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Spin Zone / Re: Tuition Free College........
« on: February 10, 2016, 10:07:04 AM »

Quote from: FastEddieB on February 10, 2016, 09:54:33 AM
Or, it's like free high school education, which I don't see many here getting worked up about.

Depends on what lens you view it through.

But it's not, and you know it.  Bernie's proposals aren't limited to community colleges, that have geographic limits. He just demands "free college."  That's ubiquitous.

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Pilot Zone / Re: 2016 FAA Reauthorization republican proposal
« on: February 10, 2016, 10:01:10 AM »
It's starting to look a little more clear as to why the unions are supporting this:


High Cost to Taxpayers and a Sweet Deal for Unions

This is the first FAA bill in twenty years to be introduced without a including a way to pay for the bill.

The 30,000-plus current ATC employees and all U.S. ATC assets would be transferred, an undertaking of huge magnitude and cost that H.R. 4441 does not adequately capture.

Under H.R. 4441, air traffic controllers would retain all the benefits of a federal government union, but would no longer be subject to federal salary caps.

These employees can also choose to stay in federal pension programs and continue to draw federal healthcare benefits, even though they no longer are government employees.

The special interest-run entity would be given billions of dollars’ worth of equipment originally paid for by taxpayers.


http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/09/leaked-memo-shows-house-freedom-caucus-is-really-fighting-this-new-faa-restructuring-plan/

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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: February 10, 2016, 09:38:35 AM »
Here is Cruz' new ad:

http://injo.com/2016/02/533850-check-out-ted-cruzs-toddler-themed-ad-warning-against-playing-trump/

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Spin Zone / Re: The Children Are Our Future...and we're doomed
« on: February 10, 2016, 09:09:00 AM »

Quote from: Dav8or on February 10, 2016, 08:44:39 AM
I have no clue what they teach today because I have no children, but back in my day they never taught us anything about WWI, or WWII. I went to all public schools that were considered very good for public schools and I graduated high school in 1981. Everything I know about 20th century conflicts I learned myself because I was interested in the subject and actually came to love history.

At some point, there is only so much time in a school day I guess.


I graduated from a Catholic high school in the Chicago area in 1978, and we had either a semester or a full year of the History of Western Civilization. That was my sophomore year and it was taught by Fr. King.

Our friendly Air Traffic Controller MarkZ went to the same high school, but he's just a young buck, so I wonder if he was also taught Western Civ.  "Chicago Approach, Cessna 7861A, request."  We'll see if he pops in.

My daughter graduated from Charlotte (NC) Catholic HS in 2010, and she had a good course in Western Civ. as well.

Is it a public school thing? 

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Spin Zone / look out! he's got an air cannon!!!
« on: February 10, 2016, 08:54:10 AM »
Quote from: Bob Noel on February 10, 2016, 08:32:47 AM
an air "cannon" to shoot t-shirts in the crowd was seized because apparently the Australians are dumber than a box of rocks...

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/what-a-croc-queensland-police-seize-townsville-crocs-tshirt-launcher-20160205-gmmxbl.html

When air cannons are outlawed, only the outlaws will have air cannons.

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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: February 10, 2016, 08:52:54 AM »

Quote from: Anthony on February 10, 2016, 08:33:04 AM
I am still with Cruz at this point although I hear the Bible Salesman comments by our friend Lucifer here.  I trust him more than Trump, that's all.

Have you read Milton?

http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/why-ted-cruz-is-now-the-republican-front-runner/article/2582915

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Spin Zone / Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: February 10, 2016, 08:41:31 AM »
I'm not on Twitter, but I chuckled when I saw this:

#FeeltheUrn

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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: February 10, 2016, 08:40:25 AM »
So, we have a 74 year old Brooklyn Socialist and a 69 year old Manhattan Democrat are leading the presidential primaries. 

I guess that's New York Values for you.

I doubt the rest of the country wants to be like New York.

