Damn you Jeff! I clicked on that link and lost IQ points forever. ;-)
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
Rab... remember the tainted petfood.....40,000 dead pets? !@#$%!@#$%^argh
Your_Uncle_Bastard
· 1 year ago
My roommate lost two cats due to that bullshit. It's unconscionable!
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
:-)
sorry YUB ;-)
FNReedie
· 1 year ago
Just remember ... its not just Southwest. In the past week its been Southwest, American and United. Looks like someone finally got the FAA to get to work. Just makes me wonder what happened to cause them to take action.
Rainlion
· 1 year ago
Potential for lawsuits and preparation for the coming congressional hearings on the issue
FNReedie
· 1 year ago
But that has never stopped the Bush administration before. I think something bigger happened behind the scenes. (I'm not a conspiracy theorist ... but I just don't trust these folks.)
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Chimpy has completely dismantled all the regulatory agencies. We are completely defenseless now. China can poison us and our pets. Airlines can get us killed in crashes. Drug companies can poison us with badly tested products. Coal Miners have no protection. Truckers drive too many hours and cause huge pileups. The EPA defies a Supreme Court ruling. The USDA doesn't stop downer cows from getting into school lunches. The list goes on and on.
We are fucked. And we did it to ourselves. 59 million of us voted for this.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
not to mention... Aloha airlines just went under (I think it was Aloha?) on Tuesday.
so... they can't turn a profit, the FAA lets them slide on maintaining the planes.. and most of them go under anyway.
my biggest question is, why is it that European airlines can turn profits... and still serve you dinner/lunch/breakfast... AND have pleasant flight attendants... and we can't do that here?
.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
OT- Just got this e mail from Jane Hamsher @ Fire Dog Lake
"Earlier this week Joe Sudbay of America Blog and Reverend Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus delivered 32,000 of your signatures on our complaint against John McCain to the Federal Election Commission."
Way to go Joe!!
tofubo
· 1 year ago
the wash dc atty g is looking into the good rev again
tofubo
· 1 year ago
but, but, but, the clenis got rid of all 93 atty g's when he came in office
Southwest uses 737's, which are dangerous planes even when they've been properly maintained and inspected. They have a design flaw in the rudder. Only one actuator instead of the usual two. And the thing tends to jam with the rudder all the way to one side. 737's have corkscrewed right into the ground because of this.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
Tom3
Chimpy has completely dismantled all the regulatory agencies...
----
let this be a lesson for the people who voted for chimpy.
buyer beware. you got what you paid for, now you've got to worry if your produce is going to kill you via e-coli.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
ATA Airlines went under yesterday and brought most of Aloha down with it.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Those FAA whistleblowers better get their resumes updated.
Whistleblowers don't get any protections in Chimpyland, formerly known as the federal government.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
that should've been extended...
buyer beware. you got what you paid for, now you've got to worry if your produce is going to kill you via e-coli while a 777 wing crashes through the roof of the house that's worth less than you paid for it as you're coughing up a lung because the chemical plant three miles away is venting dioxin into the air.
hmm... I wonder if chimpy's final legacy will be that he and his buddies managed to decrease the maximum life expectancy of US residents?
Rab
· 1 year ago
I don't think the crap the chimp has done can be fixed in 4 years, maybe 10 years. One priority of Obama's is going to be going through and kicking out all the repugs planted in federal government positions. A whole lot of purging is going to be needed to root out the shit heads the chimp leaves behind.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
There's salmonella in cantaloupes now. That was on the news this week.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
This is unconscionable. Our safety, men woman and children, has been seriously eroded under the Bush administration. The food supply is constantly be tainted, toys are unsafe, drugs are unsafe and NOW travel is unsafe. Lawmakers are sitting on their collective butts.
I cannot not EVER remember a time when so many things have been unsafe for the public, and for what---the dollar (I used to say almighty dollar). Businesses under Bush have received massive tax cuts and look at the result, nothing to better the American family.
Damn, damn and double damn.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
Tom3
There's salmonella in cantaloupes now. That was on the news this week. ---
I saw a movie once with Sam and Harry in a watermelon... but it never made the news, probably too kinky for wolfie to report.
okay, I think I need a martini.
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
Your Uncle....i trully hate the bastards...the pets suffered alot before they died RIP !@#$%^#$%#E$!!!!!!!!
Rainlion
· 1 year ago
my response was in response to FNReedies question about what got them moving now.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
It sounds as though terrorists are the LEAST of our worries!!
