I thought this quote was a prank when I read it on Boing Boing, so I went to the main CNN site and there it was:
CNN.com - Agent infiltrated terror cell, U.S. says - Aug 10, 2006
A senior congressional source said it is believed the plotters planned to mix a British sports drink with a [...]
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Maisie Dobbsby Jacqueline Winspear
Honestly, I tried to like these books. I love “cozy” British murder mysteries, and have read every single Ngaio Marsh title, every single Dorothy L. Sayers book about Lord Peter, every novel and short story by Edmund Crispin, and yet I have the good taste to shun Agatha Christie, because a) [...]
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Just a thought: it might be really, really nice to get Season One of the New Doctor Who.
I’m just sayin’.
(this is a test post, I’m trying out some of the improved features of ecto 2.1.6)
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Today’s big bad security flap made for a very bad day for a lot of people. It wasn’t the nightmare I thought it would be at work, but there was a lot of information-overload “chaff” in the morning that had me stumped, so that I gave out bad information.
Bad information! No! No!
One of [...]
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Woke up to this morning’s news about the foiled plot in Britain to combine benign substances smuggled aboard at least 8 aircraft flying between London and the US and cause a series of catastrophic explosions.
I heard the original live press conference with Chertoff, now I’m listening to Torturer-General Alberto Gonzalez following up on National Public [...]
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