Re: Mar-A-Lago raided by FBI.

Man, this guy must be a serious threat to the dems for them to constantly go after him. So much that the very laws of cause and effect no longer apply, apparently. Ask any long tenured New Yorker, and they'll tell you he was a lying slimeball paying to settle lawsuits back in the 1980s, before he'd...

Re: Mar-A-Lago raided by FBI.

I was just on a "gun forum" and a few members opined that they didn't understand why the Secret Service didn't "defend" the property. They obviously don't know what their job is. Anyone who finds themselves asking "why didn't the Secret Service shoot at the FBI agents?"...

Re: Mar-A-Lago raided by FBI.

LabQuest wrote:

Trump would be silent

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *Discussion* Thread

It looks like Russia might turn to North Korea for troops: https://www.eutimes.net/2022/08/north-korea-may-send-100000-troops-to-ukraine-to-help-russia/ It sure is a damning indictment if the mighty Russian army needs to turn to Syria and North Korea for troops. Amazing how they keep on trying to j...

Re: Something Lighthearted

Since he passed away this week, I've been listening to a lot of clips of the great baseball broadcaster Vin Scully. The voice of the Dodgers for an incredible 66 years, he was gifted with an unprecedented knowledge of and passion for the game, but also possessed a wonderfully understated sense of hu...

Re: "Eric" for U.S. Senate in Missouri

For some reason this reminds me of the Monty Python sketch where John Cleese played a man who named all his pets Eric.

Re: Nancy Pelosi going to Taiwan

sierrakilo44 wrote:

Avatar2go wrote:

a right to visit any nation she chooses,

Official US policy is that the island of Taiwan is a part of the nation of China, with it capital in Beijing.

Re: World War 3 over... License plates?

To be honest, it's not like the disputes leading up to World War I were much more sensible than this...

Re: Air Cargo (non Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2022

I have to say that it’s surprised me how the Chinese carriers have not taken advantage of the air cargo demand. I get some other factors come into play, but they were already large and have the home base. I think CK has taken a couple new 777s recently? I’m quoting them getting rid of one. Both of ...

Re: Air Cargo (non Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2022

DHL UK has purchased a 12 year old ex China Cargo 777-F6N (L/N869, C/N 37714, B-2078) with new registration G-DHLW. The aircraft has been painted in DHL livery at XMN and has been test flown at July 20th 2022, see : https://flightaware.com/live/flight/B2078/history/20220719/2138Z I have to say that...

Re: Trump Claims ‘Nobody Got to the Bottom of 9/11’

Golf has to be the most inane, boring "sport" invented. A perfect pastime for old white guys to waste their dwindling days driving little carts around courses that could be better used as dog parks or people parks. with you so far... Golf ranks right up there with American and European fo...

Re: January 6 Committee public presentations and hearings

luckyone wrote:

Out of nowhere Trump announces he is planning to sue CNN for defamatory comments. Guess the hearings are actually getting to him. He’s blowing the dog whistle.

Re: An Airplane is Like a Marriage

SEAorPWM wrote:

The bible-thumper is equating asymmetric lift with human sexual behavior.

Re: An Airplane is Like a Marriage

ACDC8 wrote:

Sorry, I don't get the punch line.

Re: An Airplane is Like a Marriage

Had to check the date on that cartoon - no, it really is 2022. This is why when Republicans say SCOTUS won't go after gay marriage next, don't believe them. The crazies absolutely want it and they can't stop pandering to the crazies.

Re: Boston subway train catches fire on bridge

Airstud wrote:

According to Google Maps, near the Wellington Orange Line station is a place called "Crumbl Cookies."

(Are those good cookies?)

Re: Electoral Count Act Reform

EA CO AS wrote:

Until then, bring better ideas to the polls.

Re: Electoral Count Act Reform

Wow, did you miss the point or what? No, the World Series or NBA finals are based on the number of games won in the series, regardless of how many total runs/points are scored over the whole series. A popular vote only would allow Democrats to run up the tally in places like NYC, LA, Chicago, and o...

