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-Lurid Crime Tales-
New Yorker: Brett Kavanaugh Exposed Himself at Freshman Party; Kavanaugh Denies
[Breitbart] The New Yorker reported a new accusation Sunday evening against Judge Brett Kavanaugh: that as a college freshman at Yale University, a drunken Kavanaugh "exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party," and that when she tried to push him away in her drunken condition she accidently touched his penis.

The article, by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, comes hours after Christine Balsey Ford agreed to testify Thursday about an allegation that Kavanaugh groped her in high school.

Kavanaugh denies the allegation, in a statement reported by the New Yorker: "This alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen. The people who knew me then know that this did not happen, and have said so. This is a smear, plain and simple. I look forward to testifying on Thursday about the truth, and defending my good name‐and the reputation for character and integrity I have spent a lifetime building‐against these last-minute allegations." The White House called it "the latest in a coordinated smear campaign by the Democrats designed to tear down a good man."

Farrow and Mayer admit that Deborah Ramirez, the woman making the accusation, acknowledges being drunk at the party where she alleges the incident occurred, and that "her memories contained gaps." They also note: "The New Yorker has not confirmed with other eyewitnesses that Kavanaugh was present at the party. The magazine contacted several dozen classmates of Ramirez and Kavanaugh regarding the incident. Many did not respond to interview requests; others declined to comment, or said they did not attend or remember the party."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 00:12 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So now Ms. Ramirez, like Ms. Ford, will have to have her day in court. Death by a thousand moon bats.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Farrow and Mayer admit that Deborah Ramirez, the woman making the accusation, acknowledges being drunk at the party where she alleges the incident occurred, and that "her memories contained gaps."

*snicker* I’ve been to a few parties like that. An interesting experience when one is sober. But there will be those who believe with the fury of a thousand suns, despite teh New Yorker being unable to confirm that Mr. Kavanaugh was actually there. Still, I suspect more will find themselves sceptical than did before.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2018 0:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Grassley and McConnell need to imbibe some liquid courage and call the damn vote.
Posted by: PBMcL || 09/24/2018 0:32 Comments || Top||

#4  As soon as Ford story starts taking on water, the Dems come up with another:

Dailywire: BREAKING: Second Woman Makes Accusations Against Kavanaugh As Doubts Over Ford's Claims Grow
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 0:48 Comments || Top||

#5  The whole thing is beginning to sound like "letters to Penthouse", that or they read "fifty shades" a few times too many.

This seems to me to be the women misplaced fantasies!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/24/2018 1:47 Comments || Top||

#6  So what if he did?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2018 2:23 Comments || Top||

#7  To paraphrase Instapundit, it's long past time to "Teach women not to lie".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2018 2:28 Comments || Top||

#8  At least bathhouse barry was safe from female accusations.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/24/2018 6:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Any democrat is - since 1969, at least.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2018 7:29 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm sure the Dems have a line of stooges to make a charge against BK every Friday for the next 8 weeks.
Posted by: jvalentour || 09/24/2018 7:41 Comments || Top||

#11  @tw
I’ve been to a few parties like that

Do tell :-)

Seriously, I've been to parties like that, too. I faintly remember that a girl removed her t-shirt. If she ever makes it to the Supreme Court...
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/24/2018 8:06 Comments || Top||

#12  IMO that with the women who are bringing this stuff forward, that in their minds the entire male population of the U.S. has been found guilty. They have just singled out the men who are rich, powerful, and political.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2018 8:25 Comments || Top||

#13  IMO that with the women who are bringing this stuff forward, that in their minds the entire male population of the U.S. has been found guilty.

Except for Bubba, or Borat Hussein Obama. They're OK. Somehow they're going to give a hundred and fifty billion dollars to Iran and Russia and no wimmen or blacks are gonna get hurt.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/24/2018 8:35 Comments || Top||

#14  For awhile, I naively thought that this was a matter of everyone wanting their 15 minutes of fame shame. But no, this is all about political power.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2018 9:01 Comments || Top||

#15  perhaps a change to the slander laws is in order
Posted by: Vortigern Glusorong2794 || 09/24/2018 9:13 Comments || Top||

#16  if this happened I suspect it was because ms Ramirez was hanging out in the men's room
Posted by: Gleck and Company7929 || 09/24/2018 9:14 Comments || Top||

#17  Behind every man operating a Salem "Dunking Chair" was someone telling them they were doing the Lords work.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/24/2018 9:14 Comments || Top||


#19  If someone accuses Ruth Bader Ginsberg of flashing her tits at Mardi Gras 50 years ago could she be impeached?
Posted by: jpal || 09/24/2018 10:14 Comments || Top||

#20  RBG: "Abe Lincoln touched me inappropriately"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2018 10:23 Comments || Top||

#21  A dead turtle in the woman's vagina. It's being investigated as a sexual assault? These stories get more and more bizarre. This reads more like a case for PETA to investigate.

