I had a hotdog on a stick, and a cheese on a stick earlier. So good but not healthy. I made up for it by slicing some fresh fruit and made skewers out of them. I tried to be creative and arrainged them into an edible bouquet.

OK, my dear 'poolboy_', I'll take up this fun gauntlet: Your "editing"?--You changed 'beer' to 'bear'?

Agreed. The Captain is not involved. He had a self built simulator because he loved flying. That there were deletions from it's computers means nothing. Cannot keep all flight plans forever either because of boredom or lack of disk space...The Boeing 777 aircraft also could not have reached 45,000 ft. in the incredible manner people on CNN have been reporting. It's Absolute Altitude (max possible depending on atmospheric conditions and weight) is 45,000 ft. but it's Service Ceiling is in the 43,000 foot range. Any altitude gained above it's SC to it's Absolute Alt. is at 100 FPM (feet per minute) or less. The CNN idiots said it reached 45,000 from it's cruise altitude around 35,000 ft. in a minute and a half. A physical impossibility for any aircraft but a fighter! A 10,000 ft. altitude gain at 2,000 fpm (very high rate, except for fighter planes) would take 5 minutes. And as I said, it would be down to 100 fpm above it's Service Ceiling and nowhere near 2,000 fpm long before it got there even. The last 2,000 ft. by themselves would take 20 minutes at 100 fpm!
CNN is a collection of idiots that has hired too many supposed 'experts'...in reality just money grubbers and 15 minute 'famers'. CNN pays big $$ and apparently does not do much vetting of just how expert these hirees actually are... There are very few Aviation experts on CNN that should be listened to. Just sickening the way CNN has gone. Commercials and 'yellow sheet' reporting. What happened to the CNN that World leaders used to look to for important news first?

And how long have the polar bears been there in Southeast Asia?

'Conspiracy' thinking again?? No 'gas board' or any other energy or water delivering regulated public utility, as far as I know, is 'happy' if one uses more of their product.

It is my understanding that the term, 'socialized medicine' has generally meant a system in which the government runs the health care systems, and professionals are its employees. Canada does NOT have this kind of system. The 'right wing' in the USA has come to use the term meaning even a private delivery system, but with government involvement, like rate setting, taxing etc., as is the US Medicare System. The term perhaps most fitting is 'Universal Health Care', which virtually all major nations, except the USA, have, and is considered a 'normal' government function, just like building/maintaining roads, schools, etc.

It sucks ass. Roughly 5 million people have signed up. The US has an estimated 370 million people. Most peoples health care premiums have doubled to more than tripled. That is one hell of a cost for just 5 million people. The cost doesn't justify the means, or is it just me?


So in other words: the whole country is paying double to triple so Los Angeles, and San Jose can afford health care. (The two cities add up to about 5 million. Just using them as a visual for 5 million. )