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Have you not yet watched Top Gun Maverick? Do some research.

I was at an Inspection Authorization seminar for aircraft mechanics and I remember one of the presenters said he owned the hatchet that George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree. He said the handle had been replaced 3 times and the head twice. On an aircraft, you can basically keep replacing parts until none of the original parts remain and still have the "same aircraft". On a parachute rig, you could replace the harness then later replace the containers and still have the "same rig". When I do an annual inspection on an aircraft, If I find that it is not airworthy, I give the owner a list of items that need to be addressed. The owner can take the aircraft to another mechanic and have those items taken care of and that mechanic can sign off the aircraft as airworthy. Usually what happens is I or other mechanics will tell the owner what needs to be done and the owner will have the mechanic take care of everything then sign the aircraft off as airworthy. On an aircraft or parachute rig, some things are objective and some are subjective. It is sometimes up to the rigger or mechanic to use his judgement. If a rigger feels that a rig or parachute is not airworthy, he doesn't have to pack it. It would be a good idea to inform the owner why he thinks it is unairworthy and what, if anything can be done to make it airworthy.

There is more than one reality? That's pretty woke.

One more reason to not shoot it down over land. Almost like the military knew what they were doing. Go figure.

To clarify, is this the ‘The solution wouldn’t be 100% perfect so it’s not worth trying’ argument?

I think you missed one suspect.

When it's DB Cooper: "If he died out there, why hasn't anyone found a body or any remnants?" When it's whole species of large hominids that exist in at least sufficient numbers and proportions to avoid extinction: "No skeletons? No remnants? No problem!"

There are 18,000 police agencies and no national standards. This needs a serious look.

Why is it so much worse to accuse a possibly good man falsely than it is to falsely accuse a possibly good woman? I present most cases of sexual harassment, Hillary Clinton, many female bosses — it’s fine to talk about that cheap hussy bitch, but god forbid a good boy have to suffer for a single mistake! Never mind being a minority; they’re fair game for anything I’m not saying Winsor does — he just made that comment Wendy P.

We've seen the violent outcomes of all the inflammatory right wing rhetoric in recent months and years. The shooting at the pizza place to stop Hillary Clinton's "satanic child sex ring." The Jan 6th insurrection and attempted kidnappings. The attempted kidnapping of governor Whitmer. The attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband. The 2022 white supremacist killing of ten black men in Buffalo. Ricky Shiffer's attack on the FBI for their searching of Trump's home. Solomon Pena, a republican politician who paid hit men to try to kill democrats after he lost his election. The endless promises by Q and others that violence was just around the corner, and that SHTF any day now - and Trump telling those people to "stand by." Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi put it well when he said that the incendiary rhetoric and targeting of democrats is the same "dangerous mix that we see in violent Islamic jihad. Are we headed toward a kind of jihad in a culture war where only one side can be righteous and the other side is the infidel? That's where I see this going." There's another sort of violence that right wing talking heads don't often think about - self-harm and suicide by people who become so depressed by the right wing mantra that the world is ending under Biden that they take their own lives. A family in Pennsylvania recently did just that. They had been rabid Trump supporters, and just dropped off the map after he lost the election. One friend of theirs described them this way: "They were just so hell-bent on Trump winning, like this could be in the end if he doesn’t." A few weeks ago they decided to make it the end. Two parents and their daughter shot and killed themselves in a suicide pact. So the next time conservatives think about posting something about how Biden is conspiring with China and North Korea to sell the babies of republicans into sex slavery (or whatever the latest far right nonsense is) I hope they keep in mind that their words can - and do - have a pretty horrible effect on others, including other conservatives. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-found-dead-pennsylvania-made-joint-decision-kill-police-say-rcna69060 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-fbi-official-warns-of-right-wing-violence-akin-to-violent-islamic-jihad/ar-AA16VcOR

Depends how you define solved.. to a legal standard with forensics,, yeah that is almost impossible now, Cooper is almost certainly dead by now and even if he was alive there would never be a prosecution. but the FBI said in 1976 they have no case without the co-operation of Cooper due to poor evidence and fading witness memories. So, we may not get to a legal standard but we can still solve the case. (to a public standard)

One wonders whether MTG informed Trump of the secret Jewish space lasers she discovered. But in any case republicans will investigate to see if they can find a democrat to blame. If they find a republican, they will drop it immediately, then claim they 1) never called for a probe, 2) OK they called for a probe but they really meant to save the children from drag queens and 3) Obama did it first.

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I was once reading a book written by one of the U2 pilots describing attempts by Russian fighters to reach the U2. He described a technique of them going full throttle in level flight, then pulling up hard and "going ballistic" in an attempt to get within weapons range of the U2 as their engine flamed out.

Try this from the same paper four months ago Russia and Ukraine each have suffered over 100,000 casualties, the top U.S. general says. Seems like proof that you’re lying about what the mainstream media says, doesn’t it? So again, tell me where you’re getting your ‘true’ news from?

Lol. Joe every other freakin day: Why doesn’t everyone else spend as much on defence as we do!!!? You guys all suck and your cheap military equipment is shit and you should be spending way more to catch up!! Joe today: Our military equipment is way too expensive, why are we wasting money on this useless crap?

Yep and DoD says the F22 was at 58,000 feet and the balloon between 60,000 and 65,000. At 65,000 it would be at the far outer edge of range for 20mm cannons and really not a very viable option. Imagine missing and the shitstorm that would follow from that.....

Yeah, so the crimes were after the restraining order. The issue here isn't even the restraining order. The issue is that the restraining order is for Domestic Violence. That specific issue is what made the restraining order not a valid reason to remove guns, because the founding fathers did not care about Domestic Violence. If the restraining order had been for something the founding fathers cared about, then it would have been valid to remove guns. See the guns are allowed the evolve, but attitudes are not.

