Confetti is thrown out of an office window during an 'air-worthiness test' over New York's Times Square on Dec. 29 to prepare for New Year's Eve celebrations, which have been held in Times Square since 1904.
MjL => Sounds like an excuse to play to me ... they should have this figured out by now since they've been doing it for over a hundred years?
Ramat Gan, Israel: African elephants Bakbuki , left, and Noah are taken from the Ramat Gan Safari Park for the journey to their new home at a zoo in Hungary.
TSA modifies screening and in-flight security regulations: Passengers wait in a security line at Ronald Reagan National Airport, near Washington, in Arlington, Virginia on December 29, 2009. Air captains aboard U.S. flights now have discretion whether to enforce security procedures prohibiting passengers from moving around the cabin of commercial flights during the final hour of the flight. TSA has also stepped up screening procedures at airports following a thwarted terrorist attack attempt on Northwest Airlines flight 253 bound for Detroit on December 25.
MjL => The idiots ought to just admit they are clueless and give it up. So now the bomber will simply act in the first hour of the flight? They are trying to treat symptoms after the fact and not even being proactive about new things. Idiots.