Same flight, different day

Indianapolis BMW Club compadre Rich Nathan, seen here with me at the Return to Shiloh Rally earlier this year, reports that his daughter Nicole was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit last Monday.

That was a scant four days before a rather unskilled terrorist tried to blow up the plane on Christmas Day.

Rich and I rode the entire length of U.S. 50 (it runs 3,073 miles from Sacramento to Ocean City, Md.,) in 2001.

Jen, over at Demure Thoughts, imagines what she would do if she were president:

“Ok, guys… this seems pretty straight forward.  Let’s blow up all of Yemen for a start.  When can I expect to see some after action reports and pictures of the large craters and shit on satellite?”

Read the whole thing here.