It has certainly been a busy news day.

The story of the diverted United Airlines flight took up a good part of the day. Here’s the latest:

Two fighter jets were scrambled Wednesday to escort a London-to-Washington flight to an emergency landing in Boston after a disturbance in which passengers said a woman in a jogging suit paced up and down the aisle, peppering her incoherent mutterings with the word “Pakistan.”

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Gov. Mitt Romney said the 59-year-old woman was from Vermont and became so claustrophobic and upset that she needed to be restrained. The
FBI in Boston said the woman, a U.S. citizen, was arrested on charges of interfering with a flight crew.

Passengers said two plainclothes men on board and flight attendants ran up the aisle and tackled the petite woman, slamming her into the bathroom door, throwing her to the ground and putting her in handcuffs, passengers said.

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The woman was to remain in federal custody overnight and was expected to be charged in a federal criminal complaint early Thursday, the U.S. attorney and FBI said in a joint statement. The statement did not elaborate on specific charges expected, except to say there was no evidence the incident was related to terrorism.

Fortunately in this case nothing happened. William Teach at Pirate’s Cove points out the Janus-like thinking of the left.

Got that? This was all some sort of conspiracy. We should never take any sort of terrorist threats seriously. So a woman has some issues on a plane. Nothing to worry about.

Did I mention that the flight originated from London and was headed to Washington?

Yet, had something happened, the Leftards would have been pitching fits in apoplectic rage, blaming Bush for doing nothing.

Exactly. And exactly why they can not be trusted with our security.

Somewhat related is the story out of Seattle, Washington.

Authorities evacuated dozens of workers and set up a half-mile perimeter around part of the city’s port Wednesday after bomb-sniffing dogs indicated that two shipping containers from Pakistan could contain explosives.

Customs agents used a “gamma-ray” device at Terminal 18, south of downtown, to peer through the containers’ steel walls and detected some items inside did not match the containers’ manifest, agency spokesman Mike Milne said.

The containers were then subjected to the dogs, which raised concerns about explosives. A bomb squad that searched the containers found nothing dangerous.

At this time they are still investigating the circumstances out there.

Finally there is the news that a suspect has been arrested in the nearly 10 year old JonBenet Ramsey case.

Federal officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the suspect as John Mark Karr, a 42-year-old American, and one law enforcement official told The Associated Press that Boulder police had tracked him down online.

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A source close to the investigation said Karr confessed to elements of the crime. Also, a law enforcement source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the AP that Karr had been communicating periodically with somebody in Boulder who had been following the case and cooperating with law enforcement officials.

A busy news day, indeed.

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GOP Bloggers (Jonathan R.) Congressional GOP Again Displays Gross Incompetence — “Instead of using substantive issues on which the Republican position enjoys a clear advantage among the American people, the GOP scrambles to vote on disparate and mostly symbolic issues in an ad hoc fashion with no guiding principles and no cohesive agenda or vision. The latest is a vote to raise the federal minimum wage, which is irrelevant to most families and a job-killer.”

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Shooter In Seattle — “Some may start thinking about those Hezbollah sleeper cells that Hassan Nasrallah threatened to unleash against the West, but it’s an extremely unlikely explanation for this incident. If this initial report is accurate, it looks much more like a lone nutcase taking out his bigotry in a violent manner. Hezbollah would not waste a sleeper agent on an attack of this type, with so few potential victims. When Hezbollah strikes, they aim for maximum damage, as they did in Buenos Aires when they killed over eighty people at a Jewish center. This sounds much more similar to the wannabe jihadi in North Carolina earlier this year.”

TMH’s Bacon Bits (DL) The Coming GOP Battle Is a Good Thing — “What they won’t forgive the GOP for, is becoming exactly like ultra liberals when it comes to protecting this country’s borders and forcing another major amnesty and meltdown of the very idea of a sovereign nation.”

Ankle Biting Pundits (Bomb Truck) Cindy Sheehan’s Land Purchase Was A Con Job — “Not that anyone here would be shocked to read this, but it looks like “Saint” Cindy had to use some questionable practices to get ahold of her 5 acres in Crawford, and the natives are restless over it. KXXV.com reports that a local moonbat who sold Mother Sheehan the 5 acres in question lied to the sellers about his reasons for buying the land:”

Right Truth (Debbie) United Nations makes demands of Israel and remains useless [Absolutely the best headline for a story I have seen today! Jim] — “Maybe we should demand the United Nations pack up their bags and go set up shop with some of these terror groups, since they seem to side with them most of the time. Anyone ready to make some demands of the UN???”