Rondam Ramblings

Preaching the gospel of evidence, experiment and reason since 2003.

Monday, August 14, 2006

Crazy news roundup

An Alaska Airlines flight was evacuated on landing at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday after the flight crew became suspicious of a toy found on board.

A five-year-old girl's passport application was rejected because her photograph showed her bare shoulders. The contentious passport photo
Hannah Edwards's mother, Jane, was told that the exposed skin might be considered offensive in a Muslim country.


Who would have thought that it would be on the Republicans' watch that we'd see all this runaway paranoia and political correctness? Not me. Nope.
Posted by Ron at 8/14/2006 07:04:00 PM
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