Dulles International Closes A Runway To Handle Private Jets Arriving For Obama's Coronation

Dulles International Airport has closed one runway to enable them to park up to 600 private jets expected to arrive as reported in Bloomberg for today's coronation of Barack Hussein Obama.

An Airports Authority spokesman is quoted in the article as saying,“That would set a record, topping the 300 the airport accommodated for President George W. Bush’s 2004 inaugural."

Soap Box Ravings is having a hard time believing those aircraft only flew in conservatives who wanted to congratulate Barack Hussein Obama. It will be interesting to see how much press this fact gets.

Some Thoughts Regarding Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger's Water Landing

US Airways Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III

US Airways Flight 1549

Soap Box Ravings has heard many people calling various talk shows who have a tendency to disregard the pilot's actions in landing his aircraft on the Hudson River. Their reasoning is since pilots "train" for emergencies; this wet landing is not such a big deal.

I can only assume these are the same kind of people who assume their personal protection is in the hands of the local on-duty police officer.

That pilot may have read a lot of aircraft technical manuals, he may have flown a lot of hours in a Link, or similar trainer, but to the best of my knowledge, no pilot lands "wheels up" in water with an actual aircraft regardless of the amount of training they are subject to.

That was most assuredly his first wet landing in a wheels up airliner full of passengers.

In Soap Box Ravings' opinion, the only people that have have landed their aircraft wheels up in the water and lived to talk about are referred to as survivors.

For those who think trained people standby for their protection think about this, both business and government have a tendency to reduce personnel training when money is tight such as it is now.

In addition to reduced or eliminated training, remember every training class has some people who are less skilled than others. In other words, an anchor man or woman. The word training can mean at lot less than you may think. Some organizations feel that providing a technical manual is training.

Also, let us not forget that trained skills are perishable; they need to be continually used or they are lost.

Insidious Global Warming, Coming To An Area Of Your Concern

Computer Keyboard

The TimesOnLine, Sunday reported the environmental impact of Google searches. The full story is available at: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece

Basically, Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says research indicates two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea. The article estimates about 200m global Internet searches daily.

In their response, Google claims it is in the forefront of green computing.

Googles response to the article may be found at:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2009/01/googles-respons.html

Soap Box Ravings would like to point out everything has an impact on global warming. However, not everything spews black clouds into the air. Humans have to decide what is important to them, and not all humans will agree.

Perhaps in the future, government will decide everything we are allowed to possess and the type and the size of the family allowed to possess the allowed items.

Cars, TVs, computers, cattle, pets, size of residence, the list goes on of items that effect global warming. Just remember, when they get to your area of concern it may be to late to object. After all, everyone else has already given up their items of concern before you.

600 Year Old Brewery To Be Shutdown

Stag Brewery, London, UK

It's reported that Anheuser-Busch InBev, will be shutting down the historic 600-year-old Stag Brewery in London, UK. The reason, a weak economy and increased beer taxes.

Soap Box Ravings says this historic brewery is being closed by Anheuser-Busch InBev, a recent combination of the European company InBev and the US company Anheuser-Busch which merged in 2008 to become the world's largest beer brewer.

Anheuser-Busch owned the Stag Brewery and to save money, they will close down the 600 years of tradition it this brewery represents.

Restructuring operations is a companies response to low profit and high taxes, a response that those running our government may want to consider.

The reason the Stag Brewery will be shut down is of little comfort to those who have made their careers brewing beer there.

It should also sadly be noted that the Sea World and Busch Gardens parks, owned by Anheuser-Busch, will also discontinue their free beer tasting areas.

When Will We Know We Have Been Raped

Judge to prostitute, 'So when did you realize you were raped?'

Prostitute, wiping away tears: 'When the check bounced.'

Did You Ever Expect Anything Else?

Democrats Closer to Embracing Burris

The complete fairy tale as reported on AOL may be found at: http://news.aol.com/article/democrats-closer-to-embracing-burris/294426

Conservative Rush Limbaugh's comments may be found at: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/limbaugh_reid_maddox/2009/01/06/168454.html?s=sp&promo_code=7721-1

The basic AOL story is that Roland Burris will soon be sitting in the Senate as the junior Senator representing Illinois. In the above picture, Democratic Senators Harry Reid and Dick Durbin are all smiles as they refuse to allow Roland Burris in the Senate after he was selected by Illinois Governor Blagojevich to fill the term vacated by President-elect Barack Hussein Obama.

Illinois Governor Blagojevich has been charged by the federal government with trying to sell Senator Obama's vacated, and barely used, Senate seat. Following which, the Democrats had loudly trumpeted that anyone appointed by Governor Blagojevich would not be seated in the Democrat controlled Senate.

Soap Box Ravings notes again that a Democrat and his or her principles are easily separated. You really have to wonder just what it takes to embarrass a politician, regardless of their party.