So, your point is no one can ever carry out an investigation unless they have the specific expertise that was involved? "Well, Detective O'Malley, you're a fine cop, but since you haven't actually robbed a bank I'm taking you off the case."

(Written on 2020年09月22日)(Permalink)

There were 8,600 737 MAX flights per week before the crashes, operated by 50 carriers around the world. Do you know what fraction of those were in the US?

(Written on 2020年09月22日)(Permalink)

This is exactly what politics is about: mitigating the consequences that the lack of integrity common in our species inflicts on the rest of us.

(Written on 2020年09月22日)(Permalink)

Good for Long Beach sticking up for its residents.

(Written on 2019年08月23日)(Permalink)

Right. Because if there's A) Management, and B) a Union, and C) a problem, then the problem must be due to the existence of the union! And you haven't been so thoroughly immersed in propaganda for 35 years that you can't think anymore...

(Written on 2016年05月27日)(Permalink)

Sure. So people who don't use it pay as much as people who do?

(Written on 2016年05月27日)(Permalink)

Wow. The first problem this guy can think of on 9/11 is the passengers: "It was a failure of passenger and crew awareness, of cockpit entry protocols, and a total breakdown of communication at the levels of our FBI and CIA, both of which had been tracking the hijackers." Let's back up. The passengers had been told for generations to be quiet and cooperate in the case of a hijacking. Let's remember the proportion of types of people who suffered on 9/11 ranked from most to least, which also happens to be approximately the ranking of those who did the most to rescue American from an even greater disaster on that day: Ordinary civilians (2400 dead, made a decision in a few minutes to ignore the decades of advice on hijackings, and therefore kept a plane from being flown into the Whitehouse or the Capitol) : Firefighters (250 dead, rescued thousands from burning buildings) : Civil Police (scores dead, also helped thousands escape from burning buildings) : Military (scores dead,

(Written on 2016年05月27日)(Permalink)

In the days after this tragedy, there was a lot of commentary implying the gender of the captain, and the quality of the pilots given that it was a budget airline. When the actual cause came to light, these scurrilous accusations quietly limped away.

(Written on 2016年05月14日)(Permalink)

I'm glad finally someone is sticking up for upper management! And of course anyone who complains with how they are treated should always consider how lucky they are that they weren't in the army, or in prison, or dead in the middle of the Atlantic, because they're only paying customers, that give the airline every penny it ever receives. Not like they're upper management or something.

(Written on 2015年06月26日)(Permalink)

"Drugs, both illegal and prescribed are causing most of the problems in society." That's quite a sweeping statement! How about greed, stupidity, hatred? I think all of those do pretty well without drugs.

(Written on 2015年02月03日)(Permalink)