I'm going out on another limb. The miracle on the Hudson -- the rescue of the 155 lives from the downed US Airways plane -- has caught America's/the world's attention. The crash itself is being blamed on birds.
I'm predicting that at some point in all of this an alarmist will blame the increase in birds on global warming. What better disaster scenario than planes falling from the sky -- all because you drove your SUV to the Circle-K for a root beer and failed to get rid of all your 100 Watt light bulbs?
And that's the way the I'm-drinking-something-called-Diet-Dr.-Thunder-Ball bounces (in Phoenix).
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I love your sense of humour! Enjoy your time in Phoenix. The Canadian geese knew what they were doing heading south.
Thanks, Fay. It's good to hear from people reading the blog.
What I find so telling of the new-age mind set for children is that the Media has now told children that this was a Miracle for the lack of loses to humans.
But wait....when I saw that I was in awe of the really good pilot that used his skills that made him ready for a problem like this.
Are Humans that stupid and useless that any act of skill must be a miracle from God ?
Is every Gold Medal winner at the Olympics merely Lucky and it was a Miracle that they Ran,swam,jumped,threw,lifted or did any feat of fitness to be better than others?
Why the hell would Surgeons spend so much time in Medical Schools and practice on corpses when all I'd need to do is walk into a O.R. and cut away hoping for a Miracle that the person will live and be repaired.
Are we so afraid of telling kids that it takes hard work and dedication to a skill set that we write-off Professionals as doing Miracles from God and have no valid inner ability.
This may explain why CUPE and the CAW need tax-dollars to help them do simple jobs because they actually believe it takes a Miracle to get 4 hours of work done in their 8 hour day.
Now we have Teachers that don't blame the Mothers of the punks in Schools that rape female students and shoot students in the Hallways , Teachers wait for a Miracle to make fatherless boy whole and the magic Gun-fairy take away all the gun and end all violence on earth.
The Pilot should be a role-model for what Human can do, NOT the hip-hip thugs on CITY TV that exalt crime and flash the Ho and Bitches in their harems on wheel called Escalades .
Can I assume that Obama won the Election from a Miracle?
Is he just a simplton and loser who fluked it and is now President?
I think the term "miracle" is being used in a non-technical sense here, as in "against very high odds".
* most water landings do not turn out well -- and this was a full aircraft which would make evacuation more complex and difficult - yet everybody got out
* not a single life was lost
* the ferries were at hand and came to the rescue immediately
* the passengers did not panic, did not push others into the frigid waters in order to save themselves, etc.
It looks like this pilot had been preparing himself all his life for this moment.
So, there's probably room here to be grateful to both the pilot and God.
Good reading while I am seeing more snow come down.
Temps are above zero anyway.
Betty G
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