Paying Your Own Way

I'm surprised about the complaints from some people about some of the airlines charging for additional checked bags, heavy bags, and non-standard size items. People complain these items use to be free - but they only show their ignorance.

Intelligent people know such things were never free - someone had to pay for the shipping costs for their bags. In the past airlines would absorb the cost to lug the luggage of their passengers. Now, with the obvious increase in fuel costs, their profit margin is almost non-existent so the costs they have always absorbed in the past are now directed to the passenger.

That's the way it should be. Why should someone flying with a light carry-on bag have to subsidize the shipping costs of someone checking in 3 heavy bags? I'm also glad they are charging for food. I usually don't eat anything on a plane yet in the past; my ticket price subsidized the eats of those that feel the need to continually stuff their faces. (If you're seated next to me and you're fat I will NOT raise that divider!)

Some stats from the August 11, 2008 issue of Forbes expands on this with a little blurb about fat people on planes. Some highlights:

• The avg. weight of an American has increased 24 pounds since 1960
• JetBlue Airways cut 1,079 excess pounds from its Airbus A320 but with 119 out of 150 seats full their plane is loaded with 2,856 extra pounds of thicker waists, thighs, and faces
• Airlines flew 735 million passengers in 2007. Multiply that by 24 pounds and airlines are flying 17.6 BILLION pounds of extra flabby people
• It takes about 1 gallon of jet fuel to move 100 pounds on a domestic flight
• 176.4 MILLION gallons of fuel, costing $538 million (at the industrial price of $3.05/gal).
  

Think Al Gore should be preaching weight control - and he can start with himself.

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What ABC News Hid From Their Viewers

I'd consider ABC to be in the same liberal cesspool of "news" as CBS, NBC, CNN, and others. The other night they played a "news" item with video - but their broadcast was extremely deceptive and contoured to prey on the fear of the simple-minded.

The have a static web page on this very same topic titled Western Antarctic Ice Chunk Collapses and if you check their news site you can find the very same video propaganda they aired.

Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 160-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica, which started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years.

This is the result of global warming, said British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughan.

Global warming? Uh - well let's fill in a BIG black hole that ABC neglected to tell their viewers.

Mount Erebus is an active Antarctic Volcano. There is continued activity that was logged even back in the days of Shackleton's expedition.

Much eruptive and seismic activity has been observed, including ejections of volcanic bombs as much as 8 meters across.

Some more facts about Mt. Erebus:

• Frequent Strombolian eruptions
• Active from about 1.3 million years ago to present
  
• Infrequent ash eruptions
• Rare lava flows confined to inner crater
• Persistent convecting phonolite lava lake
• Persistent low-level eruptive activity
• One of Earth's few long-lived lava lakes
• Most active volcano in Antarctica
• Lavas and bombs contain large phenocrysts of anorthoclase feldspar
  

There are lava flows under the Antarctic - just a little fact ABC and their group of "scientists" fail to mention. In other words, if there were no humans ice chunks would still be collapsing, the Earth would continue with cold-warm-cold cycles, and there would still be dynamic weather patterns.

STOP THE STUPIDITY!

DUH!

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to NOT rush into deciding whether to regulate emissions linked to global warming - probably because too many real scientists have disputed the concept that intelligent people know as the greatest socialist scam in the world.

Liberals are outraged and see their control of business and individuals through massive government regulations and oppression possibly loosing ground. The massive taxes and fees that liberals have lined up as part of the scam are basically on hold until one of the three liberals take the White House.

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Talk about revelations, the so-called Earth Hour created by fanatical liberals will be a great opportunity to identify who are the most gullible on the planet. EH is an event where the gullible will turn off their lights between 8 and 9 PM tomorrow.

They didn't say anything about televisions so I guess they can still watch whatever junk they watch - and TVs, even HDTVs, use more electricity than a light.

Me? I'm planning to turn every light on in the house as a beacon that I'm no fool.

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Next month Japan will put the potbelly police on patrol. Japan has government health care and since they flip the bill they should have a say so about preventing health problems - starting with the obvious blubber citizens. Sounds like a good idea to me!

Oink oink.

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