Right out of the Dem playbook. Play "pile-on."

Who's footing the bill for these two women? Follow the money.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2018 10:27 Comments || Top||

#22  #18, does Kavanaugh have an alibi?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2018 10:39 Comments || Top||

#23  ....Wait, is the sexual assault against the turtle? Or on the turtle's behalf? I'm confused.
Posted by: Charles || 09/24/2018 12:35 Comments || Top||

#24  A delicate dipso of Bristol
Who fished for the Treasurer's pistol:
"I'll surely remember
This 6th of December.
It's shattered my psyche like crystal!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/24/2018 13:47 Comments || Top||

#25  "Though I'm sure you would like to examine
This party who showed me her gammon,
I was forced to abort
To come rushing to court,
So confirm me, goddammit!" said Salmon.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/24/2018 14:01 Comments || Top||

#26  Even sweet sweet Connie had more class:
Posted by: 3dc || 09/24/2018 19:16 Comments || Top||


Economy
Fed hikes give cash appeal; stocks no longer only game in town
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve’s anticipated interest rate hike this week will make cash the most attractive it has been in about a decade and end the era of stocks as the only game in town.

During this bull market which in August broke the record as the longest ever, interest rates were so low that most fixed income assets other than junk bonds yielded less than the inflation rate or the dividend yield on the S&P 500. This drove yield-hungry investors to stocks, the one asset that delivered a real rate of return, or return on investment adjusted for inflation.

"One of the big influences in the market over the last decade has been that bonds as an alternative have been pretty much out of the market," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Cresset Wealth Advisors in Chicago.

"There is historically a tug of war between stock investing and bond investing and since the financial crises the bond market has been in the tug of war with one arm tied behind its back," he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 07:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Biden Predicts Dems Capture House, Senate; Floats Harris, Booker as 2020 Contenders
[PJMedia] WASHINGTON ‐ Former Vice President Joe Biden predicted that Democrats will win the majority in both chambers of Congress in the midterm election.

"We're going to win back the United States House of Representatives, I promise you. And I predict we'll win back the Senate, too," he said during an interview at the Biden Cancer Summit on Friday alongside his wife, Jill Biden.

When Mrs. Biden was asked how she would react if her husband said he wanted to run for president in 2020, she replied, "I would say, Joe, you would make a great president but let’s think about it."

When asked if he wants to run for president, Biden replied, "No, I desperately want to change the landscape and there is more than one way to do it. I'm looking for someone; there's a lot of really talented people we have out there: Kamala Harris, you’ve got Cory Booker, you’ve got the former mayor of Massachusetts. You have a lot of talented people." Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been floated as a 2020 contender.

He continued, "But we have to stop this degradation of the system that's going on. That's why I'm campaigning all over the country. I'm campaigning for candidates because we have to build a berm out there."

Biden was also asked if he would regret not running in 2020. He declined running in 2016 as his son Beau had recently passed away.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 08:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden's living in some alternate reality.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2018 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  I predict every time Biden opens his mouth he says something stupid.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2018 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  You haven't seen the new software for vote rigging Democrats received fro Silicon Valley, Skid
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2018 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Biden was never big on credibility.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/24/2018 13:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Biden says: "...there's a lot of really talented people we have out there: Kamala Harris, you’ve got Cory Booker..."
*BOGGLE* If you say so, Uncle Joe.
Posted by: magpie || 09/24/2018 13:23 Comments || Top||

#6  duringan interview at the Biden Cancer Summit

I always thought him as an irritating boil on the ass of America, but a cancer? Possibly
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2018 13:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Who did Biden predict would win in 2016?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/24/2018 15:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Left Twix.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2018 17:47 Comments || Top||


Lindsey Graham awakens to 'Bureaucratic Coup' Against President Trump
[Breitbart] On this weekend’s broadcast of "Fox News Sunday," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said The New York Times’ story that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein considered invoking the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump was more proof there is a "bureaucratic coup" against the president.

