Fly Me to the Air Traffic Controller’s Office, and Let Me Nap Among the Stars..
Nobody Wins: Recently, air traffic controllers in America have been falling asleep. Not good. Two airplanes had to land themselves, it was reported, at Reagan National because the supervisor of the air traffic controllers fell asleep. He said he had done a four night in a row shift, and just couldn’t do it. Another air traffic controller in Nevada fell asleep, and a small private plane had to land once again…by itself. Since then, sleepy controller’s have been falling out of the airwaves, as fast as you can say, ” Amelia Earhardt” More than half of air controllers told their union in a survey taken more than a year ago that they wanted to address quick turnaround times on shifts and other factors that increase fatigue
Fact: Human beings, along with all animals, insects, and most other living things have what is called a circadian rhythm. It’s about as much as part of us as our eyeballs. It is handled in a sweet little itty bitty, nub in your hypothalamus called the SCN. The SCN is your internal clock. Most people wake up at the same time, and get tired at the same time. People on daytime schedules usually get sleepy around 3pm..and 3am. Nature is a world of cycles…like it or not.
Fact: You cannot mess with this clock. Resetting it is almost impossible and takes a very long time. It would be like trying to change the size of your feet.
Fact: The unions have the idiotic habit of making men work in “shifts.” One week, the workers are expected to go in at 3pm…for a few days, then 5 pm for a few day, than 10 pm…etc. Doctors have told them that this will get them used to doing the night shift. These doctors were paid by the unions, of course.
Fact: It takes a lot longer than a week for the body to get used to the new shifts in such a short time. In fact, some people never get used to it.
Fact: When a brain is sleepy, it will go to sleep. (Just ask any woman who try to talk to any man after sex.) There are strong chemicals at work here, and unless you are caffeined to the hilt…you will fall asleep. Lots of people do it while driving, but they are just poor suckers. Our Senators can’t even stay awake long enough to make it to work, let alone be worried about people sleeping in traffic. I could go into a LONG rant about sleeping senators here…but I won’t.
You’re welcome.
Fact: Therefore, the answer is to hire people that are willing to work a steady midnight shift for over a year. After that, let them take a vacation…and switch to a newer shift, preferably two hours later.
Fact: Nobody wants to work the midnight shift…therefore the problem.
Consider the Source: Stephen King
Nobody’s Perfect:
How can you not like this guy? He is an American Icon. He has lead us down the deep dark avenues of his deep well of pain, and gotten paid big bucks for it. One of my favorite movies of all time, is Stephen King’s movie, The DreamCatcher. (What’s yours?) The guy is a genius..and thank god he gets up every day and puts on his rock and roll, and writes.
But, when he comes out and attacks the tea party candidates in Maine and Florida, (see video) the ONLY candidates that do NOT belong to the millionaire Plutocracy called our Congress, you have to wonder…what drug is he on now? As my mother’s always said when someone says really off- the-wall comments: Consider the source.
So let’s consider the source of Stephen King.
Since he was so bold some time ago, to say that everybody who can’t read, joins the army…insinuating that the army is filled with ignorant people, ( he paid for that comment, and trys to make up for it here) I feel it’s time to point out some very common- sense things about Stephen King.
Consider his source.
His father deserted his mother, Stephen’ s older adopted brother, and himself, when he was two. He went out for a cigarette and never came back. Stephen found an old H.P. Lovecraft book that had belonged to his father in the attic and decided to become a writer. You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to go down that road. Being a genius, (and suffering from fatherless trauma) he got hooked on comic books, reading, and discovered he had talent for writing so he became an English teacher.
Teachers, no matter how brilliant they are: live in a dream bubble. University life is completely removed from the rest of money-making society. (Not all are like that, but here in the States…the majority are.) Add cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, heroin, LSD, opium (and that’s just a few) and mix that cocktail to the “I know everything” because I’m a university professor, and you start to see a real connection between Charlie Sheen, and Mr. King. Obviously, Stephen suffers from deep depressions and writing has been his lifeline to salvation.
In his book, “On Writing,” Stephen admits he reads mostly fiction, which explains his complete ignorance on politics. Whatever political news he reads, he probably reads what he craves: which is the liberal sites. And when it comes to politics, Stephen is about as boring as they come. Stephen King…is a member of the elite, and it’s a club he feels he deserves. (And who are we to argue?)
