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BarbarianElephant posted:Tiny plane crashes seem to be about the #1 cause of premature death for the rich. If you ever get into the guillotine-worthy class, never accept a trip on a rich man's little plane, particularly if he's piloting it himself. Yea, the Cessna 172 is basically the Suzuki Hayabusa of the well-to-do.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The guy who signed an executive order getting rid of DACA trying to frame himself as it's defender is a special kind of crazy. If he gets Congress to pass a real DACA (as he's requested), he'll have done way more than any previous President. Executive orders are inherently transient.
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paternity suitor posted:It's interesting that all of these bad ideas and policies coming out of this confederacy of dunces in the White House are forcing us to evaluate the structure of things more closely. I had actually never been aware of the disparity between how much high tax states like NJ and CA contribute vs. how much is spent. Like you said, it's quite literally the opposite that high tax states receive a subsidy for their SALT; they're subsidizing low tax states pretty heavily also texas right? what are the numbers for these states?
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:My favorite thing about the Secret Service is that they also investigate financial crimes and forgeries, and they wear the same uniform to do that as they do to protect the president. When I was in college, a bunch of morons thought it would be a good idea to use the (then) high end printer they'd been using to spool off fake IDs to print some $20 bills. The first we heard of it was when 5 black SUVs pulled up in front of the dorm and a bunch of MiB and WiB with earpieces ran inside and then ran out again carrying stacks of boxes and filing cabinets. When Obama was on Jay Leno there were whole videos of just lovely disguised Secret Service guys in the crowd outside. Some of them were hilarious like they just fell through the prop store and grabbed whatever was in range and just went with that. Polo + shorts + half full liquor bottle and gun down the front. Sure whatever.
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TheScott2K posted:Yea, the Cessna 172 is basically the Suzuki Hayabusa of the well-to-do. Wasn't that the Beechcraft Bonanza?
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ecureuilmatrix posted:Wasn't that the Beechcraft Bonanza? You're probably right. I just reached for the, like, one small plane I know of.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:The outfit really is something So....incoherent rage-tweeting and golfing in between signing executive orders?
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ecureuilmatrix posted:Wasn't that the Beechcraft Bonanza? The Bonanza is known as the 'doctor killer'.
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ecureuilmatrix posted:Wasn't that the Beechcraft Bonanza? Yeah, or the Mooney. aka Doctor Killer e: efb, drat. Guess it was a similar tail design that got the moniker e2: what the gently caress, Mooneys aren't even V-tails. I don't know what the hell the person who told me about Mooneys was on about then I promise I'm not this stupid (narrator: he was) Data Graham fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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BarbarianElephant posted:Tiny plane crashes seem to be about the #1 cause of premature death for the rich. If you ever get into the guillotine-worthy class, never accept a trip on a rich man's little plane, particularly if he's piloting it himself. I think rich/famous pilots are particularly dangerous for themselves and their passengers, unfortunately. They presume that their general untouchability and protection from failure in everyday life somehow extends to the laws of physics and the weather, and it obviously does not. Small planes aren't incredibly unsafe, but you absolutely need to recognize the limits of the aircraft and the limits of your ability as a pilot, and it seems that a lot of rich people really don't like accepting those limits. TheScott2K posted:Yea, the Cessna 172 is basically the Suzuki Hayabusa of the well-to-do. No, that's far too common and slow a plane for an Important Rich Person!
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172 is more like the Honda Super Cub of the aviation industry
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Data Graham posted:Yeah, or the Mooney. aka Doctor Killer Or the Cirrus. The thing all these aircraft have in common is they are fast and relatively cheap, so rich people buy them without enough experience, and don't realize that the difficulty of flying an aircraft increases very quickly as the speed increases. Rich people are also more likely to use their aircraft for business travel, I would say, which can push them into flying in weather conditions which they aren't comfortable or trained for, or that their aircraft cannot handle. Arguably the most important skill for a low-time pilot in a small aircraft is knowing when not to go flying.
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There is always always always some stupid poo poo that happened to Trump in the 80s https://twitter.com/danwlin/status/948245502835003392
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gaj70 posted:If he gets Congress to pass a real DACA (as he's requested), he'll have done way more than any previous President. Executive orders are inherently transient. That's a real rear end backwards way of looking at it. Maybe if he and the Republicans in Congress weren't requiring the Dems to threaten to shut down the government in order to pass anything he'd have firmer ground to stand on. Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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C2C - 2.0 posted:This is bothersome Is the Census director position confirmed by Congress? Or can Trump just appoint whoever he wants with no consequences? This could be seriously damaging to the country...
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Some rich guy flew his plane, and a few passengers into a house in Maryland recently and managed to kill a mom and two kids while the dad and one kid watched the house burn. Civil Aviation seems full of this stuff. My favorite/most terrifying plane crash was a pilot who crash landed on a minivan commuting home after work. The guy literally never knew what hit him. No one else died. The pilot lived. Just that one guy in his minivan. Counterpoint to that was one of the guys who developed the black box crashing his small plane not too far from where I lived. It took everything he had to just barely avoid traffic. You could see a single tire skid mark where his plane skipped the road and then crashed into a grove of trees and burst into flames. I drove by about twenty minutes after it happened and the fire was still hot enough to melt steel beams.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948211438472089600 Holy poo poo. Look, I don't care whatever kind of punctuation you think does your typing *favors*, but quotation marks is typically sarcasm so - uh, are you predicting your own failure there mushhead?
