Diamond Pilots: Only Last 30 Minutes Recorded On Jet That Flew By Minneapolis
From the original NPR story, those Northwest pilots who overshot Minneapolis by over 150 miles (and an hour) will be able to keep the real reason they missed their destination a secret for a fair bit. As noted, chances are the last 30 minutes were taken up with "oh crap, we missed our exit"
More details here but according to Today, the pilots were put through some tests before landing to ensure they were in control of the aircraft.
Weren't Northwest pilots the ones found drinking years ago? Yup. That airline can't catch a break - and Delta just bought them.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Obama : Nobel Peace Prize....Really?!?!?
Was this supposed to be a consolation prize for not getting the Olympics?
The only thing this guy has done is "TALK". SNL got it right with their Obama sketch - he has not done a SINGLE thing. - yes there are lots of people who will contend that nine months isn't enough time to get things done in Washington but the closest thing to "peace" that he has actually accomplished is getting a Harvard professor and a cop to have a beer at the White house.
Now granted, based on the fact that the previous president did a lot of "non"-peace stuff, that might account for something but really?!? REALLY?!?!?!
Let's look at the great "Peace" things that need to get done:
1 - Iran
2 - Iraq
3 - Afghanistan
4 - Washington Politics
5 - North Korea
So far, I can't see anything Obama has done that has positively affected any of these. Can you?
The only thing this guy has done is "TALK". SNL got it right with their Obama sketch - he has not done a SINGLE thing. - yes there are lots of people who will contend that nine months isn't enough time to get things done in Washington but the closest thing to "peace" that he has actually accomplished is getting a Harvard professor and a cop to have a beer at the White house.
Now granted, based on the fact that the previous president did a lot of "non"-peace stuff, that might account for something but really?!? REALLY?!?!?!
Let's look at the great "Peace" things that need to get done:
1 - Iran
2 - Iraq
3 - Afghanistan
4 - Washington Politics
5 - North Korea
So far, I can't see anything Obama has done that has positively affected any of these. Can you?
Monday, September 28, 2009
Recommendations: Around the Home Handyman services (Norm Richter) - Poor
(something I don't usually do here is comment on individual businesses or go on non-technical tirades. This is an exception to the rule - so if you're looking for tech comments, please ignore).
On a personal note, I can appreciate people can't work for free these days. It's tough - but any company who offers a one-year guarantee for their work should not be charging for problems with existing work (new work, yes - but work that they originally did? Absolutely not).
We have used Around the Home handyman services, owned by Norm Richter (Norman) for two separate pieces of work: roofing and flooring. The roofing job was done extremely well and on budget.
The flooring job was a mixed bag. We were originally quoted about $1600 for a kitchen and mudroom renovation. Since we were paying by the hour, it was expected to go higher. The final tally was over $3000. Originally expected to take 3-4 days, it was over a week. Time was ADDED to the bill that was never received until we forced the issue as noted below.
The initial tiling looked great - but had some problems that were evident 3 days after the job was completed. This is where the problems began.
There was a crack in one of the tiles and several holes in grout around the floor. The biggest problem however is the supposed one year guarantee. FOUR months after we initially called and reported the problem, Norm finally came around to fix things, saw and reviewed the problems with the tiles and grout. The next day, they only fixed the tile (and replaced another) but did not correct the grout problems, blaming us. Keep in mind this was FOUR months after we tried to get them to come in.
Subsequent follow-ups was that he couldn't do the work for free (even though it was part of the original work) and that we should have used an insurance company's tilers to fix the grout that was caused by his work. He then subsequently blamed our floor.
I wish they had told us up front that they could NOT do the job properly.
Needless to say, I would NOT recommend them for any flooring work.
On a personal note, I can appreciate people can't work for free these days. It's tough - but any company who offers a one-year guarantee for their work should not be charging for problems with existing work (new work, yes - but work that they originally did? Absolutely not).
We have used Around the Home handyman services, owned by Norm Richter (Norman) for two separate pieces of work: roofing and flooring. The roofing job was done extremely well and on budget.
The flooring job was a mixed bag. We were originally quoted about $1600 for a kitchen and mudroom renovation. Since we were paying by the hour, it was expected to go higher. The final tally was over $3000. Originally expected to take 3-4 days, it was over a week. Time was ADDED to the bill that was never received until we forced the issue as noted below.
The initial tiling looked great - but had some problems that were evident 3 days after the job was completed. This is where the problems began.
