In my opinion there is absolutely no difference between you as an
INNKEEPER promoting your business here with death videos and that
guy promoting the aircrash video site over in Europe, who has been
spamming his message about educational videos into a dozen
newsgroups these past few weeks.

Think what you will. I receive more positive feedback from that video page
than from any other single page on our website, with the exception of the
Rogue's Gallery.

Please tell the group..... your peers and friends, as well as the rest
of us from around the world, just why you feel it is necessary to show
a laser guided bomb killing a bunch of people on the ground, some of
whom might be just absoluty innocent bystanders, and just how that
promotes your business which is renting rooms to the general public.

My business is secondary to my love of aviation -- plain and simple. If I
wanted to make a lot of money, I wouldn't have sold my last two businesses.

I personally find all aviation videos fascinating, and educational. I also
like to showcase the amazing technological capabilities of our new military
hardware. That video is amazing, fascinating, and educational.

To address your point, the odds of a casual hotel-hunter actually digging
down three levels into the menu system of our webpage to find ANY of my
extraneous pages (I.E.: Videos, the Rogue's Gallery; pictures from Oshkosh;
etc.) are virtually nil.

In fact, the ONLY people I know that have found the video page are pilots
and aviation enthusiasts.

I would think that the American families of those innocent passengers
on that fatefull flight of the B-52 that cartwheeled into the ground
because of the stupidity and arrogance of the pilot, may be getting
just a little tired of running into that piece of video when they
happen to be surfing the web looking for something totally unrelated,
like a room to rent in IOWA City ......

Personally, if one of my family members was killed by the arrogant idiot who
was piloting that B-52, I would want every person in America to see it,
every damned day. I can think of no greater punishment for the so-called
pilot who killed those innocent people.

But that's just me, I guess.

Get as mad as you want Jay...... and call me anything you want, but ask
yourself this one question.

Is business really that good, that as an INNKEEPER you can afford to
offend even one potential customer, who after viewing what your posting
on your website, will decide to take their business to another hotel.

It doesn't work that way, and I won't get mad at you -- but if it did work
that way the answer to your question would be "yes."

Go to Yahoo. Type "Iowa City Hotel" into the search screen. See which of
the zillion hotels in our area pops up as Number One at the top of the list,
at the very top of the page.

You may find it amazing that a tiny, independent, non-chain hotel can be
rated most popular in the area, ahead of the Sheraton's and Holiday Inn's,
no? Well, outstanding service + outstanding rates + outstanding aviation
theme suites = success. We do whatever it takes to make sure our guests are
supremely pampered, and it shows in our bottom line.

It ain't rocket science, and a video page of unique and fascinating aviation
videos isn't going to change that equation one way or the other.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"