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
rainlion
Potential for lawsuits and preparation for the coming congressional hearings on the issue ----
oooh! I bet congress gives them a huge tonguelashing and demands results... just like they did with the oil executives.
egad. at this point, I'm wondering how much each congressional hearing costs us as taxpayers... and couldn't they just go out to happy hour instead of wasting our money and accomplishing nothing?
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
congress should go old school on the guilty parties....
a firing squad maybe?? members of congress, with guns, the corporate greedmongers in front of them..
oh, and the congressional members with the guns would be standing in a circle.
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
egad mirth!!
how'd you get to -51????
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Soundboy Jeff
I just got home and was checking out the comments and damn neared spewed my cola all over my keyboard. I read Mirth's link about water shortage, then clicked on your link. LOL I was not prepared for that. I am still laughing.
LeslieB
· 1 year ago
Is there any agency in the Bush administration that has actually done its job and put the public first? Any?
Thinking...nope, can't think of one.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
In case you missed it, the financial system has collapsed, you just haven't been told about it.
Remember the big lie I've been telling you about...
aquarius2 37 minutes ago This is unconscionable. Our safety, men woman and children, has been seriously eroded under the Bush administration. The food supply is constantly be tainted, toys are unsafe, drugs are unsafe and NOW travel is unsafe. Lawmakers are sitting on their collective butts.
I cannot not EVER remember a time when so many things have been unsafe for the public, and for what---the dollar (I used to say almighty dollar). Businesses under Bush have received massive tax cuts and look at the result, nothing to better the American family.
Damn, damn and double damn.
Don't forget the bridges, New Orleans, New York City air after 9/11, our national water supply has drugs in it [and who knows what else], troops in Iraq don't have proper equipment...I could go on.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
When the oligarchy (hilclinton) tells you the economy is "reeling" its a euphemism that it's collapsed, she just doesn't have the balls to tell you. Oh and by the way, our government has collapsed. but that happened on November 22, 1963.
intotheabyss81
· 1 year ago
Is there any agency in the Bush administration that has actually done its job and put the public first? Any?
Yes, the NSA has put the public first----on the list of "terrorists" to wiretap.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
To your last question: NO.
And the action in the Senate hearing on Bear Stearns was pretty disgusting as well. Admiration for Schwartz and Dimon in their french cuffs, with senators bending over and taking it...and lost in the reportage of this sham, the fact that not only did Bernanke give $30 billion towards the purchase of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan/Chase, but Bear Stearns was the recipient of $25 billion of the $37 billion given out last week at the new "window" for investment greedheads.
So, how far would that $55 billion have gone to help out ordinary Americans? Instead, it was emphasized that if B-S had gone bankrupt, it would have upset the entire financial system of the US. Schwartz kept saying their insolvency was a result of "rumors, innuendoes" that they were going down, and that's what caused their collapse. I call bullshit. If one company can bring down the entire US financial system, there is something rotten in the core...
Let's see what the Senate does.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Who's in charge of the FAA these days?
Some underqualified Brownie type? Some totally incompetent Regent University type? Or maybe just some rich donor's kid?
It must be hard for the Administration to keep looking for people dumber than Bush.
jr
· 1 year ago
The Grover Norquist cult doesn't care how many of us die as long as they can bow to the altar of Milton Friedman
ToTo
· 1 year ago
Karol is an unruly and up until a few days ago her points were in the high fifties.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Ah, I guess it's operating under an "acting" administrator.
Sometimes it's hard to tell whether having nobody in charge is better or worse than having a Bush appointee in charge.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
BTW, this is OT, but has anyone seen where Randi Rhodes was suspended from Air America for calling Clinton and Ferraro names?
My husband died in an unsafe and fraudulently certified airliner; my grandson died from eating the paint on toys imported from China; my daughter died from toxic fumes in her nail salon; but, praise Jesus, a Bible-believing man in the White House stopped those gays from getting married!
len
· 1 year ago
This thing with the Airlines ruling the FAA has been present since the 60's to my memory. So, I wonder what all the noise is about.
It's a situation whereby the Government has allowed Big Business to Lobby all aspects of Governance.
It's the same all over the Government of the USA today-- Not just in FAA.
We had a brief reprieve during the Great Depression... But, Big Business came back stronger than ever. Until some really wierd-assed event gives us an Executive, a Congress and a Judiciary that realize that Corporations do not vote....................................they PURCHASE............
