Ordinary and Extra-Ordinary Rendition

[Griffin NoName]

Ordinary first:

I've just used the BBC's natty new London Airports handy compare old and new proposed flightpaths for landings and takeoffs.

I have learnt that the only item of interest to me is easterly flight arrivals into Stansted, the airport furthest away from me to the east (NB easterly approach flights loop around to the west).

Under the new proposal, noise which did not affect my area at all, will affect it less.

Other noise which does or does not affect me will not change.

so not spending hours filling in the complex questionnaire, which I shrewdly considered and then threw in the bin was a real saving in time for me - always look on the bright side of life

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Extra-ordinary next:

Why make a fuss (A) about re-fuelling stops on any kind of soil rather than make a real fuss (B) about why the fuss (A) is needed to be made?

Why did CR agree fuss (A) was a good fuss to make when she would oppose fuss (B) ? rhetorical

[anthrobabe]

Griffin-- sorry but who is CR? I know it's got to be initials, but can't get it.

[beagle]

Condoleeza Rice I suspect.  Big pretend fuss here over U.S. using their base on one of our Indian Ocean territories as a stopping point for torture/rendition/involuntary_Caribbean_holiday flights.

Our Foreign Secretary has to pretend to be shocked that the U.S. didn't tell us. CR in turn is shocked that CIA didn't tell her.  And of course we're all shocked the CIA might do naughty things in secret.

If they'd only said waterboarding was snowboarding for warm climates then they might have got away with it.

[Aggie]

If they'd only said waterboarding was snowboarding for warm climates then they might have got away with it.

That's wakeboarding - I grew up in a board town, both summer and winter.

[Griffin NoName]

Beagle explained it all perfectly.

[beagle]

That's wakeboarding - I grew up in a board town, both summer and winter.

I gather it's harder to fall off the board in the U.S. version. 

[Aggie]

Ayuh, but I'm not convinced that the sensation of drowning is any less intense (for beginners); waterski crashes in particular can force water into places that waterboarders (hopefully) don't have to worry about.

[pieces o nine]

Newsclips here of politicians and pundits trying to weasel around this shameful practice are (intellectual and moral) torture in themselves.

[anthrobabe]

That's wakeboarding - I grew up in a board town, both summer and winter.

I gather it's harder to fall off the board in the U.S. version. 

just another handy use for duct tape--
sigh

Po9--- I agree with you completely.