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Spin Zone / Re: The Children Are Our Future...and we're doomed
« on: February 10, 2016, 06:03:08 AM »

Quote from: Dav8or on February 09, 2016, 10:44:04 PM
You folks do understand how these "man on the street" video agitprop pieces work, right??!!! Man, YouTube is shaping people's opinion. That's what's scary to me!!!  Interview 100+ people on the street corner and edit out the 85% of people that answer correctly. Only put in the dumb asses. If you don't get enough dumb asses, explain to your interviewees what you're up to and many will volunteer to be dumb asses "for the cause".

Please don't think that these types of videos that are very popular now, actually represent the truth!! It's propaganda to advance an agenda. This women hates Nazis, but Goebbels would be proud of her and would have absolutely reveled in the internet.

These dumb asses are in college.  They somehow made it into higher education. The bar should be higher for them than the "man on the street."  Even the 15% should know something about the topic. 

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Spin Zone / Re: The Children Are Our Future...and we're doomed
« on: February 09, 2016, 05:17:03 PM »
Oh my God. My head hurts. I sincerely cannot believe that COLLEGE STUDENTS can be that fucking ignorant and stupid. How did they make it out of high school without taking a History if Western Civilization course?  How did they make it into college in the first place?  Oh. my. God. Think of the TRILLIONS wasted on public education.

Yea, now let's make college FREE!  That's exactly what these lobotomized drones will be doing in November.

I think I'm going to vomit.

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Spin Zone / Re: And you all thought POA was dull
« on: February 09, 2016, 04:18:39 PM »

Quote from: Lucifer on February 09, 2016, 04:07:08 PM
Have they put Bryan on the MC yet?

I'm sure he has them all flying in to a "BrY-in" at some obscure Texas airport.

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Spin Zone / Obama Bullied Bank to Pay Racial Settlement without Proof!
« on: February 09, 2016, 02:50:30 PM »
I was going to place this in Jaybird's "Modern Day racism looks like your friendly neighborhood banker" thread, because it is directly related to that story.  However, I think it deserves it's own thread, and would get lost in his "everyone is racist" theme.

From the article:

"Newly uncovered internal memos reveal the Obama administration knowingly exaggerated charges of racial discrimination in probes of Ally Bank and other defendants in the $900 billion car-lending business as part of a “racial justice” campaign that’s looking more like a massive government extortion and shakedown operation.

"So far, Obama’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has reached more than $220 million in settlements with several auto lenders since the agency launched its anti-discrimination crusade against the industry in 2013. Several other banks are under active investigation.

"That’s despite the fact that the CFPB had no actual complaints of racial discrimination — it was all just based on half-baked statistics."

http://nypost.com/2016/02/07/obama-bullied-bank-to-pay-racial-settlement-without-proof-report/

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Pilot Zone / Re: FAA: More registered Drones than Airplanes.
« on: February 09, 2016, 02:37:08 PM »

Quote from: Anthony on February 09, 2016, 12:20:45 PM
Let's face it guys.  Pilots are obsolete.

We're obsolete if snot nosed pimply-faced kids get hard-ons from viewing the earth from their Go-Pro camera attached to a drone.

As long as slipping the surely bonds of earth is a necessary prerequisite to experience the true magic flight, unavailable to earth bound gamers, I think we'll be alright.

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Spin Zone / Re: Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes
« on: February 09, 2016, 09:26:15 AM »

Quote from: Number7 on February 09, 2016, 09:24:46 AM
If, as he claims, Jaybird is actually concerned about slavery, then why is there no plethora of posts about Muslim slave trading, Muslim sex slave trade, and Muslim slave holding in the current age?

Because ... RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Pilot Zone / Re: Graves at Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport
« on: February 09, 2016, 09:24:51 AM »

Quote from: Anthony on February 09, 2016, 09:18:51 AM
So there are people buried under the runway?  Nice.

They are probably people who protested the airport expansion. ;)

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