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11.12.2001 13:23
Odd Todd
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11.12.2001 13:21
Plane Crash
Another tragedy hits New York City. This morning, an American Airlines plane crashed into Rockaway, Queens, reportedly narrowly missing a school, but slamming into a residential neighborhood. I heard it on NPR first, and called Rainer from the car. The plane was bound for Santo Domingo in the Dom Rep, and seeing that was formerly his route to the island, I thought it would be big news for him. While everything can have things “read into” them these days, it does seem odd enough not to be a coincidence in this terror-filled age, but I am guessing that it was a mechanical failure, not terrorism.
I am going to use the cnn-ping factor as a gauge of the amount of tragedy in a given day though. If cnn.com loads like a bullet, then it’s a boring news day. If it builds like quicksand, then there is news to report and something is going on in the world.
They are estimating no survivors. 255 aboard.
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11.12.2001 11:49
Hiking
Ben and I went to Mt. Rainier again for the day on Sunday. This time no skiing, just a 5-mile hike along Rampart Ridge. It was a nice hike; exhausting enough on the switchbacks up, steep enough on the knees down, to be worthwhile. It is one of the few loop hikes in the park, so you don’t have to repeat the trail up and down. If you go, start heading left out of Longmire Lodge, otherwise the upswing will kill you. The weather wasn’t great, one of those days where the sky was rather indistinguishable from the snow of the mountain, and it threatened to rain pretty much the whole time we were walking, but it held off until the ride home. But then, it poured all the way home, through the bumper-to-bumper strip-mall-hell of Puyallup. What is up with Puyallup anyway? What a horrible town, and a pretty horrible name, and a perfectly disgusting website too.
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11.06.2001 12:33
Wordplay
So, on NPR this morning these was a story about a German truck driver being stopped at the border to Italy at a truck scale, his truck full of wine barrels, and detained on suspicion of carrying bombs because the word “laden” was on his manifest. Evidently, the Italian police officer hadn’t seen many German manifests before. No, …Worde ge-Laden… is not Osama’s brother, worde geladen means “was loaded”. Laden means loaded in German.
Simple mistake or are we all just a little too paranoid these days ? !
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10.31.2001 09:59
One Word:
pathetic
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10.28.2001 20:56
Day-o! (My friend Todd sent this too me; twisted, but really funny!)
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10.28.2001 20:50
Driving
So, after 12 straight days of rain, we awoke on this first day of switching the clocks back, to beautiful sunny (foggy) skies. With all this rain in the lowlands, the mountains got a thorough dumping, so we decided to go to Mt. Rainier for a bit of skiing. It was a phenomenal day, and the conditions at Paradise were wonderful. I was even warm with my ski gear on. The driving was a bit slick (read: should have had snow tires), but we didn’t end up in the ditch, thanks to Ben’s great driving. Here are some pictures. Of-course, Mini-Maus came along too.
So strange to think that I was just picking the last tomatoes out of the garden yesterday and that we were playing in snow today.
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10.24.2001 15:37
Guns on Planes
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not advocating any terrorist activities, but doesn’t this seem messed up? The terrorists supposedly brought box cutters on the doomed September 11 planes… at the time, this was legal. Now, this man “accidentally” brought a gun on board a plane -- which is illegal during the best of times -- and he isn’t even getting a wrist slap? One hundred bucks says that he is blond and from Iowa.
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10.22.2001 10:17
More Kat Commentary
I heard the other day as a footnote on an NPR story that the leaders of all European countries met, and one of the things that they discussed was the possible development of a pan-European police force and way to issue European-wide arrest warrants. Now coupling this with the fact that many of them are already sharing the Euro (with some exceptions), and already have some European cultural ministries, wouldn’t having this arrest law lead to a federal type system and having European police really just lead to a United State of Europe? Loose as a federal system might be, I think that they would have it hard pressed to make pan-European laws work. Can you image the drug-liberal Dutch mixing with the hard-nosed Germans on those type of laws or marriage and domestic partnership laws between Sweden and Italy?
I know that I am extrapolating a lot here, given that there are different laws in different US states too, but I can see this leading to inter-European problems than solutions, albeit “peaceful” problems.
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10.19.2001 10:29
Watch Mr. Bush dance! The aerobics are very funny too.
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