Chuck,
You do have a tendency to go to the extremes when reviewing a situation.


wrote in message
ups.com...
.. If the airline want to say, "We won't sell you a ticket unless you
swear you'll vote a straight
Republican ballot in the next election", that would be its right and
privilege to do so.

According to the airline spokeswoman, Heasley was asked to leave after she
refused to cover up her T-shirt, an account that conflicts with Heasley's
version in the Gazette-Journal.

Heasley told the newspaper that she agreed to cover her shirt with a
sweatshirt, but it slipped as she slept. After she was ordered to wear her
T-shirt inside-out or leave, she and her husband chose to leave, the paper
said.

The 32-year-old lumber saleswoman said in the report that no one from
Southwest said anything about the shirt while she waited near the gate at
Los Angeles International Airport, nor did anyone mention the shirt as she
boarded the aircraft.

"Starbuck's Words of Wisdom" wrote in message
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Chuck,
You do have a tendency to go to the extremes when reviewing a situation.


wrote in message
ups.com...
. If the airline want to say, "We won't sell you a ticket unless you
swear you'll vote a straight
Republican ballot in the next election", that would be its right and
privilege to do so.

"Starbuck's Words of Wisdom" wrote in message
...

As bad as it is, it is still the safest mode of transportation.



Statistically speaking only, meaning number of passengers moved times miles
traveled. Airlines have a huge mathematical advantage in miles traveled.

The safest is crawling backwards on your hands and knees from the departure
gate with your ticket refund in your teeth.

The most efficient (not necessarily safest) mode of transportation is a bus.

Eisboch

"Starbuck's Words of Wisdom" wrote in message
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JIm,
But I bet Air Canada would not allow one to fly nude.

You would win the bet!

Jim

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 15:38:49 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:



The most efficient (not necessarily safest) mode of transportation is a
bus.


How do you define, "efficient?"

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Fuel used to move X passengers X miles.

I should have been more specific.

Eisboch

"JIMinFL" wrote in message
link.net...

"PocoLoco" wrote in message
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On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:18:54 GMT, "JIMinFL"
wrote:

Bush basher kicked off plane.
http://www.wesh.com/irresistible/5066135/detail.html


Maybe she'd have been kicked off if she were wearing the same shirt with
Kerry/Edwards on it? Ever think of that?

I'll bet she would have, but it wouldn't happen. Trash talk is a liberal
Democrat thing.


I'm probably a prude, but I don't think a shirt emblazoned with the
'F...' word
is appropriate public wear either!

I find public displays of the f word extremely offensive. She didn't "think
it would bother anyone." What f-ing planet does she live on! Forget the
politics, it's an inappropriate display that can incite conflict between
passengers. I wouldn't say anything to the dumbass, but I'd sure want to.
Someone else might not keep their mouth shut and therein lies the potential
for conflict over dumbass behavior. The airline has a right to set the
limits of social behavior on their flights. It's not a freedom of speech
issue. It's a flight safety issue. And even if someone decides it's a
freedom of speech issue, she's still a dumbass.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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JIMinFL wrote:
Bush basher kicked off plane.
http://www.wesh.com/irresistible/5066135/detail.html


The woman was right; the airline was wrong.

That's backwards.

Richard,
What is the most efficient mode of transportation?


"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
...

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 15:38:49 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:



The most efficient (not necessarily safest) mode of transportation is a
bus.


How do you define, "efficient?"

--


Fuel used to move X passengers X miles.

I should have been more specific.

Eisboch

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Walking is efficient.

Hmmm ....

Assuming things work out, it's a long walk back from FL to CT.

Or were you planning to stay for the winter?

Eisboch

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
Harry Krause wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
Harry Krause wrote in message
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JIMinFL wrote:
Bush basher kicked off plane.
http://www.wesh.com/irresistible/5066135/detail.html


The woman was right; the airline was wrong.
Nope. Airlines have the right to refuse service to anyone who, in
their
judgment, is inappropriately dressed, intoxicated or otherwise in
violation
of their policies. The problem here was not the images. It was the
"word".
Good for them! The woman can complain all she wants but airlines can
set
their own standards.

Eisboch


Airline? Standards? Surely you jest. On my flight back from Hawai'i to
San Francisco, two rows in front of me, there was a couple incapable of
controlling their crying, screaming brats. The two kids whined all the
way back to the mainland, for four and a half hours. without letup. I
asked one of the flight attendants to ask the couple to either control
their brats or to move them to a less-occupied part of the plane. She
refused.

At least 20 other passengers complained. Those brats were more offense
than anyone's shirt.


Crying kids are part of our world Harry and, although annoying to you,
are
not unique.

I've flew many miles in my working days and crying babies and bratty kids
where often part of the experience. On occasion I even had my own crying
baby along.

Your standards for travel are too high for commercial airlines. Buy your
own
jet.

Eisboch



Hey, I'm not talking about a half hour of crying and screaming; these two
brats would not shut up the entire trip.

Then, Harry, the most likely explanation is that they were in pain.