ANOTHER airspace incursion in D.C.?

Jake Brodsky wrote:


What's broken is the assumption that this really DOES stop pink elephants.

The assumption that there in fact ARE Pink Elephants (ie. Suicide
Terrorists flying GA aircraft) is what's wrong here. We've never seen
one. They would seem to be highly improbable creatures.

I just read an article in today's NYTimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/15/politics/15TALK.html

It includes:

Just before Thanksgiving last year, his first
novel, "The Last Jihad," was published. It begins
with a suicide pilot crashing his private plane
into the president's motorcade and ends with the
president saying a silent prayer as the nuclear
bombs he ordered are dropped on Iraq. By December,
it was on The New York Times best-seller list,
where it stayed for 11 weeks.

Apparently, the author is well connected with the "conservative
establishment". He was able to get himself on all sorts of "talk
shows" to promote his book to that audience.

Normally, I'd be all for an author's success. However, it provides
a bit of a view into why the current administration has such fears
of raging pink elephants.

- Andrew

Bob Noel wrote:

In article , "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:

That's great logical reasoning. Let's see: "If you haven't flown on
the Concorde,
you are not competent to comment on it.....If you haven't been in the
crash, you
are not competent to comment on it.....If you haven't been to Venus,
you are not
competent to comment on it."
Yup, that sure makes sense.

All true statements. Glad you agree.

utter nonsense


I was hoping to hear comments on flying at (on? over?) Venus.

- Andrew

On 14 Nov 2003 17:44:21 -0800, (Snowbird)
wrote:

Would you care to share what you found staggeringly ignorant
about Loy's form letter?

It's at home. I hope my kids haven't scribbled on it yet. I'll try
to find it and post it here for all to cry over.


Jake Brodsky,
PP ASEL IA, Cessna Cardinal N30946, Based @ FME
Amateur Radio Station AB3A

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 22:31:02 -0500, Andrew Gideon
wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/15/politics/15TALK.html

Apparently, the author is well connected with the "conservative
establishment". He was able to get himself on all sorts of "talk
shows" to promote his book to that audience.

Normally, I'd be all for an author's success. However, it provides
a bit of a view into why the current administration has such fears
of raging pink elephants.

Yes, there are many ignorati pontificating on this preposterous
possibility, despite the technical hurdles one would need to overcome,
and the unlikeliness that anyone with this sort of background could
brainwash themselves enough to do this sort of thing.

What is lacking is a sense of perspective on the likeliness of a
threat and the existence of much more commonplace and simple
techniques. This is not a liberal/conservative issue. This is an
issue of ignorance and stupidity run amok.

Both the left and the right has their fair share of twits like this.
But they're not a fundamental part of policy for either side as far as
I know.


Jake Brodsky,
PP ASEL IA, Cessna Cardinal N30946, Based @ FME
Amateur Radio Station AB3A