“Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.”   —Jane Pauley

KTVU Channel 2 News in San Francisco has issued an on-air apology for misreporting the names of the pilots in the Asiana Crash. The Fox Affiliate Co-anchor Tori Campbell  reported the Asiana pilots names as, “Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow, live an on the air. Later that day, KTVU took responsibility for the gaffe, apologizing to the viewing audience.  A summer intern answering the phone at the NTSB took some “creative license” with releasing the names to KTVU when they called in. But the larger question is, “How does this happen?” Why was KTVU the only station to fall for this?

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Listen Harrell – for we are listing to you, too (even when you aren’t speaking up – you too, Zandra Rice-Hawkins, as the two of you are serial Republican accusers on very little to go on)!  Yeah, I almost made a mistake by mis-identifying the Party affiliation of the Mayor of San Diego, Bob Filner (DEMOCRAT).  His problem?  Well, even more serious than Obama refusing to pay his female staffers – Sexual Harrassement. So, you Harrell (and you too, Zandra) MUST have professional Press Release all ready  Oh, you say that nothing has gone to court or been adjudicated yet, Harrell?  What about that shopworn Democrat attack phrase “It’s the seriousness of the charge” in which the meaning is – “the Republican can actually be innocent but we have to haul his (or her) butt into court – not to find the truth but for the humiliation and bankrupting him”.  So how unbalanced is the New Hampshire Democrat Party in speaking about this elected official abusing women under his responsibility?  C’mon, Harrel – here’s some details.

The week began with news that Mayor Bob Filner’s fiancee ended their engagement and, by Friday, San Diego’s first Democratic leader in 20 years was desperately trying to stay in office amid sexual harassment allegations made public by some of his closest supporters. He apologized, promised to change and begged voters to let him keep his job.

The rapid-fire developments put heavy scrutiny on the personal foibles of Filner, a feisty liberal who was elected in November after 10 terms in Congress marked perhaps most famously by a 2007 run-in with a United Airlines baggage handler at Dulles International Airport that resulted in him pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of trespassing. Filner has long had a reputation for berating employees and been dogged by rumors of making sexual advances on women, but nothing stuck like a former city councilwoman’s comments this week that she had firsthand accounts from more than one woman who was sexually harassed by the mayor.

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One of the best things about ignoring all the hype and just using common sense is when you are proven right.  The only thing better than that is when the Kool-aid® drinkers start to realize that you were right as well.  What the heck am I talking about?  Electric cars.

For close to five years, as long as I’ve been blogging,  I’ve been saying that there is no way electric cars could be better for the environment–and not just because they’d have to run on electricity generated by carbon based fuels.  Batteries are nasty.

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Almost anyone can fly a plane off a runway – the skill set for a small General Aviation plane like a Cessna 152 is rather small.  Believe it or not, ANY one can land a plane – gravity and physics stand ready to help the plane meet the ground.  It is far harder, however, to land it in such a fashion that 1) you can walk away unaided and 2) the plane can fly again.

Back in May, the US Navy launched its first UAV / UCAS drone off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier – a robot plane under both human operator and autonomous operation.  Now the Navy has closed that loop in having an XB-47 drone successfully land on that same deck.

From Military.com:

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As a follow up to this post, did you know, Harrell,  that when the now infamous (Democrat) Kevin ‘Wicked Cool’ Hodges said Democrat’s could Beat Republicans with a Bat, and with their hands and with their feet, that he had casually listed three methods (Blunt objects, and personal weapons–hands, fists, feet) that account for almost four times as many murders in the US annually as those “scary rifles” you Democrats are demanding an additional layer of background checks on?

How ironic.  The FBI crime database lists murders for scary rifles at 323 (2011) while murders for blunt objects and angry Democrat’s hands, fists, and feet in the same year tallied up to 1,222.  OK.  They might not have all been Democrats, but there was a room full of New Hampshire Democrats in Goffstown, including then candidate and now current Democrat Governor of the Granite State Marget ‘Good Wood’ Hassan who were very amused at the idea of engaging in a similar form of blunt force attack upon their political opponents.

If I’m not mistaken the State party dismissed objections as an overreaction by political opponents…

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I wanted to remind everyone that they need to ask every New Hampshire Democrat, in office or running for elected office, if they will be insisting on state legislation that adds another layer of background checks for legal gun purchases in the Granite State?  This should be a key element of their policy agendas.  And all those Democrat reps that were reading names in Concord next to the Bloomberg bus, they had better have their LSR’s ready for this fall and be proudly trumpeting their intention to recommend bills that will force another layer of background checks on the people of New Hampshire, on top of the ones we already have.

You heard the State Democrat Party and their media flunkies.  Over 90% of New Hampshire citizens “polled” want it.  90%.  It’s a free throw, a gimmie, a bird in the hand and two in the bush.

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