… you correctly notified the authorities that someone had purchased a one-way ticket to Dubai, in cash at the last moment. Did Times Square Bomb Suspect Almost Get Away? | TPMMuckraker CBS News adds that it was only thanks to a tip from Emirates Airlines that Shahzad, 30, was nabbed. Emirates notified the Department of Homeland Security that it had received a last-minute request for an all-cash purpose of a one-way ticket to Dubai — all of which are red flags. Before the arrest was made, law enforcement authorities had already notified authorities that the plane was not to take…
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… and as a business travel arranger, I’m curious to know how this is going to effect me in the months to come, too. Some of my business travelers may benefit, but many of my guys are based in Houston (CO’s southern hub) and other Midwestern cities – NOT Chicago or Denver (UA’s main hubs). They don’t fly United much except for some of the ones that like the early morning ‘daylighter’ flights to Britain from Washington or Chicago. How the Continental-United merger will affect business travelers – USATODAY.com Now that United Airlines and Continental Airlines have tied the knot,…
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So this is the guy? He really does look like a Wall Street trader. And though multiple arrests were made, CNN still used the phrase “lone wolf” in their story. Arrests made in Pakistan in Times Square probe. [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]
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Stephen Fry lays it out. Ultimately, vote how you like, but VOTE! How I will vote… « Stephen Fry. More important than my own political views or my own voting intentions are my hopes that nothing I say will stop you from choosing Conservative if you consider it the right way to cast your vote. It may be you will be voting Tory through dyed-in-the-wool instinct and loyalty or it may be that you are someone who once voted Labour or Lib Dem but who has decided that Cameron and the Conservatives will be best for Britain. It’s none of…
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So much for my “homegrown” theory, and “lone wolf” is still in play but shaky due to his recent 5-month stay in Pakistan. US citizen from Pakistan to appear in court on charges of parking car bomb in Times Square – chicagotribune.com.
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And the loony bin crowd goes wild, they win the right to drill the “foreign terrorist” meme into the ground. Even A Blind Squirrel Finds An Occasional Nut! Looks Like Times Square Bomber Was Most Likely Part Of An International Plot. | Crooks and Liars.
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Need to edit my “How old is your Whirlpool?” post to point to this… insult to American working people and consumers. An American Brand Name Heads to Mexico – After Taking Economic Recovery Funds | Crooks and Liars. Guess how Whirlpool is repaying American taxpayers for their support: Whirlpool Corporation is shutting down a refrigerator plant in Evansville, Indiana that will put 1100 people out of work. Are they having trouble selling refrigerators in these bad economic times? No. Whirlpool is profitable and still selling plenty of refrigerators here. But they want to ship these jobs to Mexico where they…
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This one’s based on good old ecto, testing to see if it works better than the official WordPress app. Still no way to grab a link and start a post, the way Press It is supposed to work. No TinyMCE or Quicktags. Supposed to be image CSS possible. No landscape keyboard. Dumb “edit” button must be pressed to, you know, edit. [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]
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It’s a funny old Sunday for me; had to get up and out the door this morning by 4: 30am to get my husband David off to O’Hare for his flight to Orlando for a technical conference. He’s there, he’s run into some of his list members, he’s That Mailing List Guy. He runs a lot of mailing lists that cover areas of expertise that are mostly to do with the AS/400 iSeries Systemi whatever IBM calls their midrange computing platform this week. He got all packed last night, including the traditional “I can’t find my pants” crisis which fortunately…
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It’s far too long since I blogged… ANYTHING other than links from Google Reader or del.icio.us and so I propose to blog for an hour and then stop. No looking for fixes to something on my iPhone bookmarks, no browsing articles without blogging them at least with a link and a comment, no nothing except, yes, blogging. Begin.