It was inevitable, I suppose…
Full article here.
From Times Online
February 27, 2009
Ryanair sparks outrage over £1 toilet charge plan
(JENS-ULRICH KOCH)Ginny McGrath
Ryanair’s chief executive said today his airline is looking into charging passengers £1 to use the toilets on its aircraft.
As a track and field official I hope/expect at some point, but not soon, to add being a Starter to my skills, so I’ve been paying as much attention as I can to what they do and how they do it. When I’m working field events, my usual assignments, it’s hard to actually do any watching over there on the track, but I’m conscious of the Starter’s activities in general.
By doing so you only dig the hole deeper; you further evidence the increasingly common belief that is quickly solidifying as fact that politicians are utterly incapable of speaking the truth.
The day after you voted on the spending bill referred to as a stimulus package, I emailed you and asked, “Did you actually read the bill before you voted for it?”
We all have “those days” and some folks in jobs where they encounter the random sample of John and Jane Q. Public probably have even more than most.
I’ve had the heating system on this year more than in the past several years combined. And now this.
Most everyone around here has lost just about everything in terms of plants and many shrubs; grass is in very bad shape. I’m working a track meet on Saturday at Daytona Beach — the Atlantic breeze should be interesting. We were at the same temperatures about 5 weeks ago there for an earlier meet. I won’t be wearing shorts at this one, either!
It doesn’t happen very often, but once in a great while I fall into something absolutely wonderful, and it happened again last week when i received in the mail a document from a friend. The document chronicles the historic flight of a Pan American World Airways Boeing 314, a large seaplane, as it flew around the world.
I’m against the federal government messing in business, especially to the extent of determining private enterprise salaries at any level, but if the Fed is going to do it anyway, I think it’s appropriate that the rules be expanded:
Spread the fear of disaster; got to get that stimulus package NOW or the country is in deep peril; move it even though you don’t have a clue of what’s in it, you don’t have time to read it; no delay; do it now!!
Done?
Fine.
Full article here.
‘We ran out of shavers’: Doctors’ extraordinary excuses for axing 1,000 NHS operations a week
By Daniel Martin
Last updated at 10:38 PM on 15th February 2009More than 1,000 NHS operations are being cancelled at the last minute each week because of avoidable mistakes at hospitals.
MC has a post over at his place that finally pushed me enough to post, overcoming a disgust level so high I’ve been unable to really address in type how I feel about what’s going on. I duplicate it here only to make a personal record of it.
THE STIMULUS IS A STEP TOWARDS A SOVIET AMERICA
Written by Senator Tom Coburn
Tuesday, 10 February 2009[Senator Coburn recently gave this speech on the floor of the Senate]We are going in exactly the wrong direction. We ought to be standing on the principles that made this country great.There ought to be a review of every program in the Federal Government that is not effective, that is not efficient, that is wasteful or fraudulent, and we ought to get rid of it right now. We ought to say, Gone, to be able to pay for a real stimulus plan that might, in fact, have some impact.
Nurse hailed heroine after walking nine miles through snow to save kidney dialysis patient
By Anna Davis
13th February 2009
Renal nurse Debbie Noble, 49, made the four-hour round trip to help Steph Crawford fearing she could die without the treatment.
Mrs Crawford, 45, from Ewell, suffers from kidney failure. She could not drive to her usual dialysis centre in Kingston, and ambulances could not reach her as roads were blocked by snow.
Panasonic orders staff to buy £1,000 in products
Leo Lewis, Asia Business CorrespondentIts electronic gadgetry is gathering dust on the shelves of high street stores, nobody is buying new fridges and the mountain of unsold plasma televisions is growing by the day.
While looking for more coverage (no pun intended) of the fires in Australia, I came across this.
Ahhh, those wild and crazy Swiss.
Couple wrongly accused of abusing their baby cannot have their children back because it is ‘too late’, court rules
Go here for the full story.
When seated in a restaurant, I usually select a seat that gives me a view of the establishment, particularly toward the door. Basically, I face the front. The wife is used to it and understands why and selecting our seats is always an automatic and smooth thing.
I’m not really sure if I want the Senate to get anything done or not; it seems most of what they do screws up life for everyone outside their clubhouse and/or takes away something the Constitution rather clearly says they cannot take away.
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Jan 27
We’ve had many observations of eagles at the nest over the past week, including some courtship behaviors. It is exciting to see activity at the nest increasing as we await another winter storm and the arrival of February.
At Verizon, math is “a difference of opinion” according to their customer service folks.