There was a crack in one of the tiles and several holes in grout around the floor. The biggest problem however is the supposed one year guarantee. FOUR months after we initially called and reported the problem, Norm finally came around to fix things, saw and reviewed the problems with the tiles and grout. The next day, they only fixed the tile (and replaced another) but did not correct the grout problems, blaming us. Keep in mind this was FOUR months after we tried to get them to come in.
Subsequent follow-ups was that he couldn't do the work for free (even though it was part of the original work) and that we should have used an insurance company's tilers to fix the grout that was caused by his work. He then subsequently blamed our floor.
I wish they had told us up front that they could NOT do the job properly.
Needless to say, I would NOT recommend them for any flooring work.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
MSM gets it wrong again - talk about wrong priorities
So let's get this right.
Obama says "I denouce him" (back two months ago) and yet the MSM puts the crazy pastor Wright on every possible channel at every possible minute.
Clinton, on the other hand, says she would "totally obliterate" Iran - and NO ONE gives it much attention. Well, at least the Boston Globe did.
No wonder there's a problem in the US and the foreign world. As the Globe reported "This foolish and dangerous threat was muted in domestic media coverage. But it reverberated in headlines around the world."
The world-wide comments on her statement should sound a warning knell to everyone. She actually sounds more "war-ready" than McCain.
Say what you will about the Iraq war, no one went in there with the mission to obliterate the country - they messed up, to be sure - but no one wanted to destroy the entire country.
And Hilary continues to rise in the polls.
Wright is a nutcase - but so are just as many "white" pastors ( in other words ,maybe a handful). If John McCain hung out (as he did) with Hagel and other "questionable" pastors, why aren't they putting them on the air everywhere?
Obama made a serious mistake noting Wright as his spiritual adviser - but he addressed that months ago. NBC, Fox, ABC, MSNBC, etc should be raked over the coals for this complete and willful mis-direction they have engaged the American public in.
I don't think it much matters though - in the US, it's "politics as usual" and the MSM will always support it - because it makes for better (read: more eyeballs not better quality) news.
Obama says "I denouce him" (back two months ago) and yet the MSM puts the crazy pastor Wright on every possible channel at every possible minute.
Clinton, on the other hand, says she would "totally obliterate" Iran - and NO ONE gives it much attention. Well, at least the Boston Globe did.
No wonder there's a problem in the US and the foreign world. As the Globe reported "This foolish and dangerous threat was muted in domestic media coverage. But it reverberated in headlines around the world."
The world-wide comments on her statement should sound a warning knell to everyone. She actually sounds more "war-ready" than McCain.
Say what you will about the Iraq war, no one went in there with the mission to obliterate the country - they messed up, to be sure - but no one wanted to destroy the entire country.
And Hilary continues to rise in the polls.
Wright is a nutcase - but so are just as many "white" pastors ( in other words ,maybe a handful). If John McCain hung out (as he did) with Hagel and other "questionable" pastors, why aren't they putting them on the air everywhere?
Obama made a serious mistake noting Wright as his spiritual adviser - but he addressed that months ago. NBC, Fox, ABC, MSNBC, etc should be raked over the coals for this complete and willful mis-direction they have engaged the American public in.
I don't think it much matters though - in the US, it's "politics as usual" and the MSM will always support it - because it makes for better (read: more eyeballs not better quality) news.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Trish Calls It: RIP Obama 2008
What a way to go down - torn apart by the very "race card" he decried. Instead of taking the opportunity to bring together all races, Barrack Obama chose to rally a single race and make everyone hear the "reasons".
That's too bad - because I did think he had a lot of great things going for him and at one point, I did think he would become the next American president. My wife soured on him as soon as the race card came up. I had mentioned in private conversations when he would be asked about his relationships with his pastors, etc (who were on record, if not on YouTube, with their commentary and beliefs) and how his response would define his candidacy.
But here was the great opportunity - address this issue and then make it about everyone, not just blacks. Instead, he chose to address it and then launch into an explanation of what blacks have gone through and then how it immediately impacts him.
Don't get me wrong - very nice speech - if you were giving it to the NAACP or to a country made up of exclusively black/white and you were a civil rights leader. But not if you're running for president.
Here are the ways I thought he could have saved it:
1. Include other races. Don't take 30 minutes explaining the black experience. Spend 10 minutes and then go on and talk about how the "race" experience or the "gender" experience is not what America is supposed to be about (remember - he's about Change). Include every race. No - you can't speak from experience but remember that Japanese went through a persecution after WWII, Hispanics are just as angry about their "experience" and we can't even start to talk about how Muslims or Asians are attacked. Heck, turn it into an economic message about how if something isn't done, the "American" (white, black, red, brown, green) experience is going to be much of the same. What a great opportunity to pull everyone together and talk about how you are the one candidate who can bring everyone together.
