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Herdingcats says

Simple - did you notice any difference between the government being open and the government being shutdown?

You didn't?

Gee, it's almost like we could get rid of most of it...

Longest in history, and all that happened a few people in the TSA had to feel up blow up dolls instead of people for a 4 weeks. Boo hoo.

Goran_K says

Captain Getachew was born in Africa, Kenya to be exact.

Obligatory:

personal

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https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/13/us/pilot-complaints-boeing-737-max/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

"US pilots who fly the Boeing 737 Max have registered complaints about the way the jet has performed in flight, according to a federal database accessed by CNN."

"In one of the complaints, a captain reported an autopilot anomaly which led to a brief nose-down situation -- where the front of the aircraft pointed down, according to the federal database. In another complaint, a first officer reported that the aircraft pitched nose down after the autopilot was engaged during departure."

https://www.dockmaster.com/ ?

Just as a benchmark:

There are 387 total 737 Max planes worldwide. First ones were put into service in May 2017. We know airlines fly the same planes multiple times each day.

From Wiki:

..."After one year of service, 130 have been delivered to 28 customers, logging over 41,000 flights in 118,000 hours and flying over 6.5 million passengers."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX

So, those stats were through May 2018. How many more flights have been taken since then?

And there have been two crashes in almost two years, both NOT in our country. There's been zero in the USA.

Hmmm...

HeadSet says

Actually, his point "Meanwhile, the largest operators of the 737 MAX are US Carriers, with no crashes or incidents of course" is spot on.

Yep...

...."U.S. airlines flew more than 7,600 flights in 737 MAX aircraft over the past month, according to an analysis by WUSA9. Southwest, which has 34 MAX 8 planes, flew more than American and United combined for a total of 4,043 flights between Feb. 12 - March 12."
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/l...7-da3b0bc1bde9

So, 7,600 fights in one month equals over 91,000 the past year in the USA without a crash. Would that be considered safe?

Meanwhile, 109 people died today in car crashes, 109 died yesterday, 109 the day before, 109 the day before that, 109 the day before that, etc...

If Trump was so concerned about the safety of Americans, why didn't he put a ground stop on cars?

LOL

Armed and irrelevant

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This cuts both ways. Where as Trump was having fun at a campaign rally and his sane supporters know he doesn't actually mean get into a fight, Maxine Waters was very serious in her calls for harassment, to get in the face of anyone associated with Trump. Kathy Lee Gifford made a mock severed head of the president and held it up for all to see, inviting anyone in a sense to go through with her demented vision for our President.

Trump has a wonderful heart, unlike his opponents which are just mean spirited small minded people with little intellects that go around like they should be Hitler, and indeed they are at heart. Thank God, they aren't President.

That's what liberals don't get about Trump. They are fooled by the propaganda that paints him as being an evil tyrant, when in fact he is probably the first President who really cares about the people he represents.

What has Gavin Newson done for you if you live in CA. Another illegal immigrant, Gustavo Garcia who was deported twice and because of sanctuary state law, police couldn't notify ICE and have him deported again and that gave him the opportunity to go on a shooting rampage in Tulare County: https://thepoliticalinsider.com/california-sanctuary-law/

Kakistocracy says

Reducing the left to Commies, SJWs, Liars, Libbies, Libruls, Losers, Snowflakes, Socialists, etc

Just callin' them like we see them.

FPBT says

shielding the president from potential criminal prosecution.

What's the crime?

FPBT says

kag ... don't you mean cack?

Kak

Onvacation says

Kakistocracy says

Reducing the left to Commies, SJWs, Liars, Libbies, Libruls, Losers, Snowflakes, Socialists, etc

Just callin' them like we see them.

I’ll wait for someone to recommend just ONE moderate lefty that has any sway on MSM.

Best wishes for a speedy and uneventful recovery.

Trump doesn't barf he Lawyers to do it for him.

If it's because of a government shut down then it's Nancy's fault.

