IL-06 Jobs for the Future
Prior to my first run for U.S. Congress in 2004, I worked as an account manager for a data integration firm and had many large multi-nationals as clients. I felt I had a pretty good understanding of...
View ArticleMy Christmas Present from the TSA w/poll
I had the unpleasant task of bringing my girlfriend to the airport today for her flight back to Germany. We don't get to see eachother that often because we're still both in school, and it's been...
View ArticleBuild him an Airport.
If as is reported, GWB wants to leave a legacy behind him, lets make sure that it is NOT the nuking of Iran. Legacies can take many forms, lets choose the right one.
View ArticleTysons Tunnel Could Risk U.S. Funds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/... In the debate over whether to build a Metro extension to Dulles International Airport below or above ground in Tysons Corner, tunnel supporters have voiced a recurring...
View ArticleTransportation Secretary Mineta Steps Down Because Eponymous Airport So Crappy!
Not-BREAKING! MSNBC reports that Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, the only Democrat in President Bush's Cabinet and one of its three remaining original members, will step down July 7. Read the...
View ArticleInnocents added to watch lists to meet quotas
Check this article out. Apparently, Air Marshalls are being pressed to meet certain quotas of reports on suspicious people: The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that...
View ArticleBushies tried to divert $$ from airport explosives detection
From an AP article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was...
View ArticleFrameshop: The War Against Toothpaste
cross posted Today, when I turned on the television, I heard Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, explain that a terror plot had been foiled in Britain -- which would have involved the use...
View ArticleAirplane thing was mostly a conspired political play.
Previously I had a diary saying how ludicrous and staged the airplane chemical bomb thing was. This previous diary is here. We have not seen any evidence and we have not seen the mug shots of the...
View Article"TSA ... VIGILANT, EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT" - NOT
"TSA ... VIGILANT, EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT" The Motto of the Transportation Safety Administration is called into sharp question by an incident reported on Lew Rockwell's site. Coffee, Tea, or Should We...
View ArticleWith news like this, why bother flying ever again?
Ok, so outside of the fact that it is necessary to fly sometimes - whether it is for business travel or for those instances where you can't drive (of course with gas prices being as high as they are,...
View ArticleMan barred from flight b/c of Arabic writing on T-Shirt
"Flying while brown" has been a depressingly well-documented phenomenon, with perhaps the scariest recent example being the Canadian Muslim doctor expelled from a United Airlines flight after a "drunk...
View ArticleMica's Macaca: Lax airport security doesn't bother me! (FL-07)
Challenger John "Jack" Chagnon (FL-07) is demanding that Congressman Mica apologize to all Florida residents for his stunningly insensitive, arrogant, and patronizing interview on Orlando's CBS...
View ArticleWhy we need a passenger-train network: Denver edition
Nearly all the news media have framed Denver as a place you can't get into or out of. With a few exceptions like this Indianapolis station. But lookit, Amtrak's running out of Denver. Now is the...
View ArticleBlizards, Cactus, and Cloud-Shrouded Mountains
Or, the Christmas Vacation Diary. Or, What I Learned This Christmas. I was one of the roughly three to five thousand people stranded in Denver International Airport this Christmas. Here's my story.
View Article"We Can Set Aside Billions For Homeland Security" By Taking Back Tax Cuts For...
New legislation was introduced yesterday in the Senate that will make all you millionaires out there very unhappy. If you earn more than $1 million a year, (and fortunately there are many more...
View ArticleAirport Landing Slots
Here's a story in the NY Times that should appeal to the policy geeks in the DKos reading audience (article). What's interesting about the article is that it is a proposal from the Bush administration...
View ArticleDailyKos is Pornography
Well, not the front page of DailyKos, anyway. As I was catching my flight from Kansas City International airport earlier today, I decided to catch up on the workings (or lack thereof) of the world...
View ArticleBreaking: Plane Exposed To 'Smallpox'??? {Update 3}
US AIR Still not letting Crew and Passengers off plane, as reported just now, even though there is apparently an all clear. ALL CLEAR, Passengers notified man does not Have SmallPox, will be able to...
View ArticleBreaking: Alleged plot on JFK Airport fuel lines disrupted
According to WNBC-TV in NYC via MSNBC: NEW YORK - Three people were arrested and one other was being sought Saturday in connection to a plan to set off explosives in a fuel line that feeds John F....
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