Besides, he is so busy writing six hours a day, (according to him) he has little time for reading, which is why he got hit by a car walking and reading at the same time.
Stephen is a democrat. These arguments he gives…supporting unions, and trashing the newly elected ‘tea party’ men, are almost funny coming from him, but in this, he is no original.
He wants to be taxed more. They only take 28%. But…if you say…Hey write a check King, whose stopping you?— He then tells the crowd that he donates money..that the government doesn’t take. Well, that a good thing isn’t it? If the government had it, his money would go to abort black babies, instead of building them libraries.
Stephen has a brain lapse somewhere between Carrie and the last valium he took.
He complains that his mother once went to a Republican government and asked for help. Instead of blaming his REAL father for his mother’s hard life, he blames the state.
As for saying that military guys are “stupid,” let’s just say, those guys have seen REAL nightmares: dead bodies, buddies blowing up, scary things that Stephen King, would run and hide from and couldn’t even handle. They live nightmares, and experience fear every day.
Stephen King only imagines it.
If you put Stephen King on the battlefield in Iraq or Afghanistan, he would be the first one off the field. And his statement was so stupid, those military men could care less. They live in the real world…Stephen, does not.
No matter how rich Stephen King becomes, he will never see the world besides the painful one that he has invented in his mind. And since he can’t seem to get over that intellectual hurdle called the ‘truth’ due to his bottomless pit of pain—
Nobody feels sorry for him. (Go ahead and take that BOTH ways!)
Next time you get that extra tax money, Stephen, I think you should donate about a million copies of your books to those poor ignorant boys in the Armed Forces, free of charge. Help them escape reality.
You want them to learn how to read…don’t you?
UPDATE: You know, I watched this video again, and maybe I was a bit too hard on the guy, he does make a few good (but lame) points.
Nah.
He would like us all to “thank a union” for the benefits of mankind, but thanks anyway Stephen— I’m going to thank a soldier. And maybe you haven’t noticed, but not everyone in the Unions can read.
I’m just saying.
Harry Reid: Never Met a Bunny Branch Prostitute He Really Liked
If Trumka Gave Advice to Gaddhafi
leader, Richard Trumka, and asked for advice:
Trumka:—Hey there your highness, I hear you got some trouble going on over there!
Gaddhafi: Yes…you have heard? The rats are out in the streets. The media and the West is causing all this but you know, I will die here before I give into this scum. I have done what you do, Mr. Turka, I doubled the salary of my guards. Those scum in the streets will be sorry that thery were ever born. But hey, I hear you have trouble to where you are.
Trumka* Yeah, but our trouble is great! You know, they can’t win, I’ve got Obama on my side. They don’t know who they are messing with…you don’t mess with me…I can break them.
Gaddhafi: Yes, break the rats…kill them. Hey, I am thinking of making a trip to the White House. I would like to pitch my tent on the White House Lawn. I don’t think Mr. Trump will let me pitch my tent on his property again. Just until this is over..you know. You must get me a meeting with Obama, you talk to him every day, no?
Trumka: I’m not sure he would go for that, but hey…why don’t you come to Ohio? You can meet him there with me. He’s going to be practically living there in the next few years. Tell you what…you come over here and help me with these rat governors and I’ll come over there for you guys…but Gad…you really should be a little bit more quiet about who you kill…you know, there are other ways to get rid of your enemies. You want me to send my guys?
Gaddhafi: Hey, I have an executive order 134777 signed by George W. Bush. It is my, as you say, “Get out of jail free” card. No one can touch me. Not even that dimwit Ki Moon. He’s a rat. The world is FILLED with dirty filthy rats!
Trumka: Yeah, we got big ones over here too.
Gaddhafi: let them all run to Europe where they belong, with the whores of Christ and Jews.
Trumka: Hey Gad..you know, the AFL-CIO is now global. You should really think about letting us into Libya before you set those wells on fire. We are doing wonders in Palestine. Obama and I have plans that would blow your mind…you really need to get in on this…
Gaddhafi: just a minute (leans over and kisses his blond and busty Ukrainian nurse, Galyan. ) Uh..I am going now. Call me as soon as you can, and we will talk more. Remember…only virgins…and I must pick them.
Trumka: Yeah, I’ll get back to you on that…and Gad…if you come, tell Galyna to bring her sister.
CLICK.
Gaddhafi…grabs his nurse…Allah be praised…I am…still here.
(Nobody makes this stuff up.)





