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No troops, been out for a while. I teach at a university and have never told anyone my personal thoughts on the subject. I teach with homosexuals, teach homosexuals as students (some actively proclaim it, others don't) and treat them all as fellow humans worthy of respect as fellow citizens of earth. But yeah, personally the actions disgust me. I'd argue for most people it's pretty gross even with the past decade of attempted forced acceptance. There are probably other actions that disgust me too.

Wow, Ok thought and moral police. Forever, humans have identified homosexuality as a fringe and unhealthy sexual activity, Science literature confirms that fact, social science literature confirms that (even back when it was abnormal psychology), and moral teaching confirms that. I have to temper myself big time to not verbally bash on homos and trans. They deserve mutual respect as humans but earn no respect from anyone for their personal moral choices. We as a society tolerate plenty of things we don't personally condone. Comparing homos to people of color is incredibly offensive and not accurate. Just cause you might be a homo, doesn't mean you can force your choice onto other's value system.

nice straw man ... nobody is saying the climate hasn't/doesn't change.

No, I read. And call BS on their claim (as I wrote).

What a complete BS claim. Brandolini's law explains how that feces was published in spite of the ridiculous claim shown in quotes in your post. There are way too many variables, each with significant variance in climate change models, to come even close to showing a causal effect (even a "relative causal" effect). I know a Senior Editor who should be replaced.

It looks like the squids are trying to match the AF tit for tat. 5 leadership firings in a week. https://www.yahoo.com/news/navy-fires-five-officers-less-232425657.html

Some -130 action.

Of course as a kid and not paying for tickets, the 1970s was my golden age of flying. Beautiful flight attendants back in the day. At least to this 9 to 19 year old. I flew back and forth from Taiwan to BNA every other year from 1970 through 1982. Usually Northwest Orient across the pond and then some combination of Eastern, Continental, Braniff, AA and/or Delta (the ones I remember anyway) to get across the US. Actual silverware, porcelain/china plates, real hot food cooked onboard... The cost back then was about what Business class prices are now (when adjusted for time). So while coach seats have gotten way too cheap, for comparable travel amenities that I remember, the price is pretty constant. The huge negative was the smoking sections. The thick smoke covering the top 1/3 of the fuselage sucked on a 12 hour flight from TPE or NRT to SEA, DTW, or MSP. I remember once /maybe twice having to stop in ANC for fuel when headwinds were strong (guessing headed towards Asia but don't remember for sure). Great memories looking back 50 plus years. - gramps

Vintage Delta Ad (early '70s?). According to my mom my first commercial flight as a small kid was in 1967 aboard a Delta jet out of Atlanta (assume it was a DC-9, since she was pretty sure it was a jet and not a prop.).

D.A. in Chief trying to ban 9mm "high caliber" weapons. "Biden calls 9mm ‘high-caliber weapons,’ suggests banning them" - Yahoo News https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-says-9mm-bullet-blows-lung-out-body-1711551

Sounds like it's getting ugly out there. Any company numbers on canceled flights?

Media to promote Topgun. Pretty funny and some good shots of flying.

Yeah I'm not remembering that commissioning brief where they told us we gave up every singe right by joining the military. When your "leaders" change they rules when the wind blows, I'd push back too.

I know it was a different time but I told the AF to stick both the Gamma globulin and the Anthrax vaccine where the sun don't shine at the beginning of the gulf war. It wasn't an AF wide order but my squadron was ordered by the wing commander to line up and get both shots (they recommended Botulinum neurotoxin as well). I chose not to take any of them. After getting back home from the war and several trips back and forth to Europe and Saudi (July/August of 1991) the base hospital called me to see why I didn't get my required shots. I chose to ignore them and never heard another peep before I retired. I wasn't the only one at my base to forgo those shots and nobody was court marshaled or separated.

Sorry Banzai, maybe too harsh a statement and I should have said "science and medicine have confirmed what logic and reason have long argued for when human life begins". The point is we all know, and have for a really long time, when human life begins. Without deliberate intervention, that fertilized egg (not the sperm or the egg individually) will develop into a screaming infant, a precocious 3 year old, an argumentative 14 year old, and finally a douchebag 30 to 60 year old arguing on the internet. We are now left with trying to come to a political decision on when we as a society affirm "personhood" status (with all rights there bestowed/attached).

Only a dumb ass would try to argue about when life begins. We can discuss when (at what point in our life cycle) we as a society value and bestow "personhood" status on that human life. I'd argue, as I have previously, that they can't be separated (life and value) but many on here argue otherwise.

Not a video but a cool google maps image. I was dicking around online (what happens when one retires) and stumbled on a 4 ship of Blacksnakes in the pattern. Ft Wayne boys coming back home. In google maps at their heritage park (street view) you can see all four of them make the break. Pretty cool.

From Pburgh back in the day we’d hop over to Navy Brunswick and pick up lobsters in the tweet. They weren’t on ice, but had their claws wrapped. You could hear them crawling around in the nose compartment all the way back to the burgh. Every once in a while a band would come off and you’d get pinched removing them from the battery/nose compartment. No fraud waste and abuse complaints since we’d “train” on the way there and back.

who needs pilot training. Pax lands plane. https://www.tmz.com/2022/05/11/pilot-loses-consciousness-passenger-lands-plane-safely/

When have conservatives ever tried to ban tools that enable "responsible family planning"? I've never seen it, unless you are somehow lumping the killing of the unborn into "responsible family planning".

when you find errors or lies in the research let me know.

I'm still on my silver and gold kick. The mint just did a new silver coin (.9999 silver) honoring and memorializing the "Negro Leagues". They aren't bullion grade so the premium over spot is huge, but they are pretty good looking coins. I'm kind of a baseball nut so ended up getting some. Pretty sweet looking coins. https://catalog.usmint.gov/negro-leagues-baseball-commemorative-coin/

Science has long established when human life begins. Here is a 1999 article that examines and reviews much of the science (that predates it) outlining the human growth process. The zygote stage is simply a stage in a human's life cycle. Quote from one part of the paper at bottom, in case you're not wanting to read it all. https://www.princeton.edu/~prolife/articles/wdhbb.html Bottom line is, we can decide as a culture when we want to give that human the basic right of life, but any point we choose after fertilization, is arbitrary. "Zygote: This cell results from the union of an oocyte and a sperm. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo). The expression fertilized ovum refers to a secondary oocyte that is impregnated by a sperm; when fertilization is complete, the oocyte becomes a zygote."10 (Emphasis added.) This new single-cell human being immediately produces specifically human proteins and enzymes11 (not carrot or frog enzymes and proteins), and genetically directs his/her own growth and development. (In fact, this genetic growth and development has been proven not to be directed by the mother.)12 Finally, this new human being�the single-cell human zygote�is biologically an individual, a living organism�an individual member of the human species. Quoting Larsen: "... [W]e begin our description of the developing human with the formation and differentiation of the male and female sex cells or gametes, which will unite at fertilization to initiate the embryonic development of a new individual."13 (Emphasis added.)

In most Asian cultures even your age tracks with conception. So in China, Taiwan, and Korea (that I know of for sure) you're one year old when you're born. When I would ask my school friends how old they were, I was always bummed that I was the youngest kid in the class.

demorat, emotional arguments don't argue/debate well. You don't want religion and now you don't want science.