You’re unhinged, or drunk. Sober up so you’ll make sense. This banter is inappropriate on a thread regarding a plane disaster - let it go. I played on inter-department softball games in the city, and the female firefighters often bested the men and won games. I’m not kidding, some of these gals (Hayes-White included) can lift and carry men on ladders.
The only article that I could find (quick search) with the 60 missing was a small Reuters article that was linked to by Drudge.
Am I missing something?
Any injured or deceased is horrific. Could the early reports by passengers, hospitals be that far off?
Knock it off with the ad hominum attacks. You, sir (I presume) have obviously been severely emasculated by the affirmative action culture and have not seen the steady decline, and deficits in departments over the last 40 years. Firemen of a previous and honorable "age" respectively would have never stood for this. A "straight, Catholic woman" if she was properly catechized would understand that there is a proper place for a woman role, and it's not doing a man's job, no matter how capable she may be of actually doing the job.
Thank God my father and grandfather never lived to see their respective fire departments succumb to what they have today. It's not the inadequacy of the woman (who evidently is doing a "standard" job), but what has become of the (physical) standards in the last 35+ years? Fact: They've been lowered to accommodate for affirmative action and to brainwash you "youngsters" into accepting it. Face it, NONE of this would even be a topic of conversation if it wasn't for affirmative action.
And thank God, in my local fire dept, it's still ran with the large majority of MEN doing the job.
Fire away girly men. You're "free" to flame me now. I'm not arguing this point any longer because I've grown up in a firehouse and fully understand (and was taught from the get go) what it was "supposed to be." By unadulterated-by-affirmative-action fireMEN.