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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Al Franken has returned from his USO tour over the massive Chrismakkuh megaholiday, and resumed live shows on AAR this morning. He and the crew have relocated to Minneapolis (which, if it’s true he’s running for the Senate, makes sense). Listen on the Web at blogs | The Al Franken Show | Air America Radio
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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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Team Deadblow Crew grant imahara, designer, machinist, financier & driver in real life: animatronics engineer and modelmaker for George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic, installed electronics in R2D2 units for Star Wars: Episode 1 and 2, and supervisor for the Energizer Bunny crew, also based out of the ILM Model Shop. Also lit the engines of the Protector and the sickly green lights of the Sarris Ship on Galaxy Quest. Occasionally portrays the “classic” gold suit C-3P0 (yes, in the suit) for charities, special appearances and commercials when Mr. Anthony Daniels is unavailable. …jamie hyneman, mechanical design in real life:…
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Insider – [TV Guide Online] The networks will all be creating exciting, innovative new spin-offs of today’s shows. Approximately 67 percent of all television will be CSI-based, including CSI: Des Moines, CSI: New York but a Different Part than Gary Sinise Is In and NCSI: SVU WKRP, which covers every possible gruesome crime with a groovin’ ’70s beat. (Jerry Bruckheimer will also have conquered Broadway with the CSI musical “FOLLICLE!” starring Nathan Lane as a frenetic but lovable blood spatter and Matthew Broderick as lint.) Lost has that one-of-a-kind alchemy that really can’t be copied. Therefore, look for the original…
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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.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them. – Hamlet’s third soliloquy Chicago Tribune | Maureen Ryan | The Watchie Awards I’ve been meaning to look up links and information on the Canadian comedy series “Slings and Arrows” for a while now. It’s been on the Sundance Channel. It’s a theatrical comedy, with wit and barbs as sharp as rapiers (“Buttons OFF!”). The main character is Geoffrey, an actor…