Flying The Friendly Skies

United's skies are probably as friendly as a sky could be. But keep an eye on the ground.

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[Fly blue ponder.]

Coffee, tea, don't lie to me,
I beg to fly on bended knee.
Come, bring the heat,
That's quite a feat;
Your management, I'd like to see.

[lurkersusie]

This is funny!

Royal Jordanian on Twitter: "We are here to keep you #united Dragging is strictly prohibited 🚫 https://t.co/CSjZD7fM4J"

https://mobile.twitter.com/RoyalJordanian/status/851526371327311873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsd-3133%2F2017%2F04%2F10%2Fshots-fired-royal-jordanian-airlines-takes-its-turn-kicking-united-around%2F

[James D.]

re: the utterly worthless Pulitzer prizes:

Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold wins Pulitzer Prize for dogged reporting of Trump’s philanthropy

[JimNorCal]

A friend sent this to me via email.

http://www.dailyyonder.com/convoys-and-social-media-come-to-the-rescue-for-midwest-ranchers-after-wildfires/2017/04/08/18728/

How did the media not cover this story?

A piece in the Amarillo Globe, for example, told of a young couple who perished with a friend trying to save their cows. That local story went national for people following through social media.

In the ensuing weeks, social media users shared the personal stories of ranchers who told of dead livestock and cows burned beyond saving. We read the blogs of ranchers who lost their homes, buildings, and hundreds of cattle that couldn’t outrun fires that tore through the grasslands at 50 miles an hour. Ranchers told of crouching in green wheat fields to save their lives. They shared how they tried to outrun the fires in pickup trucks pulling trailers of family horses. Our farmer hearts were broken by stories of ranchers mercifully shooting cows harmed beyond saving. Burned out eyes, nostrils seared shut, dead calves at their sides. A piece in High Plains Journal, “Seeing Your Dad Cry Leaves a Mark,” told of a rancher weeping as he shot his beloved ranch horse and cattle herd, burned beyond hope.
Local press was on the story. But the national response was muted, considering the disaster affected such a large swath of the country and involved four states.

[JimNorCal]

Correct me if this is wrong:
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2017/04/flying-the-friendly-skies.html/comments/page/99/#comments

[henry]

I heard a little bit about that Jim... but nothing in the media.

[Sad Trump voter]

They took paying customers off for dead-head crew.

This is one of a Legion of reasons to boycott the airlines.

Oh, and screw Trump .

[Captain Hate]

Local press was on the story. But the national response was muted, considering the disaster affected such a large swath of the country and involved four states.

The Unpeople of Jesusland don't fit the template.

[Sad Trump voter]

Yeah, cap'n.

Same in caulifloweronia. People just want the potholes fixed, and are willing to pay extra-legal taxes for roads already paid for in past tax

[Sad Trump voter]

Did everyone see that Trump beat Obama yet again?

11 rounds of golf in only 9 weeks.

Huzzzzzaaaahhhh!

[Clarice Feldman]

The governor who couldn't support Trump because of the latter's salacious comments on tape.LIVE: Alabama’s embattled governor Robert Bentley reportedly is planning to resign over allegations he abused the powers of his office to facilitate and then cover up an affair with his adviser. http://fxn.ws/2nW2384

[Captain Hate]

Four days ago it was snowing and now it's 80 degrees.

[Captain Hate]

http://www.weaselzippers.us/333531-gloria-allred-being-state-bar-association/

[henry]

CH, it was near 80 this morning... A front came through at noon and dropped it to 45 in about 10 minutes. Springtime.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

We have thunderstorms moving through now. Got up to 77 today but will drop into the 50's tonight.

Finally looks like spring, though!

[JimNorCal]

henry:"I heard a little bit about that Jim... but nothing in the media."

Sure, cos after all, it wasn't a big deal like losing your seat on a plane flight. Now, an outrage like *that* would get MSM attention!

[Captain Hate]

That front's supposed to come through here after midnight

[Dave (in MA)]

I'm guessing this sort of thing never happens on daddy's airline.

[lyle]

As much as I'd love 80F right now, I'm hoping Gaia holds off on that for a while longer. They're running the Boise river at 8500 cfs which something to behold. Warmer weather means more snow melt. Duh.The three upriver reservoirs are at about 30% capacity. Problem is, there's so much snowpack left--enough to fill each three times over. Yikes. Our neighbors across the street are starting to sandbag...

[Dave (in MA)]

One of the people killed by the rampaging Fan of Mo in Sweden was a Spotify bigwig,

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/10/technology/spotify-executive-stockholm-attack/index.html

[PD]

Huh. Alabama Governor aghast at Trump's *words* now found to have committed actual improper *acts*.

