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APPALL-O-METER
by Dave Mulcahey
They Hate Our Freedom 7.5
The odd stun-gun, knife collection or loaded pistol may slip past
the vigilant security professionals at our nation�s airports, but not
so our most dangerous internal enemies.
Nancy Oden, an official of the Green Party USA who has helped
organize anti-war protests, was seized at an airport in Bangor,
Maine before she could board an American Airlines flight to
Chicago.
According to Counterpunch, military personnel armed with
automatic weapons surrounded Oden as she tried to get on the
plane, saying that her name had been �flagged in the computer.�
They then advised other airlines that Oden was forbidden to fly
until further notice.
Making Lemonade 5.4
Lloyd�s, the London-based insurance giant, estimates that the
attacks on the World Trade Center will cost it nearly $2 billion.
And its �names,� the investors who back Lloyd�s risks with their
own assets, are being asked to pony up about $360 million.
So, are bowler-hatted toffs blowing their brains out in Belgravia?
No, sir. According to a report by the BBC, a newsletter for the
Association of Lloyd�s Members is forthrightly bullish. �Names
may now have a historic opportunity for profitable underwriting,�
the newsletter gushes. All the fear and uncertainty that followed
the attacks should only bolster �one of the strongest markets in
living memory.�
Aviation premiums, the publication notes with satisfaction, were up
400 to 600 percent as a result of the attack, and aviation war
rates were hiked by 1,400 percent.
A Proper Dust-Up 4.7
It took some out-of-the-box persuasion, but the Doubting
Thomases at the Sallie Mae Loan Corporation have finally
gotten the point. They had been dunning a bereaved mother for
months, trying to collect payments on $35,000 in student loans
owed by her dead son. Owed, that is, while he was alive. The
deceased, God rest his soul, died in May of a drug overdose.
His mother tried unsuccessfully for months to impress this
unfortunate fact on Sallie Mae�s bureaucracy.
Finally, in frustration she mailed a sample of the young man�s
ashes to the company�s office. The dusty missive touched off a
rolling freak-out at Sallie Mae�s Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
office, according to The Associated Press. Certain they had been
anthraxed, company officials called in the police and haz-mat
teams, and several employees had themselves tested for
contamination.
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