The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 1/30/25

Good morning kids. The big story this morning is out of DC, but it's not politics. Late last night an American Airlines jet collided with an Army helicopter near Reagan National airport, over the Potomac River. This is sadly now being called a mass casualty event. Prayers for the victims and loved ones. While of course, the focus is on rescue and recovery, given everything going on over the past several months, in terms of both the drone sightings, the questioning of competency of individuals in critical skilled professions and the military because of the destructive and corrosive nature of DEI, and of course the possibility of terrorism, not only in the wake of the current situation in Gaza/Lebanon/Syria and Yemen that ultimately leads to Iran but the open border and the threat to us in the wake of and well before 9/11/01.

Unfortunately, because of all of the aforementioned madness, an incident like this makes all of it come to mind when the reality is, the crash could just be plain old human error or some random failure/glitch somewhere, and not something nefarious. Mercifully, on a national level and by all appearances on the local level, the situation is not being dealt with by the likes of Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom.

Can you imagine?!

California homeowners are facing an unprecedented crisis. And the crisis is as much of a political disaster as it is a natural one. While some blame global warming for worsening this latest disaster, it is the corrupt politics of the state’s political majority that is the real issue.
California’s Democrat majority has sent the state down into a chain of crises, from crime to homelessness to droughts and disasters, worsening natural crises and manufacturing human crises, raising endless taxes and bonds with the promise of finally solving them only to corruptly loot the money for special interests, politically connected allies and into their own pockets.
Now, as California desperately needs to save its insurance market, the ex-illegal alien in a position to shape the state’s response may become its latest official indicted for corruption.

waiting for someone in DC, is it still that hideous slag Muriel Bowser?, to blame Climate change and White Supremacy.

Fire Department says 300 first responders are are carrying out a “highly complex operation.
- This flight route from Kansas direct to Reagan National (DCA) has only been operating for about a year.
- Airport Authority says crews are providing support to families. American Airlines set up rooms for families and counselors. “We are in a rescue mode.”
- Both aircraft are in the water. Divers are working both aircraft
- 64 people were on the American Airlines flight, and three crew members were on the helicopter.
- FAA and NTSB will be conducting the investigation.
- American Airlines number for family members is 1-800-679-8215.
Sen. Roger Marshall said, “When one person dies it’s a tragedy, but when many, many, many people die it’s an unbearable sorrow.” No deaths were confirmed by officials during the press conference.
- Washington Fire Chief John Donnelly said the water is “dark and murky.
. . . ABC News reports this is the first major commercial crash in the United States since 2009. The last crash involved Colgan Air Flight 3407, which crashed near Buffalo, New York. Late Wednesday night, President Trump posted his thoughts on the circumstances surrounding the tragic crash. “What a terrible night this has been. God bless you all!,” the president stated.

And with that, as the President himself might say, we'll have to just wait and see how this situation shakes out in terms of the cause and how best to prevent a repeat. All things considered, to not have a major air crash here in the US for 16 years, given the number of aircraft in the air at any given time, is still kind of amazing to consider.

The other big story, was the confirmation hearing for RFK Jr. in which he not only made especially the Democrat Senators on the panel look like idiots but in his own way exposed them as the hypocrites they are by in essence revealing them to be stooges, shills and completely in the in the pocket of Big Pharma.

As Megyn Kelly notes:

“His opponents didn’t get it. Even some of the Republicans didn’t get it. But for the most part, they did well, the Republican senators. A couple, which I’ll go over, were annoying,” Kelly said. “But the Democrats once again made fools out of themselves. They made fools out of themselves. In the same way they keep looking at Trump and saying, ‘Hitler, Nazi, fascist, convicted felon.’ And everybody’s like, ‘Screw you, we have a country to save.’ That’s how I felt today watching them go after RFK [Jr.].” “His opponents didn’t get it. Even some of the Republicans didn’t get it. But for the most part, they did well, the Republican senators. A couple, which I’ll go over, were annoying,” Kelly said. “But the Democrats once again made fools out of themselves. They made fools out of themselves. In the same way they keep looking at Trump and saying, ‘Hitler, Nazi, fascist, convicted felon.’ And everybody’s like, ‘Screw you, we have a country to save.’ That’s how I felt today watching them go after RFK [Jr.].”
. . . “His opponents didn’t get it. Even some of the Republicans didn’t get it. But for the most part, they did well, the Republican senators. A couple, which I’ll go over, were annoying,” Kelly said. “But the Democrats once again made fools out of themselves. They made fools out of themselves. In the same way they keep looking at Trump and saying, ‘Hitler, Nazi, fascist, convicted felon.’ And everybody’s like, ‘Screw you, we have a country to save.’ That’s how I felt today watching them go after RFK [Jr.].”

So, do they hate RFK Jr. simply because Trump picked him, or because he agreed to be Trump's pick, some combo of both or because his stances are a threat to their power, influence and access to the trough, which actually is a central pillar of the MAGA movement, the upending of the tables of the moneychangers and restoration of the power of the people back to the people. Ditto every other nominee and of course every single one of us who voted for him to do what he said he would, twit: "drain the swamp."

And the Trump effect is or potentially could be that more and more people are now aware that there is a swamp, its malign intentions and then its breadth and depth. Here's to four years of Trump exactly like his first "orgasmatronic" (yes that is a word as I have confirmed on our latest podcast episode linked here and the sidebar)

10 days and then the next 8 years of Vance followed on by 8 more years of whoever is his running mate? Any guesses or am I tempting fate here?

So, evidently President Trump is sending illegal alien criminals to Gitmo! While he's at it, he needs to make room for miscreant traitors like this:

Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) out of her office Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by President Donald Trump, Reuters first reported.
Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the department, reportedly earlier informed colleagues of her intention to stay, arguing in an email obtained by the outlet that Trump’s termination orders “do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time.”
The White House terminated Fong along with 16 other federal inspectors general via email Friday. The USDA inspector general position carries broad oversight authority within the agency, with jurisdiction over all programs, personnel and operations under the USDA’s umbrella, from farm subsidies to food safety regulations.

I prefer Kam Fong as Chin Ho, and Zulu as Kono myself.

Have a great day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

The American Airlines flight traveling from Wichita, Kan., collided with the military chopper while approaching Runaway 33 at the DC airport around 9 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation…
Air traffic controller’s reaction to DC collision revealed in chilling audio: ‘Crash, crash, crash, this is an alert three’
“I have been fully briefed on the terrible accident which just took place at Reagan National Airport,” Trump said in a statement. “May God Bless their souls. Thank you for the incredible work being done by our first responders. I am monitoring the situation and will provide more details as they arise.” Trump’s statement comes after Vice President JD Vance also issued a statement calling for prayers “for everyone involved in the mid-air collision near Reagan airport.”
Trump Thanks First Responders for ‘Incredible Work’ After Collision at Reagan Airport
"Because ESG and ‘stakeholder capitalism’—social activism masquerading as business—demonstrably underperform actual capitalism, the woke proponents of such schemes are vulnerable to class action claims and other forms of legal redress by shortchanged shareholders."(Hat tip to co-blogger Buck Throckmorton - jjs)
The End of Index-Fund Activism
Victor Davis Hanson: After years of U.S. appeasement, Mexico exploits open borders, drug trade, and remittances—it's time for America to enforce real consequences and reclaim control.
Mexico—Friend, Enemy, Neutral, or Something Else?

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

According to the Border Patrol, the number of suspected got-aways in the Del Rio Sector also plummeted, dropping by more than 60 percent, from 229 to 82, during the post-inauguration week. In the Texas Rio Grande Valley, daily migrant apprehensions during the weekend before the inauguration fell to just 211, compared to 1,154 over the same period one week before the inauguration. Known migrant got-aways for that border region dropped nearly 40 percent, from 75 to 46, according to the Border Patrol.
Border Apprehensions Plummet as Trump Effect Sets In
Evelyn Brown, an 80-year-old Bronxite, put it succinctly: “Get them the hell out of the street so people don’t have to walk in fear.” Amen to that.
Dems scream ‘racism,’ but NYC minorities cheer Trump’s ICE raids
The facility will be used to "detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people," Trump said.
President Trump To Use Guantanamo Bay For Illegal Alien Detention
The legislation, named after Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley, would mandate the government “detaining” illegal aliens “charged with theft or burglary.”
Trump to Sign Laken Riley Act
"I mean, like I can’t wait, I can’t wait, I can’t wait until American women can’t get blueberries for their smoothies." (Hire Mayor Pete to pick dingleberries - jjs)
Dem Strategist Says Immigration Crackdown Means No One To Pick Berries ‘For Smoothies’
Birthright citizenship has at least contributed to and exacerbated the crisis of illegal immigration....
No, 'birthright citizenship' is not a constitutional requirement
The D.C.-based Acacia Center for Justice is squarely at odds with the Trump administration
'No Immigrant Should Be Detained,' Says Left-Wing Nonprofit With $769 Million Federal Immigration Contract (Hello Pres. Trump, Breach of Contract! - jjs)
Former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden initially extended TPS for Venezuelans for an additional 18 months shortly before Trump assumed office on January 20. TPS is a designation that allows foreign citizens to remain in the U.S. when conditions in their home country, such as ongoing armed conflict or environmental disasters, prevent a safe return. Still, its extension to Venezuelans has been controversial in light of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang’s rapid growth in the U.S.
Trump Ends Protected Status for Venezuelan Migrants.
LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES
“Mudslide Season” has officially started.
Winter Storm Essentially Extinguishes Greater Los Angeles Wildfires
Daniel Greenfield: California’s corruption is the unnatural disaster behind the fires.
Ex-Illegal Alien Senator Suspected of Bribery Leads California’s Insurance
Wasserman was also accused of having multiple affairs with women on his staff.
Newsom Taps Dem Megadonor Linked To Epstein To Lead L.A. Fire Recovery Initiative
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
More than half were serving life sentences for terror attacks.
Two Hundred ‘Palestinian’ Terrorists Freed This Week For Four Israeli Girls
Fetterman was the only Democrat to support the GOP’s Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, which failed to clear a procedural hurdle Tuesday. The Democrat senator expressed on X that he was “deeply disappointed” by the decision and that his “vote follows Israel—not the ICC that equivocated the democratically elected leader of our special ally to the terrorists and rapists of Hamas.”
‘Deeply Disappointed’: Fetterman Slams His Own Party For Shielding International Court Trying To Arrest Netanyahu
A proposal that deserves serious consideration.
Trump Calls for 1,500,000 Gazans to Be Moved to Egypt and Jordan
The key factor in resolving the issue of the 'Palestinians' is to think outside the box.
Relocating "Palestinians" might just work
Almisshal is said to moonlight as a producer for Hamas’s propaganda arm, i24 said in a Hebrew-language report televised on Wednesday. He is one of several Al Jazeeera journalists alleged to work with the terror group and even serve in its ranks. Israel shuttered Al Jazeera’s offices in May 2024, deeming it a national security threat.
Al Jazeera Journo Produced Hamas Propaganda Videos Documenting Terror Group's Release of Israeli Hostages: Report

