American Airlines made headlines the other day for posting a profit for the first time in many years and only the second airline in the country to post any kind of profit this year.  The friendly skies have been turbulent with most if not all the major carriers in some form of bankruptcy in one form or another.  Although earnings at American are good for the moment with fuel prices on the rise and idiots in charge at TSA, their time spent in the black is expected to be brief.

Certainly their rise from the depths of an ocean of red ink has been impressive the manner was found in the application of common sense a vanishing and rare commodity in the dark clouds of the not so friendly American skies.  This was no small feat by any measure, actually Box Car Earl is a cheesecake cake walk when compared to having passengers brave the gauntlet of barely literate morons in charge of this nations “First line of defense” as was pointed out to me recently in the local GSP International jetport as they also screamed they were “Just like the FBI!”… Lord save us from all those who cannot clearly read plain English or differentiate between a liquid gel and pimento cheese.  Is there any wonder why we are losing the critical war on terrorism with morons in charge of this nation’s security?  Surely it is not all the high school dropouts that are sent to Iraq or imbeciles called to serve as United States Senators in Massachusetts… No I don’t believe that for one moment as the small army of morons are mandatory as FEMA in protecting this nation’s skies from the steely determination of those set on doing us harm… Now that’s a scary thought!  Think about it before booking your next airline ticket.  You are a 1000 times safer riding the train with Box Car Willie and his Cheesy friend Earl And that you can take to the bank… And I’ll tell you why.
 
First of all Box Car and his buddies are not as likely to steal your personal belongings, strip search and inflict public humiliation or add insult to injury by an arrest that creates a terrorist record that can never be expunged from your record even if you are found innocent in a court of law.  In addition when you compare “hitting the ground rolling” with that to smashing into a  skyscraper or plunging from forty thousand feet from the skies (40,000 ft)… Well just try rolling away from that one.  Not to mention if you survive the gauntlet of imbeciles after being subjected to every form of public humiliation that the diabolical and twisted moronic mind might connive then there is the second test one must endure, no doubt in part seemly conceived by the producers from the same good people that brought us Abu Ghraib atrocities… Where first you are expected to place all your belongings into a stall not much larger than the glove compartment of a luxury VW.  Then you are to squeeze yourself into a seat the size to comfortably accommodate a NAZI death camp survivor and hold the pose of a contortionists for at least a couple of hours.  During which you’re  force fed  a cardboard boxed  meal in the area the size of a large match box, which some might call the Auschwitz lunchbox Special , if not for the fear of being sued by the guest of NAZI atrocities for giving  those who suffered such death camp fire hospitality a bad name…

Trust me you’re light years safer taking the train.  Still we might take a lesson from American Airlines and apply a little common sense to winning the war on terror…  (Yeah right, like how likely is the Tooth Fairy to shallow that one.:)