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Can you imagine being married to someone for years only to find out via some online viral video that your spouse went to a Cold Play concert? The shame is unimaginable....

Yeah, but I've heard the JSDAF's booms are smaller and easier to get into the hole.

I'm going with The MAD Theory. Both Ds, Rs, lefty richies, righty richies, etc., are on the "list" and any disclosure of any of them will result in mutually assured destruction by the rest. Hence why any existing list is ash. Maxwell knows enough. If she has any family, they are likely the collateral keeping her mouth shut. Fascinating theater.

The years of delay and lack of prosecution makes it pretty clear that all parties and folks are involved in some aspect.

My backyard...he was in full grunt. Local photographer got some great snaps.

Dibs!

i agree 100%. and it shows how powerful the forces behind Epstein are. remember he was given a sweetheart deal under the bush administration. this is a bipartisan issue any American who cares about who truly is running the country can get behind. trump is probably not in the files (that'd have come out in 2016, 2020, or 2024 election cycle), but he's obviously being pressured to not disclose them.

My wife just had to deal with this in her career field (veterinary medicine) and after seeing what an absolute pain in the ass the entire ordeal is, it's now my number one reason why I am against changing the retirement age for pilots. If we raise it again, we just need to admit that we are marching towards no age limit, and I really don't want to turn the first officer's responsibility into monitoring and reporting older pilots for losing the mental capacity to handle the job. And that's exactly what's going to happen. Everyone who's been through a first class medical or annual recurrent training knows what a joke it is. Wanna raise the retirement age? Fine. Then we do real, randomized, individual cognitive testing. Every year once you turn 55, and before your next flight if you are reported by another pilot. Easier to just keep it at 65, IMO.

The Marine Corps instills from the start that you are a Marine first, and your MOS is secondary. Personally all I wanted to do was fly, so I was jealous of Air Force and Navy fighter pilots who had more time to focus their efforts on their primary duty - Flying. With my social science degree the Air Force would've never accepted me for a pilot contract, plus I had 20/400 vision and only qualified with the Marine Corps' soft contact lens waiver. "Every Marine a rifleman, every Marine officer a provisional rifle platoon commander." We all have to go through six months of TBS where we train to lead our peers in various positions of leadership - Squad, Platoon, and Company level. After about two years in my first gun squadron I was offered the opportunity to be the Airframes OIC which put me in charge of about 45 Marines aged 19-52 while simultaneously my Division Lead qualification. It was rough balancing all of it and being responsible for people you didn't raise both CONUS and OCONUS. I had phone calls in the middle of the night about suicidal ideations, alcohol incidents, among others. I don't regret it but I wouldn't want to do it again. That's probably a bad attitude for a Marine officer but that's just my perspective.

Or… the Dems don’t want to expose their dirty laundry as well.

The evidence that Trump raped underage girls is about as strong as the evidence that Trump colluded with Russia. As others have said, if the Dems had this on Trump, they most definitely would have released it before Nov 2024. Until someone can give me a legitimate reason that such evidence exists and then further why the Dems intentionally chose to not release it, then it can all be easily dismissed without evidence.

They need to change the 46 from Pegasus to Unicorn.

All they had to do was not react... Always easier to just not cheat when you're "famous."

If there was any evidence that the Donald had sexually abused kids the dems would have used it/published it. The WSJ piece was another big hyped up nothing burger.

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Everyone is so quick to embrace the suicide theory, however, I flew a sim session with a pilot who was very confused. He tried to shut off a hydraulic pump on the left side of the overhead panel (757) instead of a Pack, on his side. We chalked it up to the fact that he sucked and didn’t have the best reputation (He was a 63 yr old F/O). A few months later I heard he was medically retired and diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Perhaps this was a similar situation. Obviously a thorough investigation will possibly uncover this.

Reminded me of this.

Great! We will be on the south end of Boeing Plaza with you. The Deuce now arrives Sunday ~1230, after a drop in to the Milwaukee Airshow. The guy flying it is from Fond du Lac.

Need one of you airliner guys to do some scientific work here. Need times from cutoff to non lethal fan speed. Only way this is getting solved.

Sounds like they are serious this time and they want to do it quickly. If you are a young A-10 pilot it sounds like you will be twiddling your thumbs waiting on a retraining slot!