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The order takes unprecedented steps to combat anti-Semitism
Trump To Sign Executive Order To Deport Anti-Semitic Foreign Students And Protesters
A win for Wax will likely set the standard and force an even more rapid and complete elimination of DEI.
Shot – Amy Wax: Penn's antisemitism is going to cost them
Anti-Israel and pro-Hamas activism is also included within that scope. Under Nadasen, the Center for Research on Women was advertised as the host of the infamous "Resistance 101" event held last March, which featured a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group and saw speakers explicitly call for terrorism against Jews. When a doctoral student complained to Columbia, organizers moved the event.
Chaser: Barnard Names New Head of Women's Center: Anti-Israel Gender Prof Who Stood Watch as Student Radicals Stormed Columbia Campus Building
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
In recent months, Australia has experienced a series of antisemitic incidents, with synagogues, properties, and vehicles targeted, notably since the escalation of Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group following the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks on Israel. The increase in such incidents has led to criticism of left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s administration as a general election looms before May.Christians have also been targeted by Islamists in Australia, with Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and Father Isaac Royel being stabbed by a 16-year-old jihadist in the middle of a live-streamed church service in Sydney last year.
Cops Intercept Explosive-Filled Camper Van Near Synagogue.
Two former police officers have been arrested after being accused of misconduct in public office and sexually abusing children in an English town where a Muslim child grooming gang operated for over a decade. The ex-officers, who had not been named as of the time of publication, have been taken into custody amid an investigation into child sexual exploitation in the rape gang hotspot of Rotherham, England.The arrests follow complaints from four individuals who allege they were victims of abuse connected to two ex-South Yorkshire Police constables. The offenses reportedly occurred during both on-duty and off-duty periods.
Former POLICE Have Been Implicated in Britain’s Rape and Grooming Gang Scandal.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Soft-on-crime policy is “kindness to the cruel.”
Stopping Anti-Semitism Goes Hand-in-Hand with Stopping Crime
Trump’s actions pave the way for Christians to live out obedience to God without the retribution guaranteed by the Biden junta.
Christians Who Opposed Trump Should Examine Their Hearts After His Week Of Big Biblical Wins
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI+Pelosi-engineered FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the department, reportedly earlier informed colleagues of her intention to stay, arguing in an email obtained by the outlet that Trump’s termination orders “do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time.” (I prefer Kam Fong as Chin Ho - jjs)
Inspector General Escorted Out Of Office After Defying Trump’s Dismissal
The Capitol riot fueled the war on wrongthink. Clemency for Capitol rioters should represent the start of the end of that war. (There was no riot! It was a Democrat/FBI staged entrapment op! - jjs)
Trump’s J6 Pardons Signal The End Of The War On Wrongthink
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Candidates for New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary election who once railed against police are shifting their stances amid public outrage over crime. Zellnor Myrie, Scott Stringer and Brad Lander previously pushed to defund or restrict police after the death of George Floyd in 2020 but now focus their campaigns on supporting law enforcement, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Crime is top of mind for the election as the city has failed to bring murder rates below pre-COVID-19 levels.
Democrats Running For Mayor In Crime-Ridden New York City Suddenly Back Cops
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Miranda Devine delivers the definitive account of the Biden crime family.
The Big Guy’s Treason
These pardons are part of a series of unprecedented acts that raise crucial questions about Biden’s legitimacy, transparency and his legacy.
Biden's final pardons tell a damning story
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
I suspect nothing will change, and Musk was merely trolling the press. And the press mostly fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.
Musk posts a silly tweet saying Trump wants SpaceX to rescue the Starliner astronauts and the press goes stupid again
Trump’s surprisingly high numbers with young voters can be seen as a reflection of his preference for social media, rather than traditional media, for communicating with the American people. During the final months of the 2024 campaign, the former and current president utilized a strategy referred to by some as a “podcast blitz,” appearing on multiple livestreams and podcasts with popular influencers and social media personalities; these included Adin Ross, Theo Von, the Nelk Boys, Logan Paul, and Joe Rogan.
Poll: Voters Trust President Trump More than Mainstream Media
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Of all those responding, 34% said tariffs would “protect American jobs and strengthen the U.S. economy,” while 36% said it would “raise consumer costs and harm the economy,” and 9% said “it will not have much impact either way.” Again, a large 21% of all those who answered the polls said they were “not sure.”
Americans Embrace Trump Tariffs, See Foreign Investment Boost In U.S. As Likely Result: I&I/TIPP Poll
SECOND AMENDMENT
Unlike other parts of the Constitution, the Second Amendment has been politicized to the point it is often treated as a second-class right.
Why Congress Needs To Swiftly Pass Concealed-Carry Reciprocity
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Trump’s executive order bans DEI in higher ed, mandates compliance, and puts school officials on the hook—no more hiding behind bureaucracy.
Bravo, Trump, for Restoring Merit and Banning Neo Racism in American Education
The Transgender Educators Network prepared a list of recommendations for schools to implement
EXCLUSIVE: Activist Teacher Network Urges Schools To Ban ‘Transphobic’ Language
School discipline is declining, and the education establishment is clueless about how to improve things.
Mounting Disobedience in Our Schools
ABORTION
Speaking to the Committee members, RFK Jr. called every abortion a “tragedy” and said he agreed with President Trump that “we cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year.”
RFK Jr. Pledges to Implement Trump Plan to End Late-Term Abortions.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The ex-senator was sentenced along with two co-conspirators, New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana and Fred Daibes, who received more than seven years and eight years respectively, on Wednesday, federal attorneys in New York announced.
Former Democrat New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez Sentenced to 11 Years
MORE CONFIRMATION HEARING MADNESS
“Our ship is sinking. Our 60% increase in Medicaid over the past four years is the biggest budget line now, and it’s growing faster than any other.” Biden’s border invasion is what happened over the past four years.
Miranda Devine: Contentious RFK Jr. hearings reveal the border crisis under the Biden junta is why our healthcare has faltered
At one point, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) went on such an insane rant that RFK Jr. couldn't help but laugh:
WATCH: RFK Jr. Wipes the Floor With Senate Democrats During Confirmation Hearing
“Well, I’m not going to apologize for that. We have massive health problems in this country that we must face honestly, and the first thing I’ve done every morning for the past 20 years is to get on my knees and pray to God that he would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic and to help America’s children,” he revealed, expressing gratitude for President Trump for putting him in the position to be able to help on this critical front.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Addresses Critics Head On: ‘I’m Not Going to Apologize’ for Questioning the Status Quo
Kennedy. . . argued that the billions of dollars sent to Medicaid on a yearly basis has not succeeded in making citizens healthier. He argued that a majority of Americans do not approve of government-run health insurance such as the Affordable Care Act or Medicaid.
RFK Jr. Turns Tables On Dems ‘Chuckling’ About His Claim That Americans Prefer Private Insurance
This weekend’s Colombia lesson should be clear: Don’t mess with a man on a mission.
Senators: Don’t Be Colombia
POLITICS
Trump's job approval is 10 points higher than it was at the beginning of his first term.
Dems’ Favorability Underwater By 26 Points While Trump Enjoys Net Positive Rating, Poll Shows
“You know, we spent three days, you know, debating having them trying to debate that President Musk gave a Nazi salute. Of course he did.”
Tim Walz: ‘Pure Hell’ Losing to Trump, Democrats ‘Fatigued’ (four years plus16 of Vance and his running mate takes us through 2045, Please God! - jjs)
With all the choices we have these days in terms of things to watch — whether it’s on TV, YouTube, social media or streaming platforms — it’s insane to think that one singular event could garner as many viewers as people who reportedly voted for former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden in 2020.
Trump Inauguration Reportedly Breaks Viewership Record, 80.7 Million People Across Platforms
2024 is a new day, and Donald Trump is a different person.
Trump's Evolution
America won’t have to build a wall to keep Californians out; they’ll build one to keep them in.
Will California succeed in secession?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Daniel Greenfield: After Trump said he wanted Greenland, Denmark pledged to buy two extra dogsled teams
Denmark is Defending Greenland With Sled Dogs
Trudeau himself, who announced plans to resign from his decade at the helm of the Canadian government in January, is concluding a visit to Poland and has not played a prominent role in his government’s response to the tariff threat since his resignation announcement.
Report: Canada Mulls Massive ‘Pandemic-Style’ Bailout to Prepare for Trump Tariffs
Meanwhile, Kenya considering self-reliance and regional healthcare alliances as it strips Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of Its legal immunities and tax exemptions.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Proposes Measure to Leave World Health Organization
On Monday, the rebels entered Goma, the capital of North Kivu province. Over a dozen peacekeepers working for MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping mission to the Congo, were killed, along with government soldiers, allied militia fighters, and civilians.
Half A Million Civilians Displaced in DR Congo as Government Loses Grip on Major City
Cuba does not change but it fears Trump a lot. . . And that's the best news that the Cuban political prisoners can get.
It reminds me of my days in Cuba
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Rampant Chinese industrial espionage through the H-1B program could give the communists an upper hand in the AI race.
The New AI Race With China Shows Why Trump Needs To Crack Down On H-1Bs
Located throughout California, the greater Washington, D.C. area, Hawaii, and New York, the network of more than a dozen nonprofits share information with Chinese law enforcement officials, and some also host unsanctioned courtrooms in the U.S., a months-long investigation discovered. Although the Chinese government claims it appoints law enforcement officials overseas in order to more conveniently handle mundane matters like Chinese driver’s license renewal and international divorce cases, U.S. lawmakers and intelligence analysts say China’s underground courts could easily be weaponized to punish dissidents and expand communist influence abroad. (the CCP has to be annihilated for the betterment of humanity - jjs)
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Communist Party Quietly Operates Shadow Justice System In US Cities
Milley is accused of attempting to "undermine the chain of command."
‘New Era Of Accountability’: Hegseth Strips Gen. Vanilli Milley’s Security Detail
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
A legal organization chaired by Democrat election attorney Marc Elias and funded by a number of major left-wing donor groups helped the National Council of Nonprofits (NCN) to temporarily block the Trump administration’s newly-announced freeze on certain types of taxpayer-funded federal grants. (What an instantly better world this would be if Marc Ellis suddenly disappeared - jjs)
Liberal Donors, Marc Elias And Biden-Appointed Judge Freeze Trump Push To Starve Woke Nonprofits Of Taxpayer Cash
Obviously, the frozen federal funds will eventually be disbursed. Trump can't unilaterally undo what Congress has done. The money has already been appropriated. But Trump's opponents are probably wrong in saying the move to freeze the funds is "illegal." There are very few grants and loans with a specific time frame for disbursement. Trump is well within his rights as chief executive to choose when most of those funds are activated.
[UPDATE] White House Rescinds Federal Aid Freeze Memo
The deal would mean workers would get paid through September if they resign by February 6.
‘Fork In The Road’: Trump Makes Offer For Millions Of Federal Workers To Resign
Ernst, who re-introduced a package of legislation intended to move bureaucrats across multiple agencies out of the Washington D.C. area Jan. 7, submitted similar legislation in December. The legislation, called the “Returning SBA to Main Street Act,” requires the agency to move at least 30% of its employees outside the Washington, D.C. area and to reduce its office space by a similar percentage. (RELATED: ‘Drain The Swamp’: Senator Proposes Bill To Evict Vast Swaths Of Federal Bureaucracy From DC)
EXCLUSIVE: GOP Senator Reintroduces Bill To Boot One Agency’s Bureaucrats Outside The Beltway
It demonstrates how private enterprise can revolutionize transportation infrastructure.
The U.S. Could Learn a Lesson From This Florida Railroad
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Does Trump know what he’s getting himself into? He’d better if he hopes to win.
Fight Gender Ideology, and You Go to War
A past Supreme Court ruling may be a stumbling block.
Trump’s Gender Policy is Correct and Sensical But Will Likely Face Legal Challenges
“IOC’s shift may alter DSD [Differences of Sexual Development], trans rules- here is hoping Seb Coe is the next president!!!” The tennis star added a link to a story laying out Coe’s positions.
Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Endorses Olympics President Candidate Who Opposes Trans Athletes
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: Lil Rel Howery's comic edge adds spark to Dav Pilkey's beloved cop caper
Colorful ‘Dog Man’ Movie Guaranteed to Woo Fans

The clip showed the performer swimming gracefully underwater, seemingly unaware that the big fish behind her was about to attack. Without warning, the fish took a hold of her head and shook her violently from side to side before she was able to break free and frantically swim to the surface. (The bite radius was similar to that of Rashida Coelacanth Tlaib, who was unavailable for comment at press time - jjs)
Children Scream In Terror As Giant Fish Bites Head Of Mermaid Performer

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1 Woot

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 30, 2025 07:31 AM (b294k)

2 GM all. Thanks, JJ.

Now, content calls.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 07:32 AM (1bNHn)

3 yay another day another grossly depreciated dollar

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 30, 2025 07:33 AM (CWTWj)

4
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2025 07:34 AM (tljrc)

5 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 30, 2025 07:35 AM (a1415)

6 Jan 25 went fast

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 07:35 AM (gbOdA)

7 Rumor has it that Joy Bayhard got her job at the View because of her appearance.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

8
aaand ah onesie, anda' twosie...

Posted by: Zombie Lawrence Welk at January 30, 2025 07:37 AM (EFZgU)

9 Leftism is an ersatz religion. Closest to Scientology as its true believers are schmucks, its heirarchy only "believes" to keep the scam going, and its public face are celebrities who use it for career advancement. I'm looking at you Tom!

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 30, 2025 07:37 AM (Gqoy+)

10 So, do they hate RFK Jr. simply because Trump picked him, or because he agreed to be Trump's pick, some combo of both or because his stances are a threat to their power, influence and access to the trough...
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Obviously, a combination of two things:

1. They see him as a turncoat.

2. He is attacking a Pharma industry that has pretty much bought and paid for Bernie and Liawatha. (I wish someone would throw this fact in their faces.)

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 07:37 AM (1bNHn)

11 Good morning, one and all. While I have commentary about the accident, I am forcing myself to obey the 72 hour rule.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2025 07:38 AM (svLOV)

12 Of course, Lon Chaney got his jobs because of his appearance too.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2025 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

13 yup, Second Amendment, the only part of the Constitution that has shrunk, instead of expanding

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 30, 2025 07:39 AM (uX4GZ)

14 10 He is attacking a Pharma industry that has pretty much bought and paid for Bernie and Liawatha. (I wish someone would throw this fact in their faces.)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 07:37 AM (1bNHn)

Margolis has this angle at PJ Media but it's behind their paywall.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2025 07:40 AM (x0n13)

15 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 30, 2025 07:40 AM (bi309)

16 WTF would we want to pay to house 30,000 illegals at Gitmo?

Unless this is just a tactic to scare them to go back to where they came from I do not like this idea.

Lots of attorneys at Gitmo.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 07:40 AM (PMtkd)

17 Any survivors from the collision?

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 30, 2025 07:42 AM (bi309)

18 There are already demands that Palisades become a multi-family Apartment building style community.

Talk about not waiting till Aunt Edna is dead to start splitting up the silverware.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 07:42 AM (gbOdA)

19 RFKjr left the commie plantation. This is verboten and they will do everything to destroy him.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2025 07:43 AM (dR6yv)

20 Repeated earlier.. leftists are trash. Not surprisingly, crash is Trump's fault. Types. Deletes types deletes

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 30, 2025 07:44 AM (/6GbT)

21

Ersatz, sounds like a German airline.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2025 07:44 AM (x0n13)

22 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 07:45 AM (ExV1e)

23 WTF would we want to pay to house 30,000 illegals at Gitmo?

Unless this is just a tactic to scare them to go back to where they came from I do not like this idea.

Their countries of origin don't want them either.

Incarceration in the US is terribly expensive and given the absolute garbage we have posing as Federal Correction officers and wardens, I don't trust any of them to do their jobs.

I'm totally against just warehousing people, I would prefer that these animals are put down or placed in a penal colony.

Maybe some shithole country can offer up a service to collect the human garbage and find a way to channel all of that youth energy into something productive like canal digging or manual rare earth mining.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 07:45 AM (a4flb)

24 I'm just seeing the DC collision story.

How does a commercial passenger plane and an Army Blackhawk EVER collide midair. Someone, somewhere really f&cked up in a way that hasn't been f&cked up before in either the FAA or the military...unless it was the pilot of either doing it on purpose.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:46 AM (exHjb)

25 The video shows that the helicopter crashed into the airplane. Did I get that wrong?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 07:46 AM (PMtkd)

26 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

How are you feeling JJ?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2025 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

27 >Will California succeed in secession?

and which states might secede in succession?

Posted by: Don Black at January 30, 2025 07:46 AM (AOsQT)

28 There are already demands that Palisades become a multi-family Apartment building style community.

I'm sure that those in the mortgage companies holding the note for these properties are having late night meetings.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 07:47 AM (a4flb)

29 I'm changing my voter registration in NYC to Democrat with the aim of voting in the light turnout D primary, so maybe my vote will count. Hopefully, I'll have company.

AOC's puppeteers installed her in a light turnout D primary which unseated the relatively conservative old white guy incumbent.

For the times they are a changin.'

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 30, 2025 07:47 AM (Gqoy+)

30 The video shows that the helicopter crashed into the airplane. Did I get that wrong?
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 07:46 AM (PMtkd)

There was a fairly detailed discussion of the crash in Pixy's tech thread.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 07:48 AM (/HDaX)

31 Crashing a helicopter into a moving airplane seems pretty astronomic odds

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 30, 2025 07:48 AM (/6GbT)

32 Any survivors from the collision?
Posted by: callsign claymore at January 30, 2025 07:42 AM (bi309)

Water temp is 35 degrees. If they didn't make it to shore within 20 minutes, not looking real good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2025 07:48 AM (dR6yv)

33 There was a fairly detailed discussion of the crash in Pixy's tech thread.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 07:48 AM (/HDaX)

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Thank you.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 07:48 AM (PMtkd)

34 The video shows that the helicopter crashed into the airplane. Did I get that wrong?

The trial lawyers will provide the answers.

[ spoiler ]: It will be those with the deepest pockets.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 07:48 AM (a4flb)

35 I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air...

Posted by: Bloodrock at January 30, 2025 07:48 AM (7P61U)

36 17 Any survivors from the collision?
Posted by: callsign claymore at January 30, 2025 07:42 AM (bi309)

If there could be, there will be. The area has one of the best Search and Rescue crews in the world, so winter and night is doable for them.

But not sure the collision allowed for survivors.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:48 AM (exHjb)

37 Any survivors from the collision?
Posted by: callsign claymore at January 30, 2025 07:42 AM (bi309)

Water temp is 35 degrees. If they didn't make it to shore within 20 minutes, not looking real good.

Depends if the "hero" in this movie was on board.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 07:49 AM (a4flb)

38 A lot of the passengers were young ice skaters and their families returning from a figure skating championship in Wichita. Incredibly sad.

Similar to an air crash in 1961 that also killed the US Figure Skating Team, their coaches, and families.

https://is.gd/Xf9A9B

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 30, 2025 07:49 AM (9yUzE)

39 >> I prefer Kam Fong as Chin Ho, and Zulu as Kono myself.

Thank you JJ. I love the original Hawaii Five-O. Jack Lord was the ultimate cool to me in grammar school. Book ‘em Danno!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2025 07:50 AM (6RwsA)

40 Mexico encourages its expatriate illegal aliens to send back some $63 billion per year in remittances.

NO MAS

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 07:51 AM (gbOdA)

41 Will California succeed in secession?

One week at the most. If they go through with this, my parents are stuck in it.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2025 07:52 AM (svLOV)

42 President Trump immediately shows up after being notified of the crash.

Meanwhile, the meandering brain dead zombie of a former resident would have been nowhere to be found, other than some statement issued in his name by the Junta.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 07:52 AM (tT6L1)

43 24 an Army Blackhawk
I guess that is technically accurate but this was the "gold" top version which seems to be a very high end helicopter limousine that ferries our rulers about town.It would be too much to ask them use a car, they are too elite for that

Posted by: extybeebum at January 30, 2025 07:52 AM (K0IC5)

44
WTF would we want to pay to house 30,000 illegals at Gitmo?

Unless this is just a tactic to scare them to go back to where they came from I do not like this idea.

Their countries of origin don't want them either.

Incarceration in the US is terribly expensive and given the absolute garbage we have posing as Federal Correction officers and wardens, I don't trust any of them to do their jobs.

I'm totally against just warehousing people, I would prefer that these animals are put down or placed in a penal colony.

Maybe some shithole country can offer up a service to collect the human garbage and find a way to channel all of that youth energy into something productive like canal digging or manual rare earth mining.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 07:45 AM

the leftards are already referring to this plan as "Trump's concentration camp"

because of course they are

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2025 07:52 AM (tljrc)

45 yup, Second Amendment, the only part of the Constitution that has shrunk, instead of expanding

???

You think we have more Free Speech, more religious freedom, more privacy and stronger property rights now than at our Founding?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 07:53 AM (a4flb)

46 @23 The idea with Gitmo is to prime the pump for the Big Flush to follow. Ultimately to succeed in the millions, we need Illegals to self-deport.

This is ugly, but the Left purposefully created this problem. Mayorkas is one of our worst villains. The only good thing is that he let in so many millions recently that people woke up and voted for Trump. The frog jumped out of the pot.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 30, 2025 07:53 AM (Gqoy+)

47 700 migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were apprehended in the San Diego region in just one week in April 2024. Most were released into the United States to pursue asylum claims.

These are spies!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 07:53 AM (gbOdA)

48 As Megyn Kelly notes:

Has anyone else noticed that a large portion of articles these days will contain repeated sections? I mean, that quoted section said the exact same thing 3 times.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

49 "What NaCly dog said, based on the Blancolirio vid Grumpy and Recalcitrant posted.

The ATC transcript shows that the military helicopter, callsign PAT25, received and accepted a visual clearance regarding the approaching airline flight and then struck the aircraft.

