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    The new airline thread

    in Squadron Bar

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    3 hours ago, TheNewGazmo said:

    Well, I can see us going down a rabbit hole with this one, but I think we can all agree in general that people of color have had less professional opportunities than your average white dude.  I am a white dude and I can acknowledge that.  I can go into a decertation as to why this has been and will continue to be an issue in this country until things significantly change (on both sides of the fence), but I will say that I think a lot of people in these groups are in this predicament because of the way your average white dude has treated them, because of the way your average white dude has dominated how the legal system operates and how your average white dude could care less about cleaning up areas of poverty predominantly occupied by people of color.  I acknowledge that poverty has no color, but you can't tell me that your average white household living below the poverty line has generations upon generations of family members who've been discriminated upon and who've dealt with the social injustices of other minorities.  Just my .02.

    decthe force is strong in this one - Strong in this one the self-loathing is

     

    "decertation" or dissertation?  I think I begin to understand your post...

    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

    in General Discussion

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    I am genuinely shocked and dismayed at the government reactions from governments I considered democratic and more liberal than us.

    Namely, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, and somewhat the UK.  I simply could not imagine the measures they've implemented at government whim, not population voting.

    I have always been supportive of the Second Amendment as one area where I can enjoy basic God-given rights, but I begin to understand the Founder's intent in specifically enumerating this right, perhaps.

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

    in General Discussion

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    US power has always flowed from our economic power, including our military power/leadership, especially post-WWII.

    We are broke-ity-broke.

    Russia has a genetic fear of being invaded from Europe due to the successive devastating invasions from Europe.  It has always wanted/needed buffer room from that and had it post-WWII.

    The break-up of the USSR took that warm fuzzy away.  

    NATO expansion eastward to Russia-bordering nations was steps too far for Russia (not just Putin).

    Putin wants his blankie back and has the means, and more importantly, the will to get it.  Both economically via gas withholding and by brute force.

    Old Europe does not.

    If they don't give a sh1t, why should we?  Not our fight, not worth our blood and treasure.

    Did I mention we are broke and literally can't afford to be global cop anymore?  Let someone else be the bad guy and we return to repairing our economy and institutions of liberty in order to become that beacon of hope as we were before.  Now, we are largely loathed and/or taken for granted.

    I say again, not our problem.

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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    Agreed.

    But Dod's near blanket denial of any religious exceptions was yet another own goal to this bad, possibly illegal IMO, order.

    DoD took/is taking nearly 10,000 casualty equivalents over a policy, not hard science.  

    In a time when the percentage of eligibles to join is ever decreasing.

    How many of those 10,000 would recommend joining?  How many people that know those 10,000 would recommend or consider joining themselves?  

    Many of us here are 2, 3, or more generations of serving.  I wouldn't recommend anyone to enlist or commission.  Would you?

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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    Court: Pilot, attendant will suffer under vaccine mandate (msn.com)

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    A pilot and a flight attendant for United Airlines will suffer “irreparable harm” under the airline’s COVID-19 policy that makes them choose between getting vaccinated in violation of their religious objections or going on unpaid leave, a divided federal appeals court panel in New Orleans ruled Thursday.

    Air Force can’t compel Christian officer to get Covid shot, judge rules (msn.com)

     

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    Afederal judge in Georgia has temporarily blocked the U.S. military from enforcing its Covid-19 vaccine mandate against an Air Force officer seeking a religious exemption. 

    The order was handed down a month after the unnamed officer, who is a Christian, filed a lawsuit alleging that the mandate violates her religious beliefs.

    ...

    Self noted that the Air Force has rejected 99.76 percent of all religious accommodation requests. It had denied all of them up until the last two weeks when it approved nine, he said. 

    “With such a marked record disfavoring religious accommodation requests, the Court easily finds that the Air Force’s process to protect religious rights is both illusory and insincere,” he wrote. “In short, it’s just ‘theater.’”

     

     

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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

    in General Discussion

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    1 hour ago, BashiChuni said:

    very good post pawnman!

    i think most americans are closer in agreement then MSNBC or FOXNEWS tries to portray. i appreciate your thoughtful reply

    When people tell or show you who they are, believe them.

    The appearance was positively giddy about 10,000 self-inflicted subtractions from our military forces

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    The Next President is...

    in Squadron Bar

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    On 2/11/2022 at 6:55 AM, ClearedHot said:

    DoD lessons learned report is out and it is brutal, so ugly Biden rejected the findings during an interview on NBC last night. 

    ....

     

    Uh, wait...I thought this was the trust the experts Administration...

    The Next President is...

    in Squadron Bar

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    On 2/11/2022 at 8:43 AM, nsplayr said:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/10/trump-records-classified/

    “Some Trump records taken to Mar-a-Lago clearly marked as classified, including documents at ‘top secret’ level”

    I look forward to a robust condemnation from my single-issue voters who passionately care about the Presidential Records Act, document retention and classified storage 🤣

    I keed…but only a little bit.

    Committing crimes is bad and folks should really try to avoid that.

    A)  Same Washington Post that covered the Russia collusion stories?  And how many other anti-Trump stories?  But ok...

    B)  I agree that mishandling classified material should be prosecuted.

