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Another airline guy checking in here and honestly the only thing that makes an overnight suck is if it’s too short. I hate getting into a cool vibrant city getting put up in the airport hotel. Time for my 6900th shitty hotel burger and fries.. After staying in pretty much every major city in the country multiple times I can confidently say they’re all great. They all also have their rough parts. Use common sense and avoid the rough parts. If you can’t find a way to have a good time on an overnight in LA or SF with some of the best food and bar scenes in the country idk if you can be helped. It’s not that scary guys avoid skid row and the tenderloin and enjoy the rest of these massive awesome diverse cities. On the subject of bodily functions I’ve seen more bachelorette puke on the sidewalks of broadway, 6th, and bourbon than I have human shits in all liberal cities combined. By a factor of ten. Go have a good time and stop letting Fox News convince you these places are scary

The weather and insane social benefits like free dental care for illegals. Spencer Pratt is making waves and his commercials are funny as hell!

Shifting back to a more tactical discussion it appears the Saudis and UAE are VERY upset by the latest attacks from Iran. Pakistan has now joined the Saudis and there is talk of a ground incursion into Iraq to target the threat vector directed at the Kingdom. Saudi has recalled 50,000 reservists. Pakistan has deployed a squadron of fighters and thousands of troops to the Kingdom...next few days are going to be interesting.

Did you hear the one about the lawyer that walks into a bar saying we should follow all the rules then proceeds to break all the rules...holy anger muffin someone needs some meditation and a trip to Costa Rica.

Nope. Do it. What's the magic number? 4? Because I've been to 4 different CA cities and witnessed the horror show with my own eyes. None were SF.

I wonder why California has such a high number of homeless per capita…one of the highest in the country.

I'll be fine 😂🤣

Blancolirio said their airshow flying was an additional duty. Well, that should just about take care of the airshow demos in the Growler. Glad they all got out, but why a colossal waste of money and not a good look for Naval Aviation.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/downtown-houston-homeless-encampment-fecal-matter/285-5dda3752-1b01-4c38-8e34-66ed296d1a8d How about video. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1455928409880200&id=100063891637282 https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/downtown-residents-complain-of-overpowering-feces-smell/287-430295291

2018 is a long time ago. You don’t think I can find a picture of someone shitting on the sidewalk in any city in Texas? Just because it happens in SF, doesn’t mean it happens everywhere in CA. What great state do you live in that is a magical utopia. Let me guess, you watch Fox News

That’s a ludicrously stupid assessment. How does one have a real conversation with someone wearing that massive of a tinfoil hat? Copy your “appeal to authority” logical fallacy approach in your last post - I can tell you many military lawyers disagree with you, and I can also tell you many CGOs have made high-level autonomous decisions in combat - it’s not all “CAOC controls everything” land, though I get that does exist at times. Overall, you are dead wrong on much of what you said, specifically when trying to apply it broadly (I’m sure you’ve seen it be true in specific instances, periods of time, etc.) Lastly, nobody does CDE like we do, including the Israelis. Its too bad others aren’t at our level, but that’s one of the things that makes America great.

We are all tracking October 7th = Bad But also, using AI to target low level Hamas dudes when they return to their residence based on cell data and then leveling the whole apartment complex is bad, disproportionate, and yes probably feels a lot like terrorism to the other people who lived in that building and weren’t combatants, if they survive at all. October 7th was horrible but it doesn’t give Israel a blank check to do whatever it wants for all time. I think there was significant sympathy and support for Israel immediately afterward. But we are going on 3 years since the attack, and they’ve leveled Gaza and killed tens of thousands of children. People are, rightly, starting to have an issue with it. It’s not anti-semitism to criticize IDF tactics or specific wartime policies of the Israeli government. Israel critics didn’t just start randomly multiplying in 2024/25. It is directly correlated to how egregious this war has become and the attempts to dismiss any substantive criticism of it as bigotry.

