Wow. How'd she get on that flight. The computer at the gate should have not recognized her pass as valid.

(Written on 2019年 10月 11日)(Permalink)

This episode kinda reminds me of the time a woman placed 2 bottles of juice in my groceries, set on the conveyor belt ready for the cashier to scan. She had in earbuds and was singing a hymn and didn't respond to my "excuse me". The cashier refused to scan her juice, she'd done that thing before.

(Written on 2019年 10月 11日)(Permalink)

"Oops, our bad".....TSA. I will say what they will not.

(Written on 2019年 10月 11日)(Permalink)

The gentleman was a licensed physician who purchased a ticket. Hardly a psychopath.

(Written on 2019年 10月 11日)(Permalink)

I agree. We have the same problem in medicine. Your generic drug had A test to determine product equivalency when company A applied to release it to the public, then company A got bought by company B, who now holds the license and contracts with company C to make the drug in China. Is the drug still the bioequivalent of the branded version? Who knows. We gave up that oversight decades ago when we bought the lie that regulations were bad because they cut into multimillionaires' profit margins.

(Written on 2019年 04月 06日)(Permalink)

LOL. An ahistorical vision of both the Founding Fathers and the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson himself thought we'd have a Constitutional Convention every 20 years or so to rewrite the thing. As GWB said, it is nothing but a G-d piece of paper....

(Written on 2019年 04月 06日)(Permalink)

As a Houstonian, I think this crash has generated too little interest. Obviously because 200+ ppl didn’t lose their lives. Thousands of ppl ride 767s daily. Weather? Sure, we get storm fronts, but a typical “winter storm” around here is nothing. Pilot error? Something wrong with 767s? Inquiring minds want to know.

(Written on 2019年 03月 25日)(Permalink)

LOL, a “left wing organization” ......American media has 1 motive, to generate ad sales.....

(Written on 2019年 03月 25日)(Permalink)

Unfortunately, the prevailing political attitude regarding federal agencies has been, for 40 years, that the "private sector" can do it better. Our FDA tried to approve drugs before extensive real world use in Europe and Asia a few years ago. The result was a rash of drugs approved and then pulled off the market 6 months later.

(Written on 2019年 03月 15日)(Permalink)

At least they are not beating passengers and pulling them off the planes. When the country has only 4 major carriers, the news cycle will rotate though them fairly quickly. The people who are saying "Maintenance issues? Problems with union contracts? I'm leaving!" seem not to remember similar accusations attached to United, AA, and Delta in the last 15 years.

(Written on 2019年 03月 01日)(Permalink)