    C) I think any Trump investigation regarding having illicitclassified should be investigated and prosecuted with the same level of diligence that former Sen/SecState Clinton received with having dozens of classified e-mails up to and including SAP/STO on her personal home server system.  The deliberate destruction of public records, as demanded by the same NARA-related laws, can be discussed later.

    D) Anyone remember Sandy Berger?

    Latest Movies

    in Squadron Bar

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    The worst movies I have ever seen have been "Tarzan, the Ape Man," and "The Phantom Thread."

    Today I add another to the pantheon of film turds:

    Moonfall.

    Absolutely horrible.

    Unrelated, but during the opening credits I notice that some of the executive producers are Chinese as are the studios "in association with."

    Which explains the inclusion of the Chinese space agency and an out of place Chinese exchange student featured in small, but heroic roles.

     

    What a piece of garbage movie.  Not worth watching in theater or at home on any service or even having the electrons in your home.

    I need some whisky...

    The Congressman is back yo

    in General Discussion

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/03/rnc-cheney-trump/

     

    The Republican National Committee voted overwhelmingly to censure Reps Kinzinger and Cheney.

    Despite his vociferous words that he speaks "truth to power," he doesn't get to run roughshod over his political party and the institutions of the House.

    Speaker Pelosi set up the Jan 6 committee.  She asked the Republicans to name the members who would be joining said committee.

    The Minority Leader, McCarthy, named the members he wanted on the committee.

    Pelosi rejected them.  That is not her call on who the opposition puts on bipartisan committees.  The Republicans then said no Republicans would be on the committee in that case.

    So she specifically invited Kinzinger and Cheney to be on the committee, despite the Republican leadership and party A) naming the desired members to said committee and B) boycotting the committee when named members were refused a seat.

    Hate Trump all you want, but don't expect kudos from your party (and funding) when you give them a middle finger.

    Kinzinger got gerrymandered out his seat.  I still expect a talking skull gig for him - any time you need a "Republican" to say how bad they are, he's on the speed dial.

    Cheney is likely to lose her primary and this censure clears the way for the RNC to put funds towards her primary challengers.  She'll resume being a Beltway Bandit as she's been her entire adult life.

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    If I am reading your post correctly, you are saying "Sure, the government has lied before, and I know it, but this time, it's on the level, so we should implicitly trust it."

     

    Fool me once, shame on you.  Try to fool me repeatedly, including blatantly political shenangians? 

    GFY, gub'mint.

     

    I am old school and believe there should be a vital national interest before we, as a nation, expend blood and treasure on something.  

    There is nothing about Ukraine that meets that bar for me.

    And if Old Europe can't be unassed to care, why should I?  As Biden's former boss once claimed, "We'll lead from behind..."

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    The Next President is...

    in Squadron Bar

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    Wisconsin judge rules against voting drop boxes

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    Ruling from the bench Thursday, Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren ordered the Wisconsin Elections Commission to rescind its guidance to clerks on how to use the drop boxes, saying the WEC had exceeded its authority when it issued the recommendations.

    "In looking at the statutes, there is no specific authorization for drop boxes," Bohren said.

     

    Pennsylvania voting drop boxes unconstitutional

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    A state appeals court struck down a Pennsylvania law allowing no-excuse mail-in voting as unconstitutional Friday, with potentially strong implications for the battleground state

    But sure, Biden got 81 million votes - a record.

    Good and hard...

    The Next President is...

    in Squadron Bar

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    In a speech last week that almost literally no one watched and certainly very few reported on the speech that Biden gave on this topic.  To wit, anyone who opposes this bill is a racist, George Wallace loving, wrong side of history kind of person who should be shunned.

    It wasn't covered because A) it's Biden and no one cares and B) it wasn't in a mean tweet, so life is good...

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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

    in General Discussion

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    Wll, that's convenient since this Administration has admitted it can't "stop the virus."  Just stop reporting on it.  Sure is nice to have allies...

    https://apnews.com/article/omicron-changing-news-outlets-covid-data-da9272f7c4c8a109c3bfb56bed9e9c76

    NEW YORK (AP) — For two years, coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations have been widely used barometers of the pandemic’s march across the world.

    But the omicron wave is making a mess of the usual statistics, forcing news organizations to rethink the way they report such figures.

    For that reason, The Associated Press has recently told its editors and reporters to avoid emphasizing case counts in stories about the disease. That means, for example, no more stories focused solely on a particular country or state setting a one-day record for number of cases, because that claim has become unreliable.

    The Next President is...

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    9 hours ago, Prozac said:

     For those who want to believe this nonsense, ask yourselves: What would be the benefit to the FBI of leading an angry mob to Nancy Pelosi's office?

     

    https://www.npr.org/2022/01/11/1072123333/justice-department-domestic-terrorism-unit

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    The Justice Department says it is setting up a new domestic terrorism unit to help tackle what officials say is an escalating threat posed by violent extremists.

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/justice-department-s-domestic-terrorism-unit-should-come-new-terrorism-n1287388

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    Third, will the new unit be engaged with implementing the White House national domestic terrorism strategy? Released in June 2021, with great fanfare, the strategy to combat the domestic threat was a mile wide but an inch deep. It spoke of enhanced government and law enforcement partnerships with social media platforms, battling disinformation by teaching Americans to be more savvy consumers of information, and it promised to at least look at the need for a domestic terrorism law.

     

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