flight risk

It's Saturday afternoon, and I am sitting here watching tv coverage of the Asiana Flight 214's crash landing at SFO.  The plane's tail hit ground first, broke off, and according to reports, sent the plane cartwheeling skidding off the runway.  There were 307 passengers and crew on board.  Incredibly, as of now, there are only two fatalities and 123 who actually escaped without injuries. But there are still many who are injured, some critically , and there are still 60 who are unaccounted for.  The scene looks horrific.  The top of the plane is completely charred and burnt off.  It's a flight originating from Shanghai and coming in from Seoul.  My thoughts are with the victims and their families.  Here's hoping the casualties stay at a minimum...Aaron Hernandez, New England Patriot and one half of the golden tight end tandem with Ron Gronkowski, is in jail for murder.  Apparently despite earning a $40 million contract, the guy never escaped his thug past.  He allegedly got pissed off at a friend of his, summoned two other guys, and together they took the friend to a park and shot him execution-style.  The story coming out involves a strip club, cocaine, guns, a secret condo, etc.  Yup this is Oscar Pistorius redux.  I've had it with sports heroes.  I don't understand these people who give so little regard to their blessed lives.  Needless to say, the Patriots dropped him immediately right after his arrest.  They are even offering a trade-in of his jerseys...Speaking of losing it all, there is the cautionary tale of Paula Deen.  There is some lawsuit with an ex-employee, and through those court proceedings, she admitted to having used the N word.  This caused a big public relations storm, and one sponsor after another dropped her.  (And let's be honest, it's the negative PR, not the actual use of the racist slur, that made the sponsors drop her.)  In a matter of weeks, her empire has collapsed.  I am no fan of hers, but I do end up feeling somewhat sorry for her.  I don't really see this as some Mel Gibson anti-Semitic thing.  Clips of her being racially inappropriate and insensitive have surfaced, and she honestly seemed more clueless than anything.  At least from the clips, there isn't the malicious intent.  I don't know - it's wrong for sure, but I think there is a difference between people being ignorant and stupid and saying the wrong things, and people being hateful.  I remember one time at work this guy was trying to imitate me, to my face, by mocking the way I say a certain phrase, with a heavy Asian accent.  I was totally offended, and do hold a grudge to this day.  But then deep down I am not convinced that the guy was intentionally being mean towards me.  He was just plain insensitive. I would never have him lose a job over something like that.  Now if we went to a strip club and he got pissed at me and he took me out to a park and shot me in cold blood, then yeah, by all means go ahead and fire his ass.  In fact I would come back and haunt his racist ass, with my Asian accent and all...Update as of Sunday morning:  The two dead from yesterday's Asiana Flight 214 are both sixteen year old girls from China, part of a group coming to the U.S. for a summer school program.  So tragic.  Prayers go out to their families.