#BanHighCapacityAircraft: More “News” From the Rabbit Hole

Today’s post, direct from the Rabbit Hole:

Due to the recent mass murder of 149 men, women and children with a high-capacity Airbus A320 airplane – which is just the most recent in an epidemic of suicidal airplanes – airplane safety rules are being reviewed by the Federal Transportation Department for possible revision.

Under the leadership of luminaries like former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as other well known anti-gun politicians and Hollywood activists, grass root advocacy groups have been quickly organized and funded. One of the largest to-date is Mothers Against Planes* (MAP). They’ve already begun to lobby Congress for legislation that will ban any aircraft that holds more than 10 passengers.

As always there are apologists for Big Planes who say silly things like “planes don’t kill people, people kill people.”

To them I say, so what? We’ve got a new special interest group to pander to and a new government agency to form and fund.

Exciting new videogame: “Government Oversight” – Now you can be the boss of everybody!

While investigating last week’s mass murder by 28-year-old German Andreas Günter Lubitz, authorities are looking into the possibility that it was a possible copycat crime:

• Japan Airlines Flight 350 - Captain Seiji Katagiri forces the Japan Airlines Flight 350 to crash, murdering 24 passengers with a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61 (1982)
•  Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 -   32-year-old Younes Khayati murdered 44 people when he flew his  ATR 42-312 into the Atlas Mountains (1994)
• 9/11/2001 mass murders – Four separate and co-ordinated attacks using high-capacity, assault aircraft resulted in the mass murder of 2,996 men, women and children. (2001)
• EgyptAir Flight 990 – co-pilot Gamil el-Batouty murdered 216 people with a high-capacity Boeing 767 (2002)
• Mozambique Airlines flight TM470 - Captain Herminio dos Santos Fernandes murdered 32 men, women and children with a Standard-Capacity Embraer 190 (2013
• Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 - Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah suspected of murdering 238 men, women and children with a high-capacity Boeing 777 (2014)
• SilkAir Flight 185 – Captain Tsu Way Ming is believed to have murdered 107 people with his high capacity oeing B737. (2015)
• Germanwings Flight 9525 - 28-year-old German Andreas Günter Lubitz executes 149 men, women and children with a high-capacity Airbus A320 (2015)

It should be noted that after exhaustive investigation it has been proved that in each instance, the high-capacity aircraft was purchased legally.

Noting this disturbing trend of mass murder involving high-capacity aircraft, MAP along with other anti-plane groups immediately sprung into action in the Twitterverse using #BanHighCapPlanes. Their goal is to make air travel risk free by the end of the decade. Using their now familiar #PassengerLivesMatter they are demanding that all high-capacity, military assault style aircraft carrying in excess of 10 passengers be banned.

With certain exceptions, of course, for governmental purposes

This creates quite a political dilemma: if we ban high-capacity aircraft, thus increasing geometrically the number of low-capacity private jets, it would surely have a negative impact on our collective carbon footprint. Butt if we don’t ban them, well, when will we stop killing our children? This one’s a real political catch-22. From what I understand the current plan is for Big Guy to issue an Executive Order banning such flights, have the MSM blame the Republicans for the fallout and therefore provide Hillz with a platform to run on.

Meanwhile, the surplus high-capacity aircraft will be given to ISIS and Mexican gun cartels, leaving the rest of us stuck temporarily with just the horse we rode in on.

And with that I can advise you that Elvis has, indeed, left the building.

 

Full disclosure: Mother’s Against Planes (MAP) is partially funded by Amtrak and the Cruise Lines International Association

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Hillz is entitled to be Presidette, and if you don’t agree, you’re a sexist.

Ah, it’s good to be King Queen (is that sexist?)

“We learned today, from her attorney, Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails from her personal server,” he continued. “While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department.” National Review

Unfortunately, her emails were under subpoena at the time, so this could pose a bit of a problem for our inevitable presumptive next President. Some are now calling for her server to be subpoenaed, claiming it may be evidence of a potential crime. 

