Re: Rand Paul delays $40 billion Ukraine package

Not sending it increases the risk that Ukraine DOES collapse. If we care so much then take out Putin and give Ukraine some troop and air support to get the rest of Russia out of their country. This is BS. What's next 100 Billion? LOL ‘take out Putin’...mmkay sure, how, exactly, oh great global stra...

Re: Rand Paul delays $40 billion Ukraine package

Who doesn't say this might be just the down payment, and in our interest of 'weakening Russia militarily' this is the beginning and we will eventually spend as much. And with the alacrity and speed and bipartisan union we have seen with this one, the Military Industrial complex might just be so hap...

Re: Rand Paul delays $40 billion Ukraine package

You might have a point if it were 400 billion. The Florida State Retirement system has $36B in unfunded pension liabilities, for comparison. 40 billion will not be a blink in the eye of the national debt. https://reason.org/commentary/the-florida-retirement-system-is-still-in-need-of-reform/ Also L...

Re: Rand Paul delays $40 billion Ukraine package

You might have a point if it were 400 billion. The Florida State Retirement system has $36B in unfunded pension liabilities, for comparison. 40 billion will not be a blink in the eye of the national debt. https://reason.org/commentary/the-florida-retirement-system-is-still-in-need-of-reform/ Also L...

Re: Rand Paul delays $40 billion Ukraine package

You might have a point if it were 400 billion. The Florida State Retirement system has $36B in unfunded pension liabilities, for comparison. 40 billion will not be a blink in the eye of the national debt. https://reason.org/commentary/the-florida-retirement-system-is-still-in-need-of-reform/ Also Lo...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

Because, surprisingly enough, the geography of North America is different than the EU, Japan and China. The regulatory, environmental impact and labor circumstances aren't the same. What's the point of a once or twice a day HST between select city pairs in the absence of public transportation or sm...

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

Murdering babies is a great way to alleviate the baby food shortage though. Yeah no, let's get serious about how life is gray, not black/white: I'm not pro-murdering babies... I'm pro-Melissa who's working two jobs just to make ends meet and has to choose between bringing another child into poverty...

Re: Passenger lands Cessna Caravan after pilot has medical emergency

Few Twitter civil aviation pilots are saying it was to good of a landing to not have any experience at all. Maybe flight simming or something? Adrenaline can do wonders sometimes. I had read a story about a student pilot with a handful of hours who, on his first solo flight, saw the propeller depar...

Re: Volaris A320neo overflies company A320neo in near-miss at MEX

The incident is all here »» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE6wqPxSx3Y BTW, in my opinion and regarding MEX ATC, the controller speaking in english with EK has a very good english, much better than in certain "noble" euro places. I tend to agree with fellow member CBPhoto above...If the ...

Re: Volaris A320neo overflies company A320neo in near-miss at MEX

Arguing about the sterile cockpit or not sterile cockpit is moot. There’s more discussion about that here than the incident itself. Mind blowing. Our society now is solely a pissing match about competing arguments and focusing attention on side story issues that avoid the main topic at hand in ever...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

Americans, and to some extent Canadians, have been so indoctrinated with this fantasy that cares and airplanes are the only travel options. We have been told for decades that trains are slow and unreliable all while watching EU, Japan, and China build high speed networks in addition to air and road...

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

Like I mentioned up in this thread. Democrats need this as an electoral issue, it has been for decades, they won't just let is go that easy. Even if there was no filibuster, 51 voted against, including yes one Democrat, Manchin. They aren't serious into passing this or any other significant piece o...

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

The GOP tanked a personal rights bill today in order to push religion over personal rights to abortion. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/senate-abortion-rights-vote-roe-v-wade/index.html The battle for 2022 lines have been drawn. The GOP is going to run on feelings instead of science, and th...

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

Remember companies only care about what employees can deliver. Kids and family are always congratulated of course, but the truth is that from a cost/ops perspective it would be ideal if the majority of employees did not have families. Does that lead the cynic in me to believe that’s the real reason...

