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Most will overlook the importance of what is happening here. The liberal press machine violated all ethical standards in order to weaponize itself against a President and control a negative narrative in order to remove him from power. I HATE defending Trump....he is a loud mouth narcissist but some of the things he did were very good...all that being said the machine which enjoys special protections under the Constitution ran off the rails. Trump said some shitty things that are on tape (comments on John McCain were horrific), and maybe that is enough to make you hate him...however, many of the "reported" things he said we completely fabricated but they were repeated over and over by the big hate networks as fact. What this retraction really shows is how far the press as an institution has fallen. In the past if there was a negative report the press had a DUTY to confirm the story and the source. It was part of their ethos. What is going on now and what happened here is the WASHPO had one source who passed along the comments. They did not bother to confirm...they other networks picked up the WASHPO story and they called the original source to confirm....and so on and so on and so on...The entire story was a fabrication from ONE person. The EXACT same thing happened with the story about Trump's comments on dead soldiers at Arlington. It was a fabrication from one source and when it was quietly retracted no one noticed and no one cared because the damage was done. Perhaps the biggest failure was the Steele Dossier...opposition research, paid for by Hillary's campaign, used not only politically but also criminally. The press ran with it and we had years of investigations. Years later we learned the FBI and Intel community went through the report line by line and found much of the report was a complete fabrication...damage was done. Again, maybe it doesn't make a difference with a President as divisive as Trump, but the bigger picture is the press which is supposed to the be 4th estate, neutral and in search of the truth, has been weaponized for one political party and that hasn't worked out very well in other countries.

F-22 pilot treated for minor injuries after landing gear failed to deploy

Have you had COVID?

I hope that's the case...I had a rebound yesterday and spent another 20 hours in bed with a fever, chills, and body aches. That SUCKED!

I am guessing that is the case. I am A negative which some studies have shown to have a harder time with the virus. I have no other comorbidites other than I could lose a few pounds.

So I got the Modern Vaccine yesterday through the VA...it beat me up. First let me say I was actually impressed with the VA. Retired 4.5 years and I've never used the VA for anything. A buddy likes them and told me he was able to schedule his vaccine in short order. The phone system was a bit wonky with multiple numbers published on the WWW, but once I got through they verified my name, DOB, and SSN. Then she said "can you come in tomorrow?" I arrived at the hospital yesterday a little before my and they greeted me at the door to screen me and put me in a the vaccine line to check in. That took less than two minutes and I was asked to wait in the lobby until they called my name. About five minutes later they called a group of us and put us in a line (I asked if they were calling me back to active duty). I got my shot and was asked to sit in a chair for 15 minutes to see if I had a bad reaction. They automatically scheduled my second shot but I will be out of town and I asked about changing it...they did it in about 30 seconds. EVERYONE I met in the process had a smile on their face and seemed to genuinely care...i am blown away and hopeful others get the same treatment. On the vaccine side...I got it at 1130, my arm was a little sore by 1430, and a lot sore by 1930. Went to bed old man early and woke up at 0130 absolutely freezing and my arm hurts like a MFer. I took some Tylenol and the fever is gone...I'm tired and sore so will relax today. Overall it was slightly worse than the Flu shot. Good luck to all who decided to get it before they decide for you.

Don't forget a clean sheet design F-16 replacement for the CSAF the flew F-16's...just what we need to counter China.

Well half the country burned last year and you didn't seem to give a fuck. The southern border is a complete shit show, we just added $1.9Trillion in debt with less than 10% of it actual COVID stimulus, 57 executive orders...what was I thinking...everything is wonderful.

Nothing to see here....as long as the Never-Trumpers got the orange man our of office...let the rest of it burn down.

We will never have zero risk. If we wanted zero risk we would never have an Air Force that puts America's best and brightest inside a piece of metal weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds, fills it with jet fuel, straps on explosives, lights it on fire and shoots it into the sky.

'We're going to lose fast': U.S. Air Force held a war game that started with a Chinese biological attack Meanwhile, a leading Chinese think tank recently described tensions in U.S.-China relations as the worst since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, and it advised Communist Party leaders to prepare for war with the United States.

