Hopefully Trump will soon reach Alex Jones levels of "the judicial system is sick of listening to you whine."
Jump to postI'm curious what the reason is for the shape of the cockpit windows. Very spacey.
Jump to postThe crime was using terrorism and 9/11 as pretext to the public when any of the factors you describe would have been taken more seriously. Would they, though? Looking at all of GalaxyFlyer's arguments in turn, we have: -Sanctions on Iraq being undermined by third parties. Well, China is undermining...
Jump to postBesides, he tried once to invade and control the Saudi and Kuwaiti oil fields. If he succeeded in a second attempt, he’d had the world by the neck. And he hadn't even come close to rebuilding his military from the first time he tried. Anyway, the alternative was pretty obvious - don't invade Iraq. ...
Jump to postThere was a VIP 767-200 in Royal Brunei Airlines colors parked at Atlantic Aviation at LAX on Sunday. So you could try and become friends with higher-ups in Brunei?
Jump to postiamlucky13 wrote:The real meaning is concern that Russia may spread the conflict further if they prevail over Ukraine.
In case you thought Russian aggression has its limits, think again: Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, has threatened to launch a missile strike against the International Criminal Court in The Hague , which had earlier issued an arrest warrant for Ru...
Jump to postA ghastly crime of opportunism and probably the greatest foreign policy blunder of my lifetime, at least as far as the United States is concerned. The evil done in my name wasn't even done competently. And then the Republicans tried to pass the buck, as they always do.
Jump to postWhen did front bench seats go away? I remember my grandparents' car had them in the late 1990s but I don't remember the make.
Jump to postYes, but even if they do that, the decision to charge Trump first is sort of improper. That’s not how “prosecuting” is supposed to work. It is another sign of creeping “banana republic” status, where opposing parties jail/hospitalize each other. Isn't the president being effectively outside the rea...
Jump to postHere’s the problem with this. Real estate developers and family business owners commonly do everything Trump did. The charges against him were common tax dodging schemes. Trump wasn’t chosen for prosecution because of that. He was chosen for prosecution because people didn’t like his speeches when ...
Jump to postMohawkWeekend wrote:Might they be given to other nations as aid?
They should probably skip the middlemen and just sell Spirit Airlines security camera footage as a reality-TV show.
Jump to postLyleLanley wrote:I tried pimping them to use my basket, before it became officially forbidden, and they laughed me off.
I worry - that if you villainize a group enough, that if you scream that they are groomers wanting to hurt children loud enough - that it will eventually result in real harm being undertaken against the group. This is already happening, e.g. the Pulse nightclub shooting and other individual acts of...
Jump to postMohawkWeekend wrote:How about load the next Reaper with a self destruct mechanism so the resulting explosion brings down the ramming aircraft?
Kno wrote:In general i think we’re in an era of pretty ugly vehicles right now. Who designs this stuff?
Look, it's very important that the state of South Carolina be able to prosecute 12-year-old girls raped by their fathers should they miscarry under suspicious circumstances. To protect innocent life, you see.
Not saying that they will, of course. Just that they should be able to. Just in case.
I enjoyed getting a tour of the 19th-century sailing ship on Hyde Street Pier, but I'm a bit of a grognard so YMMV. The Nike surface-to-air missile site on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge is supposed to be very cool, but limited hours, so I haven't made it there yet.
Jump to postWell that’s quite remarkable, what a story, I think it shows the resilience of the C5 Amazing to be able to remove one of the mlg and still take off Reminds me of the Citroen DS that could still be driven after taking off one wheel The C-5 and French automobiles also noted to have similar reputatio...
Jump to postSoCalPilot wrote:Also, it was liberals burning down cities over the past few years while protesting, not the conservatives.
Here’s a quiz on why the crackpot media never changes in how it regards anyone outside of the Democratic Party Not quite sure why you're bringing this up here, all things considered. There's media reporting on a guy and then there's his own literal direct quotes, and with Trump we have more than en...
Jump to postMy guess is that the moderators marked them as sticky threads for one year, not long after the invasion began March 2022, and so that time just ran out.
Jump to postcasinterest wrote:You going to go south and plant a flag?
So… Summarizing the above comments leads to the conclusion that the questioning senators only managed to make themselves look like jackasses and utterly failed to establish whether the nominee was in fact qualified to be an effective administrator. Although, every time I fly from now on I will have...
Jump to postIn WWII, almost every fighter pilot and bomber crew member flew on a mask in an uncompressed cabin. If you were not doing ASW or CAS, you were at altitude using a mask. For German pilots, days per week for years. Some of them went quite high. Some Bf-109s did have pressurized cockpits I believe. Bu...
