The Unbearable Nothingness of News

The Zeitgeist

It doesn’t matter how many mocking clips a real newsman like Jon Stewart does of the fake news media, they never change their ways. (View “Algebra of Cable News”). They continue to run entire programs on…nothing. The number of experts willing to bang on about absolutely nothing is never-ending too.

Thus it came as no surprise when the news nincompoops repeated suspect John Mark Karr’s claim quite seriously that he was alone with JonBenet Ramsey when she died (in the basement of her home on Dec. 26, 1996), but that her death was an accident.

Are we talking about the same child who perished gruesomely by garroting and rape? You’d think the poor thing died peacefully with her loved ones surrounding her, Karr included. It reminds me of how the media persisted in calling Andrea Yates, the woman who drowned all her kids, “the Houston mom” (technically incorrect and morally reprehensible). I suspect this latest development is yet another brick in the edifice of bungling the case represents. Other than the odd meta-comment, you’re not going to read much on BAB about this latest obscenity. I’ll say this much for the record: whoever turned that poppet into a sexualized miniature adult and pimped her out like that was revolting in their own right.

Updated: A New Kind of Conquest

America, IMMIGRATION

I’ve begun reading Paul Johnson’s A History of the America People, and tracing the routes the first colonists took, using my large globe. Walter Raleigh: now there’s a “proto-American” clichésman of action distinguished in his courage, vision, energy, audacity (alas, cruelty), and intellect.

Speaking of colonists, there’s a new kind in town. Here are some of the intriguing facts, (collated by Human Events) highlighted in Pat Buchanan’s new book, State of Emergency, The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America:

  • Fact: our illegal population today is greater than the total number of Irish, Jewish, and British immigrants who ever came to the U.S.
  • Why the reigning Republicans ignore the law and do little or nothing to stop illegal immigration
  • How mass immigration inevitably tilts the center of gravity of American politics to the Left
  • How the numbers of Americans of European descent are rapidly decreasing — and the political and social implications
  • How Los Angeles today provides a glimpse of what all of America will be like in 2050
  • An ‘American creed’? Why those who believe that the ideas of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address hold us together as a nation are distorting or reinventing history
  • Fact: not only are arguments about the economic benefits provided by illegal aliens false, but illegal immigration also constitutes a massive drain on our economy
  • Why importing a vast diaspora from a neighboring nation so different from our own is such a hellish risk
  • How the United States Government threw up its hands and abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion by illegal aliens over four decades ago
  • Why it is difficult, if not impossible, for cities to get control of the growing crime menace of immigrants and illegal aliens
  • John F. Kennedy and immigration: how, in 1991, the U.S. took in twelve times more immigrants than what JFK stated in the early 1960s as an acceptable annual limit
  • Bush’s guest worker plan: how it provoked a surge to the border
  • How, as Republicans dither, some Democrats are beginning to see the potency among voters of the illegal immigration issue
  • How, rather than fading away, issues of nationality long considered dead are resurfacing today
  • Why so many children of Asian-American and Hispanic immigrants are assimilating into a deadly subculture of gangs and crime
  • How even conservatives now routinely denounce as ‘racist,’ ‘nativist’ and ‘xenophobic’ anyone who argues that mass migration from the Third World risks disuniting and even destroying America

Eurabia on the rise: the devastating consequences of unrestricted immigration in Europe

Buchanan disapproves of Eurabia? Why, then, is he so eager to see Israel claimed by the same savages?

Update: Buchanan’s contradictions aside (elucidated in “Buchanan of Arabia“), his WND column today, “Prophets Without Honor” is certainly gutsy, as his book will no doubt be.

Letter of the Week: 'Flying Free' With 'Wings Air'

