Fred Austin
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Road to Omaha — FSU and UF are hosting regionals for the NCAA baseball tournament. Miami is in the Gainesville regional.
I hope at least one Florida school makes it to the College World Series!
College Baseball Reference@CBsBReference
Regional Host Sites | #CollegeBaseball
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@BernieSanders @grahamformaine Oh, look! A Communist who honeymooned in Russia is endorsing a Nazi!
Wonder what their ancestors think?
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On our way to Bangor, Maine for a rally with @grahamformaine.
The crises facing our country are too serious for establishment politics and tinkering around the edges.
We need candidates like Graham who will take on the greed of the oligarchs and deliver for working families.
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@SGTWipper1Each Marine, like my Dad. He told me to go into the Air Force - so, I did.
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You go back in time and join the Military again, but you're forced to choose a different branch.
Which one do you pick?
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America was built, defended, and preserved by those willing to give everything for it.
On Memorial Day, we honor the heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation and our freedom. We will never forget them.
Department of State@StateDept
On Memorial Day, we honor every American warrior who left behind the blessings of home and family to answer our Nation’s greatest calling.
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@BarackObama I finally found something that I agree with Obama on.
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On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying. I’ll always be grateful to our fallen heroes and their families, whose sacrifice reminds us of what it means to live for something greater than ourselves.
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Mayor Frey, with the most respectful passive-aggression I can muster on this particular Sunday morning — today is MEMORIAL DAY.
Not "George Floyd Day." Not "police reform awareness day." Not a campaign backdrop for your next election cycle.
Memorial Day is for the kid from Minneapolis who enlisted at 19, shipped out to Fallujah, and came home in a flag-draped coffin. It is for the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who gave EVERYTHING so that you could post politically convenient threads from a comfortable office.
And you chose TODAY to make it about a man who, per court records, had approximately 19-20 arrests, served multiple jail sentences, committed an armed home invasion in which a woman had a pistol pressed to her abdomen in front of her children, and had fentanyl AND methamphetamine in his system at the time of his death.
None of that makes what happened to him acceptable. A jury convicted Derek Chauvin and the courts handled it. But spare me the canonization on the one day a year set aside for people who actually put on a uniform and served this country.
Quinn's Law #13: liberals can never let a good crisis go to waste. Six years later and you are STILL milking it. The crisis is apparently a renewable resource.
Quinn's Law #9: to liberals, intentions are more significant than outcomes. Minneapolis has been run exclusively by Democrats for decades. How is that working out for the neighborhoods you claim to be reforming?
You want to honor someone today? There are 58,000 names on a wall in Washington. Start there. The ones who are not there because they are still dying — from burn pit cancer, from PTSD, from wounds that never fully healed — they could also use a thread.
But a career criminal with a rap sheet longer than most people's resumes? On Memorial Day?
Not the sharpest tool in the shed does not even begin to cover this one.
But what do I know — I am only a science teacher and medically retired Army combat medic who actually knows the difference between a man who died in a drugged-up, likely excited delirium, police incident and the men and women who died FOR this country.
@GuntherEagleman @catturd2 @JoJoFromJerz
#MAGA #Veterans #Trump
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Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago.
That moment changed our city forever.
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@catturd2 @arva61138 Hopefully Chuck and Illhan Omar will settle in for the evening and watch Blackhawk down.
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@Sachinettiyil We could use a Republican Catholic president.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a Catholic, who may one day become President of the United States, chose to visit the tomb of Mother Teresa during his visit to India.
Video: NDTV
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Congressman Schiff your weakness is showing. A real leader would take the high road on this Memorial Day weekend.
Millions of Americans are honoring our men and women lost on the battlefield. And we are remembering our heroes who even tonight are risking their lives for our freedoms.
LT. Colonel @TulsiGabbard currently is in the US Army Reserve. She is a combat veteran. She did 3 military tours in the Middle East and Africa.
No doubt she’s leaning on her tremendous fighting spirit right now as her husband faces the health battle of a lifetime.
*And you Congressman Schiff… always have the choice to consider the timing of your bitter politics and do better.
