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Spin Zone / Re: Black man shot "for being black"
« on: September 23, 2016, 11:42:26 AM »
North Carolina has been in the hands of the GOP as long as I can remember.  They've passed voter legislation laws that Federal courts have said discriminated against minorities with surgical precision.  The State has been boycotted by everyone from Ringo Starr to the NCAA.

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Pilot Zone / Re: Slow Flight SAFO Issued
« on: September 23, 2016, 11:36:35 AM »
I dunno.  If you've already got the stall horn blaring and you're not just above the runway you're doing something wrong.  It should be pattern speeds that people be expert at handling aircraft, not into the stall.  I actually rather agree.  It never did me any good to be able to handle the airplane with the stall warning blaring.  I don't fly in that regimen.  If I am in that regimen I am doing something wrong.

Sort of like the abandonment of spin training.  If you're in a spin you've likely slipped the aircraft between base and final.  You won't be able to recover.  Better to be trained to keep out of them.

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Spin Zone / Re: We're #1 - And We're Not
« on: September 23, 2016, 11:33:21 AM »
do you care about due process?

"common sense" - yeah, right.

I actually agree with you.  Anyone put on a do-not-fly or watch list should be able to appeal.  We need due process for anything that restricts a citizens liberty.  But with that proviso I'd like to see suspected terrorists not be able to get should of assault weapons.

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Spin Zone / Re: Goodbye 4th Amendment
« on: September 23, 2016, 11:31:43 AM »
That would be (mildly) funny if a more liberal court didn't bring with dire consequences.

btw - I notice you said "more liberal"...

I wonder if you understand that the SCOTUS should be apolitical.

It should be but isn't.  But it has been very conservative court that ruled on Citizens vs. United, and on fruit of the poisoned vine.  Both have been disasters for the nation.

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Spin Zone / Re: No Coughing Breaks
« on: September 23, 2016, 11:30:08 AM »
Health conspiracy?  We've SEEN HER cough, stumble, fall, and have to be carried like a sack of potatoes into a van because she couldn't walk as she was having a seizure.  If that is a conspiracy, I guess Lincoln was never assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, and must be still alive.  Jeez Michael.

Yeah, its on the internet.  Whatever.  Again, reminds me of the whole birther thing.  That was on the internet too, and you were all certain of it at one point.

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Spin Zone / Re: We're #1 - And We're Not
« on: September 23, 2016, 10:42:40 AM »
If Hillary wins we will be number one in murders, and our legally owned guns will be banned and confiscated.

You said that about Obama at one point.

It has been a fact for many years and is still a fact.  Most firearm fatalities are between folks who know each other.  About half are suicides.  That renders the gun control push after shooting tragedies little more than political opportunism.

That said, opposing common sense regulations, like keeping assault weapons out of the hands of suspected terrorists, is simlarly political opportunism.

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Spin Zone / Re: Goodbye 4th Amendment
« on: September 23, 2016, 10:36:30 AM »
4th amendment has been deceased for some time.  It died the day the SCOTUS said they could use evidence from a warrantless search.  Good news is it could return if a more liberal court were to weigh some cases.

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Spin Zone / Re: Trump Supporters are as Dumb as you Think
« on: September 23, 2016, 10:32:56 AM »
Jobless recovery does sound apt, but that's just the nature of the economy.  We're still either the number one or two manufacturing economy in the world, its just these days we manufacture with robots.  There are fewer factory jobs you can maintain with a high school education,and many of those are now in the South under rate aegis of foreign manufacturers.  Gobs of manufacturing jobs just aren't coming back no matter who's in charge.

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Don't know about jail, but individuals willing to falsify charges should not be in law enforcement.

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Spin Zone / Re: No Coughing Breaks
« on: September 23, 2016, 10:24:03 AM »
We shall see if this health conspiracy has any weight to it.  Of course, I doubt any of you will exceed the crow you'll be offered when she makes it through the whole thing with no apparent difficulty.

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Spin Zone / Re: The Question Is.......
« on: September 23, 2016, 10:23:01 AM »
I think it has to do with local socioeconomic conditions.  Note I think.  There was an African American youth killed here when, while running from LEOs he pulled out a toy gun.  To the LEOs it looked real and they shot him.  No riots, no nothing.

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Spin Zone / Re: Hillary Clinton Proposes 65% Tax on Largest Estates
« on: September 23, 2016, 10:21:42 AM »
The Income Tax was supposed to apply to only the "rich".

The income tax was levied as a way to get the nation away from Whiskey taxes to facilitate prohibition.  As I said, the estate tax was instituted by the founders to avoid the establishment of hereditary aristocracies.

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Spin Zone / Re: Trump Supporters are as Dumb as you Think
« on: September 22, 2016, 12:30:26 PM »
Well professor, I've studied economics, and finance.  Ever hear of the Wharton School?  That's where I got my Masters, and that's where the Donald went for his under grad degree.  We are worse off than we were in 2008 overall.  Unemployment is much higher than stated.  Look at the labor participation rates.  Do you think negative GDP growth is good?  Well that is what we have.  Interest rates are at HISTORIC LOWS which shows a very, very weak economy, yet you believe Obama and his agency minions lies.  You are very easily fooled.

Sorry, the vast majority of Economists disagree with you.  Hey, I admit this isn't my bag.  In order to try and cure cancer I had to skip the finance degree.  But  you guys are so heavily ideologically motivated that anything Obama does has to be horrible, and anything any Republican does has to be wonderful.  I don't recall anyone sounding the alarm in the old Spin zone around 2008.  According to the conservatives then W could do no wrong.

Most economic indictors are up, and the unemployment rate is as low as I've ever seen it.  The real difference is 20 years ago the jobs were stable, paid a lot and included a fairly generous retirement.  Now those jobs are gone, and in their place are jobs that don't pay as well and aren't as stable.  But the jobs are there.  Get some specialized training in engineering or medicine and the jobs are everywhere.  My charges are not finding difficulty finding work, I can tell you.

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Spin Zone / Re: Hillary Clinton Proposes 65% Tax on Largest Estates
« on: September 22, 2016, 12:01:23 PM »
The Estate Tax was instituted by the founders.  They didn't want the formation of the sort of hereditary aristocracy they had left in Europe.  As is it only hits about 4000 estates a year.  Pretty paltry for an election issue.  And not one that will affect anyone reading this I bet.

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Spin Zone / Re: Trump Supporters are as Dumb as you Think
« on: September 22, 2016, 11:21:24 AM »
I take it you've never, ever studied economics.  It shows.

Any you have?

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