Comments on: The Silent Change to Section 382

By: Elvis Elvisberg

Elvis Elvisberg — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:55:43 +0000

Great, great post. Thanks for highlighting this.

By: incandenzah

incandenzah — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:45:39 +0000

Very nice. I kept trying to tease out Scherer's usual (unconscious?) GOP-skew. But couldn't find it here. More like this, please!

By: Ohg Rea Tone

Ohg Rea Tone — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:52:26 +0000

Capitalism is the declared domain of the GOP. but Capitalism is a form of natural selection. When winter comes, humans build shelters - not waiting to see who will survive the winter. ..........

http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/11/16/the-utility-of-socialism/

By: Michael Scherer on the silent change to section 382 « Later On

Michael Scherer on the silent change to section 382 « Later On — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:48:15 +0000

[...] in Bush Administration, Business, Daily life, GOP, Government at 7:47 am by LeisureGuy Michael Scherer blogs at TIME’s [...]

By: Sean DeCoursey forgot his password

Sean DeCoursey forgot his password — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:33:19 +0000

SZ, what Jay said. Definitely both.
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Also Mr. Scherer, the Wells-Fargo/Wachovia merger didn't actually need to happen since Citigroup was already lined up as a buyer and it took litigation to make W-F/W happen instead.

By: jayackroyd

jayackroyd — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:41:14 +0000

Both.

By: stuartzechman

stuartzechman — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:00:59 +0000

It's not security and wasn't ever meant to be such except as a palliative for the fearful masses.

Is that an indictment of them, or is it an indictment of us?

By: Why the Section 382 change happened like it did | 124Monkeys

Why the Section 382 change happened like it did | 124Monkeys — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:52:11 +0000

[...] had completely missed this story by Amit Paley until Michael Sherer put up a blog post about it. Basically, the Treasury Department completely bypassed Congress and the Constitution* [...]

By: jayackroyd

jayackroyd — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:31:30 +0000

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Chill. The whole concept of hijacking a plane has been dead since 9/11. It's impossible. You can maybe blow one up, but you can't hijack the
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TJOP.
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7 billion dollars for nothing except inconvenience and Soviet style petty officials interfering with you. As you say, the 9/11 attacks were an exploitation of the hijack protocol, "Land safely then negotiate." That protocol ended, unofficially, in a Pennsylvania field, that day.
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Aside from securing the cockpit, nothing useful has been done. But much money has been spent, and many feet looked at.

By: Sean DeCoursey forgot his password

Sean DeCoursey forgot his password — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:14:53 +0000

Jay,
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Chill. The whole concept of hijacking a plane has been dead since 9/11. It's impossible. You can maybe blow one up, but you can't hijack them.
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What's happened in every airplane disturbance since then? Every single passenger within 20 feet jumps on the guy causing the problem. Just like what happened with Flight 93 on September 11. The passengers rush the bad guys because they don't have anything to lose. They're dead anyway. Only hope for survival is to overpower and take back the plane.
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All the TSA stuff is just window dressing to make people feel better about flying. That's it. It's not security and wasn't ever meant to be such except as a palliative for the fearful masses.