Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… Starring: Colin Powell as Col. John “Hannibal” Smith Madeleine Albright as Sgt. Bosco “Bad Attitude” Baracas Alexander “I’m In Charge Here” Haig as Capt. HM “Howling Mad” Murdock Robert McNamara as Lt. Templeton “Face” Peck I could hardly believe it this morning when I heard it on National Public Radio. The latest in this month’s continuing PR blitzkrieg, former Cabinet members from several different Democratic and Republican…
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Denny Hastert (R-IL) has his problems, along with all the other rascals that accepted Abramoff-tainted fundage. One of the more prominent names on the list is Senator Harry Ried, (D-NV). He accepted tribal money and claims he doesn’t know Abramoff from Adam. Chicago Tribune | Abramoff’s plea renews focus on Hastert’s ’03 casino letter Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader in the Senate, and Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) also were among recipients of large contributions from tribes represented by Abramoff. Asked about Abramoff, Reid told the Las Vegas Sun, “I don’t know him. I don’t want to know…
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Chicago Tribune | Computer failure disrupts United flights worldwide Hee hee! I’m on SABRE. However, this impacted us anyway, because no record locators were coming back on our bookings, and we couldn’t issue tickets on UA. So they had to issue a blanket fare waiver today, and we had to issue tickets and store the fare manually. Which was a bummer, but hee hee! SABRE makes that kind of thing easy.
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Via: Flickr Title: Broken news and hearts By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 4 Jan ’06, 8.14pm PST
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Angry passengers sue after plane delay – Yahoo! News BERLIN (Reuters) – Six German airline passengers who said they were being held against their will on an aircraft stuck on the runway for hours during a snowstorm have filed “false imprisonment” charges, German police said Saturday. The passengers filed charges against the pilot of a British Airways Berlin-London flight that sat on the runway for seven hours before it could take off, a federal police spokesman said. The general consensus around here is if an airline can at least push back, they get paid. Otherwise, if the flight continues to…
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Remember Vice President Cheney’s “surprise” trip to Iraq in December? He gave a speech then in a thinly veiled attempt to cheerlead the troops into believing that everything was just fine and they were risking their lives for the right cause. However, it didn’t work out quite as he intended. He was peppered with rather tough, serious questions in a round-table discussion, and during his speech it was clear he was working a tough room when he got to the sure-fire, killer sound bite designed for maximum network impact: Star-Telegram | 12/19/2005 | Cheney talks of progress in Iraq Shouts…
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It’s so dark outside, and it’s 11 o’clock in the morning! And naturally, I’m stuck at work while David has one more day off. To add to the kvetchfest, my lunch is later than usual today and the cafeteria will probably be closed anyway, so I’ll have to go off-site. Meanwhile, it’s very foggy and socked in and rainy, and it’s washed almost completely away the memory of bright sunshine. Yuck. Bleargh.
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Mmmmmm. That was some good chicken! I started here, and made the Lemon Chicken with Garlic version. We didn’t mess around with making sauce from the pan drippings; an ill-considered decision to bung portobello mushrooms into the pan too early resulted in fragrant, flavorful charcoal in the bottom of the roasting pan. However, the chicken turned out to be delicious and juicy, with crispy skin and tons of herby flavor goodness. In addition to which, we made yummy latkes!! MMMMMMMMMMM!! We pretty much followed the recipe for Shirley Edelman’s Latkes to the letter: Shirley Edelman’s Latkes 5 large potatoes, peeled…
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British bloggers are risking a lot by getting this information out. In my own modest way, I have to help. I ran across this at Boing Boing: Ignoring UK Ban, bloggers publish leaked torture memos The following is from a speech former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray gave in York last February, after he’d been sacked for speaking out and before the Foreign Office’s attempt to censor his forthcoming book about his experience. The telegrams are quoted in full and there are graphic descriptions of torture, carried out in the name of “democracy” and “freedom” and “the war on…
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Michigan man bowls third 300 game of life, then dies PORTAGE, Mich. (AP) – He rolled the third perfect game of his life and then collapsed and died at the bowling alley. Sixty-nine-year-old Ed Lorenz bowled a 300 in his first game last night at Airway Lanes in Portage. In the middle of his second game, he clutched his chest and fell over. Efforts to revive him failed. Mom’s a good bowler – just don’t give her any ideas.