Re: Covid-19 Vaccination Mandate in US Armed Forces Removed as Part of Spending Bill

As a US Army medic Vet, I was on many "shot teams" to keep soldiers' immunizations up to date. This makes absolutely no sense. During the 1st week at boot camp you become a pin cushion getting all of the immunizations needed to live in close proximity to others. Plus if you are going to be...

Re: Is Russia turning to the East for relationships?

Nahhh....I cannot see the Russian Oligarchs getting along with the Chinese Communists......

Re: I now have home Internet service - security measures?

Shitcan the gateway they supplied and purchase a higher quality, more secure router, something from Cisco or Ubiquity. I went all Ubiquity UniFi products and decide when firmware updates are performed, not my ISP.

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

DocLightning wrote:

So I have a concern: the GOP House has stated that they will, under no circumstances, allow the debt ceiling to go up without cuts to SS and Medicare. Obviously, the Democrats will consider no such thing.

Re: Kevin McCarthy makes history... first in 100 years to fail Speaker vote

Matt Gaetz Says He 'Ran Out of Stuff to Ask For' From McCarthy......

Thats it rhat thar....

Re: 36 Injured on Hawaiian Airlines Flight

How many of us have been on flights in the US when the seatbelt sign was illuminated for the entire flight with nary a bump the whole time? I’ve lost count. So people get up to use the lav, and often flight attendants let it happen. I mean, passengers see flight attendants walking up and down and s...

Re: 36 Injured on Hawaiian Airlines Flight

Vexing post, as this is one of the worst turbulence situations in commercial aviation in some time. Given that turbulence of even two or three injuries normally makes the news, I am curious as to why you think injuries to over 10% of the pax of a well known airline, in a "western" country...

Re: 36 Injured on Hawaiian Airlines Flight

A lot of you are making a lot of assumptions about seat belt use. How do you know all of the injuries were the result of unbelted passengers hitting the PSU? With turbulence this bad, it's likely some books, laptops, tablets, phones, bags, and other objects went flying and hit some passengers with ...

Re: 36 Injured on Hawaiian Airlines Flight

This isn’t, or shouldn’t be, news. The tropics can have nasty, unexpected turbulence. Wear your seatbelt. Not hard. 36 injured people is IS news. What is newsworthy is 36 people STILL don't believe the Captain that air can get bumpy and to wear your seatbelt...ESPECIALLY when the seatbelt sign is i...

Re: Republican's and mail-in ballots

The US Constitution allows for "election day" not election week. Voting should ONLY be in person with a photo ID and proof of citizenship with an item such as a passport. The only ones that should be allowed to vote by mail is US Military. Why? The Constitution makes no mention of needing...

Re: The respiratory viruses -- make it stop!

I have taken 3000 milligrams of vitamin C and 10000 IU of D3 with K2 daily since spring of 2020 and NO flu, Covid, colds not even a sore throat since I have been on that regiment. This I think will solve a lot of this. One last thing avoid or limit sugar intake as best you can because it will lower...

Re: Nuclear fusion: harnessing the power of the stars

This is a "humankind" game changer. Imagine no more burning fossil fuels to generate electricity...even if it means using the heat to just boil water....

Re: Nuclear fusion: harnessing the power of the stars

My understanding is that the plasma is contained by magnetic fields. What happens if the magnetic field is removed. The National Ignition Facility uses inertial confinement, not magnetic confinement. A hollow, gold-plated metal cylinder (called a hohlraum) about 5 mm in diameter, containing a froze...

Re: Russia frees US basketball star in swap with arms dealer Bout

...and no mention whatsoever, who was prez when he was arrested. No mention of the most optimal of relationships (in terms of favors) between US & Russian leaders...for two years. Two years later more noise is made of Whelan's plight under 'Bad Call Biden' than ever mentioned in the first two y...

Re: Russia frees US basketball star in swap with arms dealer Bout

Mind you folks, Colonel Comrade Putin is KGB. Wily like a fox. So wily, he knew this trade would cause the dissension here in the ALREADY race polarized US of A. And it's not like any of us are privy to the terms of this trade. I for one think Putin said take it or leave it..the Marine stays......

Re: The respiratory viruses -- make it stop!

I hear you Doc, I work at one of the hospitals in Seattle, not Childrens, and we are having to set up Peds units just in case for overflow. I wondered about the efficacy of this years' flu vaccine, thanks for sharing those numbers.

Re: B-21 Rolling out on Dec.2

So what happened to the other B-3 through B-20 models????

Re: Best VPN

I am currently in Europe and was using unlocator VPN in my hotel room etc. I was trying to get onto my YouTube TV account as well as my Spectrum account and neither one will work with a VPN. If I shut down the VPN and just try and stream, it wont allow it as I am out of the "geographical area&...

Re: Republican's and mail-in ballots

Welp: " Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) found that officials identified just 372 possible cases of double voting or voting on behalf of deceased people out of about 14.6 million votes cast by mail in the 2016 and 2018 general elections, or 0.0025 percent." .0025 percent.....

Re: Trump calls for termination of Constitution

FLYFIRSTCLASS wrote:

OMG!!! Thats NOT what he said, he never called for the termination of the constitution! He was being facetious, referring to our corrupt election system and if we don't do something about it then whats the point of the constitution.

Re: Trump calls for termination of Constitution

See, in this delusional world trump and his followers/voters live in, the Constitution only applies to losers. Because either 1) He thinks the Law does not apply to him, and 2) His followers/voters want to toss it and overthrow democracy. I do like the post about the 2nd being tossed out as well......

Re: Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud

" However, a felony conviction could impact its ability to do business or obtain loans or contracts." This rhat here is the most important part of the sentencing...

Re: Death of our Sun, life on earth

Not like we have a choice, unless we master all the rules of physics by then. As I understand, Father Sol will greatly expand in size as it uses up it's fuel rendering Earth a cinder. But we have time to get out of the solar system before then. If we do not kill ourselves off first.

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

Can we try to stop being quite so negative on this ? Yes, the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar was corrupt, but it is what it is. The absence of beer is not a disaster and few would claim a human right to drink alcohol.... when in Rome, do as the Romans do. There were far worse abuses of human ri...

Re: FTX Crypto Business Crash & Ponzi Scheme?

Fine, let it crash and burn. Folks wanted it unregulated...there ya go...

Re: 787-10 floor vibration

Shhh...it's all those gerbils on that really really loooong conveyor belt attached to the turbine shafts....

Re: 2022 US Elections

No predictions here. It’ll be a R Congress, however, not a prediction; a certainty. Fear and hate, alright. I fear the Dems will continue to reduce the value of my assets by 8+% a year and hate that they will continue to expand government powers, reducing liberty. What liberties have you lost the l...

Re: Time to talk about.....old airlines!

And NW airlines. Free upgrades to 1st class from SEA to MSP..Seems the flights were more empty coming from the far east and Hawa'ii. Flew them alot to get back east in the day.

Re: Time to talk about.....old airlines!