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Engine quit....again. Oddly, no....well sort of. Has been flying with an Air Tractor STC that is now an issue.

Glad they are okay! Speculation time: Prop looks feathered and the wing damage was reportedly after the fact and hit a pole during the ELP. So...is this a "we fucked with the proven* PT-6 design" issue?

War Tractor seems to say "when", even gave a sign! Anyhow...glad they're safe....and...wonder how far they glid because thats twice now and spreading the glide ratio internally would be good practice seeing how it could be averaged now. https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/24109-afsoc-oa-1k-incident/

Snap won't move anything. Solid voting Ds will stay Ds. Solid voting Rs will stay Rs. Reps that feel heat on their reelection will the ones that fold. Question remains, what side tips first?

SNAP benefits won't go out at end of the month. That'll be interesting 🙂

I agree with this. But it’s not disproportionately hurting dems, which was your insinuation. The logical conclusion of this is that neither party is incentivized to do anything, because neither is being significantly “hurt”. I believe this will lead to a long shutdown.

I agree with that specific question, but that doesn't actually matter to anybody. What matters are the favorability ratings of the various players, in particular Trump, which will play into the midterms. Not to mention six points isn't enough to get anybody excited. And since we just happen to have a president who presided over another shutdown during his first term, where his favorability ratings did drop, it's a pretty apples apples to comparison... It was either yesterday or the day before I saw on MSNBC them talking about Trump gaining a point in favorability. That doesn't indicate any real consequences from the shutdown. The other dirty little secret is that no one really gives a shit about this anymore. There are so many carve outs for what government activity continues despite a shutdown that the average American isn't being impacted.

So let me get this straight, 20 million illegal immigrants coming into the country is better than a small number of constitutional violations that are being resolved in the courts? That's the math. I don't work in the Congress, so I don't get to pick a made-up third option where the border is closed and there are no violations of constitutional rights. I have a choice between a candidate that made everything worse, dramatically, and a candidate who single-handedly reduced illegal immigration to near zero, while fucking up in some edge cases. That's pretty easy math to me. No one is denying the constitutional violations, though I suspect you would view far more of the deportation activity as a violation than I would. But even if I agreed with you on every single case, the alternative was a slow rolling catastrophe for my country and the country my children will inherit. Caveats are part of living in the real world. I will be very black and white in this point. If this is a literal statement, then you are a hack. And while I could put together a rather extensive list of individual things he has done that are quite easy for me or any other conservative-minded person to support, and I can even make a smaller list of things that any fair-minded liberal would support, if you can't do that on your own, then you are simply beyond any position that is worth engaging with. In that case, TDS is a fair label.

Data doesn’t support this - republicans still firmly more to blame as of now. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/news/government-shutdown-blame-poll/ 6 points say it’s the republicans fault https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3938 6 points say republicans to blame https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-edges-up-despite-americans-blaming-republicans-shutdown-2025-10-21/ 7 point disadvantage for republicans https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/poll-government-shutdown-blame/2025/10/15/id/1230523/ Even newsmax confirms it a 6 point disparity.

Republicans and the house absolutely have a choice - the burden of proof is on you to show that they do not. You cannot. What legal mechanism prohibits this? Why do you believe they dont? They have a choice to cancel house sessions during a shutdown, which is happening. They also have a choice to operate. They also have sworn in members of the republican party this year when the house was not in session. Congress can swear in people via votes - congress can swear in their own members (who were elected by the American people as representatives) via a much lower threshold of authority. Pull the wool over your eyes, give me a break buddy.

Can't recall exactly. Go on the U.S. website for Glock. Search for Blue Label or you can go to their map for Glock dealers and look for the dealers with a blue circle with a B in it. Call them, ask what guns they have in stock under the Blue Label program and they can tell you the price. (Program is called Blue Label because the label attached to the box containing the gun is a blue label instead of the normal white.). You can also submit information to Glock and they will email you a complete list of guns and prices including modification costs if you want them to upgrade the weapon.

Looks like one just crashed, cockpit looks ok. Hope the pilot made it out without serious injuries.

appreciate the rational discourse. 'TDS' isn't a thing (it's reused from BDS (Bush) and ODS (Obama)). it's a lazy hand-waving to ignore critiques. I legitimately have issues finding anything good he has done without caveats (ie, a stronger border is good, but not at the expense of violating constitutional rights), and have a hard time understanding why anyone (let alone those that have taken the oath) can support anything he does. Tim Pool, who was literally a paid Russian mouthpiece, is now on the approved media list for the Pentagon...

*should*…as in that’s not reality. The point is there isn’t any nefarious politically-driven (in)action going on, it’s simply how it works. Don’t like how it works, that’s cool, and frankly I agree. But, Banzai’s painting a picture that Republicans have a choice and they’ve chosen not to swear a Dem in while doing the opposite for a Republican. That picture simply is not true' and that’s the point of my post.

All gun control laws are this, whether intentionally or not. And the ATF has been "interpreting" laws into existence for awhile. No argument. If we're lucky, now that Chevron is out of the way some of that might get tamped down or reversed. My point isn't that I like CA, or their stupid laws. My point is Glock as a company is in the business of making money, and California is a huge market especially in the cop market (like you pointed out). Expecting them to commit financial seppuku in the name of rights advocacy is naive. CARB has been using the California market share to push desired changes for a long while. Same thing.

Not at all…but if you’re anti what Trump does, just because it’s Trump, then you have TDS. Likewise if you’re anti what the Dems do, but are ok with it when Trump does it, then you’re also being a hypocrite. There’s a lot I don’t like about Trump and the GOP…and there are some things I like about what the Dems want (drug legislation and less involvement in foreign wars, though the later seems to be more in the distant past). Ask me what my opinions are on an issue and I’ll happily provide an answer, and you’ll find that I’m fairly consistent.

I guess this game of chicken will come down to which incumbents think their reelection is most at risk.

is only the side you support allowed to voice opinions here?

The nuance matters, but absent additional nuance I'm still inclined to agree with bonsai on this one. The Republicans in the house and the Senate are working in lockstep, so they should be pulling by the same rules as far as what is and isn't shut down business. Philosophically it's a bit hard to argue that you can't swear in a representative during a shutdown, as Congress is the mechanism for resolving the shutdown, and representatives and senators make up the Congress. What if 140 Republican congressman died in a plane crash during the shutdown? Should they be replaced by Republican governors and maintain the majority, or should Democrats be given the majority because the fatalities happened to coincide with the government shut down? Not that it matters. The Democrats overplayed their hand by demanding the reversal of fairly-passed legislation in exchange for opening the government. The polls support this pretty convincingly.

From what I'd gathered, for the moment at least, the ATF has given up on forced reset triggers on rifles. In their settlement agreement with rare breed, they had two interesting conditions. The first was that it would not be adapted to conventional pistols (conventional in the sense that it doesn't include all of the pistol AR and pistol rifle type guns), and the second was that he would agree to enforce his patent against others. I suspect the restriction on pistols was directly related to their ongoing attempts to get rid of the Glock switch.

If they announce your replacement halfway through your normal tour, I think that qualifies as a firing. Army's Number Two General Suddenly Replaced by Hegseth's Senior Military Aide – RedState Bonus points for promoting a junior guy over a lot of senior guys.