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Go, Ryanair, you scumbags. I am no friend of Ryanair. Yet I’m with the airline on this case, blogged by Perry de Havilland, where a man suffering from cerebral palsy and arthritis sued them for charging him for use of a wheelchair.
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Ryanair lost. However it has taken a sweet little revenge: they are to impose a 50p levy for wheelchair provision on every ticket and, crucially, they are going to make it explicit.
Predictably, this will anger the disability issue parasites, because openess always irritates those who make a career of being busybodies.
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This new study from the National Research Council, a division of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that while air pollution is declining, the reduction could be accelerated by a “multi-state, multi-pollutant” approach that sets broad overall reduction targets, then allows industrial facilities to trade reduction permits with each other. […] Here’s what was missing from the coverage. The “multi-state, multi-pollutant” approach just endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences is exactly what the Bush administration has proposed to adopt under its Clear Skies initiative.
Of course, the Democratic Party is against this because it’s more important to attack Bush than to clean up the environment.
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But just to make it simple: The G-7 comprises the world’s major industrial democracies. Aside from America, there are six other countries. Three — the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan — have troops in Iraq. Three — France, Germany and Canada — do not. So a majority of G-7 nations are members of this “fraudulent coalition.” Eleven of the 19 NATO members have contributed troops to the “fraudulent coalition.” Thirteen of the 25 members of the newly enlarged European Union have forces serving in the “fraudulent coalition.”
So, when John Kerry pledges to rebuild America’s international relationships, what he means is that he disagrees with the majority of G-7 governments, NATO governments, European governments and key regional players in Asia and the Pacific, as well as the people of Iraq.
On the other hand, Kerry’s position has the support of a majority of the Arab League.