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
What does it take for the American public to get angry? What does it take for Americans to rebel against the government pissing on their legs and telling them its raining? Bush and his cowardly minions need to be brought to account. and that includes memembers of his administration as well as many members of congress of both sides. All of these elected supposed "servants of the people" need to be brought to account clearly and publicly and those found wanting need to be stripped of their ill-gotten gains and publicly hung or shot for treason and war crimes.They all, if memory serves, took oaths to protect and defend the Consrtitution. Is anyone going to stand up and say that this what Bush and Cheney did? The craven members of the republicon congress for six years that did nothing but rubberstamp the fascist attempts of the administration to shred the Constitution and turn America into some sort of third rate banana republic while at the sme time supporting Bush's immoral and illegal war. They all need to be publicly brought to account and punished, not allowed to slink into retirement with pensions and no application of punishment. This is why Nancy Pelosi has no honest option but to instigate Impeachment proceedings again all the applicable people. Her stubborn unwillingness to do this only consigns her to the list of those who have condoned the efforts of the administration to destroy this country.
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
My partner reads and posts on a message board for pilots. The shit he hears about the absolute decimation of the FAA scares the hell out of me. Many of the posters on that message board are pilots that fly heavies. Scary, scary shit I tell you.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Soundboy_jeff: Mirth, that's nothing compared to this:
Thanks, I needed that laugh. :)
Rab,
I doubt anyone sees a fix in 4 years time. I certainly don't. The hope is that an Obama presidency may begin to right our course towards an America that is more recognizable, to us and to the world.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Here's another thing that's being ignored:
Thirty-Six U.S. States to Face Water Shortages in the Next Five Years
I hardly know what to write, except to say that I'm sorry for your direct and personal losses at the hands of this corrupt government.
Aquarius,
How happy the world will be when we are rid of this ignorant bastard and his string-pullers. We should have given the world this gift years ago.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Soundboy: [mirth] how'd you get to -51????
Myself, Karol, and any of the Unrulies tend to rack up hefty minus points. Considering who is doing it, I think of minus points as a badge of honor. The higher, the better. * This post is one (and there are many) of the reasons I do not fly.
All Comments
Actually, no.
We are completely and totally fucked and I don't think even Al Gore can fix it.
SOUTHWEST TOTALLY SuKKKKKS i wont fly em anymore
Here's another thing that's being ignored:
Thirty-Six U.S. States to Face Water Shortages in the Next Five Years
http://www.naturalnews.com/022915.html
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Mirth, that's nothing compared to this:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/03/peo...
a sure sign that Armeggedon has already begun.
!@#$%!@#$%^argh
sorry YUB ;-)
We are fucked. And we did it to ourselves. 59 million of us voted for this.
so... they can't turn a profit, the FAA lets them slide on maintaining the planes.. and most of them go under anyway.
my biggest question is, why is it that European airlines can turn profits... and still serve you dinner/lunch/breakfast... AND have pleasant flight attendants... and we can't do that here?
.
"Earlier this week Joe Sudbay of America Blog and Reverend Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus delivered 32,000 of your signatures on our complaint against John McCain to the Federal Election Commission."
Way to go Joe!!
no he didn't, he replaced 92, he kept one
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/007256.html
Chimpy has completely dismantled all the regulatory agencies...
----
let this be a lesson for the people who voted for chimpy.
buyer beware. you got what you paid for, now you've got to worry if your produce is going to kill you via e-coli.
Whistleblowers don't get any protections in Chimpyland, formerly known as the federal government.
buyer beware. you got what you paid for, now you've got to worry if your produce is going to kill you via e-coli while a 777 wing crashes through the roof of the house that's worth less than you paid for it as you're coughing up a lung because the chemical plant three miles away is venting dioxin into the air.
hmm... I wonder if chimpy's final legacy will be that he and his buddies managed to decrease the maximum life expectancy of US residents?
I cannot not EVER remember a time when so many things have been unsafe for the public, and for what---the dollar (I used to say almighty dollar). Businesses under Bush have received massive tax cuts and look at the result, nothing to better the American family.
Damn, damn and double damn.
There's salmonella in cantaloupes now. That was on the news this week.
---
I saw a movie once with Sam and Harry in a watermelon... but it never made the news, probably too kinky for wolfie to report.
okay, I think I need a martini.
!@#$%^#$%#E$!!!!!!!!
Potential for lawsuits and preparation for the coming congressional hearings on the issue
----
oooh! I bet congress gives them a huge tonguelashing and demands results... just like they did with the oil executives.
egad. at this point, I'm wondering how much each congressional hearing costs us as taxpayers... and couldn't they just go out to happy hour instead of wasting our money and accomplishing nothing?
a firing squad maybe?? members of congress, with guns, the corporate greedmongers in front of them..
oh, and the congressional members with the guns would be standing in a circle.
how'd you get to -51????
