More oddball letters

DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO FACT CHECK THIS ONE . . .

I just read a very alarming account of an incident that occurred aboard Air Tran flight 297, scheduled service from Atlanta to Houston, on Tuesday the 17th of Nov. 11 adult males in Muslim attire and speaking Arabic, created such a disturbance in the cabin of the aircraft, that the flight was eventually cancelled. Terrified passengers refused to continue on with these individuals on board. Why was this not reported by this newspaper, as well as on televised media? A simple search on the internet will reveal the incredibly disturbing details.

. . . OR THIS ONE

Folks, our Ballot Measure that formed ANGDA is under fire. The feds (BLM & the Corp of Engineers) has been duped into accusing ANGDA of misleading the public, (lying). I attended the meeting expecting another headline scandle. Didn't happen. All questions and accusations, answered, about instate gas efforts. I did not here anything that they were working on that I hadn't heard from the media before. "Applaud". Where is the misinformation? Maybe the Corp should look no further than their source that inspired their trial,and then turn him over to us so we can run him out of town. ANGDA has been fighting for us, and is one place where our vote is still counting. Alaskans are under attack. Go ANGDA

NOTE THE QUESTIONABLE MATHEMATICAL LEAP HERE . . .

Two recent letters to the editor argued about whether insurance company profits are too high and raise the cost of medical care. Both writers miss the point.

There are thousands of different medical policies written by hundreds of companies. All have different claims procedures. A recent Newsweek article reported that the administrative overhead for private insurance is 29%. For Medicare, the overhead is 3%. The cost to the doctors to file those claims (which is included in the medical bill) is (here comes the leap!) probably comparable.

In other words, only about 55 out of every 100 dollars spent on private insurance goes to medical care. The rest is overhead. (Note how we go from "probably" I'm right about huge overhead to a ringing condemnation of the private insurance system.....) For Medicare, about 94 out of every 100 dollars goes to patient care.

A single payer system, or a single policy private system, would save us about $210 billion dollars a year by eliminating unnecessary paperwork.

HE MIGHT BE FROM ROSWELL, N.M.

And finally, we got this emailed "letter":

Spectacular Blue Light UFO over Norway

Please report on this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-

blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html#ixzz0ZCMxXNRW