Unless there are other extenuating circumstances, the blame belongs to PAT25.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 07:23 AM (/HDaX)"

Stolen from the other thread...oh crap, this does sound like our military member caused the event, and it sounds on purpose now (unless he/she had a medical or technical emergency in air after this)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:54 AM (exHjb)

50 the leftards are already referring to this plan as "Trump's concentration camp"

because of course they are

I'm fine with that accusation. It is a concentration camp.

But unlike when the D's set up their Anti-Vax concentration camps and when they threw Japanese descendants into camps during WW2, these criminals have an option to avoid the camps - LEAVE PEACEFULLY.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 07:55 AM (a4flb)

51 38 A lot of the passengers were young ice skaters and their families returning from a figure skating championship in Wichita. Incredibly sad.

Similar to an air crash in 1961 that also killed the US Figure Skating Team, their coaches, and families.

https://is.gd/Xf9A9B
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 30, 2025 07:49 AM (9yUzE)

They ignored that crash in figure skating a LONG time...wouldn't talk about it. I've watched figure skating for years and only found out about it and the skaters a few months ago...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:55 AM (exHjb)

52 Has anyone else noticed that a large portion of articles these days will contain repeated sections? I mean, that quoted section said the exact same thing 3 times.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

Glad to see I'm not the only one who noticed.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 07:55 AM (/HDaX)

53 Stolen from the other thread...oh crap, this does sound like our military member caused the event, and it sounds on purpose now (unless he/she had a medical or technical emergency in air after this)...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:54 AM (exHjb)

Why would you say on purpose?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 07:56 AM (/HDaX)

54 Has anyone else noticed that a large portion of articles these days will contain repeated sections? I mean, that quoted section said the exact same thing 3 times.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)
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Too much weed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2025 07:56 AM (RIvkX)

55 Wasserman was also accused of having multiple affairs with women on his staff.
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I guess he's automatically been tested.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 07:57 AM (1bNHn)

56 53 Stolen from the other thread...oh crap, this does sound like our military member caused the event, and it sounds on purpose now (unless he/she had a medical or technical emergency in air after this)...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:54 AM (exHjb)

Why would you say on purpose?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 07:56 AM (/HDaX)

B/c you verbally acknowledge instructions and seeing the plane, then go silent and hit in anyway? Sounds on purpose unless your copter went dead and you couldn't avoid it (or you did)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:57 AM (exHjb)

57 Has anyone else noticed that a large portion of articles these days will contain repeated sections? I mean, that quoted section said the exact same thing 3 times.

JJ threw in a test to see if anyone reads the MR.

I read the entire MR because it is the best news clipping service on the entire internet.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)

58 It would be pretty hard to steer a helicopter into a plane flying by.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2025 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

59 I read the entire MR because it is the best news clipping service on the entire internet.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)

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100%

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 07:58 AM (PMtkd)

60 And I was right - NBC4 is reporting no survivors...with already over 2 dozen body recoveries...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:58 AM (exHjb)

61 >>WTF would we want to pay to house 30,000 illegals at Gitmo?

Trump issued so many EOs over the first couple of days I think a lot of things are getting lost in all the action. Trump didn't just announce he was going to be sending illegals home and sealing the border, he instructed the State Dept. to begin the work to designate Tren de Aragua, MS-13 and the Mexican cartels as international terrorist organizations. Because they are. Tren de Aragua works for the Maduro regime. They are state sponsored terrorists.

That changes everything. We don't send border patrol to fight Hezbollah or al Qaeda, we send the military. It's one thing to deport some landscapers or hotel maids but terrorists are a different matter.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2025 07:59 AM (LkLld)

62 ‘No survivors,' DC fire chief says
By Sophia Barnes
“At this point, we don’t believe there are survivors from this accident, and we have recovered 27 people from this plane and one from the helicopter,” D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John A. Donnelly said."

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:59 AM (exHjb)

63 Good morning and happy birthday JJ!!

Thanks for a most excellent newspaper every morning. You should have one of the press passes for the White House!

Posted by: Moki at January 30, 2025 07:59 AM (wLjpr)

64 Must be nice to travel as an elite ruler
https://tinyurl.com/yrz45dmc

Posted by: extybeebum at January 30, 2025 08:00 AM (K0IC5)

65 Trump issued so many EOs over the first couple of days I think a lot of things are getting lost in all the action. Trump didn't just announce he was going to be sending illegals home and sealing the border, he instructed the State Dept. to begin the work to designate Tren de Aragua, MS-13 and the Mexican cartels as international terrorist organizations. Because they are. Tren de Aragua works for the Maduro regime. They are state sponsored terrorists.

That changes everything. We don't send border patrol to fight Hezbollah or al Qaeda, we send the military. It's one thing to deport some landscapers or hotel maids but terrorists are a different matter.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2025 07:59 AM (LkLld)

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Thank you, JackStraw. I had foolishly not even thought of the terrorist angle.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:00 AM (PMtkd)

66 So, do they hate RFK Jr....

My take on the modern Congress is that they exist to identify, demonize, and perpetuate problems that plague the American people.

The healthcare crisis exists in this country. The left blames a lack of socialized medicine - as if 80% of the healthcare dollars in this country don't come from the government already - while the right blames government policies - not unfairly but missing a couple big picture items.

Congress doesn't want issues solved. They want Americans to be emotional, but divided on the issues.

RFKJ desires to make people healthy, not "fix the medical-industrial-complex". This threatens the people who've become wealthy off this mess. And those people own politicians. He proposes solutions. And solutions are not tolerated.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

67 Morning again all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2025 08:01 AM (0bE/L)

68 Gitmo still seems to have a shit ton of lawyers.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:01 AM (PMtkd)

69 Former POLICE Have Been Implicated in Britain’s Rape and Grooming Gang Scandal.
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That's been obvious for years. And I'm not one to follow this closely.

Also, the Tories hands are as dirty as are Labour's. That's one of the reasons Starmer won big with very few votes.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:02 AM (1bNHn)

70 Water temp is 35 degrees. If they didn't make it to shore within 20 minutes, not looking real good.

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... A lot of the passengers were young ice skaters and their families returning from a figure skating championship in Wichita.

So if the water temperature was a few degrees colder, many would have survived?

too soon?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:02 AM (a4flb)

71 68 Gitmo still seems to have a shit ton of lawyers.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:01 AM (PMtkd

Behind bars? Lie to me if you must

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 30, 2025 08:03 AM (/6GbT)

72 My first take on the crash: DEI is at fault. My second take is: DEI Jihadi.

Very very far down the list is ordinary human error.

I don't like the fact my initial take on a horrific accident like this is anything other than ordinary human error with tragic consequences.

Yay politics.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 08:03 AM (tT6L1)

73 Behind bars? Lie to me if you must
Posted by: A dude in MI at January 30, 2025 08:03 AM (/6GbT)

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Heh. I wish.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:03 AM (PMtkd)

74 Hard to get to the comments today - front page kept jumping around like a demented cricket.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 30, 2025 08:03 AM (Wx316)

75 32 Yeah, water temp sprang immediately to mind.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 30, 2025 08:03 AM (bi309)

76 26 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

How are you feeling JJ?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2025 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

Thanks for Axing. Pretty good all told. final two rounds of chemo delayed until white blood count rebounds a bit. Nothing concerning to the doctors so I'm not either.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2025 08:04 AM (x0n13)

77 One of the US's highest level male figure skaters just lost both his parents, former Russian world champs...

Yes, it's too soon to joke...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 08:04 AM (exHjb)

78 The bite radius was similar to that of Rashida Coelacanth Tlaib, who was unavailable for comment at press time - jjs
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Not funny.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:04 AM (1bNHn)

79 B/c you verbally acknowledge instructions and seeing the plane, then go silent and hit in anyway? Sounds on purpose unless your copter went dead and you couldn't avoid it (or you did)...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:57 AM (exHjb)

Take a look at this video VIA posted in the previous thread.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcv2wy3

Flying in highly congested urban airspace is not as simple as you're suggesting.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 08:04 AM (/HDaX)

80 So, do they hate RFK Jr. simply because Trump picked him

Absolutely not. Look at the medical/food system that he's going after. Trump is taking care of the central banks and endless war, RFK is going a different pillar.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2025 08:06 AM (OqC0L)

81 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 30, 2025 08:06 AM (WXNFJ)

82 Trump’s Gender Policy is Correct and Sensical But Will Likely Face Legal Challenges
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That is why I disagree with those who think Barrett is Trump's worst choice. Gorsuch wrote that, and it's not a matter of where the grey area starts and ends; with him, it's a fundamentally unsound philosophy.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:06 AM (1bNHn)

83 re: air crash.

The jet was stabilized and on approach. Flying straight and descending. Anti-collision lights on, landing lights on. You would think even Stevie Wonder would see such a plane at night.

Sure it was a 'common' thing for the helicopter to zip across which the flight track shows. But I have a feeling we need to examine previous flights that used it to see if perhaps the helicopter turned too soon.

Or for some reason the helicopter crew got fooled as to where the passenger jet was.

Most chilling of all is if they had fallen into a pattern, knew what they were doing, and did not practice 'see and avoid.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:06 AM (Cp5Ma)

84 Hard to get to the comments today - front page kept jumping around like a demented cricket.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 30, 2025 08:03 AM (Wx316)

Like demented old circus monkey, Arthur Spooner. — Doug Heffernan

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2025 08:07 AM (6RwsA)

85 I was taking flying lessons in the early 70s in the DC area. Andrews Aero Club and an fbo out in Clinton. Even then things could get wild for a solo student in a Cessna 150. Between traffic and avoiding adiz you could be a nervous wreck just flying up to College Park for a couple touch and gos. I imagine traffic has at least quadrupled since then.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2025 08:07 AM (gm9Sb)

86 Must be nice to travel as an elite ruler
https://tinyurl.com/yrz45dmc
Posted by: extybeebum at January 30, 2025 08:00 AM (K0IC5)

Another waste of taxpayer's money. Make them walk.

Posted by: DOGE at January 30, 2025 08:07 AM (7P61U)

87 Hard to get to the comments today - front page kept jumping around like a demented cricket.

No, seriously, vmom, billionaires don't want you to read this page!

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2025 08:08 AM (OqC0L)

88 Congress doesn't want issues solved. They want Americans to be emotional, but divided on the issues.

RFKJ desires to make people healthy, not "fix the medical-industrial-complex".

I'm OK with this tactic. The "emotional" voting republic needs to loudly ask their Senators why they want Americans unhealthy.

"Why do you want us to get sick and die?"

"Why are you attacking women, children and minorities by making us sick?"

or just do as the Left and not ask questions, just assume that they want us dead and use a good old time-tested evergreen:

"You are murdering women, children and minorities by sucking up to Corporate America!"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:08 AM (a4flb)

89 Thanks for the Mornings Report JJ!

Just fyi the Megan Kelly quote is repeating text

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 30, 2025 08:08 AM (0JWOm)

90 79 B/c you verbally acknowledge instructions and seeing the plane, then go silent and hit in anyway? Sounds on purpose unless your copter went dead and you couldn't avoid it (or you did)...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:57 AM (exHjb)

Take a look at this video VIA posted in the previous thread.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcv2wy3

Flying in highly congested urban airspace is not as simple as you're suggesting.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 08:04 AM (/HDaX)

Pilots only have one job...and the military spends ACRES of money training you to do that one job...and this has literally never happened before at that airport.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 08:09 AM (exHjb)

91 Has anyone else noticed that a large portion of articles these days will contain repeated sections? I mean, that quoted section said the exact same thing 3 times.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I noticed..noticed...noticed t-t-t-t-t-t-too!

Posted by: Zombie Max Headroom at January 30, 2025 08:09 AM (WXNFJ)

92 Their countries of origin don't want them either.

"I don't really care, Margaret". Apply the tariff tactic.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2025 08:09 AM (GCKiK)

93 Hard to get to the comments today - front page kept jumping around like a demented cricket.

• Use Chrome
• or keep two browser tabs open, one for reading, the other for loading, and switch back and forth.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:10 AM (a4flb)

94 Refusing to leave your office after being fired never works. I have been through that. (I wasn't targeted, but my office mate was) Once the security guards show up to escort you out the door, your screwed. Of course that's private industry, not sure if that holds true in government offices. (union)

Posted by: Colin at January 30, 2025 08:10 AM (wlQdF)

95 Trump Calls for 1,500,000 Gazans to Be Moved to Egypt and Jordan

Moving Arabs to Arabia? Brilliant!

Posted by: FRANK BOOTH at January 30, 2025 08:10 AM (Vrdez)

96 EXCLUSIVE: GOP Senator Reintroduces Bill To Boot One Agency’s Bureaucrats Outside The Beltway
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Another Trump effect. A Republican does something stupid, then tries to atone by doing something right. I guess it's Friedman's rule in action.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:10 AM (1bNHn)

97 I'm just seeing the DC collision story.

How does a commercial passenger plane and an Army Blackhawk EVER collide midair. Someone, somewhere really f&cked up in a way that hasn't been f&cked up before in either the FAA or the military...unless it was the pilot of either doing it on purpose.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:46 AM (exHjb)

Watch the show on Smithsonian channel about airplane disasters. You'd be surprised at the number of crashes/collisions due to human error. Especially around crowded airports. The chopper was out there on a training mission.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 30, 2025 08:10 AM (iODuv)

98 As the Trump admin is forced to pay these ridiculous NGOs and researchers they should announce each in in terms of a taxpayer ratio.

Let's say the average middle class taxpayer pays 10k in annual federal taxes. And that the research grant is $1mm, the admin would report that 100 taxpayers contributed all their hard earned money paid in taxes for the entire year in order for Congress to spend it on a study how to turn shrimp gay.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 30, 2025 08:11 AM (Dv3i1)

99 From X:

"I was a Blackhawk helicopter crew chief in the Army. I was even a Flight Instructor. This means that I trained Crew Chiefs and ensured that they completed all training annually to maintain their flight ratings.

One massive responsibility we had was to be the eyes for the pilots. We handled airspace obstacle avoidance and communicated potential risks to the pilots. Quite often we would train as a flight of 2 or 3 birds flying in formation.

It was my job to have my head out the window and tell the pilots that the aircraft behind us was "staggered right at 3 discs". (We measured close distances in terms of the diameter of our rotor discs).

I can tell you after doing this for hundreds of hours, even when you know EXACTLY where a Blackhawk is, and you have night vision goggles on, it is EXTREMELY hard to SEE the aircraft.
These birds are designed to be hard to see at night.

The red and green lights on the side get lost in the lights of the city below. The only "lights" on top of the aircraft are called "slime lights" because they are a very very very dim green.
Incredibly difficult to see."

https://is.gd/3c2AmW

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 30, 2025 08:12 AM (9yUzE)

100 "Moving Arabs to Arabia? Brilliant!
Posted by: FRANK BOOTH"

The Saudis should take them. They have plenty of room.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2025 08:12 AM (vFG9F)

101 Trump has the deepstate under attack on multiple fronts

unrelated: many posts on X featuring ATC chatter
I can't understand a word of it- it just sounds like short bursts of syllables

Posted by: Don Black at January 30, 2025 08:12 AM (AOsQT)

102 the leftards are already referring to this plan as "Trump's concentration camp"
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They they march and chant "from the river to the sea"...

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2025 08:12 AM (cjAAr)

103 10 days and then the next 8 years of Vance followed on by 8 more years of whoever is his running mate? Any guesses or am I tempting fate here?

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VPs don't have a great track record when it comes to running for the Big Seat(tm).

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 30, 2025 08:12 AM (1/Fj+)

104 Morning Horde, thx JJ . It would be a great pleasure to watch all of the corporate exponents of ESG to be personally used inti poverty by the shareholders of the companies whose profits were lessened because of that crap.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 08:13 AM (6v8aM)

105 Mornin’, All. Horrible news about the crash.

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2025 08:13 AM (77rzZ)

106 Watch the show on Smithsonian channel about airplane disasters. You'd be surprised at the number of crashes/collisions due to human error. Especially around crowded airports. The chopper was out there on a training mission.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 30, 2025 08:10 AM (iODuv)

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Agreed. Eventually the law of averages catches up with you.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 30, 2025 08:14 AM (1/Fj+)

107 Watch the show on Smithsonian channel about airplane disasters. You'd be surprised at the number of crashes/collisions due to human error. Especially around crowded airports. The chopper was out there on a training mission.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 30, 2025 08:10 AM (iODuv)

A training accident would indicate lowered military standards and dumb previous training passing of the pilot. You don't let the pilots train at DCA, if they can't hack avoiding big US passenger planes in the sky. You fail them before they ever get that far...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 08:15 AM (exHjb)

108 The repeated paragraphs are just a pasting error. These things involve a lot of pasting.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2025 08:15 AM (cjAAr)

109 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 30, 2025 08:15 AM (53oGX)

110 Trump must be held accountable for the crash in DC. Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday saying that the department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees as part of a “commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security.”

