LEAKED: Taped conversation between thwarted shoe bombers
Thu Feb 09, 2006 at 04:24:31 PM PDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
- U.S. President George W. Bush disclosed new details on Thursday of a thwarted al Qaeda plot to use shoe bombs to hijack a plane and fly it into a Los Angeles building, as he sought to justify his tactics in fighting terrorism.
With critics questioning the legality of his authorisation of a domestic spying program, Bush used newly declassified details of a previously revealed plot to show that the threat of terrorism has not abated.
Below the fold, a shocking wiretapped conversation between two of these bombers as they plotted to crash a jetliner into the former Library Building in Los Angeles. [For obvious reasons of confidentiality, I cannot disclose my source.]
Meta-diary; Tweaking the recommends?
Sun Mar 20, 2005 at 03:55:35 PM PDT
Not having as much time lately to dig past the recommended diary list and through the new diaries I had a thought; does anyone know if it's possible to change the code to show next to a diary's title how many recommends it has at any given time, just as it does with the number of comments below the title?
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How many Kossians does it take to change a lightbulb?
Sun Feb 13, 2005 at 09:06:23 AM PDT
(Okay, I'm stealing this from my industry board, but it was funny and sometimes we need a good laugh)
So, how many does it take?.....
Giggles below the fold . . .
Ohio, frontpagers and piranhas
Sun Jan 02, 2005 at 05:43:01 PM PDT
Years ago I had a roommate with several piranha. We didn't own a TV, so weekly live feeding time was a form of entertainment for us. One of the things I noticed was the presence of a strict pecking order. The largest, and I assume the group's "alpha" piranha,
always had to make the first strike. What stood out to me though was when the alpha piranha wasn't as hungry as the rest and was thus reluctant to make the opening kill the other piranha wouldn't go around the pecking order and kill their own, they would literally start taking bites out of the alpha piranha until he started the feeding.
And now I'm seeing the same dynamic between Kossians and the Front Pagers over the Votergate2004 issues.
I've switched. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Wed Nov 03, 2004 at 03:29:18 PM PDT
The Republicans are obviously superior in both numbers and cause, and their agenda should no doubt be a boon to human kind, so there's obviously only one thing left to do at this point. Convert. Therefor, in an act of supreme solidarity to our new national conservative alliance, I would like to say, they're right. I'm ready to sign up.