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

Hopefully we will see corporations leave extreme states that will ban abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned. I will make sure not to travel to states like Texas etc. that ban abortion and do not support the rights of women. If they aren't leaving Middle East why would they leave Texas Different pri...

Re: A taste of Japan: MAA-DEL-HND-DFW-AUS on 6E/JL/OO, Jan 2022 [lots of pictures]

FLALEFTY wrote:

Nice report!

JAL sure has some decent-looking airline food offerings.

Re: More than 100 Orthodox Jews are barred from boarding connecting flight in Germany

https://nypost.com/2022/05/09/airline-kicks-over-100-nyc-orthodox-jews-off-flight-over-masks/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10799895/Orthodox-Jews-NYC-barred-boarding-connecting-flight-refused-wear-masks.html What a messy incident. Airlines really should stop being so strict with mask us...

Re: Tom Brady going to FOX SPORTS for $375M in a 10 year deal...

https://nypost.com/2022/05/10/tom-brady-gets-monster-10-year-375-million-deal-from-fox-sports/ Rich Eisen guessed 36 a year... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbmQMpL4Ges Good for you Tom !! Good for him I certainly would not knock it back, but how is anyone worth that sort of money just to talk on...

Re: Volaris A320neo overflies company A320neo in near-miss at MEX

Dont see any relationship with the recent complaints which have to do with airspace redesign and approach control procedures. Last nights incident very much in the lap of tower controllers for not having their sequencing right with allegedly clearing a plane to land with departure still on the runw...

Re: More than 100 Orthodox Jews are barred from boarding connecting flight in Germany

If a airline representative tells you that you cannot board a flight because you look Jewish and you are being punished because a few people who look like you did not wear a mask that is as antisemite as it comes, just replace the words “orthodox Jews” with “African-Americans” and everybody would’v...

Re: A taste of Japan: MAA-DEL-HND-DFW-AUS on 6E/JL/OO, Jan 2022 [lots of pictures]

Very nice tour and glad you enjoyed JAL service - they and KE are pretty much one the only carriers I can tolerate the 787 on in Y. Just a little correction with your HND approach pics: on the left side of the aircraft you cannot see Tokyo city on approach to runways 34L/R. The cities in the distanc...

Re: More than 100 Orthodox Jews are barred from boarding connecting flight in Germany

The person in clip obviously was not part of the group and the Lufthansa representative explicitly says that they are barring all Jews from the flight due to the actions of a few. That is nothing else than blatant antisemitism and Lufthansa should own up to this. In the US they would have been sued...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

IMHO the USA is far to late to the game for high speed rail, this is something that should have been drafted and set in motion in the 70s. I think it would not have been as extensive in other parts of the world. Americans have always had a love affair with their cars. Even with todays prices most A...

Re: Navy helicopter crashes off of carrier Abraham Lincoln, missing sailors

What an awful mishap. RIP to the officers and enlisted persons cut way too short - may their memories be a blessing.

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

Ok, pretty soon, and very likely Roe is going to be overturned. Any legal argument will soon fade, Roe will be in the same league as Dred Scott. Therefore, it will be a state issue, unless congress does something. But something tells me that even if Congress does something, it will fall to the stat...

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

Your first sentence is very black/white. Your last is pretty grey. I don't know why its so hard to be consistent, the ones against Roe have been pretty consistent, pretty much for almost 50 years now. Those two sentences are within the same larger context, and in relation to one another, are comple...

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

Well, that's your prerogative. I also don't consider the lives of the innocent unborn irrelevant. We all have different viewpoints, even if we would like to dismiss the others as bad just because you might not like it. I can think millions of things from the people who are in favor of unlimited on ...

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

Thanks for the clarification. You are grey then. However, most of the other pro-choice posters aren't. They as you have read have stated or implied there shouldn't be any limits. None of us on the right have said there shouldn't be NO abortions. We are grey. So no, its not us being part of the blac...