The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports...

Additionally, On Tuesday, the US office of personnel management (OPM) sent nearly all of its 3 million employees an email offering them deferred resignations and warning that, if they choose to stay, they may be laid off or reassigned.

So, it's Trump's fault because he is reassigning or ending a safety advisory board, and offered to let fed employees have a deferred resignation? Got it. Lol. The Left is REALLY going to reach on this one, fail, and it will distract from everything else Trump's doing.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (ycI94)

111 Yonder Horde.

Regarding the accident near DCA... the military aircraft "PAT25" was using a standard call sign. "PAT" is "Priority Air Transport". Priority can be anything... personnel or cargo or mail. There were reportedly 3 people on board. Two nominally are required to operate a H-60.

But it could also have been carrying a case of toilet paper.

Depending of what was the "priority" of that flight.

It was also flying without a transponder in a mode that could be "seen" by others. Not unusual, but in the highly conflicted airspace around DCA it is... questionable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (Q4IgG)

112 Lot of drinking while watching hearings or stayed up late watching crash news, either way, A lot of formatting errors in today's column.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (4780s)

113 >Will California succeed in secession?

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Doesn't half of CA want to secede from the other half? Let the commie half secede from America and we'll keep the rest of them.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (qBdHI)

114 The red and green lights on the side get lost in the lights of the city below. The only "lights" on top of the aircraft are called "slime lights" because they are a very very very dim green.
Incredibly difficult to see."

Uh, do they have to operate their lights all the time in a War Mode?

I thought aircraft had RADAR

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (a4flb)

115 One explanation is that the chopper pilot, having been warned that a jet was near, thought it was an aircraft about 1/2 mile away (visible in the crash video). And for whatever reason he never saw the plane he ran into.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (Md44Z)

116 VPs don't have a great track record when it comes to running for the Big Seat(tm).
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 30, 2025 08:12 AM (1/Fj+)

Correct but Bush ran as Reagan's third term and won easily. This would be similar but hopefully that's where the similarity ends.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (cjAAr)

117 @48 I think reasons for repetition in the articles is a combination of AI and cut and paste. Combine those with the fact that a lot of the "writers " are terrible wordsmiths and you end up with repetitive drivel

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (6v8aM)

118 And as last post showed...

"U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said there was no communication breakdown between the American Airlines flight and a military helicopter that collided."

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (exHjb)

119 VTF

Look at the flight paths of the two aircraft.

From last reported position the Black Hawk was at about 74kts and aimed at the right side of the fuselage.

So basically there would be no way for the right seat pilot to see the helicopter. Much like the P-63F not seeing a B-17 in broad daylight.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (Cp5Ma)

120 The New AI Race With China Shows Why Trump Needs To Crack Down On H-1Bs
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I don't know. Pixy Misa seems to think this is no big deal, and I'm inclined to agree.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:17 AM (1bNHn)

121 Anyone ever been driving down a street, saw a red light and about run a red light because the one you were looking at was the next one down?

I wonder if perhaps similar occurred here?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 08:17 AM (tT6L1)

122 unrelated: many posts on X featuring ATC chatter
I can't understand a word of it- it just sounds like short bursts of syllables
Posted by: Don Black

If you deal with radio traffic everyday, you develop an 'ear' for it pretty quickly. Additionally, ATC/pilot comms are a language all their own, let alone the static/buzz.

Us normies usually can't grasp it.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 30, 2025 08:17 AM (WXNFJ)

123 The video shows that the helicopter crashed into the airplane. Did I get that wrong?
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 07:46 AM (PMtkd)

Early days but... as near as I can piece together:

- Army helicopter was on a training flight - I suspect this will be a factor
- Army helicopter needed to cross Reagan final approach path - supposedly, this is normal
- Army helicopter was told by ATC to cross behind jet
- Army helicopter t-boned jet - seems like they miscalculated speed/path/whatever

I think it was just an accident and, perhaps, having helicopters dart across the landing path should be re-examined.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

124 Also from my Navy experience...

The near misses (or near hits depending on your perspective...George Carlin) seem to be, while still rare, aren't unheard of.

I was in one while on my P-3. Story is irrelevant but it was our plane's fault. The driver had a VERY colorful call sign after that.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 30, 2025 08:17 AM (1/Fj+)

125 This is a really interesting tweet from a former Army Blackhawk crew chief. He goes into some detail about what it's like to fly around Blackhawks even for very experienced operators.

One thing I hadn't really thought about is that as he says Blackhawks are designed to be hard to see at night particularly in an urban environment.

https://tinyurl.com/mj8xsdp2

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2025 08:17 AM (LkLld)

126 Blanco Lirio brings up a very good point.

Below 1,000ft TCAS will not command, it will merely alert pilots.

The jet was at 400ft.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:18 AM (Cp5Ma)

127 JJ, when I saw your update about your health, the opening sequence from the Six Million Dollar Man started playing in my head. "We can rebuild him"

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 30, 2025 08:18 AM (bi309)

128 So, it's Trump's fault because he is reassigning or ending a safety advisory board, and offered to let fed employees have a deferred resignation? Got it. Lol. The Left is REALLY going to reach on this one, fail, and it will distract from everything else Trump's doing.

Federal or DEI employment is the only No Skill, No Talent, No Ambition career path outside of canal digging that remains for today's "studies" degreed "professional".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:18 AM (a4flb)

129 @125 hence the name of the pilots "night stalkers"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 08:19 AM (6v8aM)

130 But not sure the collision allowed for survivors.
Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:48 AM (exHjb)

The midair explosion makes it seem unlikely.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

131 The Air Traffic Controller, Mohammed El-Aziz, was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2025 08:19 AM (cjAAr)

132 Doesn't half of CA want to secede from the other half? Let the commie half secede from America and we'll keep the rest of them.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2025 08:16 AM (qBdHI)
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We want the Central Valley except Sacramento. Yeah, the bulge will look odd on the maps but, sacrifices must be made.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 08:19 AM (tT6L1)

133 Musk posts a silly tweet saying Trump wants SpaceX to rescue the Starliner astronauts and the press goes stupid again
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Musk and the press reminds me of how I treated my two younger sisters. It's nothing to brag about, as I was old, but as a teen I could always get them to fall for anything. That's the media. Smart as preteen girls. Or maybe not as smart.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:19 AM (1bNHn)

134 I was neighbor to a woman who was the daughter of the man who invented the Wasserman test.

Posted by: Brush With Greatness II at January 30, 2025 08:20 AM (G5+As)

135
... the US office of personnel management (OPM) sent nearly all of its 3 million employees an email offering them deferred resignations...

curious...when this news first broke, it was 2 million gov employees, now it's 3?

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2025 08:20 AM (tljrc)

136 Also, it seems imprudent to schedule a night training mission in close proximity to a busy airport

supposedly, training exercises have well thought out plans- who is participating, what equipment to be used, and definitely state the goal(s) of the exercise

I'd be curious to see that info

Posted by: Don Black at January 30, 2025 08:20 AM (AOsQT)

137 I was neighbor to a woman who was the daughter of the man who invented the Wasserman test.
Posted by: Brush With Greatness

Positive?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 30, 2025 08:20 AM (WXNFJ)

138 "U.S. Figure Skating can confirm that several members of our skating community were sadly aboard American Airlines Flight 5342, which collided with a helicopter yesterday evening in Washington, D.C.," the Jan. 30 statement read.

People magazine

This is really bad...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 08:20 AM (exHjb)

139 I'm numb about that crash. We are early to bed people here and only found out because a friend of ours texted us. He was on his way from Florida to NY and due to change planes at DCA. His plane was actually in approach to the airport and they pulled up and got diverted to Dulles. He's with us now for the next few days. He said it was bedlam at Dulles with all the diverted flights and nowhere for them to go. He sat for over 3 hours on the tarmac until they could get a gate.

My heart breaks for those on that plane and in that helicopter, and for their families. May God rest their souls.

Posted by: bluebell at January 30, 2025 08:20 AM (79pEw)

140 So basically there would be no way for the right seat pilot to see the helicopter. Much like the P-63F not seeing a B-17 in broad daylight.

I had in mind that exact same analogy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:21 AM (a4flb)

141 10th graders speech to class or Tim Walz:

We knew the implications and they’re throwing so much at us that we’re fatigued. You know, we spent three days, you know, debating having them trying to debate that President Musk gave a Nazi salute. Of course he did.

But that is a distraction from what I think you said. This is game on stuff right here. And I am worried with these federal employees because, look, they’re in a tough spot that some of these folks, especially those that are doing good work around environmental concerns, around justice for people around, you know, criminal justice reform, all of the things that make our society better.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

142 >>Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 30, 2025 08:12 AM

Beat me to it.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2025 08:21 AM (LkLld)

143 94 Refusing to leave your office after being fired never works. Posted by: Colin at January 30, 2025 08:10 AM (wlQdF)

Probably some delusion about becoming the new media-darling martyr to the "Resistance."

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2025 08:21 AM (h/ffs)

144 Pilots only have one job...and the military spends ACRES of money training you to do that one job...and this has literally never happened before at that airport.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 08:09 AM (exHjb)

Yeah, AND? Lots of crashes have never happened before. But, suddenly, they do. Again, watch the video.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 30, 2025 08:21 AM (iODuv)

145 “This line of questioning is brought to you by Pfizer!

Will you commit not to sue our benevolent and trustworthy pharmaceutical companies ever again?”

Posted by: Fauxcahontas at January 30, 2025 08:22 AM (wLY4s)

146 (posted on a wrong thread

here: )

Horrible what happened. I read that members of US Skating National Development Team and coaches were on board. Here is the rest from a Wichita newspaper :

https://tinyurl.com/35f5rszv

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2025 08:22 AM (g47mK)

147 JJ threw in a test to see if anyone reads the MR.

Maybe, but I see the same things at the source locations for stuff he links.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 08:22 AM (ExV1e)

148 I don't know. Pixy Misa seems to think this is no big deal, and I'm inclined to agree.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:17 AM (1bNHn)

The reason its not a big deal is because DeepSeek literally stole ChatGPT. Which is totally surprising and unexpected from a Chinese tech company. Also the whole "they trained it for $5 million" was a hoax released by a Chinese hedge fund that had no knowledge of the actual costs and was trying to exploit the release of the model to cover their shorts of the American AI-related companies - including NVIDIA.

As for the plane crash - how long before we start seeing stories in the MSM along the lines of "instead of prioritizing training, Hegseth was busy conducting racist purity purges of the military!!!111"

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 30, 2025 08:22 AM (xEvej)

149 I was neighbor to a woman who was the daughter of the man who invented the Wasserman test.
Posted by: Brush With Greatness II at January 30, 2025 08:20 AM (G5+As)

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Thank you Simone.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 30, 2025 08:23 AM (1/Fj+)

150 Defenestratus

Go back to the ONT, while everyone was still looking for survivors demonic Democrat jackals were already pushing that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:24 AM (Cp5Ma)

151 RFK Jr missed an opportunity yesterday. When Sheldon Whitehouse intoned that many out there in America fear him, RFK Jr should have responded, "No, senator, I've traveled all over this country and my message does not incite fear. It's you and your colleagues who fear me."

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2025 08:24 AM (h/ffs)

152 unrelated: many posts on X featuring ATC chatter

I think AlexTheChick would have straightened these idiots out fast.

Posted by: t-bird at January 30, 2025 08:24 AM (OqC0L)

153 Looks like DeepSeek is another CCP theft of technology that is made to look like something new but is a crap amalgam of good technology created by someone else.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2025 08:25 AM (g47mK)

154 Go back to the ONT, while everyone was still looking for survivors demonic Democrat jackals were already pushing that.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:24 AM (Cp5Ma)
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MSM wil be pushing the same line sometime today. Bank on it.

It won't work but they'll try.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 08:25 AM (tT6L1)

155 > hence the name of the pilots "night stalkers"
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160th SOAR based out of Ft. Campbell. Those are some serious flyers. They've come screaming over our house on the way to Knox to train... at night, doing balls to wall speed and at about 250 feet.

Like 20 or 30 helicopters all at once.

Apocalypse Now was tame in comparison.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2025 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)

156 As for the plane crash - how long before we start seeing stories in the MSM along the lines of "instead of prioritizing training, Hegseth was busy conducting racist purity purges of the military!!!111"

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 30, 2025 08:22 AM

That was happening last night within an hour of the crash. They were also already blaming Trump because *checks notes* he fired the head of TSA.

Posted by: Bert G at January 30, 2025 08:26 AM (VARTN)

157 156 As for the plane crash - how long before we start seeing stories in the MSM along the lines of "instead of prioritizing training, Hegseth was busy conducting racist purity purges of the military!!!111"

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 30, 2025 08:22 AM

From here on out, everything is Trump's fault. Everything.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2025 08:27 AM (h/ffs)

158 Great content as always JJ !!

Posted by: Jonah at January 30, 2025 08:27 AM (YCxFk)

159 They're already calling it Trump's 9/11

Posted by: ... at January 30, 2025 08:28 AM (cjAAr)

160 Today is NASA's Day of Remembrance Day.

The NASA Day of Remembrance also commemorates the tragedy of Apollo 1, which occurred 55 years ago.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

161 They are even calling 9/11 an "aviation accident."

Sick fvcks

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:28 AM (Cp5Ma)

162 B/c you verbally acknowledge instructions and seeing the plane, then go silent and hit in anyway? Sounds on purpose unless your copter went dead and you couldn't avoid it (or you did)...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2025 07:57 AM (exHjb)

Wife pointed out that there was another jet taking off at the same time. Pilot may have seen that jet and though they had identified the correct plane when they hadn't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

163 That was happening last night within an hour of the crash. They were also already blaming Trump because *checks notes* he fired the head of TSA.
Posted by: Bert G at January 30, 2025 08:26 AM (VARTN)

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Which is a stupid talking point. The very best leaders create organizations that can run well without them...

By saying that, they are saying the former head of the TSA is an ineffective idiot.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 30, 2025 08:29 AM (1/Fj+)

164 RIP to all. A terrible tragedy

Posted by: Jonah at January 30, 2025 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

165 DeepSeek had to have had an advanced AI to use to train it.
I have seen several comments that it use a LLM system to then filter out best answers to subject.
Kind of like having a panel of experts sitting across the table while you take the SAT.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

166 By saying that, they are saying the former head of the TSA is an ineffective idiot.

You are assuming they care for anything except "watch me make a sick burn!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:30 AM (Cp5Ma)

167 From here on out, everything is Trump's fault. Everything.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2025 08:27 AM (h/ffs)

A little introspection would result in the discovery that we do this as well when the other team has the ball.

I mean there was the whole "Thanks Obama" meme that was going around the internet for years...

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 30, 2025 08:30 AM (OBd95)

168 Pam Bondi confirmation vote today. Hope

Posted by: Jonah at January 30, 2025 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

169 something to think about re the collision is error cascade

when an initial minor error is magnified by successive errors, resulting in catastrophic failure

Posted by: Don Black at January 30, 2025 08:30 AM (AOsQT)

170 129 @125 hence the name of the pilots "night stalkers"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 08:19 AM (6v8aM)

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The 160th has Blackhawks, Chinooks and Little Birds.

The 160th has the best pilots in the world. In my opinion.

Does the 160th fly out of Reagan?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:30 AM (PMtkd)

171 From here on out, everything is Trump's fault. Everything.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2025 08:27 AM (h/ffs)
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My cat threw up on the floor yesterday.

I blame Trump.

/sarc

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2025 08:31 AM (7fElN)

172 Video/audio of air traffic communication at Reagan airport. Goes to YouTube.

https://tinyurl.com/4yyzrucr

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 30, 2025 08:31 AM (iODuv)

173 Oh for goodness sakes. Did M Kelly actually say the same thing three times?

I know she didn't, but sometimes people just don't pay attention to what they post. I get irritated reading a post somewhere that just repeats the same X post or something multiple times. That ain't a story, it's a blurb.*

* Just came on, so don't know if anyone's pointed this out or not.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2025 08:32 AM (0eaVi)

174 Good morning!

Balmy temps in Illinois in January. Keep it coming, President Trump!

