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As a by the by, things are better in the fam. Not great, but definitely better — seems like a progress better, not just a crisis averted better. We’ll see And thanks, folks Wendy P.

Sure, but in law the issue of intent usually determines the level of criminality. Hillary was doofy, Biden was dizzy, Trump flat out absconded with secret materials, hid them in his crapper, and then lied about it all. I'm saying they aren't equivalent wrongs or equally prosecutable.

Lol, yes. As long as you have the razor sharp insight of Rich to sustain you, what need have you of other drivel?

Also, it appears I was wrong in thinking that Soderlind came up with V-23. Reading this it seems that the assignment came from the Seattle Tower, not NWO.

It limits the speed,, also, I discovered that when the military does low altitude cargo drops they have the gear down,, significant,, I don't know..

Man bites dog compared to tariffs and the tax breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill. The inability of democrats to fight and refute the republican messaging that democrats are the corrupt ones. Combined with A.I., redistricting,etc. means that a sustained period of increased corruption is likely.

I have held a security clearance. I never actually dealt with secure materials (I was system support, so had godlike access to everything, including the secure areas), but yes, mistakes were addressed, and didn't lead to jail. If something was important enough in our world (which was proposals generally), a Chinese wall was set up to physically prevent any sharing. It seemed to work. Wendy P.

But that is indeed what happened and his lack of any kind of resistance suggests he didn't care because he was planning to get out of there ASAP. If we need to reduce this to two options I see it like this: 1) he knows that he wants to jump ASAP from the moment he plans the hijacking and all the decisions he makes are is service of this one goal. 2) he is some kind of genius savant who is doing a silent mental calculus in his head with no real interaction with the crew because he knows his note is going to be understood 100% and if it isn't he will come up with a plan silently and is constantly changing and tweaking his whole hijacking despite sometimes being incredibly uncool, loud, and scary. This seems real all over the place. I can't imagine a reading of this where the gear and flaps are not down the whole time. There's no "once you get to 'x' flaps and gear down, etc."

So you don't care that your chosen one panders to racist, sexists and discriminators, and you don't care that he's trying to force DEI programmes on every university and government department in the country. So why did you bring it up? You think that's news? Everyone already knows you're incapable of dialling down your virulent level of racism and sexism.

I worked with about a dozen people who had a security clearance - and no, it was not zero tolerance. If people made a mistake (and they did, all the time) then they'd get a lecture and told not to do it again. The severity of the lecture was proportional to the risk the mistake posed. Left a page from a confidential manual on the copier? It would be returned to your desk with a "be more careful" Post-It. Emailed something confidential about work on AOL instead of Arpanet SMTP? You'd get a public lecture with much finger wagging. Dropped a page with STALO frequencies (secret, not confidential) outside the building? That would be a closed door meeting with a director. Stole a dozen boxes of top secret information, lied about it, told your lawyers to pretend you didn't have it, then showed them to a random journalist? You have to be Trump to get away with that.

If his plan was to refuel in Mexico when he gave instructions to 305 in the PNW why ask for the dirty configuration? That configuration has only two rationales, to make it jumpable and to stretch out the search zone. If his plan was to be on the plane when it lands in Mexico neither of these apply. It makes no sense to ask for it.

Not at all. The modern accepted definition of dementia for conservatives is "Biden, not Trump."

While he actually IS a rapist, a felon and a racist, and he directly supports and protects pedophiles. But thank God he doesn't PANDER to rapists! I mean, sorry about the women he raped and all, but at least he's an HONEST rapist. (Well, he says he's not, but all men do that amirite?) I am starting to see how people justified their support for people like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin etc. "Well, sure, he's killing Jews by the trainload, but at least he doesn't pander to anti-Semites!"

So all you have to add is vitriol and abuse. I suppose that enhances your credibility.

OK, so DEI is the hill you’re dying on. How, without emphasizing the need to consider all options, do we get people to consider “others.” Like, you know, women, minorities, foreigners. Unless you subscribe to the concept that white men are naturally smarter and superior, of course. But even then, that neglects the spending power of everyone else. Having men design something “for women” generally ends up with a surplus of pink and fuzzy, and a dearth of intelligent features Wendy P.

Thanks for the detailed clarification.

A woman walks into a store and asks the clerk for four D-cell batteries. The clerk wagged his fingers beckoning the woman and said, "Come this way." The lady replied, "If I could come that way, I wouldn't need four D-cell batteries".