Seems a lot like Hillary! being outraged over Trump's *words*, but when it comes to the actual *acts* of her sexual predator husband, not so much.

[Sad Trump voter]

How's the weather down there, lol.

Whistle some Dixieland for comfort.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Word of advice:
Don't test a dog's shock collar on your thigh.

[boris]

Test it on Dana's

[maryrose]

Just back from a walk with my husband who shares a birthday with Stephanie.
Happy Birthday Steph!
How is your grandchild and the one on the way?
Beautiful day in Northeast Ohio!

[Sad Trump voter]

Or a chain-saw on your carotid.

Is this advice wisdom?

Very low bar...

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Well he's clearly as mental as anything so perhaps if I wrapped it around his melon and set it on 100 it would function like EST.

[maryrose]

I can't picture Daddy dragging some poor guy off the plane.
I could see him inviting him to sit up front in the cockpit

[PD]

Mmm ... Mrs. PD's makin' meat loaf tonight.

Now that's what I call Proverbs 31 in action!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-walks-back-threats-retaliation-125400006.html

[Sad Trump voter]

An expected walkback...agreed between co-conspirators.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I think one of the saddest things is how there are so many people who are willing to believe horrible things about President Trump and yet give Assad a pass.

How bad do you have to be to think that? The other choice is even worse, that they KNOW Trump is a pretty good guy but want to destroy him anyway.

I still remember that Plouffe quote.

[Mountain Dew]

Now if the guy had paid extra bucks to, you know, retain his customer status...it could have had a happy ending.

It's like, if you want a health insurance contract that includes coverage for preexisting conditions but the premium is too high...'go make more money, jerkweed'

[Mountain Dew]

After watching total video...this is Assault.

[Pagar, a bacon, Ham and pork chop supporter]

Happy Birthday to Maryrose's husband.

[henry]

Dunkirk, afghans vs Kurds in refugee camp. Big fight, big fire.

[lyle]

HB to all I've been remiss in offering out feliz cumpleanos. But especially Stephanie.

[narciso]

Bentley reminds me of John ensign.

[Captain Hate]

I'm guessing this sort of thing never happens on daddy's airline.

Doesn't he fly for FedEx? Remove one package for another?

[maryrose]

Thank you Pagar !

[Buckeye]

Toss daddy's books off and fit another package:)

[Another Bob]

Buckeye, that prompts one of my idle curiousity questions for daddy: Are those freight flights typically weight-limited or cube-limited?

[Account Deleted]

Sweet Screamin' Haysoos.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/apr/10/harry-reid-joining-unlv-law-school-as-distinguishe/

[daddy]

Toss daddy's books off and fit another package:)

Bite your tongue, Buckeye@#$

Just finished training with a thumbs up (yippee!) and the first thing I did was hustle to the Library getting ready for my next trip.

Good Morning. What a relief to have my mind free again to read whatever the heck I want to read.

Buckeye,

They trained us yesterday on new RNAV (RNP) procedures, which I think is going to eventually replace the ILS System at a much reduced cost. Amazing to see how this system keeps you within .30 DME in turns, then rolls you out on final with an ultra sensitive altitude scale that shows you =/- 75 feet, then dumps you off at Decision Altitude with the plane pointed at a 3 degree glideslope. Amazing for me to se the new technology. I know some companies are already using it so we are late to the party, but still amazing stuff. Excellent training, and believe it or not I actually enjoyed some of it.

[Account Deleted]

The goose thinks she's gettin' gandered....oh well.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/people-just-flat-out-lie-nbcs-andrea-mitchell-rips-trump-in-scathing-interview/

Project. Project. PRO-ject.

Good lod she let's Alan Greenspan see her in the buff. That's got to be a personal low, no?

[Soylent Red]

Interesting Kevlar...

I always thought that Reid aspired to be the Headmaster of an all-boys school.

I heard he had proclivities that way...

[Account Deleted]

So, daddy, looks the boi-foy isn't gonna trip you up after all. The new system's wired to control that pesky re-squeesher.

Life is good. ;)

[narciso]

What's that Churchill line about were haggling over price now. But you reminded me of an snl sketch where Charlton Heston played the kingsfield of gambling at unlv.

[Account Deleted]

narciso--- mebbe Harry will end up pissin off the pope of unlv and he'll lose sight in his good eye.

Sooner or later that jackwagon rubs everybody the wrong way.

Gangster.

[narciso]

But enough about deep philosophy:

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-metropcs-us&source=android-browser&q=beckinsale

[Account Deleted]

"“Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?"

Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "

Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"

Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!"

Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price."