One of the things I did not like about Trump was his willingness to run with a conspiracy theory...POTUS should NEVER be apart of such things. With that in mind I always looked at some of the "theories" about the true origin of COVID-19 with a jaundiced eye. This past summer there were several "definitive" stories saying researchers looked at the genetic sequence of COVID-19 and determined it was not a manufactured virus. With high confidence they stated it like came from humans interacting and eating bats and it finally made the big jump "naturally" in the Wuhan market. I don't recall which publication it was but it was peer reviewed and shared by multiple experts...and I believed what they said. Over the past few months more and more information has come out that puts the focus on the Wuhan Institute of Virology which just so happens to be located near the food market. These are not conspiracy nutbags pushing an agenda...shockingly there is some real reporting go on as folks try to get through the wall of Chinese silence and censorship. Politco just published an EXCELLENT article (link below) with some very disturbing and damning facts. The facts came from U.S. State Department personnel that saw things in 2017. In 2018, Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab. No One Listened. I highly encourage you to read then come to your own conclusion. For those with ADHD I am posting an excerpt with some of the most eye opening information. "In late 2017, top health and science officials at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing attended a conference in the Chinese capital. There, they saw a presentation on a new study put out by a group of Chinese scientists, including several from the Wuhan lab, in conjunction with the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Since the 2002 outbreak of SARS—the deadly disease caused by a coronavirus transmitted by bats in China—scientists around the world had been looking for ways to predict and limit future outbreaks of similar diseases. To aid the effort, the NIH had funded a number of projects that involved the WIV scientists, including much of the Wuhan lab’s work with bat coronaviruses. The new study was entitled “Discovery of a Rich Gene Pool of Bat SARS-Related Coronaviruses Provides New Insights into the Origin of SARS Coronavirus.” These researchers, the American officials learned, had found a population of bats from caves in Yunnan province that gave them insight into how SARS coronaviruses originated and spread. The researchers boasted that they may have found the cave where the original SARS coronavirus originated. But all the U.S. diplomats cared about was that these scientists had discovered three new viruses that had a unique characteristic: they contained a "spike protein” that was particularly good at grabbing on to a specific receptor in human lung cells known as an ACE2 receptor. That means the viruses were potentially very dangerous for humans—and that these viruses were now in a lab with which they, the U.S. diplomats, were largely unfamiliar. Knowing the significance of the Wuhan virologists’ discovery, and knowing that the WIV’s top-level biosafety laboratory (BSL-4) was relatively new, the U.S. Embassy health and science officials in Beijing decided to go to Wuhan and check it out. In total, the embassy sent three teams of experts in late 2017 and early 2018 to meet with the WIV scientists, among them Shi Zhengli, often referred to as the “bat woman” because of her extensive experience studying coronaviruses found in bats. When they sat down with the scientists at the WIV, the American diplomats were shocked by what they heard. The Chinese researchers told them they didn’t have enough properly trained technicians to safely operate their BSL-4 lab. The Wuhan scientists were asking for more support to get the lab up to top standards. The diplomats wrote two cables to Washington reporting on their visits to the Wuhan lab. More should be done to help the lab meet top safety standards, they said, and they urged Washington to get on it. They also warned that the WIV researchers had found new bat coronaviruses could easily infect human cells, and which used the same cellular route that had been used by the original SARS coronavirus."

What a great day to be in the market! I am guessing Friday/Monday was the new low/base for Tech.

No...Autocorrect insisted it was "Chalked" and big tech is always right.

So the Lufwaffe made a big deal about a supposed Elephant Walk of Typhoon Eurofighters... Notice anything odd about the pictures? All the jets are chocked and have no pilots...Basically they towed 18 jets out on the the runway, took a picture, and blasted social media...cool story Bruder.

He definitely had some but he is actually brilliant. I spent some time around him in an official capacity and was blown away, he must have a camera on switch that brings about the gaffes. I have a good friend that worked directly for his for several years and said the same thing. Especially when it came to discussions on strategy and national policy.

And no one on the left seems to care...this should be the biggest conspiracy of all time. Who is actually running the country?

I was thinking about flying down, fly into VPS and you can fly with me. Wait, the ORM for two old guys might be off the chart.

I don't have a problem with the song, not sure I've ever heard while listening to the "40's" on XM but hey...to each his or her own. The issue is the absolute lunacy of being upset over Dr Seuss when it is okay to have lyrics like this, along with books like Mein Kampf.

Reading through this thread the only issue I can recall encountering was a pilot who was uber-religious and had some degrading views of women. He tried to stand on those grounds and on one occasion, refused to fly with a female co-pilot. I was a Major in the WIC and was flying as an attached guy so I wasn't included on all the actions they took but I know he continued to fly and with a female co-pilot. His career in our community basically ended at that point and they sent him off to AETC not long after (stunned by that choice). I honestly never saw overt racism, but obviously it exists in the hearts of some and it would be foolish and a disservice to pretend it does not exist to some extent. Shocked and saddened to hear this and some of the other stories on here. We may be the .1% who serve but there is still a normal bell curve distribution of issues and ideologies. I just hoped we were better.

Going through that process as I set up to receive my new airplane this fall. It will go into an LLC and I will lease it back to myself. I pay a monthly usage fee to the LLC which includes sales tax. I remit the sales tax to the state then the LLC will pay me back the remainder...right pocket to left pocket. This allows me to drag out the sales tax of $48K over many years instead of one giant check to the state. I think I can meet the 25% threshold for business usage which will also allow me to write off part of the cost and do some depreciation.

The whiplash will continue and it kills me to see these short-sighted decisions. Two years from now when everyone is running for the doors again they will re-rollout the "We care about you, what can we do to make it better" bullshit. This falls SQUARELY on the shoulders senior leadership that doesn't have the stones to stand up and tell Congress and others to help now to prevent chaos later.

Biden removed Dr Seuss from his speech. As reading Dr Seuss on this day is a long standing tradition, I'd say that's the ultimate cancel.

Brabus summed it nicely and you have outlined some fairly strict constraints so it may work for you. I looked at a partnership but ultimately decided I want full control and access. I've heard and seen several nightmares associated with "renting" your aircraft including the one outlined in the video below.