The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Retail Sales, Treasury Yields, or Intel (INTC)

Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...

• A stronger-than-expected retail sales report which showed "the largest seasonally adjusted gain in 16 months"...
• A survey from Merrill Lynch which showed "Global fund managers now expect higher long-term and short-term interest rates, and are less positive on equities"...
• Continued chatter about Treasury yields hitting 5-year highs...
• A look into price cuts at Intel (INTC)...
• Fallout, or lack thereof, from Yahoo's (YHOO) annual shareholder meeting...
• A look into the "keyboard" of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone...
• A shakeup at the Wall Street Journal...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest story is this - The plane in Spain gives passengers a pain... According to the article, "A pilot told nervous passengers traveling with a low-cost Spanish airline that nearly half the seats on their plane were out of use due to a safety problem but it was nothing to worry about"...after passengers "noticed that all but three of the 32 rows on one side of the plane were taped off" the pilot announced over the intercom - "We will not be able to use that part of the plane because we have a safety problem with the door at the front. Don't worry, it's only a safety problem"

It's only a safety problem?!?!?!?!? Are you kidding me? Of all the things you don't want a pilot to say about your plane - is there anything worse?