Re: Electoral Count Act Reform

But that's how Democrats work - when elections don't go their way, they want to change the rules instead of coming up with better ideas to entice more independent voters to see things their way. This is pretty rich, given the zany schemes Republicans got up to when 2020 didn't break their way. Well...

Re: Electoral Count Act Reform

inefficient distribution of Democrat voters is their problem, not the Constitutional rules. Republicans apparently don't actually believe this, or we wouldn't be seeing dozens and dozens of efforts to change the voting rules and purge the rolls of Republican-unfriendly (or perceived as such) voters...

Re: Why no single-engine GA aircraft with contrarotating propellers?

I'm befuddled. How did you put single-engine and contra-rotating in the same sentence like that. If you flipped it the other way, would you then not need more left rudder instead of right. Or am I just stupid. I think the OP is wondering why he can't turn his Cessna 172 into a Seafire Mk. 47: 16732...

Re: Russia expands Anti-LGBT laws.

But seriously.... what is the deal with the Russians not happy with the LGBTQ movement? What is their state of mind? I don't fully understand it when the rest of the world (mostly) is adapting fine with it. The fundamental ideology of Putin's regime is ultimately cynicism. It's okay if the Russian ...

Re: Elon Musk Backing Out of Twitter Deal

As someone who does greatly admire Musk for SpaceX, while knowing he has a childish, sometimes vindictive streak in him, I cannot for the life of me think just why he wants to enter the Big Tech/Social Media quagmire. Maybe it's because my view of that sector ranges from agnostic to hostile, (my ow...

Re: Al Blackman celebrates 80 years at AA!

Guy must have more Skydrol than blood in his veins at this point.

Re: Questions on Running Out of Plane Registration Numbers

PanAm had many airplanes with four numbers/letters after the N, for example Boeing 727-200 N4745 or 737-200 N63AF. Nur maybe the rules have changed since then? You can have <5 as far as I know, there just aren't as many of them to go around. The FAA, who hands out the tail numbers and therefore get...

Re: Questions on Running Out of Plane Registration Numbers

I always sort of wondered about this in the case of China (just four digits,) Bahrain, and Oman (A4O-** and A9C-**.) In the latter case there's only two characters! But China seems to have started using letters too, which adds a lot more possibilities, and I guess the Gulf countries could just go fr...

Re: 707 photo bug?

This usually happens when a registration has been used on more than one airplane. Somebody hit autocomplete when uploading the photo and got the wrong results.

Re: A German A400 doing touch and goes at SAN today??

Just a side note...we saw a A400 at Yuma MCAS in February. Not sure who's it was, but the crew was staying at our hotel, and they didn't seem to be speaking German (I could definitely be wrong, though). I recall seeing a British A400 in that area on ADSBexchange, can't quite recall the timeframe th...

Re: January 6 Committee public presentations and hearings

A week of witnesses laying out all the different ways Trump tried to overturn the election and get an armed mob into the Capitol, and you're here fussing about whether he could have grabbed a steering wheel? And the GOP has in fact been very well represented. The fact that they're testifying against...

Re: Next SCOTUS nominee proceedings: constitutional crisis looming?

Yep and the term "constitutional crisis" is just another propaganda term recited by the media in an attempt to fear monger. Precisely right. The only "Constitutional crisis" we have in this country is not following it. :roll: Do spare us the sanctimony, at least until "cons...

Re: Next SCOTUS nominee proceedings: constitutional crisis looming?

I guess I do have some concern that the next time the Senate majority leader tries to pull the same trick McConnell did with Garland and Gorsuch, the president will try to say "welp! Guess you've waived your duty to advise and consent. My guy's on the court."

Re: A German A400 doing touch and goes at SAN today??

Earlier this year at SAN, there have also been visits by Canadian and Dutch Airbus MRTTs. So there presumably are reasons for foreign militaries to use SAN rather than Miramar or NAS North Island sometimes.

