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Perjury is perjury. The subject matter is irrelevant.

The same woman who advocated for going after "them" in restaurants. I had the "privilege" of carrying her on many of her weekend roundtrips from Dulles to LA. The woman is a classless, imperious, arrogant slob.

I get all that, but the BLS Report, and the ADP Report usually differ based on their modelling, but there has been no suggestion from the financial market world that they are cooked by politics. They are revised, as are almost all economic reports, but that, again, is not influenced by politics.

These are apolitical stats derived from apolitical sources. The Biden Admin doesn't influence them. It was weaker than expected, but the reading too much into one economic report is foolish. Better to use a three-six month moving average. That gives a much better picture. Still, we are approaching the end of the time line that these economic reports are grossly effected by the pandemic, and become more meaningful.

I've been following details of this since the thing was an idea. The "dock" is completely unprotected, so any weather of any serious consequence is going to stop the operation. Think WWII Normandy, but worse. The vessels being used are quite small, so any serious weather is going to require them to be hoisted until it passes. Regarding other news on this front, Eisenhower has now left the Red Sea and is in the Med, meaning there is no carrier to threaten the Houthis. I would say that objectively, Operation Prosperity Guardian has been a mission failure. Traffic through the Red Sea is at 50% of previous levels, and is largely Russian an other unfriendly stuff. There have been 50 attacks on shipping that have been successfully defended, one sinking of a commercial ship and one taken over. The joint forces have been incredibly productive, but the political will to end the threat has not, so it lives on.

Does this include Hunter Biden's coming clean after admitting to gross cheating?

There were lots and lots and lots of people who were protesting the removal of the statue. I drove past the staging area that the despicable white supremacists were staging to begin their little walk. I had to stop to allow them to cross the street, with traffic police assistance. It took about three minutes as I recall for them to cross. Maybe 75 people. There were a lot more on the other side of the issue. All locals. Some were there to protest the white supremacists, some simply to protest the foolishness of removing the statue. There were many more on that side.

Continuing your record of incisive brilliance.

The rally was from out of towners. The entire, stupid remove the statue thing was idiotic, and led by a racist black man with expressed and extreme anti white women views. He's still around. Name is Wes Bellamy. The rest have been prosecuted and found guilty. Regarding your comment about the state police, I am very familiar with people involved in the police rules of engagement that day, and it could have been prevented. All of them have been fired or removed. Trump is not a careful speaker, but there is no ambiguity. The man stated twice that he was not talking about neo nazis or white supremacists, and he directly expressed his disdain for those, yet it continues to be ignored by political nuts. The claim of ambiguity is from political hacks who, like you, for political reasons, refuse to read his response. "Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue of Robert E. Lee." It never ends.

First things first. The event you posted is not what happened on that day. Not sure if that matters, but it is not related to the event of some lunatic from Ohio coming here and killing a local woman. By the way, the man who served on the city council at the time, who was behind the statue removal, something not at all popular here, is thus quoted: ”I don't like white people, so I hate white snow." In one, from October 2011, Bellamy retweeted a description of performing a sex act on a sleeping woman and the comment that “if she moan it aint rape.” “this weekend I’ll be on a whitegirl diet.” He shared the message, then added “a rape charge waiting to happen,” according to the Cavalier Daily. In another tweet, according to the Daily, he wrote that white women “smell like future assault charges n deli meat.” While serving on city council: "I really tune out when white people talk in community meetings. I really need to work on that.” On the day that the woman was killed, I drove by the staging ground of these imported white supremacists, and I commented to my wife that it looked insane, and that something horrible was bound to happen. It all could have been prevented if the state police force was not told to stand down. Nobody

This "theme" should be buried. I live here. I was extremely aware of what was going on. The guy you are talking about has been convicted. The issue began when an anti white racist, who I am sure you or the other two clowns have no idea about, insisted that a statue be removed. Most folks, for a hundred years or so, had no problem with the statue. The city council's decision to have it torn down caused the entire thing. The people who arrived from out of state had this idiotic torch march, reviled by locals. That led to what happened. In no objective judgement was Trump talking about neo Nazis or white supremacists being "good people," as he clearly stated twice. He was talking about people who either advocated or opposed the removal of the statue, which has proven to be a stupid waste of taxpayer money. Watched it.

You are an absolute idiot. and nothing you could ever do would bother me, let alone the absurd claim made in this fantasy. You had your chance, when you first challenged me, and you hid like a cockroach. Regarding class, you have no idea.

No, I did not say that, and this is not the first time you have made this false statement, or post idiocy that I support trump. You continue to lie. You asked me a question, and I said I would not respond to your questions, as I don't work for you. I never said I would not reply or post a response to the stupidity you post, which is unending. Didn't happen, and I have explained it before. Anyway, the Trump claim was regarding people who advocated and those who did not, the stupidity of removing a statue, and he was correct. There were good people on both sides, and i know a few of them and their arguments, both sides valid. Never, ever did he advocate any white supremacist or neo Nazi belief, and he made that point clearly, twice, in that discussion. Always omitted in grossly stupid claims. People who continue to make that claim identify themselves as idiots.

For the one billionth time, in direct opposition to your link, he never claimed that neo Nazis or white supremacists that were not from Charlottesville but participated in that event were fine people. Give it up. Anybody who still claims that, as your link does, is a completely discredited moron.

It is being used, largely, on "us," and the "average joe" is involved in that production. Purchasing weapons, or any other US produced commodity does not result in a check to stock holders.

