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it's = abbreviated form of "it is"
It's really very simple.
Meanwhile, on NPR this am they reported that Egyptians are waging a general strike in Cairo over low wages and increased prices. Too bad Americans don't have that kind of courage. When are ordinary people going to revolt against the wholesale theft this regime and Wall St. are perpetrating on us?
Of course, the Rethugs will probably say the general strike was instigated by Al Qaeda...
Rather than let airline executives continue to run their companies into the ground, why not just nationalize them? Nationalize oil while they're at it, too.
And make sure a Rethug doesn't get anywhere near the WH for the next 100 years; we don't need anymore of the US govt being run like a business--into failure and bankruptcy by overpaid greedheads who also happen to be incompetent at anything but boosting their own paychecks.
Air travel in general is increasingly unpleasant, partly because the fascist personality type has seized control of the airports. You will line up here. You will be respectful. You will be uncomfortable. You will take off your shoes. You will surrender the battery in your cell phone. You will not talk back. You have no rights. You are chattle. You are not a human being You are a danger to the saftey of this flight. You should not make eye contact with the safety officer. And for this, travelers pay lots of money.
KLM and its US subsidiary Northwest have been like that since the 1980s with the result that regular KLM and Northwest passengers see no problem. But for the "Friendly Skies," the truth is that is the skies are no longer friendly.
What's our alternative? Private flights obviously. Not everybody lives next door to John Travolta, Florida resident and backyard pilot. Got a few extra million euro handy to buy your own plane? Raise your hand if you can afford 1st class flights. Now go sit in the elitist lounge, please. You're part of the problem.
The fingernail clippers that were allowed on several flights are suddenly confiscated. You buy an overpriced bottle of water -- AFTER you've already cleared security, and so you're buying the beverage from a cleared vendor -- and no, you can't take that on the plane either. Try to save a little money and bring a bag lunch, since many flights don't even give out pretzels anymore... and you lose that, too.
The international carriers actually have some sense, for the most part (I've been living abroad for the last two years). But in the US? You guys are being trained to live like frightened sheep.
The unalienable rights for which American patriots died two centuries ago seem to have become tragically alienable after all.
All in the name of the ILLUSION of a little temporary safety.