Oklahomans need to grow up.
In a Q&A session with constituents, Oklahoma’s junior Senator Tom Coburn had this little nugget of information:
“Never was there a risk for the flying public,” Coburn said. “Not once. And the FAA will tell you that. But they’re chickens.”
In his defense, there are no reports of Coburn tucking his thumbs under his armpits and strutting around, but one would think a man elected to represent the state in Washington might be a little more, shall we say, restrained. When contacted for rebuttal, an FAA spokesman responded, “We’re rubber, he’s glue.”
Then this:
When a friend of Ronnie Silman’s son pulled out a gun, Silman dared him to pull the trigger, police said. Then a bullet tore through his leg.
Be careful what you wish for, I guess. The best part of this story is that Silman was apparently the only “adult” involved in this confrontation (the final line of the article “Silman’s and Williams’ ages were not released” suggests the other two participants were minors), and he was the one issuing playground taunts. Normally, I’d hesitate to make fun of a guy who was shot, but normally the person being shot does not request the shooter pull the trigger.
“Normally the person being shot does not request the shooter pull the trigger.”
This has been proven to be a bad bet. Unlike on TV, the taunter frequently has his bluff called in real life.
Well I guess Senator Coburn is just hardheaded.
Oh wait…that’s Inhofe.
Ummm….what happened to the hot guy a day thing?
As an aviator, I must ask two things…(a) what was the reason for causing the groundings and (2) what is the point of this one? (please notice my “sarcasm”).
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=4639754
Some wiring loom was missing on some planes. If some wires lost their cover’s cover, and we had a fuel leak and a short (read: SPARK from said wires) then maybe we could have had a fire. I’m out to buy a lottery ticket. Ric Romero here, Goodnight.
Penguins.
As a political pundit once said about Tom Coburn, “He’s a guy you want in the U.S. Senate, just not from your state.” At least he’s got a brain; they’re still searching for Jim Inhofe’s.
Soonerken, that was Keith Gaddie down at OU; he said it on CNN in 2004:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CRVI6khX598
Yeah, Hook, I can’t understand why they didn’t just roll the dice. There were only a couple (few) hundred people’s lives on the line…on each flight. When you look at that in relation to the entire population of the world, it hardly registers.
Maybe Coburn has Inhofe as a pilot. After that, flying commerical would be a breeze, leaking out, shorted out engines, fire in the hole…whatever.
Fancy this… a duck/goose/chicken/large bird could be sucked in through the engine (which happens all the time) but they don’t put a cover/shield over an unprotected somewhat vital part of the plane.
They did however, strand thousands of people which cost millions of dollars for something that wasn’t a legitimate threat to the safety of anyone. “…the FAA said the wiring still was not secured and stowed properly in wheel wells…” ABC site.
Wow. Not even in the wings with the fuel baldder. Ever tried to light a cig at 30,000 feet going 400+mph? Not happening.
“Ever tried to light a cig at 30,000 feet going 400+mph?”
Yes.