The headline that appeared above Kevin J. Cameron’s “Reader’s Opinion” piece in USA TODAY expressed his opinion well: Pilots Deserve More Credit for Safety Record. One day after yesterday’s “Miracle on the Hudson” river landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York City, few would argue with his logic. Cameron, an airline pilot from [...]
Entries from January 2009
Pilots Do Deserve More Credit for Safety Record
January 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: · airbus, airbus a320, aircraft accident, Airline Industry, airline safety record, chelsey b. sullenberger iii, Chesley B. Sullenberger III, commercial airline pilots, flight 1549, hudson river, mandatory retirement age, miles city, miracle on the hudson, montana, New York City, sullenberger, us airways, us airways flight 1549, USA Today
‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Prompts Sigh of Relief
January 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Married to a flight attendant for a major airline, I view news coverage of incidents involving commercial airliners — such as yesterday’s “Miracle on the Hudson” river landing of US Airways Flight 1549 — differently than most. Upon hearing the first snippet, I became absorbed in news coverage about the crash and began listening for [...]
Tags: · commercial airliners, crash landing, flight 1549, flight attendant, fort lauderdale, hudson river, miracle on the hudson, New York, news coverage, sigh of relief, us airways, us airways flight 1549
Family Research Council Defends Rights of California Voters to Amend Constitution
January 15th, 2009 · No Comments
The Family Research Council announced today the submission of a brief (PDF) with the California Supreme Court defending the rights of California voters to amend their Constitution. “The people of California have spoken,” said FRC President Tony Perkins. “It is their desire that the Constitution of the state of California recognize that marriage is a [...]
Tags: · california constitution, california supreme court, definition of marriage, family research council, frc, marriage, one man and one woman, prop 8, propsition 8, rights of california voters, tony perkins
Miracle on the Hudson: 155 Survive US Air Crash!
January 15th, 2009 · No Comments
In what appears to be a miracle on the Hudson, several news media outlets are reporting that none of the 150 155 passengers and crew aboard US Airways Flight 1549 died after their Airbus A320 crash-landed into the Hudson River after taking off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport shortly after 3 p.m. Eastern Time today. [...]
Tags: · 150 survive crash, airbus a320, bird strike, charlotte to laguardia, hudson river, laguardia, laguardia airport, miracle on the hudson, New York, us air, us airways
‘Carbon Bigfoot’ Says Presidential Inauguration Will Produce 575 Million Pounds of Carbon Dioxide
January 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Everyone knows the Barack Obama Administration will strive to be the greenest in modern times. But you might not know how un-green the presidential inauguration is going to be. The Institute For Liberty scratched together some rough figures for illustrative purposes, and our new analysis Carbon Bigfoot finds: Celebrities, politicians, and bigwigs using 600 private [...]
Tags: · Barack Obama, carbon bigfoot, carbon emissions, Carbon Footprint, Celebrities, co2, ifl, inauguration, institute for liberty, Obama, obama administratin, obama inauguration, Politicians, presidential inauguration, private jets
United Nations Satire Not Far From the Truth
January 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Occasionally, I find myself willing to ignore a lot of NSFW stuff on The Onion in order to enjoy a truly brilliant example of satire that’s not too far from the truth. Today was one of those days. Appearing under the headline, U.N. Acquires Nuclear Weapon, the graphic above and the lead paragraph below combine [...]
Tags: · Human Rights, human rights agenda, nuclear warhead, Nuclear Weapons, satire, the onion, UN, United Nations
Leader of Group Linked to Terror Will Deliver Inauguration Day Prayer at National Cathedral
January 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Ingrid Mattson, the first woman president of the Islamic Society of North America, will offer a prayer at the National Cathedral on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. It’s newsworthy, because her organization has admitted to having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and was, according to Jihad Watch, an unindicted co-conspirator in the same Hamas [...]
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