I hope this pilot gets a huge bonus:
A drunken holidaymaker has been dumped on a desert island after launching a foul-mouthed tirade at the crew of a passenger jet.
The unnamed passenger’s difficulties began on Tuesday evening at 35,000 ft when he began abusing the cabin crew of flight ZB558 from Manchester. He refused to calm down and then turned his attention to the other 210 passengers.
Eventually the pilot decided that he posed a risk to safety and had to be removed.
Rather than continue for a further 45 minutes to Tenerife he diverted his Airbus A321 to Porto Santo. Within moments of the plane touching down the passenger was escorted to the terminal. Last night he remained a castaway on the Portuguese-controlled island. His New Year home is a mere 10 miles long by three miles wide with a population of 4,000. There is little entertainment apart from walking on the sand dunes.
Simply wonderful.
Happy New Year, doofus 🙂
Well, as promised, the much-anticipated turducken was prepared for the Christmas Day dinner! I’ve waited until now to post this, as I wanted to make sure that everyone got out of the hospital.
Well, I’m dressed and ready! Let’s go…
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One thing that always sort of puzzled me is christians who don’t drink for ‘religious reasons’. I mean, Jesus brought the wine to the wedding, right? He drank wine all the time. Sure, we are commanded in Matthew (I think?) not to get drunk, and that’s on the list of non-10 Commandments commandments that I will get around to following eventually, but I can’t recall any place where He says “don’t drink.” Oh sure, He says He’s not going to drink wine anymore, but heck, He well knows that in heaven you don’t need no stinkin’ wine. And anyway, isn’t the full phrase “I won’t drink the fruit of the vine again until I drink it with you in heaven” or something like that?
Look. If you don’t drink because you don’t like the taste or the way it makes you feel, fine. I feel the same way about chocolate milk.
If you don’t drink because once you start you can’t stop and you become a slobbering obnoxoid then I’m glad you’ve made the decision to stop, but don’t blame baby Jesus.
And please don’t deny me my bottle.
We’re hosting the Carnival of NJ Bloggers this week, so all you joisy hepcats send your submissions in!
Recorded July 11th, 1918 it’s a song whose words we need to fulfill again.
And we will.
I suppose I should mention that on this post and the one below it you may not want to click if you’re on dial-up.
Last week over at Cullen’s he posted a post about some of the gorgeous wood that guitars are made out of, and, as we all know, Cullen is all about the guitar. In the comments I mentioned that I had a sugar maple in my yard that was darn-near all burl, and he asked for a picture, so take a peek below the fold…
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I failed. The woman’s an idiot.
Hopefully some of you will fare better.
This is an outrage!
JACKSON, Missouri (AP) — Nathan Warmack wanted to honor his heritage by wearing a Scottish kilt to his high school dance. Then a principal told him to change into a pair of pants.
Where are his fishnets?
Update: Alright, I’m a moron. THS posted the same story yesterday. I can only plead that the picture of me she used distracted me from actually clicking through on the link she, er, linked.
And the 3 Bourbon Manhattans I had for lunch yesterday may have played some small part in it as well.
You know, everytime that I start to think that maybe certain religious folks have too big a say in some aspects of the government some story like this comes along:
Work on the world’s first human-made species is well under way at a research complex in Rockville, Md., and scientists in Canada have been quietly conducting experiments to help bring such a creature to life…
…Government and scientific bodies in the U.S. have investigated safeguards for the new technology, given its potential to yield new pathogens as weapons of bioterror. Ethicists have raised concerns about humans altering the “nature of nature.”
But proponents feel the many benefits of redesigning micro-organisms to do human bidding far outweigh the risks…
…”I grew up doing that with cars and clocks and radios and things like that,” Dr. Venter said. “You take them apart to understand them and then you try and see if you can reassemble them.”
Holy sweet mother of (insert deity name here) does that scientist’s attitude scare the bejeebus out of me. Life. It’s just a game for some, I guess.
Of course, they might have been triplets…
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First it was menstrating blondes tormenting allegedly suspected militants in Cuba. Now comes horrific news of single Israeli girls tormenting dead rabbis:
HUNDREDS of young Israeli women hoping to find themselves a husband have been placing their underwear on the tomb of a venerated rabbi in the hopes that their marriage prayers will be answered.
When will the neo-con nightmare end?
…but is there a better columnist in the world today than Mark Steyn? Read all of today’s in the Telegraph:
So suppose we do as Mr Reimers suggests and “take a good hard look” at “racism by exclusion”. As Monday’s Australian reported: “Sydney’s western suburbs remained quiet yesterday after a call for a full day’s curfew by Lebanese community leaders. Mohammed Elriche, 19, said he and his friends would have enjoyed nothing more than their regular swim at Cronulla Beach, but their parents had asked him to stay at home.
“His parents, Eddy and Samira, who have lived in Australia since 1972, said their five children would be allowed to go to the beach again only when the ‘conflict is resolved and peace is restored’ in the Sutherland shire region. ‘If there’s no more conflict, I will let him go,’ Samira, 42, told the Australian in Arabic.”
