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Malaysian Flight 370 Flies Off to Rendezvous with Flight 19

Malaysian Flight 370, a Boeing 777, arguably the safest plane in the world,has disappeared along with over 230 souls. That was last week. Where is it? Did it crash en route from Malaysia to China? No debris has been found. Did it veer west, the pings from the plane to the satellite says yes. But no plane has been found. Has it been hijacked? No ransom demands have been made. Has it been diverted to an ageless High Lama in the Himalayas, for one of its passengers, like  CONWAY( Ronald Colman) in LOST HORIZON? Flight 370 has turned into the S.S. MINNOW from GILLIGAN’S ISLAND, off on a routine flight, and lost. One of the grating leitmotifs of President Obama is his raving praise for the 21 st Century; the 21 st Century with its NSA and its trademark  omniscience phone and email taps,  with its  CIA, FBI, GPS, satellites,and omnipresent cameras. The 21st Century with its  constant surveillance, its constant memorializing of every ac...