Re: How is DL's new LGA-BDL 3X Daily doing?

There is nothing wrong with this. It is smart business. If it was your airline you would do the same thing. It’s not. This is pure slot squatting. These flights are definitely losing money and probably almost completely empty. DL has dramatically cut core markets from MSP and DTW to fund crap like ...

Re: UPDATE: Queen Elizabeth has died

readytotaxi wrote:

As usual the VIP's are arriving at STN.

Re: UPDATE: Queen Elizabeth has died

Did anyone see that woman grab King Charles and kiss him? I wonder how secret service would have reacted to something like that?

Re: Greenland Ice Sheet to Lead to 10 Inches of Sea Level Rise Minimum by 2100

Unfortunately, large scale climate-related catastrophes are what will be needed for change to be enacted. We are not intelligent enough as a species to act in anticipation to known problems. We only act in reaction to them... I wouldn't invest in a beach property these days. Well, lots of very inte...

Re: UPDATE: Queen Elizabeth has died

I'm surprised Biden and co aren't flying commercial and taking the bus! ;) (it was an absurd suggestion). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS4OAN6i4ec The usual 'army' has arrived to support him. What a production! Sometimes I wonder if it’s really that necessary, but I suppose protecting the leader...

Re: Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage in New York

There is no excuse to attack someone, certainly not based on a religion. Well he insulted it and though I don't condone the act you have to understand what you are doing before you do it. I don't insult any other religion whether I like it or not. Except they consider legitimate criticism of religi...

Re: Nancy Pelosi going to Taiwan

In general can't stand her but appreciate her for being a cast iron bitch who knows exactly what levers to pull and buttons to push. Her ability to work and move the political football is extraordinary. Politics is mean and tough. She doesn't make nice, she shoves, pushes and manipulates to get sh!...

Re: Democrats denying Green Party Ballot Access in NC

The Democrats are doing this for a good reason, at least. With the election setup (first by the post, if I'm not mistaken), a Green candidate will simply ensure a GOP win. Is it democracy if the majority is left wing but the right wins in that case ? If the election could be over 2 turns like is th...

Re: Nancy Pelosi going to Taiwan

She's on the ground. Pink suit and all. Though I am against all her politics she does have a lot of style. In general can't stand her but appreciate her for being a cast iron bitch who knows exactly what levers to pull and buttons to push. Her ability to work and move the political football is extr...

Re: Nancy Pelosi going to Taiwan

NIKV69 wrote:

sz1998 wrote:

She's on the ground. Pink suit and all.

Though I am against all her politics she does have a lot of style.

Re: Time to dump Pride?

All this outrage over trans people in sports because one woman won one race one time. You have not obviously informed yourself on the topic. Multiple races won with several "women's records" broken. I get the issue and concern. I don't have an easy solution. Tugg Except trans women do not...

Re: Time to dump Pride?

You're thinking of aromantic. Asexual means not being sexually attracted to others. This is the problem with identity politics, it dissects every human emotion and feeling into some subset of emotions and feelings which further gets dissected into even more subsets of emotions and feelings and ever...

Re: Time to dump Pride?

AtomicGarden wrote:

I know a gay man who considers himself homophobic at first I thought he was joking but he really can't stand other gay men. You can't get more schizo than that

Re: Next SCOTUS nominee proceedings: constitutional crisis looming?

Both Goursich and Kavanaugh, under oath during confirmation hearings, said Roe sets court precedent. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/06/28/did-supreme-court-justices-lie-by-claiming-they-wouldnt-overturn-roe-v-wade-heres-what-they-actually-said/?sh=5dcd58365420 https://www.nbcnews.co...

Re: Next SCOTUS nominee proceedings: constitutional crisis looming?

There is no longer a filibuster on Judicial nominees, that ended during Harry Reid's term as majority senate leader, all recent appointees have been confirmed without a filibuster (less than 60 votes). So its not going to happen. Yep and the term "constitutional crisis" is just another pr...

Re: Texas educators have proposed that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation"

What will happen to existing books that don't comply with the proposed new policies ? Will those books be burned ? Texas has already gone on a book banning spree removing anything dealing with diverse race or LGBT content from schools: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-books-race-sexuality...

