Friday, November 20, 2009

Excuse Me While I WHIP THIS OUT!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Friday, November 20, 2009
Contact: Quiet Rockland, 1-845-480-1088

FAA NADIN COMPUTER CRASH IS MISGUIDEDLY BLAMED ON PARTS NOT PEOPLE
QRNewswire/Rockland County, NY:

From Quiet Rockland Attorney John J. Tormey III, Esq.: “Regrettably but predictably, this week’s FAA recidivist inability to maintain its own flight-control equipment has already been mischaracterized by special interests seeking to further their own political agendas – including mischaracterization by New York Senator Charles Schumer.

“The self-dealing touts would have you believe that the solution to FAA management incompetence is to throw US$35,000,000,000 more of YOUR dollars at the problem in the form of an ill-conceived 2009 FAA Reauthorization Bill (S. 1451/HR 915). By their logic, because 1,000 monkeys have trouble writing “Hamlet” on Smith Corona typewriters, we should buy each monkey a Gateway 700XL instead.

“FAA’s failure is the failure of humans. Corrupted humans. Not corrupted files. The failures include an FAA ‘Administrator’ named Randy Babbitt - college drop-out and dim political hack. A ‘COO’ UAL plant named Hank Krakowski who led a fellow stunt-pilot to his death in Illinois in 1999. A drama major-now-‘Redesign Project Manager’ named Steven Ray Kelley who helped snuff out 6 innocent lives in a mid-air 2-plane crash over New Jersey in 1985.

“Yet other humans have let us down, too. Almost a full year after an Administration change, the remainder of the federal government has still failed to effect the timely thorough Oberstar-urged ‘Top-To-Bottom’ clean-out of inept vampiric FAA personnel still lurking the halls of 800 Independence. These residual aeromercantile malefactors are vestiges of the failed Marion Blakey/Bobby Sturgell era of revolving-door cozy relationship between agency and industry. After Thursday’s NADIN debacle, the American people are once again reminded that the “regulator” and the “regulated” are still one – and that they still suck. Now they want to use their own incompetence as the pretextual basis to suck-out US$35 Billion more of your American dollars. That’s THEIR bail-out. That’s THEIR stimulus.

“We were promised change. Yet our current landscape is populated by invisible federal judicial appointments at standstill, medical panels providing harmful misinformation regarding cancer screenings, banking regulators who cannot explain why bonus-babies are high-fiving each other on Wall Street, slip-of-the-tongue law enforcement officials promising terrorist death-penalties before the trial commences, and Sturgell-hangover FAA personnel who can do nothing but fulfill their infamous Tombstone Agency culture by mishandling systems and technology thereby risking the death of innocent Americans. We again urge Congress and the federal government to terminate S. 1451, say ABSOLUTELY NO! to the requested US$35 Billion Dollars of wasted FAA Reauthorization money, and fire feckless FAA management en masse. Let Randy Babbitt and his pack of fellow agency imposters now step aside in favor of responsible professionals who can actually regulate professionalism, and who can actually remember where they left the keys to the tech-room!”
http://www.faafollies.com/?p=1510#comments
http://gettheflick.blogspot.com/2009/11/broken-pieces-of-puzzle.html
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

NextScalpel

“We Have Now Removed The Human Factor From Surgeries!”, boasts Surgeon General Stabbitt
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Thursday, November 19, 2009
Contact: Dr. Jim Peters, Media Relations and Eastern Terminal Services- 718-555-5555

Continuing the American trend of throwing un-had money at non-functional objects, Surgeon General J. Randall Stabbitt in collaboration with AMA and 35 state education boards issued a joint statement today lauding the implementation of “NextScalpel”. The “NextScalpel” system enables health-care facilities to maximize profits by busting unions, dramatically reducing staff head-count, and conducting even the most intricate of medical procedures solely by scalpel-wielding robotic arms up-linked to Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite transponders. Journalistically-independent bastion New York Times, while vowing to continue to accept medical advertising revenue, has run a Science Times feature this week in support of NextScalpel entitled “A Surgical Upgrade To End Costly Recovery Time”.

Though admittedly not including surgeons in the planning of NextScalpel, Stabbitt winks and gives his OK, saying, “We checked it out. It’s safe. My future bosses… – I mean, the contractors selling the equipment - assured me so”. These manufacturers, located in 35 different states, along with hospitals nationwide, immediately celebrated with sheetcake and Kool-Aid. In a bizarre numerological coincidence, 35 United States Senators led by New York’s Senator Kirsten Gillibrand have now fast-tracked Senate Bill “S. 3535”, requisitioning US$35 Billion Dollars for the “surgeon-free” NextScalpel system and its related “WAAS” (What An Awful Surgery) and “RNAV” (Robotic Nodes Attack Value) technologies. Said Gillibrand, “Hospitals are broke and can’t afford to pay the US$4,000 per surgical table for this technology. So we are going to pass the cost on to the American people instead. And anyway, they’re used to bail-outs and stimuli by now”.

