Yesterday I was flipping through the radio stations looking for some news on the Alito vote, and came across KDKA Pittsburgh, 1020 on your AM dial.The local Rush Limbaugh, Fred Hansberger to my surprise had a very interesting guest on talking about how the Super Bowl is not as safe as it is being said to be. His guest was a lawyer from the Detroit area by the name of Debbie Schussel, and the subject seemed to get stuck the fact that she on her blog the day before reported from what she says are reliable sources, "that a bomb was found on a Northwest plane, a little over a week and a half ago. Ms. Schussel, told the Hanns that she got this information from some of her contacts in the Detroit law inforcement. Read on>>>
According to the report on her site
DebbieSchlussel.com,
Sources say that a week ago, Thursday or Friday, a bomb inside a small black box was found on a departing Mesaba Airlines flight, after passengers had boarded (Mesaba is a commuter airline that partners with Northwest Airlines on connections). The bomb, found on a seat, contained shrapnel and ball-bearings, the sources said. Reportedly, passengers were deplaned after the device was found.
Northwest declined comment right away, but did send this e-mail to Ms. Schlussel:
From: Sent: Fri 1/27/2006 4:31 PM
To: Ramsay, Scott B [Northwest Airlines Security]
Cc:
Subject: Re: Suspicious Item on board XJ Flight 3521 in DTW 18JAN06 Scott,
FYI
Wayne County determined it was not a threat. They tracked down the inbound passenger and found that it was part of a young kid's science project for his school.
Regards,
Director of Safety, Security and Emergency Management
Mesaba Airlines
The next communication is from an Air Marshal to Ms. Schussel:
I trust NWA [Northwest Airlines] to give me the truth...not. DTW [Detroit] is as porous as it can be. We search every plane that we get on no matter how long it has sat. Then the crew are like, "Nobody has access to the plane but crew, cleaners and caterers." Riiight. Caterers and cleaners with names like Habib, Jamal, Rafiq....
So if this is correct, we can see that the Millions that have been dumped into the airlines for your safety, with your tax dollars, has done absolutely nothing to improve the way in which safety is handled. Is the government asking for an attack, are they just in a slumber?
Speaking of attacks [on our intelligence], the tape from the #2 man in Al Qaeda seems to come at another convenient. Just at the time when the media has been reporting that the (P)Resident will be pushing the need for the strengthening the tools to fight the terrorist. Of course these tools that he is pushing, and you will probably here a lot of tonight in the State of The Union address are, The renewal of The Patriot Act, and the ability to listen in on grama giving you her cookie recipes.
Bye-Bye Rights
Edward Kennedy Massachuset senior senator, delivered a powerful ad-lib speech yesterday about the Alito nomination,
Alito vote
"If you are concerned and you want a justice that is going to stand for the working men and women in this country, it's not going to be Judge Alito," Kennedy roared as tourists in the visitors' gallery leaned forward for a better view.
Kennedy could have not stated that any better, while maybe he could have said, that Alito has shown that he stands for full executive power, shoot to kill policies, and that women should not have any say over their own body. As I pointed out in yesterdays
Diary. I went more in-depth on
Jan,28-06.
I would like to explain that one of the reasons we catch so much grief when we bring these sort of things to the forefront. The thing that people don't understand is that you won't see effects right away, they are implemented over time and it eats from the inside-out.
Anyway, we now see that the true colors of the people that swore that would represent our best interest, don't care a damn bit about the country or the people in it. As it was put to me yesterday by a person in chat, "If the Democrats want to act like Republicans, then we will start voting for real republicans." Of course these types of things are said out of frustration, seeing as there is no viable third party, and the most of the Democrats will go to the side they think will get them the votes.