Re: Texas educators have proposed that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation"

Given developments like this one above, starting from last week forced births, as well as the recently published Protocols of Texas, oh I mean, the Texas GOP platform... Why don't we just skip all these formalities and fast forward to the book-burning and the arm patches part? Burning witches won’t...

Re: SCOTUS about to decide on EPA emissions regulations

This ruling revolves around Congress' original intent in defining the standard of Best System of Emission Reduction (BSER), to be used by the EPA in regulating pollutant output by power plants. As originally written, the intent was to evaluate an individual plant's achievable pollutant reduction, a...

Re: SCOTUS about to decide on EPA emissions regulations

USCS on a roll - taking America back to the 1960s. Maybe that's what Trump meant by MAGA. It would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic. Constantly romanticizing a heavily edited past that no one wants to return to, except some white men and maybe Clarence Thomas, a heterosexual man, who thinks abo...

Re: New Yorkers don't feel safe at home anymore

Where do Americans feel safe? 20M guns flooding the country every year tells me there isn't a safe place anywhere in this joint. In the league of advanced nations we've always been the deadliest by a wide margin. It doesn't matter who the President is. It's how we roll and it'll never change. The o...

Re: Heavier Shopping Emphasis in Non-US vs. US Airports

Is this a reflection of the higher share of domestic pax at US airports? Yes. As you noted, certain U.S. terminals with a higher concentration of international departures will see much greater emphasis on shopping, particularly duty-free, because it is possible to arbitrage the difference in taxati...

Re: Josh Duggar Charged with Possession of Child Porn

No one is saying he should get out. However, just because someone commits a criminal act doesn’t then mean that society has to commit the same act upon the offender. If someone commits murder, do we then have to commit the same act by murdering them? That’s not justice, it’s vengeance. Western demo...

Re: Hillary agreed to leak Russia Hoax Trump Info to FBI

The “deplorables” comment was one of the most truthful moments of 2016. Actually it was one of the most stupidest things any candidate has said on the campaign trail. I am glad she said it though for it hurt her badly and contributed to her loss in the election in addition to showing the country wh...

Re: Josh Duggar Charged with Possession of Child Porn

They’re in prison, why should we care? Because for one, not everyone stays in prison forever and the hope is they’ve been brought to a point where they can function in society. That’s along with the whole part about civil societies preventing needless abject suffering even for societies worst. He’s...

Re: Hillary agreed to leak Russia Hoax Trump Info to FBI

Sadly, we may never know the truth about the possible involvement of the Russian government supporting the campaign of Donald Trump in 2016 and how much it helped him. Too much hearsay evidence, both Trump and Clinton playing dirty during the campaign, both of them being a choice of the lesser of 2...

Re: China: The US, Taiwan, & the Rest of the World . . .

Yeah, if they had just listened to Trump when he warned Germany and NATO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu57D9YcIk0 This is mainly Trump blathering on with complaints about Germany and NATO, who are among our strongest allies, and are essential now in the coalition to support Ukraine. Doing busin...

Re: Don't :Look up and the realness of it.

ACDC8 wrote:

Was a silly movie and it's exactly that, a movie.

Re: Don't :Look up and the realness of it.

I saw this yesterday - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/ and the only thing I can say is I can very well see it happening exactly the way it has been shared. And the part about 'modern culture' or the part about literally don't look up and could happen in the U.S., the UK, and even India with ...

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

Gay rights are next. now that may be a bit more difficult, since the supreme court just recently ruled "discrimination based on homosexuality or transgender status necessarily entails discrimination based on sex; the first cannot happen without the second.” https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinion...

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

It is regrettable that the United States political system is beholden to culture wars and unrelenting interference from extremist religious organizations (looking at you "evangelicals". All of this will pretty much assure the country will never move forward with much, its best days long b...

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

Gay rights are next.

Re: The GOP has decided to punish free speech

It is rather...goofy...isn't it? I think anybody with brain also knows that if a Democrat had done this, people like DeSantis would be screaming bloody murder (and fairly so!). What that actually says most about is the voters. Based on the latest polls, changing the title of this topic to "The...