In Arabic? Let’s suppose that Cate Blanchett got her wish and a tidal wave of tolerance washed into all those “dark corners of Australian society” taking the chill off the chilling glimpse Squires got. How are even the most impeccably diverse multicultural types supposed to welcome into the bosom of their boundlessly tolerant family a woman who prefers to speak the language of the land she left at nine? When it comes to “racism by exclusion”, who’s excluding whom?
There’s a reason my wife has told me that if Mark Steyn shows up at our front door she’ll try and remember to write occasionally…
(Thanks to Tim for the head’s up on the column)
Man, does it look yum!
There are many times when the best dinner in the world is breakfast…
On this day in 1987 I had my first date with my bride.
Sigh.
Christmas is coming!
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Alright, so Ahnold’s name is no longer on a stadium. I’m sure he’s broken up about it. What to do with the ashes of Tookie? Well, according to
Barbara Becnel, who co-authored his anti-gang books, said: ‘Tookie wanted to return to his ancestral home…”
Well, fair enough, so I imagine someone will take his ashes to Ghana, Nigeria or the Ivory Coast, where basically all of the slaves in North America came from.
Well, no:
“…We chose South Africa because I know some members of the Mandela family.'”
This is the equivalent of deciding that someone of Norwegian ancestry has an ancestral home in southern Spain. I’m sure the fact that the hotels and restaurants in South Africa beat the bejeebus out of those in Ghana played some small role in the decision…
Drudge has a link to some guy’s column asserting this. I’m not convinced. My first thought is that he’s a friggin’ gorilla, and not the kind that Ken likes, either.
But what piqued my interest was this line seemingly offered as ‘proof’ of Kong’s racist ways:
Indeed, a GOOGLE search using the words “King Kong racism” yielded 490,000 hits.
Is this the new standard of veracity, especially given Wiki-invent-o-pedia’s troubles of late? If so, then allow me to present the Bingley Racist Scale…
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George Bush’ biggest fan is Don King:
DON KING; I love George Walker Bush because I think he’s a revolutionary. He’s a president that comes in with conclusiveness. What they’re doing in tomorrow in Iraq is a demonstration of that for the vote for democracy. The fundamental process of democracy is freedom of speech, law and order, being able to have freedom, working with people and working and governing yourselves. George Bush is that. He included in…
BLITZER: Do you have any regrets supporting him? Take a look at that picture when you and I were there at the diner last year. Do you have any regrets supporting him as enthusiastically as you did?
KING: No, I don’t. In fact, I want to support him more now because it seems like everybody is punching him. You know what I mean? But he’s fighting back, and he’s throwing great combinations. And I think he’s the guy that is really a revolutionary president.
I think he’s a president that cares about the people he represents, but doesn’t compromise himself to the extent that he acquiesce and accommodate. He goes out there and says like it is, and tries to make things better. Inclusiveness, education, is fighting for that.
These are the things that many guys that don’t fight for — George Walker Bush is a tremendous advocate to America, a great president for the great American people, and he’s decisive. He’s doesn’t equivocate.
Only in America, folks. I love it.
(but you’re still a crook, Don)
I really haven’t anything to say on this that isn’t said far better by Tim. I think it’s awful.
For the past few years we’ve been hearing constantly from folks, mostly on the left, about how our essential freedoms were being eroded by the practices and policies of Bush and Blair. Oh, they’d go on about how there was a ‘chill’ in the air, how they were at risk by these neo-con fascists in bravely airing their thoughts on the evil and repressive nature of Chimpy’s jackbooted minions. And we all know how many of these brave academitions and artistes have *cough-cough* disappeared *wink-wink* shall we say into the retched gulags squirreled away in the frozen wastes where the Lileks doth play. Something on the magnitude of, um, zero, I think.
But I’m forced to admit that these folks may have a point. We’ve seen a rise in ‘hate crime’ legislation here in the States. And now there’s this from Mark Steyn about what’s happening across the pond:
So what is a “priority crime”? Well, the other day, the author Lynette Burrows went on a BBC Five Live show to talk about the government’s new “civil partnerships” and expressed her opinion – politely, no intemperate words – that the adoption of children by homosexuals was “a risk”. The following day, Fulham police contacted her to discuss the “homophobic incident”.
…As it is, Lynette Burrows has been investigated by police merely for expressing an opinion. Which is the sort of thing we used to associate with police states. Indeed, it’s the defining act of a police state: the arbitrary criminalisation of dissent from state orthodoxy.
This is the scary trend that’s going on. Curse at Bush and call him Hitler, and you get to host an MTV show. Put a crucifix in a jar of urine and you’re idolized. Make a film showing how muslim women are treated in Europe and you end up like Theo Van Gogh. Express some doubts about letting homosexuals adopt children and the police come calling.
As Steyn says
No society with an eye to long-term survival should make opinion a subversive activity. Here’s a thought: we should be able to discuss homosexuality, Islam and pretty much everything else in the same carefree way Guardian columnists damn Bush’s America as “neo-fascist”.
Words for all to consider.
I was just out walking on Water Street, getting some grub, and I saw Santa darn near get run over while he was jaywalking.
That’s why he needs the reindeer to lead him around; dang fool is blind as a bat.
*thanks for the correction, John!
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