Unions representing air traffic controllers, pilots, and flight attendants release joint statement on shutdown: "We cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. It is unprecedented" https://t.co/RcWYmT5drD pic.twitter.com/NZUgiVvudj — NBC News (@NBCNews) January 24, 2019
Tag Archives: TSA
Good luck to those of you in transit during Trump’s government shutdown
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged air traffic control, airline industry, Donald Trump, government shutdown, national security 14 Comments
Trump doesn’t really want a wall. With impeachment on the horizon, he just wants to demonstrate that he has the support of America’s angry, terrified, racist, and uninformed white males.
As of yesterday, the federal government had been partially shut down for two weeks, and Donald Trump marked the occasion by tweeting out the above image, making it clear that he didn’t intend to give in, even though our national parks are overflowing with shit and TSA agents have stopped coming to work, bringing air […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged #TrumpShutdown, anti-immigration, border security, border wall, Cory Gardner, Donald Trump, government shutdown, immigration, ladders, lies, Mexico, Nancy Pelosi, racism, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Susan Collins, terrorism 12 Comments
Reagan’s budget director David Stockman on why taxes on the wealthy must be increased
I know that I should be writing about TSA pat downs and the new Wikileaks brouhaha tonight, like everyone else with moveable appendages and a blog, but I can’t seem to get with the program. For whatever reason, I feel as though I need to stick with the Bush tax cuts. I know it bores […]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bush administration, Bush tax cuts, Columbo, David Stockman, deficit, Dick Cheney, Fareed Zakaria, fiscal responsibility, Hank Paulson, middle class tax cuts, OCD, Reagan administration, richest Americans, Ronald Reagan, tax policy, taxes, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich, theology of tax cuts, Wikileaks 6 Comments
Amtrak owes me
I was having dinner with a friend tonight, when a great new ad campaign for Amtrak occurred to me.
Posted in Mark's Life, Marketing, Observations, Other, Rail Also tagged airport security, Amtrak, John Tyner, junk, junk touching, Opt Out Day, pat down, porno scans, security screening, security theater, underwear bomber 19 Comments