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Yes he allegedly shot at cops. Cops that apparently didn't announce themselves, cut the power, covered his camera, and smashed in his door. All of which are the same thing a gang might do. Are you really going to say that if you hear a crash at your front door and walk out of your bedroom in the dark to see the outline of multiple armed individuals dressed in dark clothes walking in the front door that they just smashed in, your first thought is "I bet this is a group of peace officers executing a lawfully attained search warrant". BS. Based on the available info, he fired warning shots at a group of people that just broke into his house. He showed more restraint that morning than the ATF did. If the current evidence is even close to correct, it was absolutely not suicide by cop, it was an execution by cop. Every single individual that was even remotely involved in the decision to execute the "raid" in this manner this should go to prison. It would be difficult to figure out a way to execute a search warrant that would be more likely to result in death. The ATF allegedly has evidence that he commuted many gun law violations. Trafficking sounds like a stretch, more like he was acting as a firearms dealer without a license. A big deal? Yes. Worthy of dozens of armed agents murdering him in the dark? Absolutely not. And we'll never know because they killed the one dude that really knew what he had done and apparently intentionally prevented any video evidence of the act. By the way, the same ATF just published an administrative rule that grossly expanded the definition of acting as a firearms dealer. Not Congress, not a law, but a bureaucrat published a rule which opens up tens if not hundreds of thousands of Americans to the same horror as this.

I'm definitely not debating his guilt on whether he was doing what the ATF said he was doing but.... They purposely waited until he was home to execute a search warrant. Not an arrest warrant. They no knocked and kicked in the guys door at 0600. They knew what was going to happen. You awaken to someone kicking in your front door at 0600, what is your response?

It is a really neat jet to fly, and a lot of fun. As for range... it's pretty thirsty. For my flight to Idaho, I went at 16,500 with around a 20 knot headwind, and 225 KIAS. I burned about 1.1 gallons per mile. Keep in mind: this variant of the J-85 makes as much thrust in Mil as our Beale T-38's make in MAX. It's a screamin' machine. Yes, I could save gas going to FL240/250... but there are other factors I consider. 280 gallons with the wings and fuselage tank full. 460 gallons if the tips are full. And another 90 gallons in each of the four drop tanks are possible. So... loaded up, it's about 820 gallons. Springer, I'll take you up on the offer to teach me air refueling! I ping'd a couple of guys from my era that flew them in Panama, and they couldn't remember the AR speed. One thinks it was 280 and the other thinks 230-250. This jet went to the Vietnamese Air Force so i never had the cape. One that note, 87921 flew about 2,200 combat hours with the South Vietnam. When the commies overran the South, they captured 95 A-37's... and actually flew them. Eventually they ran out of support and parked them. An Australian businessman saw them on a visit, bought 11, and floated them down the Mekong to a container ship that took them back to Australia. There is another jet from this lot of 11 that will possibly be flying this summer. I've attached a pic of the patch the owner gives everyone that gets a flight in it. Great book too. I just attended the A-37 convention in Galveston back in April. Great stories and the jet was (and is) way underrated. Check this out: By the way, look at the ejection seats in the picture of the YouTube video of aircraft 10779. Pretty non-standard, right? That's because the Australian owner/museum convinced Martin-Baker to retrofit their jet with modern seats. Crazy!

Miami is the OJ Simpson of criminal schools. Dirty on the field, dirty off the field. Been that way since at least Jimmy.

I don't think anyone on here is saying he was a saint or even a good person. But we don't ignore government over reach because the victim of that over reach was a criminal. What we are saying is the government for all practical purposes murdered a US citizen. A US citizen who is presumed innocent until proven guilty. He cannot be proven guilty now because he was murdered by the government. There have been many instances of these no knock warrants being served to the wrong address. The government would have also then murdered a random citizen because the ATF, local police, FBI, etc want to pretend they're SEAL Team 6 attacking the Bin Laden house when stopping him as he walked out of his office at work would have been equally effective and had near 0% risk.

According to SCOTUS: ”The government must then justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” The ATF would make criminals out of all of us if they could get away with it.

Easy to say flaring is stupid when your landing gear struts are built like artillery barrels. Also in a normal approach to landing, or come-down, does that mean Navy bro's lay some rigorous pipe atop their shipmates aboard?

