Since seeing eye dogs accompany blind people I don't think they could refuse them, some muslum country just stopped flying out of New York because they didn't want to carry Jews and the US gov. told them they couldn't discriminate so they stopped their flights, good riddance to discrimination. Dogs save the lives of people waking them up to fires, service dogs alert people to upcoming seizures, comfort people undergoing chemo, herd sheep, etc. so if any group of people truly detest dogs, they are just brainless. Dogs detect IED explosives so I guess that could upset some crazy terrorists, but where I live a dog went under a house recently and was shot and killed saving the life of a policeman. As far as I am concerned, any airline that doesn't want to board a dog shouldn't fly.

(Written on 01/22/2016)(Permalink)

There is an old saying, "That will happen when pigs fly." Now they will have new Airbuses to make that happen.

(Written on 01/22/2016)(Permalink)

I used to have a business in the People's Republik of Soviet Monica. It is the most business unfriendly place in southern California, LA being neck and neck with them. The City Council is elected by rent control voters who have a good deal and just about everyone who moved into a home by the airport knew it was there, some may have just been born to a home there. SM is about as leftist/communist as you can get in California and if the airport were being used is smuggle in illegal aliens, the city council would give it a subsidy instead of higher fees. Hopefully someone will challenge the fees in court, but the blood suckers of SM have unlimited funds to screw people. I am SO glad I moved out of SM and even more glad I've moved out of LA.

(Written on 05/03/2013)(Permalink)

There is a HUGE amount of pork in the post office, huge salaries, huge undeserved pensions, etc., but who is going to put a letter in your mailbox for less than fifty cents? Better the PO went bankrupt, shed the egregious pensions and work rules to pay normally and work normally. UPS isn't going to get a love letter to the sticks of Podunk, better to reform but then try to get that through the dumo-crats and republi-crats who only look after themselves.

(Written on 04/26/2013)(Permalink)

Having barely survived many bouts of gun type depression over the years with my partner in and out of non-Hodgkins, near death and "cured for now", and deceased because of Parkinsons, I will tell you that depression KILLS and when you are in that state of mind you have very little understanding of your emotions and actions. I was lucky my friends were there to take the edge off, I was lucky they insisted I see a shrink, I was lucky I got control of my suicidal thoughts through Cymbalta - the only anti-depressant that worked quickly and did not require increasing doses to finally fail. Anyone who wants to blame someone for suicide (other than the scum like the Boston Marathon bombing type of people) has NEVER experienced what it is like, how you think with it, how you can't really rationalize in that state of mind. I would hate to see someone commit suicide, but I would NEVER BLAME them, the truth is that they can't see a rational world, I know I was out of that rational world.

(Written on 04/26/2013)(Permalink)

"To the moon, Alice" Jackie Gleason

(Written on 04/21/2013)(Permalink)

What about the fuel for those planes and why our gas is $4 a gallon. The CA refineries are EXPORTING gas to mexico and south america. Our "neighbors" to the south are being subsidized on fuel to keep us paying high gas prices. Our steaks are twice as expensive as need be because the washington dingbats are using corn for fuel instead of for cows. Same for milk. You are a traitor if you destroy amerika financially just as much as if you gave away secrets. One big traitor and many smaller traitors and adding a trillion a year in debt is destroying america, formerly America.

(Written on 04/14/2013)(Permalink)

If he really wants to make money he should put in single size quadruple decker beds and do half hour around the airport flights so people can join the "mile high" club and just take the plane from city to city as reservations demand. No standing and a premium for lying down. Too bad I can't patent this idea.

(Written on 11/16/2012)(Permalink)

Not being Orthodox you wouldn't know that you spell it G-d out of reverence and only use the full letters if you are writing something religious and then you would mostly use Hashem (Hebrew for The Name) instead. If you were a conservative or reform or other Jew you probably would spell it as you do. And, there would be some Orthodox Jews somewhere who don't care about that but its what we do here. Hopefully I have cleared up your misconception and I did graduate from the University of Maine Magna Cum Laude if that makes it more clear. Almost time to light candles for the weekend, so I will turn off my computer and not worry about any replies until later Saturday night, Good Shabbos, Shabbat Shalom

(Written on 10/19/2012)(Permalink)

Well since you know more than the people who wrote the story, I nominate you for Commander in Chief of the armed forces of America, you couldn't do any worse than whoever we have now.

(Written on 10/19/2012)(Permalink)