Don't know why, but that's funny.

... and thus far, he has been a good President.

We will never know why Reps voted against their pilots, unless they chose to tell us. Perhaps ACL was right, it boiled down to pilots represented by our MEC not being perceived as pilots with the right to be represented by our MEC.

We'll never know on Moak's level (without subpoena power), but my hunch is that there was a quid pro quo on his activities that effected scope and our mid contract improvements. Moak has been better than Dick Cheney at keeping secrets. A Saudi, indoctrinated and supported from Afghanistan attacks America, so lets declare war on Iraq ... and hey what do you know, my old Company has operations right next door and you can outsource the war to them, what providence! (Haliburton's bills from 03 to 06, $17.2 Billion, next largest contractor Dyn Corp, $1.44) Moak gets contract improvements (which I am grateful for) that justify his promotion, but we've got to clean up a "representational mess" and "clarify scope language" as around 600 jobs go out the door and we stop hiring for a few years.

... and before anyone gets mad, I'm admitting what I do not know and can't prove. However, it is amazing how these fortuitous accidents come to pass.

What makes it more difficult now is that we are in formal Section 6 and the transparency is much greater ... that's a good thing, but at the same time it makes back room horse trading more difficult.