Re: The GOP has decided to punish free speech

I thought conservatives supported limited government? Seems to me like they support government intrusion if it harms the people they dislike the most. Who the hell has time to constantly obsess over the private lives of other people? Must be exhausting to dedicate so much energy to hating everyone w...

Re: Florida Votes to Remove Self Governing Status for Walt Disney World

Does Florida ever focus on making life better for the people?

Re: Your Most Flown Airline?

Since this is an aviation forum which airlines have you flown on the most? 1. SAS 686 flights 2. Lufthansa 103 3. Widerøe 69 4. Air NZ 46 5. Norwegian 44 I clicked on this and was excited to post, until I saw your massive numbers. I’m, well, humbled…..lol. I think that was more the point than to ha...

Re: Your Most Flown Airline?

Kiwirob wrote:

Since this is an aviation forum which airlines have you flown on the most?

1. SAS 686 flights
2. Lufthansa 103
3. Widerøe 69
4. Air NZ 46
5. Norwegian 44

Re: Florida bans 54 math textbooks because of "indoctrination"

Ok, this is officially getting scary. Where is all of this headed?

Re: Florida bans 54 math textbooks because of "indoctrination"

Newark727 wrote:

They're going to start burning them next, just wait.

Re: Abortion Ban in Oklahoma Passed

It actually is not a religious issue, it is an invented extreme conservative issue. It is wrapped as a religious issue. These people are well on track to destroy constitutional government. When conservatives couldn't get what they really wanted: segregation, they pivoted to abortion The Real Origin...

Re: Abortion Ban in Oklahoma Passed

Why can’t these people just live and let live and stop the relentless effort to ban everyone and everything they dislike? They’d be more than happy to light a match and burn our democracy to the ground if they could get a theocracy out of it. Truly terrifying to see progress being stripped away to s...

Re: DHL 757 off runway at SJO

What happens when you have a package on board?

Re: Madison Cawthorn claims Republicans invite him to cocaine fueled orgies. Hilarity ensues.

So...who do we think is running said orgies? Place your bets! It has to be MTG - every time she opens her pie hole she sounds like she's on a cocaine-fueled bender. Plus you know she has plenty of robes for the casual Senatorial yoga party (ancient Rome meets modern day supremacy social mixer). A c...

Re: Will Smith assaults Chris Rock at the Oscars

It’s ok to separate the art from the artist in my opinion. Imagine if we judged all art by the artists behavior? The Louvre would suddenly have piles of masterpieces in the dumpster. Humans are allowed to be imperfect. Absolutely, it was KiwiRob that claimed the outrage on Twitter and Tik Tok would...

Re: Favorite Quotes

NIKV69 wrote:

"I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control people's minds, I'd like to put something useful in."

Natalie Merchant

Re: If you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself at the beginning of the pandemic 2 years ago?

tomaheath wrote:

CitizenJustin wrote:

To not get the J&J vaccine.

Why’s that? I only ask because that’s what I had gotten about a year ago.

Re: Favorite Quotes

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” ― Abraham Lincoln And of course this…. “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln This is what I fear the most. The nation is deepl...

Re: Pilot caught taking pics of FA

:checkmark: People should have more compassion for this guy. What he did isn't worth ruining his life and potentially family over and hopefully he doesn't commit suicide, I bet it's crossed his mind. I also don't think Delta should fire him over it either. I also bet if he miraculously landed a pow...

Re: Pilot caught taking pics of FA

I agree. Words need to have meaning. Perverse should be used to reflect something that’s, well, perverse. When I think of perverse and disturbing, I think of abusing a child, rape or sexual deviancy. The worst of the worst. The words people are using aren’t appropriate for the situation. Unprofessi...

Re: Pilot caught taking pics of FA

Looking is one thing, leering is another. Ask any woman to explain the difference, and they will. I shared apartments or houses with many women in my time (being the only male sharing with one or many females) and, agreed, they would distinguish between being conscious of being admired visually and...

Re: Favorite Quotes

There are many. "Just win baby!" Al Davis "It ain't over till it's over." Yogi Berra "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides." Margaret Thatcher "If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared t...