kallend
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Born in Chicago.
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Here's my B-1B taking off: And my F-14 landing:
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I have some 50 in my basement (I've been at this for a very long time). No actual gas turbines - they are very cool but a real PITA to operate.
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Video Unavailable here. "The uploader has not made this video available in your country"
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Correct on both counts. Here are a few more for you to identify.
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I hope you like my Twotter with the jump door!
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I fly R/C models, I've been doing it for over 60 years. Quite a lot of work involved in getting, say, an F-14, F-22 or B-1B to fly. It's an old man's hobby, very few young people are interested.
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I wish more senior Dems would show the same amount of fighting spirit as Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders and JB Pritzker. So many of them seem to be playing dead.
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I’m in Venice right now. There’s a story of a 14th Century Doge who tried to accumulate too much power for himself. They beheaded him. Rather like Charles I of England Maybe a lesson there
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So moron SecDef is ending the Pentagon’s women peace and security program calling it a “Biden woke initiative”. It was promoted by Ivanka, supported by Rubio and Noem, and signed into law by Trump45.
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Sure is some Kool Aid in that post.
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Check out Covid.gov Wow, just wow
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"In the long run we're all dead"; John Maynard Keynes.
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That was old when I first heard it, some 60 years ago.
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Finally a university with backbone. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/14/metro/harvard-response-trump-demands/ Harvard joins Princeton in pushback, unlike Columbia which caved. Would that our senators showed some.
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We have a winner-take-all system. It will naturally evolve into a 2 party system.
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No doubt, because they can't do math anyway.
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In a winner-take-all system. voting for a no-hope candidate is a wasted vote.
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I wonder how many MAGA-ites even know the names of the Greek letters used in the magic tariff formula.
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Thanks.
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First Orwell used as a manual, now Gilbert and Sullivan: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/ Ko-Ko. Why should I kill you when making an affidavit that you've been executed will do just as well? Here are plenty of witnesses — the Lord Chief Justice, Lord High Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, Secretary of State for the Home Department, First Lord of the Treasury, and Chief Commissioner of Police. Nanki-Poo. But where are they? Ko-Ko. There they are. They'll all swear to it — won't you? (to Pooh-Bah) Pooh-Bah. Am I to understand that all of us high Officers of State are required to perjure ourselves to ensure your safety? Ko-Ko. Why not! You'll be grossly insulted, as usual. Pooh-Bah. Will the insult be cash down, or at a date? Ko-Ko. It will be a ready-money transaction. Pooh-Bah. (aside) Well, it will be a useful discipline. (aloud) Very good. Choose your fiction, and I'll endorse it!
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Competence has nothing to do with it. The primary qualification for a cabinet post seems to be a willingness to bend over and say "put it there".
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How do you know this?
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Or even what the individual is "expected" to believe, according to the wording.
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From NPR: Wall Street has been whipsawed for more than a week by President Trump's every word about tariffs. Now he's facing accusations of using his power to deliberately manipulate the markets. The scrutiny started with a tale of two social-media posts. On Wednesday, shortly after the U.S. stock market opened, Trump posted on his Truth Social network in all caps: "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" Less than four hours after his post, Trump said on Truth Social that he would pause the harshest of his tariffs on most countries. Stocks immediately skyrocketed in relief, with the Dow closing up almost 3,000 points I wonder . . . . . . . .
