Arline Security Incident in Flight to NYC

This one is strange. I am a frequent flyer, and I can’t imagine anyone wanting to spend a moment longer than necessary in one of those tiny on-board bathrooms on a commercial airliner. They aren’t designed to be comfortable intentionally – to encourage passengers to spend as little time as possible – instead of taking a magazine to read half the flight preventing other passengers from having access.

So if 3 passengers lock themselves in, and refuse to come out – there’s a problem. a BIG problem. And with airplane food being confined to a bag of chips and a stale cookie anymore…

It wasn’t something they ate.

Definitely no room for a Jacuzzi...

Military jets safely escort flight to NYC

Two fighter jets escorted a New York-bound American Airlines flight from Los Angeles after three passengers locked themselves in the bathroom Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said.

A law enforcement official said it wasn’t thought to be terrorism, and American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said, “In our eyes, it’s a big nothing.”

The North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled two F-16 jets to shadow Flight 34 until it landed safely at New York’s Kennedy Airport at 4:10 p.m. Sunday, the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement.

The nature of the incident was unclear, but the passengers locked themselves in the bathroom and were still inside when the plane landed, the law enforcement official said. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Law enforcement met the flight and will interview passengers, the TSA statement said. The FBI responded to the airport.

The jets intercepted the flight about 100 miles west of New York and shadowed it until it landed, said John Cornelio, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command. He described the measure as precautionary.

Smith said a “security concern” was brought to the airline’s attention but the plane’s captain never declared any sort of security threat and never requested law enforcement help.

He said the crew used “normal procedures” to assess the circumstances and the plane landed as planned.

New York has been in a heightened state of security after federal officials received a credible but uncorroborated tip of a car bomb plot on the anniversary in either New York or Washington.

Snoop’s Ghetto Card Revoked!

Damn…. Not to mention the wig…

A “Becky” Problem…Black Women Hot over Pepsi Superbowl Ad

Hmmmm… Seems that this Pepsi commercial shown during the Super Bowl has the ladies hot and bothered…

Pepsi Superbowl Ad Controversy, posted with vodpod

What I find interesting is MSNBC’s choice of black women to talk about this. Sophia Nelson, a Black Republican is a frequent contributor to Booker Rising, a black conservative site.

Somehow, I think no matter which way you changed the races of the actors – that can of Pepsi would have been flying…

The HNIC’s Doggie Doo…

I guess the ASPCA won’t let the HNIC molest puppies anymore…

The best response, other than to spell out the outright lies in this ad is this:

This gets more like Urkel trying to last the first round against Muhammed Ali in his heyday…

Every day.

more about “Steele on the road, and on the air“, posted with vodpod

Career in Government? It Pays More…

A recent survey by USA Today shows that in a number of occupations which exist both in the Government and commercial world - “the Government pays better”. That is not actually always true – but it makes good press.

Might be a real good idea for those aspiring college graduates to get a resume into the Government to pursue a career as a G-man or G-woman.

The key to this though, isn’t that the Federal Government pay scale has gone whacky. There are two factors contributing to the differential.

First is the age of the average Federal Government worker.

In the United States, for example, 60 percent of the federal civil service is older than 45 years – nearly double the 31 percent in the private sector. Furthermore, only 3 percent of the federal workforce is less than 25 years old.

In the Federal Government’s pay system, additional pay is given for each year of seniority in a position. So, a person who is new to a job makes less than someone with 10 years experience at the same job. The impact of an older workforce is to artificially push up the average salaries.

Second, is how commercial corporations have reduced their payroll by eliminating older workers – pushing down the average age of the workforce, while lowering expense due to salaries. This sort of age discrimination is fairly rampant – and has resulted in a massive real income loss for the average American Family. Where it gets truly ugly is the fact that this strategy has forced perhaps as many as 5 million older American workers into unemployment, or under-employment in what should have been their prime earning years – socking away a large portion of their retirement funds. In combination with the massive losses Wall Street has inflicted on pension and retirement plans – this means that the cost of this generation nearing retirement has been pushed off onto the Government, as massive numbers of people will be dependent on Social Security as their only income.

Ergo – the “shinola” is about to hit the fan.

Searching for the “R” Word – Australia

This one popped up on Youtube yesterday, and I think it is a bit off the wall -

This appears to be an Australian commercial for KFC.  The white couple appears to be at a cricket of soccer match, sitting on the opposing teams side. Which I have to figure is probably safer than getting seated on the wrong side of the opposing stadium in some NFL stadiums in America. The premise is that sharing a bucket of KFC bridges the cultural and competitive divide the world over. The other fans happen to be black.

The folks who posted this on YouTube feel that it is racist (black folks and chicken) – not realizing the racial meme has no meaning outside of the US.

Beating up KFC on this one – is a bit off the wall.

Now this isn’t to say that racism isn’t prevalent in Australia, and the commercial doesn’t play to white Australian fears of being overwhelmed by non-whites…