two months later there was no news, and when the italian government announced the end of alitalia at of the year, there was no mention of michelle being part of the new carrier. meanwhile, while all that was happening, michelle roosevelt edwards or michelle whatever her name is, has been trying to convince people that she also owns a big chunk of iceland's other airline, its flag carrier, the major national carrier, iceland air. and she said that she will eventually be merging iceland air and wow air to one even bigger airline. well, that, again, is very exciting if it bears any relationship to reality, but the icelandic journalists found that her bid to buy shares of iceland air was rejected, reportedly on the claim there was no money behind the bid. her claim to own any shares of that company appeared to be totally false. and again, you know, maybe this seems like a weird side bar story. if you don't have any skin in any of these games, right? but for iceland, for that country where the whole pop lags of that country is half the population of washington, d.c. and its airlines and i