Sasha's commentary for April 12, 2013

-Jeff Smisek, the United Airlines CEO, believs the industry is now profitable thanks to higher fares, lessflights, and the industry loves this one: LESS COMPETITION. Why did we get rid of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) in the first place, when all it would do is lead to three/four big airlines in the United States? We're back to where we were in the '70! Bring back the local service airlines like Piedmont, Ozark, Southern, North Central and others. All I know is that for many, like myself, frequent airline travel is just not possible, especially with the fact that you need to book way in advance to get a low fare, and guess what? If you don't make the flight you booked, well, there goes your money. I still have a feeling that the “friendly skies” are going to become “less friendly”. Everyone, back on the train! Travel I feel for the majority of Americans, will become impossible.

-Thomas Prendergast is going to be running the MTA full time. The questions still linger: first, why did it take Governor Cuomo forever to find a replacement and second, whose going to take Prendergast's job? If the job is getting to you Andy, ask Bob Duffy to help out a little. New York's government is extremely complex

-This article, by the New York Times, has exposed a contractor that provides special needs services and is turning it into the largest education fraud operation I've seen in probably my entire life. How fun is that? Cheon Park's operation is more reason why everyone is so up in arms against New York State, and why the federal government is trying to de-fund New York, because we're a state that can't get our shit straight. I'm starting to believe if there should be an auditor for state government. Maybe even an auditor general for the entire state.

-I was hoping that Autism Speaks was going to be a little more helpful in this article. Most of it is stuff I already know, and it's more geared for parents, so I'm a little let down. However, my mom should have read this when I bwas in high school, and I shoud have been a little more open-minded. But in high school, my social skills were severely lacking, and dating would have been near-impossible. To this day I still lack very good social skills required for dating. Maybe the next autism conference after the one I'm attending this spring should focus on dating and the autism spectrum

-I would love to work for an airline, Southwest, jetBlue, you name it. But at the same time, I wouldn't mind having an 8-4 or 9-5 job. I'd love flexible hours, but at the same time, I'd like a job where I would have enough time to pursue my interests. And the problem is I have so many of them.

-Of course, this is from yesterday, but it appears the left and right wings of the GOP are at war again. Ann Coulter used these words: 

Obama has been draping himself in families of the children murdered in Newtown.

MSNBC's Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats' gun proposals. (Let's start with Meghan McCain!)

Of course, Meghan McCain has long been Ann Coulter's favorite punching bag, but I admire the junior McCain. She's not afraid to speak her mind on this, she keeps a fairly open mind, she doesn't treat us liberals like we're the scum of the earth and I don't know too many center-right Republican women who would go on Rachel Maddow's program. But then again, Maddow is one of the biggest speakers for the LGBT community and McCain is one of the biggest GOP supporters of LGBT rights. And the two are both very rational individuals.
-Cablevision, although looking more and more like the lesser of two evils compared to Time Warner Cable, is still evil. We would have had a better shot at hosting the Olympics had the Dolan family and Sheldon Silver not interveined. Granted, it turns out that the Olympics in New York City would have been tough and the Hudson Yards are much better suited for other ventures. But still, the capital of the world should still one day have the opportunity. But New York City also lacks decent infrastructure in some ways. We have three airports not well suited for jets. New York City would properly need an airport the size of Denver's to handle all the air traffic. 

 Finally, the internet stinks where I am. Need I say more? I should have brought down the beefier card.