severe need to reach a particular destination.
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  Geez, what would they have done with a Prince Albert?

  http://dtrini.blogspot.com/2008/03/geez-what-would-they-have...
  41 days ago in A Trini's View of the World! · Authority: 1

  Nipple rings cause airport security issue - News- msnbc.com

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