The Conservative Soldier

United Airlines announced this week it is cutting 7,000 jobs by the end of next year.
I hope the 7,000 include some of the lying, arrogant, incompetent and utterly useless employees who transformed our recent routine Washington-to-Chicago trip into an all too typical commercial aviation nightmare.
I know, I know. They’re here for our safety. For example, […]

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It was the perfect storm for a disgruntled liberal in search of a place to assign blame.
Here’s the scene. An American Airlines MD80 on a steamy, overcast afternoon yesterday, at a gate at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, bound for Chicago-O’Hare.
We’re about to be pushed back, almost on time, when The Captain, in his best I-am-a-Senior-Pilot-with-a-vault-full-of-worthless-stock-options voice, […]

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Everyone is afraid of something in America.
Afraid of John McCain or Barack H. Obama.
Afraid of gasoline prices and their precipitous rise.
Afraid of inflation. Afraid of job loss. Afraid of declining home values that will keep them from amassing huge home equity debt.
Afraid of salmonella. Afraid of tomatoes. (Will string beans be next?).
Afraid of guns. Afraid […]

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