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at January 30, 2025 08:32 AM (GEVMH)

175 @148 Defenestratus, leftists Bakari Sellers and JoJo from Jersey on X were already tossing out BS like that last night. Some on it was then erased when they got blowback

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 08:32 AM (6v8aM)

176 >A little introspection would result in the discovery that we do this as well when the other team has the ball.
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difference being, when we do it, we are right!

Posted by: Don Black at January 30, 2025 08:32 AM (AOsQT)

177 US Army, via Fox News, the Black Hawk crew was 'fairly experienced' and they had NVGs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:32 AM (Cp5Ma)

178 On a lighter note...

The wife is working as a volunteer transcriber and she's working on secret service notes from 1866 about a counterfeiting case and laughing that the counterfeiters were faking 50 cent notes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 08:32 AM (ExV1e)

179 Trump's cabinet needs to be confirmed STAT.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

180 Refusing to leave your office after being fired never works.

I knew of this one woman who knew that her name was on the RIF list, and the protocol was to have everyone on the list show up in mass to a meeting where HR would go over the details while security was pitching their stuff into a box and IT was locking them out of their accounts.

She thought that if she could just go hide in a closet a few floors down, that she would avoid the purge and she would keep her job.

She found out otherwise. And now we all have an embarassing story to tell of her.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:33 AM (a4flb)

181 The scope and magnitude of jackassery by the MSM pundits discussing the crash in Washington is just absolutely stunning.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 30, 2025 08:33 AM (qSDnB)

182 Trump has ignored the cost of eggs. If it turns out either the helicopter or plane was out on a night mission to get some eggs, Trump needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and held accountable.

He already dissolved the Safety Committee. Bird Flu and Aviation Disasters are what happens when you don't prioritize safety. Dumbo the Orange Elephant just wants his family to get a quick payoff then he can retire in four years and golf with Putin while people drown in the Potomac and an omelet costs more than his fines for keeping black people out of apartment buildings.

Posted by: Probably Democrat Underground Right Now at January 30, 2025 08:34 AM (cjAAr)

183 WATCH: RFK Jr. Wipes the Floor With Senate Democrats During Confirmation Hearing
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Over optimistic. I saw nothing that would dismay a Bernie fan (or a Warren fan). "Wiping the floor" entails humiliating them, and that means making them know they've been humiliated. See J D Vance for how it's done.

I did not see that in those hearings.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:34 AM (1bNHn)

184 167 A little introspection would result in the discovery that we do this as well when the other team has the ball.

I mean there was the whole "Thanks Obama" meme that was going around the internet for years...

Posted by: Defenestratus at January 30, 2025 08:30 AM (OBd95)

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People's blindness to stuff like this...irritates me.

I was thinking back to four years ago and calls for Republicans to tank every Biden nominee. And then, now, the Senate must pass every Trump nominee because Trump deserves it.

Regarding blaming all the bad things remotely related to the executive branch, the "Thanks Obama" thing was usually half-joke from what I saw, same with "Thanks Biden". We were quick to blame things like DEI for things like the airplane losing a door midflight (which seems to have been...the actual reason for decreased safety protocols and training at Boeing), but at least in this tiny circle of the internet, I always saw the "Thanks Biden" stuff as half-joke. Kind of like a random celebrity dying and then saying "Another grim milestone for the Biden administration".

I'm sure there are those on our side who would blame something like this directly on Biden personally. I just don't see it much earnestly here.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 08:34 AM (GBKbO)

185 American women won't mind being assaulted while drinking their blueberry smoothies. If they do, they should just lay back and think of Socialist Utopia

Posted by: Ripley at January 30, 2025 08:35 AM (PTDkx)

186 DCA needs to be closed. It's an obsolete airport. Except the chattering class and the politicos who use it don't want the inconvenience of traveling to Dulles or BWI (once called "Friendship Airport.") Very Soviet.

Anyway... there's been talk about only permitting VIP air traffic in and out of Reagan National (DCA) for years. Maybe now it'll happen. Or not...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2025 08:35 AM (Q4IgG)

187 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:08 AM (a4flb)

Yeah. I don't know that I agree with all of RFKJ's conclusions, or his preferred solutions, but I'm all in favor of going back to root causes and starting from a fresh perspective rather than slapping yet another layer of bureaucratic nonsense on top of shit that's already broken.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

188 72 Video/audio of air traffic communication at Reagan airport. Goes to YouTube.

https://tinyurl.com/4yyzrucr
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 30, 2025 08:31 AM (iODuv)

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Thank you for the link, it's a horror to watch.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:36 AM (PMtkd)

189 Trump Calls for 1,500,000 Gazans to Be Moved to Egypt and Jordan
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That's a bit tough on Egypt and Jordan, who have been relatively well-behaved lately. How about sending them to China, which supposedly has a birth dearth? I'm sure they'd be welcomed and well-treated there.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:36 AM (1bNHn)

190 @170 Seems Legit, the Night Stalkers of the 160th are based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky . I thought I read somewhere that the helicopter came from Langley (CIA) but that might be incorrect.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 08:36 AM (6v8aM)

191 • Use Chrome
• or keep two browser tabs open, one for reading, the other for loading, and switch back and forth.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:10 AM (a4flb)

Or... use Brave.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 08:37 AM (ExV1e)

192 From here on out, everything is Trump's fault. Everything.

Good, because Climate Change™ got tired of being the scapegoat for everything unpleasant or inconvenient.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:37 AM (a4flb)

193 My wife told me that Liewatha called RFK “Satan.” WTF is wrong with these people?

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2025 08:37 AM (77rzZ)

194 Reagan Airport is like a ghost town this morning. Stuff you don't see too often.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 08:37 AM (Wg6v7)

195 "Kind of like having a panel of experts sitting across the table while you take the SAT."

"experts" being the key word.

Posted by: fd at January 30, 2025 08:38 AM (vFG9F)

196 191 • Use Chrome
• or keep two browser tabs open, one for reading, the other for loading, and switch back and forth.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:10 AM (a4flb)

Or... use Brave.
Posted by: I used to have a different

This is on my phone; I just use the default browser

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 30, 2025 08:38 AM (Wx316)

197 (I prefer Kam Fong as Chin Ho - jjs)
Inspector General Escorted Out Of Office After Defying Trump’s Dismissal
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Maybe we should call her "Fong King Ho".

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:39 AM (1bNHn)

198 In Feb 1961, a Sabena crash near Brussels wiped out the entire US figure skating team, on their way to a world championship at Prague.

Four months earlier, the whole CalPoly football team except John Madden died in a C-46 crash near Toledo. A decade later, Marshall lost their team.

Special office for Sports Aviation?

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 30, 2025 08:39 AM (zdLoL)

199 The Black Hawk came from Bolling.

Its flight path was in a southward direction hugging the east shore of the river. Then about halfway down JFB Andrews it zips out across the Potomac, and then *bang*

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:39 AM (Cp5Ma)

200 I think RFKjr would have got positive mileage out of mentioning that those questioning him get money from Pharma.

Why didn't he do it?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:39 AM (PMtkd)

201 I would love to see body cam videos of Phyllis Fong being dragged out of her office!

Posted by: Josephistan at January 30, 2025 08:39 AM (SQ1ek)

202 190 @170 Seems Legit, the Night Stalkers of the 160th are based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky . I thought I read somewhere that the helicopter came from Langley (CIA) but that might be incorrect.
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2nd Bn, 3rd Marines were the Night Fighters. Don't fuck with me at night.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 08:39 AM (Wg6v7)

203 Reagan Airport is like a ghost town this morning. Stuff you don't see too often.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 08:37 AM (Wg6v7)

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Ana Navarro hardest hit.

"Great, now I'll miss my commuter flight."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 30, 2025 08:40 AM (1/Fj+)

204 Last night they announced Reagan would not reopen until 11.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:40 AM (Cp5Ma)

205 It is some type of Sturgeon.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)

206 The bus hijacking in Portland yesterday was resolved peacefully. Crazy guy was was walking in the road yelling, then started shooting. He entered a stopped bus. He held the driver hostage, and the passengers escaped. Police secured the area, getting yelled at by the crowd. Driver was released and they flash banged the guy, taking him into custody.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 30, 2025 08:40 AM (EV2jz)

207 >Trump Calls for 1,500,000 Gazans to Be Moved to Egypt and Jordan

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Egypt and Jordan know better than to accept such a plan

Posted by: Don Black at January 30, 2025 08:41 AM (AOsQT)

208 > Reagan Airport is like a ghost town this morning. Stuff you don't see too often.
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When I lived and worked near the capitol city I used to fly in and out of that airport for business about 2x a month. The northern Potomac River approach in daylight was quite the ride.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2025 08:41 AM (Q4IgG)

209 Trump Calls for 1,500,000 Gazans to Be Moved to Egypt and Jordan
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That's a bit tough on Egypt and Jordan, who have been relatively well-behaved lately. How about sending them to China, which supposedly has a birth dearth? I'm sure they'd be welcomed and well-treated there.
Posted by: Eeyore

I would say ship them to Antarctica but that's not fair to the penguins.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 30, 2025 08:41 AM (SQ1ek)

210 I think RFKjr would have got positive mileage out of mentioning that those questioning him get money from Pharma.

Everyone gets money from Pharma. He would get zero votes in the Senate.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:41 AM (a4flb)

211 197 (I prefer Kam Fong as Chin Ho - jjs)
Inspector General Escorted Out Of Office After Defying Trump’s Dismissal
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Maybe we should call her "Fong King Ho".
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Did she get to keep her Swingline stapler?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 08:41 AM (Wg6v7)

212 The Russians lost an entire city's hocket team because the flight crew was more familiar with a different Tupolev passenger jet.

Plane never gained enough speed for take-off and off the end of the runway.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:41 AM (Cp5Ma)

213 Those ghouls will need to take time out from dancing on the graves of 67 souls today to screech at more Cabinet hearings.

Posted by: Roy at January 30, 2025 08:42 AM (z+ik4)

214 Denmark is Defending Greenland With Sled Dogs
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Don't forget Macron is sending poodles!

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:42 AM (1bNHn)

215 B/c you verbally acknowledge instructions and seeing the plane, then go silent and hit in anyway? Sounds on purpose unless your copter went dead and you couldn't avoid it (or you did)...
Posted by: Nova Local

Seeing on an x thread that there was a departing flight and an arriving flight- they think tower when asked if they saw the (arriving) flight and helo pilot said yes but only saw departing flight

Which seems crazy to me

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 30, 2025 08:42 AM (Wx316)

216 Moscow has been alerted as there were some Russian figure skaters onboard.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

217 In the 1950s IIRC England lost a whole rugby team in a plane crash in Germany.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:43 AM (Cp5Ma)

218 208 > Reagan Airport is like a ghost town this morning. Stuff you don't see too often.
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When I lived and worked near the capitol city I used to fly in and out of that airport for business about 2x a month. The northern Potomac River approach in daylight was quite the ride.
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Heh, I met Colonel Sanders for the first time at National Airport.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 08:43 AM (Wg6v7)

219
Egypt and Jordan know better than to accept such a plan

Posted by: Don Black at January 30, 2025 08:41 AM (AOsQT)

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They saw what happens to other countries that take "palestinian" scum.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:43 AM (PMtkd)

220 There hasn't been one piece of technology, hardware or software, that China has produced in the last 30 years that wasn't a direct ripoff of an American IP. Not one. Zero. Zilch.

Posted by: front toward enemy at January 30, 2025 08:43 AM (TIizU)

221 RFKJr.

Dammit, Bobby.... I don't like any Kennedy. I don't want to like a Kennedy. STOP MAKING ME LIKE A KENNEDY!!!!

bastard

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 30, 2025 08:43 AM (4XwPj)

222 My sister was once bitten by a sturgeon.

Posted by: A Merman at January 30, 2025 08:44 AM (vFG9F)

223 The New AI Race With China Shows Why Trump Needs To Crack Down On H-1Bs
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I don't know. Pixy Misa seems to think this is no big deal, and I'm inclined to agree.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:17 AM (1bNHn)

The issue addressed isn't DeepSeek ripping off data from OpenAI but Chinese national engineers hired by US firms because they're ~~cheaper than US workers~~ once in a lifetime talents who steal source code to take back to Chynah.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

224 Fox has 27 bodies from plane
1 from helo

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:44 AM (gbOdA)

225 Dammit, Bobby.... I don't like any Kennedy. I don't want to like a Kennedy. STOP MAKING ME LIKE A KENNEDY!!!!

bastard
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 30, 2025 08:43 AM (4XwPj)
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Heh. I think you speak for a lot of us.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 08:44 AM (tT6L1)

226 Why would you say on purpose?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent,

Commercial jet on intercept course.. 9 o'clock level... 10 o'clock level... 11 o'clock level.. 12 o'clock levBOOM.
- view from the Chopper

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 30, 2025 08:45 AM (QYV9/)

227 If you watch the crash video, the helicopter could not have taken a more direct route into the airplane.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:46 AM (PMtkd)

228 210 I think RFKjr would have got positive mileage out of mentioning that those questioning him get money from Pharma.

Everyone gets money from Pharma. He would get zero votes in the Senate.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 30, 2025 08:41 AM (a4flb)

Sanders about $1.5 M
Liawatha $900k

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:46 AM (gbOdA)

229 Thank you, JJ.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at January 30, 2025 08:46 AM (gxokI)

230 " ... I was thinking back to four years ago and calls for Republicans to tank every Biden nominee. ... "

and did they?

o hell no, bipartisanship and collegiality ruled the day, every one passed with 90+ votes.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 30, 2025 08:46 AM (uX4GZ)

231 Sounds like Senator Grassley will be a yes for RFK Jr.
He said Trump has a mandate from the people and there needs to be a shakeup in HHS and the FBI.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

232 Tanned, ready, and rested.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at January 30, 2025 08:47 AM (k9tVd)

233 the palestinians might be the most troublesome assholes in human history

IMO YMMV

Posted by: Don Black at January 30, 2025 08:47 AM (AOsQT)

234 Good morning

Terrible news about the plane crash!

Watching these Democrat shrews at the nomination hearings is painful. May we finally move past the age where women who behave this way are taken seriously.
Oh, that goes the same for the hysterical men, too.
Grow up!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 08:47 AM (WbBbu)

235 o hell no, bipartisanship and collegiality ruled the day, every one passed with 90+ votes.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 30, 2025 08:46 AM (uX4GZ)

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Incredible because they could not have chosen worse candidates if they picked from the phonebook.

Absolute weirdos, dumbasses, incompetents and in some cases all of those combined.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:48 AM (PMtkd)

236 I wonder if the Blackhawks flight controls were overridden and if so, by who?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2025 08:48 AM (/U5Yz)

237 Americans Embrace Trump Tariffs, See Foreign Investment Boost In U.S. As Likely Result: I&I/TIPP Poll
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I confess I'm not yet on board with that policy. I can see tariffs' use diplomatically and strategically. (Adam Smith thought the same.) But I still cannot buy that they are economically efficient.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:48 AM (1bNHn)

238 The simple reason that no one in the region will accept Palestinians into their country is that the know them personally.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2025 08:48 AM (Md44Z)

239 Some of those ice skaters were kids - like grade school age

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 30, 2025 08:48 AM (Wx316)

240 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at January 30, 2025 08:49 AM (fwDg9)

241 I was reading the Nvidia has a box for maybe a $1M that can be onsite and run a small scale AI.
My guess again is that what the Deepseek did.
Take a subject and run it thru advance AI to get answers.
Then take the subject and the answer to train the little AI with all the right answers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

242 This air crash is all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. The question is which aircraft is which skater?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 08:49 AM (Wg6v7)

243 Jordan will never accept them because they almost lost their country to the vermin once.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:49 AM (Cp5Ma)

244 237 Americans Embrace Trump Tariffs, See Foreign Investment Boost In U.S. As Likely Result: I&I/TIPP Poll
________
I confess I'm not yet on board with that policy. I can see tariffs' use diplomatically and strategically. (Adam Smith thought the same.) But I still cannot buy that they are economically efficient.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 30, 2025 08:48 AM (1bNHn)

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David Ricardo would tend to agree I think. Comparative Advantage being his thing and all.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 30, 2025 08:49 AM (lMKkR)

245 I was neighbor to a woman who was the daughter of the man who invented the Wasserman test.
Posted by: Brush With Greatness II at January 30, 2025 08:20 AM (G5+As)

I can top that, pal. When I was growing up in Scranton, Delaware, I lived four houses down from the 4th cousin twice removed of a Puerto Rican Jew who one day cut the grass at the Israeli Embassy in DC when Golda Meir was inside!

