20 Replies to “Fly The Diversity Skies”

  1. John Glenn famously said;

    “I guess the question I’m asked the most often is: “When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?” Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts — all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”

    Now commercial airlines are operated by DEI minimum wage hires. Same thing.

    1. Commercial aviation is the safest mode of transport in human existence.

      There have been years where there has been zero fatalities flying commercial.

      The most dangerous part of your trip – by far – is the drive to the airport.

  2. I saw that CTV article while waiting for a flight at Pearson. `Canada` and the amorphous blob of Ontario is truly leading the way as a sh*t-hole country.

  3. before the days of cheap digital cameras, before the days of cell phone cameras, l took to tie wrapping the zipper on the luggage. pulling it right tight. watching for anything amiss whereupon l would loudly exclaim ‘sumbuddy messed with my stuff’ but it never came to that.
    one time l waited until everyone had left the carousel, where’s my f’n suitcase?
    2 hours after landing l found it next to the security office door. l protested why cant they put the g-d thing BACK on the carousel? and got lip and threats. that was old Pearson T.O.
    then there was a scandal security would randomly snatch luggage, plant drugs and ‘see’ if the crew at the other end found it.
    aka Farce See ‘Em Pee, LIEberals, and cops are thugs that do NOT care about the truth unless it dovetails with what they have already decided before even showing up.

    1. Just a quick tip based upon this.

      Do you know how easy it is to open a locked zipper on a piece of luggage? A pen.

      Use the pen to pop a section of the zipper open, push through the zipper as wide as you’d like. Put or take whatever, and then run the locked zipper tabs back and forth over the open area to reseal it. Almost invisible.

      Works best on nylon zippers, which is what 95%+ luggage uses.

      I traveled a lot, spent a lot of down time at airports chatting with staff.

      Record what you put in your bag, helps with the insurance claim. I like the idea of recording the weight, hadn’t done that one but will.

      1. How would you check the weight of your luggage after arrival and before you went through customs?

        1. Use the recorded weight in a Customs check should you go to secondary. “Here is what I checked.”

          1. Do you really think guys who love to catch smugglers will drop everything to go get a scale to weigh your repacked luggage after they’ve gone to the trouble of spreading out the contents during a search.

            Also, different weigh scales often give different results.

          2. Having been through secondary more than a few times, they have scales available. From here on in, should it be necessary, I would show the pic and request a weighing.

            I have always answered the “Do you know what is in the bag?” with “I know what I put in the bag.”

            Always politely.

  4. Good thing they do regular invasive background checks for all employees there…

    or is that too much to ask of CA – TSA?

    Obviously, the only reason a plane hasn’t been lost since Air India, is because it’s too lucrative for the groups to give up that profit.

    1. I loathe Pearson Airport – I will just say it, there are so many Muslims working in security, that I DO worry that something awful is going to happen.
      I heard this story while driving around doing errands this afternoon and felt sick that this is another thing to worry about now. We definitely have gone from a “high trust society to a low trust society” in the short space of 20-25 years.

  6. If people from garbage countries are able to access security based jobs like this, and know they’ll face reduced sentences if they’re found to be breaking the law based upon the flawed Canadian justice system of seeing race, gender, religion, country of origin or upbringing as being relevant to your charges, then they’ll continue to do this, my only surprise is that CTV reported this.
    “Race based law” as Kathy Shaidle used to refer to it…

  8. L – Live in a post nation-state. Or in a self-governing, peaceful, prosperous and freedom under moral law, nation-state, one with functional institutions. The self-governing part requires work and eternal vigilance. Otherwise, the Garden of Eden(well watered) and a paradise(walled garden) turns into a jungle of serpents and other predators, red of claw and tooth.

    It takes hard men to turn hard times into good times. Suicidal empathy for evil doesn’t cut it.
    Neither does hiding under the bed. Where the monsters lurk.

    “It is better to suffer for doing good than to suffer for doing *evil.”

    *(which includes the sin of omission, of failing to do good when required under moral law.)

  11. The best way to protect yourself from flying is to drive.
    I know when my vehicle had its last oil change.
    I know the quality of tires on my vehicle, and I know when they were last rotated.
    I know the condition of all the essential fluids in the engine, transmission, differentials, transfer case and cooling system of my vehicle.
    I know that all the various systems on my vehicle are functional.
    Flying is for other fools.

  12. I like the idea of photographing your bag being weighed, especially when flying overseas. Drugs planted in your bag will land you 20 years in a $h1th01e 3rd world foreign prison.

  13. The Lisping Loother’s post-national state really has become a third world shithole, hasn’t it?

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