Because, America

[sunday]

23 minutes ago, rmgill said:

I saw a winter advisory for Florida this week that included notes of highs in the 50s and warning children to put on layers. 

There are people around here, in coastal Spain, that feel the weather is chilling when temperature drops below 70 Fahrenheit.

Of course, in interior, high elevation Spain, you could find people going out in t-shirts at 30 F...

[sunday]

Then, this is something-

[JWB]

 

[NickM]

16 minutes ago, JWB said:

 

Guess hookup culture and the pill ain't quite doing the job

[Ssnake]

Must be those darn filthy toilet seats again.

[lucklucky]

 

[BansheeOne]

Didn't someone say that the Second Amendment is useless as a safeguard against a government which has nuclear weapons?

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Inert nuclear missile found in US man's garage

By Max Matza in Seattle

BBC News

3 February 2024

Police in Washington state say an old rusted rocket found in a local man's garage is an inert nuclear missile.

On Wednesday, a military museum in Ohio called police in the city of Bellevue to report an offer of a rather unusual donation.

The police then sent a bomb squad to the potential donor's home.

"And we think it's gonna be a long, long time before we get another call like this again," police said referring to Elton John's iconic song Rocket Man.

In a press release, police say the device is "in fact a Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1), an unguided air-to-air rocket that is designed to carry a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead".

However, there was no warhead attached, meaning there was never any danger to the community.

Bellevue Police Department spokesman Seth Tyler, told BBC News on Friday that the device was "just basically a gas tank for rocket fuel".

He called the event "not serious at all".

"In fact, our bomb squad member asked me why we were releasing a news release on a rusted piece of metal," he said.

The call to police came from the National Museum of the US Air Force near Dayton, Ohio.

The man, who does not wish to be identified and is "extremely irritated" by the media coverage, "was not expecting a call from us", Mr Tyler said, saying it seems the museum did not warn him they would be reporting his donation offer.

"He was gracious enough to let us have a look at it and we determined that it was safe," he said.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68189568

[Der Zeitgeist]

3 hours ago, BansheeOne said:

Didn't someone say that the Second Amendment is useless as a safeguard against a government which has nuclear weapons?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68189568

[Ssnake]

5 hours ago, BansheeOne said:

Police in Washington state say an old rusted rocket found in a local man's garage is an inert nuclear missile.

You saw it coming, didn't you.

[sunday]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inert

[Rick]

Recently the state of Massachusetts stated that a college degree will not be required for a large percentage of jobs the state has. The most important statement was this "... "As the state’s largest employer, ..."

When government is the largest employer you have a problem. No wonder the U.S. is rapidly going downhill.

[Stuart Galbraith]

12 hours ago, Der Zeitgeist said:

I dream of Genie?

[urbanoid]

At this point we might need a 'Because Boeing' thread.

 

[Rick]

113 years ago today, the greatest 20th Century President of the U.S. was born, and the third greatest President after Washington and Lincoln, although I personally can consider him a tie for second place. 

His wonderful and fulfilling terms of office from January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989 was a period of hope and growth throughout the U.S., a truth of what the U.S. should be today. 

[Ivanhoe]

Reagan was great, but I wouldn't put him that far ahead of Coolidge (or Harding/Coolidge to be more accurate).

The US of A was in a terrible place in 1918; overtly racist and authoritarian POTUS (dang near fascist in a lot of ways), ethnic animosity between northern European, German, and southern European groups, eugenicists on the march, "anarchists" doing what "anarchists" do, etc. Recovery from all that started with Harding and continued with Coolidge.  

[NickM]

22 hours ago, urbanoid said:

At this point we might need a 'Because Boeing' thread.

 

But are the problems due to Eeeevul Kepitalist Peegs (tm) or DEI hires?

[Rick]

7 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

Reagan was great, but I wouldn't put him that far ahead of Coolidge (or Harding/Coolidge to be more accurate).

The US of A was in a terrible place in 1918; overtly racist and authoritarian POTUS (dang near fascist in a lot of ways), ethnic animosity between northern European, German, and southern European groups, eugenicists on the march, "anarchists" doing what "anarchists" do, etc. Recovery from all that started with Harding and continued with Coolidge.  

Thanks for posting that I was not fully aware of this. Would you be able to elaborate further?

[R011]

7 hours ago, NickM said:

But are the problems due to Eeeevul Kepitalist Peegs (tm) or DEI hires?

Mostly the former.  I rather think that if Boeing engineers still ran the company instead of McDonnel Douglas MBAs they'd have at least taken competent people as diversity hires.Or at least trained and supervised them right as they did when forced to.divetsify during WW2.

Edited February 7, 2024 by R011

[X-Files]

 

[Rick]

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[Tim Sielbeck]

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[rmgill]

14 hours ago, X-Files said:

 

ROFL…

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[JWB]

 

[EchoFiveMike]

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