I Just Sent US Air a Little Love Note

You can, too, if the feeling moves you.

I’d like to send you all my support for both your flight and ground crews, and your corporate officers concerning the recent brouhaha with the ‘flying imams’. I don’t care if they’re green, white, black, orange, purple or puce ~ if someone disrupts a flight at any stage, I want to know that the safety of the passengers is first and foremost on the crew’s mind and NOT the sensibilities of those doing the disrupting. I want assurances that the crew won’t hesitate to act in the best interests of ALL the passengers.
You all did so and I thank you. You have also stalwartly supported the actions taken by your crew and I thank you for that. Well done.

Global Warming

…Bangla-cola style.

Tonight
Clear and cold. Record lows in the mid 20s inland… except in the upper 20s along the coast. Inland…north winds around 5 mph. Along the coast…north winds around 10 mph.

I feel a fossil fuel fire comin’ on…

And I’ll Bet You All Thought

…it was just about goats…

I am a paranormal researcher and investigator in northeast Ohio. My first book, ‘Haunted Cuyahoga’, is only the beginning!!

I think we need a new category ~

The Secret Lives of Swillers: REVEALED!!

BREAKING NEWS

MSNBC is reporting that John Bolton has resigned as our U.N. ambassador.
Well, pooh.
Ah, the AP has a link.

Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his recess appointment expires soon, the White House said Monday.

Dear

…God.

THERE it is, sitting behind the bar of the East Village’s Double Down Saloon – an unlabeled vodka bottle in which three bloated strips of bacon stand at attention looking like a med-school project gone awry. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing a binge too far, the final olive-covered straw, the drink that leaves us shaken, anger stirred: the Bacon Martini.

When Imams Fly

Air marshals, pilots and security officials yesterday expressed concern that airline passengers and crews will be reluctant to report suspicious behavior aboard for fear of being called “racists,” after several Muslim imams made that charge in a press conference Monday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Six imams, or Muslim holy men, accused a US Airways flight crew of inappropriately evicting them from a flight last week in Minneapolis after several passengers said the imams tried to intimidate them by loudly praying and moving around the airplane. The imams urged Congress to enact laws to prohibit ethnic and religious “profiling.”
Federal air marshals and others yesterday urged passengers to remain vigilant to threats.
“The crew and passengers act as our additional eyes and ears on every flight,” said a federal air marshal in Las Vegas, who asked that his name not be used. “If [crew and passengers] are afraid of reporting suspicious individuals out of fear of being labeled a racist or bigot, then terrorists will certainly use those fears to their advantage in future aviation attacks.”
But Rabiah Ahmed, spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said Muslims “have to walk around on eggshells in public just because we don’t want to be misconstrued as suspicious. You have to strike a balance between legitimate fears which people may have, but not allow passengers to have so much discretion that they can trigger a process that would violate a traveler’s basic civil rights.”

“Violating a traveler’s basic rights” would include hijacking or blowing their airplane up, too, right? So I think safety and following the rules (or else…) trumps CAIR’s pitiful whining. Especially over six assholes who brought that unwelcome ‘attention’ on themselves. People would have been reporting K-Fed if he’d acted like that. Matter of fact, he’s the poster child for profiling ~ as soon as you see him you think ‘SCUMBAG‘.

My brain doesn’t automatically flash “terrorist” when I see a fuzzy cleric or the 7-11 Pakistani guy. I don’t start thinking that way until they get unruly on my airplane.
So in the spirit of the Friday FO thread, I nominate CAIR.
Via LGF.

On This Day 51 Years Ago

…the lady kept her seat.