AMERICAblog: Because of Congressional Oversight, F.A.A. is finally getting around to making sure airlines are complying with safety.
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.
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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.....
Ask the citizens of Iraq about misery.