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While I know that I won’t win any arguments with those steadfastly opposed to W and his administration, or those with emotional reasons for opposing the war in Iraq…
I’m definitely going to make a few statements.
1) If Saddam had allowed full, unobstructed inspection of suspected weapons sites, the UN sanctions would have been lifted, and he could be chillin’ with a harem in one of his palaces, lighting cigars with $100 bills.
2) The initial argument for action against Saddam post-9/11 was noncompliance with UN resolutions. This was a proper justification for military action. Other UN members pussied out, but that doesn’t change the legitimacy of enforcing the resolution. Bush and company should not have justified anything with the WMD claims, they lost all goodwill of other nations. But military action was justified.
3) Yes, the execution was rushed. But would keeping him alive have helped anything? Is there any reasonable belief that he would have been exonerated?
December 30th, 2006
Fox News Channel is reporting that a plane from New York’s LaGuardia Airport is being turned around after a note was given to the pilot from a passenger which was considered threatening. I can’t find details about this online yet, but the plane is apparently being turned around mid-flight to return to LaGuardia to be searched.
Of course, it seems quite stupid to send it back to a major metro area just in case… why not land it somewhere less populated in the event that there is a real threat?
I’ll update as more information comes in.
Update 2:38PM EST:
The plane is back on the ground, luggage has been spread on the ground outside the plane. Canine units searching around the plane. Conflicting details about whether or not passengers are still on the plane. Plane is a US Airways Express flight.
Update 2:52PM EST:
The note supposedly from God. The pilot requested the return to LaGuardia. I’ve been flipping channels, and find no mention of this story anywhere else… nothing on CNN, CNN Headline News, MSNBC… nothing in a search on Google News for LaGuardia. The flight was to Portland, Maine.
Update 3:29PM EST:
I may have gotten details wrong. This page seems to be reporting that the flight was from Charleston, South Carolina, not originating at LaGuardia. Fox News just also mentioned that the plane never took off — that the note was passed while the plane was on the ground, and that the passenger who passed the note has been taken to a hospital for evaluation, and that the flight has now taken off for Portland, Maine.
Update 3:49PM EST:
FlightAware is now showing the flight as having left at 3:35PM. The flight was Chautauqua Airlines flight 3068.
Update 5:46PM EST:
Amazing how little coverage this has gotten. Fox21.com finally has some mention of it. No new details, though.
December 24th, 2006
Well, I’m back from my 10 days off, and… well, yesterday I had a New York day.
I got onto the subway and listened to some 18-ish boys talking about their porn collections, getting passwords for hacked porn sites from IRC, the merits of the different types of porn (weird videos for curiosity’s sake vs. good beat-off material).
At Starbucks in the afternoon, a guy wearing a yarmulke accidently backed into another person, and said, “Oh, Jesus, I’m so sorry.” I guess maybe that’s no weirder than when I, an atheist, say “bless you” when someone sneezes…
November 29th, 2006
I’m checking in from Decatur, Georgia, just outside the city limits of Atlanta. Came down with Amy for Thanksgiving… visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. center this morning, visited Amy’s father’s house on the Chattahoochie River yesterday, tried grits on Sunday after sleeping into the afternoon because of Saturday’s late night out drinking with some of Amy’s old friends.
Anyone out there ever had tater tot casserole before?
Of course, at dinner tonight, the big minuses of scorpions and palmetto bugs came up… but ATL certainly isn’t as “southern” as I expected. I’ve been corrected a bit about my fears of being pulled over and sodomized by a police officer who hates yankees, though. Apparently that’s more Alabama’s speed. Alabama, about 70 miles or so west. Hmm…
November 21st, 2006
Shandyking wrote up a great step-by-step process to get yourself set up with your own blog on your own domain in about 10 minutes. While I already had the domain, the steps he details are pretty much how I set mine up… and it really is easy.
Why would you want to set up your own blog instead of using a service like Blogger or Wordpress.com? In a word - control. No ads unless *you’re* the one making the money. Be able to customize in all kinds of ways. Have a URL that *you* own, and not someone else.
If you’d like to set up a blog, I highly recommend popping over to Shandyking’s blog setup tutorial.
October 6th, 2006
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