Archive | January, 2010

Damned if we do, Damned if we don’t

I just spend the past week on an outstanding cruise ship. The Navigator of the Sea, owned by Royal Caribbean International, was our home for the past five days. It was a magnificent ship. It’s cargo holds were overflowing with supplies. BUT, they weren’t for making all its passengers nice and fat. NO! These pallets [...]

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OOps, that’s not funny

2021: A small group of rogue Americans hijack an airplane and fly it into the Burj Al-Arab, in Dubai.  The United Arab Emirates spend the next five years invading Canada and torturing its citizens, eventually leaving over 80,000 dead.  Oops, that’s not funny.

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Not better or worse, just different

I know some of you won’t like this but I was thinking recently if there weren’t some advantages of more socialist countries that we tend to ignore here. From what I understand, people in Britain and France do not nearly have the standard of living we do–they have less toys and money and big cars [...]

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How to Recognize a Terrorist

The attempted bombing of Delta/Northwest 253 on Christmas Day was not the first from the Islamic terrorists nor will it be the last.  Since I am a pilot, I have had people ask what can a passenger do onboard an airplane to help thwart a terrorist attack.  Having personal experience with a few events myself, [...]

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