Why wasn’t I informed of this? Mossberg 590A1 Retrograde

Yes, please. Dear God, that is a thing of beauty and de-escalation in the best WWI tradition.

I can imagine in times of trouble, looters prowling around and deciding that the asshole that has a shotgun with a frigging bayonet needs to be avoided at all costs. One thing is getting a belly full of buckshot, but being effing stabbed to boot?

And I think I owe a Hat Tip to the Mad Ogre.

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Why Michigan Protesters were right.

The Media and the usual suspects are horrified that a bunch of people presented themselves inside the Michigan Capitol building to protest Generlissima Gretchen Whitmer’s continuous shut down of the State while carrying firearms.

Again as in past demonstrations like this all over the country, they were tagged as violent extremist even though not one single case of violence ever happened. It is obvious by this photo and many others that the Protesters were not faithfully obeying the supreme orders of Generlissima Whitmer, yet we did not see any cop wanting to volunteer in their arrest for violating petty bullshit orders. Did guns had an effect, I believe so. Do you know what happens when government officials have unchecked power? Go watch the video below.

And in case the Tweet disappears:

I have seen this before: This is punishment calisthenics given to new recruits and  people in jail or simply momentarily arrested and they feel like they need to impress on you certain information. And the exercise is repeated till they drop of exhaustion. More than likely, out of view there will be a couple of armed government goons overseeing the group. They are there to make sure if anybody goes stupid, he/she would be declared dead after “trying to escape.”

These are civilians whose crime was trying to find food or medicines in a shit Socialist country and got caught outside the curfew.  The “cadence” goes:

I should not
get out
because
of the Coronavirus
because
it will
kill me.

Now go back to the top photo and imagine the cop telling the guys to drop , give him 20 or else.

And now you know why we have the Second Amendment.

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And if you need more proof that it is time to re-open the country: Dancing Nurses.

I don’t know you, but if the medical personnel that is supposed to be in the frontlines is doing this, maybe the threat is not as bad anymore as we are being told. (Some jurisdictions excepted)

 

As I said, some locations have been working their asses off but it appears a lot of hospitals could be now taking care of regular patients and they only are not doing it, but having personnel sent home because we need the space and money for the Dancing Nurses Troupe.

I kept my mouth shut since I saw this a couple of weeks ago because I figured some were just releasing tension. But videos with empty beds and clearly fresh and bored people who had the time to create a dancing routine indicate that we are now officially in the Bullshit section of the emergency.

 

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Goodbye Boeing

I feel like I’ve been picking on Boeing a lot.

I’ve criticized their woke advertising.

I’ve criticized their failures for the Starliner lack of testing.

I want to make it clear that I have no personal animus towards Boeing.  I not a disgruntled ex-Boeing employee.

I am an engineer in an aerospace city with a passion for defense and space exploration.  I should be a Boeing fan.

My problem is that Boeing, to me, exemplifies the C-Suite corporate rot that occurs when executive level management disconnects in their brains the shareholder value of the company from the company’s core competencies of producing a quality and safe product.

An aerospace company should make air and spacecraft that complete their missions without incident.

To do that requires engineers and technicians that take pride in their work and do their job well.  That requires management to promote a culture of quality and to go to bat for the engineering and test teams when they demand test data, and to value the input of people who try to warn the company of problems.

When you don’t have that, you get shit like this:

Boeing finds debris in fuel tanks of many undelivered 737 MAX jets

Um… what?

Boeing Co (BA.N) has found debris in the fuel tanks of dozens of undelivered 737 MAX jets amid ongoing inspections as the Chicago-based planemaker struggles to restore the trust of airlines and the wider public in the grounded fleet.

This is not restoring trust.

Boeing found debris in the fuel tanks of about 35 aircraft, a company spokesman confirmed on Friday. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that more than 50% of the undelivered 737 MAX jets inspected thus far have had debris found in them.

Foreign object debris, an industrial term for rags, tools, metal shavings and other materials left behind by workers during production, has been a quality-control issue for various Boeing aircraft, such as its KC-46 tankers.

This week, an internal memo seen by Reuters showed that Boeing found debris that could pose potential safety risks in the fuel tanks of several 737 MAX aircraft in storage and waiting to be delivered to airlines.

That plane is never going to fly again.

I doubt there is enough money to bribe Congress to authorize the sale of a plane with an autopilot that likes to take a nosedive into the dirt and has a coinflip’s chance of having some shit in the fuel tank get sucked into the engine.

This is probably why it was announced:

Boeing said it burned through $4.3 billion in the first quarter and will cut 10% of its workforce

Boeing announced Wednesday that it burned through $4.3 billion in cash in the first quarter and posted a $641 million loss, as the company braces for a prolonged impact on the aerospace sector from the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the ongoing 737 Max crisis.

This is about 16,000 people.

Don’t bullshit me that this is COVID-19 related.

Yes, flights are down.  But aircraft have a fixed service life.  All this does is delay the purchase of new aircraft by some period of time.  Once normal flight operations resume, aircraft turnover will return to normal.

And don’t tell me “in the post COVID world, fewer people will fly because of the risk.”  I was told that after 9/11 too and that lasted a year.

Furthermore, the government of the US and other countries in Europe are still pushing fuel efficiency standards for aircraft that will necessitate the purchase of new planes.

This loss is the 737MAX and the reputation for failure that Boeing is developing coming home to roost.

This meme says it all:

 

The current downfall of Boeing is a masterclass in how not to run a company.

If anything will save Boeing, it is a return to a focus on producing quality aircraft by creating a corporate culture of quality and performance that goes all the way up to the top levels of management.

Not one that cuts tests, hides bad data, and hires people who leave rags and garbage in fuel tanks to save money.

If Boeing’s valuation does crash into the ground like a malfunctioning 737MAX, I’ll be happy to buy the company with the cash in my change jar and run it as an engineer, not a stock price.

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Masterful job by Trump *chef’s kiss*

Some dumb journalist asked Trump about the allegations of sexual assault against Joe Biden.

Trump pulled the greatest move ever.

The TDS media now has two choices:

1. Do the unthinkable and agree with Trump that false allegations of sexual assault happen.

2. Reflexively disagree with Trump and paint Biden into the corner of saying false accusations don’t happen so Biden must be guilty.

This is just a masterpiece in fucking with the media.  I’m sure talking heads are squirting blood out of their eyes trying to figure out how to respond to this.

 

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