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May 29 2008
High Fuel Costs = Desperate Airlines
As aviation fuel prices continue to rise several air carriers have launched crash programs to search for alternatives and cut costs.
There were high hopes for one experimental program in which Jumbos were allowed to graze for their sustenance.
The experiment started out extremely well and a sense of near euphoria set in as Wall Street began to smell green.
Apr 25 2008
Port Insecurity: What keeps you up late?
How about this?
Customs inspectors at a pier in New York City send a sealed cargo container just taken off a ship from Istanbul through a radiation scanner. A dozen new tractors seem to be inside. Although the detector senses no radiation, the inspectors open the container anyway. Their handheld units show no radiation either, so they allow the container to leave. A private hauler drives it to a small Midwestern city. There terrorist cell members remove what was their final shipment of highly enriched uranium, concealed as 10 metal washers in the tractor engines, together weighing two kilograms. Months later an improvised nuclear device with a yield of one kiloton is detonated in Los Angeles. The blast, fire and airborne radioactivity kill more than 100,000 people. Virtually all shipping into the U.S. is halted, precipitating a financial crisis. Military operations commence in the Middle East after forensics and intelligence efforts trace the plot to cells in Pakistan and Iran.
Apr 25 2008
Port Insecurity: What keeps you up late?
How about this?
Customs inspectors at a pier in New York City send a sealed cargo container just taken off a ship from Istanbul through a radiation scanner. A dozen new tractors seem to be inside. Although the detector senses no radiation, the inspectors open the container anyway. Their handheld units show no radiation either, so they allow the container to leave. A private hauler drives it to a small Midwestern city. There terrorist cell members remove what was their final shipment of highly enriched uranium, concealed as 10 metal washers in the tractor engines, together weighing two kilograms. Months later an improvised nuclear device with a yield of one kiloton is detonated in Los Angeles. The blast, fire and airborne radioactivity kill more than 100,000 people. Virtually all shipping into the U.S. is halted, precipitating a financial crisis. Military operations commence in the Middle East after forensics and intelligence efforts trace the plot to cells in Pakistan and Iran.
Sep 17 2007
A Blast From the Past
My appologies if you’ve all seen this before, and for the poor quality of the video.
This reporter was robbed of a Pulitzer.
“… for the blast blasted blubber beyond all believeable bounds.” Now that’s writin’.