Now see, it's been awhile since I posted here. But I seem to recall a policy about refraining from personal attacks. Not that I expect it will be enforced, but you have to live with yourself. I hope your conscience can bear it. You're not too bright. But that's normal for USAF officers. The service stopped allowing us to make high-judgement decisions as CGOs, which prevented those of us with sufficient humility from getting things wrong, learning, and improving so we could exercise better judgement with time. Because who needs all that when you can issue micromanagerial directives from a CAOC and have your authoritarian wishes enforced by FGO toadies who live for your approval. It's that authoritarian acculturation which has led you to the mistaken idea that disagreement with you, Lord Rat, makes someone unintelligent. But you managed to wedge underneath your toxic upbringing by accusing someone of racism without proper foundation. That marks you as a low-rent piece of shit incapable of the shame you ought to feel for saying it. Not all animals are elephants, but all elephants are animals. Not everyone who criticizes Israel is an anti-semite, but all anti-semites criticize Israel. Not all idiots are lawyers, but all lawyers are idiots. I am a lawyer and an idiot. It's the one correct thing you've said. But it means I was able to sleep through LOAC and still grasp the law of targeting. Whereas you were allegedly awake and still missed the entire meaning. Let me help. When a combatant shelters in a civilian dwelling, the children who live there do not become fair game. The house becomes a lawful target and loses protected status only if/when it makes a substantial contribution to military activity. Like, it becomes a sniper's nest or a comm center or a storage facility for combatant munitions. The fact of a combatant sheltering in a building does not make it a valid target. If this is not what you extracted by drunk-clicking through your LOAC CBT after a Tuesday night Elmer's freebasing session, I'm sorry to make your mental process more complicated. But your obvious ignorance will not be a valid defense, nor does it clothe you in the glory you apparently self-entitle. But wait. There's more. Even if you determine a target co-opted by combatants is valid, you can only attack it if the anticipated military advantage outweighs the harm expected to befall non-combatants. This relies on good faith. That doesn't mean it's a free-for-all. Because you must also take all possible precautions to minimize civilian harm. Anyone in the chain of command who fails to do the above can be personally named in a criminal or civil proceeding. Which assumes a world of laws, and I know we're in a world of men. Which, amusingly, also disqualifies you from participating. 64,000 killed or maimed. 1,000 infants. You don't even think it's wrong. If it was your son, your daughter, your grandchild, you probably still wouldn't, because reptiles just lay more eggs and move on. Wrap whatever pretty bow you want around this turd. But if you want to pretend it's chocolate, you have to eat it. Here's a fork. Because if one thing is clear, it's that you deserve to be forked.

That was not within Q1 standards for a V1 cut.

Your entire point relies on mischaracterizing every element of the war. Israel has not targeted civilian non-combatants. At any point. However terrorist combatants, or military combatants depending on how you want to characterize Hamas, have absolutely hidden themselves and their equipment under and behind civilians. Which, as anybody who stayed awake during a law of armed conflict class would remember, makes them viable targets. Hamas did not Target Israeli military installations on October 7th. They targeted a music festival and a bunch of pacifist towns. They didn't walk away from women and children who were alone in the house unarmed, they raped and killed them. The women and children were the target, not collateral damage. So you're either a troll, an anti-semite, or an idiot. I suspect all three.

Everything you argue depends on non-combatants in Gaza and Iran being culpable for October 7th. They are non-combatants. They have no agency. Collective punishment is antithetical both distinction and necessity. You're answering the question "how can I justify this?" But the right answer to the wrong question is still the wrong answer. The right question is "why are pretending to be great while settling for being Israel's military gimp?"

I was there Saturday and thought they were really sloppy and spread out but gave the benefit of the doubt to the 30kt winds. Maybe they are new to the demo team, but it was sad display compared to having seen the same demo team in the past. Certainly nothing like the Viper demo.

Looks like they failed the blind exercise... Glad they all made it out!

Were these Growlers from the same squadron that crashed on the low level last year at Whidbey? Doing a little research and I’m ascertaining that all Growlers are based in Whidbey?