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BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:Ronald Reagan's SS guard was a hundred year old blind dog. Actually, I believe these were Reagan's SS guards:  It's a Bitburg/Nazi joke. Flip Yr Wig fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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TheScott2K posted:There is always always always some stupid poo poo that happened to Trump in the 80s I loving love the internet. The loving idiot cannot escape his carnival barker past no matter how hard he lies.
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Abilifier posted:Is the Census director position confirmed by Congress? Or can Trump just appoint whoever he wants with no consequences? This could be seriously damaging to the country... The position does require confirmation.
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Ripoff posted:I loving love the internet. The loving idiot cannot escape his carnival barker past no matter how hard he lies. Remember when the defective slot machines in his casino were blamed on everyone playing them so, so much because they were so hot -- the best slots, the greatest ever, really? He's such a clown...
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Robot Hobo posted:Has he done anything in this regard that he could even vaguely take credit for? I don't mean "Was Trump actually responsible for airline safety?" because that's obviously stupid and wrong. My question is, is there a thing he actually did that he wants us to think resulted in this improvement? He did mention he was going to do something but never actually did anything. There was a signing ceremony though! [it was a memo] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/us/politics/trump-privatize-air-traffic-control.html
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gaj70 posted:If he gets Congress to pass a real DACA (as he's requested), he'll have done way more than any previous President. Executive orders are inherently transient. Asking Congress to pass DACA is about the most cunning thing Trump has done in his presidency. If they pass it he tries to take the credit, if it doesn't pass he tries to blame them. Not that he wouldn't do those things anyway but it actually makes some vague semblance of sense. edit fake news Google autocorrect doesn't catch enough trump misspellings. Sad! Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:The outfit really is something She's...decided to cosplay the Third Doctor? Granted Pertwee can 100% carry it off, but it's not exactly the obvious choice for interviews.
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Seph posted:What are you, some sort of fascist? Anyone who owns a car without holes in the floor is a HENRY and deserves the guillotine. whats a henry?
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dbukalski posted:whats a henry?  High earner not rich yet Generally a derogatory term
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Krispy Wafer posted:Small planes fall out of the sky all the time. There's no way you're going to go a week, much less a month without a liddle plane fatality. Sad. If it's any consolation, they're almost always terrible people. The kind of semi-successful professional who has a third ownership of an old Bonanza through their law practice or paying out the rear end for their SR22. Doing anything for them is a nightmare because they're just So. drat. Important. It's no surprise that they go down so often because the pilots are always right about everything. Stall warning? Pfft, I know how to fly this thing. Doesn't the plane know who I am? The kind of people who see a FIKI bullet point on the features list and think they don't have to worry about the weather. You see the same kind of thing when roads get icy, it's always the dipshits in their 4x4 trucks that line the shoulders. There's just something about GA pilots that make them think they're special.
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dbukalski posted:whats a henry? Guillotine fodder.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:
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Grouchio posted:Last night I dreamt that I was held hostage by the Nigerian President, who then shot me in the jugular and left me to die. Except I didn't, and weakly trodded through the rest of the dream for five hours with a nasty scar on my throat, after hearing that Nigeria later got bombed to poo poo. Even literal nightmares involving Nigerian bigwigs are just scams.
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https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/948219171535577091 FBI... Bad? E: as pointed out, it was a US attorney who decided not to prosecute, my mistake. aware of dog fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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ozmunkeh posted:If it's any consolation, they're almost always terrible people. The kind of semi-successful professional who has a third ownership of an old Bonanza through their law practice or paying out the rear end for their SR22. Doing anything for them is a nightmare because they're just So. drat. Important. It's no surprise that they go down so often because the pilots are always right about everything. . "It wouldn't dare!"
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Just a nice reminder that just because they are at war with Trump doesn't mean they're any good themselves.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The guy who signed an executive order getting rid of DACA trying to frame himself as it's defender is a special kind of crazy. Dude is just trying really hard to shape reality to what ever his hole-riddled brain think it is. He is trying very hard to destroy the things he claims to defend. Either he really believes it in which case he is insane, or he is doing in while knowing he is being very disingenuous in which case he is evil. I like to think he is possibly both. Trump does like to buy his own hype and get high on his own farts.
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dbukalski posted:whats a henry? The rest of you should be ashamed for not posting the gif. 
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Just a nice reminder that just because they are at war with Trump doesn't mean they're any good themselves. quote:Yet despite all that — an email trail, a confession, and an admission from the suspect that he knew he was breaking the law — the FBI let him go after the suspect said it was a "joke": I don't think the FBI is responsible for the US Attorney's Office saying "lol nah we're not prosecuting this guy", and the FBI isn't allowed to hold someone indefinitely if the prosecutors decline to charge. While it's a valid complaint that the FBI didn't do enough, the question becomes what could they have done and more importantly, if the SF office can't bring local charges about something that happened in Massachusetts, maybe they should've worked with the Massachusetts office/Boston Office/whatever to do so in Massachusetts. I think blaming just the FBI for this is short-sighted however. Angry_Ed fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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Madkal posted:Dude is just trying really hard to shape reality to what ever his hole-riddled brain think it is. He is trying very hard to destroy the things he claims to defend. Either he really believes it in which case he is insane, or he is doing in while knowing he is being very disingenuous in which case he is evil. I like to think he is possibly both. Trump does like to buy his own hype and get high on his own farts. Fox And Friends says he's doing a good job, of course he believes his own bullshit.
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Well they also refused to investigate that oh so mysterious murder of that one Baltimore cop who was preparing to serve as a witness (for ‘reasons’) so yes I would safely wager FBI bad.
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Guillotine line order: The 1% Lawyers Anyone who self identifies as a politician Anyone that's ever used the term HENRY Actual HENRYs
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