I say fire all of the useless Gender confused freaks and the Centerpiece know nothing Title Nine morons over there and put the racist misogynist White Engineers back so America can be Great again.

People don't realize that Aeronautics be like it is, but it do. Let the people who know's how it is do what it does.

Tenpoundbass says

Trump doesn't barf he Lawyers to do it for him.

OK now I get the attraction between Trump and Kim Jong un

https://inshorts.com/en/news/north-korea-claims-its-leader-kim-jongun-does-not-pee-poop-1504722737326

I blame bad service at fast food joints.

jazz_music says

Why Mass Shootings Keep Happening

They can't do anything. It's not like they didn't know. It's almost impossible to forcibly hospitalize somebody beyond a brief stay, which I believe the Parkland Shooter already got.

This whole article is wrong.

For starters, most mass shootings aren't in schools and not by kids. The ones that make the TV are.

The vast, vast majority of mass shootings happen in Chicago, Detroit, South Central, and usually don't involve kids.

But the wokeist most socially justified don't care, because that means they would have to criticize a protected oppressed minority they depend on for elections.

Instead, it is celebrated in pop culture. Got hollow points for the snitches! Rat ta tat tat like dis and like dat.

1) Trump wasn’t the only one to create the shut down. Pelosi dug in her talons and refused to do anything resembling a compromise for all that time.
2)Boeing shouldn’t have released this software update until it was tested. They actually are to blame and will be the ones to get sued, not Trump or the government.

Quigley says

They actually are to blame and will be the ones to get sued,

Sued for how much? Doesn't an Ethoipan life have zero or negative value on the open market?

jazz_music says

Mass Shootings Are Rising. Here's How To Stop Them.
Dan Diamond

What do we know about Dan Diamond:

I write sharp takes on the health, policy and wonk news of the day.

..., and a social media junkie. Posts are eclectic; views are personal. Let me know what I've missed

Well Dan, you missed a bunch..

First, this article was written: Jun 18, 2015, 04:30am

jazz_music says

It's important to be clear here. Yes, mass shootings remain exceedingly rare compared to overall firearm deaths. (About 34,000 people died from being shot in 2013, versus 40-odd people killed in mass shootings.)

And there's where he twists the narrative. The majority of that 34,000 are suicides, by people who have mental issues and want to kill themselves. To try and lump them into "Mass Murders" is just more TDS on display.

jazz_music says

"While many mass shooters had mental-health problems," the researchers write, "there is no reason to believe that there has been an increase in mental illness rates in the last several years that could help explain the rise in mass shootings."

It doesn't matter if there's an increase, we're only talking about a handful of mentally deranged people doing these shootings in a population of 320 million. Crazy will ALWAYS be walking around.

jazz_music says

Threat-Assessment Professionals Know Why Mass Shootings Keep Happening

So do I.

The Liberal media and their non-stop 24/7 OrangeManBad and TDS broadcasts and Republicans are evil added to the daily Liberal brainwashing by teachers.

Is it really a surprise?

The recipy is basically the same as the one to stop mass homelessness: making it much easier to involuntary commit nutters into mental institutions.

PS. Of course, this recipy will be thoroughly ignored, because both homelessness and mass shootings are playing into pinko's hand: the former is an excuse for more taxation in the name of more "services", "affordable housing" and handsomly-payed bureaucracy to run it all, and the latter is an excuse to push for gun bans/confiscations, etc.

Hugolas_Madurez says

making it much easier to involuntary commit a nutter into a mental institution.

Leave it to democrats to give us two of the most destructive pieces of legislation of which they didn't have to suffer any consequences:

JFK - 10/31/63 The Community Mental Health Act

RFK - Immigration Act of 1965

The article and the title prove the consequence of being bad at math.

