Thursday December 30, 2004
The death toll from this tsunami continues to rise. It’s now well over 100,000 and I’ve been hearing that disease and starvation is expected to start claiming even more lives. What’s worse is that some areas are expecting more tsunamis, as a result of aftershocks. However, I’ve read that there isn’t a great deal of evidence that more will emerge; it’s more of a precautionary measure. GW got out of his hot tub for a few minutes yesterday to let everyone know that the US intends to lead the disaster relief effort. He claimed that the insultingly-low amount being pledged so far is due to the fact that damage estimates are still being calculated. Let’s hope that’s the only reason, but here’s some figures you just can’t argue with at this point.
Some jagoff purportedly in Warrensville Heights, Ohio decided to shine a laser beam into the cockpit of a Continental 737 on approach to Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Okay, so everyone recently read about the Delta pilot who suffered retina damage due to a laser hitting him in the eye. More than likely this is the work of some dipshit teenager who has no idea what the consequences of his actions would be, were he to succeed in blinding a pilot. The good news is, the FBI is on the case, and somehow they were able to trace the source of the beam, so at least they’re on the hunt now. This isn’t the only report of beams shining in cockpits lately, either. It’s becoming “all the rage!” Fucking fantastic. When one of these geniuses gets caught, I hope they sentence them to “public punching” … where everyone lines up and gets to pop ‘em one. Including Mike Tyson.
The death toll from this tsunami continues to rise. It’s now well over 100,000 and I’ve been hearing that disease and starvation is expected to start claiming even more lives. What’s worse is that some areas are expecting more tsunamis, as a result of aftershocks. However, I’ve read that there isn’t a great deal of evidence that more will emerge; it’s more of a precautionary measure. GW got out of his hot tub for a few minutes yesterday to let everyone know that the US intends to lead the disaster relief effort. He claimed that the insultingly-low amount being pledged so far is due to the fact that damage estimates are still being calculated. Let’s hope that’s the only reason, but here’s some figures you just can’t argue with at this point.
Some jagoff purportedly in Warrensville Heights, Ohio decided to shine a laser beam into the cockpit of a Continental 737 on approach to Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Okay, so everyone recently read about the Delta pilot who suffered retina damage due to a laser hitting him in the eye. More than likely this is the work of some dipshit teenager who has no idea what the consequences of his actions would be, were he to succeed in blinding a pilot. The good news is, the FBI is on the case, and somehow they were able to trace the source of the beam, so at least they’re on the hunt now. This isn’t the only report of beams shining in cockpits lately, either. It’s becoming “all the rage!” Fucking fantastic. When one of these geniuses gets caught, I hope they sentence them to “public punching” … where everyone lines up and gets to pop ‘em one. Including Mike Tyson.













