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Spin Zone / Re: Speech on Afghanistan
« on: August 21, 2017, 04:15:05 PM »
So do you have an alternative if you were to advise the president?  These people succeeded in character assassination of probably the best human being to run for office (Mitt Romney - not my candidate, but I believe to be a good, kind person) and danced on his grave. What makes you think they would do ANYTHING differently to ANYONE who is running with an R after their name? 

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Spin Zone / Re: Symbols of Hatred
« on: August 18, 2017, 09:19:09 AM »
According to folks hereabouts, if the fucking Nazis come marching into my neighborhood and I go out and yell at them, I'm just as bad as them.  According to folks here I have to meekly stay in my house and let Nazis, KKK members, white supremacists and bigots of all stripes do whatever they please wherever they want.
Only if you believe in freedom of speech, the First Amendment, and Voltaire's famous quote:  "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Sadly, you don't, along with the other anarchists who wish to silence people with which you disagree.

Good thing you don't teach civics.

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Spin Zone / Re: This country has gone nucking futz
« on: August 18, 2017, 09:01:29 AM »
Keep an eye out and look for it - this is all lurching toward the future mistreatment of white/christian/republican/southerners, justified because they are all racist bigots.  The irony of it happening is lost on the left.

I have already see a post suggesting that they just hack off the country below the Mason Dixon line and let those ignorant rednecks go about their racist ways...
What is so unbelievably stunning to me is people that I know and trust - not talking heads, not activists - actively seeing something 180 degrees different than the way I see them. To ascribe the views of the Nazis and white supremacists on Trump, and in turn his voters, based on what he said or didn't say, or didn't say fast enough, is mind-bogglingly stupid and frightening.

The hypnotism of the American public by the MSM is nearly complete. 

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So he gives a 30 minute speech to the American people "selling" why we need this.

 In case you've missed it lately, people are super pissed off at congress for their inactivity.  Even your pal Paul Ryan is getting grief in his own district.   Other congressmen and senators are basically in hiding because of the backlash of them not producing a bill.

 Now tell me how the president giving a speech is going to get congress to act in actually getting him a bill on his desk?
So you're really arguing against Trump giving an unfiltered address to the American people?  Because the status quo for the last 200 days is working so well, isn't it?  SMH

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If only there was a means for the president, or Congressional leaders, to speak straight through to the American people, live, during the evening time slots. Hmmm. Oh yea, Reagan had his Oval Office speeches, Carter gave his fireside chats in his sweaters telling us to turn down the heat in our homes, etc.

Fast forward to the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the Republicans have forgotten how to talk. Instead of telling the networks that he's having a 30-minute talk with the American people next Wednesday at 8:00pm EDT, and they can cover it if they want, and otherwise it would be steamed live to the world, Trump sends out fucking tweets. Likewise, McConnell has never had to sell anything to anyone, and Ryan limits his good auditory to news conferences surrounded by his fellow swamp creatures.

All any of the above would need to do is talk to the American people, speak about the importance of your positions, and SELL YOUR FUCKING CASE, and people will back them. 

Instead, the GOP acts like the minority party even when they are in the majority. It's fucking maddening.

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Pilot Zone / Flew the Fisk Approach in a Warbird
« on: August 01, 2017, 08:58:43 AM »
I completed a bucket list item last week with my first flight during AirVenture, and did it in our CAF Wisconsin Wing's Fairchild PT-26 Cornell.  I picked the right days to get in and out, so the approach was a piece of cake. I even got a straight in for runway 9.  After flying the Fisk with the extreme visibility of a Warbird,  I'm pretty confident I won't be flying it in a Cessna any time soon. What a blast.


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Spin Zone / Re: More Judicial Activism
« on: July 14, 2017, 12:50:02 PM »
Nearly half the Supreme Court believes the Constitution is a living, breathing document, and needs to be interpreted.  No.  It needs to be enforced, not interpreted with SJW goals in mind.
Hell, even John Fuckin' Roberts became the Legislative branch when he "interpreted" Obamacare's fines to be a tax.

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Spin Zone / Re: More Judicial Activism
« on: July 14, 2017, 11:46:24 AM »
So the SC makes a ruling and this District Court Judge can over rule the President and the SC?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4695392/U-S-judge-narrows-travel-ban-defeat-Trump.html
I read that. Didn't you know that the Constitution is a living, breathing document, and if one judge believes it's the right thing to do, a single judge can become the Judicial branch and the Executive Branch of the federal government? 

Let's get with the program.

Fascism has now appeared in a black robe.

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Spin Zone / Re: What's your preference? Lips or no lips?
« on: July 14, 2017, 08:01:39 AM »
I don't even want to think about my next colonoscopy (next year) after it occurred to me they reuse that hose. 

And MRSA, our neighbor got it and he wasn't even hospitalized. My friend had his leg amputated and he developed a MRSA infection in the stump. It was horrible. Of course his amputation wasn't elective cosmetic surgery...
Once I had to have an endoscopy and colonoscopy during the same procedure. To break the ice I asked if they could do the endoscopy first. Not many of them laughed.

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Spin Zone / Re: NYT just can't let it go
« on: July 14, 2017, 07:36:19 AM »

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Pilot Zone / Re: Flew the Fisk Approach in the PT-26
« on: July 06, 2017, 09:34:44 AM »
Thanks. I only have 16 hours in her, and 30 tailwheel hours, so I'm relatively new to this. That being said, with its wide landing gear and 2,800# gross weight, the PT-26 is much easier to land than the Champ that I flew for my tailwheel endorsement.  But I'm not getting cocky by any means. My goal is to get into our SNJ after about another 100 tailwheel hours, so with they as my goal there's no room for getting comfortable.

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Pilot Zone / Flew the Fisk Approach in the PT-26
« on: July 05, 2017, 06:20:39 PM »
Flew the Fisk Approach into OSH in the PT-26 on Saturday as practice for "hopefully" doing the same in the Big Show in three weeks.  Piece of cake, especially when there aren't 30 other planes merging with you at Ripon.   I wanted to get the sight picture of the route. My only disappointment was that I landed on runway 9 vs 27 with a four mile final. Not quite the same. I wanted to try my hand on hitting the orange dot.  Still it was a great flight.



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Trump should be talking about what he's accomplished, and trying to accomplish in his Tweets.  That's it.
Totally agree. I'm irritated that some of his tweets put us conservatives on the defensive. There's no need for that. It's like the undisciplined football player who smacks a blocker who is getting the better of him right in front of the ref. No matter how irrelevant, it's going to get flagged.

He's got good policies and good plans - use the tools for that and leave the irrelevant peeons to their own irrelevancy.

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Pilot Zone / Re: The Art of the Deal
« on: June 29, 2017, 02:18:22 PM »
I'm hoping Trump installed the fuselages and standard CRJ seating of two CRJ-200s side by side in the cargo hold to serve as seating accommodations for the White House press corps. 

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Fair enough.  While not a comedian, Ted Nugent comes to mind as an entertainer who says some pretty out-of-there stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNLmi0_216g

All that being said, Ms Griffin's stunt was, IMHO, way out of line.
Ted Nugent is an NRA Board Member and 2nd Amendment Activist, which is inherently political. The difference between Uncle Ted and Griffin is that he takes full responsibility for what he says, doesn't pretend to be the victim, and accepts the consequences of his actions.

She does none of those.

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