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14 minutes ago, Biff_T said:
I've never spent time in Central and South America but aren't most of those dudes Catholic? I don't think any of them will be voting for abortion anytime soon.
Historically Hispanics have favored the democrat party. But you make a good point; the Hispanic community in this country is generally hard working, family oriented, and religious. Hardly the pillars of the modern woke left.
IMO this demonstrates the hidden racism of the modern far left. They simply assume that due to historical trends and skin color, these people will continue to vote for them.
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On 12/13/2021 at 2:03 PM, Shaft34 said:
Our maintainers at McClellan do a thorough inspection of the aircraft during the off season. Recently the state has installed a load monitoring sensor kit which should help find any issues early. I believe the Fed Contract tankers have been mandated to have a similar system for a number of years since the two wing failure incidents in 2002. I'm not sure of the specifics though.
The state operated S-2s have the advantage of being designed from the start to operate entirely in the low altitude and carrier environment, so they are massively overbuilt. Also, The E and G models we fly now were all built in the '62 to '67 period and usually served only 5 years or so operationally before being parked at DM. That being said, they have been in use as air tankers for about 20 years now, so there are issues that pop up, but the state has been good about tackling those issues as they arise since they value the capability the S-2 brings in their model of wildland fire fighting.
The S-2 has been the backbone of Californias tanker fleet since the mid 1970s, first with the radial S-2As and now with the converted turbine S-2Ts. Prior to that the mainstay was the TBM Avenger and a mix of Fed large tankers (DC-4, C-119, B-17, PB4Y, etc)
Has there been any thought on a future replacement of the S-2?
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2 hours ago, FLEA said:
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/30/afghan-soldier-asylum-texas-jail-taliban-border/
Here you go.... Afghan refugee caught crossing border illegally with group of Latin Americans. Latin Americans are released after claiming refugee status with no hearing or additional process. Afghan who fought and assisted US is imprisoned and denied an immediate hearing.
My big problem is that both groups are wrong to cross illegally, but the law is not being equally applied. WTF?
Playing a game of demographic math with real life humans as the pawns. It’s really disgusting if you stop and think about it for just a few seconds.
I suppose it’s better than than how humans demographics were tried to be shaped 80 years ago by a certain nation/person.
But importing an entire group of people based purely on their skin color with the intent of them creating future voters that will ensure your base of power is really not all that far behind on the racist/disgusting scale.
Afghanis are small time numbers compared to the potential voter block from central/South America, and I don’t know this for a fact, but would imagine Afghan immigrants in many cases don’t “vote the right way” in future generations. See Cuban immigrants as an example.
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Sooo did this program officially die? The first few selected should be in training already right? With the next group about to be selected?
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The biggest issue is not the people currently in, it’s recruiting. My IMA gig has an Army Guard guy, and he said in his unit the biggest issue is finding 18-22 year olds that have or are willing to get the vaccine.
It doesn’t matter political leanings, upbringing, socio-economic level, potential officer or enlisted, etc…; not that many young people want to get the vaccine at this point.
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LA County is never going to let COVID go.
https://abc7.com/covid-19-indoor-masking-la-county-mask-mandate/12516325/
So glad I don’t live in that shit hole anymore.
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No surprise that this conversation is trying to be steered away from the main issue.
No one cares or is debating what Elon should be spending his time or money doing or what his best skills are.
The issue is the blatant hypocrisy of the left and the fact that they now want to sack an individual they used to love because he doesn’t toe their leftist line. The Biden administration wants to investigate Musk as a potential national security threat now due to this Twitter purchase. They of course claim this is “standard procedure”, despite Elon and his companies having in been involved in national security related activities for years now.
All this is, is proof that the current admin and the leftists supporting it are threatened by anyone and everything that doesn’t support the approved narrative and will stop at nothing to try and shut it down and regain control over their own set of approved “facts”.
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Remember when the left was saying Twitter was a private company and could do whatever they wanted with content on their platform? What happened to that?
Oh, that’s right.
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11 hours ago, Biff_T said:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-gov-polis-declines-endorse-bidens-call-assault-weapons-ban
"The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick," Biden said during a press event in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Thanksgiving Day
lol. Now it's the semi-automatic weapons' fault?
