Shenanigans: Schumer has a flight to forget By ANNE SCHROEDER MULLINS | 12/16/09 3:52 AM EST
Close Email this ArticleShenanigans: Schumer has a flight to forget Please enter your e-mail Invalid e-mail Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) hurries to catch a flight after voting on Capitol Hill. | Photo by APClose Sen. Chuck Schumer loves the sound of his own voice, but it carried a bit farther than he might have liked on the US Airways shuttle from New York to Washington on Sunday. According to a House Republican aide who happened to be seated nearby, the notoriously chatty New York Democrat referred to a flight attendant as a “bitch” after she ordered him to turn off his phone before takeoff. Schumer and his seatmate, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), were chatting on their phones before takeoff when an announcement indicated that it was time to turn off the phones. Both senators kept talking. According to the GOP aide, a flight attendant then approached Schumer and told him the entire plane was waiting on him to shut down his phone. Schumer asked if he could finish his conversation. When the flight attendant said “no,” Schumer ended his call but continued to argue his case. He said he was entitled to keep his phone on until the cabin door was closed. The flight attendant said he was obliged to turn it off whenever a flight attendant asked. “He argued with her about the rule,” the source said. “She said she doesn’t make the rules, she just follows them.” When the flight attendant walked away, the witness says Schumer turned to Gillibrand and uttered the B-word. “The senator made an off-the-cuff comment under his breath that he shouldn’t have made, and he regrets it,” Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon told Shenanigans. Ironically, Schumer has been a friend of US Airways flight attendants of late, lobbying company chairman and CEO Doug Parker on their behalf after several of them asked the senator to help keep them based at LaGuardia. Through her office, Gillibrand said Schumer was “polite” with the flight attendant Sunday and “turned off his phone when asked to.” But moments after the flight attendant had told Schumer to shut it off, the phone rang again. “It’s Harry Reid calling,” the source quoted Schumer as saying. “I guess health care will have to wait until we land.” From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: AL GORE'S NORTH POLE COOKING SCIENCE Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:06:39 -0800 >From The Times December 15, 2009 Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up. Al Gore's office admitted that the percentage he quoted in his speech was from an old, ballpark figure Hannah Devlin, Ben Webster, Philippe Naughton in There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. 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Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988. "Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...." As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops despite the call from the US president to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since 1988. Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders. Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once. Bury FURTHER READING: Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. 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