Threat assessment on individual persons in the context of statistical phenomenon as lop-sided as mass-shooting is by definition nonsense! Out of roughly 350 million people, there are less than 35 mass shooting incidents in a year (of the variety that the author was talking about, not gang warfare in inner cities where guns are already banned). That's 10,000,000 to 1. Even if a professional assessment methodology has 99% accuracy (there are hardly any psycho profile method accurate enough to meet that hypothetical 99% accuracy), such an approach would result in 3.5 million false-positives when applied to 350 million population . . . i.e. rounding up 99,999+ who wouldn't become mass shooters for every 1 would be mass shooter! Good luck finding that 1 in 100,000+ all matching your profile.

Banning guns in order to prevent mass shooting is less clever than proposing banning food due to more than 10,000 choking incidents every year!

A far more effective way of stopping mass shooting is in fact encouraging ordinary people to conceal-carry: as the would-be mass shooters often were stopped by other people on site having guns! Comes to think of it, confronting criminal while armed with guns is what police do too! Except police can't be at all places at the same time, whereas concealed-carry private individuals have a much better chance of being at the right place at the right time to stop mass-shooters.

Don't ban guns; ban politicians who want to violate the Constitution! Every anti-gun politician has the blood of victims of mass-shootings and inner-city shooting victims on their hands: as they make up tyrannical laws that prevent law-abiding citizens from self-defense!

Freedom and liberty have a price. If you are for free speech then you have to put with hearing shit you don't like, like this news propaganda piece you shared which glosses over the facts and fails to show both sides of the argument. Like in the case of Roger, who police "let Rodger go" twice before he went on a shooting rampage. Maybe the police didn't have a good reason to arrest him. Maybe that would have been a violation of his civil liberties. The article doesn't explain, only leaves the impression in the readers mind that this could have been avoided.

That is the price of having freedoms. Perhaps you are for a police state where no one has the right to own a gun. The article advocates for gun confiscation laws. Maybe you are for a Soviet style democracy where the citizens have the right to shut up and eat crow.

Remember what Benjamin Franklin said about trading your freedoms for safety. Those who so choose safety over freedom deserve neither freedom nor safety. I paraphrase.

jazz_music says

Read the other thread about Australia and how they stopped mass shootings

Except they didn't:

jazz_music says

Read the other thread about Australia and how they stopped mass shootings completely with a few laws.

Because we have these examples it seems that there is no debate any more.

Just do it or not.

Maybe tweak the Australian approach.

Does everything have to be an unsolvable problem for poor America? With endless debates and any solutions never good enough?

Just because profitability for political donors is involved?

Australia is not USA. It is pedantic to think to even compare the two.

The quote above said "it seems there is no debate anymore." I'd be happy to debate that.

mass shootings are being used as propaganda to distract people from the real problems of the modern world. The rich contol (nearly) everything that is why the rich are funding gun control propaganda. They want to be the only ones with guns.

Hugolas_Madurez says

The recipy is basically the same as the one to stop mass homelessness: making it much easier to involuntary commit nutters into mental institutions.

PS. Of course, this recipy will be thoroughly ignored, because both homelessness and mass shootings are playing into pinko's hand: the former is an excuse for more taxation in the name of more "services", "affordable housing" and handsomly-payed bureaucracy to run it all, and the latter is an excuse to push for gun bans/confiscations, etc.

The truth, nothing but the truth.

Typhoid HEYYOU is on a vectored rampage! Good thing he doesn't have ebola or we'd have to get out the flame thrower.

Huh, can't find it. Is there any public link?

What a relief. I thought it was 'Duckmeister' and Iwog was coming back. Iwog's carcass is probably in a ditch somewhere, beaten to death by an Immense Hirsute Lesbian he insulted into spittle tossing rage.

Well make sure to target practice. Sad marksmanship is inexcusable.

Are those his butt buddy protectors from Marion Penitentiary?

AOC and "brilliantly" don't belong in the same sentence. By fucking definition.

Trump's tiny little fingers let him pick his nose really well for about a quarter of a centimeter up. The rest, he just has to blow out like the rest of us.

Trump flips the bird at people all the time, but nobody can tell, they think it's a knuckle.