When all the public schools are defunded, there will be lots of unemployed bus drivers to relieve the pilot shortage.
And the same day as ANOTHER serious crash (though not deadly):
Can this one be attributed to FAA firings? I don’t know. But the way the list of crashes is lengthening at least seems to indicate that those in the industry are not finding it possible to keep their minds on what’s necessary to safe travel.
(Quoted from link.)
They may well want to hide their identities, as it appears that the Trump Regime claim that only desperate criminals are being sent on some of those deportation flights–those to Guantanamo–is in question:
Gift link:
https://wapo.st/3CWXTJU
I wasn’t so much thinking of China acquiring the USA after a war, as of the USA being handed to China as some kind of deal made by Mr. Art of the Deal. You know, after he’s turned us into a hellhole of poverty and disease. 'Cause then China could get a real bargain!
I wouldn’t think of it. This is going to be a VERY weak nation in a fairly short amount of time, nukes or not. And the way Donald treats security will make a takeover even easier.
WWIII began three years ago (with preludes to the taking of Crimea in 2014).
It was sanctions and more sanctions that only hurt the Russian people and expats. Like they were supposed to take up arms like in 1917 when they could not even protest legally. Air-dropping butter (lawyers and guns not just yet) would have done far more.
If the UK puts “boots on the ground” in Ukraine there will be some shooting unless Trump and Putin are really jonesing for the status-quo ending and Nobel Peace Prize. The USA has never really stood “shoulder to shoulder” with Europe and not one country in Europe can count on the USA as an ally. I’d like to believe even Putin doesn’t quite know what/who he’s dealing with, yet I am scornful of Vance calling Trump “the leader of the free world” which usually (not always) is attributed to the USA as a whole. There are two, maybe three leaders of the world and none of them are in the West Europe proper (ETA: was just trying not to say Moscow is in the “East” as it’s European Russia, so Mar-a-lago, Beijing and Moscow)
My pilot friend did always consider himself a glorified bus driver.
For some reason, this reminds me of the line from one of the earliest episodes of Beverly Hillbllies. Jed is looking out the window of the plane as it begins its take-off run. He turns to Granny and says, “If the driver’s not careful, this bus is going to fly.”
Here is the CNN article on the Delta crash.. It has this nice comment:
- The National Transportation Safety Board is leading a team of investigators in the US to assist the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
When we first got married and my wife joined me here in Beijing, I told her
The two most important words for living here are for China. For example: That’s a great restaurant…for China. Another example: that’s an outstanding supermarket…for China. Or even: that’s a decent public restroom…for China.
What with de facto President Musk’s and toddler tyrant Trump’s approach to our governent, I think we have to do something similar with any news about the US government today. It occurs to me the words we should use are what’s left of. Here’s what that CNN article should have said:
What’s left of the National Transportation Safety Board is leading a team of investigators in the US to assist the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
This is a perfect way to move forward when referencing any of our partially functioning agencies.
I’m assuming Musk’s DOGE-bros are getting paid. Where does the money come from? Out of whose budget? Not DOGE…they don’t have a budget (I don’t think…) – they were never created by an act of Congress so there was no appropriation, no money.
Or did they get carved out of an existing department?
Or is Musk paying them out of his pocket (not betting on this one).
Europe split over Starmer pledge to send troops to Ukraine
The usually pretty-decent Independent has as their video interview link some fat fucker who cheats at golf wearing a MAGA hat. He will put the Peace in “World Peace”
Keir is likely waiting till their long-awaited state meeting happens sometime this month before actually sending British troops to Ukraine. Perhaps he’ll be “looking into souls” like Bush W did with Putin 20 years ago. That magic skill of course we know Trump has: “There was no Russian tampering with the election and Vladimir has assured me these are not the droids we are looking for”.
I doubt Keir the prosecutor would go lookin’ into souls with Putin and say such bullshit as those two presidents, yet he stands as the first world leader (outside Ukraine) willing to put people of his own country in harms way to fight a war that ought to have been fought three if not eleven years ago.
And Trump and Putin will still be the ones up for the Nobel. Looks like Musk already has a lock on MotY with Time Magazine.
So, is this the potential ruling that will determine Trump’s ultimate fate?
The White House’s acting solicitor general, Sarah M. Harris, cited the Supreme Court’s July decision giving the president near-total immunity in an appeal Sunday asking the high court to overturn a lower court order blocking Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Office of Special Counsel, Hampton Dellinger. The office is an independent agency whose mission is to safeguard whistleblowers in the government and to enforce some ethics laws.
Moore’s book has been banned from DoD schools because it says of a girl who doesn’t like her freckles, ‘Because after all, the things that make you different also make you, YOU.’
Witch King of Angmar
“Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!"
Did “Freckleface Strawberry” take a stand against any Nazgul Lords?
It seemed that Freckleface laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel.
“But no living man am I! You are looking upon a woman. Freckleface Strawberry am I, Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you!”
The winged creature screamed at her, but then the Ringwraith was silent, as if in sudden doubt.
Apologies to JRR Tolkien, yet it’s so cool that the Lord of the Nazgul was like “Ruh roh!”
The honeymoon just may be over for one special federal employee. (The link goes to AOL.)
Billionaire Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration is as a White House employee and senior adviser to the president, and is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has no decision-making authority, the White House said in a court filing on Monday.
So that means DOGE is nothing, doesn’t it?
According to a filing signed by Joshua Fisher, director of the Office of Administration at the White House, Musk can only advise the president and communicate the president’s directives.
Ah, I get it. Musk is just a messenger boy. Or, I should say, a lap doge.
I wonder if we just doged a bullet.
Hopefully we’re counting down the days before Trump declares “I don’t know anything about Elon”.
And the incompetence is malicious. (The link goes to AOL.)
Federal employees reeling from a wave of firings that began last week have focused on language in their termination letters targeting their “performance” as particularly upsetting.
USA TODAY reviewed 10 termination letters. All but one mentioned performance concerns.
Fired probationary employees interviewed by USA TODAY all said they were never told of any performance problems. One hadn’t been in the job long enough to have a performance review. Another was fired just a month into her job after relocating from more than 1,700 miles away to take it. And a third employee said his supervisor explicitly told him he wasn’t being terminated for performance reasons.
The performance language in the letters added insult to injury, the fired employees said, arguing it unfairly impugns their work records. Some worried the language could impact their ability to file for unemployment benefits and find a new job.
“It’s a lie. It’s simply not true,” said fired U.S. Forest Service worker Gavan Harmon.
This just seems to be the White House fighting back against the AGs’ lawsuit by saying that Elon can’t be doing anything illegal because he only advises the President and he only does what Mr. Immune tells him to. Therefore, not illegal. The fact that this is in no way what is happening is just a technicality.
The difference between de facto and de jure is a distinction not a loop hole.
Not so concerned about human trafficking and women when it comes to some people.