Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Stuff below the fold

StrategyPage says the Army will finally allow BDU's to be designed with women in mind.

Yeah.about time. When I was in the National guard 30 years ago, being pear shaped, I always wore a Medium shirt and a XXL pants, so the pockets were over my knees ...

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USAToday has an article on how bodyscanning lobbiests got a lot of dough for their companies by selling the idea to the gov't.

I think what is angering the US public is that they screen obviously honest people just so they don't get sued for keeping suspiciously acting people spouting hatred of American in Arabic, like the American hating "praying immans", off planes.


in a related item, in the UKMail, a Muslim scholar dares to point out the problem: It's the Saudis spreading a rigidly hateful form of Islam.
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Things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.Link
Electricity, hot water, and...wifi.
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You heard about direct to disk movies? Now try direct to Amazon...cutting out the cost of the middlemen.
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And the Scottish kilt authorities are trying to order men to go against tradition and use underware, provoking outrage from the traditionalists, but they found one unexpected supporter:

Highlands and Islands Tory MSP Jamie McGrigor, who campaigned for the introduction of a Scottish Tartan Register, said: "I have normally worn underwear with my kilt. In the West Highlands, midges can mount alarming and unexpected attacks on so-called true Scotsmen."

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