I just got home and was checking out the comments and damn neared spewed my cola all over my keyboard. I read Mirth's link about water shortage, then clicked on your link. LOL I was not prepared for that. I am still laughing.
Thinking...nope, can't think of one.
Remember the big lie I've been telling you about...
well here it is:
Time To Reject the Big Lie
This is unconscionable. Our safety, men woman and children, has been seriously eroded under the Bush administration. The food supply is constantly be tainted, toys are unsafe, drugs are unsafe and NOW travel is unsafe. Lawmakers are sitting on their collective butts.
I cannot not EVER remember a time when so many things have been unsafe for the public, and for what---the dollar (I used to say almighty dollar). Businesses under Bush have received massive tax cuts and look at the result, nothing to better the American family.
Damn, damn and double damn.
Don't forget the bridges, New Orleans, New York City air after 9/11, our national water supply has drugs in it [and who knows what else], troops in Iraq don't have proper equipment...I could go on.
Yes, the NSA has put the public first----on the list of "terrorists" to wiretap.
And the action in the Senate hearing on Bear Stearns was pretty disgusting as well. Admiration for Schwartz and Dimon in their french cuffs, with senators bending over and taking it...and lost in the reportage of this sham, the fact that not only did Bernanke give $30 billion towards the purchase of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan/Chase, but Bear Stearns was the recipient of $25 billion of the $37 billion given out last week at the new "window" for investment greedheads.
So, how far would that $55 billion have gone to help out ordinary Americans? Instead, it was emphasized that if B-S had gone bankrupt, it would have upset the entire financial system of the US. Schwartz kept saying their insolvency was a result of "rumors, innuendoes" that they were going down, and that's what caused their collapse. I call bullshit. If one company can bring down the entire US financial system, there is something rotten in the core...
Let's see what the Senate does.
Some underqualified Brownie type? Some totally incompetent Regent University type? Or maybe just some rich donor's kid?
It must be hard for the Administration to keep looking for people dumber than Bush.
Sometimes it's hard to tell whether having nobody in charge is better or worse than having a Bush appointee in charge.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/03/air-am...
(Didn't know if this has been reported yet). I guess the truth hurts.
I see our "president" is really making inroads into restoring good will overseas. This man has the mental retention of a gnat.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/03/bush-abrupt...
It's a situation whereby the Government has allowed Big Business to Lobby all aspects of Governance.
It's the same all over the Government of the USA today-- Not just in FAA.
We had a brief reprieve during the Great Depression... But, Big Business came back stronger than ever. Until some really wierd-assed event gives us an Executive, a Congress and a Judiciary that realize that Corporations do not vote....................................they PURCHASE............
What does it take for Americans to rebel against the government pissing on their legs and telling them its raining?
Bush and his cowardly minions need to be brought to account. and that includes memembers of his administration as well as many members of congress of both sides. All of these elected supposed "servants of the people" need to be brought to account clearly and publicly and those found wanting need to be stripped of their ill-gotten gains and publicly hung or shot for treason and war crimes.They all, if memory serves, took oaths to protect and defend the Consrtitution. Is anyone going to stand up and say that this what Bush and Cheney did? The craven members of the republicon congress for six years that did nothing but rubberstamp the fascist attempts of the administration to shred the Constitution and turn America into some sort of third rate banana republic while at the sme time supporting Bush's immoral and illegal war. They all need to be publicly brought to account and punished, not allowed to slink into retirement with pensions and no application of punishment. This is why Nancy Pelosi has no honest option but to instigate Impeachment proceedings again all the applicable people. Her stubborn unwillingness to do this only consigns her to the list of those who have condoned the efforts of the administration to destroy this country.
Thanks, I needed that laugh. :)
Rab,
I doubt anyone sees a fix in 4 years time. I certainly don't. The hope is that an Obama presidency may begin to right our course towards an America that is more recognizable, to us and to the world.
Thirty-Six U.S. States to Face Water Shortages in the Next Five Years
http://www.naturalnews.com/022915.html
ToTo, there are no absolutes.
I hardly know what to write, except to say that I'm sorry for your direct and personal losses at the hands of this corrupt government.
Aquarius,
How happy the world will be when we are rid of this ignorant bastard and his string-pullers. We should have given the world this gift years ago.
Myself, Karol, and any of the Unrulies tend to rack up hefty minus points. Considering who is doing it, I think of minus points as a badge of honor. The higher, the better.
*
This post is one (and there are many) of the reasons I do not fly.