Yep. They request the aid. In most cases it's for very specific items. The headline number is total $, but that is mostly poured into buying US weapons, made in the US by US workers. You know, the weapons that actually work. Not all, but most of the aid is thus directed., and it is good.

Almost all of it is going within our borders.

No. They became the Islamic Republic of Iran becasue they chose to. Just as they choose to be the single worst exporter of terrorism and instability in the world. Their choice, and they will get their well deserved results. The US didn't create that horrific regime.

I didn't almost go, I went. It was Iran, who is behind all this and should have been dealt with long ago.

If you're talking to me, I did go "over there to fight." Thankfully, it didn't happen, although none of this past twenty five years may have occurred if we did fight then. By the way, your responses here indicated by your last two sentences quoted above, suggest that you might not be as brilliant as you claim.

You haven't answered the question, which I specified as "where it ends up." That's OK.

I would absolutely privatize the FAA air traffic portion, using other country, successful models.

Since we're all so stupid and you so informed, care to tell us where that 95B is going? Where it ends up?

It is a highly regulated industry regulated by far less skilled and talented people from the gov. Carter's deregulation was a bit before my time, but the industry has been in turmoil since then. Countless bankruptcies. Not my point. But, I saw the incompetence from the front left seat for years, and the further you get the gov away the better. My favorite FAA story, and I have many. In 2013 there was some solar airplane travelling cross country. Highly publicized. It was to land at JFK at 3AM on a Sat. morning. That was agreed to to prevent disruption of traffic, as they planned on shutting down the airspace on its arrival. Anyway, they claimed they had some tear in the fabric of a wing panel, and wanted to change the plan an land at about 11:30pm. I was flying a 777 to Tokyo that night. Number two for takeoff, they advised they were shutting down the entire New York airspace for two hours so this 35mph thing could land. Scores of international departures on the ground. There is a rule that a flight that is longer than eight hours needs an extra pilot, an augmented crew. The eight hours are measured from gate departure to touchdown. Many airlines, especially European airlines with western European destinations like London or Paris, don't have augmented crews at certain times of the year because the flight times are less. Anyway, one after another, during taxi they went back to their gates and cancelled because of the eight hour rule. Thousands of people involved. Thousands of hotel rooms, rebooking etc. In the interim, three airplanes that were to land at LaGuardia, also closed, declared fuel emergencies and landed at JFK. An absolute cluster****. Goofy thing lands with great media fanfare and JFK re-opens. That is what you get with these guys. What you get with the current group is understaffed controller operations resulting in schedule cancellations, a NOTAM distribution system that fails and results in a nationwide shutdown of the system. But.....We have spent money time and assets to de-gendered language in the industry, forced employees to watch stupid workplace sensitivity programs, send appointees to Congress who have no knowledge of the system and couldn't/didn't come close to Congressional approval, and now will tell them how to price the product and fine them.

The post you have authored in good faith fails to acknowledge the reality of the business. First things first. Airlines have offered inducements for overbooking since I began my career. They keep extremely accurate data on this, and use very sophisticated algorithms to decide on each flight every day. Interestingly, of all the issues in the business, overbooking was the most popular issue among passengers. It is extremely rare, 1 passenger per 10,000 who is removed without volunteering. Anyway, to the point. The first thing is to acknowledge that aircraft movements on the ground and in flight, as well as airport status, gate availability and pretty much everything associated with the industry is controlled by the gov. The result, at least in my 32 year career, is that nearly all delays were the result of the FAA. Most were reasonable, ie weather and other factors, but they are really not good at optimizing the system. They do incredibly stupid things. Second, these small fee issues are totally passenger determined. Want to check a bag, that's going to cost something, because it requires labor to do it, move it, load it, unload it and pay for the airport systems to get it back. Internet service? Much more complicated and expensive to provide it and maintain it on an airplane. I could go on and on, but you get the point. These things cost money. What you probably don't understand is the price sensitivity of the airline passenger. I heard a large airline CEO explain that a $1 difference in ticket price listed on one of the popular internet travel sites results in an enormous difference in demand for the ticket. Ergo, the only way to survive is to have the lowest possible price listed. That is what created all of these other fees. Get the lowest ticket price as possible on the sites and you get business. Next, to think that the gov has ever been good at regulating the business aspect of the industry is crazy. As an example, I was a 777 captain. The Passenger Bill of Rights law they passed provided that if we were in violation of the time issue of not returning to the gate or a few other components of it, the penalties made it cheaper for me to blow all the emergency slides and simply evacuated the airplane. It's crazy. The legislation passed in 2010 as the result of the Colgan Buffalo crash was ill conceived. It had no understanding that little commuter airlines are not similar to wide body, long haul international stuff, so it made no sense in many ways. Anyway, I could go on, but the gov wacking industry when you've got something as goofy as our current FAA, which can't support the industry that supposedly funds it is crazy, and the current Sect. of Trans is proof positive, but this administration seems to have an allergy to soliciting business people advice. Their stupid strategy of trying to convince people they are helping the little guy is a failure and invites potential shortcuts that shouldn't be taken. Open a restaurant. Have the gov run your parking lot, your employees, your capacity, your ingredients. Then allow them to shut you down for hours during your busiest times. Understaff your "regulators" to the point where you can't operate at certain times because they can't staff their end. Then fine them when the gov can't perform. You get the point.