Union mentality? This was creative destruction in it's best form. Think of all the jobs he created to fix the ship, rescue the people from the ship, divers to go in, salvage the boat, government paper pushers, he list is endless. That man deserves a significantly lower tax rate because he's so damned smart.

A tactic used by Italian fascists as to ascribe any good in history as exemplifying the triumph of fascism, and to ascribe any bad as exemplifying their enemies. We're headed in scary directions in this country, and Fox is leading the way.

UNIONS RAN BY SOROS AND FARTBONGO ARE CAUSING CANCEROUS AIDS!!!

nekom: GWLush: UNIONS RAN BY SOROS AND FARTBONGO ARE CAUSING CANCEROUS AIDS!!!

The only thing that can save us now are tax cuts and deregulation.

And lots and lots of Jesusy Jesus.

Abandoning ship is the epitome of free market. If these passengers didn't like having their captain abandon them to uncertain doom then maybe next time they should research their ship's captains a little more, find a good trustworthy one! Why is government even involved in the rescue effort? My brother-in-law owns a search-and-rescue business and he had to lay off 5 people this year because he can't find any clients. Because these government leeches steal it all from him! And the government drones all get 20 weeks vacation and get to retire at age 30 with fat pensions, all on taxpayer dime. This is what happens when you vote in socialistic hope and change, people.

I thought it was because of Italian work ethic.

Nah, he's just a coward. Loved the clips of the assisting vessels telling the Captain to get back aboard and help with the evacuation and he's too scared to do it.

gadian: Nah, he's just a coward. Loved the clips of the assisting vessels telling the Captain to get back aboard and help with the evacuation and he's too scared to do it.

That sounds amusing. Got any links?

Screwing others because he got his (lifeboat), is the motto of the 1%.

GWLush: UNIONS RAN BY SOROS AND FARTBONGO ARE CAUSING CANCEROUS AIDS!!!

well now I know what coffee in the sinus passages feels like

heard the tapes this morning and the port authority asking about fatalities and he is saying, "i don't know one maybe" and the authority says, "you are supposed to know how many passengers were on the boat it is YOUR job. Christ"

/was hoping for some expletives maybe some are forthcoming

nekom: I don't even... oh, it's Fox, yeah ok that explains it.

This. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and Fox exemplifies that adage.

BurnShrike: That sounds amusing. Got any links?
Link (new window) This one has a longer translation. Another site was saying that the Captain was arrested for refusing to reboard.

ongbok: What can't be blamed on unions? I'm surprised they haven't tried to blame the Iraq and Afghan wars on unions. Or try to blame the Holocaust on unions. These people and their viewers are just the epitome of stupid.

Someone needs to Photoshop a picture of Asman, gesticulating, with the caption, "I'm not saying it's unions, but... unions."

Well, if Fox says it's so, it must be so. I mean, it couldn't be anything as simple as the skipper is just a pussy.

Unions drank all my Mello Yello and smashed my bag of Doritos.

jimmyjackfunk: heard the tapes this morning and the port authority asking about fatalities and he is saying, "i don't know one maybe" and the authority says, "you are supposed to know how many passengers were on the boat it is YOUR job. Christ"

/was hoping for some expletives maybe some are forthcoming

The one I heard had the Coast Guard telling to get back on the farking or damn boat and later that people were farking dieing. The Coast Guard captian was not exactly pleased with his actions.

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: NFA: I blame environmental regulation. If the government hadn't been protecting that damn reef, it wouldn't have been there when the company employee, decided to veer off course and crash into it.

Environmental laws prevented the company from dynamiting the reef and eliminating underwater obstructions that could damage their ships when corporate employees recklessly navigate those waters.

You're close, but the REAL problem is the minimum wage is too high. When navigators are allowed to bank seven dollars and twenty five cents an hour (enough to afford a TELEVISION AND A REFRIGERATOR), he stops caring about his job and just steers willy-nilly into any reef he sees fit. We need to put some motivation behind our Job Creator's subordinates and offer a little competition into the market. Why, my nephew with an MBA and no nautical experience at all is looking for a job and he'd be a fine navigator!

See, I'd have to disagree - the real issue is our food stamp President. The captain full well knew that his financial security was assured - all he'd need to do is immigrate, legally or otherwise, to the United States, and our Welfare state would happily support him no matter what the outcome. Once he realized that, he steered the craft willy-nilly into a reef. "After all", he thought, "they bought their tickets - let 'em crash!"

Sure FecesNews is insane, but that has nothing to do with it.
These ships are registered in some small nation, which allows the company to hire crews who will work the cheapest.
If disaster strikes, these crews are not going to worry about you.

Union mentality??

How about the CEO mentality.
/what, because of my incompetence the company is going belly up and all jobs will be lost? Deploy my golden lifeboat - let the peons fend for themselves!

And yet HE belongs to a union.

Where's thistime to tell us all that we're just Carnival shills, besmirching the good name of this fine, upstanding individual to inflate the price of a stock none of us owns?