can you go have your little spat on email? or meet up someplace and have a good old-fashioned fistfight? i have lost track of which one of you is the insolent unwise teenager, and which is the old, dumb, earning-less-than-a-CEO-teenager, but youre both pretty tiring. my money is on the teenage to beat the old-fart in three rounds.

to respond to the first post - i think that while the investigation is open, that the government isnt obligated to tell us EVERYTHING because it may jeopardize the work, or national security or some such.

do we have any lawyers who handle freedom of information stuff, who could clear up whether the government HAS to tell us?

also, even they told us, im not sure what we will do with that information? background checks would be nice for all ground crew, but everyone has a clean background before their first offense. im not saying dont do it, but i am saying, dont assume it suddenly makes things safe.

somebody made the point here, or somewhere else, that now when people do dumb things on planes, the pax are way more likely to attack them right back, under the assumption that they are going to die anyway. the new reactions on the part of pilots, crew, and pax make hijacking american planes a whole new ballgame. thats going to be the best deterrent we have. terrorists dont care about dying, but they do care about assessing the probablility of success.

and im sure there is more interesting and important stuff the govt isnt telling us as well, like about UFOs, and bigfoot, and all that cool stuff that we cared about before 9/11.