A little local police blotter activity to show how some of our young Airmen continue to impress. This after an incident several years ago that saw a group of USAF motorcycle riders doing 100+ over the Pensacola Bay Bridge. ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY CLOCKED AT 130 MPH IN 35-MPH ZONE ON U.S. 98: A Gulf Breeze Police Department officer was on patrol around 11:45 p.m. on May 14 in Gulf Islands National Seashore on U.S. 98 when he observed a speeding vehicle traveling in the opposite direction. The officer did a U-turn and clocked the vehicle at 118 mph in a 45 mph zone then 130 mph in a 35 mph zone. The suspect, who was successfully stopped in Publix parking lot, was driving a Toyota Camry and identified as 22-year-old Cori Thomas. Per the arrest report. Thomas stated he didn’t have a reason for driving so fast other than wanting to “open it up.” Hurlburt Field was notified of the arrest.

Based on the SCOTUS ruling which declared that a president has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken under core constitutional powers, and presumptive immunity for all other official acts, you would think there would be a counter balance that restricts him or her from dumb $hit like this. I see the potential for abuse by both sides.

Well, on one hand you believe in the actual definition of genocide, but then on the other you twist terrorism into fitting something that it is not. We just keep coming back to this world of utopian hypotheticals. There has never been a war waged on the scale of what Israel did in Gaza with so few casualties. Ever. Not even close. There are no wars where women and children are spared. Even the concept of innocent children is wildly inflated. If a 14-year-old is holding an AK-47, is he innocent? Is he a child? You keep trying to frame the action itself as the key element of moral versus immoral. Blowing up pagers for example. I'm baffled that someone could be in the military and not understand how obviously useless that framing is. Distinction, necessity, and proportionality are loac concepts specifically for determining whether an action, murder, is moral or immoral. None of the women or children killed on October 7th needed to die to protect the Palestinians from a lethal threat. Not only that, it put them at far greater danger. I just keep going back to how crazy it is the amount of effort you put into excusing the actions of groups like Hamas or the IRGC when they don't even believe in the nonsense you're spouting. They are not defending their wives and daughters against the Israelis. They believe that it is a religious catastrophe of the highest word that Israel exists. They are completely uninterested in peaceful coexistence, and they do not pretend and be interested in it. It's so curious when people get indignant at being called anti-semitic, when they are carrying the water of groups that are openly and proudly call for the actual genocide of the Jewish people. It's akin to saying "I'm not racist, but I think the KKK has an interesting point, and you should at least be able to see things from their perspective." If a man straps his daughter to his chest, breaks into your house and attempts to kill your family, putting a bullet through the girl to stop the murderer is a tragedy. But it is not a immoral.

Well, the judge on this case ordered a hearing set for end of May just to figure out if this kind of suit could continue. The issue, quote, “Although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction. It is unclear to this Court whether the Parties are sufficiently adverse to each other so as to satisfy Article III's case or controversy requirement. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28072859-trumpirsord042426pdf/ But Trump headed the judge off at the pass by ordering a settlement, before the case had a chance to be heard in a court of law. A massive grifting of our money. Thus, a new political play has been created. Create a massive lawsuit against the government you run, and make them settle. I know a guy that's been fighting DFAS for YEARS over a few grand that DFAS is at 100% at fault. No such thing as small claims court against the Fed, so unless someone wants to spend tons of money to sue the govt, he has to exhaust administrative process. And he can prove harm; DFAS has filed adverse actions on his credit. I told him to file a claim in the new Trump fund for a million as these actions happened under Biden, see what happens.

Never said it was. Genocide is a specific word with a specific meaning and I don’t think it’s applicable here. The hyperbole the far left uses on this topic very often torpedoes rational debate. But I think we are having a rational debate and we can both agree that something can be bad, even deeply immoral, without being a genocide. My point was simply that all the child deaths in Gaza aren’t 100% on Hamas because they built tunnels or launched rockets or had meetings in hospital basements. Someone still has to drop the bombs. And Israel was using AI to deliberately target family residences, never mind the rest of the people living in those buildings. That is not only not OK, I would argue It’s a form of terrorism, akin what Hamas does. If Iran was tracking IDF soldiers cell phones and TBM striking their neighborhood once they got home from work we would rightly call that terrorism. Inconvenient details like this really cloud the good guys versus bad guys narrative.