Free Markets

My favorite writer made me smile today with her references to my airline, “Air Wings” (www.FlyWingsAir.com). Today’s traveler is truly frustrated and seeks respite from the aggravation and hassles associated with commercial air travel. To that end, “Wings Air” exists. Our company was founded on the idea that air travel could be enjoyable again. Wealthy people have long known the advantages of private air travel, and been willing to pay the additional costs of charter service. “Wings Air” offers the luxuries of this type of transportation without the exorbitant costs. Air fares to Charleston, SC, Destin, Florida, St. Simons Island, GA, and Hilton Head Island, SC (on our airline) rival those of commercial carriers with one big exception: NO BIG AIRPORT HASSLES! Commercial airline travel is slowing to a crawl because of flight consolidation, congestion around airports, and, of course, today’s subject: security. Increased security is a fact of life when it comes to this kind of travel. We are stuck with it. The “Wings-Air” alternative in our area of the country is made possible because we don’t fly from big airports. We are not encumbered by security as is mandated today in commercial terminals. The flight personnel come into direct contact with each and every passenger on our flights. Typically, those people that would like to cause harm on board an airliner would want to be very inconspicuous, blend in with all of the rest, if you like. There can be no “blending in” on our flights. There are only 7 passenger seats available, and the kind of person that might want to do something bad would stand out like a sore thumb. Their luggage is subject to handling and scrutiny up close as well. Suspicious cargo is easily caught. Frankly, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to try to use a small plane to commit a terrorist act anyway. We just wouldn’t make that big of an impact. So logic by itself indicates a safer flight. We get questions every day about the safety of smaller, general aviation aircraft as opposed to airliners. Our smaller aircraft are crewed by very experienced pilots and enjoy an excellent safety record. The pilot in command has demonstrated his/or her proficiency to the FAA every six months as long as he has flown charter aircraft. The airplanes are maintained to a very high standard. Safety concerns are not really an issue. Another carrier in the northeast, which was truly our business model (Cape Air) has been flying the same type of equipment for 12+ years and has an exemplary safety record and each year over 600,000 passengers fly from Logan Airport to Hyannis, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard regularly. The proof is in the pudding! Just for fun, let me describe the typical “Wings Air” experience. Obviously there is no need to describe the painful commercial experience. We have ALL been there!A Wings passenger typically arrives at the airport about 5-10 minutes prior to the departure time that THEY asked for. Baggage is loaded from their car right into the aircraft by flight and ground personnel. Their beverage requests have already been filled by our base attendants, and as soon as all of the passengers have arrived, they board the aircraft. A short safety briefing is conduc with the passengers by the pilot, and subsequently the plane departs. An hour and fifteen minutes later, our passengers have enjoyed a fast trip to the beach in leather seats, and air conditioned comfort. The typical air traveler going through the commercial airport is still in line at the security desk. Gotta love that security! Come fly with us sometime Ilana! (www.FlyWingsAir.com

Wings Air“(http://www.flywingsair.com/)

Letter of the Week: ‘Flying Free’ With ‘Wings Air’

Free Markets

My favorite writer made me smile today with her references to my airline, “Air Wings” (www.FlyWingsAir.com). Today’s traveler is truly frustrated and seeks respite from the aggravation and hassles associated with commercial air travel. To that end, “Wings Air” exists. Our company was founded on the idea that air travel could be enjoyable again. Wealthy people have long known the advantages of private air travel, and been willing to pay the additional costs of charter service. “Wings Air” offers the luxuries of this type of transportation without the exorbitant costs. Air fares to Charleston, SC, Destin, Florida, St. Simons Island, GA, and Hilton Head Island, SC (on our airline) rival those of commercial carriers with one big exception: NO BIG AIRPORT HASSLES! Commercial airline travel is slowing to a crawl because of flight consolidation, congestion around airports, and, of course, today’s subject: security. Increased security is a fact of life when it comes to this kind of travel. We are stuck with it. The “Wings-Air” alternative in our area of the country is made possible because we don’t fly from big airports. We are not encumbered by security as is mandated today in commercial terminals. The flight personnel come into direct contact with each and every passenger on our flights. Typically, those people that would like to cause harm on board an airliner would want to be very inconspicuous, blend in with all of the rest, if you like. There can be no “blending in” on our flights. There are only 7 passenger seats available, and the kind of person that might want to do something bad would stand out like a sore thumb. Their luggage is subject to handling and scrutiny up close as well. Suspicious cargo is easily caught. Frankly, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to try to use a small plane to commit a terrorist act anyway. We just wouldn’t make that big of an impact. So logic by itself indicates a safer flight. We get questions every day about the safety of smaller, general aviation aircraft as opposed to airliners. Our smaller aircraft are crewed by very experienced pilots and enjoy an excellent safety record. The pilot in command has demonstrated his/or her proficiency to the FAA every six months as long as he has flown charter aircraft. The airplanes are maintained to a very high standard. Safety concerns are not really an issue. Another carrier in the northeast, which was truly our business model (Cape Air) has been flying the same type of equipment for 12+ years and has an exemplary safety record and each year over 600,000 passengers fly from Logan Airport to Hyannis, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard regularly. The proof is in the pudding! Just for fun, let me describe the typical “Wings Air” experience. Obviously there is no need to describe the painful commercial experience. We have ALL been there!A Wings passenger typically arrives at the airport about 5-10 minutes prior to the departure time that THEY asked for. Baggage is loaded from their car right into the aircraft by flight and ground personnel. Their beverage requests have already been filled by our base attendants, and as soon as all of the passengers have arrived, they board the aircraft. A short safety briefing is conduc with the passengers by the pilot, and subsequently the plane departs. An hour and fifteen minutes later, our passengers have enjoyed a fast trip to the beach in leather seats, and air conditioned comfort. The typical air traveler going through the commercial airport is still in line at the security desk. Gotta love that security! Come fly with us sometime Ilana! (www.FlyWingsAir.com

Wings Air“(http://www.flywingsair.com/)