Integral to NextScalpel (dubbed “NextGash” by some critics) is the ability of hospitals to now line up surgical patients 22-across in the average-sized O.R., whereas patients used to be attended-to by medical professional human-beings one-at-a-time. Said Stabbitt, “Our research and studies show that dense-packing patients will generate more revenue for hospitals, save on gauze and electricity, and reduce the total running-time of surgery an average of 3 minutes per patient. These Gomers deserve efficiency and shouldn’t be forced to pay for safety. Why do we need doctors and nurses cluttering-up the O.R.? You’re probably the same sissies who want to keep that cancer screening age at 40 instead of 50. Besides, surgeons will be available by cell phone as a back-up when the satellites go dark. And why pay doctors when you can pay publicists and androids less? It’s a no-brainer. It’s a green-light”. In an unrelated story Mt. Sinai Hospital has issued a statement announcing that their 1-page patient release form has now been expanded to 35 pages.

Particularly affected by NextScalpel will be those in the northeast, as a result of Stabbitt’s “NY/NJ/PHL O.R. Redesign”. Parking spill-over due to increased patient-load will ‘require’ the federal government to take residential properties of homeowners by eminent domain. Said Stabbitt, “It’s their fault anyway. They’re the ones using the O.R.’s”. When pointed-out to Stabbitt that the average household with satellite TV loses signal a few times per night - that he is espousing technology requiring graduate education to understand when he himself never finished college - and that the O.R. Redesign principally victimized communities located at least 30 miles away from O.R.’s - Stabbitt grumbled, “To Hell with them. It’s low-hanging fruit. Safety was never compromised”. For more:
http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/nextgen/
http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/nas_redesign/regional_guidance/eastern_reg/nynjphl_redesign/
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You And Me We Were The Pretenders
We Let It All Slip Away
In The End What You Don’t Surrender
Well The World Just Strips Away

Girl, Ain’t No Kindness In The Face Of Strangers
Ain’t Gonna Find No Miracles Here
Well You Can Wait On Your Blesses My Darling
I Got A Deal For You Right Here

I Ain’t Looking For Praise Or Pity
I Ain’t Coming Round Searching For A Crutch
I Just Want Someone To Talk To
And A Little Of That Human Touch
Just A Little Of That Human Touch

Ain’t No Mercy On The Streets Of This Town
Ain’t No Bread From Heavenly Skies
Ain’t Nobody Drawing Wine From This Blood
It’s Just You And Me Tonight

Tell Me, In A World Without Pity
Do You Think What Im Askin’s Too Much
I Just Want Something To Hold On To
And A Little Of That Human Touch
Just A Little Of That Human Touch

Oh Girl That Feeling Of Safety That You Prize
Well It Comes At A Hard Hard Price
You Can’t Shut Off The Risk And The Pain
Without Losing The Love That Remains
We’re All Riders On This Train

So You’ve Been Broken And You’ve Been Hurt
Show Me Somebody Who Ain’t
Yeah, I Know I Ain’t Nobodys Bargain
But, Hell, A Little Touch Up And A Little Paint...

You Might Need Something To Hold On To
When All The Answers, They Don’t Amount To Much
Somebody That You Could Just To Talk To
And A Little Of That Human Touch

Baby, In A World Without Pity
Do You Think What I’m Askin’s Too Much
I Just Want To Feel You In My Arms
Share A Little Of That Human Touch
Feel A Little Of That Human Touch
Give Me A Little Of That Human Touch

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

KILL [the] BILL!

Here is the bottom line. Quiet Rockland is in the process of helping kill-off a US$35,000,000,000 piece of waste, the ill-conceived "2009 FAA Reauthorization" Bill.

The awful, hurtful Bill is currently stalled in the Senate Finance Committee wherein among others our NY Senator Schumer sits. Meanwhile 35 Senators including our other (in her case, UN-elected) NY Senator Gillibrand - comprising a total of 8 Republican and 27 Democrat signatories - autographed an ill-advised November 5, 2009 letter supporting FAA Reauthorization and its inconceivable Thirty-Five Billion dollars of malignant excess.

We are going to make sure that the 2009 FAA Reauthorization Bill does not hit the Senate floor, and does not pass. That's because everybody is getting something for themselves out of the Reauthorization Bill, except us in Rockland County - and because our Senatorial "protection" in New York has thusfar sold us out. The Bill harms us, and we are not going to stand for it.