― Winston S. Churchill

[daddy]

Another Bob,

In old Navy days flying cargo in the modified S-3 we would cube out all the time and never hit max gross weight, but in the MD-11 it seems that when we do reach "full," 99% of the time it is a function of reaching gross weight as opposed to cubing out. The only cubing out flights I can recall off the top were hauling Formula One Race-cars which needed individual pallets, and as I recall we were full well before we got anywhere near Max Takeoff gross weight---we just didn't have anyplace to put more stuff since the palleted cars took up all the deck space.

[daddy]

Andrea Mitchell: “You should not be flying into Beijing without a press corps. You should not be going to Moscow without the press corps. It’s wrong.”

Horseshit.

[Account Deleted]

https://amgreatness.com/2017/04/10/trumps-realism-america-first-not-america-alone/

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour ago

Happy Passover to everyone celebrating in the United States of America, Israel, and around the world. #ChagSameach

[Account Deleted]

A commenter on the following article was hitting fungoes a few hours ago. Knocked it out the park imnsho.

"OK, Professor, let's see if I've got this right...

Pence is a danger because he strictly lives up to his Christian beliefs,

and Trump is a danger because he does not live up to Christian beliefs ("traditional Christian social practice mandates").

So, Pence is a danger because he is not like Trump, yet Trump is a danger because he is not like Pence.

Clear as mud, professor. Thanks."

The author is a liberal comparative religion prof at UCLA writing for the Guffington Boast:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/10/carla-pestana-ucla-religion-professor-attacks-dona/

[Account Deleted]

Victor Davis Hanson flies low over the target strafing libfashers as they scramble to offer something besides "the dead children" meme.

https://amgreatness.com/2017/04/09/trumps-cultural-optics/

[Buckeye]

Daddy

I assume you can enter the procedure from multiple points and the RNAV system computes exactly what you need to do?

Turns, attitude, power, etc, and puts it on the flight director?

Put an end to the approach controller saying "ILS two eight right out of service":)

[Another Bob]

Daddy, I've seen those custom-built F1 car pallets. Two cars get stacked. Combined weight maybe 2500 lbs.

https://mobile.twitter.com/HaasF1Team/status/842601598979198976/photo/2

[Threadkiller]

Ok, JOMers, I'm stumped.

I just killed a rattlesnake that came to close to my house.

It's body is wriggling on the hawk perch waiting for pick up. But the head is eyeballing me as I slug a tequila shot... or two.

In the past I have placed the venom filled head in a small coffee can and lit it up with some gas. I have no idea if that is effective or not.

In boy scouts we would do our best to shoo them away before being forced to kill. The head would get buried as deep as we could dig.

Any suggestions for proper disposal? Google sends me to the "Repent you snake murderer! Repent now!!!" sites. Zero help.

[daddy]

Yep, Buckeye, very close to that. The descending turns with altitude and speed control were amazing to watch. The full altitude deflection in close was the plus or minus 75 feet thing I was mentioning, so being off 75 feet would signal a gross altitude error. I doubt it'd be off more than a few feet at most. Hope they make it so people can't hack the systems!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Dig a hole and bury it. My grandmother, expert snake-killer with a hoe, would probably just throw it in the brush. Dig a hole then pick it up with the shovel, drop it in and cover it up.
Put a rock on top for good measure, or some bricks.

What else would you do? Run it down the garbage disposal?

[Gentlejim]

Remind me to not leave a snake at Miss Marple's. She's doing everything, but dropping the ACME anvil on it. ; )

My HB to Mr. Maryrose got eaten.

[Clarice Feldman]

Nytol.

[narciso]

So Robert o'neil's, the seal who shot ubl first, has a revelation nearing on the 6th anniversary of abbotabad

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Gentlejim,

Hey, if I had the ACME anvil I would darn well use it!

[PD]

When I went to the library this evening to pick up Inferno and Doctor Strange, I saw a poster for something I have the opportunity to attend here in Madison:

https://nelson.wisc.edu/events/earth-day/

11th Annual Nelson Institute
Earth Day Conference
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2017

And what's the theme?

HOPE AND RENEWAL IN AN AGE OF APOCALYPSE

I thought it was supposed to be those darn Republicans who are always trading in fear to manipulate people by playing on their emotions?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

PD,

Drama, drama, always the left with the drama.

[daddy on Iphone7]

"Hysterical" is the word Prager uses to best describe the Left.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

daddy,

That's probably a good word to describe them.

Glad you are done with your training!

[Stephanie despicable me]

Thanks for the well wishes for my birthday!

Worked all day and then to Pappadeaux for some fondue and shrimp/crawfish/andouille pasta that was yum! And some creme brulee for the finish.

Daughter is doing well. THE sonogram to figure out the baby's sex is tomorrow. The midwives are predicting boy.