Now, before you say anything, be sure to check the 12 words/phrases of coded sexism you’re not allowed to use when referring to our Queen-in-waiting:

POLARIZING,

CALCULATING,

DISINGENUOUS, INSINCERE,

AMBITIOUS,  

INEVITABLE,  ENTITLED, OVER-CONFIDENT,

SECRETIVE,

“WILL DO ANYTHING TO WIN,”

 

“REPRESENTS THE PAST,” (Butt, that’s a good thing, right?)

 

“OUT OF TOUCH” (“I would’ve needed two smartphones.”)

And also before you start in on Hillz, allow we to remind you she was probably forced to resign as Secretary of State because Iran refused to negotiate for their right to build nuclear bombs with a woman.  That means John Kerry is going to get HER entitled deserved Nobel Peace Prize.  It doesn’t get much more sexist than that. We owe her, big time.

And I dare say that if Hillz had been allowed at the negotiation table, Iran would already have their nuclear bombs and bunkers. Besides, everybody lies about email/servers. So don’t tell me she’s not qualified to be Queen of the USA just because she broke the law.

And if you don’t agree, you’re probably a sexist.

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First, Historic “Last Friday of the Month Great Escape”- Let’s Roll!

What a week! Suicidal airplanes, exploding buildings, our Mideast policy revealed to be as venal and addled as we feared. We have not seen such a synthesis of incompetence and malfeasance since…well, ever. Even Jimmy Carter looks competent and wise by comparison. At least back then it was still clear which end zone we were trying to protect.

Now that the Arab Spring is nothing more than a vague dream fragment the Middle East appears on the brink of implosion. The thin memory of that verdant vernal equinox is about to be eclipsed by nuclear winter. And haven’t we all had enough of winter by now?

That’s why I’m initiating the first of my Last Friday of the Month Great Escapes. Come with me, if you will, on a nostalgic trip back to mid-century America - where all the women were schtrong, all the men good looking, and all the children above average.

I give you Gene Kelly,tap dancing…on roller skates! I’d like to see Pharrell Williams and his stupid hat do this:

I Like Myself (It's Always Fair Weather ) - Gene Kelly h/t DVR

And don’t worry, we will find a way to roll along. Enjoy your weekend.

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“Butt How Can It Be Like That?”

There is a great deal of disturbing news from around the world on the War on Terror – not the least of which is the announcement of desertion charges filed against Bowe Bergdahl, our “prize” in last year’s Turd for Terrorists swap. And in the midst of all this we get this strange story: Big Guy met with his former Secretary of State on Monday afternoon behind closed doors to discuss "a range of topics." According to a Big White statement:

"President Obama and Secretary Clinton enjoy catching-up in person when their schedules permit," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in a written statement.

Doug Powers speculated they were trying to get their stories straight:

“I’m not saying a strategy to address Hillary’s recent problems was formulated at Monday’s WH get-together, but the Iranians are now allowed to develop nukes provided they test them on Hillary’s email server.”

Naturally the reunion was closed press, butt here’s a file photo of Bo and Hilz hugging it out; I’m certain Monday’s meeting was just as warm.

Butt frankly I’m more intrigued by the clock than the hug. Since when does the President get his own time zone? And what the heck’s up with Zulu/UTC?  Greenwich Mean Time  (GMT) is no longer good enough?  Why, because it’s white privilege time? You’ll be relieved, as I was, to find out it that we aren’t actually gauging our watches and smart phones to Zulu time; it actually stands for “Z Universal Time Coordinated.” Apparently the NATO phonetic alphabet word for “Z” is "Zulu." These international issues get very complicated.

Like when your ally launches a proxy war against the country you’re negotiating with over obtaining nuclear arms:

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday night launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed Shiite rebel forces in Yemen, responding to distress calls from the U.S.-backed Yemeni president who was fleeing the country in the face of relentless advances by the rebels. - Washington Times

While you’re busy helping the other side:

Just as Saudi forces began bombing the Shiite rebels, U.S. fighter jets were providing support for Iran-backed Shiite fighters in Iraq’s war against the Sunni extremist Islamic State group.

While those Iran-backed fighters are busy looting U.S. files in Yemen to get spy information:

Secret files held by Yemeni security forces that contain details of American intelligence operations in the country have been looted by Iran-backed militia leaders, exposing names of confidential informants and plans for U.S.-backed counter-terrorism strikes, U.S. officials say.