Of the Thirty-Five Billion Dollars in wasted FAA Reauthorization spending, the majority of those dollars are designated for the wing-and-a-prayer illusion of Randy Babbitt's "NextGen" a/k/a "DeathGen", a fictitious "program" of system and technology that has about as much substance and authenticity to it as P.T. Barnum's egress or The War of the Worlds radio broadcast. That's right. Your 35 Billion - BLOWN - on an aero-publicists' spit-bubble.


Out of NextGen monies in the Reauthorization Bill, FAA expects to blow US$90 Million more dollars on the hazardous and inhuman FAA "NY/NJ/PHL Airspace Redesign". FAA already wasted US$60 Million+ of your money on that Redesign. You should be outraged.


We are going to stop Redesign. We are going to stop Reauthorization. We are going to stop FAA.

We are going to expose every single person and entity that sought to obtain private or unlawful advantage from the Reauthorization Bill - no matter how long it takes.

We are going to make sure Senator Gillibrand does not actually get elected Senator of NY, unless she recants, in writing, her signature on the November 5 letter. We are going to make sure Senator Schumer gets ejected from office if he makes the mistake of letting the FAA Reauthorization Bill emerge from the Senate Finance Committee and get anywhere near the Senate floor.


We have written all 100 United States Senators, individually (even, finally, Klobuchar and Begich, to whose respective staffs I have apologized for a since-repaired software SNAFU), to same effect. Hyperlinks to each of their letters, are below.

All 22 Senators on the Finance Committee, including Schumer, have been told to kill the FAA Reauthorization Bill. The 8 Republican Senators who signed the November 5 letter have now been chastened by our correspondence for crossing party lines to embrace the Administration-indebted 27 Democrat Senators, in their collective intent to waste US$35 Billion American dollars. The 27 Democrat Senators have been chastised for supporting a Bill that would wreak environmental injustice and damage while wasting the country's US$35 Billion on illusory technology to do it.


The 65 Senators, of both parties, who did not sign the November 5 letter have been thanked for not signing the letter. I'm banking on Patty Murray to explain to the other 99 Senators what is horrifically wrong with this Reauthorization Bill. She and I may live 3,000 miles away from each other most of the time, but she's the smartest one in the room and I hope to vote for her for President of the United States of America some day.


Are you now wondering which category YOUR state's 2 Senators might fall in? Please click on their links below, to find out. Hopefully, they didn't already agree to blow YOUR Thirty-Five Billion Dollars.


And then, please use these self-same digital Senator-letter templates, improve upon them if you can, and then tell each of our 100 United States Senators to KILL THE 2009 FAA REAUTHORIZATION BILL SO AS TO SAVE AMERICA THIRTY-FIVE BILLION DOLLARS (US$35,000,000,000) IN WASTED SPENDING ON MYTHOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY AND A BEREFT FEDERAL AGENCY RUN BY A COLLEGE DROP-OUT!


Thank you,


John J. Tormey III, Esq.
Quiet Rockland


Akaka, Daniel K. (D-HI)
http://defusesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-daniel-akaka-save-you.html

Alexander, Lamar (R-TN)
http://trumpsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-lamar-alexander-save-you.html

Barrasso, John (R-WY)
http://defeatsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-john-barrasso-save-you.html

Baucus, Max (D-MT)
http://vanquishsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-max-baucus-save-you-thirty.html

Boxer, Barbara (D-CA)
http://repurposesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/tell-my-friend-senator-barbara-boxer.html

Brown, Sherrod (D-OH)
http://retoolsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/tell-my-friend-senator-sherrod-brown.html

Carper, Thomas R. (D-DE)
http://processsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-tom-carper-save-your.html

Casey, Robert P., Jr. (D-PA)
http://detainsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/senator-robert-casey-wants-to-blow-your.html

Chambliss, Saxby (R-GA)
http://handcuffsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-saxby-chambliss-save-your.html

Coburn, Tom (R-OK)
http://summonssturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-tom-coburn-save-your.html

Cochran, Thad (R-MS)
http://embarrasssturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-thad-cochran-save-your.html

Corker, Bob (R-TN)
http://excisesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-bob-corker-save-your.html

Cornyn, John (R-TX)
http://omitsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-john-cornyn-save-your.html

Crapo, Mike (R-ID)
http://uninvitesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/senator-mike-crapo-wants-to-blow-your.html

DeMint, Jim (R-SC)
http://dismisssturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-jim-demint-save-your.html

Dodd, Christopher J. (D-CT)
http://rebuffsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-chris-dodd-save-your.html

Dorgan, Byron L. (D-ND)
http://refusesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-byron-dorgan-save-your.html

Durbin, Richard J. (D-IL)
http://disapprovesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-dick-durbin-save-your.html

Ensign, John (R-NV)
http://shunsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-john-ensign-save-your.html

Enzi, Michael B. (R-WY)
http://disappointsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-mike-enzi-save-your-thirty.html