Grace is doing well. Her helicopter parents are driving me to distraction, though. "We can come by but we have to be home by 8, so she can sleep in her crib" "She's on a fixed schedule" HA!!!

Baby and fixed schedule is an oxymoron. I'm just laughing my ass off as they stress over her lack of cooperation. Luckily the daughter is as well. No helicoptering for her, I'll bet.

[daddy on Iphone7]

Me too miss M. Thanks . I'm off with the dogs at all he moment.

[-peter]

Happy belated birthday stph

[sammy small]

Daddy,

Hand flying stick and throttle, seat of the pants, and Mark 1 Mod 0 eyeball always got me down on the runway within 0 ft. every time. Everything else was fluff. Nowadays I work with the Global Hawk which is flown by keyboard and computers. I prefer the good old days.

[narciso]

What's this then:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3299267/split-opens-between-washington-and-london-over-syria-after-theresa-may-refused-to-back-ne-strikes-on-assad/

[GUS]

Daddy and Miss M, the "DRAMA" of the DEMOTARD used to be real. They used to be drama queens. Now they are lying commies.

[Captain Hate]

Trandrea being interviewed by Politico gets into multidimensional category error. If an alien intelligence ever deciphered those transmissions, they'd assume that we're a planet of smug eunuchs and haggard women.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Happy birthday Steph! And happy to hear good report about your born & yet to be born grandbabies !!

[narciso]

Re gibbon and his aversion to Christianity, how does he explain how the eastern empire lasted another thousand uears

[narciso]

It suggests there was something functionally wrong with the wester

[Threadkiller]

I burned the head. Burying it now.

Nytol.

[Threadkiller]

Recording of Secretary Kerry Admitting President Obama Armed Extremists in Syria – And Now Secretary Tillerson and President Trump are Dealing With Consequences…..

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/10/recording-of-secretary-kerry-admitting-president-obama-armed-extremists-in-syria-and-now-secretary-tillerson-and-president-trump-are-dealing-with-consequences/

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Any suggestions for proper disposal?--

Adam Schiff's mmailbox?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Harry Reid's underwear?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Nancy Pelosi's Summer's Eve?

[Texas Liberty Gal]

How many political blogs include info on how to dispose of a rattlesnake head??? JOM is truly unique!!!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Al Sharpton's bucket of KFC?

[narciso]

All good choices, is this just sligbthy over the top:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4399976/DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-imagines-countdown-catastrophe.html

That was a rhetorical question of course.

[Buckeye]

Trump administration ready to shoot down N Korean rockets if needed -
Hopefully will serve as a deterrence.

Ideally, right as they leave the launch pad.

[Free James D!]

If an alien intelligence ever deciphered those transmissions, they'd assume that we're a planet of smug eunuchs and haggard women.

The Left's goal is to turn our society into precisely that.

[JimNorCal]

"Ideally, right as they leave the launch pad"

Or even somewhat before.

[Buckeye]

"Ideally, right as they leave the launch pad"

Or even somewhat before.

:-)))

[Buckeye]

Dame Peg wins a Pulitzer.

I don't always agree with her, but must admit she was paying attention to her grammar lessons.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/11/economic-diplomacy-china-refuses-a-dozen-cargo-ships-of-north-korean-coal/#more-131176

Fascinating stuff. Guess where China is now getting their coking coal? :-)

[Captain Hate]

Re gibbon and his aversion to Christianity, how does he explain how the eastern empire lasted another thousand uears

Probably because his beloved Turks allowed them to. There's no doubt that the Byzantine empire was poorly run near the end, paying off a succession of mercenaries to keep the invading hordes at bay if not out and out bribing them not to attack. The Crusades were a series of absolute disasters for them but it was only a matter of time until expansions by others from all directions would be problematic.

Not sure what produced his aversion to Christianity but he seemingly never passed up an opportunity to take shots at it while ignoring the headchoppers jerking it to the Pornan. An early lefty historian.

Teddy is two today.

[hrtshpdbox]

Laura Ingraham, on Fox & Friends, casts aspersions on the idea that the President justifies attack on Syria because of seeing photos that upset him, says she's seen photos from Egypt where kids are locked in huts and burned to death with flamethrowers, wonders sarcastically if seeing those photos would cause the President to attack those forces in Egypt. Well, Laura, maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't.

Trump doesn't need to show his hand, doesn't need to make sure every one of his spokespeople speaks from the same sheet. All the "the problem is we don't know what's next" talk is idle speculation. The gassing of kids in Syria was met with an American response, it was the right response, and that's all she wrote.

[Old Lurker]

HB Teddy.

You are smarter than an average Lib.

[Captain Hate]

Responses like that from Ingraham are why I stopped listening to her.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 36m36 minutes ago

I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!