Graham said, "He shouldn’t fire Rosenstein unless you believe Rosenstein’s lying, he said he didn’t do the things alleged. But there’s a bureaucratic coup against President Trump being discovered here. Before the election, the people in question tried to taint the election, tip it Clinton’s favor, after the election they’re trying to undermine the President. I don’t know what Rosenstein did, but I know what McCabe or Page and Strzok did. They tried to destroy this president. If Rosenstein’s involved, he should be fired, if he’s not involved then leave him alone."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 07:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lindsey just woke up or did he switch sides?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2018 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  More Insanity here
Posted by: 3dc || 09/24/2018 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Lindsey has realized that he's up for reelection in 2020 here in SC.

And, unlike 2014, he could have a very significant primary challenger.
Please, please, please, either Mick Mulvaney or Nikki Haley, come back and primary him! Please!
Posted by: Tom || 09/24/2018 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Dunno if it's an upcoming election or not but Lindsey has been singing a different tune since McCain got sick.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/24/2018 13:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Indeed, Graham's "turn-around" has been quite noticable since his bed fellow McCain was diagnosed. Or, he sees the Trump train steaming right along.
Graham is, along with McCain, a classic war-mongering chicken hawk. If he turns around, great. But, he is a politician (and a lawyer) after all...two strikes against him right there.
Posted by: Clem || 09/24/2018 17:36 Comments || Top||


FOX'S Chris Wallace: All 10 Senate Judiciary Dems Refused Interviews for 2nd Week
[Daily Caller] "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace said Sunday that all 10 Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats refused invitations to appear on his show ‐ for the second week in a row ‐ to discuss the allegations made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Wallace spoke to Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham about the ongoing back and forth between the attorneys for Blasey Ford and Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who most recently claimed he felt like he was "playing 2nd trombone in the judiciary orchestra."

But just before Wallace introduced Graham, he took a swing at the 10 Democrats on that committee who had opted not to appear on his program.

"We should note for the second week in a row we invited all 10 committee Democrats to join us, and for the second week, none of them accepted," he said. "And with that, Senator Graham, welcome back to ’Fox News Sunday.'"

Graham responded with a laugh, saying, "You must be mean."

"Or they don’t want to talk ..." Wallace quipped.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 00:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm afraid I'd have to decline a Chris Wallace interview as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  The Dems are unified as usual. No surprise there.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2018 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Dems are unified even without John McCain.
Posted by: Clem || 09/24/2018 17:30 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Don't Be Fooled, Moscow And Jerusalem Still Need Each Other In Syria
[Jpost] Netanyahu will need all the good will he built up over the past nine years with the Russian president to ensure that the current crisis does not seriously harm Israel's ties with Moscow.

In an interview just two months ago following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
in Helsinki, US President Donald Trump
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I read it as a (mini) military coup against Putin - who is really unhappy with their performance in Syria.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2018 2:25 Comments || Top||


The lies of Russia’s report on Israeli culpability for plane fiasco
While the Israelis are not pleased about Russia’s response to their presentation, the list of Russian failures that led to the downing of the Ilyushin Il-20 by Syrian missiles is embarrassing.
[Ynet] The Russian Defense Ministry has now heaped full blame on Israel for the fact that Syria downed a Russian spy plane while trying to repel an IAF attack. A closer analysis of the report reveals a string of lies and half-truths to cover up for the incompetence and blunders made by Russian and Syrian operators of their own air defenses.

The most striking thing about the report produced by the Russian Defense Ministry about Syria’s downing of the Russian spy plane in Latakia last week which has been blamed on Israel is the fact that it ignores the findings of the investigation conducted in Israel that were presented by the IAF chief Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin and Israeli intelligence officials who accompanied him to Moscow in a bid to lower the ensuing tension.

