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The Center for Artificial Indifference

¿Habla Inglés?

NCP Cartoon 12/03/07

[Wave of the sombrero to Mike Lester and Nashville City Paper, 12/03/07]

5 Comments so far

  1. twomartini December 4th, 2007 10:49 am

    Why not hire non English speaking air traffic controllers? Then give all the Washington Liberals free airline tickets.

  2. Stu Savory December 5th, 2007 2:04 am

    Oh, I don’t know though. After all, we have Americans teaching English ;-)

  3. gerry rosser December 6th, 2007 9:34 am

    twomartini apparently thinks the thing to do with those who think differently (Washington Liberals) is to kill them off. Wonder what happened to the “marketplace of ideas.”
    Also, twomartini’s effort at wit employs the classic strategem of using something those he/she doesn’t agree with never said or advocated to ridicule them.

    Keep drinking those martinis.

  4. Ingineer December 6th, 2007 1:48 pm

    The beauty of this is that English is the official language of all Air Traffic Control so if you land in Afghanistan or Zimbabwe they are supposed to be speaking English to you from the tower. That is the wonderful thing about inventing something (powered flight) and also being the number one country in the world. Now if you want to live in space, you pretty much have to speak Russian, so I guess there are trade offs.

  5. jackie December 7th, 2007 4:25 pm

    oh my daddy would have loved that..he was flight chief of control tower in san antonio when he died…he was still recovering from the first woman in the tower…