They'll never take my long rifle!!!
I’m pretty sure some libs think semi-automatic equals belt fed machine gun.
They should see my uncle operate his bolt action scout rifle. Who needs semi-auto?
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Well played today. Could’ve/should’ve had the win.
Have to beat Iran; Iran gets through with a tie or win. That will make the game tough.
Feels a lot like the 2010 World Cup where the US had to beat Algeria to advance. Hopefully we don’t wait until stoppage time to make it happen like the US did back then.
Still haven’t lost to England in a WC. Truly fantastic and their fans booing the team at the end was fabulous.
Btw, thread title is dumb and should be changed. 🤷🏼♂️
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Here’s the video, ignore the screen shot of the airliner.
Really tough to watch.
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So is this pass thing the precursor to a booster requirement?
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1 hour ago, ClearedHot said:
Say something negative about Biden and the President will launch the National Security apparatus on you.
Fuck this administration. The dude’s pride and joy company has been launching NRO satellites for years and now that he’s taken over Twitter and doesn’t like Biden an investigation is “standard procedure”. You mean you couldn’t figure out if he was a national security risk before he signed a contract to launch classified satellites?
The hilarious thing is Musk isn’t even really a right leaning guy. Not all that long ago the left was drooling over him because he created the most successful electric car company and his personal views align with a lot of their stated climate goals. But now that he’s differed from the party line somewhere else, he’s public enemy number one. So much for the “Unity” message, but we’ve known that’s trash for awhile, and if you don’t toe the line to this administration, you are clearly an extremist.
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Who knew inflation was caused by the war in Iraq?
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One thing I don’t think a lot of people realize about your Berkeley type nut jobs is that many of them would be pretty similar to this dude if you started asking them what they believe.
Yeah this wacko sprinkled in some extra right wing type garbage, but a lot of these crazies have no love for any people in our government. Nothing short of a totalitarian state that only caters to their narrow world view is acceptable to them, and people like Nancy Pelosi aren’t viewed as on their side either. In fact, the Pelosi house has been targeted several times since 2020 with some pretty nasty stuff, this one of course taking the cake.
The real thing that people should be looking at here is that the political system in a place like Berkeley, CA let’s losers like this proliferate. Mental illness is not only ignored, it’s often celebrated; and drug use is essentially decriminalized, further fueling the mental death spiral of people like this to the point they feel like acting out on their deranged conspiracy fantasies.
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Uncle Joe thinks we have 54 states now. Must be counting his state of dementia in there as well.
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12 minutes ago, arg said:
Dude should be treated like he assaulted any other person.
Well it’s California, so if they follow their standard he should be back on the street tomorrow.
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25 minutes ago, nsplayr said:
Anyone flown or owned a Sportcruiser? I'm considering buying an aircraft with a couple of other pilots in my squadron to start a flying club. Pros/cons are appreciated for anyone who has flown one but especially if you've owned or worked on one. 🍺
I have just under 500 hours in one as an instructor. Really fun airplane; super nimble on the controls, but will bounce around a lot in turbulence. Tough for new pilots to get a hang of, but it will make you better at stick and rudder. Glass cockpit with Dynon is pretty nice if you get a new one. The old ones the Dynon stuff is pretty meh.
Ours had a chute, which is a nice safety feature in my opinion. A lot of old timers will tell you Rotax is a joke, but I honestly think it’s a great engine. Super fuel efficient and ours was very reliable. Keep it away from avgas and run the appropriate mogas and it will be much happier. Avgas with the lead fouls them up and you have to change the oil a lot more often. Reduction gearbox is also nifty since the engine turns at a much higher rpm than the prop. Our gearbox was reliable but it does need a little extra maintenance attention. Single power lever with rotax is great as well.
If you got some experienced guys they’ll just need to adjust to it being an LSA and how light it is, but it’s a good airplane and you’d have a lot of fun with it.-
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https://abc7.com/mexico-us-border-migration-immigration-crossings-migrants-surge/12365060/
Highest number of illegal border crossings of any fiscal year ever. We’re still pretending this isn’t on purpose?