Posted by: Joe Biden, I think I am at January 30, 2025 08:49 AM (aBgBM)

246

Eric Matheny
@ericmmatheny
Remember when a Pfizer executive admits that their COVID vaccine was never tested to see if it would stop transmission?

These are the people who own Congress!

This is why they fight tooth and nail to keep RFK Jr. out!

https://tinyurl.com/ycyden9z

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

247 As someone with hundreds of hours in -60 aircraft:

"Training mission" does not at all mean or imply 'new kids.'

Every flight which is not into active combat is a training mission. Maintaining proficiency is absolutely vital in the aviation community. The crew could have had 10,000 hours between them.

Don't hear 'new' when you read 'training,' because those two words aren't synonymous.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 30, 2025 08:50 AM (FAbrK)

248 Think we're going to see more of this:

@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Extremist who tried to kill Scott Bessent with Molotov cocktails revealed to be trans woman inspired by Luigi Mangione

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 08:50 AM (WbBbu)

249 243 Jordan will never accept them because they almost lost their country to the vermin once.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:49 AM (Cp5Ma)

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Yes, I thought one of the countries that knows that mayhem will erupt was Jordan. It seems that there were at least two more who previously took in the scum and immediately regretted it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:50 AM (PMtkd)

250 >>Don't hear 'new' when you read 'training,' because those two words aren't synonymous.

Good to know - thanks!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 08:51 AM (WbBbu)

251 99% of Progressive think the who will pick our blueberries is a real valid subject as 99% of Progressives want a sub-culture of semi-slaves to rule over as in pre-1860.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

252 227 If you watch the crash video, the helicopter could not have taken a more direct route into the airplane.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:46 AM (PMtkd)

A counterpoint; after the fact, all crashes look that way. I think it’s likely they identified the plane they’d been warned about with one a quarter mile away and in the dark, never saw the plane they hit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2025 08:51 AM (Md44Z)

253 Washington Nearsider

US Army is saying the crew was experienced and they had NVGs aboard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:51 AM (Cp5Ma)

254 251 99% of Progressive think the who will pick our blueberries is a real valid subject as 99% of Progressives want a sub-culture of semi-slaves to rule over as in pre-1860.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

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And 99% of progressives think that 99% of illegal immigrants are working farms, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 08:52 AM (GBKbO)

255 248 Think we're going to see more of this:

@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Extremist who tried to kill Scott Bessent with Molotov cocktails revealed to be trans woman inspired by Luigi Mangione
Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 08:50 AM (WbBbu)

I am still trying to wrap my head around the German Terrorist Trans Nazis.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:52 AM (gbOdA)

256 Ainsley Earnhardt has to be one of the dumbest on air personalities outside of the View. She just asked a helicopter pilot. If the people on the plane would’ve had time to be warned and could say their prayers and then it was quick and they felt no pain during the crash.Her questions are like what a six or seven year-old would ask their mom.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 30, 2025 08:53 AM (Y/S3W)

257 A counterpoint; after the fact, all crashes look that way. I think it’s likely they identified the plane they’d been warned about with one a quarter mile away and in the dark, never saw the plane they hit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2025 08:51 AM (Md44Z)

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Not a counterpoint, I agree with you. It was if they could not have been in a more direct path.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:53 AM (PMtkd)

258 Andy Ngo has a YouTube video about said 'trans' terror cell. Not watched it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:53 AM (Cp5Ma)

259 And 99% of progressives think that 99% of illegal immigrants are working farms, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 08:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Those same progressives, when being informed most of the illegals not working the fields are sucking up welfare benefits see no problem with it, either, because it's "government money."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 08:53 AM (tT6L1)

260 99% of Progressive think the who will pick our blueberries is a real valid subject as 99% of Progressives want a sub-culture of semi-slaves to rule over as in pre-1860.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

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And 99% of progressives think that 99% of illegal immigrants are working farms, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 08:52 AM (GBKbO)

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In my area 99% of the illegals loiter in front of the 7-11 looking for day jobs.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 30, 2025 08:53 AM (lMKkR)

261 Would night vision goggles necessarily be a benefit in a bright urban environment or possibly a distraction?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 08:54 AM (/HDaX)

262 US Army is saying the crew was experienced and they had NVGs aboard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:51 AM (Cp5Ma)

Not at all shocked to learn that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 30, 2025 08:54 AM (FAbrK)

263 off sock

Posted by: Gref at January 30, 2025 08:55 AM (aBgBM)

264 256 Ainsley Earnhardt has to be one of the dumbest on air personalities outside of the View. She just asked a helicopter pilot. If the people on the plane would’ve had time to be warned and could say their prayers and then it was quick and they felt no pain during the crash.Her questions are like what a six or seven year-old would ask their mom.
Posted by: Jen the original at January 30, 2025 08:53 AM (Y/S3W)

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Is she the dummy marrying Sean Hannity?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:55 AM (PMtkd)

265 In my area 99% of the illegals loiter in front of the 7-11 looking for day jobs.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Clearly, you need a Home Depot. That would solve the problem quickly.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 30, 2025 08:55 AM (4XwPj)

266 Would night vision goggles necessarily be a benefit in a bright urban environment or possibly a distraction?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 08:54 AM (/HDaX)

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I believe NVG's seriously impact depth perception. However, I don't know from personal experience. Possibly some of our other former military can confirm or clarify on this smart military blog.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 08:55 AM (tT6L1)

267 NVGs use a photo-multiplier tube to magnify ambient light.

I still remember from training the admonishment of 'don't look at streetlights while wearing NVGs.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:55 AM (Cp5Ma)

268
Those same progressives, when being informed most of the illegals not working the fields are sucking up welfare benefits see no problem with it, either, because it's "government money."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 08:53 AM (tT6L1)

That's because progressives believe - as an article of faith - that all money inherently belongs to the government. They don't have any problem with the fact that the government doesn't have a single dollar that it did not first take - at gunpoint - from someone with a job.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 30, 2025 08:56 AM (FAbrK)

269 >>I am still trying to wrap my head around the German Terrorist Trans Nazis.

There's a lot more to that story. I saw some mentions of it on X yesterday. Apparently, there is some sort of cult based in the Bay Area of math/computer/tranny types and there are other murders tied to this group.

Very little reporting on it for obvious reasons.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2025 08:56 AM (LkLld)

270 When I see guys in the parking lot of Home Depot (In Florida, the first time I saw it was a month ago), I give them credit for looking for work.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:56 AM (PMtkd)

271 LA Mayor Bass Plans an Equitable, Sustainable Rebuilt Palisades

10 years from now 50% will just be dirt.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)

272 I wasn't watching RFK's hearing, but Elizabeth Warren calling him. "Satan" or "Satanic" wouldn't surprise me. Her politics are her religion and so since RFK left the religion ( ie. Thinks the left is crazy) he needs in her opinion to be demonized.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2025 08:57 AM (bevB2)

273 US Army is saying the crew was experienced and they had NVGs aboard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:51 AM (Cp5Ma)

Seen this information posted more than once. So... not everyone is mil or ex-mil around here. What the ever lovin' does NVG mean?

Non-Vaginal Guys?
Not Very Good?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2025 08:57 AM (0eaVi)

274 Wonder if the trans guy who tried to kill Bessent was a follower or member of Ziz . Thus far their death count is 4

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 08:58 AM (6v8aM)

275 261. Blackhawk training expert, said that night vision goggles reduce your field of vision to 40%. Also, while not unusual, there were only three people on the Blackhawk instead of four which means one side of the Blackhawk had reduced reporting.. the extra crew members all look out their assigned side of the Blackhawk so minus one is 25% less reporting of other planes, etc.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 30, 2025 08:58 AM (Y/S3W)

276 There's a lot more to that story. I saw some mentions of it on X yesterday. Apparently, there is some sort of cult based in the Bay Area of math/computer/tranny types and there are other murders tied to this group.

Very little reporting on it for obvious reasons.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2025 08:56 AM (LkLld)

From 1 thread I counted 6 diff murders over the last year.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

277 Non-Vaginal Guys?
Not Very Good?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2025 08:57 AM (0eaVi)
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Night Vision Goggles

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 08:58 AM (tT6L1)

278 268 That's because progressives believe - as an article of faith - that all money inherently belongs to the government. They don't have any problem with the fact that the government doesn't have a single dollar that it did not first take - at gunpoint - from someone with a job.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 30, 2025 08:56 AM (FAbrK)

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I think it's more a base miseducation on economics.

The idea that currency = value instead of currency representing value.

So, governments can increase value by printing more currency.

It's a logical fallacy that's just part of their firmware.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 08:58 AM (GBKbO)

279 NVG - Night Vision goggles

Such as AN/PVS-7

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 08:58 AM (Cp5Ma)

280 271 LA Mayor Bass Plans an Equitable, Sustainable Rebuilt Palisades

She loves the fire. Great opportunity. If she can survive the political fallout, which she probably will.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2025 08:58 AM (h/ffs)

281 My sister was once bitten by a sturgeon.
Posted by: A Merman at January 30, 2025 08:44 AM (vFG9F)

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the sturgeon with the sharpened end of an interspace t00thbrush given by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian m0vies: “The H0t Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge M0lars of Horst Nordfink”. -- Cut-Rate Movie Credits, Inc.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

282 Good grief, Ainsley Earhart is an idiot!

She was just questioning a former Blackhawk pilot and asked him if any of the passengers may have been afraid, had time to pray, or felt any painas they died.

He was gobsmacked. 😬😬😬😬

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 30, 2025 08:59 AM (4tmpE)

283 Would night vision goggles necessarily be a benefit in a bright urban environment or possibly a distraction?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 08:54 AM (/HDaX)

Maybe not a distraction, but definitely would wash out with enough light input.

The lights from a civilian plane on short final can be seen from something like three miles out.

I'm 99% in the 'pilot error on the part of the -60 driver,' camp. Timing the impact intentionally is so difficult as to be statistically impossible. The plane was in the glide slope at 150mph or so. The helo was crossing at about 80mph, at 90 degrees to the plane. Lining that up, at night, in three dimensions, at speed... Not really doable, particularly with only one pass.

This reads like a horrible accident, the final piece of which was pilot error.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 30, 2025 08:59 AM (FAbrK)

284 232 Tanned, ready, and rested.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho

Except when it came time to book 'em.

Then Danno had to do your job.

Posted by: Auspex at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (j4U/Z)

285 So the LA Mayor is going to take land away from homeowners?

Buyouts at fair market price to make way for section 8?

Holy shit, if I lived there I'd be sweating bullets.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (PMtkd)

286 "Today is NASA's Day of Remembrance Day."

I think it was a week ago. I was there, I can still see it in my minds eye. I was an engineer working at Kennedy.

Next year it will be 40 years.

Elon was just a kid.

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (QB+5g)

287 I'm just hoping there weren't any Rainbow People on that flight.

Posted by: The Great Poof at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (G5+As)

288 Trump Calls for 1,500,000 Gazans to Be Moved to Egypt and Jordan
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That's a bit tough on Egypt and Jordan, who have been relatively well-behaved lately. How about sending them to China, which supposedly has a birth dearth? I'm sure they'd be welcomed and well-treated there.

Saudi Arabia is doing all kinds of mega-projects going on right now. They were even planning on spending a trillion dollars on a wall city a hundred miles long. (The Line).

Seems like they could afford to build a self-contained, demilitarized city for the Gazans to leave in

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (9yUzE)

289 Is she the dummy marrying Sean Hannity?
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:55 AM (PMtkd)
******
Yes. She's got a big heart. They are also Trump's favorite couple on television.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (NpAcC)

290 One media idiot at the last DC press conference asked guy at the microphone if he could guarantee that air travel was completely safe.

These people need to be mocked.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (Cp5Ma)

291 “ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Romans 15:13

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (fOSwK)

292 She was just questioning a former Blackhawk pilot and asked him if any of the passengers may have been afraid, had time to pray, or felt any painas they died.

He was gobsmacked. 😬😬😬😬
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 30, 2025 08:59 AM (4tmpE)
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I just looked her up. She looks like a complete bimbo with a side of airhead.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (tT6L1)

293 264 Earnhardt is marrying Hannity. They will have a kid. "Aw, baby said his first word and won't shut up. Kid interrupts everybody".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (gm9Sb)

294 Bah, time for that "job" thing.

Hope you all have a great day!

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (xkUyn)

295
I am still trying to wrap my head around the German Terrorist Trans Nazis.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 08:52 AM

I saw German Terrorist Trans Nazis open for Depeche Mode at The Palace back in '96

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (tljrc)

296 Holy shit, if I lived there I'd be sweating bullets.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (PMtkd)

Or loading them?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (0eaVi)

297 264. Yes. She should be a Sunday School teacher of fourth graders. Her puppy whine voice and idiot questions drive me nuts as an adult.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (Y/S3W)

298 Washington Nearsider

re: my #84

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:02 AM (Cp5Ma)

299 VPs don't have a great track record when it comes to running for the Big Seat(tm).

Biden, Bush, LBJ, Truman, Coolidge all ran and won, in the last hundred years. Not bad. What would you say did better?
Senator, governor or general can't beat it. "Other government administrator" seems to be the big winner. Taft was a colonial potentate, and it's hard to get that in your resume lately.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 30, 2025 09:02 AM (zdLoL)

300 eeekk

I mean #83

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:02 AM (Cp5Ma)

301 One media idiot at the last DC press conference asked guy at the microphone if he could guarantee that air travel was completely safe.

These people need to be mocked.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (Cp5Ma)

NOTHING is completely safe.

This is one of the multiple errors in the first principles of leftists. "If you'd all just do what we say, everyone will be safe all the time."

No, dummies. Being alive makes you die. It's what you choose to do between those two points that is valuable.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 30, 2025 09:02 AM (FAbrK)

302 >>They're already calling it Trump's 9/11

Right, because the MSM has templates for the news.
They can't just report the facts, they have to shoehorn it into a version of a past event or narrative. These idiots are filling out a MadLibs, not journalists.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 09:02 AM (WbBbu)

303 I just looked her up. She looks like a complete bimbo with a side of airhead.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (tT6L1)

A grinning mediocrity...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 09:03 AM (/HDaX)

304
Elizabeth Warren: every guy's ex-MIL.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 30, 2025 09:03 AM (dxSpM)

305 She's a Great American.

Posted by: S. Hannity at January 30, 2025 09:03 AM (dg+HA)

306 Is she the dummy marrying Sean Hannity?
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 08:55 AM (PMtkd)

***

Yes. They deserve each other it would appear

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 30, 2025 09:03 AM (1FWWQ)

307 Earnsley Airhead.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 30, 2025 09:04 AM (9yUzE)

308 > Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) out of her office Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by President Donald Trump

Sounds like insurrection to me.

Fortunately we have plenty of empty cells at the moment.

> You know, we spent three days, you know, debating having them trying to debate that President Musk gave a Nazi salute. Of course he did.

That's nice, Walz.

You've spent 60 years sucking communist cock.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2025 09:04 AM (W5ArC)

309 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (tT6L1)

I think she looks like an attractive blonde who has spent a lot on teeth whitening procedures, but her questions were facile. However, she might just wanted to hope that people didn't suffer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2025 09:04 AM (bevB2)

310 I read the posts, read the posts..

Posted by: Toby Two-Times at January 30, 2025 09:04 AM (aD39U)

311 You'd think that stupid bitch mayor who was at partial fault would simply say, we want to help these HOME OWNERS rebuild as fast as caution allows.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 09:05 AM (PMtkd)

312 310 I read the posts, read the posts..
Posted by: Toby Two-Times at January 30, 2025 09:04 AM (aD39U)

======

Get me all the blueprints.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 09:05 AM (GBKbO)

313 Ainsley is pretty but pretty dumb. Looked her up and Hannity will be hubby #3, the first two apparently cheated on her. Wonder why? I don't watch Fox so I don't know specific stupidity but the statement above is a sign of serious duh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 09:05 AM (6v8aM)

314 Earnhardt is marrying Hannity. They will have a kid. "Aw, baby said his first word and won't shut up. Kid interrupts everybody".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (gm9Sb)

She has a daughter from a previous marriage and is in her 40s, and I think Sean is in his 60s. I don't think they'll be having a child. She intends to keep working in NYC and travel back and forth to Sean's place in Palm Beach ($23.5 mil mansion). I wish them both well, but she isn't the sharpest tool on TV.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 30, 2025 09:05 AM (4tmpE)

315 >>They're already calling it Trump's 9/11

Which gives away the game.

