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Muslims feel like
'Jews of Europe'
They can't. They never
will.
5 face trial in
Concorde crash that killed 113 in France
Airport runways are strewn with
debris everyday and require regular cleaning. The fact is that bits of
planes fall off.
This trial will
make the families feel better and so it should. The blame however
belongs firmly with the airline, Air France.
The aircraft’s tire burst. Instead of deflating, it shredded. As it
shredded pieces of rubber were thrown upward, piercing
the wing of the plane, puncturing a fuel tank. The leaking fuel was
ignited by the engines. The burning fuel
melted the flight control surfaces and the plane crashed.
Unfortunately for Air France a similar incident had happened prior to
the crash where a hole was punched through the wing on
takeoff. Fortunately that incident did not start a fire. Despite that,
no shielding was ever installed to protect the fuel tanks.
Dollar’s reign
coming to an end?
Iran hopes it is. Chavez prays it is.
I hope it isn't.
Storm over Cape
Cod: Famous names fight wind farm plan in millionaires' playground
The rich want change as long as it doesn’t effect
them and they think that we, the average Joes, are stupid. Perhaps
we are.
Al Gore flies a gas guzzling private jet while preaching to the plebs about climate change. His home reportedly uses more power on a daily basis than Manhattan. We applaud when the gets a Nobel Prize.
This make one wonder if there are two sets of rules: one for the rich, one for the not-so. That couldn’t be. Could it?
The stock market:
how bad can it get? Worse is still to come
The truth? We’re dangling our legs
precariously over the crumbling edge of an economic abyss.
We guilty of the ostrich effect: we’re collectively ignoring the fact that property, banking, airlines and the auto industry have imploded. There's also the matter of the $3 trillion we're borrowing to cover the cost of the Middle East war. $3 trillion we don’t have unless we turn the mint printing presses up to "Ludicrously Fast Speed."
Perhaps "ignoring" is the wrong word. We know we’re in trouble but we don’t understand it, the reality is so huge we can't get our head around it - it hasn’t quite hit us (me) yet. One morning soon we’re all going to wake up and realize how screwed we are. And we are; really screwed.
There is one ray of hope however. Next month when that supercollider in France is plugged in it will probably create a massive black hole. The propeller-heads swear it won’t (it will) - and if it does all our troubles will be solved in a fraction of a second. If we're still here in September it may be time to think about getting an extra job.
Drink red wine
for a better life – but not a longer one
One glass of red wine a day is
good for you. Two glasses are not. Where's the fun in that? Ignore this
story.
Editorial Blog: "Economists car park my
car"
Glad I wrote this before I heard the tragic
Starbucks store closing news. I have a new psychological problem: Starbucks anxiety;
caused by worry about losing a center of social interaction or too much
caffeine.
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