Bob Collins breaks the story

And a few moments ago, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a news release detailing a puzzling lapse by a Northwest Airlines flight crew over Minneapolis yesterday: On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at 5:56 pm mountain daylight time, an Airbus A320, N03274, operating as Northwest Airlines (NWA) flight 188, became a NORDO (no radio communications) flight at 37,000 feet.

The flight was operating as a Part 121 flight from San Diego International Airport, San Diego, California (SAN) to MSP with 147 passengers and unknown number of crew.

At 7:58 pm central daylight time (CDT), the aircraft flew over the destination airport and continued northeast for approximately 150 miles. The MSP center controller reestablished communications with the crew at 8:14 pm and reportedly stated that the crew had become distracted and had overflown MSP, and requested to return to MSP.

Now, we could wait for a rational or reasonable explanation OR we could speculate wildy.

I think you know which I prefer.

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I’m pretty excited to be writing for Ye Ole Metroblogs again. It’s been a few years and I’ve actually moved into Minneapolis since the last time I wrote here. There are many o’ things to write about now, compared to my sordid history in Eagan and Burnsville. Don’t be shy, though – South of the River Represent!

I gotta tell ya, though. I stopped reading this site for a long time because it got to the point where everyone hated everything and finding original content was about as likely as Michelle Bachmann marching in the Pride parade next year. It’s improved immensely since those authors parted ways. And don’t worry – I couldn’t tell you who those authors were if I wanted to. I just know I haven’t wanted to slit my wrists when reading the posts here over the past several months.

But you know what I have wanted to do? Comment on some posts. Seems I can’t do that from work, though, as my IT Guy and the firewall he uses seem to think it’s Pornography. Other cities aren’t nearly as dirty as Minneapolis, at least according to SonicWall. Denver and Pittsburgh seem to talk about far less pornographic things.

David made me sign a blood oath and commit to writing 1-3 posts per week. Here’s one. I can guarantee the other ones won’t happen during business hours, but that’s about all the guarantees I’m going to make.

*I totally looked that up in my kid’s Spanish-English dictionary.

(photo Uploaded on September 15, 2009 by Opheliac9 )

This weekend while in a powermad rage fueled by ether and wild animal phermones I had most of the old Metblogs authors purged from the site.

BWAHAHAHAHAAA MUahhAAAAAA HA!

I would have also had them sent to Siberia, but upon consutling my Counsel it appears I do not have the authority to banish. Yet.

That said, I’d like to thank them for all their interesting contributions and hard work and perhaps we’ll again share a space in the Internets. (or Siberia)

Now, once again, I am recruiting authors. If you’re interested or know of someone that would be a good fit, shoot me a DM me on Twitter, email The Tempestlargo @ yahoo .com, or for a good time call . . .

Lastly, but certainly not leastly, I’d like to welcome new authors Ashley and Twodolla.

Twodolla aka Wendy has actually written for Metblogs in the past while Ashley says she’s up to the challenge and promises to keep the extreme drinking and petty thievery to a minimum.

I’m looking forward to both of their posts.

By the way, has anyone seen my wallet?

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Vikings: MOA buys naming rights to Metrodome field

The Minnesota Vikings and the Mall of America announced Thursday that MOA has bought the naming rights for the field in at the Metrodome for the next three years.

The field will be called Mall of America Field, and MOA will brand the dome’s exterior and interior signage and other promotional materials. … The MOA naming rights begin on gameday between the Green Bay Packers and the Vikings, who host the Packers for Monday Night Football on Oct. 5.

Do you know what this place needs?

A nickname!

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Only in Wisconsin. It’s reported that Western Wis. bar plans charity Favre burn

The Milwaukee Burger Co. says patrons can bring in their Favre jerseys, pictures, posters and memorabilia and toss them into the barrel. The bar plans to donate $10 to an unspecified charity for each piece burned

Though, a quick search of a Wisconsin Gov’t website shows

Smoke from burning garbage stinks, can trigger asthma attacks and contains toxic compounds. Open burning of household solid wastes also is illegal with limited exceptions For example, it is illegal to burn all plastic materials, kitchen wastes, dirty or wet paper wastes, treated or painted wood, furniture and demolition material – or any other material that creates a nuisance. The exceptions include (if not prohibited by local ordinance) lawn and garden debris, small quantities of clean, untreated, unpainted wood and clean paper waste that is not recyclable

It then goes on to suggest Alternatives

Reuse: Reuse household items and give toys, clothes and furniture that you no longer want or need to someone who can use them.

Recycle: It’s the law in Wisconsin to recycle plastic, glass, metal, newspaper and cardboard. Take your recyclables to the recycling center closest to your house if there is no roadside recycling pick-up.

So unless the Favre pictures, posters and memorabilia are made out of clean paper and don’t have any plastic they cannot be burned by law. Also, it appears that burning clothing may also be against the law.

Why can’t this stuff be given to a charity that will reuse and recycle?

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Don’t post video of Fight Club on Youtube

Wright County authorities are investigating an underground teenagers’ fight club in Monticello that sent at least one fighter to the hospital a week ago.

“We’ve heard of fights before, but nothing organized like this, where they put a video on YouTube,” said Lt. Todd Hoffman, a Wright County sheriff’s deputy. “We just want to put a stop to it before somebody is severely injured.”

A clip of the fight, subsequently taken down, was briefly posted online, he said.

I thought kids these days were raised to believe that everyone is a winner?

Just a little something I found on The Twitters.

Our very own Metblogs Author, Art Allen, as illustrated by former Metblogs author Donavon Cawley.

It seems this was the weekend for Minnesota teams to get all Wizard of Oz on the world as the Gophers played the Golden Bears, the Twins played the Detroit Tigers, and the Vikings played the Detroit Lions.

I owe the connection and headline entirely to this tweet by FreshMn and @amycrea.

As you know the results shake out like this, Twins still behind, Favre hurt his fingernail, and the Gophers had a tough opponent that took it to them.

As you may not know there is a rift in the Mn sports community as to what the Gopher’s new TCF Stadium should be called; the two main nicknames seem to be “The Bank” and “The Vault”.

Here’s how I see it, if the team is going to metaphorically match the nickname as “The Bank” they would need to go big on Offense and as “The Vault” the would want to be stingy on Defense.

It seems the Football Captains want to name it Awesome

What do you think?

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Need something to do this weekend?

Well come to St.Paul and enjoy Concrete and Glass a three day music festival that is my favorite price, FREE! It has a little of everything: classical, hip hop, rock, there’s even a cello and drum quartet.

If that doesn’t float your boat you can always check out Solid Gold at the Turf Club on Saturday, I hear they’ll be playing new material.

Just to get you in the mood for some Mn music, here’s the lovely Dessa and friends.

What’s in your shuffle?

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Come on, it had his Van Halen, a wig, and some shades.

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