German Wings A320 crashed

Haven't the media always been fed the worst info in the aftermath?
Stick the bad gossip on the wall and public opinion is formed.
Hard to say who gets to be the sacrificial lamb, but some schmuck will get the job.
 
This is probably the last thing I needed to read before trying to go to sleep for an early wake up call:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/30/opinions/amar-germanwings-give-crew-key

So I'm Dick Freakin' Cheney???? I need an act of Congress to "temporarily step in" for the Captain???

What makes everyone an aviation expert anytime there is a tragedy? People should really just stick to what they know.

I should just call Crew Scheduling now and tell them the van time tomorrow is going to need to be pushed out..way out.
 
Skyvector said:
This is probably the last thing I needed to read before trying to go to sleep for an early wake up call:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/30/opinions/amar-germanwings-give-crew-key

So I'm Dick Freakin' Cheney???? I need an act of Congress to "temporarily step in" for the Captain???

What makes everyone an aviation expert anytime there is a tragedy? People should really just stick to what they know.

I should just call Crew Scheduling now and tell them the van time tomorrow is going to need to be pushed out..way out.
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Oh.my.god. I don't have cable, I haven't watched or read any 'headline' media about this crash but for some reason I decided to click on your link. I completely lost it at "Bush handed the tiller to his trusted co-pilot, Dick Cheney, and then resumed control when ready"

LOL! Oh CNN! I can't even put into words how ridiculous that article was.
 
Derg said:
And a bad shot too.

Someone tell me the author was blistering drunk when he wrote that.
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"Writing under the influence".

It's currently a worldwide competiton between journalists. Usually starts on the day of a plane crash and ends when someone flashes "accidentally" her boobs at a major event. Then they need the publishing space again for this, more reportable occurance.

Whoever can publish his article with the highest amount of intoxication during this given timespan, wins.

In most cases, no drug test is needed to assess the individual level. Reading the articles is sufficient.
 
I don't know what you do but shake your head. Life dealt you a bad hand, so you kill 150 people you don't know from Adam? As I may have mentioned earlier, I've known some depressed people, like clinically depressed. They were some of the most empathic people I've known. They'd have jumped off a cliff rather than hurt anyone else (Well, they might have jumped off a cliff, anyway). But it makes my neck itch when it's suggested that the poor dear just couldn't think about anyone but himself at the moment when he just happened to be flying these people around. To paraphrase Bill Hicks "Suck a tailpipe, borrow a gun from a Yank friend, I don't care how you do it..."

There are plenty of ways to end the horror of existence which don't involve ending it for a bunch of other people, including kids. Expletive this guy.

Er, also, does anyone else think that it's a bit over the line to publish this sort of thing? I mean I'm all for a Free Press, and I wouldn't want the State to be in control of what can or cannot be reported. But FFS. I'm picturing some rodential "journalist" peeling off a few bills for some functionary at the French version of the NTSB and getting some poor bastard's video of the last moments of his life so as to write some lurid article to sell more advertisements. Ugh.
 
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Boris Badenov said:
I don't know what you do but shake your head. Life dealt you a bad hand, so you kill 150 people you don't know from Adam? As I may have mentioned earlier, I've known some depressed people, like clinically depressed. They were some of the most empathic people I've known. They'd have jumped off a cliff rather than hurt anyone else (Well, they might have jumped off a cliff, anyway). But it makes my neck itch when it's suggested that the poor dear just couldn't think about anyone but himself at the moment when he just happened to be flying these people around. To paraphrase Bill Hicks "Suck a tailpipe, borrow a gun from a Yank friend, I don't care how you do it..."

There are plenty of ways to end the horror of existence which don't involve ending it for a bunch of other people, including kids. Expletive this guy..
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Can't apply logic to a place where someone is living without it.
 
MikeD said:
Can't apply logic to a place where someone is living without it.
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You really can't.

It'd be like reasoning with someone who is paranoid schizophrenic. The chemical "world" they're living in is very real and absolute so, in their perspective, they're the logical ones.

I had to realize that when I dealt with a family member who went off the rails. As much as I tried to convince him that CIA satellites weren't bouncing a laser beam off my windows in order to monitor our speech, he was trying to show me that it was real and it was actually happening.

Mental health, call in the pros man.
 
MikeD said:
Can't apply logic to a place where someone is living without it.
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Being self-aware requires logic. No human being who isn't uh objectively damaged is incapable of discerning the fact that their existence and/or pain is distinct from that of others. Let me put it to you another way: If there is such a thing as "wrong", what could be more wrong than killing a whole lot of people simply because your life hasn't met your expectations for the same? I mean, damn. To paraphrase Walter Sobchak..."Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude....at least it's an ideology."
 
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