They believe 9/11 was just a horrific accident, not an act of war committed by an enemy targeting our military and financial nerve centers.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 30, 2025 09:05 AM (FAbrK)

316 I cringe whenever i hesr Ainsley Earnhardt speak because I know stupid is just falling out of her mouth. It's like she isn't self aware.

Posted by: Megthered at January 30, 2025 09:05 AM (6M5v9)

317 I had my nipples bitten by fish off Hatteras Village in NC. Also swam through a bluefish school chopping up and eating spot and croaker, with pelicans and gulls diving on the scraps. Somehow did not get bitten, though 10-15lb. fish were bumping me.

Posted by: Lone Survivor at January 30, 2025 09:06 AM (G5+As)

318 The media is calling what Trump's 9/11?

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 09:06 AM (PMtkd)

319 "I wonder if the Blackhawks flight controls were overridden and if so, by who?"

They were overridden by that little man that lives under your bed.

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2025 09:06 AM (QB+5g)

320 Taft was a colonial potentate, and it's hard to get that in your resume lately.

My son got an official certificate yesterday welcoming him into "The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels" which is a thing I had not heard of, and apparently has nothing to do with KFC.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 30, 2025 09:06 AM (9yUzE)

321 I just looked her up. She looks like a complete bimbo with a side of airhead.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (tT6L1)

"we got the bubbleheaded beach blonde
comes on at five
she can tell about the plane crash
with a gleam in her eye"

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 30, 2025 09:06 AM (4XwPj)

322 I will repeat this

The demonic Democrat jackals LAST night were calling 9/11 an "aviation accident."

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:06 AM (Cp5Ma)

323 319 "I wonder if the Blackhawks flight controls were overridden and if so, by who?"

They were overridden by that little man that lives under your bed.
Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2025 09:06 AM (QB+5g)

=====

Someone fed the gremlin after midnight...Moscow time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 09:06 AM (GBKbO)

324 Taft was a colonial potentate, and it's hard to get that in your resume lately.

=======

I have almost a dozen letters signed by Taft when he was the colonial governor.

I have one from when he was president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 09:07 AM (GBKbO)

325
286 "Today is NASA's Day of Remembrance Day."

I think it was a week ago. I was there, I can still see it in my minds eye. I was an engineer working at Kennedy.

Next year it will be 40 years.

Elon was just a kid.
Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2025 09:00 AM (QB+5g)

********
Here's the link-
https://tinyurl.com/fdn96jum

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

326 > And 99% of progressives think that 99% of illegal immigrants are working farms, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 08:52 AM (GBKbO)

The Dems still have fantasies about the antebellum South.

They just hate it when Republicans take away their slaves.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2025 09:07 AM (W5ArC)

327 Meanwhile the Columbia protesters are bragging that they filled sewer lines with cement.

Clogged toilets for Palestine? Somehow that tracks.

Posted by: Not Afroman at January 30, 2025 09:07 AM (QZThv)

328 "we got the bubbleheaded beach blonde
comes on at five
she can tell about the plane crash
with a gleam in her eye"
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 30, 2025 09:06 AM (4XwPj)
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Don Henley may have been an ass, but he nailed MSM with this song.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 09:08 AM (tT6L1)

329 My son travels for work all over the country nearly every week now. He's flying home from TX today. 🙏🙏

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 30, 2025 09:08 AM (4tmpE)

330 Ainsley Earnhardt. Hmm, a song comes to mind, something, something Bubble Headed Bleach Blond, something does the innuendo with a gleam in her eye.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 30, 2025 09:08 AM (gm9Sb)

331 Here's Andy Ngo's report on the German trans killer with background to the cult he was part of in CA.

This is what happens when these whack jobs are allowed to run wild.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8vtndd

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2025 09:08 AM (LkLld)

332 My son got an official certificate yesterday welcoming him into "The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels" which is a thing I had not heard of, and apparently has nothing to do with KFC.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 30, 2025 09:06 AM (9yUzE)

Or so Big Chicken would have you believe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 09:08 AM (ExV1e)

333 Meanwhile the Columbia protesters are bragging that they filled sewer lines with cement.

Clogged toilets for Palestine? Somehow that tracks.

"You have died from dysentery."

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:08 AM (Cp5Ma)

334 I know someone very well who had to fly with an incompetent *cough* affirmative action pilot. At one point, he had to grab the controls out of his hands. How deep does DEI go in military flight training?

Shitty flyers/drivers can be any color or religion.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 09:08 AM (PMtkd)

335 Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy is on the fence about RFK Jr.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

336 269 >>I am still trying to wrap my head around the German Terrorist Trans Nazis.

There's a lot more to that story.
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Were they wearing stompy boots is question number one.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:09 AM (Wg6v7)

337 99% of progressives think that 99% of illegal immigrants are working farms, it seems.

The Democrat Party has a tradition of dark-skinned people doing menial labor that goes back centuries.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 30, 2025 09:09 AM (9yUzE)

338 >>LA Mayor Bass Plans an Equitable, Sustainable Rebuilt Palisades

Tell us it will be an incredibly costly failure that Bass and her friends make millions from - and never get completed - without saying it.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 09:09 AM (WbBbu)

339 Both aircraft were flying standard routes. Listen to the audio. This is an ATC screwup. They failed to notify the 60 of the approaching aircraft. They failed to properly notify aircraft of a collision.

The 60 also doesn’t have a great field of view based on that angle of approach, NVG or not. Ask a few of the CWO’s who post here.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2025 09:09 AM (fOSwK)

340 I am still trying to wrap my head around the German Terrorist Trans Nazis.
Posted by: rhennigantx

In the classic The Dark Knight Returns comic, there was a trans Nazi gangster named Bruno, with swastikas tattooed on his fake boobs.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 30, 2025 09:10 AM (SQ1ek)

341 Meanwhile the Columbia protesters are bragging that they filled sewer lines with cement.

Clogged toilets for Palestine? Somehow that tracks.
Posted by: Not Afroman at January 30, 2025 09:07 AM (QZThv)
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They're bragging? I wonder how smart they'll feel when they get that $20 or $30K bill for sewer line repairs?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 09:10 AM (tT6L1)

342 Remember when a Pfizer executive admits that their COVID vaccine was never tested to see if it would stop transmission?

I think most people figured out the scam around the third time Biden got covid.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2025 09:10 AM (QZThv)

343 >>99% of progressives think that 99% of illegal immigrants are working farms, it seems.

And 99% of abortions are for teen rape victims.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 09:10 AM (WbBbu)

344
I think it was a week ago. I was there, I can still see it in my minds eye. I was an engineer working at Kennedy.

Next year it will be 40 years.

I was in Middle School. We had a bad snow storm and were home from school. Watched it live. Couldn't believe what was happening.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2025 09:10 AM (dR6yv)

345 Blake

They are either trust fund kiddies or scholarships.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:10 AM (Cp5Ma)

346 >>LA Mayor Bass Plans an Equitable, Sustainable Rebuilt Palisades

All out of shits to give about anything California.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 30, 2025 09:11 AM (/U5Yz)

347 Dam Finally Breaking on Media Coverage of Stolen Election. And it's not just the stolen election: It's that we have a credible, experienced elected representative questioning it. Dan Goldman, former AUSA in the Southern District of New York. He was also lead counsel in both of the Trump Impeachment trials.

Trump is delighting in telling people to their face that he rigged the 2024 election, under the guise of referring to the 2020 election. Understood in the context of the fascist playbook: the goal is to constantly make us question what we are experiencing with our own senses.

I hope there is substance to an investigation. This election seemed smelly from the start. If it stinks like poo, it probably is poo.

We must be able to ask questions considering Trump’s history. no way trump won all the swing states. They, and probably musk, have figured out how to manipulate ballots.

Just to clarify, the research work is being done by the groups "Smart Elections" and "Election Truth Alliance".

Newsweek was iffy for a while. I have noticed a big improvement in their coverage for some time now. Let's hope more media follows!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2025 09:11 AM (JCZqz)

348 Loud Mouth Bass needs to be sent to the political retirement home with Newsome.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:11 AM (Cp5Ma)

349 Biden forced DEI on ATC.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2025 09:12 AM (g47mK)

350 Both aircraft were flying standard routes. Listen to the audio. This is an ATC screwup. They failed to notify the 60 of the approaching aircraft. They failed to properly notify aircraft of a collision.

The 60 also doesn’t have a great field of view based on that angle of approach, NVG or not. Ask a few of the CWO’s who post here.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2025 09:09 AM (fOSwK)

That's not what the Blancolirio video is saying with respect to ATC communications. What's your source so that we can compare?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 09:12 AM (/HDaX)

351 338 >>LA Mayor Bass Plans an Equitable, Sustainable Rebuilt Palisades
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Ah, Obama's dream realized - Except for Kalorama, Martha's Vineyard and Oahu.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:12 AM (Wg6v7)

352 "I had my nipples bitten by fish off Hatteras Village in NC."

The stuff you sea here...

Posted by: A Merman at January 30, 2025 09:13 AM (vFG9F)

353 347 We must be able to ask questions considering Trump’s history. no way trump won all the swing states. They, and probably musk, have figured out how to manipulate ballots.

Just to clarify, the research work is being done by the groups "Smart Elections" and "Election Truth Alliance".

Newsweek was iffy for a while. I have noticed a big improvement in their coverage for some time now. Let's hope more media follows!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2025 09:11 AM (JCZqz)

==

To even imply that voting machines can be hacked is insurrection.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

354 The RI state senate voted to reject Their traditional resolution congratulating a newly elected president.
Petty little mf's, they are.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 30, 2025 09:13 AM (4780s)

355 DU is now a den of election deniers.

Hey DUmmies, go back a few years and read your own posts.

You are so unpatriotic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:13 AM (Cp5Ma)

356 336 269 >>I am still trying to wrap my head around the German Terrorist Trans Nazis.

There's a lot more to that story.
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Were they wearing stompy boots is question number one.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:09 AM (Wg6v7)

Every time Scarborough sees that, he feels like invading Mika.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2025 09:13 AM (x0n13)

357 I saw German Terrorist Trans Nazis open for Depeche Mode at The Palace back in '96
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 30, 2025 09:01 AM (tljrc)

Was Hanah Gruber the front pole woman?

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 09:13 AM (gbOdA)

358 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 30, 2025 09:11 AM (JCZqz)
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Thank you for the laugh. Democrats always win the close ones with mysterious late night ballot dumps. But, one election not go the way of Democrats and they're in high dudgeon at DU.

Of course, Republican concerns about 2020 were insurectiony, unlike the concerns DU mentions.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 09:14 AM (tT6L1)

359 The key factor in resolving the issue of the Palestinians is to think outside the box.

That article was just so full of hope and a wishful thinking that all the Palestinians need is love and peace to show them a better way to live.

They are inbred people who know nothing about how to live in a civilized manner. The only solution is an isolated patch of land where they can have all the Alluh Akbar they want without any pesky j00000 in sight.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2025 09:14 AM (svLOV)

360 Was Hanah Gruber the front pole woman?

Now there is an image - Hans Gruber in drag/

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:14 AM (Cp5Ma)

361 LA Mayor Bass Plans an Equitable, Sustainable Rebuilt Palisades

Just look at Bass. She should be a housekeeper at some low rent NoTell Motel run by Babu Banerjee and giving BJ's on the side for cash in the back parking lot, not playing "mayor" of some large US city.

Posted by: The Truth at January 30, 2025 09:15 AM (7P61U)

362 At DM: "Urgent warning over recalled broccoli sold at Walmart that carries 'reasonable risk of DEATH'"

Beware that nasty-tasting devilweed.

Posted by: gp's Livin In A Hurtin House at January 30, 2025 09:15 AM (GEVMH)

363 Who's more inbred?

People in Gaza or those who post to DU?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:15 AM (Cp5Ma)

364 358 Thank you for the laugh. Democrats always win the close ones with mysterious late night ballot dumps. But, one election not go the way of Democrats and they're in high dudgeon at DU.

Of course, Republican concerns about 2020 were insurectiony, unlike the concerns DU mentions.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 30, 2025 09:14 AM (tT6L1)

========

Our concerns on 2020:

"Mail in ballots are unsecure. There was a shut down in ballot counting in six states related to a water pipe burst in Atlanta where poll watchers were forced out of locations and then counting started again. Any question of election integrity was treated as insurrection by those in power."

Their concerns on 2024:

"It's unusual for a candidate to win all the swing states. It's happened before, but it's been a while. Ballots must have been manipulated."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 30, 2025 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

365 "8 years of Vance followed on by 8 more years of whoever is his running mate..." How about Byron Donalds?

Posted by: Florida Buckeye BadDog at January 30, 2025 09:16 AM (17AyY)

366 Hmm...Remembrance Day.

Everyone locally here in Brevard was talking about it last week.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhrw7s9

I am very glad that you keep up on the Space program. I dedicated the best years of my life to it. Some people there see it as a job, others see it as a calling.

It's a tragedy what NASA has become but the goverments gotta govern.

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2025 09:16 AM (QB+5g)

367 Ever since I saw the documentary "They Saved Hitler's Brain", I've been wondering when a murderous German Trans-Cult would emerge. It was inevitable.

Posted by: Goose Step Is The New Step... at January 30, 2025 09:16 AM (G5+As)

368 "Urgent warning over recalled broccoli sold at Walmart that carries 'reasonable risk of DEATH'"

I can see that.

Posted by: five year old fd at January 30, 2025 09:16 AM (vFG9F)

369 They believe 9/11 was just a horrific accident, not an act of war committed by an enemy targeting our military and financial nerve centers.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 30, 2025 09:05 AM (FAbrK)

"Some people did some things"

Posted by: Josephistan at January 30, 2025 09:16 AM (SQ1ek)

370 Billy Bass >>>>>>>>>>>>> Mayor Bass

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 30, 2025 09:16 AM (1FWWQ)

371 > 348 Loud Mouth Bass needs to be sent to the political retirement home with Newsome.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:11 AM (Cp5Ma)

Big Mouth Karen Bass. Like Big Mouth Billy Bass, except it spouts Marxist propaganda instead of singing "Take Me to the River".

Having trouble accessing both X and Wikipedia this morning. Anyone else?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2025 09:16 AM (W5ArC)

372 California will have to surrender Tahoe before they secede.
We Northern Nevadans will not stand for them to control the headwaters of the might Truckee.
That arbitrary line in the mountains will be redrawn to reflect runoff direction.

Posted by: Reforger at January 30, 2025 09:17 AM (xcIvR)

373 Now there is an image - Hans Gruber in drag/
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:14 AM (Cp5Ma)

Bet someone has this sitting on their desk for Die Harderer LIX.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 09:17 AM (gbOdA)

374 361 LA Mayor Bass Plans an Equitable, Sustainable Rebuilt Palisades

Just look at Bass. She should be a housekeeper at some low rent NoTell Motel run by Babu Banerjee and giving BJ's on the side for cash in the back parking lot, not playing "mayor" of some large US city.
Posted by: The Truth at January 30, 2025 09:15 AM (7P61U)

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I laugh because it's true.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 30, 2025 09:17 AM (PMtkd)

375 "Urgent warning over recalled broccoli sold at Walmart that carries 'reasonable risk of DEATH'"

Someone is a fan of Monty Python

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:17 AM (Cp5Ma)

376 @320 apparently has nothing to do with KFC.

Au contraire! The Colonel was one, and that was how he attained his public rank. It was (once at least) considered a very high honor, like being an Admiral in the Nebraska Navy.

Your son should be congratulated. Bourbon all around.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 30, 2025 09:17 AM (zdLoL)

377

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
JUST IN: Over 50 former and retired FBI agents send letter to Senate leaders ahead of Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing, demand that they confirm him.

The ‘Reform The Bureau’ former agents say Patel is the only one who can fix the “broken” FBI.

The letter was sent to Senate leaders Chuck Grassley, John Thune, Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer.

https://tinyurl.com/cuh4ub

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

378 Having trouble accessing both X and Wikipedia this morning. Anyone else?

Just tested both and they work fine for me.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 09:18 AM (/HDaX)

379 > Just tested both and they work fine for me.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 09:18 AM (/HDaX)

Weird. Thanks!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2025 09:19 AM (W5ArC)

380 I saw Death by Broccoli open for the Black Eyed Peas in LA back in 2006.

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2025 09:19 AM (QB+5g)

381 Vile weed!!

Posted by: Newnan on broccoli at January 30, 2025 09:19 AM (dg+HA)

382 >>Dam Finally Breaking on Media Coverage of Stolen Election. And it's not just the stolen election: It's that we have a credible, experienced elected representative questioning it. Dan Goldman, former AUSA in the Southern District of New York. He was also lead counsel in both of the Trump Impeachment trials.

