Lamp,

The internet is the ultimate store front....most people aren't even selling for profit...its for other intangibles.

Of course...not you. You're just trying to enlighten everyone else.

Why? What do you get out of it?

You know...I suspect there's a lot of mental illness around with people who have God complexes...they think they're saving the world with their brilliance.

Lamp,

"My concern on this thread is the profit motive."

Isn't everyone always selling something?

Lamp,

You write a book on the universe and I'll read it.

The internet has turned everyone into geniuses.

Lamp,

People familiar with him were eager to read his book.

Laura,

Maybe you're an alien.

Corky,

Harry Reid, who was Democrat US Senate Majority Leader, wrote a letter vouching for Luis Elizondo's credentials as head of AATIP.

You can find the letter on the internet.

Poor liberals.

They can't accept this might be more significant than their Trump obsession.

Luis Elizondo, who is one of the most renowned authorities on the topic of UAPs (formerly UFOs), released a book last year untitled Imminent.

In the book he shares a lot of information and stories.

One is about round orbs of different colors of light that fly around and have flown in his house a number of times. His wife was skeptic until she saw one. They fly through walls.

Blue orbs have been reported to cause harm to living things. They develop health problems. A dog that chased one came in contact and the dog was basically disintegrated leaving remnants of skin and flesh.

This film is a long time coming of decades of dedication to the subject in the face of mocking and frankly putting their ow
lifes in danger, opposing an organized government cover-up, including threatening the safety of their families.

Also revealed in the film is numerous highly credible sources talking about nations each working on reverse engineering alien technology.

Redial,

Or do we have to wait awhile for the lawyers and government agencies to figure out who has the least power, is the most expendable and probably dead to blame it on?

Redial,

What do you predict will happen now?

Just the usual knee-jerk reaction lip-service until the next news cycle or next major news event like maybe....I don't know...some jet lands upside down.

Copter crash? When was that?

Robson,

Not so sure I'd blame it on Biden.

Hasn't it been pretty well established he was already operating on less than a full deck when he became president?

Also, lawmakers have used that airport heavily out of convenience.

Whoever created this flight training has been putting lawmakers at risk.

Robson,

"Was it Biden that pushed the reckless stupid policy of allowing military helicopters to run flight paths"

My concern is the word "allow" isn't the correct word but instead should be "deliberately flew" for training purposes.

One,

Was the problem Ronald Reagan ATC is still using a system that's not updated so the helo had to drop back to Simplex?

Trying to understand this.

One,

"keeping these older planes flying within the system"

Sounds like what you're saying would be like asking Microsoft to write Windows to natively still run 16 bit programs or worse yet DOS apps.

Maintaining backward compatability can restrict technical advances if they don't draw the line somewhere.

Windows can still run 32 bit apps but not earlier. They basically forced people to get more current pc hardware.

Are you saying aircraft is still flying with older technology and ATC is obligated to work with it?

Depending on who you ask, some opinions are the air traffic control system lost a lot more than employees when Reagan fired them in 1981.

Some say the system has "never fully recovered" in the sense that it never regained the level of expertise, efficiency, and labor-management balance it had before 1981.

Add to that modernization delays and recurring staffing shortages that impact operations.

Personally, if anyone has read my posts I was voting republican and changed to supporting democrats at that time.

This particular issue was one of two issues of the time that changed my opinion of republicans.

I believe labor unions still have a place in society although corruption has been a problem in some cases. While some unions have misused their power, that doesn't mean the idea of organized labor is outdated.

Lawmakers liked the proximity of the Ronald Reagan airport that allowed for quick access to the Capitol, White House, and other key locations.

Some were advocating for expanding the airport and others wanted to see it closed or partially closed for safety concerns.

I read this particular flight path was training to get key government officials out of DC.

Actually...I have a suspicion that is actually pretty bad. I do wonder.

This was a training flight path in use for a long time and the last 2 weeks had had close calls with aircraft.

Is it possible this flight path was deliberate training flight for helicopter pilots for practice in more congested areas?

You know...nothing at all would surprise me anymore.

I read today they are saying the tower gave the instruction to "go behind" 17 seconds before the crash.

But the copter pilot was talking and didn't receive the message.

The towers message was "stepped on" as they say.

I can see it now.

People are gonna say she was too busy gabbing to listen.

Too soon?

Fake news.

Clown,

I think America is becoming more shameless and there's an increasing lack a purpose of living.

I'm glad to see the strides gays have made living without fear of police raids and more legal protection by law enforcment and the courts.

I'm delighted to see the military change under Obama where gays can openly serve. That was a scary time for gays who served fearing for their careers.

The wants and desires and fears and needs of humans haven't really changed but society has stopped pushing for the most positive traits of humanity and instead are succombing to the least desireable traits.

Personally...I'm not seeing the progress liberals so like to brag about.

Clown,

"Times have changed, and that's what really scares conservatives."

You had the gays who are flamboyant ------- then...and still do today.

You had the gays who don't put on a show and don't advertise they're gay then...and still do today.

You had the straights who don't really care what people do in their private lives but don't want it put in their face then...and still do today.

You had the straights who hate ----- then...and still do today.

You had people who live in their own isolated bubble of society then...and still do today.

People have not changed.

To quote Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr from 1849, "The more things change, the more they stay the same".

Laura,

I know the gay world. There are gays just like Disney who sing 'It's a Gay World After All"

Just like the male lead pointed out he is shocked at the response the world outside of his bubble.

Again...I hate to see gay rights set back but that is what will occur so long as gays keep playing shock and awe trying to force acceptance from people who will never truly accept.

Laura,

"You know the mature thing to do would have been to quietly get up and walk out and leave if you don't like the play. It's not that hard to do. Just sayin."

Apparently from the frequency of people weekly making neg comments, the show failed to advertise it was a gay musical.

Your callous attitude is exactly what is going to set back gay rights.

An inability to grasp the reality this a heterosexual world making accommodations for gays.

Swallow it.

Red,

No...I was not serious. No book will be written.

However...I joined the navy when I had just turned 17.

At 18 I did start a journal and have written my thoughts and feelings and many life events ever since. I go a few months not writing but I've continued all along.

It's interesting reading things you wrote when you were essentially a different person who lacked experiences and saw the world through different eyes.

And sometimes you see things later you missed about events and people when you were in the thick of it.

Umm...ok...I mentioned on here a friend helped me get started going to college when I first left the Navy. I was living with the Pastor I mentioned earlier. I had feelings for this friend who walked me through the process of going to the VA and signing up for benefits and getting enrolled in classes but we never developed romantically. Later I read stories I wrote about things we did and arguments we had. He was more mature than I was. Now I can see in my writing if I had been more mature we could have had something together I suspect. I can tell he must have cared for me things he said and his being jealous....what if??

Another story I read years later after writing something after moving away to another city. I took an after school job and recorded in passing meeting a girl I didn't know then but would someday marry. What's funny is I had known her one week and casually mentioned if I ever married a girl it would be someone like her. Go figure...

And lots of other stuff I wrote over the years.

It's interesting reading about events you remember one way that weren't as bad as I thought things were then and only remembered how I felt at the time but had long since forgotten the details.

Hmmm....maybe I should clean it up and publish it.

Joking...