Reminds me of a small police department in Montana that received a donated dog from the Israeli Defense Force (rather than spending 20K on a Belgian Malinois trained from scratch). Dog didn't respond to commands. Officers had to find one of the few Rabbis in Montana to get language training because it turned out the dog only understood Hebrew. True story. Sometimes the free one comes with strings!:D

Yeah. Me too. Especially since I live at 5800ft. I don't have to worry about Hurricanes. :rolleyes:

He went to college. He has two degrees therefore he must be correct. Don't believe everything you read or what the Professors in college tell you. You most likely aren't aware that back in the 70's those "professionals" were talking about an "ice age". I.e. "Global cooling". Indoctrinated. If only the rest of us were as "smart" as you professionally indoctrinated...errr. I mean educated folks.

The Russian INMCM4 climate model was the only model that was remotely accurate in predicting current actual temperatures. Funny that this model lacks the CO2 bias of the other models.

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My gf who works for American just got a fa wide email telling its Miami FA not leave south Florida or be "out of base" real nice, stay there and maybe get killed so you can go to work for us.

Nonsense.

We've used 5-ton mil-surplus vehicles many times to perform high water rescues with our local SO.

Woah woah woah, this thread is for politics only. Read the title.

I got ahold of a bad burrito and dropped some serious unauthorized chemtrails off at the airport men's room a few moons ago.

The airlines should not have marked fares up, 600% in some cases, for people trying to get out of the storm path.

Clearly you don't have a clue how airline pricing works. I'm guessing you got this from the Twitter lady who screwed up and was comparing a Delta economy ticket with a mixed cabin first class ticket?

A seat on a plane which is only 20% booked a month out is a different product from the last available seat the day before a flight. Regardless of weather.

Nope, Jetblue capped fares, then the other airlines were forced to respond. Now Jetblue looks like the good guy, while the others get bad press. Doesn't matter if the story is true or not to the public.

You are incorrect. Abridged version: "There was never scientific consensus that the Earth was cooling. That is a myth."

For those who want more information, source:
The Myth of the Global Cooling Consensus | RealClearScience

I'm going to try and steer this thread away from political and global warming debate... I can't believe it, but here's a positive article written about an airline! In the USA Today, also.

Delta Flight Beats Hurricane Irma

Wonder how the ride was? ;)


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Surely it was higher than constant light chop.

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What a lot of these towns are forgetting is the log tail to support these things. The MRAP may be pretty but now you have to train people to maintain it and then source spare parts. Probably not worth the effort.

On second thought, with the number of meth labs in middle America maybe we should be giving them M-1s

Meth isn't a big thing anymore, It's heroin. Most, these junkies all end up od'ing so it works itself out.

How in the hell are you not banned yet?

why would I be banned?

delta had Kenny G onboard to keep people calm-----DELTA SMOOTH ---------- the funny thing is nobody cared that he wasn't wearing his seatbelt

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Maybe because you so blithely advocate for the death of other human beings like a child. It's interesting how folks probably think of themselves as good people yet can so easily joke about ending the life of another human.

No one cared-

Because their damn ears were bleeding!

Wouldn't say I advocate, I just don't have much empathy.

That's a different story than complaining about the airlines jacking up prices when it is far from the truth.

That would make you a psychopath. Glad you admitted it. Thanks.

"Psychopath?" Insensitive, perhaps, but not a psychopath.

No it's not, when an evacuation is ordered, if fares aren't capped, the algorithm will jack up prices based on the sudden extreme demand.

In a true capitalistic environment, there shouldn't be limits on price gouging. The value of anything is always dependent on location, time, and circumstance. The price for water today in Montana can be $1. But in southern Florida today because of excessively high demand, the price can be $12.

Same with air fares, even without hurricanes. Those who buy months in advance pay a certain lower amount, because the value of that seat months in advance is low. Now that same seat today is worth a LOT because to someone, this seat today is extremely valuable today and must travel. 6 months ago the fare for this same seat is $100. Today, last minute fare for same-day travel is $600.

Thank your doctor.

Except in your true capitalism argument, people who can't afford the extreme air fare or $90 bottles of water die. You shouldn't get to live because you have more money.

...And that is the problem with today's world. The reason why everybody treats each other like a piece of garbage, mass shootings, etc... In your world, everything is just money and numbers, there is no humanity in this capitalistic system. Capitalism is great and all, but when you take all sense of humanity from people, you take the only thing that sets people apart from animals.

There are billions of people in the world, hundreds of thousands die daily from disease, poverty and war. It's life and you can't change it. Life is to short to worry about other people.

There is no such thing as humanity, that is a social construct so is supposed "good" and "evil".

You can still get super saver fares same day short notice. For example, AA is charging $68 for LAX-ORD daily right now, it's that price months from now too.

Furthermore, price caps are capitalism, the airlines were charging $600+, till Jetblue came in and offered $99 for all seats. There is nothing more capitalistic than undercutting competition.

Somebody's been reading their Nietzsche; although he sounded like a sociopath sometimes too :D

Except when you have the ability to help or not screw over your fellow man, you do the right thing. When things go downhill quickly, all that separates us from animals is the ability to be empathetic and altruistic. You don't alienate others simply because they don't have the means to pay exorbitant prices in their time of need. It's the same reason you wouldn't leave a handicapped person behind.

Life is indeed short but what makes for the warmest and most fulfilling stories? People helping people (or animals).

An often misused term, empathy, which is easier because you would have experienced a similar event to the suffering party. Sympathy, on the other hand, requires imagining oneself in the suffering party's shoes and having feelings of compassion and hope they work it out. Justice comes to all I believe, hopefully in your suffering hour someone will empathize or sympathize with you, or will you suffer alone to gain strength to the Id.

Plenty of people die on this planet (sadly and unfortunately) because they don't have access to clean water or can't afford clean water. Other things like cancer might be survivable if you can afford the treatments and get it done in time. Someone who can't afford that will not live. I don't think anyone denies that you have a better chance of making it in life and/or living longer if you have the money or have more money than another.

Are you really implying the reason we aren't animals is because we have humanity? The reason we're like this is because of our first world status, high literacy rate, people are educated, laws, law enforcement, and (mostly) taught to obey rules and be somewhat respectful of people's own business. Obviously not always, but to a degree people do.

Look at this evacuation pic:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/...4902986455.jpg

People are trying to run away from potential death. Yet, look how orderly it is. No one is driving on the shoulder. No one in the grass. If this was a 3rd world country, you'd have mass choas with cars everywhere. In fact, in a 3rd world country, the opposite side would be forced off as cars would drive away in that direction too.

Humanity is a social construct, so some people have it and others don't. Still, business is going to be business for many people.

Only because Frontier is offering $50 on that same route.

Except when the ME3 do it :cool:

I like how "animals" are written off as if they are barbaric and unworthy. Humans are worse than animals, that's just fact. No other animal is and has been as destructive to this planet as humans. No species kills just for sport/fun/crime like humans have. No animal has slaughtered millions over the years their own version of what sky fairy they believe in. No animal has started wars with other animals over oil, money, or foreign alliances. Humans are much worse, and we are an over-rated species.

Price Gouging can serve a purpose, it prevents people from buying excessive supplies (and hoarding them). Think about it, you walk into buy water or batteries, if the prices are "normal" you'll probably buy more than you need just in case, but if the prices are very high, you'll just buy the minimum, which will leave supplies for other people.

I gaurentee there will be people blaming the airlines for having all of their flights sold out, even though they increased the flights dramatically.