FILE – A Boeing ecoDemonstrator Explorer, a 787-10 Dreamliner, sits on the tarmac at their campus in North Charleston, S.C., May 30, 2023. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday, May 6, 2024, that it has opened an investigation into Boeing after the beleaguered company reported that workers at a South Carolina plant falsified inspection records on certain 787 planes. Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create “an immediate safety of flight issue.” (Gavin McIntyre/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool, File)

If thinking that it’s only Boeing that has a problem it is time today to seriously think again. Making diversity equity and inclusion the priority in hiring, in who is awarded entrance into a school, who lands a job even though they did not pass the entrance exam, the test showing competence, general knowledge, and the ability to actually do the job has taken over. Everywhere.

Especially in the not-so-friendly skies.

Not only are the manufacturers of highly technical and critically produced commercial jet aircraft been affected by DEI priority hiring — all those air traffic controllers, one of the highest stress jobs in the world that takes great skill and knowledge — impacted through the FAA demanding that DEI be a top priority in hiring air traffic controllers.

Were you aware frequent fliers? Family about to board and take that special vacation you’ve been saving and waiting for?

Well, send a thank you to Barack Hussein Obama, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and his administration that has been imposing and accelerating DEI on steroids since day one of being in office, all the past U.S. Congresses in the last 10 plus years, and employers everywhere in America who have made race, if you’re a sexually perverted and immoral individual, or lack the skill and ability to perform a job, get into a school, pass the required test — but you’re in if you just meet the right skin color, sexual perversion, or other mandated trait.

Isn’t this sense? Logical? Critically thinking? Doing the right thing?

And you know what? Every president, every member of Congress, every employer and manufacturer continues to lie about how they are doing a better job, our nation has its best days ahead of itself, and blah, blah, blah they spew and lie creating more toxic emissions than every internal combustion engine, air conditioner, gas stove, and dairy or beef cow on earth!

Yeah, let’s make DEI the priority in hiring across the board. What could possibly go wrong?

Let’s REALLY ACTUALLY TRULY discriminate against those who put the time in to study, pass the tests, meet the requirements, know what they are doing and will do the work, and have paid the price in many ways to have the opportunity to do the job, and to do it the right way. Let’s keep those folks out and install those that are utterly unqualified and lack the skill, the ability, and the work ethos but they are the right color, the right sexual perversion the right this, the right that according to a government mandate.

A mandate handed down from evil. Pure evil disguised as is every evil as something good, “Go ahead, do it, you won’t die, it won’t be that bad, why it’ll make everything better, see the good it’ll do?”

And the government is so good at telling people how to live — mandating morality, telling everyone how to live, how to think aren’t they?

Let’s keep a qualified individual out of the job they can do and do well, relegating them to work in a field, a job where their skills, their knowledge, and their abilities are wasted, and let’s install incompetence. That makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? Is that what American exceptionalism is about?

Right…

DEI needs to crash and burn before too many news stories appear where there are too many tragic events of crashing and burning, along with every other ill that DEI has wrought in this dying and lost nation.

You know my position and beliefs from being here, or at this point you should. I know in my heart, mind, spirit, and soul that God is in control and what matters most is an individual’s place with the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Bible, the Holy Spirit, God, and heavenly eternal matters — but that said, we are Americans, at least those living and reading this in America, and we still have the right to vote. Do so. And don’t go to the polling stations blindly. Take the time to ask a candidate questions via their websites, if at a town hall while they are on the campaign trail. ASK THEM! “Where do you stand on _______?” “And on ________?” And don’t let them double-speak you or say a lot of words while saying nothing. They either are for or against things. It isn’t that difficult or time-consuming to say that, to ask and to find out. And then if they happen to say something like, “I think ______ is a good thing for the nation.” Say to them, loudly, with no embarrassment in front of the assembled, or on their website, “Well, I will not be voting for you.” 

About to fly somewhere? Know someone who is? I’d make sure even if you’re a make-believer or an atheist you best find it in your lost soul, everything else paid attention to that you begin to believe in God and the power of prayer and pray for everyone flying and for this lost and dying nation. Pray that our turning from God which is bringing about visible palpable judgments be recognized and that we see our sin, the error of our ways, and that we turn to God. To the Lord Jesus Christ. To the Holy Spirit. To the Holy Bible and make Them our priority.

In order to have the right flight pattern into the afterlife…and a much better nation while God blesses each person with breath and a beating heart as He holds all things together by His will.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, May 14th, 2024

DEI has jeopardized air safety

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

By  Adam Laxalt

Reprinted from The Washington Times

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has implemented racist DEI initiatives that have put American lives at risk. I am part of a lawsuit to ensure it does not happen again.

Americans wake up daily to headlines about major airline malfunctions—doors coming open mid-flight, window panels popping out, landing gear losing wheels, and engines catching fire. Understandably, the American people are increasingly nervous about flying.

While Americans surely know of all the airplane malfunctions, what they likely are not privy to is the blatant racial discrimination that has occurred at the FAA concerning hiring air traffic controllers, putting highly qualified individuals out of work and Americans at serious risk.

A major aspect of air travel safety lies with the FAA and air traffic controllers. On a daily basis, they are responsible for providing takeoff and landing guidance to more than 45,000 flights, which take some 2.9 million Americans across the country and the world. With that many lives at stake, it is imperative that we have exceptional people in the control tower.

There have been a number of horrifying incidents in just the first four months of this year, including two near collisions at JFK and D.C.’s Reagan National last month and one collision on the tarmac at Boston’s Logan Airport. In August of last year, The New York Times reported that there were at least 46 close calls of airplane collisions that year, and close calls were happening multiple times per week. We have reached a critical point. How did we get here?

From 1989 to 2013, the Collegiate Training Initiative program was a pipeline to a career in air traffic control. The program aimed to ensure future air traffic controllers had the skills and knowledge necessary to carry out the job.

More than ten years ago, the Obama Administration scrapped 1000 qualified candidates. The administration’s justification was that the pool of applicants was not diverse enough, so they would be purged from consideration. Instead of hiring candidates with the most competency, individuals were elevated for hiring consideration based on their race.

Despite their intent to expand the air traffic control hiring pool via DEI, the FAA has recently admitted they are woefully understaffed and that current air traffic controllers are severely overworked. One report found that only 3 of the 313 air traffic facilities around the nation met the FAA targets last year. This has forced the agency to admit safety could be jeopardized. To mitigate such danger, the agency has “at times halted departures or otherwise slowed down air traffic.”

I, along with Mountain States Legal Foundation, am litigating a class action lawsuit on behalf of more than 900 prospective air traffic controllers who studied, took the pre-employment exam, and passed the test with flying colors but were dismissed because of their skin color. Our lawsuit seeks justice for all air traffic control candidates who chose this career, dedicated their lives and education to it, and were summarily denied a job for no reason other than the color of their skin.  In a system with only 14,000 air traffic controllers, purging a thousand of the next generation’s best and brightest was irresponsible and unsustainable.

At a time when air safety appears uncertain to the public, the FAA should admit they were wrong and make clear that merit-based hiring practices are once again in place.

With the FAA authorization deadline up this week, the onus is on lawmakers to ensure these dangerous policies have been done away with. Safety and customer service must be primary in the minds of lawmakers during this process, and getting more highly qualified air traffic controllers hired would be the most effective means to drastically improve both metrics.

• Adam Laxalt is a partner at Cooper & Kirk and co-counsel in this lawsuit against the FAA. He is the former Attorney General of Nevada.