Israel, in an almost unprecedented move, sent its IAF commander with authorized and detailed documentation to Moscow which was intended not only to shed light on what transpired, but also on the events leading up to it.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess, Ukraine is going to get some advanced cyber weapons.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2018 2:27 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Editor of Philosophy Journal Fired for Saying Women Don't Have Penises
[PJ] Not even atheist humanists are safe from the long, punishing arms of the transgender mafia. Recently, Angelos Sofocleous was fired from his job at Durham University's philosophy journal Critique for retweeting a tweet that fellow students called "transphobic." The tweet in question included a link to an article from the Spectator called "Is it a crime to say 'women don't have penises'?" The article is about women's activists who had police called on them for placing stickers saying as much around their city in protest of men usurping women's rights.

In a typical 2018 overreaction, Sofocleous's retweet of that article caused great gnashing of teeth and loud weeping in the outrage corners of the internet. As a result, Sofocleous was dismissed from his position at the Durham publication and forced to resign as president-elect of the Humanist Students group. "Humanists," Sofocleous told PJM, "strive to have a rational and logical approach in life, and face issues with evidence and claims, not with belief and faith. As such, humanists have trust in the scientific method, which they believe to be the only source of truth in the world."

Strangely, the extremely scientific fact that women do not have ‐ and have never had ‐ penises didn't seem to sway the humanist students toward rational thought. They kicked Sofocleous right out of their sphere. Criticisms of Sofocleous were swift and mostly unintelligible. Responding to Sofocleous's true statement that engaging in debate does not mean your opponent has equal moral status, a writer at the ironically named "Freethoughtblogs" wrote:
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 08:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, then it's been decided that women do have penises? Can one say that men don't have vaginas?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2018 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Consider that the scrotum and testes are descended uterus and ovaries, the inguinal canal may very well be considered the male vagina.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/24/2018 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah and we all look like fish embryos the first few weeks after conception.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/24/2018 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  So how can the second Kavanaugh accuser be sure it wasn't a woman?
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/24/2018 10:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Epistemologically speaking, I have never seen evidence to the contrary.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 09/24/2018 11:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Well I have known a lot of pussies that had dicks....
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/24/2018 11:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Snark of the day award goes to EC for #4
Posted by: warthogswife || 09/24/2018 11:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Durham U. turns out to be the third oldest university in England, which also suggests that it’s the English Spectator, not the American one that the poor sap linked. So this is a case of British culture war, even though I have no doubt similar adventures have been happening on the American side of the pond.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2018 12:13 Comments || Top||

#9  A storm! Indecorum in Durham:
A foram fell into a jorum.
Unwonted effusions!
Unwanted protrusions!
A quorum was formed to immure him.

Jorum... who knew? Also, rushing running.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/24/2018 21:09 Comments || Top||


Islamophobia: a picture worth a 1000 words
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2018 07:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.
Posted by: warthogswife || 09/24/2018 12:34 Comments || Top||


Half of Americans Live in Fear – They're Called Men
[Townhall] If this outrageous 36-year-old claim by a leftist, anti-Trump marching, California psychology professor
I don't think calling somebody "California psychology professor" in public is quite genteel - even if true. Aren't there alternate terms that can convey the same information without verging on obscenity?
against Judge Kavanaugh is treated like truth, the p*ssy hat posse will begin a reign of terror that will destroy the careers, families, and futures of many innocent men. No male will be safe if this travesty is allowed to stand. All the usual restraints of the rule of law that protect the accused will be trampled by #metoo mob rule ‐ the Furies will run wild.

Equally terrible, the claims of women who have actually been raped and abused will be forever stained because the Democrats are using Ford’s story as a bludgeon to beat a good man off the Supreme Court bench. We will be back to where we were when women’s legitimate abuse accounts were likely to be disbelieved. And moving into a bizarre arena where every man will need a chaperone along to protect his honor should he dare to attempt actually dating a woman.
Haven't you heard - men should not date women unless, of course, they're transgendered 'women'?

Monomolecular in-line snark O'The Day
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2018 02:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Half of America lives in fear? This is a little hyperbolic. There are many men who have good, loving, stable relationships with women. There is a very left-wing political activist part of the population of women who are wingy, dingy and difficult terrorists. Stay clear of them; they will make your life hell.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2018 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think calling somebody "California psychology professor" in public is quite genteel - even if true. Aren't there alternate terms that can convey the same information without verging on obscenity?

