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Turkeys and Treason
By Bob Davidson, Canton
Terrorists’ Best Friend
If helping the enemies of one's country is treason, then the media is guilty.
In recent months, newspapers have reported on our government's action to censor information about such things as the location and design of air ducts and ventilation systems at critical government buildings and to remove such material from the Internet and other sources. This public warning practically invited terrorists to store the information for future use.
In the past month, the media offered rather detailed information about tests of airport security which revealed major problems: in tests of screening checkpoints by government investigators, airport screeners failed to detect 70% of knives and 30% of guns. The media quoted from "a confidential security memo" claiming that simulated explosives also slipped through checkpoints at airports; the media even mentioned some of the airports involved.
Printing this information may sell newspapers—these stories were front page news—but it may also help and encourage our enemies. This type of reporting brings aid and comfort to our enemies—not to us.
It seems to fit the definition of treason, but maybe it is just cheap commercialism.
Another Feathered Dinosaur
A new discovery in China is believed by some paleontologists to confirm their theory that dinosaurs and birds are related. I have not read the full report so I don't know exactly what the relationship was; for all I know they may have been just friends or maybe first cousins.
The three-foot fossil, about 128 million years old, could not fly even though it appears to have had mature feathers identical to those of modern birds. The authors don't spell out what they mean by "modern" bird, but I suspect them to be referring to those with satellite positioning equipment. And the use of the word "appears" leaves room for doubts. Does it or doesn’t it? The report concluded that the dinosaur was warm-blooded and needed the feathers to keep warm.
Perhaps fur was ruled out by an early animal rights group. Well, anyway, here we have a two-legged, three-foot long, feathered bird—pardon me, dinosaur—that can't fly. I don't know much about birds and even less about dinosaurs, but I'd put my money on that thing being an early ostrich—either that or the whole report is a real turkey.
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