Typical Brent: guns are your solution for everything....

Well, quite a few of the other killers are law abiding chldren who get hold of a loaded gun carelessly left in a car or the house. The single common factor is "gun".

It’s not AOC’s film.

Looks more like Reca than any of the others.

And he is not alone. There is a meme out there that gun laws do nothing because well-armed criminals will ignore them, so they are useless. I contend that most of the shootings that put the general public in danger are not from those well-armed criminals - they are from law abiding citizens without a criminal record who simply snap and grab their AR-15 before they run out the door to get their revenge or make their statement. To demonstrate this I looked at the last ten mass murders, taken from Wikipedia's list of mass shootings in the US. Yakima shooting - the shooter, Jarid Haddock, had no criminal record - just a semiauto handgun and a lot of ammo. Half Moon Bay shooting - the shooter, Chunli Zhao, was a disgruntled worker with no criminal record. Monterey Park shooting - the perpetrator, Huu Can Tran, had one previous arrest for illegal possession of a firearm with no other arrests. No conviction. There was no apparent reason for the shooting but he did appear mentally disturbed beforehand. Goshen shooting - two suspects arrested. No clear motive yet but it may be related to gang activity. Enoch shooting - a man killed his family and himself. No criminal record although he had been investigated for domestic abuse allegations, and his wife was seeking a divorce. Chesapeake WalMart shooting - a WalMart employee with no criminal record shot several people at WalMart then killed himself. He left a note with allusions to Satan and being mocked at work. Colorado Springs - Anderson Lee Aldrich shot up a nightclub. He had one arrest previously for "taking his grandparents hostage" with a weapon and threatening to blow up their house - but was not convicted of anything. University of Virginia shooting - Christopher Darnell Jones Jr shot and killed several other students. He had no criminal record, although he had been under investigation for possibly having a gun at school. St Louis shooting - Orlando Harris shot and killed three schoolkids. No criminal record. He was being treated for mental illness. He tried to buy a gun from a dealer but failed the FBI background check. He then bought one from a private individual. His mother was horrified when she heard this and called the police. The police came, but said that he had broken no laws, so they could not take the AR-15 from him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States Of those ten, one MAY have been pulled off via one of those hardened criminals that gun supporters always reference. The rest were people with no criminal records who just snapped. It is also worthwhile to note that in at least half of the cases, there was a clear sign (former misuse of a weapon, mental illness, or threats of violence) that this person might be a danger if armed.

That is untrue. If you obtain a restraining order under false pretenses, and are caught, you are prosecuted - and many have been. I was in jury selection years ago for such a case, where a man filed a restraining order against a woman so he would have more ammunition when he fought for custody. The woman went after him for filing a false claim. There is a reason that restraining orders are issued against men who attack their spouses before they are found guilty of assault, and that reason is that the 6-12 months that it takes for the case to get to court is plenty of time for him to finish the job. Such orders save lives. Nope. He had a restraining order issued against him, that included a requirement that he not own any guns. He could have contested it. He did not; he consented to it, which means he was OK with the basis of it and its proscriptions. Then he went off and was involved in five other shootings. Police pursued him, found him at his house, had a warrant issued, then searched the house. They found weapons. The weapons were removed based on the terms of the order he had consented to. NOT on the basis of any of the five shootings; on the basis on an order he himself agreed to. And I contend that, if you want to successfully claim the moral high ground (and wear that white hat) you have to actually read about the case so you know what it is you are talking about.

Sketches of George Ames and Robert Wilson aka Fred Hahneman and Martin McNally

Hi Rob, If anyone thinks that these inspections are done on an annual basis, they have their head in the sand. I got my first TSO's in 1979. In 1983, this guy from the Seattle MIDO calls me & says it is time for my 'annual inspection.' My very first thought is that he must be out of his mind. Jerry Baumchen PS) The FAA: Consistently inconsistent.

Time for me to eat some crow. I royally messed up on my attempt to track down Alice. The Alyce Gorley born in Texas in 1947 is NOT Alice Garley Hancock of Flight 305. Here's where I went wrong and I think it's a reasonable mistake to make. The "Garley" in Alice Garley Hancock is NOT a maiden name. That was my assumption and I'm sure the assumption of just about everyone else who ever came across that name in the Cooper case. Garley was her previous married name. She was born Alice Opp in Minnesota in 1947, then married a guy named Richard Garley in 1968 and was divorced within a year. Then in Sept 1971 she married Jim Hancock (they divorced in 91). So when I went deep diving to try to find a better photo of Alice (since all we have is a crummy one from the press conference), I searched for an Alice Garley, born in the late 40's on Ancestry. There was only one: Alyce Gorley of Texas. Turns out she was a beauty queen and as we know many of those type girls from that era went on to become stewardesses. I figured that when she moved away from home to be flight attendant she just changed the spelling of her name for whatever reason. So ya, major research error on my part.

He corrected himself less than a nanosecond later by saying more than half the people. People all around the country give speeches every day and make some kind of blunder. It's really not this great Ahh HAH or look look moment that people make it out to be. It happens. It's not on par with more serious issues.

Ylou can probably get a lot more info out of analyzing hardware that has splashed down in the Atlantic, than hardware that has pancaked into the ground.

Trolls do not need to be either consistent, or logical.

So even in this one post you’re claiming that you’re 1) completely satirical and 2) almost entirely serious in everything you’re saying about Hunter and Joe…. But if anyone dared to disagree with you it must be that they don’t get your jokes. Which are only jokes a little bit, because you also mean it. Anyway, nice diversion from having to admit you were totally wrong about the thing you’ve been banging on about for months.