PF5
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tRumps ´common sense´ is scary/warped/bigoted...I have thought this many times about friends/colleagues who applaud DEI demise...
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Polds4OSU
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NEW: Trump announces 25% Tarriff for all products imported from Canada and Mexico starting Saturday. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...hit-canada-mexico-with-25-tariffs-on-saturday
mugatu
Ranger
Thought he was going to exempt oil...? This is gonna be an issue for gas.
Why are we doing this again?
GOGETUMPOKE
Ranger
It won't be an issue for anything by Monday.
mugatu
Ranger
So you think he's going to declare victory on something and then remove them immediately? Kind of like the Colombia tariff.
He keeps blaming fentanyl but thats been WAY down for months. I guess he could say, "I won" and end the tariffs there. It's just dumb.
GOGETUMPOKE
Ranger
Yes, he'll either get what he wants or say he got what he wants. They both need us more than we need them but Trump doesn't want inflation and tariffs on Canada and Mexico will be inflationary on protein in particular. We've got 300k cattle waiting to cross the Mexican border for sixty days now because of a screwworm fly. Without them and the subtraction of Canadian beef imports to our northern plants cattle (ie..meat) prices will skyrocket and they are already at historical rates. He can't have that. He'll get some concessions from them (see Colombia) and Monday morning he'll be strutting around like a Banty rooster.
mugatu
Ranger
60% of our oil imports come from Canada and Mexico. Not good for fuel prices - gas has already gone up about $0.30/gallon here the last 2 weeks for some unknown reason.
Oh and Colombia didn't concede anything.
Polds4OSU
Marshall
US Military Helicopter and Regional Jet Almost Collided 24 Hours Before American Airlines Black Hawk Tragedy
A day before the tragedy unfolded in the skies above the Potomac River in Washington D.C., another United States military helicopter reportedly came close to colliding with a passenger jet that had to abort its landing at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport due to a risk of a possible collision.
Knewz.com has learned that the incident is one of many similar close calls in recent years, which have been the source of substantial concern about potential crashes.
Around a week earlier, on January 23, a flight from Charlotte approaching the Ronald Reagan Airport had to suddenly pull out of its flight path because the pilot tracked a military helicopter in the way.
Richard Hart, a passenger returning from a business trip onboard the said flight, recalled, “They had to circle back around because there was a helicopter in the flight path.”
“At the time I found it odd. … Now I find it disturbingly tragic,” Hart added, in light of the recent tragedy involving the American Airlines passenger jet and the Black Hawk military helicopter.
American Airlines flight 5342, a CRJ700 Bombardier, took off from Wichita, Kansas, with 60 passengers and four crew members and was bound for the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
According to reports, air traffic controllers asked the arriving flight if it could land on the shorter Runway 33 at the airport, to which the pilots replied that they could.
“Controllers then cleared the plane to land on Runway 33 and flight tracking sites showed the plane duly adjusted its approach to the new runway. At the same time, a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk US Army helicopter that had departed from Fort Belvoir in Virginia entered the airspace around Reagan National Airport,” reports have mentioned.
The Black Hawk helicopter was undergoing a training sortie, meaning a flight undertaken by an aircraft or group of soldiers for training purposes, at the time, and the two aircraft crashed into each other 400 ft above the Potomac River.
It has been reported that the U.S. military helicopter had been flying along the east bank of the Potomac River in a narrow flight corridor designated for low-flying helicopters.
However, the helicopter lane intersects with the path of aircraft on the southeastern approach to Runway 33 of the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Reports have further mentioned that, per a 2023 report to Congress based on Federal Aviation Authority data, “50 entities operated roughly 88,000 helicopter flights within 30 miles of the airport between 2017 and 2019.”
According to a person familiar with tower operations at the Ronald Reagan Airport, the frequency of military training and other flights around the airport has prompted the FAA to place an air traffic controller dedicated to helicopters in the National Airport tower.
“But staffing levels were “not normal” inside the tower at the time of Wednesday night’s accident, and no single controller was assigned to helicopter flights, according to an air traffic safety report,” it was reported.
It is worth noting that audio correspondence captured before the tragic accident revealed that air traffic controllers warned the U.S. Army helicopter that it was on course to collide with the passenger jet.
“Pat 2-5 do you have the CRJ in sight?” an air traffic controller asked the Black Hawk helicopter using its call sign.
“Pat 2-5, pass behind the CRJ,” the controller then requested.
Gasps were heard moments later, as one voice asked, “Tower, did you see that?”
“I just saw a fireball and then it was just gone. I haven’t seen anything since they hit the river. But it was a CRJ and a helicopter that hit,” another traffic controller replied after the crash.
According to reports, over 300 first responders were dispatched to the Potomac River on inflatable boats in a “desperate” search for survivors.
It has also been reported that this is the first fatal crash involving a U.S. commercial flight since 2009—when 50 people died in New York in a Bombardier DHC-C propeller aircraft crash.
mugatu
Ranger
Official Email Urges Federal Workers to Find More Productive Jobs
The message reiterated an offer for a chance to take a second job or travel to a “dream destination” and remain on the federal payroll for months. But questions remain about whether that would be legal.
Still trying to get gov employees to find new work. Even at the FAA with 24 hours of the crash that where the tower was under staffed
Official Email Urges Federal Workers to Find More Productive Jobs
The message reiterated an offer for a chance to take a second job or travel to a “dream destination” and remain on the federal payroll for months. But questions remain about whether that would be legal.www.nytimes.com
Still trying to get gov employees to find new work. Even at the FAA with 24 hours of the crash that where the tower was under staffed
We all hear horror stories in the private sector about companies and CEO's who promote terrible company culture. It's surreal to see it playing out in the federal public sector right in front of our eyes.
Musk found out it is a little harder to get rid of employees without right to work protections so he's trying to make their jobs as unpleasant as possible to get them to quit (and not be able to draw unemployment). The whole thing is nuts.
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MICHELLE OBAMA: “public schools should not serve junk food in the school cafeteria” REPUBLICANS: “anyone who criticizes junk food is a communist” RFK: “they’re putting microchips and plutonium in the junk food to control us” REPUBLICANS: “thank you RFK for being a brave, fearless truth teller!”
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mugatu
Ranger
People are going to resign expecting this pay, and then they will get stiffed because there's no legal way to pay them and the offer isn't coming from someone that can offer it.
It's so dirty
I think most of them know who they are dealing with and understand that the severance package is a myth
Polds4OSU
Marshall
The Wichita Eagle slammed the president for his lack of empathy over the American Airlines flight that departed Wichita’s airport.
www.thedailybeast.com
Kansas Media Slams Trump’s ‘DEI and Dwarfs’ Plane Crash Rant
A Kansas outlet’s opinion editor says the president was tone-deaf to a city in mourning.
mugatu
Ranger
"They are also looking for anyone who may be resistant to carrying out some of the administration's new initiatives, sources said."
That part is scarey to me. Fire anyone not willing to do illegal sh!t he wants done.
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