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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.

Typical reply motivated by political emotions rather than factual discernment of facts. I will save everyone the trouble of reading a lengthy post addressing the 737 max issue, which I am extremely familiar with. I will simply address the issue claimed above, suggesting that it was a Trump thing. The 737 max was designed, certified, tested and approved during the Obama Administration. The FAA Administrator at that time was Michael Huerta, who was appointed and served until a short time into the Trump Administration. Training was also approved under the Huerta tenure/Obama Administration. In other words, anything related to the 737 max was done prior to Trump.

This is the same old stupid crap that gets on this board all the time. This has nothing to do with Trump. He shouldn't be part of the conversation at all. But......the FAA didn't have the failures it has had under this Sect or Trans or FAA Administrator. It didn't spend time, money and energy doing stupid, non productive gender neutralizing programs, resulting in gross waste of time money and producing culture that hated his appointee. It didn't result in service decreases becasue of the FAA's inability to staff, nor fine the industry whenever there were hiccups, with the usual massive public relations efforts that this punk is noted for, all the while taking no responsibility for inadequate staffing of national ground stops. It certainly didn't care about the sexual preference, genitalia or color of one's skin in appointing individuals of leadership.

It has nothing to do with his sexual preference. That is pure nonsense, and there is no cult. It has everything to do with him being a cabinet level staffer running the FAA and failing miserably. These headline grabbing "accomplishments" are so typical of what he has done. But first, what he has not done. Named appointees who couldn't get through Congressional appointment hearings. Not simply to a vote, simply couldn't even make it to the vote, as even members of his own parety acknowledged these were incompetent, unqualified applicants thrown up because of gender/race issues. Has caused schedule/service cutbacks becasue the FAA is not suitably manned to handle the load. Presided over the cost of removing the word "man" or any other gender verbage at no benefit to anyone, On his watch, encountered a national groundstop, (the cessation of all air travel), because his systems failed. Money spent on stupid gender issues could have been spent on updating an antiquated system that fails. Presides over a government organization with extremely low morale that hate him, as well as the industry it serves. Will save nobody anything. The costs will simply be moved elsewhere, as an industry with a sub 4% return on capital will have to find other ways to get a return. You can buy a no risk Treasury that would yield 20% more than putting any capital at risk in this industry. In short, they should just shut down the industry completely, except you know who makes a fortune off of it? Yes, the US Gov, which taxes the snot out of your "little guy" tickets. The man is ignorant, smug, hated by those in the department he heads, and completely incompetent. And absolutely none of that reality has anything to do with him being homosexual, which nobody cares about, and never has.

Costs will be adjusted. The margins are so low it cannot be another way. Always the same under this guy. Go for the headline that purports to help consumers. In the meantime, don't fix the FAA which is far more the problem in that industry, and always has been. Same old s**t, over and over, but with no objective oversite, never gets fixed and those responsible are never accountable.

Or in this case, indisputably accurate.

I don't know if you've figures this out yet, actually I can say with 100% certitude that you haven't, and that would be nothing new, but every human routinely violates the ten commandments. Old Testament has nothing germane here, so not sure what that comment is to convey. Anyway, Biden is the very definition of a hypocrite by denying the basics of his oft stated religious affiliation, to the point of staking his reelection on it.