Lidle crash: who is wrong?

Don Tuite wrote in
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:50:14 GMT, Judah wrote:

This may have been covered in another post that I skipped, but I'll
make the question short, and you seem like a good guy to ask.

Thanks. But are you sure you know me well enough to make that claim?

If the VFR corridor is mainly to save the LGA controllers the
distraction of talking to planes on floats and helos using that short
strecth of the East River, and the only thing you can do without
busting the LGA bravo is fly up and make a U-turn, why does anybody do
that? Are they still burning that stuff under the 59th St bridge?

I'm not sure. The only time I ever did it was on a return trip to White
Plains from I think Atlantic City when I was cleared that way. They either
give you the over-water route or over-land route and the over land route
takes you way out of the way...

We've become a bunch of cowardly lions...

Sixth-graders packing heat? Scares *me*.

My sixth-grader doesn't pack heat. But it's OK to be scared of one who
does. Should they close the school system down because of it?

New Yorkers (and Americans in general) used to talk about how tough we are,
being a super-power and all. Cowboy Bush runs around making all his threats
and acts like he doesn't have to answer to anybody. Then when it comes time
to execute he botches the job, dumps all our resources into the wrong war,
and loses all credibility. Now America looks like a bunch of irrational
yahoos who could go off like a time-bomb at any moment, exploding on
whichever "enemy" the boss thinks is the bad guy today. He thinks he is
making this country feel safer and stronger, but he just snorted away too
many brain cells.

Deep down, it seems we're all just looking for a little bit of c-c-c-c-
courage. In fact, we're so afraid of another terrorist attack that
everybody goes into a panic when they see a little bit of smoke in a
building. The first comment after every accident, explosion or flatulent
emmission is, "Authorities believe it doesn't look like a terrorist
attack."

America. What a country.