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Wasn't even an exit row. Apparently it could be configured as an exit row, but it was not an emergency exit door as that particular airplane was equipped.

Best upgrade for an M9: Sell it, buy a Springfield, and take your wife on a fancy hotel date with the extra money.

Barbus - I hope so. Biff - I agree that most immigrants have more traditionally American values (work ethic, traditional family structure, etc) than many Americans do now. The problem is that people so rarely vote their values. According to Pew research, Catholics are 7% more likely to be Democrat than Republican. It is insane to me that the Catholic church teaches that abortion is murder, yet people that self-identify as Catholic vote to keep the practice legal anyway.

Impossible. With an evenly spread 50.0001% majority a party can change any law (including the Constitution) that they want to. My concern is this flight is going to make a state that was 55/45 red/blue into a 50/50 tossup without meaningfully changing the spread in the states they left. Many traditionally red states don't have enough of a majority to absorb the blue state flight without being in danger of turning blue themselves.

I see what you're saying and agree to a point, but the problem is bigger than FSU. I still think FSU should have sat out the bowl to highlight how messed up the process was. Can't blame the kids for sitting out when they got screwed out of a chance at the title. The NCAA basically said that they don't care what the FSU record was, the school didn't count because it wasn't SEC. The players got the message. I think this is a culture problem, but this would happen at almost any school right now in the same situation. Not a culture problem at FSU specifically (I detest all Florida teams, so this is painful for me to say), but a culture problem in college sports and our society at large. There is no real commitment anymore. Between the transfer portal and the ability for a kid to commit to a school only to "de-commit" and go to a different school, the NCAA has built a system that rewards continually shopping around for the best deal regardless of any commitment made. It is only a sad reflection on the rest of our sad society.

No SEC teams in the championship game (and shouldn't have even been one in the playoffs)... Maybe we can finally have a break from 'SEC is the only conference that matters' attitude next year.

Problem those people will move to other states and continue to vote the same way. "You know, I really like this new place, but it could really use some more government programs, more legal drugs, and way less guns..."

The seatbelt extender should be the go/no-go for having to pay for an extra seat to be empty. And if that will cause someone to get bumped, it should be the person that is too fat to fit their backside in a normal seat. Our society has become a parody of itself. In the 80s and 90s quest to give kids self esteem, we forgot that what people need more than self esteem is shame. Shame has kept societies functioning far better than self esteem ever could.

That full MCX upper looks awesome, if only it weren't $1700...

Anyone recommend a good folding stock AR-15 upper for those of us that have fresh form-1s?

FSU should publish how much they expect to make from the bowl and start a gofundme to make up for the bowl money and then cancel the bowl. I'd donate.

Clearly they learned nothing from the UCF debacle a few years go. The "strength of schedule" argument is BS and is an argument from silence. Until they get to the larger playoff format, the only focus should be determining on who is the best. No one cares who is second or third best. There should never be a D-1 undefeated team left out of the playoffs. I'm light years away from being a FSU fan, but they got screwed. I cannot ever think of a time that I would have ever even remotely considered cheering for FSU, but I hope they win their bowl and make the NCAA show themselves to be the bunch of clowns they are with a third (and completely avoidable) shared national championship.

So apparently the pistol brace rule has been tossed. It seems the common opinion is that if it was registered, the form 1 is still valid. Attached is a link if you second guessed your decision to get the form 1. https://thereload.com/federal-judge-blocks-nationwide-enforcement-of-pistol-brace-ban/ https://www.nationalguntrusts.com/blogs/nfa-gun-trust-atf-information-database-blog/removing-an-sbr-sbs-from-the-nfrtr-and-then-reregistering-the-sbr-sbs-process

I see the B-52 WSOs or whatever they're called are getting better at using the pod.

No way! They're the kind of guys that shoot you 5 times in the leg and once in the gut and it takes 30 minutes to die an agonizing death. If i'm in front of a firing squad, give me 5 bullets to the brain.

There are also places that ambulances are really hesitant to go to and normally require a police escort. This might be one of those neighborhoods. Possibly something to add to your flight planning.

I've always thought that if at the end of your tax return, you didn't end up paying federal taxes, you shouldn't get to vote (with an exception for CZTE). You shouldn't get to decide how other people's money is spent. Otherwise, as soon as 51% of the population decides that they don't want to work at all and they just want to vote for politicians that will pay them to watch TV, they'll get their way.

100%. Those hostages were killed the minute they were taken hostage. It is cold math, but negotiating in attempt to save them will only encourage similar actions in the future. In the long run it will result in more friendly and/or innocent deaths. We and/or Israel should attempt SF raids to rescue if it seems like there is a reasonable chance of success, but that seems unlikely in this scenario.

Israel needs to capitalize on the world's brief sympathy and wipe out Hamas once and for all. Bulldoze Gaza. It is clear that Hamas and Israel cannot co-exist peacefully.

They're both CJO's, so just like applying for multiple interviews, there is nothing that stops someone leaving AD to get CJOs from multiple airlines and picking the one he wants as he retires/separates. Two years out gives a bit more peace of mind than six months, but doesn't really change that much. This is a solid step in the right direction. An even better step would be to actively recruit guys that are at the 7 or 15 year point. Send them through indoc on a week or two of leave and then know that they're going to drop long term mil leave for 5 years. Then you have a 99.9% chance that dude is going to show up at your airline at the 5 year point. It is obviously not free but it's not that much either. With how much airlines are spending on trying to create their own pipeline, this seems like an easy answer to get some top tier candidates with a very predictable timeline.

That group better be careful before that dude pulls a Hugh Glass on them. I first read the headlines and thought, no big deal. If I'm hiking with a group of friends and twist my ankle in the canyon then sure, I'll sit on this rock for a few hours and you guys can pick me up on the way back out. But walking away from a dude that needs a helicopter evac? That's not cool.

The most un-American thing ever that somehow is still legal. Every judge that has approved this happening and every agent that has actively sought this should all be tried for felony theft. There is no excuse for this.

Assuming you are talking about the pistol brace form 1, I don't think that's an option anymore (at least not for free). I would bet that since you have a common name, your name threw up a red flag in the auto-background check, so it then has to be reviewed by an actual person at the FBI.

Worst part is she issued it knowing that the court would toss it. Politicians who do that need to be held personally financially responsible (or jail time) when the court tosses it. Put a little of their own skin in the game to stop them from knowingly tramping all over people's rights.

Not that small towns will look the other way with DUIs for locals, but I'd bet that everyone in the town knows him and would more than likely give him some leeway if there were any to be given. The fact that he was charged likely means it either wasn't his first time or the people of his home town know him and don't like him. Neither is good...