Airlines don't get it!

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The airlines just don’t get it do they? First they can’t make money “because their business model didn’t anticipate the high cost of fuel” and now they are taking away the last bit of service by charging for peanuts and soda. How could the airlines not anticipate that fuel would go up? What the hell are all these high priced executives doing in the office surfing the Web? Read More...
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Give our GI's a thank you for what they have done

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President Bush opposes a new G.I. Bill of Rights. He worries that if the traditional path to college for service members since World War II is improved and expanded for the post-9/11 generation, too many people will take it. He is wrong, but at least he is consistent. Having saddled the military with a botched, unwinnable war, having squandered soldiers’ lives and failed them in so many ways, the commander in chief now resists giving the troops a chance at better futures out of uniform. He does this on the ground that the bill is too generous and may discourage re-enlistment, further weakening the military he has done so much to break. Read More...
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Goodbye to the Clintons

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Goodbye to the Clinton era and I for one am glad to see it go. Bill Clinton was not a bad President. Despite his lack of personal integrity our nation did well under his watch mostly fueled by the dot com boom. He had to fend off a lot of attacks from the right that left him and Hillary bitter I am sure but underneath it all was the type of politics that we have come to hate now. The Republicans saw the change coming and that is why people like Karl Rove have been heading for the exit door but the last of "that type of politics" maybe coming to an end thanks to Hillary's big mouth. Read More...
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