Adam Schiff@SenAdamSchiff
My thoughts go out to Tulsi Gabbard and her family, as her husband battles this serious health problem. I hope and pray that he makes a speedy and full recovery. While the circumstances around her departure are deserving of our sympathy, let’s be clear: Tulsi Gabbard’s only positive contribution to our nation's national security is her resignation. She politicized intelligence. She dismantled critical agencies keeping Americans safe. She weaponized the IC to pursue baseless election fraud claims. And more. We must ensure that her tenure — marked by a devotion to the person of the president and not to the security of the country — represents a terrible exception at DNI and not the new normal.
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@brianoflondon @BuzzPatterson C5A model also - overly complicated.
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@BuzzPatterson Why is the B-52 the only plane I've ever seen with crabbing gear?
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A common mistake some pilots make. Taking out the crosswind controls prematurely. You have to keep flying the jet through the landing.
This guy relaxed too early forcing a go around.
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@SullyCNBC When I worked in the federal government, the next year’s budget request for our organization was always last year + X percent. Government organizations will never get smaller on their own.
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Or other takeaways:
The more we collect in taxes, the more we go into debt.
Also, if we could just stop blowing hundreds of billions of dollars per year on waste, fraud and abuse .. maybe we could help out kids, teachers, nurses and even debt payments.
Dunno
L. Stevenson@LStevenson64
@SullyCNBC Take away: a 23% effective tax rate for someone who made billions is not enough considering we are borrowing money from the Chinese and Japanese to pay our bills.
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I hope @DanaBashCNN and @CNN will clarify this Talarico issue. Here is the chryon which claims Trump "falsely claiming" Talarico "believes in six genders." Attached is the video where Talarico claims exactly that thing Trump said.
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Fred Austin retweetledi
Quick Reminder How The DNC Handles Tragedy
- Joe Biden spent 9/11 hiding in a bunker
- Kamala Harris spent it with her boyfriend Montel Willimas
- Donald Trump spent 9/11 marching into a war zone of fire & ashes with an army of his own men to save Americans
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🚨TAMPA FL, HAPPENING NOW - What is this?
It appears to be taking off from Tampa Airport.
I hope this is legit but something DOESN’T LOOK RIGHT.
What is that huge bubble expansion towards the end?
(Full video in comments)
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Fred Austin retweetledi
What kind of person votes for @BernieSanders?
mike bski@BskiMike22802
Dear Senator Sanders, Oh, this is RICH. This is so perfectly, exquisitely, weapons-grade rich that I had to put down my anatomy exams and just... appreciate it for a moment. The man who got thrown out of a SOCIALIST HIPPIE COMMUNE in Vermont in 1971 — after THREE DAYS — for refusing to do any actual work while everyone else planted, harvested, and hauled water, is out here telling me the OLIGARCHS want to control everything. Three. Days. The communists gave you a longer trial period than most employers give to someone who steals from the register. Here is what Jim Quinn's Law Number Two says, and I want every single person reading this to tattoo it somewhere useful: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing." Senator, you OWN THREE HOMES. A Burlington residence. A D.C. townhouse. A $575,000 vacation lake house in North Hero, Vermont — purchased in 2016, the same year you were touring the country telling college students the system is rigged. Your net worth sits somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million. You have pocketed over $2.5 MILLION in book royalties since 2011. That elevator is clearly not stuck between floors for you, is it. And then — THEN — during your "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" with AOC, you spent over $550,000 in CAMPAIGN FUNDS on PRIVATE JET TRAVEL. Half a million dollars on luxury jets to lecture working Americans about the dangers of wealth. When Fox News caught you boarding a Bombardier Challenger 604 — a jet that runs up to $15,000 PER HOUR — you did not apologize. You did not even blink. You looked directly into the camera and said, and I am quoting this verbatim because it is the most accidentally honest thing you have ever said: "You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?" Senator. THAT IS OLIGARCHIC THINKING. That is TEXTBOOK "the rules apply to you people, not to me." That is the elevator music of every single billionaire you have spent 35 years pretending to oppose. In a battle of wits with your own stated beliefs, you showed up completely unarmed. Thirty-five years in Congress. You know what your personal legislative output looks like? Eight bills passed. EIGHT. In three and a half DECADES. That works out to 0.23 bills per year. I have produced more graded anatomy exams in a single semester. Your two greatest solo legislative achievements — the ones with your name on top, the thing YOU actually DID — are the naming of a post office in Danville, Vermont, and the naming of a post office in Fair Haven, Vermont. You named. Two. Post offices. You