[justlurking]

I don’t jump hops to sniped articles.

Then you shouldn't be asking people to read it for you.

A suggestion: use Firefox, with the AdBlock Plus plug-in. Blog pimping is worthless with that -- your browser won't ever request the embedded ads, and no one gets paid.

Anyway, here's the original article:

http://nycaviation.com/2010/12/american-airlines-crew-detained-in-venezuela-after-making-hugo-chavez-joke-over-pa/

FWIW, the source is a US Embassy report, courtesy of WikiLeaks.

[a fool in paradise]

There was no reason to not include the most relevant detail in the “news” item.

It’s a tease. Like when the news station says “are you sitting on a timebomb?!! tune it at 10pm to find out!”.

I will make the hop to read the rest of an EXCERPTED article, this was just a come on and does not deserve the extra “clicks”.