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Does that mean you're gonna stop posting?

A couple of thumbtacks will probably suffice....

Yep, those are cheaper in the US too.

Median income in Russia $5500. Median income in USA ... $19,300. So gas is effectively more than twice as expensive in Russia.

Unfortunately he’s not running for re-election in Poland.

Enough with posting the same memes, videos, and ads over and over Wendy P.

Hi, in order to limit the trolling, could we implement a maximum post per day per person? Like a 10 posts max in the same forum ?

So are you saying Trump is bipolar? That might explain some things.

SpaceX does things differently. They prefer rapid design & testing and learn from their many failures. NASA does the opposite, probably because it's a government agency. Each has its own merits. I have no doubt that we will see significant improvement in the next Starship test flight. We have some important dates - Artemis II is scheduled in November 2024, and Artemis III is some time in 2025. It's an exciting era. To the Moon and Mars!

For today's Hero of the Anti-Woke we go back to Tennessee, to one of the people who voted to expel black legislators for protesting. Scotty Campbell (39) has just been forced out of the Tennessee House for sexual harassement of two much younger interns, making sexual comments to both of them. One of them contacted the ethics committee after she became afraid of what might happen next. The ethics committee kept this under wraps, but did spend tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to relocate her to someplace farther away from Campbell, presumably so no one would find out what might happen next. Campbell defended this, saying he "had consensual, adult conversations with two adults off property." Needless to say, even the Tennessee government does actually have a policy forbidding such canoodling between elected politicians and the interns who work for them. This, of course, is not an issue for the anti-woke. "How can the government tell me what I can and can't say for the people who work for me? I pay THEM! If I want to use them for phone sex that is my God-given right as a powerful man!" For voting to expel two of his colleagues for protesting with another group, while keeping his sex talks with interns a secret, Scotty Campbell wins today's "Heroes of the Anti-Woke" award.

Guardian: Lachlan Murdoch drops defamation proceedings against independent Australian publisher Crikey Murdoch said he was confident he would have won but he “does not wish to further enable Crikey’s use of the court to litigate a case from another jurisdiction that has already been settled and facilitate a marketing campaign designed to attract subscribers and boost their profits”. Riiiiggghhthttttt; That must be the reason.

Whether he is right or wrong, I think his theory is neat and outside of the box. As far as I can tell, he doesn't argue with the flight path, he argues where the plane was on the flight path during the time line and specifically at the suspected jump time of 8:11pm. I'm not a radar or aviation expert, but I would think that if he agrees with the SAGE radar derived flight path, he would then have to somehow reconcile how the position of the plane at a given point in time on that flight path was that badly missed (I know that people have stated a margin of error of 1 to 3 miles on the "pings" on the boards in the past). In other words, wouldn't the radar plotted points be associated with time? I can't remember him addressing this in his book. Maybe R99 has some thoughts ? In Edwards book, (drawing from memory here), one of the ~5 or so NWO flight ops personnel listening in during the hijacking had reported the position of the 305 significantly further south of I think the Battleground DME than the other flight ops personnel. He then used that position to trace back where the plane would have been at the 8:11 jump time which I believe would have been somewhere around the Colombia River. In Edwards latest blog post, he is using some educated assumptions of the plane's speed from the time it left SEATAC to the 8:11pm jump time to calculate where the plane would have been at 8:11pm. He concludes that his estimation has the plane 8.36 miles further south of where the FBI/SAGE derived flight path had the plane. So if the the original/offical jump point was somewhere around Ariel/Lake Merwin area, 8.36 miles south roughly somewhere in that Heisson area ? Now, this is clearly an estimate, he keeps his theory as a range of 6 to 12 miles. Isn't Heisson/Battlground/Ridgefield where the FBI eventually wound up adjusting the drop zone to anyway ? I am expecting another follow up post with some more details from Edwards, let's see where he goes with it.

To be fair to them, “unplanned descent of aviation munitions” is one of the finest euphemisms I’ve ever heard.

Kids in the Ukrainian Army Headquarters in Donetsk? This is sounding like your US political prisoners, you can't name a single one. Not a single name. In other news, Russia's finest bombs its own city:

Yup. The Porter is a VERY capable STOL aircraft. The CIA operated "Air America" used them a lot in SE Asia during the Viet Nam conflict. They'd cut runways into the jungle on the side of mountains. Land uphill, so the slope cuts the landing distance. Unload/reload, spin around and take off downhill. Again, a very short distance.

Yeah, and once we hit 13 we realized what those other plants were, and started raiding those instead

No it does not. As a listener of NPR I would say that it is very in tune to and focused on America and American politics. It is extremely Washington centric. This means that it does a great job of serving the American people, which is its mandate. The state based local stations are equally focussed on covering their customer base. It is not beholden to either of the dominant parties, but in covering the craziness of politics these days the picture being painted makes one of them look bad. It can't be helped. Even when using even brush strokes the right side of the image usually appears dark and foreboding.

But....not only are they cowards they are also unmotivated lazy drunkards as well. When they do manage to run over an undefended town they immediately go to the local hospital and murder babies. Just like the Iraqis did in Kuwait.

I really think it's too much to broad brush an entire people as anything. I think that's especially true when calling any group cowards. For example, I am certain my old man would have thought most blacks were cowards until he watched the Red Tails form off his bomber and go through the flack instead of skedaddling like all of the white fighter pilots did.

This pretty much describes the thinking from the leadership of all sides during WW1.

Yep. I remember during one Lost Prairie boogie, Larry brought in the Porter and landed it at the brewery. When he took off (in zero wind) it took about 4 aircraft lengths to get airborne. That was with one pilot and almost no fuel of course. We were taking bets and everyone guessed too long a distance. (Except for one guy who said "ten feet" just to be funny.)

I used to have a motorized hang glider. With winds about 15 kn on flat level ground. I could take off without stepping and land without taking a step. But gusting winds above that would become dangerous because it had such a low wing loading. Same sort of idea as this one, but not identical.

It makes me a little uptight to know that people feel such an amendment is needed.

Hi Bill, I hope that the nails his balls to the wall. Jerry Baumchen

True. We would lose our well paying jobs if we didn't have more work to do.