Thanks again Fox News

From the Fox article:

Explosive experts allegedly told MI5 that a sachet containing as little as five ounces of PETN [an explosive compound] could blow “a considerable hole” in an airline’s skin, causing it to crash.

From the Sun article:

MI5 has also discovered that extremists are inserting the explosives into the buttocks of some male suicide bombers.

Both Fox News and The Sun are, as usual, regurgitating hyped up bullshit as pointed out here in Richard Bartholomew’s blog.  Not that they were the only ones, as a quick Google search will reveal.

However surgical bombs are a theoretical possibility and challenge us again to define the line between privacy and security.

Should a surgical bomb attack ever be successful, in the ensuing hysteria would the FAA begin requiring a mandatory feel up after the pat down?

Would passengers be required to submit to a full body scan (a technology whose current effectiveness is dubious)?

Should passengers just climb on the conveyor belts with their luggage and submit to x-raying?

For almost three decades, India and Bangladesh have squabbled over ownership of a tiny, uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal.

But where threats and negotiations have failed, global warming has now apparently succeeded: the island has disappeared beneath the waves.

Original Article…

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Thunderf00t is a prodigiously active maker of anti-creationist videos on Youtube.

Long story short, Thunderf00t challenged Ray Comfort to a debate and Ray accepted. The debate was roughly an hour and a half long and the first entry is linked to here. Thunderf00t performed magnificently, deftly disassembling every argument Comfort provided.

He provided an alternative to God, (Tod), and debated Comfort into admitting the only difference between God and Tod is that God has the Bible as backup.

He provided specific instances of observed speciation. Comfort stated believed in both speciation and micro-evolution, but somehow still would not admit to believing in “Evolution”.

There are more gems, I might post a few more later. Much praise to Thunderf00t for challenging Ray Comfort, and much praise to Comfort for accepting the challenge.

Ray Comfort is too set in his beliefs to change, but it’s still refreshing to see an open debate on these subjects.

The last teaparty protest before the passing of the new healthcare bill sustains the juicy legacy of the teaparties before it.

“It’s a pitchfork. It’s made out of cardboard and it’s symbolism, symbolic. When the people get to the point where they’ve had enough, they grab their farm tools and they storm the castle.”

“I don’t think Obama believes in the Constitution”
“Even though he’s a constitutional scholar?”
“So they say”

“Fox News, everybody else is on Obama’s side”

Yes, it’s from a channel called NewLeftMedia and is not exactly unbiased. But it’s always interesting to see people earnestly regurgitating right wing bullshit. If these people weren’t voters it would be adorable, but they are so it’s a little terrifying.

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I found this here. If they credit someplace else I can’t read it, because I don’t speak terrorist.

“FRAUD” organizations are petitioners v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act.

Originally posted here.