Re: Insider thread policies at different employers

Anybody have any experience with these? I believe I'm currently experiencing one, I work for Airbus. Generally consists of gaslighting, shaming, truman-show-esque following, smearing etc to try to convince the employee to leave. Another good allegory is the stapler guy in the film 'office space'. W...

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

I'm talking across the spectrum, You like to claim nuance in the arguments that you are making, but I don't know if I have ever seen you cede it to the other side of the argument. Just my observation. You have a few hundred posts here whereas I’ve been around almost twenty years, so your observatio...

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

You are all over the place. Based on your last sentence, you are OK if it has to be done by due date. If the mother says she doesn't want to on due date, then, its over. Pretty black and white to me. On the contrary, all of us who have expressed a negative view on Roe in this thread, are very grey,...

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

Let me fix that for you-- you introduce nuance where it's often sorely lacking (as long as it's not on the same side of the discussion/topic as your opinion). If someone is arguing from the perspective that women don’t know what they want or their feelings/motivations for the decision are irrelevan...

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

So if its grey as you say, under what circumstances you don't agree with abortion? Several: As mentioned earlier in the thread, I certainly call it a choice of convenience for a woman who does a lot of careless ONS and thinks it’s a fall-back. That makes other women look bad and wastes healthcare r...

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

You say it's grey, yet dismiss and try to argue away any dissenting opinion. That makes it black and white for you. Negative - I introduce nuance where it’s often sorely lacking. And I answered questions several times about the manner in which legal abortion ought to be limited. Let me fix that for...

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

The real discussion here is about how an issue people try to make black and white (regardless of motivation or 'side') is actually very gray, because that's what happens in the human experiences of real life. So if its grey as you say, under what circumstances you don't agree with abortion? Several...

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

Those are not my people, I am against those acts, but could you imagine if a conservative said "you people"!?!? Could you imagine the outrage that would be had. BTW, this is rhetorical, I know you wont agree/ There wasn't much outrage when in this thread someone accused this whole pro-cho...

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

Attention Protestors.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/stop-protesting-outside-supreme-court-justice-houses/ LOL You people murdered doctors, blew up clinics, and bombed the Olympics, never mind endless additional attempts on lives, perpetual harassment, and doxing of care prov...

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

What’s impressive to me is how several users have quoted me and applauded my “honesty” and then completely misinterpreted what I said to fit their agenda. This isn’t about the poor cells in the woman’s body. This is about control, nothing more or nothing less. They want control over women, get them...

Re: Insider thread policies at different employers

What are you talking about, exactly? Harassment by management or peer colleagues?

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

Aesma wrote:

I'm sure living in a place where there is so much heated debate about abortion has no implication for the mental state of women confronted with the situation, now or in their past.

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

Maybe it’s more telling that you think enjoyment of sex is only for males… Fred Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Right, both do enjoy, but only the woman is made to pay for enjoying. The male can just say, 'its a mistake abort it'. It won't be the man aborting a child. Abortion ain't fun. Women do ...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

That's the stock answer and it's also the reason why it will never be funded to completion. The people who are paying for it have no reason to travel to places like Bakersfield or Fresno. Precisely...if it went down 101 and hit SLO, SBA etc everyone in the coastal cities would love it. But it would...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

It makes more sense than following 101 because more people live in the Central Valley and would make it easier to connect more of the population. That's the stock answer and it's also the reason why it will never be funded to completion. The people who are paying for it have no reason to travel to ...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

IMO, the current plan to wander through the Central valley while connecting the Bay area with LA is quite similar to the reason Micky Mouse left Minnie Mouse. They lost a lot of support with that. The practicality of the plan was never relevant - pacifying large numbers of voters in the Sacto and S...

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

Like I said, we will never agree. As to I am never to agree that a child is responsible for their parents, decisions, choices behavior or actions. Born or unborn. But, you are still unable to produce a woman to come to this forum and post their experiences. Till then, all of this is just bla bla bl...