DISQUS

sukabi · 1 year ago

so would it be unreasonable to think that all this "laxness" with regards to airline safety was in hopes of some "misfortune" to befall a few planes that could then be blamed on "terrorists", in furtherance of their constitution shredding?

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

A week ago I was getting ready to make flight arraignments to fly to Dallas today; I decided it was too close to my son's first child's birth and decided against it. The flight I would have taken was one of those canceled. I am so glad I didn't hit submit.

FunMe · 1 year ago

Congrats Karol on your grandchild and not having to board a cancelled flight!

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Awe,mirth, you're right; the misery in Iraq can't compare to the misery of late flights and high gas prices. /snark.

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

ouch. After I posted that last comment it sounds like I am being snarky to mirth. Sorry, dear, I wanted to agree with you.

FunMe · 1 year ago

"Congressional Oversight" ... what's that?

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

Thanks, FunMe, but the baby isn't born yet. It's a boy and he will be joining us anytime over the next couple of weeks. I can't wait to finally meet him.

theexog · 1 year ago

I was walking my dog on Silverstrand Beach in Oxnard CA (right by the Hueneme Naval Base) as that Alaska Airlines flight went down - all us doggie walkers watched in horror as the plane dove into the ocean. I didn't go back to that beach for months - they were pulling bodies out of the ocean for days.

It was years before I could bring myself to get on a plane again. I actually drove 8 hours each way to SLC rather than fly. And then my first flight from Montana to Long Beach this last January was a nightmare - return flight had me detained by the TSA because the dufus Delta agent didn't know how to print out the right boarding pass. I thought as I was ordered to sit down and wait in a corner that I now knew why the Jewish people got on the trains, and the Japanese American citizens left their homes for a concentration camp. We're only a tiny sliver away from the fascists.....

gwpriester · 1 year ago

Another Bush appointee.

lilybart · 1 year ago

It is the same as the credit meltdown. Don't do any oversight for years, then it all comes crashing down on the little people.

jr · 1 year ago

"let the market regulate itself"-CNBC

mirth · 1 year ago

Karol, I knew what you meant. :)

mirth · 1 year ago

Drudge carries a headline about the "misery" these flight cancellations are causing.

Ask the citizens of Iraq about misery.