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From a Friend Who Just Flew Back Home to California from the Other Side of the World
From a globe-trotting friend:
Nice view of Iran and the North Pole on the return flight yesterday. The 16+ hour journey from Dubai provided ample opportunity for pointless musing. For example, I decided that I would rather any emergency landing take place in the polar latitudes over the Islamic ones; a lethal climate seeming preferable to a murderous regime.
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Hasn’t he heard the poles have all melted? (Or was that the Ukrainians?)
I’d rather take my chances with a ravenous wolf pack and frozen extremities than the religion of peace. Either way though, time to channel your inner Liam Neeson.
Blue ribbon comments up ahead of me :)
DocJay, the Wolf Puncher.
I think I got a television series on hand here…
On my flight from Newark to Beijing, I remember gazing out the window at the endless expanse of the Russian tundra. When I saw the first straight line cut through the trees for presumably a telephone line (and probably to an abandoned missile silo) I remember breathing a sigh of relief that I was finally someplace where humans had actually been once.
Oh–from the headline, I thought your friend was returning from his sojourn in Texas.
Eric Hines
anonymous, you have a Swiss passport. My passport says USA and infidel. It’s also my dream to kill a Polar Bear and eat its liver.
Polar Bears — even in death they strike out against us! We can’t melt those ice caps fast enough. Rotten bears …
I vote for the murderous regime only because of a terrifying experience flying on a thrashing, buckling jet across an Eastern European country while listening to the woman next to me scold in broken English that ‘worse things have happened.’
In the arctic, we might see this:
and in the nation ruled by the mullahs, we are likely to see this:
We report. You decide.
I always vote for good weather and as anonymous mentioned, the technologically able. It took me 8 hours to get to Detroit recently because of a little fog. Frankly, I’d rather deal with mullahs than most U.S. airline representatives, hostile flight attendants, pilots who are in love with the sound of their own voices, and FAA regulations.
Your friend would be quite safe in the event of an emergency landing in Iran. Gay Iranians? – oh, wait, there aren’t any.
I try never to go there, and I’m only 7-1/2 miles away. Were you just passing through the airport?
Don’t let that fool you. That doesn’t mean they don’t rape male prisoners. It’s alright so long as they don’t like it too much. I wish I could remember and puts links to the article on this, but it was over a year ago.
See PM. :)
There must be some happy Iranians.
The north pole is preferable if one is a Jew or a Bahai, or maybe both.
In the poles, You can pack heat.