But back on Subject of “GA Aircraft Flown”…. Bought myself my last GA Toy🤡

For posterity. Go Blue!

Wooohhoooo Illini made the list! wait…what list is this?

"i am the science"

Most of the sports sites track through 2016 I've seen other lists through 2022 and the SEC still leads in criminal activity...by a LONG shot!

Funny thing...its a myth that has been created by the press (starting with Notre Dame Catholics vs Convicts), Miami actually comes in at #49! Not surprisingly 10 of top 15 are SEC schools...no wonder FSU wants to join the SEC, the Criminoles will fit right in. 1. Washington State 31 2. Florida 24 3. Georgia 22 3. Texas A&M 22 5. Oklahoma 21 6. Iowa State 20 6. Missouri 20 6. Ole Miss 20 6. West Virginia 20 10. Florida State 19 10. Tennessee 19 12. Alabama 18 12. Iowa 18 12. Kentucky 18 15. LSU 16 15. Marshall 16 15. Oregon State 16 15. Pittsburgh 16 19. Arkansas 14 19. Michigan 14 19. Oklahoma State 14 19. Purdue 14 23. Auburn 13 23. Colorado 13 26. Nebraska 12 26. Ohio State 12 28. East Carolina 11 28. Mississippi State 11 28. Oregon 11 28. Penn State 11 28. TCU 11 33. Syracuse 10 33. Texas 10 33. Central Michigan 10 33. Middle Tennessee 10 33. Western Kentucky 10 39. Arizona State 9 39. Cincinnati 9 39. Illinois 9 39. South Carolina 9 43. Arizona 8 43. Bowling Green 8 43. Colorado State 8 43. Georgia Southern 8 49. Baylor, Indiana, Louisville, Miami, Michigan State, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Northern Illinois 7

Cool! Now do Miami….

This is hyper-libertarian fever-dream stuff. A background check is not asking permission because there is not an authority position that makes a subjective decision. It is to verify that you are not already precluded from exercising that right. Your example is more accurate if your are trying to get a CCW permit somewhere like CA, where the Sheriff can arbitrarily decide to deny the application. When you go the the DMV and they ask for proof of insurance, the deck-jockey doesn't then decide if you are qualified to drive. You either check the boxes or you don't. Verification vs Permission. If you buy a bunch of legal chemicals (your property), convert them into methamphetamine, then sell them to "whomever I want," then I wholeheartedly endorse your imprisonment. If you buy a gun for the purpose of bypassing the FFL system (your property) and sell it to a Mexican cartel member, same applies. If that's not what you meant, be more precise in your post. Externalities matter, and your claim is absurd to anyone who has any sort of grasp of human nature or experience with drug addicts, criminals, or other desperate demographics. He didn't need to assist anyone in a crime, because he committed the crime himself. You may not purchase firearms for the purpose of reselling them, thus bypassing the FFL process. He did that. Again if this was just a conversation about the method of arrest, I'm with you guys, but y'all are making some claims that are simply unrealistic. I have never once met a stupid libertarian. Every single one has been of above average intelligence, most of them substantially so. The biggest failing of the intelligent has been their complete unfamiliarity with, and thus complete inability to govern, below-average and psychopathic people. The Socialists always underestimate the human desire for choice. The Libertarians always underestimate the human capacity for self-destruction. I don't disagree with this, and I'm thrilled to see the Supreme Court unwinding a lot of the madness. But society does evolve, and changes are needed. The trick is always moderation. As an example, there wasn't much need for restrictions on speech in 1880. With social media causing the youth suicide rate to skyrocket, now there is for targeted restrictions. Similarly there wasn't much need for anti-trade restrictions in 1820. But with countries like China willing to exploit our social contract with the expressed purpose of destabilizing and eventually overcoming our society, now there is a need. These restrictions need to be clearly defined and strictly limited, something that our current crop of politicians can't seem to do. That doesn't diminish their need or utility.

As a duly authorized representative of the retards, we thank you. Also, on the topic of communism.

Given that we are 83 days until the start of the 2024 College Football Season, time to kick the bear.

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It's a good scenario. What's not to love?

No, we need to see cuts before anything else. Too much scar tissue from decades of unaccountable runaway federal spending; compromise is impossible unless faith is restored. Let me see actual big ticket cuts, agencies dissolved, etc. before asking for another penny in taxes. Or say “we have to raise taxes to afford funding the UKR war” and let people vote on it.

