BFM this

Ok, I'm confused here. Are you saying that the man on trial was part of a White House Fellowship, or are you wearing a smoking jacket while typing BODN posts? Honest question.

Was AD with a guy furloughed from AA (~2006). He’d been in class for the 72 panel on 9/11. He had been in said class with a fellow new hire, who had come over from the left seat at a fledgling purple tailed cargo outfit. No shit.

I would submit that Mattis meets the intent of your question.

Ahem! Uhh Mr. Mayor, point of order...

DFW has been awarded on newhire’s first vacancy bid lately. Barely out of indoc, that quick. March just published a few weeks ago, and the DFW plug had been on property 5 weeks (Sep 8 hire, Oct 15 final award). So that new hire should finish IOE around now, commute to LGA/MIA/LAX till their DFW effective date of Jan 1. For that matter, based on the forecasts contained in the vacancy announcements, I can’t imagine that DFW won’t make a showing in the indoc drop shortly.

That was an easy call in May of last year when we crested five weeks into “two weeks to flatten the curve”. This was at its essence, a $30T behavior modification exercise. And it has been successful beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. Expect all of our learned vocabulary and behaviors to be trotted out on a regular basis. I was expecting “a particularly bad flu season 😳😰😱”, but COVID19-2 is also a reliable plot device.

Lest it be missed in all the discussion. To that AC willing to stand up, stand by their decision, and get publicly shot in the lips:

Lol, you don’t have to be a WCoS to know that’s a foul. Hell, I’ll bet the LTs in the room knew it was fucked up like polio as soon as it was happening. This is like busting a rule on a checkride; from the WG/CC’s perspective, his hands are probably tied with respect to the outcome at this point.

I guess I will both agree, and at the same time respectfully disagree slightly with your position. I do want a certain moral fiber woven into my kid’s school day, but I will also admit that it’s a very specific moral fiber that I’m referring to. And I specifically moved (for a number of reasons, including, but not limited to) from VA to TX, and the atmosphere difference was better than I could have hoped for. Citizenship, civics, civic duty and virtue, and yes, even general principles on how not to be an asshole. I’ll also concede that it’s a slippery and perilous slope should the school board take a turn for the worse while the parents are asleep at the switch. Southlake, TX, for example.

Every flu shot that I received was under threat of the UCMJ. Haven't had one since. ...also haven’t had the flu since then so 🤷🏼‍♂️

As we’ve seen, also dubious...

Exactly Which is why the spike in morbidity/mortality is notable. That there is no potential for causality, while valid as a null hypothesis, is more dubious than its counter hypothesis. 2000/4years vs 5000/.5years is an extreme jump, no matter how you parse the data.

So...pre-COVID, old people weren’t getting flu shots? Your supposition might be correct, but leaves doubt.

Masks are just the prop. It's about publicly enumerating who is vaccine compliant.

46% of the voting pilots agreed with you.

IM(biased)O, K4 should be the seventh app for any .mil airline applicant, barring those who can say for certainty that they couldn't stomach certain aspects of the sector (16 day lines, planet lapping, etc). They are easily on top of the heap of regionals and other ACMI operators. That said, the latest contract was VERY incremental over the previous 2016 contract, due mostly to the drag on negotiations from the previous year's events. Likely scenarios will have a much more productive negotiating environment when this contract is up in four years. However, expectation management: the best ACMI dog in the business will always lag parcels and pax, simply because it's a much leaner sector historically. The organized labor lens can angst all day that management is making money hand over fist in the current environment, but that can change over a commercial break, and chaining a company to a contract that will ensure the doors get locked at the bottom of the next cycle...even this pilot group understands that reality. But beyond that, there's a few -isms within the company that I think weigh it down on it's way to becoming a "destination job", namely a training dept that is being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, inability to sit any form of "in-base reserve", negligible retirement benefit, etc. Crews are great, can't beat the 74 for bucket list type value; still highly recommend.

Granted mine wasn’t a high power staff job, but holy hell, you really gotta be smokin the tires to get fired from a MAJCOM staff desk. Especially in the current market.

I’m impressed that the LPA managed to come up with an offensive double meaning and it made it back to the Bob in less than a day. ========= MR MAYOR! POINT OF ORDER! I move that Lt Herr’s new call sign be “Prince Albert”, or “Prince” for short. ========== I’ve seen the occasional socially awkward CC, but most of them knew they were socially awkward and came to accept it as a limitation, working around it. This idiot sounds completely oblivious. Suggest a hostile renaming: D.B. You know, for Daring Bob. Used in a sentence: “We used to call him Phats, but that was before he came out of the closet as a raging Daring Bob.”

North Texas is going to go down as a unique storm/natural disaster. Last night it was 6°F when my wife called and said that our power was out. Not a huge deal except for the fact that we had been running the pool pump at a higher speed to keep that system from freezing. It quickly froze, we will find out on Saturday when the temperature gets above freezing weather or not that entire system is fucked. Likely. Likewise, the master bath is against the exterior wall, and no hot water is running to those spigots. The neighborhood I am in is not plumbed for natural gas, and apparently we are split among two different power grids. Luckily, my grid came back up after a few hours this morning, so we’ve been able to run the heat to try and save the plumbing. The other half of the neighborhood has been on a 10 minute cycle all day. Pretty sure all those houses will be a mort for plumbing when this is all said and done. Last but certainly not least, the neighborhood is all septic. Aerobic septic. Sprinklers are frozen, so no showers and only limited flushing for the next few days. If anyone has any stock tips for plumbing suppliers and contractors in North Texas, now is the time to buy. I just started my commute home this morning, and I’m stuck on the West Coast. Fun times.

Out of curiosity, what’s on your daily reading list?

Highly doubt that. Agree with most of the points made here, but given her CV, she can kick a ball. Don’t get me wrong: she would have provided precisely zero help to the return coverage, but that probably was the point. Put the ball exactly here, avoid the biggest return threats. She did her job as asked, I’m guessing. That’s probably the strategic blunder here: should have let her give it her best grunt, let the chips fall where they may.

You should catch his live act sometime. Totally worth the cover plus two drink minimum. 🤘

I would agree that it isn’t pure vertical, but bank never broke 90? So a pitch/sliceback?

-80 degrees C (colder than dry ice) is not your standard refrigeration obstacle.

Pulls pin and tosses ad hominem grenade. Walks out. Right...Good talk, Russ.