Vintage Jet Slams Into Homes Near Air Show

Yeah. I'm just picking up on what an English professor used to rant
about...

Right... like "higher" has two syllables, and "fire" has one. So what
about "hire"?

And don't get me started about clocks running "fast".

Jose
--
The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Now we will just have to see how much money the former pilots' estate sues
the homeowner and developers for.

Its only right. Whenever an airfield exerts its legal right to expand
using our tax dollars, a certain number of surrounding homes and
businesses should then be taken by eminent domain and demolished, in the
name of economic development.

If that damned house was not there, who knows?, the pilot may have been
able to recover. Clearly, the homeowner and zoning board are responsible
for this tragedy.

Exactly. My favorite is people who use the word "further" instead of
"farther."

"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...

Its only right. Whenever an airfield exerts its legal right to expand
using our tax dollars, a certain number of surrounding homes and
businesses should then be taken by eminent domain and demolished, in the
name of economic development.

The airport and the airshow itself were there long before the homes. Most
of those neighborhoods are under ten years old, supporting the new Intel
factory and associated high-tech sprawl out there. Ten or twelve years
ago, those neighborhoods were meadow, farm, forest or wetland.

The airport itself is in no jeopardy; it serves the corporate headquarters
and executives of Intel, Nike, Tektronix, the Jailblazers (Paul Allen's
other hobby), LP and other major corporate jets. The airshow is a matter
of insurance, which may restrict performances to the point where all that's
left are the inflatable beer cans and SUVs, which blocked my view the last
time I went when I was volunteering with the Evergreen P-38.

The media has been reporting that 80% of the calls coming in from residents
in the area are strongly in support of continuance of the airshow.

-c

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:11:04 GMT, Jose
wrote:

Yeah. I'm just picking up on what an English professor used to rant
about...

Right... like "higher" has two syllables, and "fire" has one. So what
about "hire"?

And don't get me started about clocks running "fast".

This looks like fun. How about syllables and hyphenation in
theater/theatre?

That PED tag is hard to resist.

Don

"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
.. .

Gee, why would anybody trust a journalist about matters of journalism?

"... If you don't want to work, become a reporter. That awful power, the
public opinion of the nation, was created by a horde of self-complacent
simpletons who failed at ditch digging and shoemaking and fetched up
journalism on their way to the poorhouse. ..." -- Samuel Langhorne
Clemens

Sam Clemens, you should note, was a journalist. He was making fun of himself
the way he made fun of his service as a Confederate officer.

The problem being, as Mark Twain understood (having been a journalist
himself) is that it appears takes no qualifications to become one.

I should also remind you that Sam Clemens predates both the airplane and
modern media. If you think it takes no qualification to be a news reporter
for a syndicated network, you simply haven't tried.

I'm afraid I see no real difference between you and those "snivelers".

*shrug* That's up to you, but I won't call you an idiot or killfile you
like Emily did to me. If you find that the word "slammed" is more
offensive than the idea of a restored fighter jet exploding in a suburb,
that's your choice. Your comparison between me and those "snivelers" is a
nonsequitor.

-c

alexy wrote:


But I think you and I are on the losing side of the word purity
battle--incorrect usage repeated often enough becomes "common usage",
which in turn becomes "correct".


You mean like "Analyzating" or when Bush says "nuculer" when he means
"nuclear" or "subliminate" when he means "subliminal?" Or why he mixes
up
perseverance and preservation? Why does he mangle the English language
often enough for Slate Editor Jacob Weisberg to produce three books of
Bushisms such as "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your
family."

8^)

Monk

"alexy" wrote in message
...

Next time you want to jump on the bashing bandwagon when a particular
journalist shows a lack of knowledge in a field you know well, look at
his or her last few assignments and see if you know as much about
those areas as the journalist.

P.S. None of this is intended in any way to deny the existence of
dimwits in journalism.

I agree with you 100%. There are dimwits, there are talking heads, there
are journalists who are gravely unaware of their own bias or ignorance.

Journalists don't fly airplanes into houses, fly into the sides of
mountains, get disoriented in clouds, buzz friends and auger into trees and
do all the things that -some pilots- do.

We as aviators would not tolerate the idea that because -some- pilots are
careless or undertrained or incompetent that -all- pilots are as a whole. As
a matter of personal integrity I cannot tolerate the same applied to
journalism.

-c

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
...

No offense, but somebody once told me that journalists were those noble
warriors who came out on the field after the battle to bayonet the
wounded.

Good one.

Based on what? Give us an actual anecdote.

Somebody once told me that when she never saw so cocaine until her mom was
dating an airline pilot and throwing them parties in Orange County, CA back
in the early '80s, and that those airline pilots put away more cocaine in a
single party than she saw in her entire life since. Is that too a "Good
One"? Are pilots drug addicts bcause of what somebody once told me about
them?

-c

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...

No offense, but somebody once told me that journalists were those noble
warriors who came out on the field after the battle to bayonet the
wounded.

So that's what Ernie Pyle was doing.

Trivia: A journalist riding in high-risk B-17 combat missions with the 92nd
BG once tried to bail out of the nose over England to be the first to get
the story of the air battle to the newswire. The pilot, who lives in
Portland, had a service weapon he gave to the bombardier or navigator with
instructions that nobody leaves his airplane until he says they do, and
nobody was leaving until they landed. The passenger, Mr. Cronkite, would
have to wait. (I can't remember which airplane he said it was...either
Nine-O-Nine or Outhouse Mouse.)

-c