Well, That Only Took Us a Year to Come Up With An Orly Category

Failing that there’s always:
The Federation Council
The Jedi Council
The Krypton Ruling Council of Elders

and as a last resort

The Grey Council.

@ManchuCandidate: The Volturi?

I always say its not what you got its how you use it.

@mellbell:
No. They don’t have any Birf certificates.

BREAKING HARD:

Two people taken off American Airlines flight at SFO after telephone warning of a possible hijack situation.

ADD: All passengers have been allowed to get off the plane and are being rescreened, canine units are searching plane and cargo.

Orly better watch it – the people who are doubtless paying her bills don’t much like the UN…

Question for the legal-types here: cash fines obviously aren’t working as a judicial sanction; is there a “send the dudes with the nets” option?

@al2o3cr:
I say just give her a reality show and be done with it.

@Capt Howdy: If she needs a sidekick, I hear that “Doctor” Laura has some open time…

@SanFranLefty: Actually, the “doctor” is legit, since I had to look it up last night…

Schlessinger received a bachelor’s degree from Stony Brook University, and a Ph.D. in physiology from Columbia University in 1974. Her doctoral thesis was on the “Effects of Insulin on 3-0-Methylglucose Transport in Isolated Rat Adipocytes”.

It merely has nothing to do with the nature of her show.

@nojo: I’m always suspicious of people with a Piled Higher Deeper degree who try to pass themselves off as a medical doctor.

@ManchuCandidate: How about the Foundation Council? The animatronic Hari Seldon may want to weigh in.

@nojo: She may want to consult her thesis for her next move – “isolated rat” sounds about right.

@SanFranLefty: I fully agree that “doctor” should be reserved as a courtesy title for accredited medical types. And the only reason I wanted a Phud myself was so I could tell a degree-dropping twit at a cocktail party, “Yes, I have one too. Now, what was your point?”

But I think it’s fair to point out that Laura did earn her Dr., even if she misrepresents the shingle she hangs.

@SanFranLefty: They need another runway at that nickel-and-dime airport.

@SanFranLefty:

Heh. Orly is so dumb that she tries to one-up everyone by being a dentist. Think about it.

Not that there is anything low-class about being a dentist, but still.

@Dodgerblue: Smile when you say that. I spent two years working on that issue.

Pave the Bay!

cant remember if I posted this here before but I think its great

Ph.D explained

@Tommmcatt Cannot Be Arsed To Think About Sharon Angle: See McTeague by Frank Norris or its film incarnation Greed by Von Stroheim.

@Walking Still: The existing runways are built on fill, are they not? So I say, get together a bunch of old S.F. Giants press guides, throw them in the Bay, put some sand & rocks on top, pave it, and you’re in business.

@Dodgerblue: The runways, most of downtown San Francisco (but not, I think, my office), Treasure Island, Foster City, etc., etc, etc. – all fill, all likely to turn into pudding come the big Quake.

And still they want more.

@Walking Still: Wasn’t that the issue with the Marina District? That it was built on dirt jello?

@nojo: That’s right. The Marina District and South of Market areas that suffered damage in SF were all built on fill. The areas built on bedrock had very little damage. Bridges were another issue.

Now that was less than 7.0 and centered roughly 50 miles south of SF. An 8.5 centered in SF or Oakland would be tough to contemplate.

@Walking Still: In the event of a 7.0 or higher hitting the waterfront, downtown Seattle will become what’s been colorfully described as a “human juicer.”

@WS, Nojo, etc…. Mr SFL has a map somewhere that shows the liquidity of The City. We’re on Fransiscan Rick.

@SanFranLefty: Ms. Still and I are in decent shape in the East Bay. We’re in the flats, but not on fill and not too close to a stream corridor (another path of vulnerability).

That said, the East Bay’s Hayward Fault is more overdue for action than the San Andreas.

@Original Andrew: Unless the volcano blows first.

@Dodgerblue:

They’ve actually built up an entire tacky ex-urb, Enumclaw, right in the lava flow valley in the shadow of Mt. Rainier. Might as well call it Pompeii II: Moar Mahbel Columns.

@Walking Still: Umm, you don’t want to get me started on the Hayward Fault. I may have to get your address behind class and have it run through some special databases.