JimNtexas

Lloyd Doggett is a hack ambulance chaser. Here is an honest timeline. https://consolidatedopinions.blogspot.com/2020/04/covid-19-time-line.html

Blue Texas is like fusion power plants. Fourty years away, and probably always will be. Trump was extremely strong in the Rio Grande valley,he far exceeded the predictions of the Smart Ones. Now that Biden has thrown the border into chaos all the democrat elected officals are begging his handlers to do, something, anything, to show that they give a shit about the people who live and work down there. Harris donated a comic book. This week there was a Congressional runoff for a vacant seat near Fort Worth. There were eleven candidates. Two Republicans won and will face each in the election. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-backed-candidate-heads-runoff-texas-special-congressional-election-2021-05-02/

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/personal-diversion-lands-air-force-pilot-in-hot-water/

With respect to RNAV, prior to GPS for sure, and I think to this day, some FMS's use ifr approved rho/rho, rho/rho/rho, and rho/theta nav systems. My flying club had a rho/theta King KNS-80 what was ifr approved for approaches.

If you will excuse a mere former EWO, azimuth accuracy of Tacan is far greater than that of VOR due to the shorter wavelength of Tacan’s uhf signal and it’s 2x rotation speed of the bearing signal..

We have had crews in Prowlers and Growlers since the Sparkvark phased out in 1998! In recent years training command has not sent any electronic warfare officers and certainly no pilots who know anything about electronica warfare to growlers. Perhaps they are putting the Air Force crews through the full Navy EW training school. In any case these two lieutenants are far from the first growler pilots the Air Force has ever had. And I assume by ‘pilots’ they mean pilot and electronic warfare officer.

China Joe's pandering to identity groups was just his playbook, and helped to get him elected. Disgusting, but that's his party. The horrifying thing about his prerecorded speech was that he had one of his mental breakdowns during the speech. He gets off the teleprompter, starts to try and thank SECDEF, but not only can poor pathetic Joe not remember the Secretary's name, he can't even remember where 'that guy over there' works. This man is NOT President. There is clearly a reason he never gives press conferences any more. Harris has gone beyond just measuring the Oval Office Curtains. She's already hung hers up.

Biden has not had a solo press conference since being sworn in. He currently holds the record for the longest no solo press conference gap in the last 100 years. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-press-corps-ushered-away-asking-biden-questions-again. https://babylonbee.com/news/heroic-secret-service-agent-dives-in-front-of-biden-as-reporter-tries-to-ask-a-question

I'm really glad I joined the Air Force, and really glad I got out at 20. The writer was correct to say that staying after 20 may be costing you money. But what is in the long term more important is that the older you are the more difficult it is to get hired in most companies, especially high tech companies. Of course in job seeking, timing is everything. I can't blame anyone for staying in the military right now, but as we get into summer and onward there will be an expansion of the economy due to Covid restrictions going away and the effect of the Czar Money Bomb that has just been dropped into the economy. Of course we'll wake up to a bad hangover is a couple of years from this Czar Bomb, so staying much into 2022 may not be the best move for older officers and ncos. Brutus: There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.

Question for our fighter pilots. I personally hate to see precious F22’s being used to intercept Bears off Alaska. Homeland defense does not need LO. Would not an F-15X be a better choice for that mission than a single engine F-16?

You don't think they added some deice fluid to their boiling water water? And where did they get the heat to boil the water, a volcano?

"Should Texas receive federal disaster aid if they don’t implement federal preparedness recommendations? " Where did you get that idea? Yes we have our own grid, but there are still thousands of pages of federal regulations our power plants must follow. None of which would have made a difference last week. Oh, and it is the Blue States, not Texas, that are begging DC to help them pay for their massive deficit spending caused by wildly overgenerous government employee benefits, corrupt bureaucracies, and crony capitalism. All while seeing their tax bases erode as productive private sector businesses and individuals flee their high taxes and crumbling schools and infrastructures.

The first really solid information I've seen: https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/safety-ops-regulation/engine-failure-prompts-immediate-action-pratt-powered-777s?utm_rid=CPEN1000000908217&utm_campaign=27215&utm_medium=email&elq2=25ee13d7962143da8db4c5a35286595c

What motors did these two airplanes have?

I amin Austin. We have been hit hard by this winter storm. Roads have been impassable for the last two days. Last night it went down to 5F! A new record low. Lots of pipes breaking, especially in apartment buildings. All utilities in Texas have been ordered to reduce power consumption. Allsources of power, even nuclear, are suffering from outages due to frozen plumbing. Windmills are pretty much shut down. Natural gas is reduced also, but not as bad. The City operated power grid said they would rotate power outages, but really it looks like you either have power or not. My daughter, for example, has been without power for two days. I live on the edge of the city, but get my power from a large electric coop. My power rotates on a fairly predictable schedule, 2 hours off and about four hours on. Because the roads are so bad the stores are running out of food since the trucks can’t make deliveries. I have a Harbor Freight 2000 watt generator that helps us limp through the outages. Being a former EWO, I also have a Ham radio station that can operate off grid on solar power when our society finally breaks down.

I had no reactions at all to either Moderna shot. The pharmacist told me I was an outlier.

“Again...you don't need to interview every single American to build statistical models that represent the population.” Of course polls are scientific. Just ask President Hillary. Or ask 538 what happened to the 2020 Blue Wave in the congressional election.

This notion that conservatives are more likely to be anti-faxers is not supported by facts. It is the left that hates ‘big pharma’ and the organtic granola nutcases who won’t get their kids vacinated. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/02/conservatives-and-liberals-hold-anti-science-views-anti-vaxxers-are-a-bipartisan-problem.html

Do you now, or have you ever, owned a MAGA hat?

I’ve read that the Pantsir is perceived as a POS by the people who bought them.

I recently went on TFL. Based on my experience with my November very expensive knee replacement followed by months of PT, I'd say TFL is the Golden Ticket for American insurance plans. One other note. If you are on TFL, but your spouse is not yet on Medicare then you have to pay $12.50 a month for their Tricare. I'm really grateful for what I have in the way of insurance, now that I'm old enough to really need it. I tire of the other old geezers who whine 'I WAS PROMISED FREE FREE FREE' about having to pay a minimal amount for great coverage.

I would expect a significant increase in domestic passenger flying by this summer. Especially if the J&J one shot vaccine gets out there. It seems to me likely that international passenger flying will take longer to pick back up, because a lot of countries, including ours, will continue to be reluctant to allow a lot of international visitors for a while longer. My grandson is begging to go to Disney World, and I'd like to take him before I'm too old and decrepit. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only random dude who is itching to get out of the local area as soon as I can.

I got the first Moderna shot a week ago. Zero side effects.

I was a mere nav, but we did have standups at was then called UNT. We had one guy in class who told us on day one to call him ‘Diamond Jack’. He was from some yankee state, wore lots of jewelry and like to wave his Amex card around while telling us how rich he was. He got stood up on one of our first flights. I don’t recall the question, but I have vivid memory of him shaking like a leaf, stuttering, with a deer in the headlights look. He washed out very quickly out of what was in retrospect notthat tough a course.

That seems so wrong, but I’m prejudiced. My EW school was almost six months long after nav school. What good is a WSO who doesn’t know what a prf is going to be to a growler squadron? Such a person would be almost useless in a Weasel or Raven squadron back in the day.