Author Archives: Joe Weber
North West Airlines Pilots have some explaining to do
1. Northwest Airlines Flight over-shoots Minneapolis. By 150 Miles - Two pilots were in the cockpit. Finally, a flight attendant knocked on the door and asked what the hell was going on. I’m one of those guys that hits his chronometer on his watch when the pilot announces the flight time. I’d be asking some [...]
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Assassination in Islamabad
1. Senior Pakastani Military Official Assassinated by Islamist Militants – In Pakistan’s Capital. In Broad Daylight. They seem to be bringing the fight to the Military.
(From the International Herald Tribune)
2. Got Bailed out? Cut your executive’s pay – Well there goes trying to hire the best of the best to rebuild these companies. (From The [...]
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Jenny McCarthy is Not a Doctor
1. How Parents who don’t vaccinate their kids are hurting us all – This is one of the best, most well written pieces I’ve ever read about the debate over whether or not to vaccinate your children. The entire point is: There shouldn’t be a debate at all. It’s fear run wild. Think about a [...]
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Morning Five: Karzai says okay to a runoff
1. Karzi vs. Abdullah Abdullah on November 7th - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzi agreed to a runoff election on November 7th against his closest challenger, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. It seems that there was a tad of election fraud the first go-round, with as many as one THIRD of the sitting President’s votes being [...]
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Rick Sanchez Sucks
1. Karzi rejects UN Election Fraud Findings – Hamid Karzi isn’t exactlly sparking confidence in the Obama Administration. Now he’s rejected findings by the U.N. that says there should be a runoff between him and his closest challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. Who is perhaps a man so nice they named him twice? Anyway… if a strong [...]
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Dad of Balloon Boy appears to be an attention whore
1. Dad of Balloon Boy sure likes attention - Never trust anyone who doesn’t have the common sense to not go on reality television. Especially those that exploit their kids in the process. There are now two possibilities:
#1 The Kids accidentally let the balloon go, and the Falcon kid went into hiding because he was [...]
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The LHC and Time Travel
1. Time Travelers might be sabotaging the world’s most expensive Physics Experiment - The Large Hadron Collider might have been sabotaged… by a time traveler? Not so much in the way of Doc or Marty going back in a DeLorean, but… the pure science of it might be causing it to malfunction because of a [...]
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Baucus Bill Boogie-down
1. The Baucus Bill gets its (first) day – Senate Finance Committee is set to vote on the $829-Billion-Dollars-over-10-years bill today. Here’s what it would do: Require Americans to buy Health Insurance. Here’s what it wouldn’t do: Create that sticky public option. Tens of millions currently without insurance would get it by way of expansions [...]
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Pan Am Hijacker pulls a Roman Polanski
1. Pan Am Hijacker Arrested… 40 years later – The man suspected of Hijacking Pam Am flight 281 and forcing it to fly Cuba back in 1968 has been arrested, after he got off a plane at JFK. This guy and Roman Polanski could teach a class on how American Law enforcement doesn’t forgive and [...]
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1. 8 Years since the U.S. took on the Taliban – Eight years ago today the United States launched air strikes against targets in Afghanistan. President Obama is currently facing one of the biggest Foreign Policy decisions in the last decade, and it can be summed up in two words: “Now what?”
(From Global Post)
2. Joe [...]
The Future of Terrorism = Anus Explosives
1. Al Qaida Invents the Rectum Bomb - The thing about bombs shoved up a suicide assassin’s rectum, is that they usually get past airport security. And rectum? Damn near killed him! Hey-oooooooooooooooo (From NPR)
2. The Russian / Georgian conflict: Everybody loses - Both sides claim that the report issued by the European Union backs [...]
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Noble Prize handed out for Shoelace tips?
1. Americans win Nobel Prize for Medicine – Three scientists figured out that something called “telomeres” prevent damage to Chromosomes when cells divide. Telomeres are the tips of the chromosomes that prevent them from unraveling, just like the plastic tip of a shoelace prevents the lace from unraveling. And how do Telomeres do that? They [...]
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Afghanistan Questions
1. Two Questions to ask before the President Sends more Troops – Can President Karzi rally the people of his country despite all the fraud allegations? And is it really worth it even if he can?
(From Slate)
2. Afghanistan was at one time, a beautiful and peaceful country - Back in the mid 1960s, an American [...]
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The Public Option takes a punch to the groin
1. Public Option Denied in Committee – Senate Finance committee denies public option 15-8, and then again 13-10 on a similar plan, to put a public option into the health-care reform efforts. Five democrats joined all of the Republicans. The Public Option isn’t just stalled, someone took the rims and put it up on blocks [...]
Sarah Palin writes the book on Sarah Palin
1. Sarah Palin Writes a Book - Yes… but will she READ it? Sorry… cheap shot. Hot Air asks: Who’s going to buy more copies? Her supporters? Or Countdown with Keith Olbermann fans?
(From Hot Air)
2. The NYC / Denver Terror Plot. Was it for real? – There are three scenarios here. This guy was a [...]
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Iran test fires long range missiles
1. Iran does its best North Korea – Missiles launched, muscles flexed, bla bla bla. Well crap. Now what. (From the Times of London)
2. Roman Polanski Taken into Custody – 32 years ago Roman Polanski fled the U.S. after he pled guilty to having sex with a 13 year old girl. He had avoided nations [...]
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