Isn't it amazing how quickly the NPC software was upgraded (downgraded?) from "Denying election results is the biggest threat to Our Democracy(tm)!" to "Trumps stole the election!!"?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 09:19 AM (WbBbu)

383 I thought they called themselves Death Broccoli

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:19 AM (Cp5Ma)

384 “President Trump was right. This process is political, and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system,” Menendez said.

This is rich coming from Menendez after he voted to convict President Trump during the scam impeachments.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 09:20 AM (gbOdA)

385 I think it was a week ago. I was there, I can still see it in my minds eye. I was an engineer working at Kennedy.

Next year it will be 40 years.

I was in Middle School. We had a bad snow storm and were home from school. Watched it live. Couldn't believe what was happening.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I was home sick from school that day, but I remember being excited that I could watch the Space Shuttle take off on TV. 😔

Posted by: Josephistan at January 30, 2025 09:20 AM (SQ1ek)

386 I worked for a Kentucky Colonel for a couple years, but he never revealed the secret blend of 11 herbs and spices.

Posted by: Kernel Korn at January 30, 2025 09:20 AM (G5+As)

387 x380 I saw Death by Broccoli open for the Black Eyed Peas in LA back in 2006.
Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2025 09:19 AM (QB+5g)

Cubby Broccoli gave us 007!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2025 09:20 AM (x0n13)

388 Kash and Tulsi hearings this morning, can't wait!

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 30, 2025 09:21 AM (V6W16)

389 Death Broccoli for Cutie

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

390 >>JUST IN: Over 50 former and retired FBI agents send letter to Senate leaders ahead of Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing, demand that they confirm him.

While it's nice to have one of these letters come from our side, they still are a political stunt.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 09:21 AM (WbBbu)

391 Controller never properly identified the inbound aircraft to the 60. He didn’t advise of the CRJ route to rw 33. 60 acknowledged he saw inbound but that was another aircraft on rw 1. Controller never specified which aircraft. He also did nothing to avoid collision and compounded the mistake by asking “do you see him?”. ATC owns this.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2025 09:21 AM (fOSwK)

392 I am very glad that you keep up on the Space program. I dedicated the best years of my life to it. Some people there see it as a job, others see it as a calling.

It's a tragedy what NASA has become but the goverments gotta govern.
Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2025 09:16 AM (QB+5g)
******
Doesn't hurt to have 2 days of remembrance.
I'm sure you were an awesome employee and they were lucky to have you.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

393 389 Ha!

Posted by: gp's Livin In A Hurtin House at January 30, 2025 09:21 AM (GEVMH)

394 Marcus

You are reading the mind of a dead Black Hawk pilot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:22 AM (Cp5Ma)

395 x and wiki
fine

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 09:22 AM (gbOdA)

396 Death Broccoli vs Ultimate Spinach.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:22 AM (Wg6v7)

397 Apparently, Kash Patel's hearing is up. Legal Insurrection has a link. I guess Maisie Hirono will get to ask her regular question as to whether the nominee has assaulted any women?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2025 09:23 AM (aDusC)

398 MI Gary Peter was in on
GBI strategies to change elections
Voter reg scandal
SMURF

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 09:23 AM (gbOdA)

399 > 395 x and wiki
fine
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 09:22 AM (gbOdA)

Still no response for either from my location.

Thanks!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2025 09:23 AM (W5ArC)

400 Death Broccoli vs Ultimate Spinach.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:22 AM/i]

A WWE Smackdown, smackdown..

Posted by: Toby Two-Times at January 30, 2025 09:23 AM (aD39U)

401 301 Leftists have arrested development. They're like the vicious kids in Lord of the Flies.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 30, 2025 09:23 AM (bi309)

402 >>"Urgent warning over recalled broccoli sold at Walmart that carries 'reasonable risk of DEATH'"

*smirks*
Told you broccoli was bad!

Posted by: George H W Bush at January 30, 2025 09:23 AM (WbBbu)

403 I wonder if th3e Democrats will be stupid enough to turn these hearings into a greater circus by attacking Tulsi and Kash over this crash.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:24 AM (Cp5Ma)

404 dammit

Posted by: Toby Two-Times at January 30, 2025 09:24 AM (aD39U)

405 @170 Seems Legit, the Night Stalkers of the 160th are based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky . I thought I read somewhere that the helicopter came from Langley (CIA) but that might be incorrect.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 08:36 AM

The helo was a VH-60 variant assigned to Fort Belvoir (Company B, 12th Aviation Battalion) with the callsign PAT25. PAT means Priority Air Transport; these helos are used for moving VIPs around for DoD. There was a pretty good freakout when the accident occurred because it was unknown if there was a high-ranking official on board. My speculation is (and it's purely speculation) that they dropped someone off at Langley and the return trip to Belvoir was then considered to be a training flight.

Posted by: Bert G at January 30, 2025 09:24 AM (VARTN)

406 I guess Maisie Hirono will get to ask her regular question as to whether the nominee has assaulted any women?
----------------
I wonder if anyone ever bothered to assault Maisie?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:24 AM (Wg6v7)

407 Controller never properly identified the inbound aircraft to the 60. He didn’t advise of the CRJ route to rw 33. 60 acknowledged he saw inbound but that was another aircraft on rw 1. Controller never specified which aircraft. He also did nothing to avoid collision and compounded the mistake by asking “do you see him?”. ATC owns this.
Posted by: Marcus T

Assuming you're correct, what consequences would the controller face, if any?

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

408 “President Trump was right. This process is political, and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system,” Menendez said.

This is rich coming from Menendez after he voted to convict President Trump during the scam impeachments.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2025 09:20 AM (gbOdA)

He was being political and he is corrupt. He knows whereof he speaks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

409 Well, all the trans are insane. So becoming a terrorist should not be unexpected.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 30, 2025 09:25 AM (JVCkA)

410 Earnhardt is marrying Hannity. They will have a kid. "Aw, baby said his first word and won't shut up. Kid interrupts everybody".

----

as Ainsley repeats her wedding vows, Hannity will interrupt

if she vocalizes during orgasm on the wedding night, Hannity will interrupt

when she announces the marriage is over, Hannity will interrupt

Posted by: Don Black at January 30, 2025 09:25 AM (AOsQT)

411 The controller is placed on leave pending completion of investigation.

Then it all depends.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:26 AM (Cp5Ma)

412 Assuming you're correct, what consequences would the controller face, if any?
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

***

It depends... Were they white?

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 30, 2025 09:26 AM (1FWWQ)

413 >> You are reading the mind of a dead Black Hawk pilot.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:22 AM (Cp5Ma)

You know this stuff Anna. 60 was on a straight line standard route in that airspace. He was looking straight ahead at rw 1. It’s up to ATC to be specific in covering that airspace. It’s standard to advise of specific aircraft and their rw destination/departure. ATC went shorthand. At night. With multiple aircraft in the air. Then they failed to advise when the 60 and CRJ stayed on collision course. No bueno.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2025 09:26 AM (fOSwK)

414 what consequences would the controller face, if any?

3 weeks paid admin leave.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 30, 2025 09:26 AM (JVCkA)

415 Earnhardt is marrying Hannity.
-----------
Earnhardt ain't queer. They're from Kannapolis, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:26 AM (Wg6v7)

416 Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy is on the fence about RFK Jr.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2025 09:09 AM (NpAcC)
==================
Like so many GOP Senators, Cassidy is on the fence about being a Republican too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2025 09:26 AM (V6x/S)

417 >>Ever since I saw the documentary "They Saved Hitler's Brain", I've been wondering when a murderous German Trans-Cult would emerge. It was inevitable.

Sure it wasn't his nose?

For some reason the killer trans cult makes me think "Vendersexxxxxxx!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 09:26 AM (WbBbu)

418 @398 it's going to be fun watching the Dem pile up to replace Peters in 2026

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 09:26 AM (6v8aM)

419 > I wonder if anyone ever bothered to assault Maisie?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:24 AM (Wg6v7)

Her folks ran a multi-generational whorehouse catering to horny sailors. She wound up going into politics rather than the family business, thus proving that there are some things that even sailors won't do.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2025 09:27 AM (W5ArC)

420 I guess Maisie Hirono will get to ask her regular question as to whether the nominee has assaulted any women?
----------------
I wonder if anyone ever bothered to assault Maisie?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:24 AM (Wg6v7)

She keeps asking for volunteers but no one will accept the commission.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2025 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

421 Just as carrots form the heart of the chili, broccoli is king because it wears the crown(s).

Posted by: Brussel Sprouts Suck, Though at January 30, 2025 09:27 AM (G5+As)

422 >> Assuming you're correct, what consequences would the controller face, if any?
Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

FAA is short controllers. Some of them suck. Leave it at that. He will probably be removed. But that’s cold comfort to the dead and their families.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2025 09:27 AM (fOSwK)

423 She wound up going into politics rather than the family business, thus proving that there are some things that even sailors won't do.
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So what is Admiral Levine, if not a sailor?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:27 AM (Wg6v7)

424 @405 thx Bert

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2025 09:27 AM (6v8aM)

425 He was looking straight ahead at rw 1.

Again you are trying to read the mind of a dead man. And ignoring the two others in the Black Hawk who should have been looking outside, that "see and avoid" thing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 30, 2025 09:28 AM (Cp5Ma)

426 Meanwhile the Columbia protesters are bragging that they filled sewer lines with cement.

Clogged toilets for Palestine? Somehow that tracks.
Posted by: Not Afroman at January 30, 2025 09:07 AM (QZThv)
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They're bragging? I wonder how smart they'll feel when they get that $20 or $30K bill for sewer line repairs?
Posted by: blake

Repair? Screw that noise. Walk two miles to the nearest bathroom.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2025 09:28 AM (0bE/L)

427 409 All adult "trans" believe in extreme violence to achieve radical change. Just look at what they do to their bodies.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 30, 2025 09:29 AM (bi309)

428 Seems like they could afford to build a self-contained, demilitarized city for the Gazans to leave in
____

What is Arabic word for thunderdome?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 30, 2025 09:29 AM (iHVz6)

429 So much to do so little time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 30, 2025 09:30 AM (l4pwx)

430 If I’m correct it’s a High left approach on a 60. Who would see that and avoid a banking fixed wing at night moving at about 140 mph?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2025 09:30 AM (fOSwK)

431 RRH,

Yes, I was lucky enough to be in a position where I was able to make a difference.

Got shoved out the door after the Shuttle program ended to make room for all the diversity hires that NASA was so hot for.

Posted by: pawn at January 30, 2025 09:31 AM (QB+5g)

432 > So what is Admiral Levine, if not a sailor?
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 30, 2025 09:27 AM (Wg6v7)

He's in the Public Health Service.

It seems weird for them to be a uniformed service, but it dates back to the days when more personnel were killed by diseases than enemy action. Giving the public health guys uniforms and ranks kept them from being shot as spies, should they be captured.

NOAA has a uniformed branch, too. That one descends through the US Geological Survey. Those guys have been making maps and charts in combat areas for a long, long time. They were on the beach in Normandy two weeks before D-Day. Once again, being caught drawing maps doesn't end well if you're not wearing a uniform.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2025 09:31 AM (W5ArC)

433 >>Meanwhile the Columbia protesters are bragging that they filled sewer lines with cement.

What?
Prosecute them.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 09:31 AM (WbBbu)

434 361 LA Mayor Bass Plans an Equitable, Sustainable Rebuilt Palisades
====================
What she means is "start sending me money, developers, and start now"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2025 09:31 AM (V6x/S)

435 What is Arabic word for thunderdome?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 30, 2025 09:29 AM (iHVz6)

***

ثوندردوم

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 30, 2025 09:31 AM (1FWWQ)

436 The Constitution requires states to recognize the lawful acts of other states. That is why IL is required to recognize a gay marriage license issued in VA. However it won't recognize a concealed carry license from the same state. How exactly does that work?

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 30, 2025 09:32 AM (Da7Vv)

437 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at January 30, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

438 Creepy kids nood

Posted by: tankdemon at January 30, 2025 09:33 AM (xL68M)

439 However it won't recognize a concealed carry license from the same state. How exactly does that work?

"It hurts our feelings so you can't do that."

Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2025 09:33 AM (svLOV)

440 We have constitutional carry here. No permit of any kind required to carry, openly or concealed.

We do have a permit available, but the only thing that gets you is reciprocity with some other states.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 30, 2025 09:34 AM (W5ArC)

441 BTW not completely absolving the 60 pilot. Someone onboard should have known what was happening in their airspace.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2025 09:34 AM (fOSwK)

442 >>Her folks ran a multi-generational whorehouse catering to horny sailors. She wound up going into politics rather than the family business, thus proving that there are some things that even sailors won't do.

A politician is just a different kind of whore.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2025 09:34 AM (WbBbu)

443 Thanks for Axing. Pretty good all told. final two rounds of chemo delayed until white blood count rebounds a bit. Nothing concerning to the doctors so I'm not either.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2025 08:04 AM (x0n13)
====
Chemo sucks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2025 09:35 AM (RIvkX)

444 Both aircraft were flying standard routes. Listen to the audio. This is an ATC screwup. They failed to notify the 60 of the approaching aircraft. They failed to properly notify aircraft of a collision.

The 60 also doesn’t have a great field of view based on that angle of approach, NVG or not. Ask a few of the CWO’s who post here.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2025 09:09 AM (fOSwK)

That's not what the Blancolirio video is saying with respect to ATC communications. What's your source so that we can compare?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 09:12 AM (/HDaX)

Full communication audio here:
https://tinyurl.com/4yyzrucr

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 30, 2025 09:36 AM (iODuv)

445 Full communication audio here:
https://tinyurl.com/4yyzrucr
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 30, 2025 09:36 AM (iODuv)

Watched that one too and it concurs with Blancolirio's statements.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 30, 2025 09:44 AM (/HDaX)

446 443 Chemo sucks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2025 09:35 AM (RIvkX)

Actually, mine is in pill form and I have had no real debilitating side effects like nausea at all. After his round, no more and only regular monitoring with MRIs every 2 months and if all goes well, maybe every 3 or 4. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2025 09:45 AM (x0n13)

447 Nobody seems to recognize that this crash was within a few miles of POTUS, at a time when his personal security is as big a concern as it has ever been.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 30, 2025 09:46 AM (hOOi9)

448 Nobody seems to recognize that this crash was within a few miles of POTUS, at a time when his personal security is as big a concern as it has ever been.

The Dems are blaming POTUS, so there's that.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 30, 2025 09:47 AM (2ocoG)

449 There are calls up-thread to limit Reagan/National to big-wigs. I see the airport as an important way to get people from outside DC in and out without getting anything splashed on them. Driving was more than a half day, so morning meetings required an overnight stay. Driving out of DC at rush hour can add an additional 2 hours, and then arriving home hours after bed-time is dangerous. It is easy to arrive at Reagan around 8:AM and then take the subway to a 9:00 meeting anywhere in DC, well except for NIST which is way up in Gaithersburg.
Same for leaving. Most meetings in DC are done by 3:00 or 3:30, and it is easy to get out on the circa 6:00 flights. Going through Baltimore or Dulles, the schedule is more difficult.
DCA makes it possible for those not in the permanent DC crowd, and not on Big Lobbyist budgets to participate in US government.

Posted by: Old Toby at January 30, 2025 09:56 AM (SQ4Cd)

450 Hannity, the "good Catholic" is what? Getting married again?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 30, 2025 10:04 AM (JVCkA)

451 25 The video shows that the helicopter crashed into the airplane. Did I get that wrong?

The jet was ATC-cleared and stabilized on a final approach to the runway, so it was exactly where it was supposed to be. The real question is not who hit whom, but why the helicopter was flying across the approach path, precisely at the altitude an approaching aircraft would be at, at that distance from the runway!

Somebody effed up, either the chopper pilot or ATC or both. The airliner appears blameless.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 30, 2025 10:23 AM (OXOOA)

452 Liberal Donors, Marc Elias And Biden-Appointed Judge Freeze Trump Push To Starve Woke Nonprofits Of Taxpayer Cash

It's time for the Gov't to use all it's investigatory powers to do a deep anal probe of Marc Elias and his connections. Any tax-exempt Non-profits involved in partisan politics need to have their IRS exemptions pulled. Huge fines and jail time would be nice too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 30, 2025 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

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