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The iconic image of the Biden presidency.
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7 hours ago, Sua Sponte said:
You keep trying to encompass all these areas as the same, which obviously they're not. I'm going to assume you're intelligent enough to realize that the high country of Colorado has a more extreme climate than Martha's Vineyard, correct? I don't care if they're busing immigrants to Chicago or New York. But I'm specifically talking about if they decide to start shipping people to the middle of the Rocky Mountains in the winter/spring timeframe.
My god dude, you’re missing the forest for the trees here. The hypocrisy isn’t about shipping these people to Chicago vs Vail.
The hypocrisy is you drew a moral line in the sand that shipping migrants to Vail Colorado is inhumane. If you feel that’s inhumane, then you need to be outside the White House protesting every single day about the utterly deplorable conditions these people are facing everywhere else on their journey.
But you aren’t, and no on the left is, and that’s my entire point! That the left doesn’t actually GAF about these people. No one was “spurred to action” about any single thing involving immigration or migrants until they started showing up or threatened to be delivered to their little enclaves.
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16 minutes ago, Pooter said:
Del rio doesn't have the support services to deal with tens of thousands of migrants either. It's a town of barely over 30,000 itself. Same applies for Laredo, Eagle pass, El Paso etc. Lacking the facilities to deal with huge numbers of migrants isn't unique to Martha's Vineyard or Aspen.
Shipping migrants to upscale liberal enclaves might be a political stunt, but it's also giving them a microscopic taste of the logistical shitshow border towns deal with on a daily basis.
This is a good point. How many migrants got shipped to Martha’s Vineyard, 50? How many tens of thousands have likely passed through the border towns?
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23 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:
Being purposely sent to the Rockies Mountains, in the upcoming winter months, after entering the U.S., by people knowing that support services are lacking in that area is inhumane. Those people crammed under a bridge in Del Rio did so by their own accord trying to enter the U.S., thus exposing themselves to any risks for doing so.
I personally think if people are wanting to immigrate to the U.S., and aren’t on a student or work visa, can wait outside the U.S. until their application is processed and they’re issued a visa. Instead of right and left using this as political fodder for votes, both Dems and GOP need to put pressure on the Biden Administration for immigration reform (i.e., keeping Title 42 in place until they figure it out).
Copy, so you only care about these people after they're in the country and likely never leaving (and maybe someday voting). Otherwise, as they're dying in the desert or getting abused by human traffickers, "Meh, they did that on their own accord."
You're proving my point that the left is full of crap on this issue. You can't cry foul about that being inhumane and then be silent on the freaking open invitation from the current admin to come flooding across the border, and all the inhumanity that entails. The left puts up signs in their yard about how "no human is illegal", cry "inhumane" as these people get shipped to their liberal havens around the country, but the human misery trail to the southern border, nah, we aren't going to say or even do anything about that. I appreciate you want more border security (and I agree with your thoughts there), but saying going to Vail, CO is inhumane but turning around and claiming these migrants did this to themselves under the bridge in Del Rio is frankly textbook hypocrisy.
Ultimately the leftist politicians are showing their true colors producing gem after gem that the border problem and the migrants associated with it is supposed to be something that happens somewhere else, and it sure as hell isn't going to taint their little enclaves of "paradise".
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26 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:
Aspen and Vail don't even have housing for the workers of all the stores the billionaires shop at. Shipping them to the high country of Colorado when winter is approaching isn't really humane.
Ah, so that's where the left draws the line.
Cramming under a bridge in Del Rio, dying in the brutal heat of the desert, being taken advantage of by human traffickers and drug lords; all that's okay, because hey, the people who make it might vote for my team some day!
But being sent to some of the wealthiest areas of the country, "Thats inhumane!!!!!"
More utterly ridiculous leftist hypocrisy.
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Makes sense, appreciate the response. Yeah from my unaffiliated point of view it seemed there’s nothing that could be a direct replacement.
Saw them a few times out at HMT when I was living and flying in SoCal. The OV-10 was always one I’d love to get some stick time in too.