Later this month, Air Nippon will embark the first paying passengers on the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which is more passenger-friendly and fuel-efficient than any other airliner. Air Nippon spends $63,000 for fuel, at current prices, to fly a 777 from LAX to Narita International Airport in Japan, 5500 miles. The 787 will save $12,000 on the 4,000 gallons it doesn't burn to make that trip, not to mention the CO2 that it will not emit. Below is a link to an interesting article about the first 21st century airliner.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cover-jet-revolution-20111002,0,5844385,full.story
Hah! You thought I was going to say something re the NLRB and the Charleston plant. Nope, not tonight. The article contains no reference to either.
Between a rock and a hard place
Interesting story about a stupidly named hunting site that Rick Perry leased. It involves a racial perjorative that I do not wish to publish, thus only a link:
http://news.yahoo.com/cain-perry-insensitive-over-name-hunting-camp-153344971.html
Just for fun
As I pointed out a few weeks ago, the more Ricky Perry gets into this campaign, the more ugliness will be revealed. Why do you think that we had the recent frenzy to force Chris Christie into the race? The handful of remaining intelligent Republicans apparently just saw the handwriting on the wall. Too late, boys.
ReplyDeleteI have friends in Texas who know Ricky and they will tell you that he is a pompous, self-important, lowlife scumbag. We are seeing only the tip of his pathetic iceberg. Before this is over, he will sink into the swamp from whence he came.
You will find that while a student at Texas A&M, he spent his summers making big money peddling overpriced bibles door-to-door to people who could not afford them on the "easy pay" sucker contract that he offered. Low, lower, lowest.
If I were President Obama, I would be contributing a lot of money to Ricky's campaign.
Inconceivable! There is no racism in the south, much less the southern GOP. Utterly inconceivable!
ReplyDeleteOn a related note, here's a video of Perry acting like an arrogant ass to a cop who pulls him over:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_bP56SgkLQ
I bet if Perry wasn't running, he'd be a Herman Cain supporter. And some of his best friends are black.
ReplyDeleteRicky boy might want to start acquiring some real black friends.
ReplyDeleteA month ago, Fox News poll re 2012 election GOP candidates shook out like this:
1. Perry 26%
2. Romney 18%
3. Paul 7%
Cain was near the bottom of the pack with a mere 4%.
Here is last week's Fox News poll result:
1.Romney 23%
2.Perry 19%
3. Cain 17%
Coming on strong, huh?