Who knows which rabbit hole this one leads us down, as things just grow curiouser and curiouser.

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Did The Wig Hats Do Her In, Or Did the Florist Run Off With Them?

Okay, I’m going to make this as quick and painless as I can.

Yes it’s true, Lady M axed the Big White florist. No, not because she was white, although she was. It was because she and Lady M just grew apart. When Lady M hired Laura Dowling in ‘09 everything was fine as her tastes still ran towards the “classics.”

Which was fine because florist Laura Dowling was also known for her classic floral arrangements.

Butt then, as happens with so many relationships, one partner evolved and the other didn’t. In this case Lady M’s tastes grew more sophisticated over the years and began to veer towards the avant-garde.

Because nothing says avant-garde like a tight, short, dual-print pleather shirtwaist, with kitten heels. 

So the breakup was inevitable: Lady M’s new modern and clean aesthetic:

just no longer meshed well with Laura’s  “fussy style”

You can see now, can’t you, why Laura’s definite French style clashed with the new MO aesthetic? Gone too, was the tired old classic dining room, with all those paintings by old dead white guys on the walls.

In was the modern design, muted color family room where the only color was provided by the modern art of Rauschenberg,

butt more importantly, a very “important painting by the African American artist Alma Thomas, “Resurrection.”

If you’ve ever painted, you might recognize the painting as derivative of clean, unfussy style of a color wheel blending exercise:

Butt I digress: You can clearly see why Ms. Dowling and her fussy, white privilege floral arrangements had to go -

Now that Lady M has come into her own style and demands something more modern - and if I may say so, more tasty tasteful:

All of which is a long way around to explaining this rather unfortunate, uh, incident, when leaving Cambodia:

“Buddha's Revenge” from the Earl of Taint h/t Gerard, who never misses nuthin’

Oh, and one last thing: this newfound aesthetic of MO’s does not stop at floral arrangements, room design and fashion. Her new-found love of all things modern and “unfussy” apparently applies to her own personal look too. Did you seen our new ‘do on Jeopardy last night?

H/T Clarice, who wonders if the wig hats did her in, or if the florist ran off with them.

That’s all I’ve got.

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“By Hook Or By Crook”

In a very lengthy interview with HuffPo, Big Guy pretty much laid out his entire presidential game plan:

“By hook or by crook, we’re going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we’re more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was, and we are actually trying to do something about it. Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I’ve been successful as president.”

Make sure that the country is more prosperous:

Remember that old Winning the Future (WTF) campaign?

“To win the future, we must out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world…”

“The truth is that in the 21^st Century, world economies are trying to do more with limited resources, and part of that ultimately means we can not have an energy sector that is rooted in the infrastructure of the past.” 

As I noted at the time:

Carbon based fuels are sooooo last century. We’re on to wind, solar and nuclear [ed.except for Iran] and super-hamster technology. Because what better way to drive a $15 trillion economy in the 21st century than windmills?

So let’s just stipulate that the economy is coming along quite swimmingly. Because if it wasn’t, could we say that it is?

“If this wasn’t real, could I do this?”

And hey, if you’re not feeling it, just go to the White House page on the Economy for a complete propaganda primer on every aspect of the economy -  “By hook or by crook.”

More people have opportunity:

This year’s White House Science Fair “focused on diversity” – something Big Guy is especially proud of.

I hope we managed to identify at least as many young science protégés as did “diverse” science.

Opportunity - “By hook or by crook.”

We’re more competitive,

The Federal Communications Commission, Mr. Obama said, needs to adopt the strictest rules possible to prevent broadband companies from blocking or intentionally slowing down legal content and from allowing content providers to pay for a fast lane to reach consumers. That approach, he said, demands thinking about both wired and wireless broadband service as a public utility

Because everybody knows you get the very best competition with monopolies – regulated by the government.

Competition: “By hook or by crook.”

“Climate change is being taken more seriously than it was, and we are actually trying to do something about it.”

A new policy from FEMA will cut mitigation funding to governors who don’t adopt plans to reduce the effect of natural disasters caused by anthropogenic climate change. – Mediaite

Climate Change taken seriously – “By Hook or By Crook.”

