Peggy Noonan is on board. She calls for the removal of Norm Mineta: People are afraid to fly because they see what a politically correct joke our airline security is. Searching for every last toenail clipper, forcing 85-year-old people with walkers to stand spread-eagled as some oafish wand-wielder in a blue jacket humiliates them–this is absurd and cowardly. Let’s get coldly serious: Arm the pilots, fortify cockpits, man flights with marshals, and profile passengers. We don’t have a transportation secretary who is willing to do these things. Someday when something terrible happens we’ll wish we did. Why not coldly remove Norman Mineta now? (Thanks to my bud Esta for the heads up.)
Note for the morning. Apologies
Note for the morning. Apologies for lack of blogging these past few days. I’m working to close out a fiscal year and prepare for a board of directors meeting. It’s keeping me focused about thirteen hours of the day, and my mind just hasn’t had the space to blog. I should be resuming normal blogging in a few days, and at least a greater level of blogging tomorrow. 9/11. I understand that from 8:45 am until 8:47 am, all flights at Boston’s Logan Airport were on a ground stop to commemorate the day. Two of the 9/11 hijackings departed from Boston. I will be meeting frequent flyer friends for lunch at National Airport at noon. It seems a fitting place to be.
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How is it possible that
How is it possible that I come up on the second page of a search for Impeach Norm Mineta on Google??
The Daily Pundit wants to
The Daily Pundit wants to fire Norm Mineta.
You can enter United.com’s
You can enter United.com’s 5th Anniversary Giveaway to win miles, hotel stays, car rentals, groceries, and flowers.
The upside to
The upside to a United Airlines bankruptcy: it could cut labor costs by 20% (and overall costs by 10%), and have a ripple effect on costs throughout the industry. A United bankruptcy could save the major airlines.
Why ITA Software
Why ITA Software offers the best tool for searching airfares. I’ve certainly found this to be true. You can interface with them directly rather than going through Orbitz.
Stumpy the Squirrel
Stumpy the Squirrel Goes Back Home: MACHIAS, Wash. (AP) — A squirrel with half a tail and no left hind foot is back with his caretakers after 10 days on the lam. The squirrel, named Stumpy, was found six miles from the residence of Steve and Marcia Carter, who fought back tears when he was returned. On Sunday afternoon, a woman heard faint tinkling and remembered reading a newspaper article about Stumpy, who had been outfitted with a bell on a collar. Sure enough, there was the 8-inch rodent, sitting in her driveway.
