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F-35 might not suck

I have been very negative about the F-35 over the years.  This video might have changed my mind.   Mooch is a Top Gun graduate, was a RIO when the original Top Gun came out.  Very interesting interviews on his YT channel for people who like to learn about fighter aircraft. https://youtu.be/no07AGKg8Ys

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Ward Carroll (F-14 rio during 86 era Top Gun) bio of Robin Olds

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Overt racism in Chicago

If the shooters caught on video had been white, does anyone really believe they wouldn’t already have multiple terrorism, firearms, and assault charges filed?  https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-gang-shooting-lightfoot-foxx-feds-review-evidence  

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America’s Forgotten Heroes

Bill has done it again.  I’ve listened to three of the podcasts and every one has been interrupted at the end by clouds of invisible dust that I can’t seem to get out of my eyes.  Bravo.  

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Velocity V-Twin crashed in Wisconsin today

Very sad news.

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Read between the lines…

So…  Dad died last Monday.  We found this is his papers… Modern airliners have modern avionics.  Avionics are certificated with the airframe, and the test equipment and procedures used to test and verify that those avionics are “good to fly with 300 souls on board” are actually part of the airworthiness certificate for the aircraft.  […]

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I’m angry

Long post.  Edited and expanded from a fb response to a friend who accused me of not seeing the difference between protesters and the criminals in their midst.  Touched on the same building anger and indignation that Bill described about how America is going to end holding all Muslims accountable after a tipping point is […]

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How about state issued “I’ve already had COVID-19” cards like a concealed weapon permit card?

How about we use every state’s DMV drivers license issuing photo/identity system and send out “I WAS TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 ON XX/XX/XXXX” cards. two weeks after issuance it’s a “I can go anywhere” card. zero privacy issues (south korea tracking everyone? nope nope nope.). Iowa already has the info on file to print them. Just need to set up a state department of health db to track who had a positive test and when. which they probably already have, just locked down for privacy. since it would be opt in, zero privacy concerns.  hell, I would pay for the test and the card just to avoid the bureaucratic noise I had to try (and fail) to get past to help a customer in a retirement home get his pc back on the wireless network in the building.  if we’re going to be fighting this for months (building access restrictions) we’ve got to get a system set up to qualify who’s safe and who isn’t.

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Bill’s favorite spaceship restoration

Old news, but new to me!  Lost in Space Gemini 12 prop restoration…

https://youtu.be/ZPMa4c_NNyg

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definition of hero

Any questions?

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/crossing-guard-struck-by-car-critically-injured-in-kck

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wuhan virus (Michael Yon calls it Xi’s disease) 1000 times more likely to be engineered than naturally occurring

…and it started right here in the US, and the researcher went back to the level 4 biolab in Wuhan to continue the research.  all open sourced facts here folks…  

https://harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/01/31/logistical-and-technical-analysis-of-the-origins-of-the-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov/

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I lived the last half of the Cold War

Bill does it again!  I started paying attention to politics around the time of the last third of the Great Suck.  I found a copy of the US DoE pamphlet detailing how to build a basement fallout shelter that doubled as a tiki bar in my father’s file cabinet.  He has a BS and MS in Physics, and still has his textbooks on nuclear power reactor physics and high energy particle physics.  He never built the shelter.  That told me all I needed to know about how useful one would be in an actual attack.  Fortunately soon after I started understanding the radio and tv news, Reagan won and the Suck ended.