Jump to postIt was always going to be Big Shot, because they already have one identical aircraft (and 2 747s). Glad they're expanding! It's an amazing reactivation after such a long time stored. Were any of the 74x reactivations stored for this length of time? A couple of National's 747s might have come close ...
Jump to postRunway28L wrote:Worth noting that Red Flag 23-2 is about to take place at Nellis. Likely related.
I believe Nellis does get military charters from time to time, and Southwest is a part of that program even though you don't see them quite as often as National, Atlas, and company. Last year I got a National 747 outbound from Nellis in between Red Flag sorties. There aren't nearly as many of them a...
Jump to postThe only difference between CPAC and an al-Qaeda cell is that the al-Qaeda cell doesn't own as many guns.
Jump to postAnother source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-intelligence-suggests-pro-ukrainian-group-sabotaged-nord-stream-pipelines-nyt-2023-03-07/ From this article: U.S. officials declined to disclose the nature of the intelligence, how it was obtained or any details of the strength of the evidence...
Jump to postAs long as you're white. How long do we have to wait for this a$$hole to start on the Jews.' like Trump he has a compulsive desire to be a little dictator. I am righteously offended at your implication that the preening populists who make appeals to literally every other social prejudice would make...
Jump to postAirbus calls this new door arrangement the Airbus cabin flex option (ACF). IIRC there are late build ceos with ACF and possibly neos with the older door layout? The advantage is that now you got the doors right where the big economy passenger number takes their seats, in the back, not in the front....
Jump to postQF7 wrote:So Republicans want to keep marginalizing themselves, who cares?
UPS757Pilot wrote:Nice product. Don't forget about the UPS A300 fleet.
One wonders where all the FREEZE PEACH people up in arms about Dilbert are...
Jump to postThe other items in the bag are bizzare, but maybe they serve a purpose I just don’t understand. Interesting he actually has a hearing and such. Unless these are somehow commonly “oops” items that a person could non-nefariously put together I don’t see why he isn’t being treated as a terrorist. Desp...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:At A-10 speeds, toss bombing isn’t all that great, more like chip shots
Actually, come to think of it, what I just said isn't quite true. A while back, Gary Trudeau drew a Doonesbury strip that addressed some controversial new Texas abortion laws in a way that was incendiary enough that a bunch of newspapers either didn't run it, or moved it to a different section of th...
Jump to postDon't we need to ensure that anyone getting a platform to publish a comic (or any other position) holds appropriate and acceptable viewpoints on all hot topics of the day? I'm hearing people say we do. Tugg No, we don't. But when they volunteer their opinions, are we supposed to ignore them? Certai...
Jump to postThis is not the place for the old "you have to tolerate my intolerance" debate. If you wish to take that up, look for the Dilbert thread. In any case, I don't think the student activists have launched any wars of aggression lately, nor do they have the power of a police state at their beck...
Jump to postA 12-year-old Russian girl has been sent to an orphanage after she drew an anti-war picture at school, reports say. Masha Moskaleva’s drawing featured both the Ukrainian and Russian flags, emblazoned with the words “No to war” and “Glory to Ukraine”, and a woman shielding her child from Moscow’s mi...
Jump to post:scratchchin: Wonder if this is the only way to get Congress to let go of the A-10. Give them to the Ukrainians :?: bt I suspect the Ukrainian situation informs this decision quite a bit, insofar as it's likely prompting some head-scratching about what the future close air support mission looks lik...
Jump to postYesterday afternoon was honestly more beautiful than Southern California has been in quite a while. The sharp contrast between the dark clouds and rays of sun, the unusually low snow line, and the days of rain clearing the smog out of the sky really created something unique.
Jump to postHow dare you accuse Fox News and the right-wing media of spreading lies about the election being stolen! Anyway, here's how the election was stolen:
Jump to postThat’s…not how hyperbole works, since women and children are the majority of victims of domestic violence, and conservatives want to rearm their abusers https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1481201 No, you don't get it, the problem is that the women and children aren't armed too...
Jump to postThere are several jets that were assumed to be 2021 models that are actually USAF 2011 serials. From what I gather, the contract for the FY11 models had to be delivered by a certain date, so with the original builds not in any shape to be accepted by the USAF, they reserialed the following as 2011'...
Jump to postAdams seems like one of those guys who kinda got his brain broken by the internet. He seemed a lot more level headed back in the 90s.
Jump to postAwful easy to trade liberty for security when it's neither your liberty nor your security on the line. But ask yourself why some places seem to make that trade again and again but never get any safer?
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