Re: Amtrak train hits dump truck and derails in Missouri

How do you eliminate the level crossings? Tunnels? Overpasses? Where I used to live in New Jersey, they mostly put the tracks up on an embankment and ran the streets under it - riding the train, you kinda looked down into peoples' back yards. In a more recent project in Los Angeles they basically m...

Re: At least 40 people found dead in abandoned truck in San Antonio

No one deserves to die like that. Horrific.

Re: Amtrak train hits dump truck and derails in Missouri

Well that's pretty terrifying. Hard to tell what the grade crossing looked like before the crash - if there were any barricades or markings.

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - *News Feed* Thread

johns624 wrote:

If he's killed, will that count as two generals in the tally?

Re: Updated: US supreme court overturns abortion rights, upending Roe vs. Wade

Virtual737 wrote:

Is there any level of mental competence needed to be eligible to vote (or stand as a candidate) in the US?

Re: Updated: US supreme court overturns abortion rights, upending Roe vs. Wade

So we all need to agree that violence and rioting are never ok, no matter how upset and angry one is. Injustice needs to be dealt with at the ballot box, within a democracy. If the United States was more of a democracy, we might never have reached this point. This decision doesn't happen without: 1...

Re: USS Samuel B. Roberts shipwreck found

This is a very cool find. I'm impressed and fascinated that we have the technology to make discoveries at this depth.

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

The moment a girl is hauled away by cops to prison over birth control, or an abortion, it is GAME OVER for the anti-abortion movement. The vast majority of politicians will lose reelection if they stand in the way of moderating their laws. How are the vast majority of the going to lose re-election ...

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

The argument of “it’s not in the constitution” is a stupid one used by uneducated people. The purpose of the constitution wasn’t supposed to be the end-all, be-all to rights. It’s meant to be the bare minimum. The framers more or less put it down as a structure, and wanted the future to build on th...

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

I know what the definition of parasite is. However, rape and incest aside, the women had a part in the actions that made the fetus. Plus, the use of the term parasite is just to dehumanize the fetus and is being used inflammatory. It's incorrect to say she "had" a part (past tense) in the...

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

Like North Korea or the USSR? No thanks. Also, zero percent chance of that happening here. If a totalitarian despotism comes to the United States, it's pretty obvious to me who's going to be running it - and it isn't the atheists. No, it'll be wrapped in God and the flag like every other hustle tha...

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

Hopefully we can eventually turn the tide and finally ban bibles, crosses and religion in general This isn't really about religion. The Bible has more to say about mixing fabrics, eating shellfish, and masturbation than it does abortions. It's about a naked lust for power, and the cult of power tha...

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

Dred Scott basically put the slavery question to the states, isn't it? It essentially said all prior compromises on slavery were invalid and Congress had no right to bar it from any state. It was a much broader ruling than the legal question before the court demanded and threw away any chance that ...

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

Kiwirob wrote:

Could states that bam abortion also ban birth control?

Re: Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

I'm feeling some faint historical echoes of the Dred Scott decision - the Supreme Court steps in to offer a broad ruling on a polarizing issue that the other branches of government can't reach a consensus on, but because it gives one side everything and the other side nothing, it can't serve as the ...

Re: January 6 Committee public presentations and hearings

Reps. Banks and Davis went on to say that their investigation confirms that Republicans are rubber and Democrats are glue, and whatever is said about them bounces off and sticks to the other party.

Re: Air Cargo (non Amazon/DHL) Thread - 2022

Anyone here familiar with Everts Air's propliner operations up in Alaska? This summer I'd like to get up there and see their DC-6 and C-46 if they're still running.

(This thread knows everything, so I figure it's the best place to ask.)

Re: January 6 Committee public presentations and hearings

Nancy wants to keep crying wolf until November but apparently outside the usual sheep, no-one cares. IRL folks are more concerned about the "transitory" inflation and Putin's Price Hikes. I don't think 1/6 is in most peoples Top Ten. We'll see in November how good a job Vlad does on steal...