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  1. Problem is: 1. Being able to tell the difference between the obvious need for politicians to play to their bases (thus saying things they have no intention of doing) 2. Understanding that even if the people at the top don't actually believe it, the middle and lower levels of government may actually enact what the top is saying 3. People tend to ignore what other people say about themselves and their intentions (just look at some of the left's defense of Hamas, an organization that would use a dull knife to cut the head off 95% of Americans if they could and then brag about it to their mom)
  2. There was a pilot who ended up behind actual bars and then kicked out for falsely claiming BAH for his wife while he was in Korea. Don't remember the exact details, but something along the lines of she moved back to her parents house in a small town but claimed a NYC or SFO zip code.
  3. ORD was my first taxi out as an airline pilot. Dude, talk about a wake up call. Luckily I had a good captain who looked at me right before I called for clearance and said "wait, this is your first time ever taxing a commercial aircraft?" "Yep" "Ok, write this down" and proceeded to give me what he expected the taxi instructions to be. He was 95% correct and a huge help. He also said 'don't be surprised if they read off your taxi instructions and then go on to the next airplane without giving you a chance to read back'. I think I said "WTF, can they do that?" "This is Chicago, FAA regs are more like suggestions..."
  4. I may have taxied in Ohare from the runway to the gate without ever getting a spare second of radio time to make contact with ground. Just jumped into the flow and no one noticed us.
  5. They will pretend to be outraged at the Jewish "atrocities" but they don't like the Palestinians much more than Israel does. I would bet they are relatively unconcerned about the chutes not opening as long as they can pretend they're helping.
  6. If my adult neighbor drank a full bottle of jack every night, I'd try to convince him not to and help him out of his situation, but at the end of the day it's his choice and I can't stop him. If my neighbor's 12 year old kid drank a bottle of jack every night with the encouragement of their parents and doctor, that is child abuse. The parents and doctor should go to jail and the kid should be placed in a foster family where they have a chance at life. Life altering surgeries because they have been pushed into or allowed to continue in a mental delusion is no different.
  7. Highly unlikely. One, it would be very difficult to see the bombs from the ground until it was really too late. Two, by the time you could see it and intercept it, the bomb would practically be at the target already. Three, the miss distance you could cause with a MANPAD would likely be insignificant. Unlikely to cause the bomb to cook off, best case you could cause a fin failure. Even if it worked perfectly, I doubt you would really achieve much and you would have wasted a SAM that would be better used against the target they're intended to shoot.
  8. It is also amazing that a people group that is apparently under constant genocide by a nation-state with a relatively decent military somehow grows in population. Maybe the meaning of the word genocide has changed since I went to school.
  9. One problem with assuming that it isn't going to happen is the baseline assumption that removing the support from the bottom of the structure will make it all topple down. Once a movement gets started, it can grow capable of sustaining itself. And the "oppressed" minorities will soon be the majority. A 51% even spread of voters can do whatever they want.
  10. But it's ok, you don't need guns because those local bad guy police will protect you... oh dang, that makes no sense.
  11. It has to take some serious commitment to willingly burn yourself to death. He could not have been more wrong in his convictions, but I'm impressed he was able to hold out as long as he did and with almost no indication of the agony he was surely going through. Maybe, just maybe, not everyone that is woke is a wussy coward. Not sure if that is reassuring or not. As has been said, imagine what this dude could have done if he had put that same commitment towards a worthy cause.
  12. The 8th AF museum is ok, but in reality it has a whopping 5 aircraft. A must visit is the Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles or the SAC museum near Omaha. You could fit over a dozen 8th AF museums in either of those museums.
  13. You're kidding yourself if you don't think that we're all already on the list...
  14. Cocaine is one hell of a drug
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