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Sooooooo . . . Trump threatened to ban TicTok for national security reasons in 2020. Congress passed a bill to ban it. Biden signed it. Now, the WH is opening a tiktok account. I can't even fucking keep up anymore.

From the flight path panel discussion at CooperCon 2021 with Cliff Ammerman. I went back and listened to my recording which is up on the Facebook group. Here are the relevant excerpts. Darren: “What do you think about that Cliff, do you think it’s possible that he actually did dictate the flight path based on the conditions he demanded the plane fly.” Cliff: “Yes certainly, If you’re going to fly south at ten thousand feet, Victor 23 would be the, the option that I think almost anybody would take. Just because you could fly at much lower altitude.” Darren: “Do you think he knew the plane would fly Victor 23?” Marty Andrade: “Based on that answer, I would have to say yes.” Marty Andrade: “I’m going to direct this to Cliff. Below 10,000 feet how many airways could they have picked, Victory 23 but there should be another one right?” Cliff: “There is another airway to the west called Victor 165 that still would be fairly low. Ugh, this was before the time that they had designed an airway for Portland basically direct to kalamath falls. Now there were high altitude airways but you had to be above 18k feet and obviously DB Cooper didn’t want to do that. So if they would of come back a few years later then this, he probably would of turned at Portland and gone directly to kalamath falls because it’s a more direct route to Reno. But then the min on the route out there is much higher. So my guess would of been then, that if DB Cooper wanted it low, he would of told them to stay on Victor 23 until they can hit further south and that’s just speculation.” Darren: “Well now that you have that information Marty what’s your answer?” Marty: “No I would say that given that, we know from the radio transcript that they were put on Victor 23, um if there really isn’t another option for them at the time then that’s the route they would of been on.” No mention of V27 from Cliff.

Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is by Thomas L. Friedman NYT editorial. An excellent piece that covers most of the bases. I laughed when he mentioned all the "thank-you"s directed at Trump. All of the appeasement and flattery to shield the ego of the man-child. Today the Kremlin signalled that NO direct meeting between Putin and Zelensky is either planned or anticipated. "During an interview with state-controlled TV channel Rossiya-24 on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow does not refuse talks with Ukraine — but, crucially, insisted any summit would have to be prepared “step by step, gradually, starting from the expert level and then going through all the necessary stages.” Russia’s calibrated language follows a familiar pattern: agree in principle, stall in practice. A similar dynamic played out in May, when Putin suggested a Russian meeting with Zelenskyy for peace talks, only to send a second-tier delegation instead." Meanwhile Trump's deadlines, sanctions, etc. have all gone TACO. His Alaska coming out party for the indicted war criminal and kidnapper of 20,000 Ukrainian children, a flop. Another example of the moral bankruptcy of the republican party.

V27 and 165 were the same thing. This is a sectional from June 1971.

He's hoping you forget about that Epstein list.

Thats how magicians operate. Wave a hand over here when something disappears over there. Others call it distraction. National security in on the back burner anyway. FBI agents with their training and college degrees are chasing jay-walkers in Washington D.C.

And just like that - Winsor is woke. Unfortunately you cannot do that without being woke. (Examples - being aware the Tuskegee Airmen, or the Japanese Americans in internment camps, or the Jews in Germany were subject to racism.)

A married couple was in a terrible accident, and the wife’s face was severely burned. The doctor told her they couldn’t graft any skin from her own body because she was too skinny. Her husband lovingly offered to donate some of his skin. However, the only suitable area to do the whole job was from his large buttocks. But it was a rather embarrassing situation, so they both agreed to keep that detail a secret, and the doctor promised not to say a word. After the surgery, everyone was amazed by the woman's transformation. She looked more radiant than ever! Friends and family couldn’t stop complimenting her fresh, youthful face. One day, deeply moved, she said to her husband, "Dear, I just want to thank you for everything you did for me. How can I ever repay you?" He smiled and replied, "My love, I get all the thanks I need every time I see your mother kiss you on the cheek."

They probably also chose to train them as fighter pilots because they couldn’t retrofit bombers to have separate relief tubes for colored folk.

I was thinking Texas. They want to secede anyway.