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Complacency and mediocrity and have the government take more and more of our needs in this country and give up more freedoms and move further away from first principles, constitutional principles? america has never done that i dont think america is going to do that >> sean: expand on this. america is we can say cross roads, maybe a time for choosing, reagan and goldwater. you say a tipping point.ç explain what you think the two directions are? >> if we have more people on the receiving end of ...

Complacency and mediocrity and have the government take more and more of our needs in this country and give up more freedoms and move further away from first principles, constitutional principles? america has never done that i dont think america is going to do that >> sean: expand on this. america is we can say cross roads, maybe a time for choosing, reagan and goldwater. you say a tipping point.ç explain what you think the two directions are? >> if we have more people on the receiving end of ...

Faa controllers followed. at any time we have usually at least four sets of eyes. we have the controller. we have an assist controller. we have the pilot. the co-pilot. this is more toward commercial aviation but this is something that people have got to understand. you have to -- this is all about the human factor. >> let me let captain casey get the last word before we go. does anything need to change with how this all happens? >> we need to look into it from the human factors perspective defi...

Visit the tower. we have people in the tower all the time. we have family members. we have other airline employees come up from time to time. we have evaluateors. its not like were not used to having people up in the tower around us. its not that much of a distraction for us. were used to it. this went beyond the pale. i look at it as bad judgment. time to move on. there are more important issues we need to concentrate on. the powers at be in this situation will deal with it the way it needs to ...

Slackers, say, in arkansas, or the immigrants coming in? >> the irony is that massachusetts has universal health care. >> scott brown voted for it. >> because weve got it. and we dont z why it should be extended. >> one thing you can say about this particular political moment, the democrats, at least i really hope so, will never run such an appalling campaign as the known campaign in massachusetts. it was simply a case of their weakness and complacency there. i dont quite agree with you about no...

The immigrants coming in? >> the irony is that massachusetts has universal health care. >> scott brown voted for it. >> because weve got it. and we dont see why it should be extended. >> one thing you can say about this particular political moment, the democrats, at least i really hope so, will never run such an appalling campaign as the known campaign in massachusetts. it was simply a case of their weakness and complacency there. i dont quite agree with you about nothing of substance happening....

Against this military offensive? >> i think there are three military threats they are facing right now. most of the strength of the taliban is withdrawn. i think is there a hardcore cadre probably stuck in marjah, surrounded by these booby-trap bombs. they will continue to be a danger and an attempt to draw the troops in and maybe some kind of series of explosions. you have to be very careful as you sweep the area very slowly. thats going to take days and weeks. and of course there are snipers h...

Now, i want to take you to my facebook site because jim field says this put down the x-box and go out and play. good advice. my twitter page, this person says we dont have a problem with childhood obesity, we have a problem with parental complacency. pretty much they have to cut tv programming and limit internet and make healthy food as affordable as junk food. a good point there, too. thanks for your comments today. remember we want to hear from you. logon to cnn.com/betty or go to my twitter a...

Prayer, can bring sustenance to our lives. there is, of course, a need for prayer even in times of joy and peace and prosperity perhaps especially in such times, prayer is needed, to guard against pride, and to guard against complacency. but rightly or wrongly, most of us are inclined to seek out the divine not in the moment when the lord makes his face shine upon us, but in moments when gods grace can seem farthest away. last month, gods grace, gods mercy, seemed far away from our neighbors in ...

Sadly, though, that spirit is too often absent when tackling the long term, but no less profound issues facing our country and the world. too often, that spirit is missing without the tragedy, the earthquake or tsunami, that can shake us out of complacency. we become numb to the day-to-day crisis. the slow-moving tragedies of children without food and men without shelter and families without health care, we become absorbed with our abstract arguments and idealogical disputes and the contests for...