Posted on 08/09/2006 10:17:04 PM PDT by gary_b_UK
A major terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight has been disrupted by police, Scotland Yard says.
It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on board aircraft in hand luggage.
During the night, police arrested a number of people in London after a counter-terrorist operation they said had lasted several months.
Police believe the attacks would have been particularly targeted at flights from the UK to the US.
The Department for Transport said security at all UK airports has been increased.
Passengers on all flights will not be allowed to take any hand luggage on to any flights in the UK.
Only the barest essentials - including passports and wallets - will be allowed to be carried on board in transparent plastic bags.
Time to be nicer to the Muslims.
They might make it...I bet there are some cancellations today
No on likes war...But if the Dems think that either myself, my daughter or grandaughter are going to wind up wearing a Burga, they're NUTS!!
As far as Hillary, she could REALLY care less about the military OR the war. She wants the money for social programs or You and Me. We work for a living.
Her history betrays her.
The LAX security lines are U-G-L-Y.
But that is normal
Their moonbat base is insisting that Bush timed these events in London because of the Lamont win.
First UK flight arriving at Newark (Continental)
Delays are very long...overcrowding at Heathrow. They may need to cancel flights to control the crowds...
Haven't spoken to the Sofalad who is in the Cotwolds, and due to fly out on Sunday...
Plenty of truth to that. Difficult times, indeed.
About to get much more difficult.
I have always found them an easy target. Just aim for that red butt sticking up in the air.
From my impoverished childhood I recall playing patty cake and mother singing itsy bitsy spider and other games and songs of the imagination that only required one's voice and hands. Like "here's the church, here's the steeple, open the doors and here are all the people."
Maybe you'd better learn a dozen or more of these songs and bare hand games and the ancient art of story telling without a golden book.... just for emergencies.
My mother was coping with a daughter who needed distracting from the pain of recurring ear infections in the middle of the night, not a bored child.
When we were bored, she'd give us paper to draw on or throw us outside to explore the nature all around us and play games like hide and seek, but you definitely won't have those options on a plane at 40,000 feet.
On long drives with my husband before we could afford a CD player, I used to sing songs to him. Or we'd prattle on about some subject and get so interested we'd sometimes miss the turn.
There were the bus trips to Bible camp, and the counsellors would have us singing "Row, row, row your boat" in rounds, and "I love to go a wandering along the mountain track, and as I go I love to sing, my knapsack on my back. Valderee, valdero, valderee, valder rah ha ha ha ha, etc...." and at church there was "John Jacob Finkleheimer Schmidt, his name is my name, too. Whenever we'd go out the people'd always shout There goes John Jacob Finkleheimer Schmidt. Ta dah, ta da da da da da...."etc.
At school there were all the old patriotic songs, like America the Beautiful; This land is your land, this land is my land; etc.
And then there is the Little rabbit song done with gestures and at each resinging the one line is sung only mouthed without sound and only the gesture is used, with another line dropped at each repetition until the whole song is done in pantomine..
Little rabbit in the wood (hands flopping on head to simulate rabbit ears)
Little man by the window stood (hand over eyes simulating searching while head is turning back and forth)
Saw the rabbit hopping by (hands in fists to simulate rabbit feet hopping forward)
Then knocking at his door. (one fist knocking rythmically at imaginary door)
Help me! Help me! Help, he cried (hands both side head frantically gesturing out for help or like pulling out hair, with eyes wide open and frightened)
Afor the hunter shoots me dead (simulate machine gun straffing back and forth)
I'm just simply filled with dread. (paws under chin, head nodding back and forth with wide innocent eyed expression)
Little rabbit come inside (one hand gestures several times to come forward)
Here in safety hide. (pretend petting rabbit in your arms)
(You make the gestures of the action as outrageous and funny as possible.)
There was a world before television and gameboys and potato patch dolls, but us oldsters just recall bits and pieces.
Maybe some of us can pick up a few of the old pieces we remember.
For some reason, I don't trust Chertoff any further than I can throw the Queen Mary 2
They sure got those signs printed up fast!
Sorry to hear that - most people working in public sector services in Massachusetts are rude.... I used to live there and escaped!! In the rest of the country they are known as "Mass-holes" (especially Ted Kennedy and John "Vichy" Kerry!!)
Benadryl (diphenhydramine) and all antihistamines that cause drowsiness in children carry a substantial risk of seizures and respiratory arrest. Children have less tolerance for these drugs than adults, and even in adults the therapeutic dose and the minimal dose for major side effects are close together.
Which is why many old physicians like myself opposed making this drug over the counter. Too easy to get into major problems with a slight increase in the recommended dose.
Yes, and DHS got the rules changed nationwide in what, 5 hours?
Pretty Impressive
Did you call your brother?
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