{"id":659,"date":"2010-08-17T21:14:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T04:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2010-08-17T21:14:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T04:14:50","slug":"flying-the-friendly-skies-of-uzbekistan-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Flying the Friendly Skies of Uzbekistan Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/uz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Uzbekistan<\/a>?&#160; Me neither.<\/p>\n<p>I may never go if I need to rely on the Uzbeki (is that a word?) national airline, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalization-group.com\/edge\/2010\/08\/uzbekistan-airways-good-luck\/\">billboard ad<\/a> wishes us \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Good Luck\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as an airliner disappears into a dense cloud with apparent snowy weather ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalization-group.com\/edge\/2010\/08\/uzbekistan-airways-good-luck\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image4.png\" width=\"463\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalization-group.com\/edge\/2010\/08\/uzbekistan-airways-good-luck\/\" target=\"_blank\">The International Business Edge<\/a> for pointing out this fun example of a somewhat misguided effort at language translation.<\/p>\n<p>By coincidence, I stumbled today across a second encouraging article about this fine country.&#160; The <a href=\"http:\/\/kansascity.fbi.gov\/dojpressrel\/pressrel10\/kc081610.htm?goback=.gde_1824094_news_173230110\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City FBI office<\/a> reported today that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153an Uzbekistan national pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a criminal enterprise involving illegal aliens working in 14 states, including employees at hotels in the Kansas City, Missouri area and in Branson, Missouri.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this fellow and his cohorts were so scared by the prospect of the flying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uzairways.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uzbekistan Airlines<\/a> that they came to the United States and took up smuggling illegal aliens instead.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:310a4fbf-2c87-4b06-8a23-3abbe85cdc14\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">del.icio.us Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Uzbekistan\" rel=\"tag\">Uzbekistan<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Airlines\" rel=\"tag\">Airlines<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/FBI\" rel=\"tag\">FBI<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Humor\" rel=\"tag\">Humor<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Freedom\" rel=\"tag\">Freedom<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever visited Uzbekistan?&#160; Me neither. I may never go if I need to rely on the Uzbeki (is that a word?) national airline, whose billboard ad wishes us \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Good Luck\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as an airliner disappears into a dense cloud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[166,167,28,78,165],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-humor","tag-airlines","tag-fbi","tag-freedom","tag-humor","tag-uzbekistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}