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What I find interesting is how badly the right screwed up with this one. They were clearly eager to cancel Roe v Wade, and Alito couldn't wait to get the decision written. It is also very likely that the decision was distributed to close republican supporters to garner support - but that they didn't want it revealed until right after the midterm election, so the anger of the voters over the decision would not have any effect. Now they are in a bind. This is evident from their rhetoric. They are furious with whoever leaked it, and are demanding investigations, punishments and concessions from the left. One GOPer said it was "an attempt to intimidate the justices" and "an assault on the Supreme Court." They must "use every investigative tool necessary" to find the leaker. They claim the left is using "scorched-earth tactics" - "this is just so outrageous." Democrats "are going to burn [the Supreme Court] down." What is completely missing, of course, is a single republican saying "well, shouldn't we find out if the leak is real?" They all know it's real because it had already been leaked to them, and they were planning their election strategies around that. So the image of them demanding to hold someone accountable for the leak - a leak they eagerly consumed - is pretty funny. So what to do now? They will follow their usual strategy of "fuck you" to the democrats, and will blame them for everything they can think of. But this time all the furor and hate Marjorie Taylor Greene will not be able to mask the underlying truth that the conservatives on the Supreme Court are about to take away a right that most women in the US want very much to protect. And the right has no defense against that truth.

What will that accomplish? He will have her flown to a state or country where abortion is legal, have it done there and then ensure that no one ever finds out. If someone by chance does find out, he will explain that she was a special case. She's not one of those women who enjoys abortions and uses them like birth control; she's just an innocent who made a mistake, and no one should hold that against her.

Money buys a foreign abortion, with very tightly shut lips. The real crime in America is not to have enough money to flout whatever law you find inconvenient. Wendy P.

A former co-workers thoughts on this in a discusssion years go: The government made a mistake when it recognized "marriage", (a religious construct), when it should have recognized "civil union", since the govts only concern is that 2 unrelated people are effectively becoming a family with merged property, contract obligations, and the ability to make medical decisions for each other. His solution: The govt would simply recognize civil unions. Anyone getting married would only need enter into a civil union. If they wanted to get the blessings of a religion as well, they could also choose a church to get married in, but the marriage performed by the church would have no legal meaning.

Well, it would be interesting to see Thomas being the only one in favor of overturning Loving.

I’m surprised by the number of Americans who don’t know the schedule that the Supreme Court uses to release decisions. They begin to come out in early June and will be finished before the end of June. There is a season to these things

Hello, A new version is available. Fly time have been corrected, but more important you are able to see in the Connect Mobile application if you approached the AAD triggers conditions. Be safe.

In plain language, the conservatives think the authority to decide whether to continue a pregnancy must be removed from the victim of rape or incest (even if a minor) who will have to bear the child, and that authority given to an uninvolved majority free to impose its moral choices on her. And these are the people who otherwise want less government intrusion in our lives.

Implementation of a new functionality requested by users. When the the GPS quality is poor, direction and distance to dropzone are displayed in Red and not anymore in Blue. I am working on providing specific messages to users i.e. when they have approached the AAD vertical speed a message will be displayed in the Garmin Mobile Connect.

Government report has been released: http://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2021/A21Q0052/A21Q0052.html?utm_source=BenchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=Aviator_Newsletter_-_411_-_Mar19&utm_medium=email Basically a communications breakdown and lack of clarity over safe procedures. The person on the grass mower may have started moving next to the runway just after the Twin Otter landed, not realizing that another plane was about to land. The field is basically used only for skydiving, but occasionally a small plane will fly into the PPR (Prior Permission Required) airport. The person flying in there in his personal aircraft was one of the skydiving company's pilots, and when I jumped there years back I have seen one of the owners of the company fly in with their own little Cessna. The person cutting the grass wasn't one of the usual grass cutters, and had done the task only a few times. The grass cutters had been informed they could cut grass when the Twin Otter was on the ground. The report didn't get into what else the person knew -- Whether they thought that ONLY the Twin Otter would be flying, or whether they knew that 'very occasionally there are other airplanes around -- it is a live runway -- so always keep your eyes peeled'. The report I thought unfairly criticized the pilot for not getting prior permission to land. Yet he had gotten in communication with the Twin Otter to sequence their arrivals, so he had some permission from the current DZ traffic to land. The report seems to imply that PPR is something that one needs to get for every arrival, but isn't clear about it. However, the pilot had flown his own plane in and out of the strip a number of times, and I expect he thought he had standing permission to drop in. (I have also operated that way elsewhere, if the airport owner gave me standing permission to drop by.) There is no mention in the report whether anyone was monitoring or usually monitors the air frequency on the ground. The grass cutter did not have a radio. Which of course would increase situational awareness. My impression is that the grass cutters weren't well briefed or practiced on the airfield's procedures -- especially that there might occasionally be aircraft other than the Twin Otter. Lack of a radio (and one usable while running a noisy mower) certainly makes any ground activity next to a runway more dangerous.