Airplanes, Aviation, Bullshit, Exploitation, Gods, Religion, Tragedy, Transportation, Travel, Truth
In Sonny's Thoughts on January 23, 2009 at 4:14 pm
This whole deal with the “miracle” in the Hudson River over in Manhattan is going too far. I just read a Letter to the Editor in my local paper: a citizen wrote in that it’s not the Christian God, or the Jewish God, or Allah, that made it happen, it’s “all our God”, our collective God, who performed that miracle. How about attributing this amazing story to the man who, essentially, LANDED the damn Airbus in the river safely, and his amazing set of aviation emergency skills and instincts. It wasn’t God who saved all those lives, it was fuckin’ Sully (the pilot)! And what’s an American Tragedy (in this case averted tragedy) without a little exploitation? Now some of the passengers on the plane, the one’s with ANY injuries (they’re minimal injuries at best) are threatening to employ lawsuits on the crash. Fuck. The only thing God caused here were the geese flying into the heavy engines of the Airbus-300, maybe these people with minor injuries should be suing God for his incompetence, not the airline or crew who can do literally NOTHING about bird strikes.
-Sonny
Discrimination, Gods, Outer-Space, Racism, Robots, Sci-Fi, Star Wars
In Sonny's Thoughts on January 23, 2009 at 4:11 pm
How can a droid which supposedly specializes in “etiquette, customs, protocol, and translation” possibly use the term “filthy creatures” when describing the entirety of one (of two) native species of a planet? What kind of etiquette is that?!? And who the hell is a robot to call any form of living being “filthy”? We, flesh and bone, may be “filthy”, but we are living and breathing dammit. What a conscience. The Intergalactic version of our Earth-Racism doesn’t stop there, however. In Jedi, 3PO uses the ignorance of the Ewok-kind for his, and his party’s, advantage. If the robot had decent customs/etiquette at all he’d tell the furry creatures that he indeed is NOT the one they call God. So he saves Han’s (and company) ass. I guess, for the greater good, it’s understandable. Though once Han is successfully saved and safe, C-3PO STILL refuses to reliquish his new secret identity as a Supreme Force/Being/Entity. What a dick.
-Sonny