2. Joe Scarborough had a great line this morning - "you don't throw your grandmother under the bus". While I'm not sure if he effectively did it, he DID put his grandmother and pastor in exactly the same grouping in his family unit. ("I can't disown...sooner than disown..."). And then he put the entire black community in there as well. You know - you CAN disown anyone. Should Russians disown Stalin? Austrians Hitler? Barrack, you're not the second coming - you're running for office. No one wants to hear "religious platitudes" that essentially cements the hypocrisy of almost all religious movements. If you want to be a preacher, there's a different primary process.
I may have only had two points, instead of more. That's primarily because he had the opportunity to snatch victory from defeat - and instead, all he's done is:
a) ensured that if he wins the Democratic primary, that the final vote will swing to McCain because he's alienated a huge number of voters.
b) if he doesn't win the primary, ensure that McCain will win because Clinton is just not liked outside of the Democratic party and Republicans are the ones who have helped her get this far in the primary.
c) made his pastor proud because he DID talk about what it was "like to be a n*gger."
d) did I say alienate a lot of people?
Instead of showing he was a politician who could arise above the frey and bring about a new "American" agenda , he has shown himself to be a candidate who IS very much part of a community that wants to bring its own agenda.
I'm disappointed.
That's too bad - because I did think he had a lot of great things going for him and at one point, I did think he would become the next American president. My wife soured on him as soon as the race card came up. I had mentioned in private conversations when he would be asked about his relationships with his pastors, etc (who were on record, if not on YouTube, with their commentary and beliefs) and how his response would define his candidacy.
But here was the great opportunity - address this issue and then make it about everyone, not just blacks. Instead, he chose to address it and then launch into an explanation of what blacks have gone through and then how it immediately impacts him.
Don't get me wrong - very nice speech - if you were giving it to the NAACP or to a country made up of exclusively black/white and you were a civil rights leader. But not if you're running for president.
Here are the ways I thought he could have saved it:
1. Include other races. Don't take 30 minutes explaining the black experience. Spend 10 minutes and then go on and talk about how the "race" experience or the "gender" experience is not what America is supposed to be about (remember - he's about Change). Include every race. No - you can't speak from experience but remember that Japanese went through a persecution after WWII, Hispanics are just as angry about their "experience" and we can't even start to talk about how Muslims or Asians are attacked. Heck, turn it into an economic message about how if something isn't done, the "American" (white, black, red, brown, green) experience is going to be much of the same. What a great opportunity to pull everyone together and talk about how you are the one candidate who can bring everyone together.
2. Joe Scarborough had a great line this morning - "you don't throw your grandmother under the bus". While I'm not sure if he effectively did it, he DID put his grandmother and pastor in exactly the same grouping in his family unit. ("I can't disown...sooner than disown..."). And then he put the entire black community in there as well. You know - you CAN disown anyone. Should Russians disown Stalin? Austrians Hitler? Barrack, you're not the second coming - you're running for office. No one wants to hear "religious platitudes" that essentially cements the hypocrisy of almost all religious movements. If you want to be a preacher, there's a different primary process.
I may have only had two points, instead of more. That's primarily because he had the opportunity to snatch victory from defeat - and instead, all he's done is:
a) ensured that if he wins the Democratic primary, that the final vote will swing to McCain because he's alienated a huge number of voters.
b) if he doesn't win the primary, ensure that McCain will win because Clinton is just not liked outside of the Democratic party and Republicans are the ones who have helped her get this far in the primary.
c) made his pastor proud because he DID talk about what it was "like to be a n*gger."
d) did I say alienate a lot of people?
Instead of showing he was a politician who could arise above the frey and bring about a new "American" agenda , he has shown himself to be a candidate who IS very much part of a community that wants to bring its own agenda.
I'm disappointed.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Sweden's Policy on Prostitution is misguided
Our local paper had an article about how since the Spitzer fiasco (on a separate note, shouldn't the NY state have changed their web site by now?), some people are referring to how Sweden charges the "johns" but protects the actual prostitutes (oh sorry, are they "escorts" now?) as being victims ("I'm going to charge you $5,000 an hour to fund my music career but oh, I'm a victim")
This is totally off-base. Are drug dealers "victims" but drug users criminals?
While I can appreciate some countries approach on trying to provide a solution on prostitution, Sweden definitely has it wrong.
This is totally off-base. Are drug dealers "victims" but drug users criminals?
While I can appreciate some countries approach on trying to provide a solution on prostitution, Sweden definitely has it wrong.
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