are as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually passing legislation, but you want me to believe you are the vanguard of the working class. That sounds like a YOU problem. Quinn's Law #25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." You have been living PROOF of that law for 35 years. You give away everyone else's money — from a vacation home on a lake — while spending half a million on jets because you are far too important to wait in line with the taxpayers funding your lifestyle. You want to talk about oligarchs controlling the media? You have been IN the media for four decades. You just finished a $75 million documentary. You have a book deal. You have a podcast. You HAVE the megaphone and you are using it to tell people that other people have the megaphone. The gene pool really needed a lifeguard for THAT particular reasoning. I am a high school science teacher in Northeast Ohio. I support a family of six on a teacher's salary. I am not particularly impressed by a man with three houses, $550,000 in jet receipts, and 0.23 bills per year telling me he stands with the working class. More famous than wise, Senator. More famous than wise. The hippie commune knew it in 72 hours. How long is it going to take everyone else? IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — do YOU think a man with three homes and a half-million dollar private jet habit speaks for working Americans? Tell me. And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can actually do math, a retired Army combat medic who knows what genuine sacrifice looks like, and apparently one of the few people left who finds it suspicious that the most vocal enemy of oligarchy just cannot bring himself to wait in line at the airport with the rest of us. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump
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@Phantom2Phlyer @DrDave_99 @Smokytrail_B1 Im sorry about your friend. I’ve lost a fair amount of friends in airplane accidents. The T-38 was unforgiving in the final turn.
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@DrDave_99 @BringMeAShrub @Smokytrail_B1 One of my best friends, who was a classmate at USNA and a squadron mate in VF-74, was killed in a crash of a T-38 at NAS Pax River.
I hate the T-38.
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This post won't matter to anyone other than Navy carrier pilots, so be warned in advance.
Today I sent a letter to the Honorable Pete Hegseth, protesting the Navy's decision to remove the capability to land on an aircraft carrier from its next-generation jet trainer. Not only does it appear it won't be carrier capable, but it will not even be capable of doing a Navy landing to touchdown during field carrier landing practices (FCLP's).
For those who don't know, the way Navy pilots learn to land is different from any other form of aviation. While other pilots, including our Air Force brethren and sisteren, use a flare to cut their sink rate when over the runway to make a gentle landing, Navy pilots fly a constant angle-of-attack to touchdown.
The Air Force calls what we do 'controlled crashes.' Maybe, but at the same time when you have to touch down in a particular attitude within 100 feet or so, you need that kind of landing. There's no other way to get aboard the boat.
The Navy has released its requirements for its next-gen jet trainer. It does not require the trainer to do CAOA to touchdown, let alone be carrier capable. The three finalists are:
Boeing/Saab T-7 Red Hawk
Textron Aviation Defense (Beechcraft) / Leonardo M-346N
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Freedom Trainer
The T-7 is only capable to fly FCLP's to wave-off, meanig it can't touch down in a normal carrier pass. Same with the M-346N. The only aircraft being proposed that can actually perform an FCLP to touch down is the Freedom Trainer.
Short story is, the Navy is trading cost for capability. I consider this to be a mistake, for a number of reasons, which I outlined in my letter to Secretary Hegseth.
The biggest problem is an indirect one. The Air Force has been angling for years to take over all of military pilot training. One of the bulwarks in keeping Naval Aviation separate is the absolute requirement to learn carrier landings.
Trying to train pilots on two different landing techniques is, IMHO, dangerous. The totality of landings in the first two trainers would be flared. The last thing you want is for a pilot who may be fatigued or otherwise distracted to flare at the boat, which could cause an accident. My view is that Navy pilots need to learn one landing method and stick to it.
Let me give you an example of what happened, to the best of my ability to tell, when a pilot crossed from one Navy aircraft to another.
One of the uniqueness of the F-4 was that it was the only Navy carrier jet aircraft that couldn't take a hands-off cat shot. You had to physically hold the stick in the proper position to give you a 10-degree rotation off the end of the boat.
While doing carrier qualifications, we think (but the pilot never admitted it) that he forgot that fact, having been transitioning to the Phantom from an attack aircraft that could take a hands-off cat shot. He went off the end of the boat nose-down. The instructor RIO initiated ejection, and they both got out. But an aircraft ended up at the bottom of the ocean.
Will Secretary Hegseth respond? Almost certainly not. But I felt it was my duty to make my objections known.
If I do get a response I'll post it here.
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