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I believe that refusing to vote for terrible people is more honorable than voting for the least terrible person on the ballot

It’s been 653 days and not a single Democrat from the Obama-Biden regime has been arrested.

If riding in this car on an autumn day doesn’t make you smile… (I’ll take good care of her Lou)

Alarm in 4 hours But my foot is feeling like it can do some treadmill time Ok, 2 miles only, a few pages of a book, then sleep

Democrats are facing extinction.

6 eggs and 1/3 stick of butter It’s what’s for… whatever meal this is

Here's a scan-by-scan breakdown of the thunderstorm cell that N722BD flew into. We've contoured the 30 dBZ surface, which signifies where moderate precipitation was present. The thunderstorm cell grew to 48,300 feet by 12:56 p.m., meaning that, at 12:48 p.m. when the plane flew through, it was still rapidly growing vertically. 15,000 feet of growth in under 20 minutes is a VERY intense updraft. Now what about icing? It's true that the ambient temperature OUTSIDE the storm was around minus-45 degrees Fahrenheit. That's generally too cold for icing, which requires supercooled water droplets – i.e. water droplets that remain a liquid at temperatures below freezing. Water sometimes is slow to freeze UNLESS it has something to freeze onto – like a cold surface (a plane). At minus-45, moisture would have already frozen into ice crystals, i.e. snowflakes, which aren't really dangerous to aviation. HOWEVER, the rapid growth of this thunderstorm cell 1.) carried LOTS of heat upwards, bending temperature surfaces and probably making the core of the thunderstorm cell 15 to 20+ degrees warmer. That warmth was probably amplified by the latent heat release of water droplets freezing, as my colleague Roger Edwards adroitly pointed out, and 2.) the swift updraft probably transported large, tropical raindrops upwards so quickly that some liquid remained even at altitude. A study in the journal "Nature" found that deep convective (thunderstorm) clouds regularly have supercooled water droplets down to minis-38 degrees, and it's probable that, at 35,000 feet, the temperatures inside this cloud were warmer. Therefore, while this wouldn't ordinarily be an "obvious" icing case, the forensic meteorology suggests icing as a probable contributing factor or cause. The NTSB will continue to investigate.

How many more girlbosses need to lawn dart their aircraft into the ground / other aircraft before we learn the lesson that women shouldn’t be pilots?

It is not that you cannot make money. You just have not finished preparing yet.

Then I had to go and hack it up in my slicer for a slip on end for the Buckmark. Ummm, let me tell ya, stupid as movie quiet. Talking backyard suburbia life at 10pm on a Sunday and not 1 curtain rustled nor porch light flickered. Kudos to @Thee_Grixxly.

My daughter will start flying lessons in a little over a year. She doesn’t want to be a pilot, but she thinks it will look good on a college application. Fine by me; I don’t care if she ever touches an airplane again after she gets her license…I just think it will teach her confidence, to remain calm in a crisis & most importantly, that nobody is coming to save you. You must rely on yourself & the stakes are real. I’ve flown w/ plenty of female pilots. Some were not great, but at about the same rate that some male pilots weren’t great. I remember Nanette, keeping the KC-10 steady in Afghanistan with only the standby attitude indicator after we lost literally everything else. Just humming along, like she did it everyday, and listening as we worked the checklists. I guess my point is that immediately blaming the female is out of bounds. Maybe she did have something to do with it, but so do males. By the way, the fact that you hear her voice on the radio means she wasn’t the one flying the jet…she was the “Pilot Monitoring” & runs the radios / navigation. We learn things from every crash. This one will eventually make it into a lesson plan, and students will hear the tapes. It’s not pleasant, but understanding what the cockpit environment may be like in an emergency is an important lesson. Panic is your enemy & causes you to make mistakes like shutting down the wrong engine. You must fight it, but…eventually there is probably a moment you know the fight has been lost and you are going to die. I might scream, too. There are multiple ways you leave this profession, but it comes down to two scenarios: One day, you’ll stroll out to the jet knowing this is your last flight, with your family & friends in attendance. There will be a party after. Or… One day, you’ll stroll out to the jet not knowing it’s your last flight. We hope for the former & prepare for the latter.