Is there a Snark O’The Day category for in-lines? Because g(r)omgoru won. He cut that with a monomolecular edge.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2018 13:37 Comments || Top||


The Diverse Hatreds of the Democrats
[SultanKnish] On Saturday, the Human Rights Campaign, the country's top gay rights lobby, held its 22nd annual dinner. Top speakers included Joe Biden, who bemoaned the lack of acceptance for gay people, Anne Hathaway, who shrieked, "Let’s tear this world apart and build a better one", and Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, who declared, "The age of bullies and bigots is not fully behind us".

Holder would know. He was last seen posing with Louis Farrakhan at Aretha Franklin's funeral. The leader of the Nation of Islam is both a bigot and a bully. He also loathes gay people.

...At the 2018 Black Press conference sponsored by the NNPA, which had previously honored Senator Kamala Harris, the First Place Feature Writing Award went to a Final Call article, "The Feminization of Black Men" which quoted Farrakhan’s claims that drugs were being used to turn black men gay.

...Identity politics nationalism is based on a thousand clashing convictions of the superiority of the group and the inferiority of outsiders. Every identity politics group has its own Farrakhan, the ’extremist’ who is popular within that group because he preaches its total superiority and the inferiority of the ’Other’.

...The left killed liberalism, tolerance and coexistence. What’s waiting in the wings is Farrakhan

...Farrakhan’s message of "empowerment" is the same as Hitler’s. It lays out a vision of a naturally superior people being oppressed by their racial inferiors through trickery and cunning. The NNPA awarded an article whose rhetoric echoes Nazi Germany’s Goebbels almost word for word.

...Meanwhile the NNPA, an organization that includes a racist paper put out by a racist hate group, is sponsored by Ford, GM, Bill Gates, AT&T, MillerCoors, the AARP, Coca Cola, Macy's, Toyota, VW, Pfizer, Wells Fargo and many other major corporations and organizations. Racism is big business once again.

Major corporations have gotten behind racism and anti-Semitism because the Democrats have.
And because the changes in American educational system mean their position won't be challenged by innovators.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2018 02:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anne Hathaway, who shrieked, "Let’s tear this world apart and build a better one"

The Dems are into a divide and conquer strategy. Divide the various groups and pit them against each other. IMO, that ship has sailed long ago although the legacy Obumble left behind was damaging.

I'd recommend to Hathway: Go out and build a better world. You don't have to tear apart the existing one.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2018 8:52 Comments || Top||


Government
Congress To Regulate Shrinking Airline Seats?
[Hot Air] Back in June, we looked at an FAA Inspector General’s report which suggested that the smaller and smaller airline seats we’re being jammed into presented a possible safety hazard. By law, commercial airliners are supposed to be able to be evacuated in 90 seconds in the event of an emergency. Recent incidents revealed that was taking two and a half minutes or more with a fully packed flight. The IG directed the FAA to take a fresh look at the issue, leading some to believe that the FAA was finally about to restore some legroom on airline flights.

Well, the FAA blew off the report and nothing was changed. Dealing with the growing chorus of complaints from travelers, it now appears that Congress is going to step in and do something about it whether it involves a safety issue or not. (Detroit News)
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 00:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will they simultaneously regulate growing passenger girths?
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/24/2018 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm 6'-2", not incredibly tall, and my knees touch the seat in front of me even when upright. Tell me about it
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2018 10:20 Comments || Top||

#3  It is probable that I am the only one here who finds coach comfortable. But I’ve recently been forced to give up the idea of ever crossing 5’ (152 cm) going north.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2018 12:00 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm a 5'9" woman and if not sitting up perfectly straight my knees sometimes touch the seat in front.
Posted by: warthogswife || 09/24/2018 12:02 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm just slightly shorter than you, Frank, and my knees just love it when the person in front of me slams their seat back when the seat-belt sign goes off.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/24/2018 16:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Ref #5: Delta flt many years ago, a similar situation resulting in me being pinned in (continued push, push, pushing from the man in the seat just ahead)..... unable to adjust my legs and escape. Very course language quickly resulted, ....very course, until resolution reached.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2018 17:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Flying, TSA, over-priced tickets, fees....air travel simply is for the birds (pun intended).
Posted by: Clem || 09/24/2018 17:33 Comments || Top||

#8  'And Leon is getting larger.'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2018 17:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Nice 'Airplane' reference!
Posted by: Raj || 09/24/2018 17:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Congress should force them to list the measurements for seat width and leg room and let the people decide.
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