Day: August 19, 2006

Victoria’s Secret

Don’t try to bring a tiny tube of lip-moisturizing gel on board an airliner these days, or wear thin gel inserts to make your shoes more comfortable. And leave your cold and cough gel-caps at home. But, ladies and cross-dressing gents, no one will check if you wear your gel-filled bras right onto the plane. Despite the fact that these hugely popular undergarments are owned by millions worldwide, and have the capacity to carry enough liquid or gel explosives to make a terrorist smile, the Transportation Security Administration has not included them on the new list of items forbidden from carry-on baggage. When asked about the tens of millions of women who wear silicone-gel and even plain water sacks in their bras to enhance their curves, TSA spokesman Darrin Kayser said he was not aware of the wide popularity of that fashion trend.

Sen. Joe Lieberman continued retooling his campaign staff Friday, hiring a nationally known pollster and media consultant to assist in his independent re-election bid.

Eight candidates beat the deadline to vie for scandal-scarred Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record)’s congressional seat in a special election next month, including two men who lost races in the spring primary and the Republican state lawmaker Ney wants to take his place.

Texas Republican leaders, unable to replace former Rep. Tom DeLay’s name on the November ballot, sounded confident about the party’s chances of holding onto his congressional seat after they voted to support the write-in campaign of a Houston city councilwoman.

Unpopular Alaska incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski may not escape Tuesday’s Republican primary. If Murkowski is unseated, his deal to smooth the way for a $25 billion natural gas pipeline to Canada will likely go down with him.

Come 2008, Democrats don’t want their presidential candidates spending the entire month of January in high boots and barn jackets.

Even though the administration’s warrantless surveillance program is heading toward an appellate court loaded with Bush appointees, the court’s mixed record makes it difficult to predict how it will view the surveillance, lawyers said.

The Marine officer in charge of troops suspected of killing 24 Iraqi men, women and children told investigators he did not initiate an inquiry into the carnage because he did not consider the deaths unusual, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

Hezbollah fighters battled Israeli commandos who landed near the militants’ stronghold deep inside Lebanon early Saturday, killing one soldier, in the first large-scale violation of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire between the sides.