The KC-97 was often challenging if at Night and with reduced visibility. Had to lock out the Slats to prevent there cycling as our speed was so slow. So it was a wallow. Additionally, we would refuel in a slow descent. USAFE operations required to be Mission Ready you need 4 successful refuelings. 2 135s, Day and Night, and 2 97s. But if your first in house (USAFE) was a Night 97 and you could demonstrate abilities, then the other 3 were waived.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-investigating-kc-135-landing-gear-retracts/ Tell the Nav to quit touching shit.

Either you don’t know the definition of high income earner or you’ve got some serious write offs / offshore banking going on. If it’s the latter, please share how you’re both making $200K+ each year and only paying 17% fed. We’d all like to know!

I thought you knew...Putin wanted the Crimea so he would have access their deep water port to the Black Sea in order to move grain for export. When Ukraine’s Kremlin-friendly president was ousted in 2014 by mass protests that Moscow called a U.S.-instigated coup, Putin responded by sending troops to overrun Crimea and calling a plebiscite on joining Russia, which the West dismissed as illegal. Then President Obama then capitulated when Putin threatened and gestured about nuclear weapons.

The money we're spending in Ukraine is some of the most cost-effective spending we've had in decades... We've spent trillions over the past eighty years with the goal of denying Russian domination of Europe - it has been at the core of US strategy since May 1945. If that hundred billion is a waste, then the overwhelming majority of our defense spending is a waste (I'll be the first to agree that a lot of it is, but probably not 90% of it). It's like being worried about burglars, so you hire 24/7 armed guards and build a moat, but you don't buy a door lock from Home Depot. As for raising taxes, we need to get the brackets up. We've got too many people for whom government is just a thing other people pay for that gives them money. It's corrosive to democracy. Even where I sit, with two high income earners in the household, only paid 17% of my net income in federal taxes. Do I want to fork over more? No. But I want to let our Republic careen drunkenly into the abyss even less.

Here is the video, for the retards:

Thinking around 690 nm as I flew regularly with WG/CC between DMAFB and Bergstrom (Austin) with 4 drop tanks. Never flew it in any other configuration. Carries more external fuel than internal. Flew non stop New Orleans to Honduras (see pic) but we AAR'd on the way. Huggy is going to love the plane. I felt comfortable in it after one flight. When down to internal fuel it would fly up it's own a$$hole. Closed patterns were basically Immelmanns. UPT grads were getting FAC (OA-37/OV-10) assignments with a guaranteed fighter afterwards. Guy in pic went to F-15's, retired DAL CA now. Good looking guy on the right flew RF-4C's prior. What's an IR/VR route? 🙂 Fun times back then.

Such a garden spot with plenty of hotels and a location with super easy access. Makes sense they pick this ROW...

The parallels between the communist party and the democrat party is amazing. Maybe not direct views but the corrupt power dynamic, control of supporters, schemes to retain power etc. I just read 2x books about communist defectors and how they described discovering the fallacies of communism was pretty much the leftist playbook. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I agree they should choose the least risky option. They did not do that here. But, the police absolutely assume guilt before a trial, and have to. Explain how you have an authority to arrest, under any circumstances, if the police must assume innocence. It falls apart. That doesn't mean they take on the role of sentencing, but it would be insane if the police weren't using an assumption of guilt as the filter by which they decide whether or not to arrest someone. Arrest everyone? The presumption of Innocence is a judicial concept. And it applies to the jury and the judge, not the officers investigating or the prosecutors. The officers and the prosecutor are not supposed to assume anything, they are supposed to gather all evidence and make a rational decision. That decision is whether there is enough evidence to believe in guilt, at which point it becomes their job to convince a jury of the same belief, up to whatever standard is required for that particular crime. Obviously you have prosecutors who are after a conviction record rather than the truth, and you have officers who are jaded, or racist, or otherwise mentally unfit for the job. But those are the outliers, and incidentally the ones we hear most about in the news. I agree with what you wrote after "aside" emphatically. It's been discussed elsewhere: But again, this case is not that. Still a problem, but not the same. Edit to add: If there is any evidence that someone or someones in the chain of command set up the raid with the desired outcome of the death of the suspect, they should spend forever in jail. Currently no such evidence exists.