Gregg, Judd (R-NH)
http://neutralizesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-judd-gregg-save-your.html












Leahy, Patrick J. (D-VT)
http://freezeoutsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-patrick-leahy-save-your.html

LeMieux, George S. (R-FL)
http://ignoresturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-george-lemieux-save-your.html
Levin, Carl (D-MI)
http://blackballsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-carl-levin-save-your.html

Lieberman, Joseph I. (ID-CT)
http://snubsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/senator-joe-lieberman-wants-to-blow.html

Lincoln, Blanche L. (D-AR)
http://eschewsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/senator-blanche-lincoln-wants-to-blow.html

Lugar, Richard G. (R-IN)
http://depictsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-richard-lugar-save-your.html

McCain, John (R-AZ)
http://jettisonsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-john-mccain-save-your.html

McCaskill, Claire (D-MO)
http://outsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/tell-my-friend-senator-claire-mccaskill.html

McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
http://disgracesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-mitch-mcconnell-save-your.html

Menendez, Robert (D-NJ)
http://slamsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/tell-my-friend-senator-robert-menendez.html

Merkley, Jeff (D-OR)
http://apesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/senator-jeff-merkley-wants-to-blow-your.html

Mikulski, Barbara A. (D-MD)
http://humiliatesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/senator-barbara-mikulski-wants-to-blow.html

Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK)
http://lampoonsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-lisa-murkowski-save-your.html





Risch, James E. (R-ID)
http://excommunicatesturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-james-risch-blow-your.html
Roberts, Pat (R-KS)
http://imprisonsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-pat-roberts-save-your.html

Rockefeller, John D., IV (D-WV)
http://jailsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-jay-rockefeller-blow-your.html

Sanders, Bernard (I-VT)
http://denysturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-bernie-sanders-save-your.html

Schumer, Charles E. (D-NY)
http://blocksturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-chuck-schumer-blow-your.html

Sessions, Jeff (R-AL)
http://convictsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-jeff-sessions-save-your.html

Shaheen, Jeanne (D-NH)
http://nailsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/senator-jeanne-shaheen-wants-to-blow.html

Shelby, Richard C. (R-AL)
http://faasturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-richard-shelby-save-your.html

Snowe, Olympia J. (R-ME)
http://administratorsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/senator-olympia-snowe-wants-to-blow.html

Specter, Arlen (D-PA)
http://bsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-arlen-specter-save-your.html

Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI)
http://rsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/will-senator-debbie-stabenow-save-your.html

Tester, Jon (D-MT)
http://bobsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/11/senator-jon-tester-wants-to-blow-your.html





Monday, November 16, 2009

Senator Gillibrand - "Composing" Her Response


Drop-Out Babbitt Distracts. Drop-Out Babbitt Blames. BUT HE'S STILL NOT GOING TO GET AWAY WITH STEALING YOUR THIRTY-FIVE BILLION DOLLARS!

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/national/northeast/faa-splitting-hudson-airspace-into-local-distance-1258396515703
Google Blogs Alert for: Federal Aviation Administration
FAA Splitting Hudson Airspace Into Local, Distance
The Federal Aviation Administration says it will carve the crowded airspace over the Hudson River into separate areas for local and long-distance traffic...
WISH TV - http://www.wishtv.com/
http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/national/northeast/faa-splitting-hudson-airspace-into-local-distance-1258396515703
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aOwkHdlZfl8U
Google News Alert for: Randy Babbitt
FAA Fires Controllers in Fatal Crash Over NYC's Hudson River
Bloomberg
The two employees have a right of appeal, Randy Babbitt, the agency's administrator, said during a conference call with reporters today. ...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Babbitt: "Now Don't You Go Blaming Me Again, Ray - I Can't Regulate The Mechanics"


Saturday, November 14, 2009

Randy Babbitt: “I Can't Regulate Professionalism”. OK, Randy. THEN WHY DON'T YOU STEP DOWN IN FAVOR OF SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY CAN, YOU DUNCE?!

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=336581
Randy Babbitt, Temporary FAA Administrator:
"I can't regulate professionalism".
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=336581

John J. Tormey III, Esq.:
"Gee that's funny, Randy. Because my profession, the legal profession, is regulated by virtue of the Appellate Division in the State of New York. The medical profession is regulated, too. Accountants are in a regulated profession. Cosmetologists - financial services - radio disc jockeys - cops and firemen.

Come to think of it, the majority of people I know are in regulated professions.

And you say, Randy Babbitt, you CAN'T regulate professionalism?? You're UNABLE???

WELL WHY DON'T YOU JUST STEP DOWN NOW IN FAVOR OF SOMEONE ELSE THAT CAN, YOU INCOMPETENT AIRLINE HACK COLLEGE DROP-OUT PIECE OF WHITE TRASH IMBECILE!!!"