So I hope you got the message: Big Guy plans on getting his way by hook or by crook – or both. Butt then you already knew that.

 “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.” –Jonathan Gruber

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Shut Up and Make the Coffee

Good Morning! If you, like most non-super heroes, need a cuppa joe to get rolling – there’s good news!

You can once again grab a cup at Starbucks without having your white privilege challenged by the barista with a dual degree in philosophy and gender studies. The coffee chain has dropped their “Race for the Cure” campaign, due to extreme blowback; in other words, it was effecting the bottom line.

According to the Instapundit, part of the problem may have been the hypocrisy:

STARBUCKS: Where Only The Coffee Is Black! It’s not shocking at all that this lame “conversation about race” stuff is coming from an organization that’s as white as a Netroots Nation conference, an Obama campaign HQ, a New Republic alumni get-together or a Vox editorial board meeting.

The primary purpose of race-talk in America today is to allow elite whites to silence and shame non-elite whites. Thus, it’s not surprising that the people pushing it are . . . a bunch of elite whites.

Prompting OldSchoolConsrvtive to comment:

…In fact the only time I think about race is when some whiny a$$hole plays the race card. Then instead of thinking about race logically I am filled with rage that the dumb bastard doesn't appreciate the opportunities given to all Americans. I g(e)t pissed that instead of choosing people like Thomas Sowell and Justice Thomas for role models the jacka$$es mimics some misogynistic racist rap singer.

And WillyPM to observe that the wedding of race-baiter Chris Matthews’ son should be added to the list of “all white” examples:

NYT

So, feel free to move about the coffee world of your choice without fear of being accosted before you’ve had a chance to finish your first cup of the day.

So just shut up and sing…

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The Week in Propaganda

Don’t worry, Jean Carré tells us the talks with nuclear Iran are coming along just swimmingly:

“Of course, yes, death to America.”

Iran’s Supreme leader Ali Khamenei called for “Death to America” on Saturday, a day after President Barack Obama appealed to Iran to seize a “historic opportunity” for a nuclear deal and a better future, and as US Secretary of State John Kerry claimed substantial progress toward an accord.

Khamenei told a crowd in Tehran that Iran would not capitulate to Western demands. When the crowd started shouting, “Death to America,” the ayatollah responded: “Of course yes, death to America, because America is the original source of this pressure.”

And on the home front Big Guy also has everything under control as we continue to make it up as we go along. Here’s what he’s been up to while Lady M checks Japan and Cambodia off her bucket list. We have the entire work week captured, at taxpayer funded expense, As part of our ongoing, taxpayer funded, weekly propaganda series, “West Wing Week,” we’ve captured BO’s entire busy work week.

The heavy work week begins with a meeting on Monday with school supervisors to discuss the “progress that’s been made” in education and lobbied them to oppose the mean old Republicans plan to cut their budget:

Then BO met with the Boys and Girls Club finalists for the Youth of the Year award. And maybe I shouldn’t point this out, butt “Sparkle” as well as all the rest of the finalists were girls. I guess that’s to make up for the White House paying men more than women for the past 6 years (#equalpayforgirls).

Other events last week include the St. Patrick’s Day party (where, for some reason, BO advised his guests that they were welcome to take their paper napkins, butt not the linen ones), an uncomfortable photo op with a disabled vet, the grueling bracket picking with ESPN (not doing great so far, despite all the safe picks)  more photo ops in Cleveland, where he pretended to support small and mid-sized businesses and put a plug (hee!) in for alternate energy, and then back to the Big White to meet with the royals to discuss global warming. Wow! Talk about a climate-changing brain trust.

And as if that weren’t enough for the most important man in the world in one week, he somehow managed to find time to host the Big White’s second annual Student Film Festival, something Lady M would normally handle.

Oh! Now I get it – this is all just a really, really bad movie!

Written, directed and produced by amateurs:

I wonder if we can get our money back?

And speaking of Lady M, she continued to wow them in Cambodia:

MO’s dress based on proposed design for the flag of the Won World Order

P.S. I should also note that while BO finally called to congratulate Bibi for winning the Israeli election last week. Butt due to time constraints, and it’s failure to conform to our “how we want the world to work” scenario, it was edited out of the official West Wing Week script.

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